100 Notable alumni of
Odessa National University

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Odessa National University is 423rd in the world, 147th in Europe, and 5th in Ukraine by aggregated alumni prominence. Below is the list of 100 notable alumni from Odessa National University sorted by their wiki pages popularity. The directory includes famous graduates and former students along with research and academic staff.

  1. Leon Trotsky

    Leon Trotsky
    Born in
    Ukraine Flag Ukraine
    Years
    1879-1940 (aged 61)
    Occupations
    politicianjournalistrevolutionaryhistoriandiplomat
    Biography

    Lev Davidovich Bronstein, better known as Leon Trotsky, was a Russian revolutionary, Soviet politician, and political theorist. He was a central figure in the 1905 Revolution, October Revolution of 1917, Russian Civil War, and establishment of the Soviet Union, from which he was exiled in 1929 before his assassination in 1940. Trotsky and Vladimir Lenin were widely considered the two most prominent Soviet figures from 1917 until Lenin's death in 1924. Ideologically a Marxist and a Leninist, Trotsky's ideas inspired a school of Marxism known as Trotskyism.

  2. Sergei Witte

    Sergei Witte
    Born in
    Georgia Flag Georgia
    Years
    1849-1915 (aged 66)
    Occupations
    statespersonpolitician
    Biography

    Count Sergei Yulyevich Witte, also known as Sergius Witte, was a Russian statesman who served as the first prime minister of the Russian Empire, replacing the emperor as head of government. Neither liberal nor conservative, he attracted foreign capital to boost Russia's industrialization. Witte's strategy was to avoid the danger of wars.

  3. George Gamow

    George Gamow
    Born in
    Ukraine Flag Ukraine
    Years
    1904-1968 (aged 64)
    Occupations
    astronomernuclear physicistcosmologistuniversity teacherphysicist
    Biography

    George Gamow was a Soviet and American polymath, theoretical physicist and cosmologist. He was an early advocate and developer of Georges Lemaître's Big Bang theory. Gamow discovered a theoretical explanation of alpha decay by quantum tunneling, invented the liquid drop model - the first mathematical model of the atomic nucleus, worked on radioactive decay, star formation, stellar nucleosynthesis, Big Bang nucleosynthesis (which he collectively called nucleocosmogenesis), predicted the existence of the cosmic microwave background radiation and molecular genetics. Gamow was a key figure in the development and understanding of quantum tunneling.

  4. Ivan Sechenov

    Ivan Sechenov
    Born in
    Russia Flag Russia
    Years
    1829-1905 (aged 76)
    Occupations
    physiologistphilosopherpsychologistmathematicianengineer
    Biography

    Ivan Mikhaylovich Sechenov is a world-renowned medical scientist, physiologist, psychologist, academician of the Russian Academy of Sciences, and founder of Russian physiology and psychology, he is a pioneer in the field of central nervous system inhibition in the world and is known as the "Father of Russian Physiology."

  5. Gleb Pavlovsky

    Gleb Pavlovsky
    Born in
    Ukraine Flag Ukraine
    Years
    1951-2023 (aged 72)
    Enrolled in Odessa National University
    Studied in 1973
    Occupations
    publisherpoliticianjournalistopinion journalistlecturer
    Biography

    Gleb Olegovich Pavlovsky was a Russian political scientist who also described himself as a "political technologist". During the Soviet era, he was prosecuted as a dissident. From 1996 to 2011, he was a political adviser to Vladimir Putin. Since then, he was a critic of the Russian government.

  6. Waldemar Haffkine

    Waldemar Haffkine
    Born in
    Ukraine Flag Ukraine
    Years
    1856-1930 (aged 74)
    Occupations
    physicianmicrobiologistbotanistbacteriologistimmunologist
    Biography

    Waldemar Mordechai Wolff Haffkine CIE, born Vladimir Aronovich Khavkin (Russian: Владимир Аронович (Маркус-Вольф) Хавкин; 15 March 1860 – 26 October 1930) was a Russian-French bacteriologist known for his pioneering work in vaccines.

  7. Aleko Konstantinov

    Aleko Konstantinov
    Born in
    Bulgaria Flag Bulgaria
    Years
    1863-1897 (aged 34)
    Enrolled in Odessa National University
    Studied law
    Occupations
    judgelawyerjournalistwritertranslator
    Biography

    Aleko Konstantinov was a Bulgarian writer, best known for his character Bay Ganyo, one of the most popular characters in Bulgarian fiction.

  8. Nariman Narimanov

    Nariman Narimanov
    Born in
    Georgia Flag Georgia
    Years
    1870-1925 (aged 55)
    Occupations
    physicianopinion journalistpoliticianwriterplaywright
    Biography

    Nariman Karbalayi Najaf oghlu Narimanov was an Azerbaijani Bolshevik revolutionary, writer, publicist, politician and statesman. For just over one year, beginning in May 1920, Narimanov headed the government of Soviet Azerbaijan. He was subsequently elected chairman of the Union Council of the Transcaucasian SFSR. He was also Party Chairman of the Central Executive Committee of the Soviet Union from 30 December 1922 until the day of his death.

  9. Natasha Yarovenko

    Natasha Yarovenko
    Born in
    Ukraine Flag Ukraine
    Years
    1979-.. (age 46)
    Occupations
    modelfilm actoractor
    Biography

    Natalia "Natasha" Yarovenko is a Ukrainian born actress residing in Spain.

  10. Ihor Klymenko

    Ihor Klymenko
    Born in
    Ukraine Flag Ukraine
    Years
    1972-.. (age 53)
    Occupations
    police officer
    Biography

    Ihor Volodymyrovych Klymenko is a Ukrainian police general serving as the minister of internal affairs since 7 February 2023 (acting since 18 January). He succeeded Denys Monastyrsky following his death in a helicopter crash. He had been the chief of the National Police of Ukraine from 25 September 2019 until 19 January 2023.

