78 Notable alumni of
Peter the Great St.Petersburg Polytechnic University

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Peter the Great St.Petersburg Polytechnic University is 452nd in the world, 156th in Europe, and 10th in Russia by aggregated alumni prominence. Below is the list of 78 notable alumni from Peter the Great St.Petersburg Polytechnic University sorted by their wiki pages popularity. The directory includes famous graduates and former students along with research and academic staff.

  1. Saparmurat Niyazov

    Saparmurat Niyazov
    Years
    1940-2006 (aged 66)
    Occupations
    politicianautobiographer
    Biography

    Saparmurat Atayevich Niyazov Türkmenbaşy, was a Turkmen politician who led Turkmenistan from 1985 until his death in 2006. He was the first secretary of the Communist Party of Turkmenistan from 1985 until 1991 and supported the 1991 Soviet coup attempt. He continued to rule Turkmenistan as president for 15 years after independence from the Soviet Union in 1991.

  2. Igor Kurchatov

    Igor Kurchatov
    Born in
    Russia Flag Russia
    Years
    1903-1960 (aged 57)
    Occupations
    university teachernuclear physicistphysicistpolitician
    Biography

    Igor Vasilyevich Kurchatov, was a Soviet physicist who played a central role in organizing and directing the former Soviet program of nuclear weapons, and has been referred to as "father of the Russian atomic bomb".

  3. Matt Taibbi

    Matt Taibbi
    Born in
    United States Flag United States
    Years
    1970-.. (age 55)
    Occupations
    opinion journalisteditorial columnistwriterjournalist
    Biography

    Matthew Colin Taibbi is an American author, journalist and podcaster. A former contributing editor for Rolling Stone, he is the author of several books and publisher of Racket News (formerly TK News) on Substack. He has reported on finance, media, politics and sports.

  4. Mikhail Botvinnik

    Mikhail Botvinnik
    Born in
    Russia Flag Russia
    Years
    1911-1995 (aged 84)
    Occupations
    engineerchess coachwriterelectrical engineerchess player
    Biography

    Mikhail Moiseyevich Botvinnik was a Soviet and Russian chess grandmaster who held five world titles in three different reigns. The sixth World Chess Champion, he also worked as an electrical engineer and computer scientist and was a pioneer in computer chess. He also had a mathematics degree (honorary).

  5. Sergei Mironov

    Sergei Mironov
    Born in
    Russia Flag Russia
    Years
    1953-.. (age 72)
    Occupations
    politicianmember of the State Dumastatesperson
    Biography

    Sergey Mikhailovich Mironov is a Russian politician. He was chairman of the Federation Council, the upper house of the Russian parliament, from 2001 to 2011. He leads the faction A Just Russia in the Parliament of Russia.

  6. Igor Gordin

    Igor Gordin
    Born in
    Russia Flag Russia
    Years
    1965-.. (age 60)
    Occupations
    actortelevision actor
    Biography

    Igor Gennadyevich Gordin is a Soviet and Russian actor of theater and cinema. Honored Artist of the Russian Federation (2004). Laureate of the Golden Mask (2011).

  7. Oleg Antonov

    Oleg Antonov
    Born in
    Russia Flag Russia
    Years
    1906-1984 (aged 78)
    Occupations
    university teacherpoliticianmilitary flight engineerinventor
    Biography

    Oleg Konstantinovich Antonov was a Soviet aeroplane designer, and the founder of the Research and Design Bureau No. 153 (OKB-153) in Novosibirsk, Russia, latter moved to Kiev, Ukrainian SSR, and named in his honour after his death. Antonov designed a number of Soviet aeroplanes (such as the Antonov An-2, Antonov An-12) and numerous gliders for both civilian and military use.

  8. Leon Theremin

    Leon Theremin
    Born in
    Russia Flag Russia
    Years
    1896-1993 (aged 97)
    Enrolled in Peter the Great St.Petersburg Polytechnic University
    Studied in 1920-1926
    Occupations
    musiciancellistinventorphysicist
    Biography

    Lev Sergeyevich Termen, better known as Leon Theremin was a Russian inventor, most famous for his invention of the theremin, one of the first electronic musical instruments and the first to be mass-produced. He also worked on early television research. His secret listening device, "The Thing", hung for seven years in plain view in the United States ambassador's Moscow office and enabled Soviet agents to eavesdrop on secret conversations.

  9. Daniil Granin

    Daniil Granin
    Born in
    Russia Flag Russia
    Years
    1919-2017 (aged 98)
    Enrolled in Peter the Great St.Petersburg Polytechnic University
    Studied in 1940
    Occupations
    authorscreenwriternovelistshort story writerwriter
    Biography

    Daniil Aleksandrovich Granin, original family name German (Russian: Ге́рман), was a Soviet and Russian author.

