42 Notable alumni of
N.R.U. Moscow Power Engineering Institute
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N.R.U. Moscow Power Engineering Institute is 657th in the world, 237th in Europe, and 16th in Russia by aggregated alumni prominence. Below is the list of 42 notable alumni from N.R.U. Moscow Power Engineering Institute sorted by their wiki pages popularity. The directory includes famous graduates and former students along with research and academic staff.
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Anatoly Chubais
- Occupations
- economistinternational forum participantpoliticianbusinessperson
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Anatoly Borisovich Chubais is a Russian politician and economist who was responsible for privatization in Russia as an influential member of Boris Yeltsin's administration in the early 1990s. During this period, he was a key figure in introducing a market economy and the principles of private ownership to Russia after the fall of the Soviet Union. He has the federal state civilian service rank of 1st class Active State Councillor of the Russian Federation.
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Li Peng
- Enrolled in N.R.U. Moscow Power Engineering Institute
- Studied in 1954
- Occupations
- politician
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Li Peng was a Chinese politician who served as the fourth Premier of the People's Republic of China from 1987 to 1998, and as the Chairman of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress, China's top legislative body, from 1998 to 2003. For much of the 1990s Li was ranked second in the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) hierarchy behind then Party General Secretary Jiang Zemin. He retained his seat on the CCP Politburo Standing Committee until his retirement in 2002.
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Timur Bekmambetov
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- writerdirectortheatrical producerfilm directormusic video director
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Timur Nuruakhitovich Bekmambetov is a Russian-Kazakh film director, producer, screenwriter, and tech entrepreneur. He is best known for the fantasy epic Night Watch (2004) and the action thriller Wanted (2008), as well as for the pioneering screenlife films Unfriended (2015), Searching (2018) and Profile (2018). He founded Baselevs, a production company that earned a spot among the 2021 World's 10 Most Innovative Companies in Video, according to Fast Company.
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Alexander Akimov
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- technicianChernobyl Nuclear Power PlantChernobyl liquidator
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Aleksandr Fyodorovich Akimov was a Soviet engineer who was the supervisor of the shift that worked at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant Reactor Unit 4 on the night of the Chernobyl disaster, 26 April 1986.
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Ion Iliescu
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- bloggerrevolutionarynon-fiction writerstatespersonpropagandist
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Ion Iliescu is a Romanian politician and engineer who served as President of Romania from 1989 until 1996 and from 2000 until 2004. Between 1996 and 2000 and also from 2004 to 2008, the year in which he retired, Iliescu was a senator for the Social Democratic Party (PSD), of which he is the founder and honorary president to this day.
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Sergei Khrushchev
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- historianwriteracademicengineerpolitical scientist
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Sergei Nikitich Khrushchev was a Soviet-born American engineer and the second son of the Cold War-era Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev with his wife Nina Petrovna Khrushcheva. He moved to the United States in 1991 and became a naturalized American citizen.
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Ella Pamfilova
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- engineerhuman rights activistpoliticianmember of the State Duma
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Ella Aleksandrovna Pamfilova is a Russian politician, former deputy of the State Duma, candidate for president in 2000 and former chair (2004 - 2010) of the Presidential Council for Civil Society and Human Rights. On 18 March 2014 she became Russia's Commissioner for Human Rights, succeeding Vladimir Lukin. On 28 March 2016 she became the chair of the Central Election Commission.
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Sergey Lisovskiy
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- politiciantelevision presentermember of the State Dumabusinesspersonstatesperson
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Sergey Fyodorovich Lisovsky is a Russian politician, who was a member of the Federation Council of the Russian Federation in 2004–2020, a representative of the Kurgan Regional Duma. TV host channel RBC TV. In the past - the entrepreneur. Candidate of Philology (2000). Member of the General Council of the party United Russia. It is one of the pioneers of the Russian social and political advertisements and an acknowledged expert on the contemporary electoral technologies.
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Vladimir Markin
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- guitaristpianistsinger-songwritercomposersinger
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Vladimir Nikolaevich Markin is a Russian pop singer, entrepreneur, composer, songwriter.
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Roman Avdeev
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- banker
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Roman Ivanovich Avdeev is a Russian businessman, investor, and philanthropist. In 2018, his fortune was estimated at $1.5 billion.
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Vladimir Holstinin
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- composerguitaristrecord producer
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Vladimir Petrovich Holstinin is a Russian guitarist. He is one of the founding members of heavy metal band Aria.
