71 Notable alumni of
Moscow State Pedagogical University
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Moscow State Pedagogical University is 432nd in the world, 149th in Europe, and 9th in Russia by aggregated alumni prominence. Below is the list of 71 notable alumni from Moscow State Pedagogical 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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Ravshana Kurkova
- Occupations
- film actormodelfashion modelactorsinger
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Ravshana Bahramovna Kurkova is an Uzbek-Russian actress of theater, film and dubbing, and producer. She has appeared in more than thirty films since 2003.
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Yuliya Snigir
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- television actormodelfilm actortelevision presenter
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Yuliya Viktorovna Snigir is a Russian actress and model.
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Raisa Gorbacheva
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- politicianuniversity teachersociologistpublic figurephilosopher
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Raisa Maximovna Gorbacheva was a Soviet-Russian activist and philanthropist who was the wife of Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev.
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Ekaterina Gordon
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- juristpoetfilm directorpresenter
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Ekaterina Viktorovna Gordon is a Russian TV and radio presenter, musician, actress and public figure.
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Alexei Venediktov
- Enrolled in Moscow State Pedagogical University
- Studied in 1978
- Occupations
- teacherediting staffradio personalitypedagoguejournalist
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Alexei Alexeyevich Venediktov is a Russian journalist, former editor-in-chief, host and co-owner of the Echo of Moscow radio station, as well as publisher of Diletant history magazine.
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Alla Pokrovskaya
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- actordrama teachertheatrical director
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Alla Borisovna Pokrovskaya was a Soviet-Russian actress and educator.
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Elena Dementieva
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- tennis playertelevision presenter
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Elena Viacheslavovna Dementieva is a Russian former professional tennis player. She won the singles gold medal at the 2008 Olympics in Beijing, having previously won the silver medal at the 2000 Olympics in Sydney. She won 16 WTA singles titles, reached the finals of the 2004 French Open and 2004 US Open and reached seven other Grand Slam semifinals. Dementieva was also part of the Russian team that won the 2005 Fed Cup. In doubles, she won the 2002 WTA Championships with Janette Husárová and was the runner-up in two US Open doubles finals – in 2002 with Husárová and in 2005 with Flavia Pennetta. Dementieva achieved a career-high ranking of world No. 3, which was accomplished on 6 April 2009. She announced her retirement on 29 October 2010, after her final match at the 2010 WTA Championships. Between 2003 and 2010, she only ended one year, in 2007, outside the top 10. She is considered to be one of the most talented players never to have won a Grand Slam tournament.
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Batu Khasikov
- Enrolled in Moscow State Pedagogical University
- Studied in 2003
- Occupations
- kickboxerkaratekapoliticianboxerstatesperson
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Batu Khasikov is a Russian politician, activist and former kickboxer who has served as Head of the Republic of Kalmykia since 2019. He previously served as a Russian Federation Senator from 2012 to 2014 and Member of the People's Khural from 2008 to 2012.
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Radik Yuliakshin
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- musiciansinger
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Elvin Grey is the stage name of Radik Yulyakshin (Bashkir: Радик Юлъяҡшин, Russian: Радик Юльякшин), a Russian pop singer and producer of Bashkir descent.
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Anita Tsoy
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- writeractorcomposerpoetphilanthropist
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Anna Sergeyevna "Anita" Tsoy is a Russian singer-songwriter of Korean descent. She is a People's Artist of Russia (2021).
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Maxim Trankov
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- figure skating coachfigure skater
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Maxim Leonidovich Trankov is a Russian pair skater. With Tatiana Volosozhar, he is a two-time 2014 Olympic champion in the pairs and in team events, the 2013 World champion, a four-time (2012, 2013, 2014, 2016) European champion, the 2012 Grand Prix Final champion, and a three-time (2011, 2013, 2016) Russian national champion. They have also won six events on the Grand Prix series.
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Tatiana Felgenhauer
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- journalistediting staffradio personality
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Tatyana Vladimirovna Felgenhauer is a Russian journalist, correspondent and presenter of Echo of Moscow radio station, and its deputy editor-in-chief.
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Timofey Bazhenov
- Enrolled in Moscow State Pedagogical University
- Studied in 2001
- Occupations
- member of the State Dumawriterradio personalitytelevision presenterjournalist
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Timofey Timofeyevich Bazhenov is a Russian political figure, former TV host, and deputy of the 8th State Duma convocation.
