84 Notable Alumni of Kazan Federal University [Sorted List]

Stanislav Govorukhin

Born in: Russia
Years: 1936-2018 (aged 82)
Occupations: film producertelevision directorscreenwritermember of the State Dumapolitician
Biography: Stanislav Sergeyevich Govorukhin was a Soviet and Russian film director, actor, screenwriter, producer and politician. He was named People's Artist of Russia in 2006. His movies often featured detective or adventure plots.

Ilya Ulyanov

Born in: Russia
Years: 1831-1886 (aged 55)
Enrolled in Kazan Federal University: Studied in 1854
Occupations: pedagoguepoliticianteacher
Biography: Ilya Nikolayevich Ulyanov was a Russian public figure in the field of public education. He was the father of revolutionary Vladimir Lenin, who became a Bolshevik leader and founder of the Soviet Union, and Aleksandr Ulyanov, who was executed for his attempt to assassinate Tsar Alexander III in 1886.

Sergey Aksakov

Born in: Russia
Years: 1791-1859 (aged 68)
Occupations: memoiristtheatre criticwritertranslatorprose writer
Biography: Sergey Timofeyevich Aksakov was a 19th-century Russian literary figure remembered for his semi-autobiographical tales of family life, as well as his books on hunting and fishing.

Yevgenia Ginzburg

Born in: Russia
Years: 1904-1977 (aged 73)
Occupations: writerjournalist
Biography: Yevgenia Solomonovna Ginzburg was a Soviet writer who served an 18-year sentence in the Kolyma Gulag. Her given name is often Latinized to Eugenia.

Alexander Butlerov

Born in: Russia
Years: 1828-1886 (aged 58)
Enrolled in Kazan Federal University: 1844-1849 graduated with university candidate
Occupations: chemistuniversity teacheracademic
Biography: Alexander Mikhaylovich Butlerov was a Russian chemist, one of the principal creators of the theory of chemical structure (1857–1861), the first to incorporate double bonds into structural formulas, the discoverer of hexamine (1859), the discoverer of formaldehyde (1859) and the discoverer of the formose reaction (1861). He first proposed the idea of possible tetrahedral arrangement of valence bonds in carbon compounds in 1862.

Nikolai Semashko

Born in: Russia
Years: 1874-1949 (aged 75)
Occupations: physician
Biography: Dr. Nikolai Aleksandrovich Semashko, was a revolutionary, Soviet statesman and academic who became People's Commissar of Public Health in 1918, and served in that role until 1930. He was one of the organizers of the health system in the Soviet Union (often called the Semashko system), an academician of the Academy of Medical Sciences (1944) and of the Russian SFSR (1945).

Nikolai Nikiforov

Born in: Russia
Years: 1982-.. (age 42)
Occupations: politicianinternational forum participanteconomist
Biography: Nikolay Anatolyevich Nikiforov is a Russian politician. In 2012, he became Minister of Communications and Mass Media of Russia.

Liliä Gildievä

Born in: Russia
Years: 1976-.. (age 48)
Occupations: journalist
Biography: Lilia Faridovna Gildeeva is a Russian journalist who worked for the NTV news program Segodnya from 2006 to 2022. She is famous for joking on air with her partner and colleague Alexey Pivovarov.

İlsur Mätşin

Born in: Russia
Years: 1969-.. (age 55)
Occupations: politician
Biography: Ilsur Raisovich Metshin is a Russian politician of Tatar descent. He was born in Nizhnekamsk. Since 1993 he worked in Kazan as a politician. Since 1998 he was Mayor of Nizhnekamsk and Nizhnekamsky District and chairman of the Nizhnekamsk Council. Since 2005 November 17 he is the Mayor of Kazan, replacing Kamil Iskhakov. On September 4, 2015 he was selected as the new president of FC Rubin Kazan.

Nikolay Vasilyevich Fyodorov

Born in: Russia
Years: 1958-.. (age 66)
Occupations: politicianeconomistmember of the State Dumajuriststatesperson
Biography: Nikolay Vasilyevich Fyodorov is the First Deputy Chairman of the Federation Council. He is also the former President of the Chuvash Republic in Russia.

Aleksey Obmochaev

Born in: Russia
Years: 1989-.. (age 35)
Occupations: volleyball player
Biography: Aleksey Aleksandrovich Obmochaev is a Russian volleyball player, a member of Russia men's national volleyball team and Russian club Kuzbass Kemerovo. He was a champion at the 2011 World Cup, and a gold medalist at the 2012 Olympics.