  11. Nikolay Gamaleya

    Nikolay Gamaleya
    Born in
    Ukraine Flag Ukraine
    Years
    1859-1949 (aged 90)
    Occupations
    physicianbiologistvirologistepidemiologist
    Biography

    Nikolay Fyodorovich Gamaleya was a Russian and Soviet physician and scientist who played a pioneering role in microbiology and vaccine research.

  12. Nikolay Zelinsky

    Nikolay Zelinsky
    Born in
    Moldova Flag Moldova
    Years
    1861-1953 (aged 92)
    Occupations
    inventoruniversity teacherchemist
    Biography

    Nikolay Dmitriyevich Zelinsky was a Russian and Soviet chemist and educator. A professor at Moscow University from 1893, Academician of the Academy of Sciences of the Soviet Union (1929).

  13. Svetlana Martynchik

    Svetlana Martynchik
    Born in
    Ukraine Flag Ukraine
    Years
    1965-.. (age 60)
    Occupations
    writerpainter
    Biography

    Max Frei is the pen name of Svetlana Yuryevna Martynchik (Russian: Светла́на Ю́рьевна Марты́нчик; Ukrainian: Світлана Юріївна Мартинчик) (born 1965 in Odesa, Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union), a fantasy writer from Odesa, Ukraine. She writes in Russian and mostly publishes in Russia while holding Ukrainian citizenship. She permanently resides in Vilnius, Lithuania. Martynchik has collaborated many years on her books with her spouse, artist Igor Styopin (1967–2018).

  14. Krste Petkov Misirkov

    Krste Petkov Misirkov
    Born in
    Greece Flag Greece
    Years
    1874-1926 (aged 52)
    Occupations
    historianwriter
    Biography

    Krste Petkov Misirkov was a philologist, journalist, historian and ethnographer from the region of Macedonia.

  15. Olga Kovitidi

    Olga Kovitidi
    Born in
    Ukraine Flag Ukraine
    Years
    1962-.. (age 63)
    Enrolled in Odessa National University
    In 1986 studied jurisprudence
    Occupations
    politicianjuriststatespersonlawyer
    Biography

    Olga Fyodorovna Kovitidi, is a Russian and former Ukrainian politician, who currently serves as Russian Federation Senator from Crimea since 2014. Kovitidi was previously a member of the Verkhovna Rada of Crimea from 2006 until 2014, when it was dissolved amidst the generally internationally unrecognised Russian annexation of Crimea, which she supported. During her tenure in the Rada, she briefly served as her peninsula's Deputy Prime Minister in 2014.

  16. Efim Geller

    Efim Geller
    Born in
    Ukraine Flag Ukraine
    Years
    1925-1998 (aged 73)
    Occupations
    chess player
    Biography

    Efim Petrovich Geller was a Soviet chess player and world-class grandmaster at his peak. He won the Soviet Championship twice (in 1955 and 1979) and was a Candidate for the World Championship on six occasions (1953, 1956, 1962, 1965, 1968, and 1971). He won four Ukrainian SSR Championship titles (in 1950, 1957, 1958, and 1959) and shared first in the 1991 World Seniors' Championship, winning the title outright in 1992. His wife Oksana was a ballet dancer while his son Alexander was also a chess master. Geller was coach to World Champions Boris Spassky and Anatoly Karpov. He was also an author.

  17. Alexander Bogomolets

    Alexander Bogomolets
    Born in
    Ukraine Flag Ukraine
    Years
    1881-1946 (aged 65)
    Occupations
    politicianphysicianpathologistimmunologistnon-fiction writer
    Biography

    Oleksandr Oleksandrovych Bogomolets was a Soviet and Ukrainian pathophysiologist.

  18. Leon Pinsker

    Leon Pinsker
    Born in
    Poland Flag Poland
    Years
    1821-1891 (aged 70)
    Enrolled in Odessa National University
    Studied law
    Occupations
    physicianwriterjournalistpolitical activist
    Biography

    Leon Pinsker or Judah Leib Pinsker was a physician and Zionist activist.

  19. Mariusz Zaruski

    Mariusz Zaruski
    Born in
    Ukraine Flag Ukraine
    Years
    1867-1941 (aged 74)
    Occupations
    photographermountaineermilitary officerwriterpainter
    Biography

    Mariusz Zaruski was a brigadier-general in the Polish Army, a pioneer of Polish sports yachting, an outstanding climber of the winter and caves of Tatra Mountains. He was a photographer, painter, poet and writer, a seamen and traveler, a conspirator, legionnaire and lancer in Polish cavalry.

  20. Ali Mohamed Shein

    Ali Mohamed Shein
    Years
    1948-.. (age 77)
    Occupations
    politician
    Biography

    Ali Mohamed Shein was the 7th President of Zanzibar, from 2010 to 2020. He was previously Vice President of Tanzania from 2001 to 2010. Shein is originally from the island of Pemba, and he is a member of the ruling Chama Cha Mapinduzi (CCM) party. He is a medical doctor by profession.

  21. Danylo Zabolotny

    Danylo Zabolotny
    Born in
    Ukraine Flag Ukraine
    Years
    1866-1929 (aged 63)
    Occupations
    biologistbotanistmicrobiologist
    Biography

    Danylo Kyrylovych Zabolotny was a Ukrainian and Soviet epidemiologist and the founder of the world's first research department of epidemiology. In 1927, he published one of the first texts in his field, Fundamentals of Epidemiology.

  22. Andriy Kostin

    Andriy Kostin
    Born in
    Ukraine Flag Ukraine
    Years
    1973-.. (age 52)
    Occupations
    lawyerpolitician
    Biography

    Andriy Yevhenovych Kostin is a Ukrainian lawyer and politician. As of 2022, he was a People's Deputy of Ukraine elected in 2019. Kostin was a candidate in the 2021 competition to become the new head of the Ukrainian Specialized Anti-Corruption Prosecutor's Office (SAPO). Civil society organisations Transparency International Ukraine, Automaidan, Anti-Corruption Action Center and Dejure stated that Kostin did not satisfy the integrity criteria of the competition. Kostin was not selected. Kostin was the Head of the Verkhovna Rada Legal Policy Committee for two years, from 2020 to 2022. On 27 July 2022, Kostin was voted by the Verkhovna Rada (parliament of Ukraine) as the Prosecutor General of Ukraine. He tended in his resignation on 22 October 2024, this resignation was approved by the Verkhovna Rada on 29 October.