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Alexey Ananenko
- Enrolled in N.R.U. Moscow Power Engineering Institute
- Studied in 1977-1983
- Occupations
- Chernobyl liquidatorengineer
- Biography
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Oleksiy Mykhailovych Ananenko is a Ukrainian mechanical engineer who worked at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant.
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Boris Chertok
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- engineeraerospace engineeruniversity teachernon-fiction writer
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Boris Yevseyevich Chertok was a Russian engineer in the former Soviet space program, mainly working in control systems, and later found employment in Roscosmos.
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Georgy Boos
- Occupations
- member of the State Dumabusinesspersonpolitician
- Biography
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Georgy Valentinovich Boos is a Russian businessman and politician who served as the governor of Kaliningrad Oblast from 2005 to 2010.
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Vladimir Kotelnikov
- Enrolled in N.R.U. Moscow Power Engineering Institute
- Studied in 1930
- Occupations
- engineerastronomermathematicianpolitician
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Vladimir Aleksandrovich Kotelnikov was an information theory and radar astronomy pioneer from the Soviet Union. He was elected a member of the Russian Academy of Sciences in the Department of Technical Science (radio technology) in 1953. From 30 July 1973 to 25 March 1980 Kotelnikov served as Chairman of the RSFSR Supreme Council.
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Yaroslav Nilov
- Occupations
- politicianmember of the State Duma
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Yaroslav Yevgenyevich Nilov is a Russian politician and deputy of the State Duma of the Russian Federation. He is a member of the Chairman of the Duma Committee on Labor, Social Policy and Veterans' Affairs. He is a member of the populist Liberal Democratic Party of Russia.
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Peng Shilu
- Occupations
- nuclear engineer
- Biography
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Peng Shilu was a Chinese nuclear engineer. Hailed as "the father of China's nuclear submarines" and the "father of China's naval nuclear propulsion", he was the first chief designer of the country's nuclear submarine project, directing his team to build China's first generation of nuclear submarines (Type 091 and Type 092). He was also the main designer for China's first nuclear power plants, and was an academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering. He served as deputy minister for China's Ministry of Shipbuilding Industry, and Ministry of Water Resources and Electric Power.
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Sergey Filatov
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- electrical engineerpoliticiancivil servant
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Sergey Alexandrovich Filatov was a Russian statesman, who was the chief of Russian presidential executive office from 1993 to 1996, during the Boris Yeltsin's first term.
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Vladimir Veksler
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- physicistnuclear physicist
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Vladimir Iosifovich Veksler was a prominent Soviet experimental physicist.
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Andrei Kosogov
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- entrepreneur
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Andrei Kosogov is a Russian businessman. He is a co-founder of the international investment firm LetterOne.
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Əli Abbasov
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- computer scientistpoliticianuniversity teacherinternational forum participant
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Ali Abbasov Mammad oglu was the Minister of Communications and Information Technologies of the Republic of Azerbaijan between 2004 and 2015.
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Ilya Kazakov
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- presenterjournalistwriter
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lya Arkadievich Kazakov; 3 August 1972, Kaliningrad, Moscow Oblast) is a Russian football commentator, TV presenter, journalist, author and former press attaché of the Russian national football team (2005-2015). He was the Ambassador for 2018 FIFA World Cup host city Saransk.
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Nikolay Brusentsov
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- inventorengineercomputer scientistdesign engineer
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Nikolay Petrovich Brusentsov was a computer scientist, most famous for having built a (balanced) ternary computer, Setun, together with Sergei Sobolev in 1958. In 1970 he designed Setun 70, implementing principles which were later proposed for the RISC architecture independently. He died on 4 December 2014.
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Bashir Rameyev
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- engineercomputer scientist
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Bashir Iskandarovich Rameev was a Soviet inventor and scientist, one of the founders of Soviet computing, author of 23 patents, including the first patent in the field of electronic computers officially registered in the USSR—a patent for the Automatic Electronic Digital Machine (1948). Rameev's inventions paved the way for the development of a new field in Soviet science—electronic computing—and for the formation of a new branch of industry that supported it.
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Oleg Ivanovsky
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- aerospace engineerengineer
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Oleg Genrikhovich Ivanovsky was a Russian engineer in the former Soviet space program who played a pioneering role in spacecraft construction.
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Samvel Kocharyants
- Enrolled in N.R.U. Moscow Power Engineering Institute
- Studied in 1937
- Occupations
- electrical engineer
- Biography
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Samvel Grigorievich Kocharyants was a Soviet Armenian designer and developer of the first Soviet nuclear warheads for ballistic missiles. He was awarded Hero of Socialist Labor twice.