Pavel Ivanovich Melnikov

Born in: Russia
Years: 1818-1883 (aged 65)
Occupations: school teacherwriterhistorianethnographerlibrarian
Biography: Pavel Ivanovich Melnikov was a Russian writer, best known for his novels In the Forests and On the Hills, which describe the unique life of Transvolga and use its dialects.

Nikolay Zinin

Born in: Azerbaijan
Years: 1812-1880 (aged 68)
Enrolled in Kazan Federal University: Studied in 1830-1833
Occupations: organic chemistinventor
Biography: Nikolay Nikolaevich Zinin was a Russian organic chemist.

Alexander Kasimovich Kazembek

Born in: Iran
Years: 1802-1870 (aged 68)
Occupations: linguisttranslator
Biography: Alexander Kasimovich Kazembek, born Muhammad Ali Kazim-bey (Azerbaijani: Məhəmməd Əli Kazımbəy), was an orientalist, historian and philologist. He was the great-grandfather and namesake of the Mladorossi founder Alexander Kazembek.

Mikhail Lavrentyev

Born in: Russia
Years: 1900-1980 (aged 80)
Enrolled in Kazan Federal University: Studied in 1918-1921
Occupations: physicistmathematicianpoliticianuniversity teacher
Biography: Mikhail Alekseyevich Lavrentyev was a Soviet mathematician and hydrodynamicist.

Oleg Morozov

Born in: Russia
Years: 1953-.. (age 71)
Occupations: statespersonmember of the State Dumapolitician
Biography: Oleg Viktorovich Morozov is a Russian and former Soviet politician. He has the federal state civilian service rank of 1st class Active State Councillor of the Russian Federation. He was a deputy in the State Duma between 1993 and 2012 and again since 2020. He served as a member of the Federation Council between September 2015 and September 2020. From May 2012 till March 2015, he worked as head of the presidential office for domestic policy. He supports the United Russia party.

Leonid Kulik

Born in: Estonia
Years: 1883-1942 (aged 59)
Occupations: mineralogistuniversity teacher
Biography: Leonid Alekseyevich Kulik was a Soviet mineralogist who is noted for his research into meteorites.

Ludwik Rajchman

Born in: Poland
Years: 1881-1965 (aged 84)
Occupations: physicianmicrobiologistsocial activist
Biography: Ludwik Witold Rajchman was a Polish physician and bacteriologist. He is regarded as the founder of UNICEF, and served as its first chairman from 1946 to 1950.

Aleksandr Vishnevsky

Born in: Russia
Years: 1906-1975 (aged 69)
Occupations: military physiciancardiac surgeonanesthetistsurgeonphysiologist
Biography: Alexander Alexandrovich Vishnevsky was a Soviet surgeon, member of the Academy of Medical Sciences of the USSR (1953), honoured worker of science of the RSFSR (1956), Colonel General of Medical Corps (1966), and a Hero of Socialist Labor (1966). Vishnevsky first conducted a cardiac surgery under the local anesthesia (1953).

Pavel Chikov

Born in: Russia
Years: 1978-.. (age 46)
Occupations: jurist
Biography: Pavel Vladimirovich Chikov is a Russian lawyer, human rights activist, and public figure. Chikov is the head of the Agora International Human Rights Group and a former member of the Presidential Council for Civil Society and Human Rights from 2012 to 2019.

Jan Piłsudski

Born in: Lithuania
Years: 1876-1950 (aged 74)
Occupations: politician
Biography: Jan Piłsudski, was a Polish politician and younger brother of Marshal Józef Piłsudski.

Kamil İsxaqof

Born in: Russia
Years: 1949-.. (age 75)
Occupations: diplomat
Biography: Kamil Iskhakov, is Russian regional development minister's assistant. He has the federal state civilian service rank of 1st class Active State Councillor of the Russian Federation. He is of Tatar descent.

Pyotr Boborykin

Born in: Russia
Years: 1836-1921 (aged 85)
Occupations: writerjournalist
Biography: Pyotr Dmitryevich Boborykin was a Russian writer, playwright, and journalist.