  23. Georges Florovsky

    Georges Florovsky
    Born in
    Ukraine Flag Ukraine
    Years
    1893-1979 (aged 86)
    Occupations
    university teachertheologianhistorianphilosopherpriest
    Biography

    Georges Vasilievich Florovsky was a Russian Orthodox priest, theologian, and historian.

  24. Don-Aminado

    Don-Aminado
    Born in
    Ukraine Flag Ukraine
    Years
    1888-1957 (aged 69)
    Occupations
    lawyerpoet
    Biography

    Don Aminado was a Russian emigre writer. He was born Aminodav Shpolyansky into a Jewish family in Elizavetgrad in the Kherson Governorate of the old Russian empire. He studied law in Odessa and Kiev, and showed literary promise during his student years. In the decade of the 1910s, he published in various outlets such as Rannee Utro, Novy Satirikon and Krasnyi Smekh, dropping his Jewish name in favour of the pen name Don Aminado.

  25. Maxim Kalashnikov

    Maxim Kalashnikov
    Years
    1966-.. (age 59)
    Enrolled in Odessa National University
    Studied in 1983
    Occupations
    presenterYouTuberfuturistwriterjournalist
    Biography

    Vladimir Alexandrovich Kucherenko, better known by the pen name Maxim Kalashnikov (Максим Калашников), is a Russian writer, publicist, and political activist.

  26. Dmitri Golubov

    Dmitri Golubov
    Born in
    Ukraine Flag Ukraine
    Years
    1983-.. (age 42)
    Occupations
    politician
    Biography

    Dmitri Golubov is a Ukrainian politician and former Member of the Parliament of Ukraine, cybercriminal, former carder. He is also the leader of the Internet Party of Ukraine, although he has never taken part in any election as a candidate of this party.

  27. Boris Kaufman

    Boris Kaufman
    Born in
    Ukraine Flag Ukraine
    Years
    1973-.. (age 52)
    Occupations
    banker
    Biography

    Borys Rafailovych Kaufman, is a Ukrainian businessperson, shareholder at Vertex United.

  28. Alexander Granovskiy

    Alexander Granovskiy
    Born in
    Ukraine Flag Ukraine
    Years
    1972-.. (age 53)
    Occupations
    politician
    Biography

    Oleksandr Hranovskyi, is a Ukrainian businessperson, shareholder at Vertex United.

  29. Irina Ratushinskaya

    Irina Ratushinskaya
    Born in
    Ukraine Flag Ukraine
    Years
    1954-2017 (aged 63)
    Occupations
    writerpoetscreenwriter
    Biography

    Irina Borisovna Ratushinskaya was a Russian Soviet dissident, poet and writer.

  30. Volodymyr Yavorivsky

    Volodymyr Yavorivsky
    Born in
    Ukraine Flag Ukraine
    Years
    1942-2021 (aged 79)
    Occupations
    poetscreenwriterpoliticianwriterjournalist
    Biography

    Volodymyr Oleksandrovych Yavorivsky was a Ukrainian poet, writer, journalist and politician who served as a People's Deputy of Ukraine twice, first from 1990 to 1998 and later from 2002 to 2012. A co-founder of the People's Movement of Ukraine, he later joined the before joining the Yulia Tymoshenko Bloc.

  31. Yuriy Karmazin

    Yuriy Karmazin
    Born in
    Ukraine Flag Ukraine
    Years
    1957-2022 (aged 65)
    Occupations
    juristpolitician
    Biography

    Yurii Karmazin was a Ukrainian politician and judge. Karmazin served four terms as a People's Deputy of Ukraine.

  32. Khosrov bey Sultanov

    Khosrov bey Sultanov
    Born in
    Azerbaijan Flag Azerbaijan
    Years
    1879-1943 (aged 64)
    Enrolled in Odessa National University
    Studied in 1903
    Occupations
    politician
    Biography

    Khosrov bey Alipasha bey oghlu Sultanov, also spelled as Khosrow Sultanov, was an Azerbaijani statesman, General Governor of Karabakh and Minister of Defense of the Azerbaijani Democratic Republic.

  33. Grigory Fichtengolz

    Grigory Fichtengolz
    Born in
    Ukraine Flag Ukraine
    Years
    1888-1959 (aged 71)
    Enrolled in Odessa National University
    Studied in 1911
    Occupations
    mathematicianuniversity teacher
    Biography

    Grigorii Mikhailovich Fikhtengol'ts was a Soviet mathematician working on real analysis and functional analysis. Fikhtengol'ts was one of the founders of the Leningrad school of real analysis.

  34. Nasib bey Yusifbeyli

    Nasib bey Yusifbeyli
    Born in
    Azerbaijan Flag Azerbaijan
    Years
    1881-1920 (aged 39)
    Occupations
    politician
    Biography

    Nasib bey Yusif bey oghlu Yusifbeyli or Usubbeyov (Azerbaijani: Usubbəyov; 5 July 1881 – 31 May 1920) was an Azerbaijani publicist, statesman and major political figure in the Azerbaijan Democratic Republic.

  35. Andrey Stavnitser

    Andrey Stavnitser
    Born in
    Russia Flag Russia
    Years
    1982-.. (age 43)
    Occupations
    businessperson
    Biography

    Andrey Alekseyevich Stavnitser is a Ukrainian businessman, co-owner and CEO of TIS. Stavnitser is also the co-owner of Neptune Grain Terminal, a P&O Maritime Ukraine towage operator and a founding partner of SD Capital Investment Company. He is honorary consul of Austria in Odesa. In 2021, Stavnitser was included in the list of the 100 richest Ukrainians by Forbes magazine, his capital amounting to US$215,000,000.

