26 Notable alumni of
Moscow State University of Railway Engineering
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The Moscow State University of Railway Engineering is 1079th in the world, 380th in Europe, and 32nd in Russia by aggregated alumni prominence. Below is the list of 26 notable alumni from the Moscow State University of Railway Engineering sorted by their wiki pages popularity. The directory includes famous graduates and former students along with research and academic staff.
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Yakov Dzhugashvili
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- military personnelsenior lieutenant
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Yakov Iosifovich Dzhugashvili was the eldest son of Joseph Stalin, and the only child of Stalin's first wife, Kato Svanidze, who died nine months after his birth.
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Alexander Maslyakov
- Enrolled in the Moscow State University of Railway Engineering
- Studied in 1966
- Occupations
- manufacturertelevision presenterpresenterfilm producertelevision producer
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Alexander Vasilyevich Maslyakov was a Soviet and Russian television game show host. Maslyakov's most notable as the leader and presenter of the TV show KVN from 1964 to 2022.
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Bidzina Ivanishvili
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- politicianbusiness oligarchentrepreneurbusinesspersoneconomist
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Bidzina Ivanishvili, also known as Boris Grigoryevich Ivanishvili, is a French-Georgian businessman, politician and billionaire oligarch. He is founder and the leader of the ruling Georgian Dream party and has ruled Georgia de jure or de facto since 2012, after Georgian Dream secured victory in the 2012 Georgian parliamentary election. Since 2024, he has been sanctioned by the United States and several European Union countries "for undermining Georgian democracy and advancing the interests of the Russian Federation".
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Len Blavatnik
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- financierentrepreneurchairpersonpatron of the artsactor
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Sir Leonard Valentinovich Blavatnik is a Ukrainian-born British-American businessman and philanthropist. As of April 2025, Forbes estimated his net worth at $26.5 billion, ranking him the 75th-richest person in the world.
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Kris Kelmi
- Enrolled in the Moscow State University of Railway Engineering
- Studied in 1977
- Occupations
- pianistbass guitaristrock musiciancomposerkeyboardist
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Kris Kelmi was a Soviet and Russian rock and pop musician and composer. He was a member of the bands Leap Summer, Autograph, and Rock Atelier. Some of his most well-known songs are Night Rendezvous, Closing the Ring, and Tired Taxi. Most online sources indicated that Kelmi was a pseudonym, and the musician's surname was Kalinkin. Kelmi denied this version. Kelmi believed that he most likely was Lithuanian on his father's side, explaining that there is a town in Lithuania called Kelmė, which is consonant with his last name. Kris took the nickname in 1972, after Dr. Kris Kelvin, the hero of Stanisław Lem's novel, Solaris.
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Igor Guberman
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- poetdissidentwriter
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Igor Mironovich Guberman is a Jewish Ukrainian writer and poet who lives in Israel since 1988. His poetry has received a great deal of acclaim primarily because of his signature aphoristic and satiric quatrains that he called gariki in Russian (singular: garik, which is also the diminutive form of the author's first name, Igor). These short poems (originally Guberman called them "Jewish [[Big-character poster|Dazibao]]") usually feature an ABAB rhyme scheme, employ various poetic meters, and cover a wide range of subjects including antisemitism, immigrant life, anti-religious sentiment, and the author's complicated relationship with Russia, Israel, and the respective cultures. Gariki are mostly humorous and often paradoxical, verging on philosophical.
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Sergei Udaltsov
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- politician
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Sergei Stanislavovich Udaltsov is a Russian left-wing political activist. He is the unofficial leader of the Vanguard of Red Youth (AKM). In 2011 and 2012, he helped lead a series of protests against Vladimir Putin. In 2014 he was sentenced to 4¹⁄₂ years in a penal camp for organizing the May 2012 protest which ended in violence between the police and demonstrators.
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Vyacheslav Malezhik
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- composerguitaristsongwriterpoetsinger
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Vyacheslav Yefimovich Malezhik is a Soviet and Russian singer, poet and composer, Meritorious Artist of Russian Federation (2004). He participated in various musical groups, but became most famous as a solo artist.
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Alexander Voloshin
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- entrepreneurpolitician
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Alexander Stalyevich Voloshin is a Russian politician who briefly was chairman of the board of directors of RAO UES, the former Russian state power utility, which was liquidated as part of the country's comprehensive power sector reforms on 1 July 2008. He has the federal state civilian service rank of 1st class Active State Councillor of the Russian Federation.
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Konstantin Borovoi
- Enrolled in the Moscow State University of Railway Engineering
- Studied in 1970
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- human rights defenderentrepreneurpolitician
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Konstantin Natanovich Borovoi is a liberal Russian politician and entrepreneur, Russian Parliament Member (1995–2000), former Chair of Party of Economic Freedom (1992–2003), and Chair of Party Western Choice (since 17 March 2013).
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Maxim Suraykin
- Enrolled in the Moscow State University of Railway Engineering
- Studied in 2000
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Maxim Alexandrovich Suraykin is a Russian politician who has been the leader of the political party Communists of Russia (2012–22) and member of the Legislative Assembly of Ulyanovsk Oblast (2018–22). Suraykin was the Communists of Russia's candidate in the 2018 presidential election.