  10. Mikhail Koshkin

    Mikhail Koshkin
    Born in
    Russia Flag Russia
    Years
    1898-1940 (aged 42)
    Occupations
    military personnelmilitary engineerweapons designer
    Biography

    Mikhail Ilyich Koshkin was a Soviet tank designer, chief designer of the famous T-34 medium tank. The T-34 was the most produced tank of World War II. He started out in life as a confectioner, but then studied engineering.

  11. Nikolay Sobolev

    Nikolay Sobolev
    Born in
    Russia Flag Russia
    Years
    1993-.. (age 32)
    Occupations
    vloggersingerYouTuberwriterentrepreneur
    Biography

    Nikolai Yuryevich Sobolev is a Russian video blogger, writer, businessman and singer. He is the creator and host of the YouTube channel SOBOLEV (formerly Zhizn YouTube; Russian: Жизнь Ютуб until 2016), where he talks about drama with the Russian side of YouTube. Sobolev is one of the co-founders of two YouTube collectives - "Rakamakafo" and "Ready Steady Go".

  12. Nick Perumov

    Nick Perumov
    Born in
    Russia Flag Russia
    Years
    1963-.. (age 62)
    Occupations
    fantasy authorwriterscience fiction writermicrobiologist
    Biography

    Nick Perumov is the pen name of Nikolay Daniilovich Perumov (Russian: Николай Даниилович Перумов; born 21 November 1963), a Russian microbiologist, as well as a fantasy and science fiction writer.

  13. Yuri Kondratyuk

    Yuri Kondratyuk
    Born in
    Ukraine Flag Ukraine
    Years
    1897-1942 (aged 45)
    Occupations
    engineerphysicistmilitary flight engineer
    Biography

    Yuri Vasilyevich Kondratyuk, real name Aleksandr Ignatyevich Shargei (Russian: Александр Игнатьевич Шаргей; Ukrainian: Олександр Гнатович Шаргей; 21 June 1897 – February 1942), was a Soviet engineer and mathematician. He was a pioneer of astronautics and spaceflight, a theoretician and a visionary who, in the early 20th century, developed the first known lunar orbit rendezvous (LOR), a key concept for landing and return spaceflight from Earth to the Moon. The LOR was later used for the plotting of the first actual human spaceflight to the Moon. Many other aspects of spaceflight and space exploration are covered in his works.

  14. Abram Ioffe

    Abram Ioffe
    Born in
    Ukraine Flag Ukraine
    Years
    1880-1960 (aged 80)
    Occupations
    physicistinventor
    Biography

    Abram Fedorovich Ioffe was a prominent Soviet physicist. He received the Stalin Prize (1942), the Lenin Prize (1960) (posthumously), and the Hero of Socialist Labor (1955). Ioffe was an expert in various areas of solid state physics and electromagnetism. He established research laboratories for radioactivity, superconductivity, and nuclear physics, many of which became independent institutes.

  15. Yulii Khariton

    Yulii Khariton
    Born in
    Russia Flag Russia
    Years
    1904-1996 (aged 92)
    Enrolled in Peter the Great St.Petersburg Polytechnic University
    Studied in 1920-1925
    Occupations
    politicianphysicistphysical chemist
    Biography

    Yulii Borisovich Khariton was a Russian physicist who was a leading scientist in the former Soviet program of nuclear weapons.

  16. Vasily Kuznetsov

    Vasily Kuznetsov
    Years
    1901-1990 (aged 89)
    Enrolled in Peter the Great St.Petersburg Polytechnic University
    Studied in 1922-1926
    Occupations
    politiciantrade unionistengineerdiplomat
    Biography

    Vasily Vasilyevich Kuznetsov was a Russian Soviet politician who acted as Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union from 1982 to 1983 (after the death of Brezhnev), for a second time in 1984 (after the death of Andropov), and for a third time in 1985 (after the death of Chernenko). He was one of the oldest members of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.

  17. Anatoly Petrovich Alexandrov

    Anatoly Petrovich Alexandrov
    Born in
    Ukraine Flag Ukraine
    Years
    1903-1994 (aged 91)
    Occupations
    inventorphysicistpolitician
    Biography

    Anatoly Petrovich Alexandrov was a Russian physicist who played a crucial and centralizing role in the former Soviet program of nuclear weapons.