  36. Mykola Arkas

    Mykola Arkas
    Born in
    Ukraine Flag Ukraine
    Years
    1853-1909 (aged 56)
    Occupations
    historianpoetwritercomposernaval officer
    Biography

    Mykola Mykolayovych Arkas was a Ukrainian composer, writer, historian, and cultural activist of Greek ancestry. In 1908, Arkas wrote History of Ukraine, first popular history of Ukraine published in Ukrainian. His most notable musical composition was the opera Kateryna.

  37. Georgi Iwanowitsch Tschelpanow

    Georgi Iwanowitsch Tschelpanow
    Born in
    Ukraine Flag Ukraine
    Years
    1862-1936 (aged 74)
    Enrolled in Odessa National University
    Studied in 1887
    Occupations
    psychologistphilosopher
    Biography

    Georgy Ivanovich Chelpanov was a Russian Imperial and Soviet psychologist, philosopher and logician.

  38. Lev Alburt

    Lev Alburt
    Born in
    Russia Flag Russia
    Years
    1945-.. (age 80)
    Occupations
    chess playerwritercoachnon-fiction writer
    Biography

    Lev Osipovich Alburt is a chess Grandmaster, writer and coach. He was born in Orenburg, Russia, and became three-time Ukrainian Champion. After defecting to the United States in 1979, he became three-time U.S. Champion.

  39. Wincenty Rzymowski

    Wincenty Rzymowski
    Born in
    Poland Flag Poland
    Years
    1883-1950 (aged 67)
    Occupations
    opinion journalistpoliticianjournalistdiplomat
    Biography

    Wincenty Rzymowski was a Polish politician and writer. Rzymowski was one of the many faces of Stalinism in postwar Poland.

  40. Pyotr Shirshov

    Pyotr Shirshov
    Born in
    Ukraine Flag Ukraine
    Years
    1905-1953 (aged 48)
    Occupations
    zoologistpoliticianmarine biologistexplorer
    Biography

    Pyotr Petrovich Shirshov was a Soviet oceanographer, hydrobiologist, polar explorer, statesman, academician (1939), the first minister of Ministry of Maritime Fleet of the USSR and Hero of the Soviet Union (1938).

  41. Petre Melikishvili

    Petre Melikishvili
    Born in
    Georgia Flag Georgia
    Years
    1850-1927 (aged 77)
    Occupations
    chemist
    Biography

    Petre Melikishvili was a Georgian chemist. He was the co-founder of Tbilisi State University (TSU), the first Rector of TSU, Head of the Department of Organic Chemistry (1919-1927), Corresponding Member of the USSR Academy of Sciences (1927) and Professor at the University of Odessa.

  42. Kadish Luz

    Kadish Luz
    Born in
    Belarus Flag Belarus
    Years
    1895-1972 (aged 77)
    Occupations
    politicianmilitary personneleconomist
    Biography

    Kadish Luz was an Israeli politician who served as Minister of Agriculture between 1955 and 1959 and as Speaker of the Knesset from 1959 and 1969.

  43. Moses Schönfinkel

    Moses Schönfinkel
    Born in
    Ukraine Flag Ukraine
    Years
    1888-1942 (aged 54)
    Occupations
    mathematicianlogician
    Biography

    Moses Ilyich Schönfinkel was a logician and mathematician, known for the invention of combinatory logic.

  44. Mykola Vasylenko

    Mykola Vasylenko
    Born in
    Ukraine Flag Ukraine
    Years
    1866-1935 (aged 69)
    Occupations
    politicianhistorianlawyerdiplomat
    Biography

    Mykola Prokopovych Vasylenko was a Ukrainian academician historian and law professor, important public and political figure. He was a temporary Otaman of Council of Ministers (Prime Minister of Ukraine), minister of Education, and director of the All-Ukrainian Academy of Sciences (National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine).

  45. Leonid Plyushch

    Leonid Plyushch
    Born in
    Kyrgyzstan Flag Kyrgyzstan
    Years
    1939-2015 (aged 76)
    Occupations
    mathematicianhuman rights activist
    Biography

    Leonid Ivanovych Plyushch was a Ukrainian mathematician and Soviet dissident.

  46. Alexander Frumkin

    Alexander Frumkin
    Born in
    Moldova Flag Moldova
    Years
    1895-1976 (aged 81)
    Occupations
    university teacherchemist
    Biography

    Alexander Naumovich Frumkin was a Soviet Russian electrochemist, member of the Russian Academy of Sciences since 1932, founder of the Russian Journal of Electrochemistry Elektrokhimiya and receiver of the Hero of Socialist Labor award. The Russian Academy of Sciences' A.N. Frumkin Institute of Physical Chemistry and Electrochemistry is named after him.

  47. Mordechai Namir

    Mordechai Namir
    Born in
    Ukraine Flag Ukraine
    Years
    1897-1975 (aged 78)
    Occupations
    trade unionistpolitician
    Biography

    Mordechai Namir was an Israeli politician, who served as the mayor of Tel Aviv (1959–1969), a Knesset member and government minister, as well as being one of the heads of the Labour Zionist movement.

  48. Gyunduz Mamedov

    Gyunduz Mamedov
    Born in
    Azerbaijan Flag Azerbaijan
    Years
    1974-.. (age 51)
    Occupations
    Prosecutor General of Ukraineprosecutorjurist
    Biography

    Gyunduz Aidynovych Mamedov is an Azerbaijani-born Ukrainian lawyer and human rights activist who has served as Prosecutor of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea since 22 August 2016, and also served as Deputy Prosecutor General of Ukraine from 18 October 2019 to 21 July 2021. In his position as Prosecutor of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea, he is the counterpart to the office of Prosecutor General of the Republic of Crimea, the equivalent position in Russia's Republic of Crimea. Due to the Annexation of Crimea by the Russian Federation, Mamedov had no ability to exert power over Crimea. Mamedov has also investigated Russian forces in the Russo-Ukrainian War for war crimes.

