35 Notable alumni of
Moscow State Linguistic University
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Moscow State Linguistic University is 718th in the world, 252nd in Europe, and 19th in Russia by aggregated alumni prominence. Below is the list of 35 notable alumni from Moscow State Linguistic 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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Enver Hoxha
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- politician
- Biography
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Enver Hoxha was an Albanian Communist politician who was the dictator of Albania from 1944 until his death in 1985. He was the First Secretary of the Party of Labour of Albania from 1941 until his death, a member of its Politburo, chairman of the Democratic Front of Albania, and commander-in-chief of the Albanian People's Army. He was the twenty-second prime minister of Albania from 1944 to 1954 and at various times was both foreign minister and defence minister of the country.
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Fiona Hill
- Occupations
- political scientist
- Biography
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Fiona Hill is a British-American foreign affairs specialist and author. She is a former official at the U.S. National Security Council, specializing in Russian and European affairs. She was a witness in the November 2019 House hearings regarding the impeachment inquiry during the first impeachment of Donald Trump. She earned a Ph.D. in history from Harvard University in 1998. She currently serves as a Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution in Washington. She was installed as Chancellor of Durham University in June 2023.
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Valeriya Novodvorskaya
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- teacherpoettranslatorwriterpolitician
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Valeriya Ilyinichna Novodvorskaya was a Soviet dissident, writer and liberal politician. She was the founder and the chairwoman of the Democratic Union party and a member of the editorial board of The New Times.
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Mariya Shukshina
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- translatordirectorYouTuberactortelevision presenter
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Maria Vasilievna Shukshina is a Russian actress. Her film credits include Burnt by the Sun 2: Exodus (2010), Bury Me Behind the Baseboard (2009) and American Daughter (1995). Her television credits include Dear Masha Berezina (2004), Take me with You (2008) and McMafia (2018). She hosted the show Wait for Me on Channel One Russia and was a member of the judging panel on Minute of Fame.
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Kir Bulychev
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- science fiction writerhistoriantranslatorwriterplaywright
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Kir Bulychev was a pen name of Igor Vsevolodovich Mozheiko (И́горь Все́володович Може́йко), a Soviet Russian science fiction writer, critic, translator and historian. His magnum opus is a children's science fiction series Alisa Selezneva, although most of his books are adult-oriented. His books were adapted for film, TV, and animation over 20 times – more than any other Russian science fiction author – and Bulychev himself wrote scripts for early adaptations.
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Igor Ivanov
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- politiciandiplomat
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Igor Sergeyevich Ivanov is a Russian politician who was Foreign Minister of Russia from 1998 to 2004 under both the Yeltsin and the Putin administrations.
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Mikhail Kozhukhov
- Enrolled in Moscow State Linguistic University
- Studied in 1979
- Occupations
- producertelevision presenterscreenwriterradio personalityjournalist
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Mikhail Yuryevich Kozhukhov is a Russian journalist and television presenter. Kozhukhov was a host of In Search of Adventures television program, for which he received the TEFI award in 2004; he was also awarded the Order of the Red Star.
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Arina Sharapova
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- editing stafflecturerpublic figurejournalisttelevision presenter
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Arina Ayanovna Sharapova is a Russian TV presenter, journalist and head of the workshop of journalism of the Moscow Institute of Television and Radio Broadcasting Ostankino.
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Leonid Volodarskiy
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- translatorradio personalityactorlinguist
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Leonid Veniaminovitch Volodarskiy was a Russian translator, writer, and weekly radio show anchor. He is mostly known in Russia as one of the home video voice-over translators of 1980s and 1990s films such as The Empire Strikes Back, Terminator dilogy, Last Action Hero, A Nightmare on Elm Street and others. Volodarskiy was also the first translator of Stephen King books into Russian.
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Stas Namin
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- composerrecord producerfilm producertheatrical producersongwriter
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Anastas Alekseevich Mikoyan, also known professionally as Stas Namin (Russian: Ста́с На́мин) is a Russian rock musician, known as the leader of the popular Soviet music group, Tsvety (Russian: Цветы, lit. 'The Flowers'). He is also a composer, actor, record producer, and director, and lends his name to the theatre he created in Moscow, the Stas Namin Music and Drama Theatre (Russian: Театр музыки и драмы Стаса Намина, tr. Teatr muzyki i dramy Stasa Namina, also known simply as Stas Namin Theatre).
