16 Notable alumni of
Kuban State University
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Kuban State University is 1803rd in the world, 604th in Europe, and 65th in Russia by aggregated alumni prominence. Below is the list of 16 notable alumni from Kuban State University sorted by their wiki pages popularity. The directory includes famous graduates and former students along with research and academic staff.
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Margarita Simonyan
- Enrolled in Kuban State University
- 1997-2002 studied journalism
- Occupations
- presentertelevision presenterjournalisteditor-in-chiefpropagandist
- Biography
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Margarita Simonovna Simonyan is a Russian media executive. She is the editor-in-chief of the Russian state-controlled broadcaster RT, as well as the state-owned media group Rossiya Segodnya.
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Sergey Galitsky
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- businesspersonentrepreneur
- Biography
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Sergey Nikolayevich Galitsky is a Russian billionaire businessman, the founder and co-owner of Magnit, Russia's largest retailer, and president of FC Krasnodar. In 2021 Forbes Russia estimated his fortune at $3,500 million.
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Dmitry Pirog
- Occupations
- member of the State Dumapoliticianboxer
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Dmitry Yurievich Pirog is a Russian politician and former professional boxer. In boxing he competed from 2005 to 2012, and held the World Boxing Organization (WBO) middleweight title from 2010 to 2012. Although his career was cut short due to a debilitating back injury, he is one of the few professional boxers to win a world championship and retire undefeated.
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Maria Minogarova
- Occupations
- television presentermodelblogger
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Maria Albertovna Minogarova, also known as Masha, is a Russian model, blogger, YouTuber and TV presenter.
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Veniamin Kondratyev
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Veniamin Ivanovich Kondratyev is a Russian politician serving as the governor of Krasnodar Krai since 2015.
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Dmitry Grigorenko
- Occupations
- civil servant
- Biography
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Dmitry Yuryevich Grigorenko is a Russian politician serving as Deputy Prime Minister of the Russian Federation and Chief of the Government Staff assumed office in January 2020.
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Israel Tsvaygenbaum
- Occupations
- autobiographerpainter
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Israel Tsvaygenbaum, is a Russian-American artist of Jewish descent. A number of his works are in the Museum of Imitative Arts, Derbent.
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Vasyl Barka
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- writerliterary criticpoettranslatorlinguist
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Wasyl Barka was an American-residing Ukrainian poet, writer, literary critic, and translator.
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Viktor Likhonosov
- Occupations
- opinion journalistwriter
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Viktor Ivanovich Likhonosov was a Russian writer, laureate of the Russian State Prize (1988), the International Mikhail Sholokhov prize and the first Yasnaya Polyana award (2003).
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Leonid Hrach
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Leonid Ivanovych Hrach, also as Leonid Ivanovich Grach (Russian: Леони́д Ива́нович Гра́ч), is a Soviet, Ukrainian, and Russian politician.
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Alexander Karasyov
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- writer
- Biography
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Alexander Karasyov is a Russian writer living in St. Petersburg, Russia.
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Sergei Vorzhev
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- painter
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Sergei Dmitrievich Vorzhev was a Russian visual artist based in Krasnodar.
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Samuel Didier Biang
- Occupations
- association football player
- Biography
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Samuel Didier Biang is a Cameroonian football coach and a former player. He works as a coach with the FC Krasnodar academy. He also holds Russian citizenship, and he spent the whole of his playing career in Russia. He never played on the organized level during his youth years and started playing for his university squad when he was receiving his education in computer science at the Kuban State University. Local coaches advised him to start a professional career as a football player in 1998.
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Suren Gazaryan
- Occupations
- chiropterologistpoliticianzoologistenvironmental defender
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Suren Gazaryan is a Russian zoologist, dissident, public figure, and former member of The Environmental Watch on North Caucasus. He is a member of the Russian Opposition Coordination Council. He was awarded a Goldman Environmental Prize in 2014.
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Tatiana Zaitseva
- Occupations
- association football player
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Tatiana Zaitseva is a former football defender. Throughout her career she played for Kubanochka Krasnodar, Energiya Voronezh and Ryazan VDV. She was a member of the Russian national team, and played the 1999 and 2003 World Cups.
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Vladimir Schneider
- Occupations
- scientist
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Vladimir Schneider is a Russian historian, Doctor of Historical Sciences. He is the author of more than 150 scientific works, among which 7 monographs. He is a professor in the department of universal and national history of Armavir State Pedagogical University. Worked as dean of the history department of ASPU from 1999 to 2011. The main directions of scientific work: the socio-cultural aspect of the history of the peoples of the North Caucasus; Soviet national policy in the North Caucasus of 1917 - the end of the 1950s; the history of the deportations, the stay at the special settlement and the rehabilitation of the North Caucasian peoples; historical and cultural integration processes in the North Caucasus; the history of the German diaspora in the Kuban; historical research methodology issues.
