29 Notable alumni of
Novosibirsk State University
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Novosibirsk State University is 1254th in the world, 443rd in Europe, and 42nd in Russia by aggregated alumni prominence. Below is the list of 29 notable alumni from Novosibirsk State 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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Alexander Tikhonov
- Occupations
- biathlete
- Biography
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Alexander Ivanovich Tikhonov is a former Soviet-Russian biathlete. He is a four-time Olympic champion, winning his gold medals in relays.
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Israel Shamir
- Occupations
- translatoranti-Zionistjournalistwriter
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Israel Shamir, also known by the names Robert David, Vassili Krasevsky, Jöran Jermas and Adam Ermash, is a Swedish writer and journalist, known for his ties to WikiLeaks and for promoting antisemitism and Holocaust denial. His son Johannes Wahlström is a spokesperson for WikiLeaks in Sweden.
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Viktor Kharitonin
- Occupations
- businessperson
- Biography
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Viktor Kharitonin is a Russian billionaire. He is known to be close to Russian Deputy Prime Minister Tatyana Golikova and her husband Viktor Khristenko.
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Efim Zelmanov
- Enrolled in Novosibirsk State University
- Studied in 1972-1977
- Occupations
- mathematicianuniversity teacher
- Biography
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Efim Isaakovich Zelmanov is a Russian-American mathematician, known for his work on combinatorial problems in nonassociative algebra and group theory, including his solution of the restricted Burnside problem. He was awarded a Fields Medal at the International Congress of Mathematicians in Zürich in 1994.
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Stepan Pachikov
- Occupations
- computer scientistentrepreneur
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Stepan Alexandrovich Pachikov is the co-founder of ParaGraph Intl., Parascript, Evernote Corp. among other software companies that contributed heavily to the development of Handwriting recognition and VRML technologies.
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Vladimir Zakharov
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- mathematicianpoetphysicistuniversity teacher
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Vladimir Evgen'evich Zakharov was a Soviet and Russian mathematician and physicist. He was Regents' Professor of mathematics at The University of Arizona, director of the Mathematical Physics Sector at the Lebedev Physical Institute, and was on the committee of the Stefanos Pnevmatikos International Award. His research interests covered physical aspects of nonlinear wave theory in plasmas, hydrodynamics, oceanology, geophysics, solid state physics, optics, and general relativity.
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Alexei Fridman
- Occupations
- university teacherastronomerphysicist
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Alexey Maksimovich Fridman was a Soviet and Russian physicist specializing in astrophysics, physics of gravitating systems and plasma physics. He discovered new types of instabilities in gravitating media, created the theory of planetary rings and predicted the existence of small Uranus satellites that were later discovered. He also developed the hydrodynamic theory of spiral structure in galaxies. Fridman worked at the Institute of Astronomy of the Russian Academy of Sciences, INASAN, and was professor at the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology and at Moscow State University.
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Grigorii Golosov
- Enrolled in Novosibirsk State University
- Studied in 1985
- Occupations
- university teacherpolitical scientist
- Biography
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Grigorii Vasilyevich Golosov, sometimes spelled as Grigory Golosov, is a Russian political scientist. He is a professor and the head of the political science department at the European University at Saint Petersburg, Russia. He is an expert on political institutions and electoral systems, in particular, in application to Russia. His article "Electoral Systems and Party Formation in Russia" (Comparative Political Studies, Vol. 36, No. 8, October 2003, pp. 912–935) received a Lawrence Longley Award from the American Political Science Association for the best journal article on electoral systems and representation published in 2003.
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Viktor Matizen
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- mathematicianfilm critic
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Victor Eduardovich Matizen is a Soviet and Russian film critic, president of the Russian Guild of Film Critics (2003–2011), chairman of the Council of Film Award White Elephant, curator of the site of the Guild kinopressa.ru.
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Mikhail Fedoruk
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- physicistmathematician
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Mikhail Petrovich Fedoruk — is a rector of Novosibirsk State University, Doctor of Physics and Mathematics.
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Yury Yershov
- Occupations
- mathematicianuniversity teacher
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Yury Leonidovich Yershov is a Soviet and Russian mathematician.
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Anatoly Vaisser
- Occupations
- chess player
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Anatoly Vaisser is a Soviet-born French chess player. Awarded the title Grandmaster by FIDE in 1985, he is four-time world seniors' champion.
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Aleksandr Skrinsky
- Occupations
- physicist
- Biography
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Alexander Nikolayevich Skrinsky is a Soviet and Russian nuclear physicist.
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Raisa Berg
- Occupations
- university teachermemoiristscience communicatorevolutionary biologistgeneticist
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Raissa L'vovna Berg was a Russian geneticist and evolutionary biologist.
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Sergey Alekseyenko
- Enrolled in Novosibirsk State University
- In 1994 graduated with Doctor of Sciences in Physics and Mathematics
- Occupations
- physicistthermophysicist
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Sergey Alekseenko is a Russian scientist known for his work in the fields of thermophysics and energy.
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Boris Zilber
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- mathematicianuniversity teacher
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Boris Zilber is a Soviet-British mathematician who works in mathematical logic, specifically model theory. He is an emeritus professor of mathematical logic at the University of Oxford.