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Yuliy Kim
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- singer-songwritercomposerguitaristpoetsongwriter
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Yuliy Chersanovich Kim is a Russian bard, composer, poet, and songwriter. His songs, encompassing everything from mild humor to biting political satire, appear in at least fifty Soviet movies, including Bumbarash, The Twelve Chairs, and An Ordinary Miracle, as well as the songs "The Brave Captain," "The Black Sea," "The Whale-Fish," "Cursed Lips," "Captain Bering," and "Baron Germont Went to War." Since 1998, he has been living in Israel and has made periodic tours throughout Russia, Europe, and the United States.
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Veronika Dolina
- Enrolled in Moscow State Pedagogical University
- Studied in 1971
- Occupations
- singer-songwritertranslatorcomposerwritersongwriter
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Veronika Arkadyevna Dolina is a Soviet and Russian poet, bard, and songwriter. She is the mother of Russian film critic Anton Dolin.
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Yevgeny Dodolev
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- screenwritertelevision presenterjournalistreportereditor-in-chief
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Yevgeny Yuriyevich Dodolyev is a Soviet and Russian journalist, publisher, and one of hosts at a state-owned Russian television channel Russia-1.
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Pyotr Fomenko
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- film directorscreenwritertheatrical director
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Pyotr Naumovich Fomenko was a Soviet and Russian film and theater director, teacher, artistic director of the Moscow theater Pyotr Fomenko Workshop. Created 60 productions in theaters in Moscow, St. Petersburg, Tbilisi, Wroclaw, Salzburg and Paris.
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Vasily Vlasov
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- politicianmember of the State Duma
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Vasily Maksimovich Vlasov is a Russian politician. He is a deputy of the State Duma of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation of the VII convocation from 5 October 2016, year. Since April 2019, he is the first deputy chairman of the State Duma committee on natural resources, property and land relations. Stripped of his mandate on November 1, 2023 for absenteeism from committee meetings.
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Maria Paseka
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- artistic gymnast
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Maria Valeryevna Paseka is a Russian artistic gymnast and member of the Russia women's national gymnastics team. During her decade-long career, she has primarily been successful as a vault specialist. On this apparatus, she is a two-time Olympic medalist (silver in 2016, bronze in 2012), a two-time world champion (2015, 2017), a two-time European champion (2015, 2019), the 2015 Universiade champion, and a two-time Russian national champion (2013, 2019). As a member of the Russian teams at the 2012 and 2016 Summer Olympics, Paseka won two silver medals in the team competition.
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Mikhail Pavlovich Shishkin
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- prose writerwriter
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Mikhail Pavlovich Shishkin is a Russian-Swiss writer and the only author to have won the Russian Booker Prize (2000), the Russian National Bestseller (2005), and the Big Book Prize (2010). His books have been translated into 30 languages. He also writes in German.
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Dmitri Vrubel
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- paintergraffiti artist
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Dmitri Vladimirovich Vrubel was a Russian painter. He was best known for his East Side Gallery-painting My God, Help Me to Survive This Deadly Love, depicting the kissing communist leaders Leonid Brezhnev and Erich Honecker.
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Mikhail Roshchin
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- writerscreenwriterplaywright
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Mikhail Mikhailovich Roshchin was a Russian playwright, screenwriter and short story writer.
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Vladimir Lukin
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- statespersonpoliticianmember of the State Dumadiplomat
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Vladimir Petrovich Lukin, sometimes Lokin, (Russian: Влади́мир Петро́вич Луки́н, romanized: Vladímir Petróvich Lukín; born 13 July 1937) is a Russian politician who served as Human Rights Commissioner of Russia from February 2004 to March 2014. He was the President of the Russian Paralympic Committee from 1997 to 2021. He was the Russian Ambassador to the United States from 1992 to 1994.
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Alexander Dvorkin
- Enrolled in Moscow State Pedagogical University
- Studied in 1972-1975
- Occupations
- radiographerchurch historianOrthodox theologiantheologianmedievalist
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Alexander Leonidovich Dvorkin is a Russian anti-cult activist. From 1999 to 2012 he was professor and head of the department of the study of new religious movements (cults) at Saint Tikhon's Orthodox University. He is currently professor of department of missiology at that university.
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Sergey Mitrokhin
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- politicianmember of the State Duma
- Biography
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Sergey Sergeyevich Mitrokhin is a Russian politician.