  49. Lev Sternberg

    Lev Sternberg
    Born in
    Ukraine Flag Ukraine
    Years
    1861-1927 (aged 66)
    Occupations
    ethnographerpolitician
    Biography

    Lev Yakovlevich Sternberg (Russian: Лев (Хаим-Лейб) Я́ковлевич Ште́рнберг) (May 3 [O.S. April 21] 1861 – August 14, 1927) was a Russian and Soviet ethnographer of Jewish origin who from 1889 to 1897 studied the Nivkhs (Gilyaks), Oroks, and Ainu on Sakhalin and in Siberia for the American Museum of Natural History, in New York City.

  50. Mykolas Sleževičius

    Mykolas Sleževičius
    Born in
    Lithuania Flag Lithuania
    Years
    1882-1939 (aged 57)
    Occupations
    politicianlawyerjournalistdiplomat
    Biography

    Mykolas Sleževičius was a Lithuanian lawyer, political and cultural figure, and journalist. One of the most influential figures in inter-war Lithuania, he served as the prime minister of Lithuania on three occasions. Taking the helm of the government at a difficult time in 1918 and again in 1919, Sleževičius has been credited with preparing Lithuania for the fights to come and for laying the foundations of the fledgling state.

  51. Nikodim Kondakov

    Nikodim Kondakov
    Born in
    Russia Flag Russia
    Years
    1844-1925 (aged 81)
    Occupations
    professormedievalistarchaeologistart historianByzantinist
    Biography

    Nikodim Pavlovich Kondakov (Russian: Никоди́м Па́влович Кондако́в; 1 (13) November 1844, Olshanka, Kursk Governorate, Russian Empire– 17 February 1925, Prague, Czechoslovakia), was an art historian with special expertise in the history of Russian and Serbian Christian icons. He is remembered as a pioneer among art historian who studied the treasures of Mount Athos like Frenchman Gabriel Millet.

  52. Yuly Aykhenvald

    Yuly Aykhenvald
    Born in
    Ukraine Flag Ukraine
    Years
    1872-1928 (aged 56)
    Enrolled in Odessa National University
    Studied in 1894
    Occupations
    journalistliterary critic
    Biography

    Yuly Isayevich Aykhenvald, Aikhenvald, or Eichenwald was a Russian Jewish literary critic who developed a native brand of Aestheticism. Russian-American author Vladimir Nabokov called Aykhenvald "a Russian version of Walter Pater".

  53. Ivan Pokhitonov

    Ivan Pokhitonov
    Years
    1850-1923 (aged 73)
    Occupations
    graphic artistpainter
    Biography

    Ivan Pavlovich Pokhitonov was a Russian landscape painter and graphic artist, who spent much of his working life in France and Belgium.

  54. Mark Krein

    Mark Krein
    Born in
    Ukraine Flag Ukraine
    Years
    1907-1989 (aged 82)
    Enrolled in Odessa National University
    Studied in 1929
    Occupations
    mathematicianuniversity teacher
    Biography

    Mark Grigorievich Krein was a Soviet mathematician, one of the major figures of the Soviet school of functional analysis. He is known for works in operator theory (in close connection with concrete problems coming from mathematical physics), the problem of moments, classical analysis and representation theory.

  55. Aleksandar Belić

    Aleksandar Belić
    Born in
    Serbia Flag Serbia
    Years
    1876-1960 (aged 84)
    Occupations
    university teacherphilologist
    Biography

    Aleksandar Belić was a Serbian linguist and academic.

  56. Alexandre Besredka

    Alexandre Besredka
    Born in
    Ukraine Flag Ukraine
    Years
    1870-1940 (aged 70)
    Occupations
    immunologistphysicianbiologist
    Biography

    Alexandre Mikhailovich Besredka was a Ukrainian-French biologist and immunologist born in Odessa. In 1910 he became a citizen of France.

  57. Maria Galina

    Maria Galina
    Born in
    Russia Flag Russia
    Years
    1958-.. (age 67)
    Occupations
    hydrobiologistcriticpoetwritertranslator
    Biography

    Maria Galina is a Russian writer. She was born in Kalinin (now the city of Tver) and studied marine biology in Odessa. She lived in Bergen for a while, studying salmon.

  58. Nikolai Chebotaryov

    Nikolai Chebotaryov
    Born in
    Ukraine Flag Ukraine
    Years
    1894-1947 (aged 53)
    Occupations
    mathematicianuniversity teacher
    Biography

    Nikolai Grigorievich Chebotaryov was a Soviet mathematician. He is best known for the Chebotaryov density theorem.

  59. Vladimir de Pachmann

    Vladimir de Pachmann
    Born in
    Ukraine Flag Ukraine
    Years
    1848-1933 (aged 85)
    Occupations
    classical pianist
    Biography

    Vladimir de Pachmann or Pachman was a pianist from the Russian Empire of German ethnicity, especially noted for performing the works of Chopin and for his eccentric performing style.

  60. Stanisław Car

    Stanisław Car
    Born in
    Poland Flag Poland
    Years
    1882-1938 (aged 56)
    Occupations
    judgepoliticianlawyer
    Biography

    Stanisław Car was a Polish politician, lawyer, Marshal of the Sejm, deputy Prime Minister and the Minister of Justice.

  61. Marina Loshak

    Marina Loshak
    Born in
    Ukraine Flag Ukraine
    Years
    1955-.. (age 70)
    Occupations
    curatorart directorart historianco-collectorcollector
    Biography

    Marina Devovna Loshak is a Soviet and Russian curator, gallery owner, art manager, collector, museum worker. Director of the Pushkin Museum (2013-2023).

  62. Ignaty Potapenko

    Ignaty Potapenko
    Born in
    Ukraine Flag Ukraine
    Years
    1856-1929 (aged 73)
    Occupations
    writerjournalistplaywright
    Biography

    Ignaty Nikolayevich Potapenko, was a Russian writer and playwright.