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Anna Federmesser
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- physician
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Anna Konstantinovna "Nyuta" Federmesser is a Russian humanitarian worker, founder of the Vera Foundation and the Lighthouse Children's Oncology Foundation, activist for the rights of oncology patients. She actively promotes awareness on the necessity of palliative care in Russia, suggesting legitimization of palliative help and establishment of proper education in this field.
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Viktor Gusev
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- pundittelevision presenterpresenter
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Viktor Mikhailovich Gusev is a Russian TV presenter, sports commentator of the Channel One Russia; grandson of the poet Viktor Gusev, son of a scientist, Professor Mikhail Gusev, who headed the biological faculty of Moscow State University for 33 years.
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Wolfgang Leonhard
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- historianuniversity teacherwriter
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Wolfgang Leonhard was a German political author and historian of the Soviet Union, the German Democratic Republic and Communism. A German Communist whose family had fled Hitler's Germany and who was educated in the Soviet Union, after World War II Leonhard became one of the founders and leaders of the German Democratic Republic until he became disillusioned and fled in 1949, first defecting to Yugoslavia and then moving to West Germany in 1950 and later to the United Kingdom. In 1956 he moved to the United States, where he was a popular and influential professor at Yale University from 1966 to 1987, teaching the history of communism and the Soviet Union, topics about which he wrote several books. After the Cold War ended, he returned to Germany.
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Svetlana Zhiltsova
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- translatorpresenterannouncertelevision presenter
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Svetlana Alekseevna Zhiltsova is a Soviet TV presenter, Honored Artist of the RSFSR (1978).
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Anastasia Popova
- Occupations
- journalist
- Biography
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Anastasia Andreevna Popova is a Russian journalist who works for Russia-24. She directed a documentary The Syrian Diary about the war in Syria.
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Zoya Svetova
- Enrolled in Moscow State Linguistic University
- Studied in 1982
- Occupations
- journalistopinion journalisthuman rights activist
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Zoya Feliksovna Svetova is a Russian journalist and human rights defender, producer, author of the documentary novel Innocent Found Guilty (Russian: Признать невиновного виновным).
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Igor Shchyogolev
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- politicianjournalist
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Igor Olegovich Shchyogolev is a Russian politician. From May 2008 to 20 May 2012, he has served as the Russian Minister of Telecommunications. He has the federal state civilian service rank of 1st class Active State Councillor of the Russian Federation.
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Dmitriy Petrov
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- polyglotuniversity teachertelevision presenterinterpretertranslator
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Dmitry Yuryevich Petrov is a Russian polyglot, simultaneous interpreter, lecturer, broadcaster, and teacher. He is a host of the reality show Polyglot on the TV channel Russia-K. Finished Translation School of Moscow State Linguistics University where he teaches, as of 2016, at the Department of Translation Studies and English Translation Practice. Since 2012 has his multilingual language school called Dmitry Petrov's Innovative Communication Linguistics Center that works using his 16 academic hour method Polyglot 16, implemented in eponymous course books and mobile applications.
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Enver Mamedov
- Enrolled in Moscow State Linguistic University
- Studied in 1953
- Occupations
- diplomatjournalist
- Biography
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Enver Nazim oglu Mammadov was a Soviet diplomat and a mass media manager. During his career, spent mostly in Russia and the West, he was primarily known under the Russianized form of his name, Enver Nazimovich Mamedov (Russian: Энвер Назимович Мамедов), or just Enver Mamedov.
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Pavel Palazhchenko
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- 1949-.. (age 75)
- Occupations
- interpreterwriterpolitical scientistdiplomat
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Pavel Palazhchenko or Palazchenko is a former high-level Soviet conference interpreter who was the chief English interpreter for Mikhail Gorbachev and Soviet foreign minister Eduard Shevardnadze from 1985 and 1991.
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Mikhail Lapshin
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- statespersonmember of the State Dumapolitician
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Mikhail Ivanovich Lapshin was a Russian politician who had served as the 4th Head of the Altai Republic in Russia from 2002 to 2006.
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Marina Boroditskaya
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- writerpoettranslatorchildren's writerlinguist
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Marina Yakovlevna Boroditskaya is a Russian children's poet and translator.
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Anastasiya Nifontova
- Enrolled in Moscow State Linguistic University
- Studied in 1997-2002
- Occupations
- racing drivertelevision presentercamera operatoractormotorcycle racer
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Anastasiya Nikolayevna Nifontova is a Russian rally raid motorcycle rider.