Yuliya Zaripova

Born in: Russia
Years: 1986-.. (age 38)
Occupations: middle-distance runnerathletics competitor
Biography: Yuliya Mikhailovna Zaripova is a Russian former disgraced middle-distance runner who specialised in the 3000 metres steeplechase event.

Taliä Xäbrievä

Born in: Russia
Years: 1958-.. (age 66)
Occupations: academic
Biography: Taliya Yarullovna Habrieva is a Russian jurist. She was instrumental in preparing the 2020 amendments to the Constitution of Russia that allowed President Vladimir Putin to remain in power after 2024.

Fäwziä Bäyrämevä

Born in: Russia
Years: 1950-.. (age 74)
Occupations: human rights activist
Biography: Fauziya Aukhadiyevna Bayramova is a Tatar politician and writer. She was a founder of the Tatarstan independence party The Ittifaq Party. From 1990 to 1995 she was a member of the State Council of the Republic of Tatarstan. From 1994 to 1997 she was the chair of the Milli Majlis, the unrecognized Tatar parliament, which she helped to establish. She was also a contributor to the constitution of Tatarstan. She has written a number of political manifestos and histories, focusing on topics relating to the Tatar people and their political circumstances, and has worked as a journalist and publisher.

Alexander Mikhaylovich Zaytsev

Born in: Russia
Years: 1841-1910 (aged 69)
Occupations: chemistuniversity teacher
Biography: Aleksander Mikhaylovich Zaytsev, also Zaitsev, Saytzeff, or Saytzev was a Russian chemist. He worked on organic compounds and proposed Zaytsev's rule, which predicts the product composition of an elimination reaction.

Ruslan Möxämmätşin

Born in: Russia
Years: 1981-.. (age 43)
Occupations: association football playerbasketball player
Biography: Ruslan Nailevich Mukhametshin is a Russian professional football coach and a former player. He is an assistant coach for FC Mordovia Saransk.

Jiang Ping

Years: 1930-2023 (aged 93)
Occupations: politicianjurist
Biography: Jiang Ping was a Chinese legal scholar. He was the President of China University of Political Science and Law, and a member of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress.

Ivan Lypa

Born in: Ukraine
Years: 1865-1923 (aged 58)
Occupations: writerpoliticianliterary criticpoetphysician
Biography: Ivan Lvovych Lypa (Ukrainian: Іван Львович Липа; February 24, 1865, Kerch – November 13, 1923, Lviv (Vynnyky) was a Ukrainian physician and politician who served as Ukrainian minister of Religious Affairs. He is a father of another Ukrainian political leader and physician Yurii Lypa.

Yevgeny Zavoisky

Born in: Ukraine
Years: 1907-1976 (aged 69)
Occupations: physicistnuclear physicist
Biography: Yevgeny Konstantinovich Zavoisky was a Soviet physicist known for discovery of electron paramagnetic resonance in 1944. He likely observed nuclear magnetic resonance in 1941, well before Felix Bloch and Edward Mills Purcell, but dismissed the results as not reproducible. Zavoisky is also credited with design of luminescence camera for detection of nuclear processes in 1952 and discovery of magneto-acoustic resonance in plasma in 1958.

Vasily Likhachyov

Born in: Russia
Years: 1952-2019 (aged 67)
Occupations: statespersonpoliticianmember of the State Dumadiplomat
Biography: Vasily Nikolayevich Likhachyov was a Russian politician, the Permanent Representative for Russia to the European Council (1998), and Deputy Minister of Justice in Russia. Since 2011 until his death he was a Russian State Duma deputy from the Communist Party of the Russian Federation.

Aydat Mätşin

Born in: Russia
Years: 1963-.. (age 61)
Occupations: politicianmember of the State Duma
Biography: Aidar Metshin is a Russian political figure, former mayor of Nizhnekamsk, and a deputy of the 8th State Duma.

Nikolai Wagner

Born in: Russia
Years: 1829-1907 (aged 78)
Occupations: zoologistwriter
Biography: Nikolai Petrovich Wagner was a Russian zoologist, editor, essayist and writer.

Wäliulla Yaqupof

Born in: Kazakhstan
Years: 1963-2012 (aged 49)
Occupations: mufti
Biography: Valiulla Makhmutovich Yakupov was a prominent Muslim cleric in Tatarstan, Russia and the deputy to the Muslim province's chief mufti. He was also known as a strong critic of radical Islamist organisations which advocate Salafism, a radical form of Islam. According to news agency Interfax, Yakupov founded Russia's first Islamic literary publishing house.