  18. Yakov Zeldovich

    Yakov Zeldovich
    Born in
    Belarus Flag Belarus
    Years
    1914-1987 (aged 73)
    Occupations
    inventorchemistuniversity teacherphysicistastrophysicist
    Biography

    Yakov Borisovich Zeldovich ForMemRS, also known as YaB, D.S. was a leading Soviet physicist of Belarusian origin, who is known for his prolific contributions in physical cosmology, physics of thermonuclear reactions, combustion, and hydrodynamical phenomena.

  19. Dina Belenkaya

    Dina Belenkaya
    Born in
    Russia Flag Russia
    Years
    1993-.. (age 32)
    Occupations
    chess player
    Biography

    Dina Vadimovna Belenkaya is a Russian-Israeli chess player, commentator, Twitch streamer, and YouTuber who holds the title of Woman Grandmaster (WGM). She is a four-time St. Petersburg women's champion, and has represented St. Petersburg at the Russian Women's Team Championship and the European Chess Club Cup for Women. She has a peak FIDE rating of 2364.

  20. Nikolai Polikarpov

    Nikolai Polikarpov
    Born in
    Russia Flag Russia
    Years
    1892-1944 (aged 52)
    Enrolled in Peter the Great St.Petersburg Polytechnic University
    Studied in 1911
    Occupations
    design engineeraerospace engineerpoliticianmilitary flight engineeraircraft pilot
    Biography

    Nikolai Nikolaevich Polikarpov was a Soviet aeronautical engineer and aircraft designer, known as the "King of Fighters". He designed the I-15 series of fighters, and the I-16 Ishak (Russian: ишак, lit. 'donkey' phonetically close to its Russian: И-16 or Russian: И-шестнадцать, romanized: I-shestnadtsat', lit. 'I-sixteen' designation) "Little Donkey" fighter.

  21. David Bronstein

    David Bronstein
    Born in
    Ukraine Flag Ukraine
    Years
    1924-2006 (aged 82)
    Occupations
    non-fiction writerchess player
    Biography

    David Ionovich Bronstein was a Soviet chess player. Awarded the title of International Grandmaster by FIDE in 1950, he narrowly missed becoming World Chess Champion in 1951. Bronstein was one of the world's strongest players from the mid-1940s into the mid-1970s, and was described by his peers as a creative genius and master of tactics. He was also a renowned chess writer; his book Zurich International Chess Tournament 1953 is widely considered one of the greatest chess books ever written.

  22. Stephen Timoshenko

    Stephen Timoshenko
    Born in
    Ukraine Flag Ukraine
    Years
    1878-1972 (aged 94)
    Occupations
    university teacherautobiographerengineerphysicist
    Biography

    Stepan Prokopovich Timoshenko, later known as Stephen Timoshenko, was a Russian and later an American engineer and academician.

  23. Vitaly Savelyev

    Vitaly Savelyev
    Born in
    Uzbekistan Flag Uzbekistan
    Years
    1954-.. (age 71)
    Occupations
    businessperson
    Biography

    Vitaly Gennadyevich Savelyev is a Russian businessman and politician serving as the Deputy Prime Minister for Transport since May 2024. He was previously Minister of Transport from November 2020 until May 2024 and he served as the chairman and CEO of Aeroflot, Russia's largest airline, from 2009 to 2020.

  24. Georgy Flyorov

    Georgy Flyorov
    Born in
    Russia Flag Russia
    Years
    1913-1990 (aged 77)
    Occupations
    inventorphysicistnuclear physicist
    Biography

    Georgii Nikolayevich Flyorov was a Soviet physicist who is known for his discovery of spontaneous fission and his important contribution towards the crystallography and material science, for which, he was honored with many awards. In addition, he is also known for his letter directed to Joseph Stalin, during the midst of World War II, to start a program of nuclear weapons in the Soviet Union.

  25. Sergey Fursenko

    Sergey Fursenko
    Born in
    Russia Flag Russia
    Years
    1954-.. (age 71)
    Occupations
    sports executivebusinessperson
    Biography

    Sergey Aleksandrovich Fursenko is a Russian businessman.

  26. Mikhail Eisenstein

    Mikhail Eisenstein
    Born in
    Ukraine Flag Ukraine
    Years
    1867-1920 (aged 53)
    Enrolled in Peter the Great St.Petersburg Polytechnic University
    Studied in 1893
    Occupations
    architectcivil engineer
    Biography

    Mikhail Osipovich Eisenstein was a civil engineer and architect working in Riga, the present-day capital of Latvia, when the city was part of the Russian Empire. He was active as an architect in the city at a time of great economic expansion and consequent enlargement, which coincided with the flourishing of Art Nouveau architecture. During the years 1901–1906, Eisenstein designed many of the best-known Art Nouveau buildings of Riga. His son, Sergei Eisenstein, became a well-known Soviet film director.