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Galina Yershova
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- historiancultural anthropologistethnographerhistorical linguistsocial anthropologist
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Galina Gavrilovna Yershova, or Ershova is a Russian academic historian, linguist, and epigrapher, who specialises in the study of the ancient civilisations, cultures, and languages of the New World. As an Americanist scholar, her area of expertise is in the field of Mesoamerican studies, and in particular that of the pre-Columbian Maya civilisation, its historical literature, and its writing system. Yershova is a former student and protégé of the Russian linguist and epigrapher Yuri Knorozov, renowned for his central contributions towards the decipherment of the Maya script.
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Färit Möxämmätşin
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- statespersonpoliticianpolitical scientistdiplomat
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Farit Mubarakshevich Mukhametshin is a Russian politician and diplomat. He has served as a member of the Federation Council of the Federal Assembly as the representative of Samara Oblast since 2018. He has previously been head of the Federal Agency for the Commonwealth of Independent States Affairs, Compatriots Living Abroad, and International Humanitarian Cooperation (Rossotrudnichestvo), and as ambassador of Russia to Moldova, and to Uzbekistan.
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Aleksey Sorokin
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- association football executivesenior managementpolitician
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Alexey Leonidovich Sorokin, is a Russian football administrator who was a member of the FIFA Council until 2021. From his previous career, he was the secretary general and general director of the Russian Football Union and helped to organize the UEFA Champions League final in Moscow in 2008. In 2011, he was appointed as the CEO of the Local Organizing Committee for the 2018 FIFA World Cup, after working on the Bid Committee in 2009.
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Aharon Dolgopolsky
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- linguist
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Aharon Dolgopolsky, also spelled Aron was a Russian-Israeli linguist who is known as one of the modern founders of comparative Nostratic linguistics.
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Kiyekbayev Zhalil G
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- scientist
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Jalil Giniyatovich Keyekbaev was a Bashkir linguist, Turkologist, doctor of philological sciences (1960), professor (1961), writer and member of the Bashkir Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic Writers' Union. He is the founder of Bashkir linguistics and of the modern Bashkir school of Ural–Altaic languages.
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Alexander Militarev
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- philologistwriter
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Alexander Militarev is a Russian scholar of Semitic, Berber, Canarian and Afroasiatic (Afrasian, Semito-Hamitic) languages, comparative-historical linguistics, Jewish and Bible studies at the Russian State University for the Humanities.
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Vyacheslav Kupriyanov
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- translatorwriterpoet
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Vyacheslav Glebovich Kupriyanov is a Russian poet.
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Leonid Zuborev
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- 1943-.. (age 81)
- Occupations
- writer
- Biography
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Leonid Zuborev is a Soviet born author and biographer from Minsk, Belarus. He has written 20 books (mostly in Russian) ranging from historical novels, biographies, and children's literature. He came to United States 25 years ago and continued to write in both English and Russian. Currently lives in Brooklyn, NY.
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Alexey Yaroshevsky
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- newsmakerjournalistblogger
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Alexey Yaroshevsky is a Russian reporter, television host and commentator. Worked on RT network since 2005 until 2022, now he is the English voice commentator of the Russian Premier League, and also a former host at the Okko Sport Channel in Russia.
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Inna Meiman-Kitrossky
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- linguist
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Inna Ilyinichna Meiman-Kitrossky was a refusenik, a member of a group of refuseniks-cancer patients, and an author of textbooks for the English language.
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Karen Karagezyan
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- writer
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Karen Karovich Karagezyan is a Soviet and Russian journalist, translator, writer, the deputy head of the press office at The Gorbachev Foundation.In different years he was the press secretary, advisor and assistant of Mikhail Gorbachev.
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Inna Solomonik
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- 1932-2009 (aged 77)
- Occupations
- philosopher
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Inna Naumovna Solomonik was a Soviet and Russian specialist on puppet theatre. She graduated from the Moscow State Pedagogical Institute of Foreign Languages in 1973 (first degree, diploma of French teacher) and got her PhD at the Institute of Oriental Studies under the USSR Academy of Sciences (Moscow) in 1981 (thesis: Javanese Wayang Purwa performance as a semiotic system under the supervision of Dr. Vladimir I. Braginsky).