  63. Anna Pankratova

    Anna Pankratova
    Born in
    Ukraine Flag Ukraine
    Years
    1897-1957 (aged 60)
    Occupations
    politicianhistorianeducator
    Biography

    Anna Mikhailovna Pankratova was a leading Soviet historian, educator and member of the Academy of Sciences of the Soviet Union. A widely published author, she was editor in chief of the influential Russian historical journal Voprosy Istorii and headed the National Committee of USSR Historians. A member of the Communist Party, she became an elected member of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet.

  64. Teodor Teodorov

    Teodor Teodorov
    Born in
    Bulgaria Flag Bulgaria
    Years
    1859-1924 (aged 65)
    Occupations
    politicianjudge
    Biography

    Teodor Ivanov Teodorov was a leading Bulgarian politician and legal expert who served as Prime Minister of Bulgaria immediately after the First World War.

  65. Mirasadulla Mirgasimov

    Mirasadulla Mirgasimov
    Born in
    Azerbaijan Flag Azerbaijan
    Years
    1883-1958 (aged 75)
    Occupations
    surgeon
    Biography

    Mirasadulla Miralasgar oglu Mirgasimov was an Azerbaijani and Soviet surgeon and scientist. He was one of the founders and the first president of Azerbaijan National Academy of Sciences (1945–1947).

  66. Lev Pisarzhevsky

    Lev Pisarzhevsky
    Born in
    Moldova Flag Moldova
    Years
    1874-1938 (aged 64)
    Occupations
    chemist
    Biography

    Lev Vladimirovich Pisarzhevsky was a Ukrainian Soviet chemist who studied peroxides, peracids, and solutions.

  67. Gherman Pântea

    Gherman Pântea
    Born in
    Moldova Flag Moldova
    Years
    1894-1968 (aged 74)
    Occupations
    politicianmilitary personnellawyerdiplomat
    Biography

    Gherman Vasile Pântea was a Bessarabian-born soldier, civil servant and political figure, active in the Russian Empire and Romania. As an officer of the Imperial Russian Army during most of World War I, he helped organize the committees of Bessarabian soldiers, oscillating between loyalty to the Russian Provisional Government and the cause of Bessarabian emancipation. Pântea was subsequently Military Director of the Moldavian Democratic Republic, answering to President Ion Inculeț. He personally created a Bessarabian defense force, tasked with combating Bolshevik subversion and Russian intimidation, but also braced for defeat after the October Revolution.

  68. Ion Nistor

    Ion Nistor
    Born in
    Romania Flag Romania
    Years
    1876-1962 (aged 86)
    Occupations
    historianpolitician
    Biography

    Ion I. Nistor was a Romanian historian and politician. He was a titular member of the Romanian Academy from 1915 and a professor at the universities of Cernăuți and Bucharest, while also serving as Minister of State for Bukovina, Minister of Public Works, Minister of Labor, and Minister of Religious Affairs and the Arts with a number of governments from 1918 to 1940.

  69. Carol Schmidt

    Carol Schmidt
    Born in
    Moldova Flag Moldova
    Years
    1846-1928 (aged 82)
    Occupations
    politician
    Biography

    Karl Aleksandrovich Shmidt was an Imperial Russian politician active in the Bessarabia Governorate. A Bessarabian German, he was the longest serving mayor of Kishinev (now Chișinău, Moldova), serving from 1877 by 1903. He contributed greatly to its modernization and is considered one of the best mayors in the city's history. He was the father of Alexander Schmidt, who served as mayor of Kishinev between 1917 and 1918.

  70. Marjana Gaponenko

    Marjana Gaponenko
    Born in
    Ukraine Flag Ukraine
    Years
    1981-.. (age 44)
    Occupations
    poetwriter
    Biography

    Marjana Michailowna Gaponenko is a German writer born in Odesa, Ukraine.

  71. Oleg Maltsev

    Oleg Maltsev
    Born in
    Ukraine Flag Ukraine
    Years
    1975-.. (age 50)
    Occupations
    psychologistscience communicatorlecturerlawyerwriter
    Biography

    Oleg Viktorovich Maltsev is a Ukrainian Candidate of Sciences in psychology and philosophy,. He is the academician of the European Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, author, and criminologist. He teaches a variation of the Fate Analysis method developed by Hungarian psychoanalyst Leopold Szondi through his organization called Applied Sciences Association. He is the chief editor of interdisciplinary journal Baudrillard Now, editorial member of French journal Dogma, editorial member of Expedition Journal and member of international editorial advisory board of the American Behavioral Scientist among other publications.

  72. Alla Dzhioyeva

    Alla Dzhioyeva
    Born in
    Georgia Flag Georgia
    Years
    1949-.. (age 76)
    Occupations
    politician
    Biography

    Alla Aleksandrovna Dzhioyeva is a South Ossetian teacher turned politician, who is currently Deputy Prime Minister in the South Ossetian government. She previously served as the Education Minister in 2002–2008. She won the 2011 presidential election, but the Supreme Court annulled the results, alleging that electoral fraud had been committed.

  73. Oksana Mas

    Oksana Mas
    Born in
    Ukraine Flag Ukraine
    Years
    1969-.. (age 56)
    Occupations
    philosopherartistpainter
    Biography

    Oksana Mas is a Ukrainian contemporary artist and the organizer of "ArtTogether", a global interactive art project aimed at visualizing the new cultural code of the modern generation and uniting people at a time of political and social turmoil.

  74. Vladimir Ippolitovich Lipsky

    Vladimir Ippolitovich Lipsky
    Years
    1863-1937 (aged 74)
    Occupations
    botanist
    Biography

    Vladimir Ippolitovich Lipsky or Volodymyr Ipolytovych Lypsky was a Ukrainian scientist, botanist; a member of National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine (in 1922–1928, its president) and corresponding member of the USSR Academy of Sciences, and the director of the Botanical Gardens of the Odessa University.