  27. Serguei Adoniev

    Serguei Adoniev
    Born in
    Ukraine Flag Ukraine
    Years
    1961-.. (age 64)
    Occupations
    entrepreneurbusinessperson
    Biography

    Sergey Adonyev is a Russian businessman and philanthropist.

  28. Ilya Klebanov

    Ilya Klebanov
    Born in
    Russia Flag Russia
    Years
    1951-.. (age 74)
    Occupations
    politician
    Biography

    Ilya Iosifovich Klebanov is a Russian politician and entrepreneur. He was the Plenipotentiary Presidential Envoy to the Northwestern Federal District of the Russian Federation. He has the federal state civilian service rank of 1st class Active State Councillor of the Russian Federation.

  29. Tadeusz Kondrusiewicz

    Tadeusz Kondrusiewicz
    Born in
    Belarus Flag Belarus
    Years
    1946-.. (age 79)
    Occupations
    Catholic priestCatholic bishop
    Biography

    Tadeusz Kondrusiewicz is a Belarusian prelate of the Catholic Church who served as Archbishop of Minsk–Mohilev from 2007 to 2021. He has been a bishop since 1989, and from 1991 to 2007 held posts in Russia.

  30. Mikhail Solomentsev

    Mikhail Solomentsev
    Born in
    Russia Flag Russia
    Years
    1913-2008 (aged 95)
    Occupations
    engineerpolitician
    Biography

    Mikhail Sergeyevich Solomentsev was a high-ranking Soviet politician and statesman.

  31. Valéry Inkijinoff

    Valéry Inkijinoff
    Born in
    Russia Flag Russia
    Years
    1895-1973 (aged 78)
    Occupations
    film actorstage actorfilm directoractor
    Biography

    Valery Ivanovich Inkizhinov, known as Valéry Inkijinoff, was a Russian-French actor, director and acting teacher of Buryat descent. Born to a Buryat family in Irkutsk, he began his career in the Soviet Union, playing the lead role in Vsevolod Pudovkin's 1928 film Storm Over Asia. He immigrated to France in the 1930s, where his strong facial features made him a favorite villain for exotic adventure and crime films.

  32. Mikhail Oseevsky

    Mikhail Oseevsky
    Born in
    Russia Flag Russia
    Years
    1960-.. (age 65)
    Occupations
    politicianeconomist
    Biography

    Mikhail Eduardovich Oseevsky is a Russian politician, a member of United Russia party. From 2003 to 2012, he was the Vice-governor of Saint Petersburg and the Minister of Finance in the Saint Petersburg City Administration, appointed to these positions by then-governor, Valentina Matvienko. From 2010 to 2012, he was also the Head of the Administration of the St. Petersburg Governor. On 6 January 2012, he was appointed Deputy-Minister of Economic Development of Russia.

  33. Abraham Alikhanov

    Abraham Alikhanov
    Born in
    Georgia Flag Georgia
    Years
    1904-1970 (aged 66)
    Enrolled in Peter the Great St.Petersburg Polytechnic University
    Studied in 1929
    Occupations
    university teachernuclear physicistinventorphysicist
    Biography

    Abram Isaakovich Alikhanov was a Soviet experimental physicist of Armenian origin who specialized in particle and nuclear physics. He was one of the Soviet Union's leading physicists.

  34. Georgy Beriev

    Georgy Beriev
    Born in
    Georgia Flag Georgia
    Years
    1903-1979 (aged 76)
    Occupations
    aircraft pilotmilitary flight engineerengineerinventor
    Biography

    Georgy Mikhailovich Beriev, was a Soviet Georgian major general, founder and chief designer of the Beriev Design Bureau in Taganrog, which concentrated on amphibious aircraft.

  35. Mark Gallai

    Mark Gallai
    Born in
    Russia Flag Russia
    Years
    1914-1998 (aged 84)
    Occupations
    aircraft pilottest pilotwritermilitary personnel
    Biography

    Mark Lazarevich Gallay was a Soviet test pilot, World War II veteran, and Hero of the Soviet Union.

  36. Emanuel Kviring

    Emanuel Kviring
    Born in
    Russia Flag Russia
    Years
    1888-1937 (aged 49)
    Occupations
    statespersoneconomist
    Biography

    Emanuel or Emmanuel Ionovich Kviring was a Soviet politician and statesman of Volga-German descent.