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Dmitry Kuzmin
- Enrolled in Moscow State Pedagogical University
- Studied in 1993
- Occupations
- publisherLGBTQI+ rights activistliterary historianpoetliterary scholar
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Dmitry Vladimirovich Kuzmin, is a Russian poet, critic, and publisher.
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Sergei Loiko
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- journalistwriterphotographerwar correspondent
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Sergey Leonidovich Loiko is a writer, war photographer, and journalist. As a journalist and photographer he has covered armed conflicts in Russia and the former USSR since 1991 (Romania, Tajikistan, Chechnya, Georgia) working primarily for the Los Angeles Times. In 2001, Loiko covered the war in Afghanistan and in 2003, the war in Iraq.
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Yevgeny Zharinov
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- scientist
- Biography
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Yevgeny Viktorovich Zharinov is a Russian writer, literary critic, publicist, translator. Professor of the Department of World Literature, Faculty of Philology, Moscow State Pedagogical University.
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Nora Gal
- Enrolled in Moscow State Pedagogical University
- Studied in 1937
- Occupations
- linguistediting staffwriterprose writertranslator
- Biography
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Nora Gal, full name Eleonora Yakovlevna Galperina (Russian: Элеонора Яковлевна Гальперина, April 27, 1912, in Odessa – July 23, 1991) was a Soviet translator, literary critic, and translation theorist.
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Turdakun Usubalijew
- Enrolled in Moscow State Pedagogical University
- Studied in 1955
- Occupations
- politicianschool teacher
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Turdakun Usubalievich Usubaliev was a Soviet and Kyrgyz politician who served as First Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Kirghizia between 1961 and 1985.
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Lev Rubinstein
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- writerphilologistjournalistbibliographerliterary critic
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Lev Semyonovich Rubinstein was a Russian essayist, journalist, poet, and social activist. He was a founder and member of Moscow Conceptualism.
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Oleg Prokofiev
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- paintersculptorpoet
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Oleg Sergeyevich Prokofiev was an artist, sculptor and poet, and the son of composer Sergei Prokofiev.
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Andrey Isayev
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- member of the State Dumatrade unionistpolitician
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Andrey Isayev is a Russian political figure and a deputy of the 3rd, 4th, 5th, 6th, 7th, and 8th State Dumas.
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Anton Antonov-Ovseyenko
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- historianjournalistwriter
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Anton Vladimirovich Antonov-Ovseenko was a Russian historian and writer.
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Artsvik
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- singercomposer
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Artsvik Harutyunyan, better known as simply Artsvik, is a Russian-Armenian singer and songwriter. She represented Armenia in the Eurovision Song Contest 2017 with the song "Fly with Me" finishing in 18th place.
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Georgy Satarov
- Enrolled in Moscow State Pedagogical University
- Studied in 1972
- Occupations
- politicianmathematician
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Georgy Aleksandrovich Satarov, is a Russian mathematician, politician, political scientist and a former aide to Russian President Boris Yeltsin (1994–1997). He has the federal state civilian service rank of 1st class Active State Councillor of the Russian Federation. Since October 1997, he has headed the InDem Foundation and specializes in researching Russia's political corruption.
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Alexander Shubin
- Enrolled in Moscow State Pedagogical University
- Studied in 1989
- Occupations
- historianpoliticianuniversity teacheropinion journalistpublic figure
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Alexander Vladlenovich Shubin is a Russian historian and politician. Doctor of Sciences in Historical Sciences (2000), Professor at the State Academic University for the Humanities (since 2003) and the Russian State University for the Humanities (since 2007). He's also Principal Researcher at the Federal State Institution of Science Institute of World History of the Russian Academy of Sciences.
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Dmitry Shparo
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- amateur radio operatorexplorermathematicianuniversity teacher
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Dmitry Shparo is a Russian Arctic explorer and endurance skier. He is internationally known for twice reaching the North Pole on snow skis.
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Nigar Rafibeyli
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- poetplaywrighttranslatorwriter
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Nigar Khudadat qizi Rafibeyli was an Azerbaijani writer and the Chairman of the Writers' Union of Azerbaijan. She was the mother of Anar Rzayev, novel and short-story writer, and the wife of the famous writer and poet Rasul Rza.
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Ilya Piatetski-Shapiro
- Enrolled in Moscow State Pedagogical University
- 1951-1954 graduated with Doctor of Philosophy
- Occupations
- mathematician
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Ilya Piatetski-Shapiro was a Soviet-born Israeli mathematician. During a career that spanned 60 years he made major contributions to applied science as well as pure mathematics. In his last forty years his research focused on pure mathematics; in particular, analytic number theory, group representations and algebraic geometry. His main contribution and impact was in the area of automorphic forms and L-functions.