  75. Valentyna Danishevska

    Valentyna Danishevska
    Born in
    Ukraine Flag Ukraine
    Years
    1957-.. (age 68)
    Enrolled in Odessa National University
    Studied in 1983
    Occupations
    jurist
    Biography

    Valentyna Ivanivna Danishevska is a Ukrainian lawyer and judge who served as Chairwoman of the Supreme Court of Ukraine from 2017 to 2021. She is the first woman to hold the position of the Head of the Supreme Court of Ukraine.

  76. Kita Abashidze

    Kita Abashidze
    Born in
    Georgia Flag Georgia
    Years
    1870-1917 (aged 47)
    Occupations
    journalistliterary critic
    Biography

    Prince Kita Abashidze (Georgian: კიტა აბაშიძე) (16 January 1870 – 17 December 1917) was a Georgian literary critic, journalist, and politician.

  77. Constantin Mimi

    Constantin Mimi
    Born in
    Moldova Flag Moldova
    Years
    1868-1935 (aged 67)
    Occupations
    engineerpoliticianwinegrower
    Biography

    Constantin Mimi was a Bessarabian politician and winemaker, whose family had noble origins.

  78. Wasyl Petiowka

    Wasyl Petiowka
    Born in
    Ukraine Flag Ukraine
    Years
    1967-.. (age 58)
    Occupations
    politician
    Biography

    Vasyl Vasyliovych Petiovka is a Ukrainian politician currently serving as a People's Deputy of Ukraine since 12 December 2012.

  79. Pavlo Hrytsenko

    Pavlo Hrytsenko
    Born in
    Ukraine Flag Ukraine
    Years
    1950-.. (age 75)
    Occupations
    university teacherdialectologistphilologistlinguistukrainianist
    Biography

    Pavlo Yuhymovych Hrytsenko is a Ukrainian linguist, doctor of Philology, professor, director of Institute for the Ukrainian Language (Kyiv). Born in Matroska, Izmail Raion, Odesa Oblast, Ukraine. Hrytsenko is a specialist in dialectology of the Ukrainian language, typology of Slavic dialect systems, theory of linguistic geography, dialectal textology and textography, history of linguistics. He is a co-executor of The Slavic Linguistic Atlas, vol. 3, 4а, 4б, 5, 6, 8 (1994–2009).

  80. Nicolai Ivanovich Andrusov

    Nicolai Ivanovich Andrusov
    Born in
    Ukraine Flag Ukraine
    Years
    1861-1924 (aged 63)
    Occupations
    botanistexploreruniversity teachergeologistpaleontologist
    Biography

    Nicolai Ivanovich Andrusov was a Russian geologist, stratigrapher, and palaeontologist.

  81. Israel Guri

    Israel Guri
    Born in
    Moldova Flag Moldova
    Years
    1893-1965 (aged 72)
    Occupations
    trade unionistpolitician
    Biography

    Yisrael Guri was an Israeli politician who served as a member of the Knesset for Mapai between 1949 and 1965.

  82. Juozas Gabrys

    Juozas Gabrys
    Born in
    Lithuania Flag Lithuania
    Years
    1880-1951 (aged 71)
    Occupations
    opinion journalistpoliticianjurist
    Biography

    Juozas Gabrys or Juozas Gabrys-Paršaitis was a Lithuanian politician and diplomat, best remembered for his efforts to popularize the idea of Lithuania's independence in the West during World War I.

  83. Vadym Merikov

    Vadym Merikov
    Born in
    Ukraine Flag Ukraine
    Years
    1976-.. (age 49)
    Occupations
    politician
    Biography

    Vadym Ivanovych Merikov is a Ukrainian politician. He is a former People's Deputy of Ukraine and served as the governor of the Mykolaiv Oblast from July 28, 2014, to June 29, 2016.

  84. Konstantin Konik

    Konstantin Konik
    Born in
    Estonia Flag Estonia
    Years
    1873-1936 (aged 63)
    Occupations
    politiciansurgeonphysician
    Biography

    Konstantin Konik was an Estonian politician and surgeon who served as a member of the Estonian Salvation Committee.

  85. Vitaly Barvinenko

    Vitaly Barvinenko
    Born in
    Ukraine Flag Ukraine
    Years
    1981-.. (age 44)
    Occupations
    politician
    Biography

    Vitaly Dmitrievich Barvinenko is a Ukrainian politician and People's Deputy of Ukraine, the first head of the Odesa District Council. He served as a Member of Parliament across the VI to VIII convocations. Vitaly holds a Doctorate in Law.

  86. Mykola Vilinsky

    Mykola Vilinsky
    Born in
    Ukraine Flag Ukraine
    Years
    1888-1956 (aged 68)
    Occupations
    music educatorcomposer
    Biography

    Mykola Mykolayovych Vilinsky was a Soviet and Ukrainian composer who held senior chairs at the Odesa Conservatory and later the Kyiv Conservatory. He wrote articles on Ukrainian and Moldovan music, and was a music critic and an expert on the works of the Ukrainian composer Mykola Lysenko.

  87. Nicolae Donici

    Nicolae Donici
    Born in
    Moldova Flag Moldova
    Years
    1874-1960 (aged 86)
    Occupations
    astronomer
    Biography

    Nicolae N. Donici was a Romanian astronomer born in Bessarabia.

  88. Alexander Muchnik

    Alexander Muchnik
    Born in
    Ukraine Flag Ukraine
    Years
    1954-.. (age 71)
    Occupations
    philosopherhuman rights activistlawyerjournalist
    Biography

    Alexander Muchnik is a lawyer, human rights activist and journalist.

  89. Nikolai Mikhailovich Albov

    Nikolai Mikhailovich Albov
    Born in
    Russia Flag Russia
    Years
    1866-1897 (aged 31)
    Occupations
    geographerexplorerbotanist
    Biography

    Nikolai Mikhaylovich Albov was a Russian botanist and geographer. He made his mark first as an explorer of the Caucasus, to which he made several extensive trips financed by the Swiss Botanist Society, and later, after having moved to Argentina in 1895, of the Southern regions of South America. He is credited with being arguably the first European explorer to have traveled extensively over Patagonia and Tierra del Fuego and (writing in Russian and French), described its flora.