  37. Alexander Zhitinsky

    Alexander Zhitinsky
    Born in
    Ukraine Flag Ukraine
    Years
    1941-2012 (aged 71)
    Occupations
    publisherscreenwriterpoetjournalist
    Biography

    Alexander Nikolayevich Zhitinsky was a Russian writer and journalist, founder of the Gelikon Plus publishing house. He used the pseudonyms Rock-diletant, МАССА, and Maccolit.

  38. Isaak Kikoin

    Isaak Kikoin
    Born in
    Lithuania Flag Lithuania
    Years
    1908-1984 (aged 76)
    Enrolled in Peter the Great St.Petersburg Polytechnic University
    Studied in 1925-1930
    Occupations
    inventorphysicistmathematician
    Biography

    Isaak Konstantinovich Kikoin (Russian: Исаак Константинович (Кушелевич) Кикоин; 28 March 1908 – 28 December 1984), D.N., was a Soviet physicist and an author of physics textbooks in Russian language who played an important role in the Soviet nuclear weapons program.

  39. Oleg Savelyev

    Oleg Savelyev
    Born in
    Russia Flag Russia
    Years
    1965-.. (age 60)
    Occupations
    politicianeconomist
    Biography

    Oleg Genrikhovich Savelyev is a Russian politician.

  40. Eugene Alexandrov

    Eugene Alexandrov
    Born in
    Russia Flag Russia
    Years
    1936-.. (age 89)
    Enrolled in Peter the Great St.Petersburg Polytechnic University
    Studied in 1960
    Occupations
    physicistexperimental physicist
    Biography

    Eugene Borisovich Alexandrov is a Russian physicist, member of the Russian Academy of Sciences (since 1992), Doctor of Sciences, head of the Commission on Pseudoscience.

  41. Nikolai Dukhov

    Nikolai Dukhov
    Born in
    Ukraine Flag Ukraine
    Years
    1904-1964 (aged 60)
    Occupations
    engineer
    Biography

    Nikolai Leonidovich Dukhov was a Soviet designer of cars, tractors, tanks and nuclear weapons.

  42. Vladimir Vasilyev

    Vladimir Vasilyev
    Born in
    Russia Flag Russia
    Years
    1951-.. (age 74)
    Occupations
    scientist
    Biography

    Vladimir Nikolaevich Vasilyev is a Russian scientist, researcher, professor and acting rector at ITMO University (since 1996). Head of the Council of Rectors of St. Petersburg Universities (since 2004), corresponding member of the Russian Academy of Education (since 2008), corresponding member of the Russian Academy of Sciences (since 2011). Since August 6, 2012 – member of the Government of the Russian Federation Expert Council. Honored citizen of St. Petersburg since 2013.

  43. Averky Aristov

    Averky Aristov
    Born in
    Russia Flag Russia
    Years
    1903-1973 (aged 70)
    Occupations
    diplomatpolitician
    Biography

    Averky Borisovich Aristov was a Soviet politician and diplomat.

  44. Rostislav Plechko

    Rostislav Plechko
    Born in
    Russia Flag Russia
    Years
    1989-.. (age 36)
    Occupations
    entrepreneurboxer
    Biography

    Rostislav Borisovich Plechko is a Russian professional boxer who currently holds the Russian and WBA Asia heavyweight titles.

  45. Lev Shubnikov

    Lev Shubnikov
    Born in
    Russia Flag Russia
    Years
    1901-1937 (aged 36)
    Occupations
    physicistinventor
    Biography

    Lev Vasilyevich Shubnikov was a Soviet experimental physicist who worked in the Netherlands and USSR. He has been referred as the as 'the founding father of Soviet low-temperature physics'. He is known for the discovery of the Shubnikov–de Haas effect and type-II superconductivity. He also one of the first to discover antiferromagnetism.

  46. Kirill Prigoda

    Kirill Prigoda
    Born in
    Russia Flag Russia
    Years
    1995-.. (age 30)
    Occupations
    swimmer
    Biography

    Kirill Gennadievich Prigoda is a Russian swimmer. He competed in the men's 100 metre breaststroke event at the 2016 Summer Olympics.

  47. Vladimir Pekhtin

    Vladimir Pekhtin
    Born in
    Russia Flag Russia
    Years
    1950-.. (age 75)
    Occupations
    politicianhydraulic engineerstatespersonmember of the State Duma
    Biography

    Vladimir Alekseyevich Pekhtin is a Russian politician. He was a deputy of the State Duma for the 3rd, 4th, 5th, and 6th convocations. He chaired the parliament's ethics committee and served as Deputy Chairman of the State Duma. He was the first deputy chairman of the United Russia party. Pekhtin formerly served on the board of electric holding company RAO UES and was the Director General of Kolymaenergo, a subsidiary of RusHydro.