Daniil Mordovtsev

Born in: Russia
Years: 1830-1905 (aged 75)
Enrolled in Kazan Federal University: Studied in 1850-1851
Occupations: writerhistorian
Biography: Daniil Lukich Mordovtsev was a Russian writer and historian.

Alfiya Kogogina

Born in: Russia
Years: 1968-.. (age 56)
Occupations: politicianmember of the State Duma
Biography: Alfiya Kogogina is a Russian political figure and deputy of the 6th, 7th, and 8th State Dumas.

Marina Razbezhkina

Born in: Russia
Years: 1948-.. (age 76)
Occupations: film directordirectordocumentary filmmakerfilm actorscreenwriter
Biography: Marina Razbezhkina is a Russian screenwriter, producer, director and documentary filmmaker. Working on such films asHarvest Time, The Hollow and Optical Axis she has multiple awards at international film festivals including the Chicago International Film Festival.

Militsa Nechkina

Born in: Ukraine
Years: 1899-1985 (aged 86)
Occupations: university teacherhistorian
Biography: Militsa Vasilyevna Nechkina was a Soviet historian. She taught at Moscow State University and extensively studied the Decembrist revolt of 1825.

Mirfatıyx Zäkief

Years: 1928-2023 (aged 95)
Occupations: historianuniversity teacherlinguistpedagogue
Biography: Mirfatyh Zakievich Zakiev was a Soviet and Russian controversial academic in the domain of Turkology scholar.

Nikolay Likhachyov

Born in: Russia
Years: 1862-1936 (aged 74)
Occupations: historianphilologistsigillographerart historianlibrarian
Biography: Nikolay Petrovich Likhachyov, alternatively transliterated as Likhachev (12 April 1862 – 14 April 1936) was the first and foremost Russian sigillographer (that is, an expert on seals) who also contributed significantly to an array of auxiliary historical disciplines, including palaeography, epigraphy, diplomatics, genealogy, and numismatics. He was elected a member of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR in 1925 and was put in charge of the Archaeographic Commission in 1929.

Mikołaj Kruszewski

Born in: Ukraine
Years: 1851-1887 (aged 36)
Occupations: linguist
Biography: Mikołaj Habdank Kruszewski, was a Polish linguist active in the Russian Empire, most significant as the co-inventor of the concept of the phoneme. From 1883, he was a professor at Kazan University. His notable works include On Sound Alternation (1881) and Outline of Linguistic Science (1883). The former is the introduction to his master's thesis on morphophonemic alternation in Old Slavic (the section focusing on the theoretical background for the empirical work in the body of the thesis) and the latter is his doctoral thesis.

Vasily Vasilyev

Born in: Russia
Years: 1818-1900 (aged 82)
Occupations: writer
Biography: Vasily Pavlovich Vasilyev or Wassiljew was the preeminent Russian Sinologist of the 19th Century.

Vladimir Adoratsky

Born in: Russia
Years: 1878-1945 (aged 67)
Occupations: philosopherpolitician
Biography: Vladimir Viktorovich Adoratsky was a Russian revolutionary, Soviet historian, academic and Marxist philosopher.

Walter Anderson

Born in: Belarus
Years: 1885-1962 (aged 77)
Occupations: writeracademicfolkloristliterary historiannumismatist
Biography: Walter Arthur Alexander Anderson was a Baltic German ethnologist (folklorist) and numismatist.

Lenar Safin

Born in: Russia
Years: 1969-.. (age 55)
Occupations: politicianstatesperson
Biography: Lenar Rinatovich Safin is a Russian politician. From 2020 to 2022, he served as a senator from Tatarstan.

Sultan Majid Afandiyev

Born in: Azerbaijan
Years: 1887-1938 (aged 51)
Occupations: politician
Biography: Sultan Majid Afandiyev, also spelled Efendiyev (May 26, 1887 – April 21, 1938) was an Azerbaijani revolutionary and statesman, one of the founders of the Communist Party of Azerbaijan.

Sergey Reformatsky

Years: 1860-1934 (aged 74)
Occupations: chemistuniversity teacherinventor
Biography: Sergey Nikolaevich Reformatsky was a Russian chemist.