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Andrei Andreichenko
- Occupations
- politician
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Andrey Valeryevich Andreychenko is a Russian politician who served as a member of the State Duma of the 7th convocation between 31 May 2017 and 12 October 2021. Previously, he was a member of the Legislative Assembly of Primorsky Krai of the 6th convocation from 18 September 2016 to 24 May 2017.
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Rūsiņš Mārtiņš Freivalds
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- computer scientistmathematician
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Rūsiņš Mārtiņš Freivalds was a Latvian computer scientist and mathematician. He was celebrated for founding ultrametric algorithms and for fundamental contributions to the theory of computation, probabilistic algorithms, inductive inference, and quantum computing. He is best known for Freivalds' algorithm, a simple randomized procedure to check matrix multiplication in less time than recomputing it. He was a member of the Latvian Academy of Sciences from 1992. He also taught at the University of Latvia, with students including Daina Taimiņa and Andris Ambainis. He was born in Cesvaine and studied at Moscow State University (MSU).
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Alena V. Ledeneva
- Enrolled in Novosibirsk State University
- Studied in 1986
- Occupations
- economistpolitical scientistsociologistuniversity teacher
- Biography
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Alena Valeryevna Ledeneva is a Russian academic known for her studies of corruption and informal practices in Russia, particularly blat. She is currently Professor of Politics and Society at the School of Slavonic and East European Studies (SSEES), University College London (UCL).
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Svetlana Kirdina
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- sociologisteconomist
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Svetlana Kirdina-Chandler is a Russian sociologist and economist. Scientific career began in the Novosibirsk School of Economic Sociology. Doctor of Social Sciences, PhD. Research interests: sociological theory, institutions, economic theory, the theory of institutional matrices, transients in Russian society. Author of over 160 scientific papers, the most important of which are devoted to the development and applications of the theory of institutional matrix. She introduced two main and particular interdependent types of institutional matrices existing around the world, X-matrices and Y-matrices.
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Vladimir Shiltsev
- Occupations
- physicist
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Vladimir Shiltsev is a Russian-American accelerator physicist, professor at NIU, in 1996-2024 - the Distinguished Scientist at Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory. He is best known for his works on particle colliders, invention of electron lenses, leadership in operation of the Tevatron Collider Run II, and numerous contributions to accelerator physics and accelerator technology. Shiltsev led the Tevatron collider department and the Fermilab Accelerator Physics Center from 2001 to 2018 and was chair of the American Physical Society's Division of Physics of Beams in 2018.
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Ivan Kulakov
- Years
- 1967-.. (age 59)
- Occupations
- geophysicistpainterphysicist
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Ivan Yuryevich Kulakov is a Russian geophysicist and artist.
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Victor Fadin
- Occupations
- physicisttheoretical physicist
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Victor Sergeevich Fadin is a Russian physicist, well known for his contributions to theoretical physics and particle physics. He is a principal researcher at Budker Institute of Nuclear Physics (BINP) and professor of theoretical physics at Novosibirsk State University (NSU).
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Alexander Gorban
- Enrolled in Novosibirsk State University
- Studied in 1968-1969
- Occupations
- mathematicianphysicistuniversity teacherphysical chemist
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Alexander Nikolaevich Gorban was a scientist of Russian origin, working in the United Kingdom. He was a professor at the University of Leicester, and director of its Mathematical Modeling Centre. Gorban contributed to many areas of fundamental and applied science, including statistical physics, non-equilibrium thermodynamics, machine learning and mathematical biology.
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Elena Boldyreva
- Enrolled in Novosibirsk State University
- Studied in 1977-1982
- Occupations
- researcherchemist
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Elena Vladimirovna Boldyreva is a Russian chemist. Boldyreva is a leading researcher at the Boreskov Institute of Catalysis in the Siberian Branch of Russian Academy of Sciences, and is Professor and Head of the Section of Solid State Chemistry at Novosibirsk State University.
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Oleg Postnov
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- writerliterary criticphilologistopinion journalist
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Oleg Georgievitch Postnov is a Russian author.
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Vladimir Dubatolov
- Occupations
- scientistlepidopteristentomologist
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Vladimir Viktorovich Dubatolov is a Russian entomologist, lepidopterist, Doctor of Biological Sciences, full member of the Russian Entomological Society (since 1979), member of the European Lepidopterological Society (since 1998), curator of the insect collection of the Siberian Zoological Museum, leading researcher at the Institute of Systematics and Ecology of Animals SB RAS (Novosibirsk), leading researcher of the Zapovednoye Priamurye (in Khabarovsk). He has described a number of zoological taxa. The names of these taxa (for attribution) are accompanied by the author abbreviation "Dubatolov".
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Andrei Voronkov
- Years
- 1959-.. (age 67)
- Occupations
- computer scientistuniversity teacher
- Biography
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Andrei Anatolievič Voronkov is a Professor of Formal methods in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Manchester.
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Oleg V Minin
- Enrolled in Novosibirsk State University
- In 1982 graduated with Master of Science
- Occupations
- physicist
- Biography
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Oleg V. Minin was born on 22 March 1960 in Novosibirsk, Academytown, Russia. He is a Russian physicist, a corresponding member of the Russian Academy of Metrology, and a full professor of Physics at the Tomsk Polytechnic University. He is renowned for his contributions to creating new scientific directions, including THz 3D Zone plate, Mesatronics (mesoscale photonics), hyper cumulative shaped charge, subwavelength structured light, encompassing acoustics and surface plasmon.
