16 Notable alumni of
Russian State Geological Prospecting University
Updated:
Russian State Geological Prospecting University is 1707th in the world, 585th in Europe, and 63rd in Russia by aggregated alumni prominence. Below is the list of 16 notable alumni from Russian State Geological Prospecting University sorted by their wiki pages popularity. The directory includes famous graduates and former students along with research and academic staff.
-
Phạm Nhật Vượng
- Occupations
- entrepreneurbusinessperson
- Biography
-
Phạm Nhật Vượng is a Vietnamese property developer and Vietnam's first USD billionaire. He is the founder and chairman of Vingroup, the largest conglomerate in Vietnam. As of November 2024, Vượng has a net worth of $4.2 billion according to Forbes.
-
Ilya Segalovich
- Enrolled in Russian State Geological Prospecting University
- Studied in 1981-1986
- Occupations
- chief technology officercomputer scientistprogrammerentrepreneur
- Biography
-
Ilya Valentinovich Segalovich was a co-founder of Russian company Yandex. He was CTO and director of Yandex since 2000 until his death in 2013. Segalovich proposed the name “Yandex” for the search engine, derived from the idea of “Yet Another iNDEX”.
-
Sergey Kurginyan
- Enrolled in Russian State Geological Prospecting University
- Studied in 1972
- Occupations
- geophysicisttelevision presenterpolitical scientist
- Biography
-
Sergey Yervandovich Kurginyan is a Russian politician, scientist, and theatre producer. He is the founder and leader of the Russian neo-Soviet movement Essence of Time.
-
Pavel Gusev
- Occupations
- journalistediting staff
- Biography
-
Pavel Nikolayevich Gusev is a Russian journalist and public figure. He has been the editor-in-chief of the Moscow daily newspaper Moskovskij Komsomolets since 1983. He is a professor of journalism at the International University in Moscow and a member of Russia's Presidential Council for Civil Society and Human Rights.
-
Yevgeny Savchenko
- Occupations
- politicianstatespersoneconomist
- Biography
-
Yevgeny Stepanovich Savchenko is a Russian politician, who is currently the Senator of Belgorod Oblast on legislative authority since 22 September 2020. He had served as the governor of Belgorod Oblast in Southern Russia from 1993 to 2020. Savchenko is a member of United Russia.
-
Luis Gilberto Murillo
- Occupations
- mining engineerpolitician
- Biography
-
Luis Gilberto Murillo Urrutia is a Colombian diplomat, mining engineer, and politician who was the Minister of Environment and Sustainable Development from 2016 to 2018. He has also served as Governor of the predominantly Afro-Colombian Department of Chocó in Colombia. Murillo was kidnapped in 2000 and after his release he went into and moved to the United States and only returned to Colombia in 2011. In July 2022, Murillo was nominated by president-elect Gustavo Petro to serve as ambassador to the United States.
-
Valery Gayevsky
- Occupations
- politicianstatespersoneconomist
- Biography
-
Valery Veniaminovich Gayevsky is a Russian politician who was the governor of Stavropol Krai in 2008-2012.
-
Yevgeni Popov
- Occupations
- editing staffprose writerwritergeologistplaywright
- Biography
-
Yevgeni Anatolyevich Popov is a Russian writer, best known for short stories.
-
Vladimir Keilis-Borok
- Occupations
- seismologistgeophysicist
- Biography
-
Vladimir Isaacovich Keilis-Borok was a Russian mathematical geophysicist and seismologist.
-
Alexander Leonidovich Yanshin
- Occupations
- naturalistgeologist
- Biography
-
Alexander Leonidovich Yanshin was a Soviet Russian geologist, Academician of the USSR Academy of Sciences (since 1958). From 1982 to 1988, Yanshin served as vice-president of the USSR Academy of Sciences. From 1967, Yanshin served as president of the Moscow Society of Naturalists.
-
Kirill Florensky
- Occupations
- geologistastronomer
- Biography
-
Kirill Pavlovich Florensky was a Russian Soviet geochemist and planetologist. He was head of comparative planetology at the Vernadsky Institute of the Soviet Academy of Sciences.
-
Yury Samodurov
- Occupations
- geologisthuman rights activist
- Biography
-
Yuri Vadimovich Samodurov is a Russian civil activist, publicist and public figure, candidate of geological and mineralogical sciences.
-
Yevgeny Kozlovsky
- Enrolled in Russian State Geological Prospecting University
- Studied in 1953
- Occupations
- geologistpolitician
- Biography
-
Yevgeny Aleksandrovich Kozlovsky was a Russian politician. A member of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, he served as Minister of Geology from 1975 to 1989.
-
Oleg Kuznetsov
- Occupations
- physicist
- Biography
-
Oleg Leonidovich Kuznetsov is a Russian geophysicist. He is a full member of the Russian Academy of Natural Sciences and has served as its president since 1993.
-
Valeri Barsukov
- Occupations
- chemist
- Biography
-
Valeri Leonidovich Barsukov was a Soviet geologist. He worked in comparative planetology and the geochemistry of space. He was director of the V. I. Vernadsky Institute of Geochemistry from 1976 to 1992. In 1987 he received the V. I. Vernadsky Gold Medal for his work. A crater on Mars was named after him.
-
Boris Bobrovnikov
- Occupations
- entrepreneur
- Biography
-
Boris Bobrovnikov is a founder of the IT company CROC. He started studying at Moscow Geological Exploration Institute in 1977, graduated in 1982, and obtained a Ph.D. in geophysical engineering in 1985.