  90. Vladimir Matveevich Gessen

    Vladimir Matveevich Gessen
    Born in
    Ukraine Flag Ukraine
    Years
    1868-1920 (aged 52)
    Occupations
    politicianuniversity teacherjurist
    Biography

    Vladimir Matveevich Gessen was a Russian jurist and politician. He was the country's first theoretician of constitutional law and was instrumental for the spread of the idea of constitutional, representative government in Russia.

  91. Aryeh Altman

    Aryeh Altman
    Born in
    Ukraine Flag Ukraine
    Years
    1902-1982 (aged 80)
    Occupations
    politician
    Biography

    Aryeh Altman was an Israeli politician who served as a member of the Knesset for Herut and Gahal between 1951 and 1965.

  92. Imad Ashur

    Imad Ashur
    Born in
    Ukraine Flag Ukraine
    Years
    1988-.. (age 37)
    Occupations
    association football manager
    Biography

    Imad Ashur is a Ukrainian football manager of Polissya Zhytomyr.

  93. Joshua L. Goldberg

    Joshua L. Goldberg
    Born in
    Belarus Flag Belarus
    Years
    1896-1994 (aged 98)
    Occupations
    rabbimilitary officer
    Biography

    Joshua Louis Goldberg was a Belarusian-born American rabbi, who was the first rabbi to be commissioned as a U.S. Navy chaplain in World War II (and only the third to serve in the Navy in its history), the first to reach the rank of Navy Captain (the equivalent of Army Colonel), and the first to retire after a full active-duty career.

  94. Simon Yakovlevich Rosenbaum

    Simon Yakovlevich Rosenbaum
    Born in
    Belarus Flag Belarus
    Years
    1860-1934 (aged 74)
    Occupations
    politicianzionistlawyer
    Biography

    Simon Yakovlevich Rosenbaum was a Jewish activist and attorney, member of the First State Duma of the Russian Empire in 1906–1907, Lithuanian Minister for Jewish Affairs from June 29, 1923 to his resignation on February 12, 1924 and Lithuanian consul in Palestine.

  95. Heorhii Afanasiev

    Heorhii Afanasiev
    Born in
    Russia Flag Russia
    Years
    1848-1925 (aged 77)
    Occupations
    historianbankerjournalistdiplomat
    Biography

    Georgiy Yemelyanovich Afanasyev was a Ukrainian and Russian historian, politician, and diplomat. Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Ukrainian State (1918). Received a master's degree for his thesis: "The main points of the ministerial Turgot" (1884); and his doctoral dissertation was: "The Conditions of the Grain Trade in France at the End of the 18th Century" (1892). From 1888 he lectured at the Odessa University. He read in Odessa and Kiev.

  96. Ilya Rubanovich

    Ilya Rubanovich
    Born in
    Ukraine Flag Ukraine
    Years
    1859-1922 (aged 63)
    Occupations
    opinion journalistpoliticianuniversity teacherrevolutionaryphysicist
    Biography

    Ilya Adolfovich Rubanovich was a Russian revolutionary who joined 'The People's Will' ('Narodnaya Volya') in the 1880s. In 1881, this group assassinated Tsar Aleksandr II. During the repression which followed, Rubanovich fled abroad, eventually settling in Paris, France, and becoming a French citizen. There he co-founded the Group of 'Old Members of The People's Will' ('Gruppa Starykh Narodovol’tsev') in 1891, together with P.L. Lavrov, N.S. Rusanov and others. In 1900 he was instrumental in founding the Agrarian Socialist League.

  97. Józef Nusbaum-Hilarowicz

    Józef Nusbaum-Hilarowicz
    Born in
    Poland Flag Poland
    Years
    1859-1917 (aged 58)
    Occupations
    physicianzoologist
    Biography

    Józef Nusbaum-Hilarowicz was a Polish zoologist who helped establish an evolutionary approach to the study of zoology in Lviv.

  98. Samuil Shatunovsky

    Samuil Shatunovsky
    Born in
    Ukraine Flag Ukraine
    Years
    1859-1929 (aged 70)
    Occupations
    mathematicianuniversity teacher
    Biography

    Samuil Osipovich Shatunovsky was a Russian Empire and Soviet mathematician. He was born in Velyka Znamianka, Ukraine in a poor Jewish family as the 9th child. He completed secondary education in Kherson, Ukraine; then studied for a year in Rostov, Russia and moved to Saint Petersburg seeking university degree. There he studied in several technical universities. Engineering however did not attract Shatunovsky and he dedicated himself to mathematics, voluntarily attending lectures by Chebyshev. Shatunovsky could not complete any university program due to lack of funds. He later attempted to obtain a university degree in Switzerland, but failed for the same reason. After returning from Switzerland, he lived in small Russian towns, earning by private lessons. In the meantime, he wrote his first mathematical papers and sent some of them to Odesa University. Their quality was acknowledged; Shatunovsky was admitted to the university, received financial support, obtained a degree and was appointed as staff member in 1905. In 1917, he became a professor and continued working at the Odesa University through the rest of his life.

  99. Pyotr Karyshkovsky

    Pyotr Karyshkovsky
    Born in
    Ukraine Flag Ukraine
    Years
    1921-1988 (aged 67)
    Occupations
    historianarchaeologistnumismatistclassical scholaranthropologist
    Biography

    Petro Karyshkovsky-Ikar was a Ukrainian Soviet historian, numismatist, a scholar and lexicographer.

  100. Grigol Lordkipanidze

    Grigol Lordkipanidze
    Born in
    Georgia Flag Georgia
    Years
    1881-1937 (aged 56)
    Occupations
    politician
    Biography

    Grigol Lordkipanidze was a Georgian politician and author.