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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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Pinchas Polonsky
- Enrolled in Moscow State Pedagogical University
- Studied in 1975-1980
- Occupations
- theologianuniversity teacherJudaic scholarsociologistphilosopher
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Pinchas Polonsky is a rabbi, Russian-Israeli Jewish-religious philosopher, researcher, and educator active among the Russian-speaking Jewish community. He has written original books and a number of translations of works on Judaism.
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Natalia Shvedova
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- linguistuniversity teacherlexicographer
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Natalia Yulievna Shvedova was a Soviet lexicographer who authored several standard outlines of Russian grammar, for which she was awarded the USSR State Prize in 1982.
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Alexander Panzhinskiy
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- cross-country skier
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Alexander Eduardovich Panzhinskiy is a Russian cross-country skier who has competed since 2007. His best World Cup finish was fifth in a sprint event in Estonia in January 2010.
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Irina Wiktorowna Belych
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- member of the State Dumapoliticianpedagogue
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Irina Viktorovna Belykh is a Russian politician from United Russia. She has been the member of the State Duma for the Khovrino constituency since 2016.
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Artem Metelev
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- public figuremember of the State Duma
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Artem Pavlovich Metelev is a Russian political figure and a chairman of the State Duma committee on youth policy, deputy of the 8th State Duma from 2021.
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Alexander F. Gavrilov
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- editing staffrestaurateurliterary critictelevision presenterjournalist
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Alexander Feliksovich Gavrilov is a Russian literary critic and editor. He was editor-in-chief of the Книжное обозрение Book Review from 2000 to 2010.
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Raisa Musina
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- basketball player
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Raisa Aleksandrovna Musina is a Russian basketball player for UMMC Ekaterinburg and the Russian national team. She participated at the EuroBasket Women 2017.
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Vahan Hovhannisyan
- Enrolled in Moscow State Pedagogical University
- Studied in 1978
- Occupations
- politician
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Vahan Hovhannisyan was an Armenian politician of the Armenian Revolutionary Federation (ARF). He was Vice-President of the National Assembly of Armenia from 2007 to 2008 and was a candidate in the February 2008 presidential election.
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Gennady Kostyrchenko
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- political scientisthistorian
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Gennady Vasilyevich Kostyrchenko is a Russian historian in Soviet politics.
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Lara Vapnyar
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- writer
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Lara Vapnyar is a Russian-American writer currently living in the United States. She studied comparative literature at CUNY and worked with André Aciman and Louis Menand.
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Aleksandr Chudinov
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- scientist
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Alexandr Viktorovich Chudinov is a Soviet and Russian historian, Doctor of Sciences in Historical Sciences (1997), works in Institute of World History, Russian Academy of Sciences (since 1984). Alexander is a specialist in the history and historiography of French Revolution and Napoleonic Wars, social thinking of France, Britain and Russia, international relations. He is a member of the International Commission on the History of the French Revolution (since 2005) and one of the authors of the Great Russian Encyclopedia and The Cambridge History of the Napoleonic Wars. Alexander is also the author of manuals for students.
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Vadim Zakharov
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- conceptual artistphotographerartistperformance artist
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Vadim Zakharov is an internationally exhibited Russian conceptual artist living and working in Moscow and Cologne, Germany.
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Yuri Gastev
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- translatorphilosophermathematician
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Yuri Gastev was a Soviet mathematician and cybernetician who became an active dissident, finally emigrating to the USA.
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Iosif Rangheț
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- politician
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Iosif Rangheț was an Austro-Hungarian-born Romanian communist activist and politician.
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Serge Tabachnikov
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- 1956-.. (age 68)
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- university teachermathematician
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Sergei Tabachnikov, also spelled Serge, is an American mathematician who works in geometry and dynamical systems. He is currently a Professor of Mathematics at Pennsylvania State University.
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Marina Kuptsova
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- athletics competitorhigh jumper
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Marina Kuptsova is a Russian high jumper who won a silver medal at the 2003 World Championships. She is also a former European indoor high jump champion. Her personal best jump of 2.02 metres was achieved in Hengelo in June 2003, a year when she also won the national championship.
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Alexander Soifer
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- mathematician
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Alexander Soifer is a Russian-born American mathematician and mathematics author. His works include over 400 articles and 13 books.