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Panteleimon Ponomarenko
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- 1902-1984 (aged 82)
- Occupations
- diplomatpolitician
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Panteleimon Kondratyevich Ponomarenko was a Soviet statesman and politician and one of the leaders of Soviet partisan resistance in Belarus. He served as an administrator at various positions within the Soviet government, including the leadership positions in Byelorussian and Kazakh SSRs.
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Leonid Boguslavsky
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- businessperson
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Leonid Boguslavsky is a USSR-born Canadian entrepreneur, scientist and venture capital investor. He was named the Internet investor of the year (Forbes, 2012) and the most successful investor of the year (RBC, 2017). He is the founder of RTP Global, a venture capital firm with offices in New York, London, Paris, Bangalore and Dubai. He was one of the first investors in companies such as Datadog or Delivery Hero. Boguslavsky is in Forbes' billionaires list. His wealth is self-made from venture capital investments with more than 99% created outside of Russia. He is widely considered one of the most successful technology investors. In the global Forbes 2023 ranking, he occupied the 787th place with a fortune of $8.6 billion.
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Alexei Gordeyev
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- university teachereconomistpolitician
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Alexey Vasilyevich Gordeyev is a Russian politician who served as Member and Deputy Speaker of the State Duma. Previously he was the Deputy Prime Minister of Russia from 2000 to 2004 and from 2018 to 2020, Governor of Voronezh Oblast from 2009 to 2017 and Agriculture Minister of Russia from 1999 to 2009.
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Anton Megerdichev
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- film directorscreenwriter
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Anton Yevgenievich Megerdichev is a Russian director and screenwriter.
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Vladimir Sloutsker
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- statespersonbusinesspersonpolitician
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Vladimir Iosifovich Sloutsker was a Russian businessman and politician who served as a senator, representing Chuvash Republic in the Russian Parliament. Sloutsker was the co-founder and President of the Israeli Jewish Congress.
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Anatoly Lysenko
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- directorediting stafftelevision producerfilm directorjournalist
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Anatoly Grigorievich Lysenko was a Soviet and Russian television figure, journalist, director, producer. Honored Artist of Russia, laureate of the State Prize of the USSR. On 18 July 2012 he was appointed general director of Public Television of Russia.
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Vladimir Bulavin
- Enrolled in the Moscow State University of Railway Engineering
- Studied in 1975
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- military officer
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Vladimir Ivanovich Bulavin is a Russia military and security official, the Head of the Federal Customs Service of the Russian Federation (2016-2023).
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Vitaly Lagutenko
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- engineerarchitect
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Vitaly Pavlovich Lagutenko was a Soviet architect and engineer. His studies of low-cost prefabricated concrete construction, supported by Nikita Khrushchev, led to a complete switch of Soviet building practice from masonry to prefab concrete. Lagutenko designed the standardized 5-story apartment houses, known as khrushchevka, and associated technologies of fast, mass-scale construction. These low-cost blocks, built by millions of units, helped relieve post-war housing shortage.
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Anatoly Popov
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- politicianChernobyl liquidator
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Anatoly Alexandrovich Popov is an ethnic Russian who was the Prime Minister of the Chechen Republic, Russia, from February 10, 2003, following the resignation of Mikhail Babich, to March 16, 2004. He was also acting President of the Chechen Republic from August 2003 to October 2003 during the presidential elections.
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Pavel A. Pevzner
- Enrolled in the Moscow State University of Railway Engineering
- In 1979 graduated with Master of Science
- Occupations
- computer scientistbioinformatician
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Pavel Arkadevich Pevzner is the Ronald R. Taylor Professor of Computer Science and director of the NIH Center for Computational Mass Spectrometry at University of California, San Diego. He serves on the editorial board of PLoS Computational Biology and he is a member of the Genome Institute of Singapore scientific advisory board.
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Ivan Alexandrov
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- engineereconomist
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Ivan Gavrilovich Alexandrov was a Russian and Soviet engineer who played a significant role in the modernization of the Soviet Union.
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Mikhail Kharit
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- architect
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Mikhail Kharit – a Soviet and Russian scientist, architect, PhD in Engineering Science, professor, writer, Lenin Komsomol Prize laureate in science and technology.
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Alexander Hrennikoff
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- civil engineer
- Biography
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Alexander Pavlovich Hrennikoff was a Russian-Canadian structural engineer, a founder of the Finite Element Method.
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Elena Mikhailovskaya
- Occupations
- draughts player
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Elena Konstantinovna Mikhailovskaya was the first female World champion in international draughts. She won this title five times in a row (1973–1977). Before that she was four-time champion of the Soviet Union in Russian checkers (1969–1972). Later she was coaching and heading the Moscow draughts federation.
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Alex Moiseyev
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- draughts player
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Alexander Moiseyev is a Soviet-born American draughts player. He holds the title of Grandmaster in international draughts, Russian draughts and English draughts. In this latter he was world champion in the 3-move variation from 2003 to 2013, winning five world championships, in 2002, 2003, 2005, 2009 and 2011.
