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.

  1. Enver Hoxha

    Enver Hoxha
    Born in
    Albania Flag Albania
    Years
    1908-1985 (aged 77)
    Occupations
    politician
    Biography

    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.

  2. Fiona Hill

    Fiona Hill
    Born in
    United Kingdom Flag United Kingdom
    Years
    1965-.. (age 59)
    Occupations
    political scientist
    Biography

    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.

  3. Valeriya Novodvorskaya

    Valeriya Novodvorskaya
    Born in
    Belarus Flag Belarus
    Years
    1950-2014 (aged 64)
    Occupations
    teacherpoettranslatorwriterpolitician
    Biography

    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.

  4. Mariya Shukshina

    Mariya Shukshina
    Born in
    Russia Flag Russia
    Years
    1967-.. (age 57)
    Occupations
    translatordirectorYouTuberactortelevision presenter
    Biography

    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.

  5. Kir Bulychev

    Kir Bulychev
    Born in
    Russia Flag Russia
    Years
    1934-2003 (aged 69)
    Occupations
    science fiction writerhistoriantranslatorwriterplaywright
    Biography

    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.

  6. Igor Ivanov

    Igor Ivanov
    Born in
    Russia Flag Russia
    Years
    1945-.. (age 79)
    Occupations
    politiciandiplomat
    Biography

    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.

  7. Mikhail Kozhukhov

    Mikhail Kozhukhov
    Born in
    Russia Flag Russia
    Years
    1956-.. (age 68)
    Enrolled in Moscow State Linguistic University
    Studied in 1979
    Occupations
    producertelevision presenterscreenwriterradio personalityjournalist
    Biography

    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.

  8. Arina Sharapova

    Arina Sharapova
    Born in
    Russia Flag Russia
    Years
    1961-.. (age 63)
    Occupations
    editing stafflecturerpublic figurejournalisttelevision presenter
    Biography

    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.

  9. Leonid Volodarskiy

    Leonid Volodarskiy
    Born in
    Russia Flag Russia
    Years
    1950-2023 (aged 73)
    Occupations
    translatorradio personalityactorlinguist
    Biography

    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.

  10. Stas Namin

    Stas Namin
    Born in
    Russia Flag Russia
    Years
    1951-.. (age 73)
    Occupations
    composerrecord producerfilm producertheatrical producersongwriter
    Biography

    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).

  11. Anna Federmesser

    Anna Federmesser
    Born in
    Russia Flag Russia
    Years
    1977-.. (age 47)
    Occupations
    physician
    Biography

    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.

  12. Viktor Gusev

    Viktor Gusev
    Born in
    Russia Flag Russia
    Years
    1955-.. (age 69)
    Occupations
    pundittelevision presenterpresenter
    Biography

    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.

  13. Wolfgang Leonhard

    Wolfgang Leonhard
    Born in
    Austria Flag Austria
    Years
    1921-2014 (aged 93)
    Occupations
    historianuniversity teacherwriter
    Biography

    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.

  14. Svetlana Zhiltsova

    Svetlana Zhiltsova
    Born in
    Russia Flag Russia
    Years
    1936-.. (age 88)
    Occupations
    translatorpresenterannouncertelevision presenter
    Biography

    Svetlana Alekseevna Zhiltsova is a Soviet TV presenter, Honored Artist of the RSFSR (1978).

  15. Anastasia Popova

    Anastasia Popova
    Born in
    Russia Flag Russia
    Years
    1987-.. (age 37)
    Occupations
    journalist
    Biography

    Anastasia Andreevna Popova is a Russian journalist who works for Russia-24. She directed a documentary The Syrian Diary about the war in Syria.

  16. Zoya Svetova

    Zoya Svetova
    Born in
    Russia Flag Russia
    Years
    1959-.. (age 65)
    Enrolled in Moscow State Linguistic University
    Studied in 1982
    Occupations
    journalistopinion journalisthuman rights activist
    Biography

    Zoya Feliksovna Svetova is a Russian journalist and human rights defender, producer, author of the documentary novel Innocent Found Guilty (Russian: Признать невиновного виновным).

  17. Igor Shchyogolev

    Igor Shchyogolev
    Born in
    Ukraine Flag Ukraine
    Years
    1965-.. (age 59)
    Occupations
    politicianjournalist
    Biography

    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.