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Aleksey Kuznetsov
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- classical guitaristjazz guitaristcomposer
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Aleksey Kuznetsov is a Russian guitarist, composer, and guitar pedagogue. Mainly known as a jazz guitarist on the international stage, he has also worked as a classical musician. He is the author of Iz praktiki dzhazovogo gitarista (From the practice of a jazz guitarist; 1993), an instructional book for aspiring jazz guitarists.
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Victor Kanke
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- philosopheruniversity teacher
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Victor Andreyevich Kanke is a Russian philosopher born in the village of Nekrasovo, Slavgorod District, Altai Territory to a German family. He taught physics at school (1966-1974) and philosophy at the Biysk State Teacher Training Institute (1976-1987) and the Obninsk Institute for Nuclear Power Engineering (since 1987).
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Simon Gindikin
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- pedagoguemathematician
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Simon Grigorevich Gindikin is a mathematician at Rutgers University who introduced the Gindikin–Karpelevich formula for the Harish-Chandra c-function.
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Michael Lev
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- actorjournalistwriter
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Michael Lev (3 July 1917 - 23 May 2013) was a Yiddish language writer from Podolia.
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Olimpiada Kozlova
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- economistuniversity teacher
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Olimpiada Vasilyevna Kozlova was a Soviet economist, professor, and founder of management education in the Soviet Union.
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Georgy Kiesewalter
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- painter
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Georgy Kiesewalter is a Russian conceptual artist, photographer and essayist. As an artist, he uses a wide range of media to communicate his concepts to the public – from painting to graphic art, from installations to conceptual photography and digital art.
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Anatoly Pavlovich Shikman
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- writer
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Anatoly Pavlovich Shikman; born March 12, 1948) is a Russian historian and writer, and a former teacher of Moscow School No. 45. One of the authors of "Book: Encyclopedia", "Moscow Encyclopedia"
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Albert Muchnik
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- 1934-2019 (aged 85)
- Occupations
- mathematician
- Biography
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Albert Abramovich Muchnik was a Russian mathematician who worked in the field of foundations and mathematical logic.
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Olya Kroytor
- Occupations
- painter
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Olya Kroytor, full name Olga Igorevna Kroytor, is a Russian contemporary artist, based in Moscow. She works in the mediums of painting, collage, installation, sculpture, image manipulation and performance. She is particularly renowned for her performance pieces, receiving the Kandinsky Prize in 2015 in the category of 'Young artist: Project of the Year'.
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Vadim Gratshev
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- paleontologistpaleoentomologistentomologist
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Vadim Gennadyevich Gratshev was one of world leading experts in palaeoentomology. Vadim graduated from the Moscow State Pedagogical Institute in 1987 and taught biology at a high school for three years until 1989. Then he decided to pursue academic science and joined the Laboratory of Arthropods at the Paleontological Institute of Russian Academy of Sciences in 1991, first as a Kuperwood Fellow of the Academy of Natural Sciences, and since 1994 as a full-time researcher. Weevils and dryopoids were always his main passion, although his area of interests extended far beyond that. He produced over 20 scientific papers, including an outstanding comparative study of the hindwing venation of the superfamily Curculionoidea published in co-authorship with Vladimir Zherikhin. Being a keen field researcher, he participated in numerous expeditions to the Maritime Province and Sakhalin Island, Kuznetskii Alatau, Novosibirsk Region, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Tajikistan, Turkmenia, and Ukraine. The material he collected on his trip to the Drakensberg and Zululand in 2005 inspired him to commence a new project on Afrotropical Elmidae and Anthribidae. Being an optimistic, cheerful multi-talented individual with subtle sense of humour, he did not restrict his interests to extinct and extant beetles. He was an expert in noble orchids, aquarium design and raising geckos, and published several papers on those topics. He was a skillful wood-carver, and his knowledge of Japanese history and literature was not amateur.
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Yevgeny Seryayev
- Occupations
- speed skater
- Biography
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Yevgeny Seryayev is a Russian speed-skater.
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Helena Knyazeva
- Occupations
- philosopherteacher
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Helena Nikolaevna Knyazeva is a Russian philosopher of science, complex systems scientist, scholar of synergetics, and translator into Russian of the works of Ilya Prigogine, Edgar Morin, and others. She is a professor at the Higher School of Economics in Moscow.
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Denis Semionov
- Occupations
- painter
- Biography
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Denis Semionov - is a Russian new media artist.