Alexander Tarasov-Rodionov

Born in: Russia
Years: 1885-1938 (aged 53)
Occupations: writerprose writerrevolutionarymilitary personnelmilitary officer
Biography: Alexander Ignatyevich Tarasov-Rodionov was a Russian/Soviet writer and revolutionary, best known for his novel Chocolate which at the time of publication was acclaimed as a tale of heroic self-sacrifice but has since been criticized as a justification for the Red Terror.

Wilhelm Anderson

Born in: Belarus
Years: 1880-1940 (aged 60)
Occupations: physicistastronomerastrophysicistuniversity teacher
Biography: Wilhelm Robert Karl Anderson was a Russian-Estonian astrophysicist of Baltic German descent who studied the physical structure of the stars.

Ilya Berezin

Born in: Russia
Years: 1818-1896 (aged 78)
Occupations: translatorhistorian
Biography: Ilya Nikolayevich Berezin was a prominent Russian Orientalist, the major authority on the culture, languages and history of Turkey, Iran and Mongolia, the Meritorious Professor of Saint Petersburg University, who wrote both in Russian and French.

Ivan Mikhailovich Simonov

Born in: Russia
Years: 1794-1855 (aged 61)
Occupations: astronomer
Biography: Ivan Mikhailovich Simonov was a Russian astronomer and a geodesist.

Alexey Fedorov-Davydov

Born in: Russia
Years: 1900-1969 (aged 69)
Enrolled in Kazan Federal University: Studied in 1923
Occupations: art historianuniversity teacher
Biography: Aleksei Aleksandrovich Fedorov-Davydov was a Soviet art scholar and historian.

Yegor Wagner

Born in: Russia
Years: 1849-1903 (aged 54)
Occupations: chemistuniversity teacher
Biography: Yegor Yegorovich Wagner was a Russian organic chemist, famous for the discovery of the "Wagner reaction", named after him. Former representative of the Kazan School of Chemistry.

Vasily Bervi-Flerovsky

Born in: Russia
Years: 1829-1918 (aged 89)
Occupations: sociologistwritereconomist
Biography: Vasily Vasiliyevich Bervi-Flerovsky was a Russian economist, sociologist, journalist and prominent theorist of the Narodnik and nihilist movements.

Pyotr Pertsov

Born in: Russia
Years: 1868-1947 (aged 79)
Occupations: writerliterary criticpoetliterary historianjournalist
Biography: Pyotr Petrovich Pertsov was a Russian poet, publisher, editor, literary critic, journalist and memoirist associated with the Russian Symbolist movement.

Viktor Shershunov

Born in: Kazakhstan
Years: 1950-2007 (aged 57)
Occupations: politicianstatesperson
Biography: Viktor Andreyevich Shershunov was the governor of Kostroma Oblast, Russia, from 1997 to 2007. He previously worked at the Prosecutor's Office of Kostroma Oblast.

Sotlan Ğäbäşi

Born in: Russia
Years: 1891-1942 (aged 51)
Occupations: musicologistcomposer
Biography: Ğäbäşi Soltanäxmät Xäsänğata ulı a.k.a. Soltan Ğäbäşi was a Tatar composer, musicologist and choirmaster.

Mikhail Lyapunov

Born in: Russia
Years: 1820-1868 (aged 48)
Occupations: astronomer
Biography: Mikhail Vasilyevich Lyapunov was a Russian astronomer and a head of the Demidov Lyceum in Yaroslavl.

Nikolai A. Golovkinsky

Born in: Russia
Years: 1834-1897 (aged 63)
Enrolled in Kazan Federal University: Studied in 1861
Occupations: geologist
Biography: Nikolai A. Golovkinsky was a Russian geologist who studied among other things the Paleozoic sediments of Tatarstan. He was professor at the Kazan School of Geology.

Arif Salimov

Born in: Azerbaijan
Years: 1956-.. (age 68)
Occupations: mathematician
Biography: Arif Salimov is an Azerbaijani/Soviet mathematician, Honored Scientist of Azerbaijan, known for his research in differential geometry. He earned his B.Sc. degree from Baku State University, Azerbaijan, in 1978, a PhD and Doctor of Sciences (Habilitation) degrees in geometry from Kazan State University, Russia, in 1984 and 1998, respectively. His advisor was Vladimir Vishnevskii. Salimov is Full Professor and Head of the Department Algebra and Geometry, Faculty of Mechanics and Mathematics, Baku State University. He is an author and co-author of more than 100 articles. He is also an author of 2 monographs. His primary areas of research are:

Tatyana Larionova

Born in: Russia
Years: 1955-.. (age 69)
Occupations: member of the State Duma
Biography: Tatiana Larionova is a Russian political figure and deputy of the 8th State Duma. In 2005, she was granted a Candidate of Sciences in Sociology degree.