  48. Leonid Yudasin

    Leonid Yudasin
    Born in
    Russia Flag Russia
    Years
    1959-.. (age 66)
    Occupations
    chess player
    Biography

    Leonid Yudasin is a Soviet-born Israeli chess player and trainer. He was awarded the title of Grandmaster by FIDE in 1990. Yudasin was part of the USSR team that won the gold medal in the 1990 Chess Olympiad. He competed in the Candidates Tournament for the World Chess Championship twice, in 1991 and 1994.

  49. Aleksandr Ilyich Leypunskiy

    Aleksandr Ilyich Leypunskiy
    Born in
    Poland Flag Poland
    Years
    1903-1972 (aged 69)
    Occupations
    physicistuniversity teacher
    Biography

    Aleksandr Ilyich Leipunskii was a Soviet physicist.

  50. Nicolai Reshetikhin

    Nicolai Reshetikhin
    Born in
    Russia Flag Russia
    Years
    1958-.. (age 67)
    Occupations
    topologistuniversity teachermathematician
    Biography

    Nicolai Yuryevich Reshetikhin is a mathematical physicist, currently a professor of mathematics at Tsinghua University, China and a professor of mathematical physics at the University of Amsterdam (Korteweg-de Vries Institute for Mathematics). He is also a professor emeritus at the University of California, Berkeley. His research is in the fields of low-dimensional topology, representation theory, and quantum groups. His major contributions are in the theory of quantum integrable systems, in representation theory of quantum groups and in quantum topology. He and Vladimir Turaev constructed invariants of 3-manifolds which are expected to describe quantum Chern–Simons field theory introduced by Edward Witten.

  51. Viktor Plakida

    Viktor Plakida
    Born in
    Ukraine Flag Ukraine
    Years
    1956-.. (age 69)
    Enrolled in Peter the Great St.Petersburg Polytechnic University
    Studied in 1979
    Occupations
    politician
    Biography

    Viktor Tarasovych Plakida is a Ukrainian politician and businessman. Plakida served as the Prime Minister of Crimea, an autonomous region in southern Ukraine, from 2006 to 2010 (the office of Prime Minister is also known as the Chairman of the Crimean Council of Ministers). He was the Representatives of the President of Ukraine in Crimea.

  52. Viktor Kyrpychov

    Viktor Kyrpychov
    Born in
    Russia Flag Russia
    Years
    1845-1913 (aged 68)
    Occupations
    physicistengineer
    Biography

    Viktor Lvovich Kirpichov was a Russian engineer, physicist, and educational organizer, known especially for his work on applied and structural mechanics as well as for establishing the foundations for technical education in the Russian Empire.

  53. Alexander Zarchin

    Alexander Zarchin
    Born in
    Ukraine Flag Ukraine
    Years
    1897-1988 (aged 91)
    Enrolled in Peter the Great St.Petersburg Polytechnic University
    Studied in 1931
    Occupations
    inventorengineer
    Biography

    Alexander Zarchin was a Ukrainian-Israeli chemist and inventor. He is most noted for inventing a process of sea water desalination.

  54. Denis Kravchenko

    Denis Kravchenko
    Born in
    Russia Flag Russia
    Years
    1976-.. (age 49)
    Occupations
    politicianmember of the State Dumascientist
    Biography

    Denis Kravchenko is a Russian political figure and deputy of the 8th State Duma. He holds a Candidate of Sciences in Economics degree (2005)

  55. Elevter Andronikashvili

    Elevter Andronikashvili
    Born in
    Russia Flag Russia
    Years
    1910-1989 (aged 79)
    Occupations
    physicist
    Biography

    Elephter Luarsabovich Andronikashvili was a Georgian physicist. He was a brother of Russian historian Irakly Andronikov.

  56. Levan Gogoberidze

    Levan Gogoberidze
    Years
    1896-1937 (aged 41)
    Occupations
    politician
    Biography

    Levan Davidovich Gogoberidze was a Soviet and Georgian Bolshevik and politician. He served as First Secretary of the Georgian Communist Party from 6 May to 19 November 1930.

  57. Aleksandr Zheleznyakov

    Aleksandr Zheleznyakov
    Born in
    Russia Flag Russia
    Years
    1957-.. (age 68)
    Occupations
    writermilitary flight engineerengineerjournalist
    Biography

    Aleksandr Borisovich Zheleznyakov is a specialist in design and production of rocket and space systems. He is also a writer and journalist.