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Vladimir Kirillin
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- thermophysicistphysicistpolitician
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Vladimir Alekseyevich Kirillin was a Soviet physicist specializing in energetics and thermophysics and a member of the Academy of Sciences of the Soviet Union, as well as a Soviet party official.
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Nikolay Rogalev
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- scientist
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Nikolay Dmirtievich Rogalev is a Russian scientist and energetics researcher. Rector of Moscow Power Engineering Institute (MPEI) since 2013.
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M. P. Parameswaran
- Enrolled in N.R.U. Moscow Power Engineering Institute
- In 1965 graduated with Doctor of Philosophy in nuclear engineering
- Occupations
- engineerphysicist
- Biography
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M. P. Parameswaran is an Indian nuclear engineer and educationist, who played an important role in the Indian nuclear programme. In 2022, he was honoured with Kerala Sree Award, third highest civilian award given by the Government of Kerala.
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Viktor Potapov
- Occupations
- skipper
- Biography
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Viktor Yakovlevich Potapov was a Soviet and Russian sailor. He won a bronze medal in the Finn class at the 1972 Summer Olympics.
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Sergei Treshchov
- Enrolled in N.R.U. Moscow Power Engineering Institute
- Studied in 1976-1982
- Occupations
- astronautaircraft pilotengineer
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Sergey Yevgenyevich Treshchov is a former cosmonaut of the RSC Energia. He spent 184 days in space as a flight engineer of the International Space Station long duration Expedition 5 crew. During the mission he also conducted a spacewalk.
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Yuri Kasparov
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- composermusic teacher
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Yuri Sergeyevich Kasparov is a Russian composer, music teacher and a professor at the Moscow Conservatory where he had studied for his doctorate under Edison Denisov. Under the patronage of Denisov, he founded the Moscow Contemporary Music Ensemble in 1990 and is its artistic director. He is the chairman of the Russian section of the International Society for Contemporary Music.
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Vladimir Lavrov
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- 1919-2011 (aged 92)
- Occupations
- diplomat
- Biography
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Vladimir Sergeyevich Lavrov was a Soviet diplomat and ambassador.
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Michael Roth
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- engineer
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Michael Roth was a German engineer and professor of automation, specializing in microprocessor technology, computer science and sociology as well as philosophy of science. He was one of the pioneers in the area of computer engineering in Germany.
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Anatoly Lavrentiev
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- 1904-1984 (aged 80)
- Occupations
- diplomat
- Biography
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Anatoly Iosifovich Lavrentiev was a Soviet diplomat. He served as the head of the People's Commissariat for Foreign Affairs of the Russian SFSR in the Soviet government from 8 March 1944 to 13 March 1946. He was a member of the CPSU (b).
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Vadim Gushchin
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- photographer
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Vadim Gushchin is a Russian art-photographer.
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Valentin Balakhnichev
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- coachathletics competitor
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Valentin Vasilyevich Balakhnichev is a Russian engineer and athletics coach and a former president of the All-Russia Athletic Federation. After investigations into corruption involving performance enhancing drug testing, Balakhnichev was banned for life by the IAAF.
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Vladimir Sukhomlin
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- computer scientist
- Biography
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Vladimir Sukhomlin is a Russian computer scientist, Dr.Sc., Professor, a professor at the Faculty of Computer Science at the Moscow State University.
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Isaac Elishakoff
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- mechanical engineer
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Isaac Elishakoff is a Distinguished Research Professor in the Ocean and Mechanical Engineering Department in the Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton, Florida. He is a figure in the area of mechanics. He has made several contributions in the areas of random vibrations, solid mechanics of composite material, semi-inverse problems of vibrations and stability, functionally graded material structures, and nanotechnology.
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Yakov Rozval
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- inventor
- Biography
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Rozval Yakov Borisovich – Soviet, and subsequently, Russian engineer, chief designer of the Soviet-wide Scientific Research Institute of TV and radio broadcasting, Honored Inventor of the RSFSR, Honorary radioman.
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Yury Komarov
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- businessperson
- Biography
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Yury Alexandrovich Komarov is a Russian businessman.
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Valeri F. Venda
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- psychologist
- Biography
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Valerii Fedorovich Venda is a Soviet and Russian psychologist, engineer, and designer. His main research areas are perception (or apperception) and cognition, the connection (attachment) between anatomical (structural) perceptual information and complex thoughts, which includes, problem solving; the process of mutual adaptation and transitions in general systems theory, the psychology of engineering and ergonomics; systems of hybrid intellect, and ergodynamics.