Nikolay Neprimerov

Born in: Russia
Years: 1921-2017 (aged 96)
Occupations: physicist
Biography: Nikolay Neprimerov was a Doctor of Technical Sciences and professor of physics at the Kazan State University. Neprimerov was Head of the Department of Radioelectronics of the Kazan University for 32 years and is author of more than 150 scientific papers and 9 monographs. He also authored a book about the everyday life of military pilots during World War II. He was awarded numerous honours and medals, among them the Russian Federation Government Prize in Science and Technology. Neprimerov dedicated more than 40 years to and is internationally known for physical research in oil recovery.

Sergei Bakinsky

Born in: Latvia
Years: 1886-1939 (aged 53)
Occupations: military personneldiplomatpolitician
Biography: Sergei Segeyevich Bakinsky was a Bolshevik politician, revolutionary, the first People's Commissar of Ukrainian People's Republic of Soviets on nationalities.

Konstantin Pyatnitsky

Born in: Russia
Years: 1864-1938 (aged 74)
Occupations: memoiristediting stafftranslatorpublisherjournalist
Biography: Konstantin Petrovich Pyatnitsky was a Russian journalist, publisher and memoirist from the Russian Empire and Soviet Union. Pyatnitsky was a co-founder of the publishing company Znanie and one–time close associate of Maxim Gorky.

Leon Litinetski

Born in: Russia
Years: 1967-.. (age 57)
Occupations: politician
Biography: Leon Litinetsky is an Israeli politician. He served as a member of the Knesset for the Labor Party between 2008 and 2009, and for Yisrael Beiteinu between 2014 and 2015.

Valeriy Pisigin

Born in: Russia
Years: 1957-.. (age 67)
Enrolled in Kazan Federal University: In 1990 studied history
Occupations: musicologisthistorian
Biography: Valeriy Fridrikhovich Pisigin is a Russian writer; historian; blues, British and American folk music researcher; and former political activist.

Boris Keller

Born in: Russia
Years: 1874-1945 (aged 71)
Occupations: botanist
Biography: Boris Aleksandrovich Keller was a Russian and Soviet biologist and a pioneer of plant ecology in the Soviet Union. Specializing in the vegetational ecology of the semi-arid steppe regions, he introduced the idea of vegetation complexes which are now termed as synusia in plant ecology. He served as the first director of the Komarov Botanical Institute.

Rina Zaripova

Born in: Russia
Years: 1941-2008 (aged 67)
Occupations: journalisttranslatorteacher
Biography: Rina Zaripova was a Tatar journalist, translator, teacher, Merited Culture Worker of Tatarstan Republic (1995), and prizewinner of the competition for journalists "Bällür qäläm", or "Crystal pen" (2001).

Aleksandr Artemyev

Born in: Russia
Years: 1820-1874 (aged 54)
Occupations: historianarchaeologiststatisticiangeographerpolitician
Biography: Aleksandr Ivanovich Artemyev was a Russian statistician, archeologist, ethnographer and geographer; State Councillor, senior editor of the Central Statistical Committee, member of the Statistical Council of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Empire.

Valery Taliyev

Born in: Russia
Years: 1872-1932 (aged 60)
Occupations: botanist
Biography: Valery Ivanovich Taliev was a Russian botanist and evolutionary biologist, best known for the concept of the role of man in the spreading of plants during the Holocene and for his evolutionary ideas. He is considered as one of the first natural scientists who explored the importance of anthropogenic factors in the evolution and geographic distribution of higher plants.

Vladimir Moskovkin

Born in: Ukraine
Years: 1952-.. (age 72)
Occupations: geographer
Biography: Vladimir Mikhailovich Moskovkin is a Post- Soviet and Ukrainian geographer, economist, scientometrist, teacher, publicist. Doctor of Geographical Sciences, professor.