  58. Nikolay Emanuel

    Nikolay Emanuel
    Born in
    Russia Flag Russia
    Years
    1915-1984 (aged 69)
    Occupations
    physicistphysical chemistchemist
    Biography

    Nikolay Markovich Emanuel was a Soviet chemist. He was a key specialist in chemical kinetics and mechanics of chemical reactions. He lectured at Moscow State University since 1944 (and was appointed full Professor in 1950). In 1958 he became a corresponding member and in 1966 he became a full member of the Soviet Academy of Sciences. In 1974, he was elected as a foreign member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences. Buried in Moscow.

  59. Mikhail Neiman

    Mikhail Neiman
    Born in
    Ukraine Flag Ukraine
    Years
    1905-1975 (aged 70)
    Occupations
    physicist
    Biography

    Mikhail Samoilovich Neiman was a Soviet physicist, Doctor of Technical Sciences and professor. The main directions of his research were the study of the ultra-high frequency electromagnetic systems, theoretical and applied radio engineering, and automatic processes.

  60. Yuri Raizer

    Yuri Raizer
    Born in
    Ukraine Flag Ukraine
    Years
    1927-2021 (aged 94)
    Occupations
    physicist
    Biography

    Yuri Petrovich Raizer was a prominent Soviet and Russian theoretical physicist.

  61. Nikolay Vasilyevich Belov

    Nikolay Vasilyevich Belov
    Born in
    Poland Flag Poland
    Years
    1891-1982 (aged 91)
    Occupations
    geochemistchemistcrystallographer
    Biography

    Nikolay Vasilyevich Belov was a Soviet and Russian crystallographer, geochemist, academician (1953), and Hero of Socialist Labour (1969).

  62. Alexey Kavokin

    Alexey Kavokin
    Born in
    Russia Flag Russia
    Years
    1970-.. (age 55)
    Enrolled in Peter the Great St.Petersburg Polytechnic University
    1986-1992 graduated with master's degree
    Occupations
    physicist
    Biography

    Alexey V. Kavokin is a Russian and French theoretical physicist and writer.

  63. Sergey Martynov

    Sergey Martynov
    Born in
    Russia Flag Russia
    Years
    1959-.. (age 66)
    Occupations
    politicianstatespersonjurist
    Biography

    Sergey Aleksandrovich Martynov is a Russian statesman who serves as a senator from Mari El since 7 October 2019. Before that he worked in the apparatus of the Federation Council.

  64. Polina Anikeeva

    Polina Anikeeva
    Born in
    Russia Flag Russia
    Years
    1982-.. (age 43)
    Enrolled in Peter the Great St.Petersburg Polytechnic University
    In 2003 graduated with bachelor's degree
    Occupations
    researcher
    Biography

    Polina Olegovna Anikeeva is a Russian-born American materials scientist who is a Professor of Material Science & Engineering as well as Brain & Cognitive Sciences at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). She also holds faculty appointments in the McGovern Institute for Brain Research and Research Laboratory of Electronics at MIT. Her research is centered on developing tools for studying the underlying molecular and cellular bases of behavior and neurological diseases. She was awarded the 2018 Vilcek Foundation Prize for Creative Promise in Biomedical Science, the 2020 MacVicar Faculty Fellowship at MIT, and in 2015 was named a MIT Technology Review Innovator Under 35.

  65. Yuri Kolker

    Yuri Kolker
    Born in
    Russia Flag Russia
    Years
    1946-.. (age 79)
    Occupations
    poettranslator
    Biography

    Yuri Kolker is a Russian poet. He is also known as an essayist, literary critic, and as a translator.

  66. Igor Gorynin

    Igor Gorynin
    Born in
    Russia Flag Russia
    Years
    1926-2015 (aged 89)
    Occupations
    engineerpoliticianmetallurgist
    Biography

    Igor Vasilyevich Gorynin was a Soviet and Russian metallurgist, creator of many new titanium and aluminium alloys, and reactor steels. He was the director of the Prometey Central Scientific Research Institute Of Structural Materials.

  67. Lydia Galle

    Lydia Galle
    Born in
    Russia Flag Russia
    Years
    1934-2023 (aged 89)
    Occupations
    physicist
    Biography

    Lidia Nikolaevna Gall was a Russian mass spectrometrist, credited as one of the inventors for electrospray ionization source and high-performance mass analyzers.

  68. Sergei Soldatov

    Sergei Soldatov
    Born in
    Estonia Flag Estonia
    Years
    1933-2003 (aged 70)
    Occupations
    politician
    Biography

    Sergei Soldatov was one of the founders of anti-Soviet dissident movement in Estonia.