  18. Dmitriy Petrov

    Dmitriy Petrov
    Born in
    Russia Flag Russia
    Years
    1958-.. (age 66)
    Occupations
    polyglotuniversity teachertelevision presenterinterpretertranslator
    Biography

    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.

  19. Enver Mamedov

    Enver Mamedov
    Born in
    Azerbaijan Flag Azerbaijan
    Years
    1923-2023 (aged 100)
    Enrolled in Moscow State Linguistic University
    Studied in 1953
    Occupations
    diplomatjournalist
    Biography

    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.

  20. Pavel Palazhchenko

    Pavel Palazhchenko
    Years
    1949-.. (age 75)
    Occupations
    interpreterwriterpolitical scientistdiplomat
    Biography

    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.

  21. Mikhail Lapshin

    Mikhail Lapshin
    Born in
    Russia Flag Russia
    Years
    1934-2006 (aged 72)
    Occupations
    statespersonmember of the State Dumapolitician
    Biography

    Mikhail Ivanovich Lapshin was a Russian politician who had served as the 4th Head of the Altai Republic in Russia from 2002 to 2006.

  22. Marina Boroditskaya

    Marina Boroditskaya
    Born in
    Russia Flag Russia
    Years
    1954-.. (age 70)
    Occupations
    writerpoettranslatorchildren's writerlinguist
    Biography

    Marina Yakovlevna Boroditskaya is a Russian children's poet and translator.

  23. Anastasiya Nifontova

    Anastasiya Nifontova
    Born in
    United States Flag United States
    Years
    1979-.. (age 45)
    Enrolled in Moscow State Linguistic University
    Studied in 1997-2002
    Occupations
    racing drivertelevision presentercamera operatoractormotorcycle racer
    Biography

    Anastasiya Nikolayevna Nifontova is a Russian rally raid motorcycle rider.

  24. Galina Yershova

    Galina Yershova
    Born in
    Russia Flag Russia
    Years
    1955-.. (age 69)
    Occupations
    historiancultural anthropologistethnographerhistorical linguistsocial anthropologist
    Biography

    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.

  25. Färit Möxämmätşin

    Färit Möxämmätşin
    Born in
    Russia Flag Russia
    Years
    1947-.. (age 77)
    Occupations
    statespersonpoliticianpolitical scientistdiplomat
    Biography

    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.

  26. Aleksey Sorokin

    Aleksey Sorokin
    Born in
    Russia Flag Russia
    Years
    1972-.. (age 52)
    Occupations
    association football executivesenior managementpolitician
    Biography

    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.

  27. Aharon Dolgopolsky

    Aharon Dolgopolsky
    Born in
    Russia Flag Russia
    Years
    1930-2012 (aged 82)
    Occupations
    linguist
    Biography

    Aharon Dolgopolsky, also spelled Aron was a Russian-Israeli linguist who is known as one of the modern founders of comparative Nostratic linguistics.

  28. Kiyekbayev Zhalil G

    Kiyekbayev Zhalil G
    Born in
    Russia Flag Russia
    Years
    1911-1968 (aged 57)
    Occupations
    scientist
    Biography

    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.

  29. Alexander Militarev

    Alexander Militarev
    Born in
    Russia Flag Russia
    Years
    1943-.. (age 81)
    Occupations
    philologistwriter
    Biography

    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.

  30. Vyacheslav Kupriyanov

    Vyacheslav Kupriyanov
    Born in
    Russia Flag Russia
    Years
    1939-.. (age 85)
    Occupations
    translatorwriterpoet
    Biography

    Vyacheslav Glebovich Kupriyanov is a Russian poet.

  31. Leonid Zuborev

    Leonid Zuborev
    Years
    1943-.. (age 81)
    Occupations
    writer
    Biography

    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.

  32. Alexey Yaroshevsky

    Alexey Yaroshevsky
    Born in
    Russia Flag Russia
    Years
    1984-.. (age 40)
    Occupations
    newsmakerjournalistblogger
    Biography

    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.

  33. Inna Meiman-Kitrossky

    Inna Meiman-Kitrossky
    Born in
    Russia Flag Russia
    Years
    1932-1987 (aged 55)
    Occupations
    linguist
    Biography

    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.

  34. Karen Karagezyan

    Karen Karagezyan
    Born in
    Russia Flag Russia
    Years
    1935-.. (age 89)
    Occupations
    writer
    Biography

    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.

  35. Inna Solomonik

    Inna Solomonik
    Years
    1932-2009 (aged 77)
    Occupations
    philosopher
    Biography

    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).