Aydar Akhatov

Born in: Russia
Years: 1957-.. (age 67)
Occupations: economistartistecologist
Biography: Aydar Gabdulkhaevich Akhatov is a Russian state, political and public figure, journalist, scientist-economist, ecologist, lawyer, artist. He is an ethnic Tatar.

Sergey Korolyov

Born in: Russia
Years: 1874-1932 (aged 58)
Occupations: microbiologist
Biography: Sergei Alexandrovich Korolev was a Russian microbiologist and professor and the founder of industrial microbiology. He was one of the founders of the Soviet dairy industry at the beginning of the 20th century. Through the work of Korolev, his colleagues and students, the microbiology of milk and dairy products was developed considerably.

Irina Volynets

Born in: Russia
Years: 1978-.. (age 46)
Occupations: politicianjournalist
Biography: Irina Volynets is a Russian journalist, human rights activist, and leader of the National Parents Committee social movement. In 2017, she became a candidate in the 2018 Russian presidential election, but withdrew her candidacy in favor of Vladimir Putin.

Julia Zabłocka

Born in: Poland
Years: 1931-1993 (aged 62)
Occupations: historian
Biography: Rosalia Julianna Zabłocka (1931–1993) was a Polish classical scholar, historian and archaeologist who pioneered research on the ancient history of the Middle East at the Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań. In the late 1970s, she participated in archaeology developments in Iraq and was particularly active in the excavations of the Novae Fortress in today's Bulgaria. In 1982 she published an authoritative history of the Near East in Antiquity. In 1984, she was appointed professor of ancient history at the Adam Mickiewicz University.

Murat Kamaletdinov

Born in: Russia
Years: 1928-2013 (aged 85)
Occupations: petroleum geologistgeologist
Biography: Murat Abdulkhakovich Kamaletdinov was a Bashkir petroleum geologist.

Naum Terebinsky

Years: 1851-..
Occupations: politician
Biography: Naum Varlaamovich Terebinsky was a student of the theological seminary, a doctor of medicine, a deputy Orenburg City Duma, a deputy of the Third Imperial Duma from the Orenburg Governorate from 1907 to 1908. His son was Nikolai Naumovich Terebinsky (Russian: Николай Наумович Теребинский, 1880—1959), a professor, one of the pioneers of open heart surgery.

Nikolai Demert

Years: 1835-1876 (aged 41)
Occupations: journalistwriterin-home tutor
Biography: Nikolai Alexandrovich Demert was a Russian writer, journalist and publicist.

Roman Şäyxetdinef

Born in: Russia
Years: 1974-.. (age 50)
Occupations: politicianjurist
Biography: Roman Shaykhutdinov is a Deputy Prime Minister of the Republic of Tatarstan, responsible for development of Innopolis.

Lyubov Nikolayevna Vasilyeva

Born in: Russia
Years: 1901-1985 (aged 84)
Occupations: botanist
Biography: Ljubov Nikolaevna Vassiljeva was a Soviet botanist, mycologist, and bryologist. The standard author abbreviation Lj.N.Vassiljeva is used to indicate this person as the author when citing a botanical name.

Iustin Frățiman

Born in: Moldova
Years: 1870-1927 (aged 57)
Occupations: historiancuratorteacher
Biography: Iustin Ștefan Frățiman, also known as Frațman or Frățimanu, was a historian, educator, librarian and political figure from Bessarabia, active in the Russian Empire and the Kingdom of Romania. After receiving a classical education, he worked for various seminaries of the Russian Orthodox Church, moving as far north as Olonets. Frățiman had settled in Soroca by the time of World War I, becoming a champion of Romanian nationalism. This resulted in his being exiled to Central Asia until 1917. Allowed back home after the liberal February Revolution, he resumed his activism, openly campaigning for the national rights of Romanians east of Bessarabia. He was afterwards one of the educators tasked with institutional Romanianization by the Moldavian Democratic Republic.

Hugo Kaho

Born in: Estonia
Years: 1885-1964 (aged 79)
Occupations: biologist
Biography: Richard Hugo Kaho was an Estonian plant physiologist and politician. He was a member of VI Riigikogu (its National Council). From 1938 until 1940, he was the rector of the University of Tartu.

Boris Kochelaev

Born in: Russia
Years: 1934-.. (age 90)
Enrolled in Kazan Federal University: Studied in 1952-1957
Occupations: physicist
Biography: Boris Ivanovich Kochelaev is a Soviet and Russian physicist and professor.