  69. Sergey Panteleev

    Sergey Panteleev
    Born in
    Russia Flag Russia
    Years
    1951-.. (age 74)
    Occupations
    member of the State Dumapolitician
    Biography

    Sergey Mikhailovich Panteleev is a Russian political figure and a deputy of the 7th and 8th State Dumas.

  70. Agha Aminov

    Agha Aminov
    Born in
    Azerbaijan Flag Azerbaijan
    Years
    1888-1921 (aged 33)
    Occupations
    engineerpolitician
    Biography

    Agha Mashadi Aghakerim oghlu Aminov, also spelled as Agha Aminov, was an Azerbaijani statesman who served as Minister of Industry and Trade in the fourth cabinet of Azerbaijan Democratic Republic, and was member of Parliament of ADR.

  71. Enn Tõugu

    Enn Tõugu
    Born in
    Estonia Flag Estonia
    Years
    1935-2020 (aged 85)
    Occupations
    computer scientistmathematician
    Biography

    Enn Tõugu was an Estonian computer scientist and mathematician. He dealt with system programming, declarative languages and topics related to artificial intelligence.

  72. Aleksander Oinas

    Aleksander Oinas
    Born in
    Estonia Flag Estonia
    Years
    1887-1942 (aged 55)
    Occupations
    politician
    Biography

    Aleksander Ferdinand Oinas was an Estonian politician; he was a long-serving member of the Estonian Parliament (Riigikogu) and served three times as a government minister. was an Estonian politician; he was a long-serving member of the Estonian Parliament (Riigikogu) and served three times as a government minister.

  73. Sergei A. Tretyakov

    Sergei A. Tretyakov
    Born in
    Russia Flag Russia
    Years
    1956-.. (age 69)
    Enrolled in Peter the Great St.Petersburg Polytechnic University
    Studied in 1980
    Occupations
    physicist
    Biography

    Sergei Anatolyevich Tretyakov is a Russian-Finnish scientist, focused in electromagnetic field theory, complex media electromagnetics and microwave engineering. He is currently a professor at Department of Electronics and Nanoengineering, Aalto University (former Helsinki University of Technology), Finland. His main research area in recent years is metamaterials and metasurfaces from fundamentals to applications. He was the president of the European Virtual Institute for Artificial Electromagnetic Materials and Metamaterials (”Metamorphose VI”) and general chair of the Metamaterials Congresses from 2007 to 2013. He is a fellow/member of many scientific associations such as IEEE, URSI, the Electromagnetics Academy, and OSA. He is also an Honorary Doctor of Francisk Skorina Gomel State University.

  74. Leonid A. Umansky

    Leonid A. Umansky
    Born in
    Russia Flag Russia
    Years
    1890-1957 (aged 67)
    Occupations
    electrical engineer
    Biography

    Leonid Alexandrovich Umansky was an American electrical engineer of Russian origin and a recipient of the IEEE Edison Medal for "outstanding contribution to the electrification of industry through the application of electrical machines, devices, and systems to automatic process machinery; and for his inspiration, leadership, and teaching of men in this work".

  75. Nikolay Krasilnikov

    Nikolay Krasilnikov
    Born in
    Russia Flag Russia
    Years
    1927-2020 (aged 93)
    Occupations
    scientist
    Biography

    Nikolay Nikolayevich Krasilnikov was a Soviet and Russian scientist and educator in the fields of image transmission, image compression and human visual system.

  76. James Alex Msekela

    James Alex Msekela
    Years
    1959-.. (age 66)
    Occupations
    engineerpoliticiandiplomat
    Biography

    James Alex Msekela is a Tanzanian politician and diplomat.

  77. Abraham B Korol

    Abraham B Korol
    Born in
    Moldova Flag Moldova
    Years
    1946-.. (age 79)
    Occupations
    geneticistbiologist
    Biography

    Abraham Bentsionovich Korol is a professor at the Institute of Evolution at the University of Haifa. He is an Israeli geneticist and evolutionary biologist known for his work on the evolution of sex and recombination, genome mapping, and the genetics of complex traits.

  78. Sergey Skolskiy

    Sergey Skolskiy
    Born in
    Russia Flag Russia
    Years
    1995-.. (age 30)
    Occupations
    powerlifter
    Biography

    Sergey Vladimirovich Skolskiy is a Russian powerlifter, Master of Sports of Russia, champion of Russia, four-time European champion in the open category., two-time world champion, record holder Guinness World Records.