30 Notable alumni of
Saint-Petersburg Mining University
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Saint-Petersburg Mining University is 1297th in the world, 449th in Europe, and 43rd in Russia by aggregated alumni prominence. Below is the list of 30 notable alumni from Saint-Petersburg Mining 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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Vladimir Putin
- Enrolled in Saint-Petersburg Mining University
- In 1997 graduated with Candidate of Economic Sciences in economics
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin is a Russian politician and former intelligence officer who has served as President of Russia since 2012, having previously served from 2000 to 2008. Putin also served as Prime Minister of Russia from 1999 to 2000 and again from 2008 to 2012. He is the longest-serving Russian president since the independence of Russia from the Soviet Union.
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Sergei Mironov
- Occupations
- politicianmember of the State Dumastatesperson
- Biography
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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.
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Ivan Yefremov
- Enrolled in Saint-Petersburg Mining University
- Studied in 1932-1935
- Occupations
- short story writerprose writerwriterscience fiction writerphilosopher
- Biography
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Ivan Antonovich Yefremov, sometimes Efremov (Russian: Ива́н Анто́нович (Анти́пович) Ефре́мов; 23 April 1908 – 5 October 1972) was a Soviet paleontologist, science-fiction author and social thinker. He founded taphonomy, the study of fossilization patterns.
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Vsevolod Garshin
- Years
- 1855-1888 (aged 33)
- Enrolled in Saint-Petersburg Mining University
- Studied in 1874-1876
- Occupations
- writerpoetliterary criticart critic
- Biography
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Vsevolod Mikhailovich Garshin was a Russian author of short stories.
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Alexander Gorodnitsky
- Occupations
- geophysicistsinger-songwriterpoettelevision presenter
- Biography
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Alexander Moiseevich Gorodnitsky is a Soviet and Russian bard and poet.
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Andrei Bitov
- Enrolled in Saint-Petersburg Mining University
- Studied in 1962
- Occupations
- writerprose writeressayist
- Biography
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Andrei Georgiyevich Bitov was a prominent Russian writer of Circassian ancestry.
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Vladimir Litvinenko
- Enrolled in Saint-Petersburg Mining University
- Studied in 1982
- Occupations
- businesspersonmining engineeracademic
- Biography
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Vladimir Stefanovich Litvinenko is a Russian academic, businessman and Vladimir Putin's campaign manager. He is also rector of Saint Petersburg Mining University in St. Petersburg.
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Punsalmaagiin Ochirbat
- Enrolled in Saint-Petersburg Mining University
- Graduated with Candidate of Technical Sciences
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Punsalmaagiin Ochirbat was a Mongolian politician and a member of the Constitutional Court of Mongolia. He served as a president of Mongolia from 1990 to 1997 first as Chairman of the Presidium of the People's Great Khural in 1990 then, as the President of Mongolia from 1990 to 1997. He was the first President of Mongolia to be elected by direct popular vote.
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Ivan Gubkin
- Occupations
- politicianuniversity teachergeologist
- Biography
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Ivan Mikhailovich Gubkin was a Soviet and Russian geologist and president of the 1937 International Geological Congress in Moscow. He was a petroleum geologist particularly interested the region between the Volga and the Urals.
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Hazret Sovmen
- Occupations
- businesspersonpolitician
- Biography
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Hazret Medzhidovich Sovmen was the second president of the Republic of Adygea, Russia, having succeeded Aslan Dzharimov at the post. Sovmen is a university professor from Maykop. Before becoming President, Hazret Sovmen had been a successful businessman (with links to Russian entrepreneurs in Siberia), having started off as a bulldozer driver in a gold mine in Chukotka. He is the founder of Polyus Gold, Russia's leading gold-mining company.
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Klaudzi Duzh-Dusheuski
- Enrolled in Saint-Petersburg Mining University
- Studied in 1918
- Occupations
- politicianarchitectjournalistdiplomat
- Biography
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Klawdziy Duzh-Dushewski was a Belarusian civil engineer, architect, diplomat and journalist. He is believed to be the creator of the national flag of Belarus in 1917.
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Pavel Annenkov
- Occupations
- journalisthistorianliterary critic
- Biography
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Pavel Vasilyevich Annenkov was a significant literary critic and memoirist from Russian Empire.
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Valery Serdyukov
- Occupations
- statespersonpolitician
- Biography
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Valery Pavlovich Serdyukov is a Russian politician who served as governor of Leningrad Oblast in Russia (1998–2012).
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Ivan Vasil'evich Mushketov
- Enrolled in Saint-Petersburg Mining University
- Studied in 1872
- Occupations
- explorerediting staffuniversity teachergeographergeologist
- Biography
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Ivan Vasilʹevich Mushketov was a famous geologist, tectonist, explorer, and geographer from the Russian Empire.
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Konstantin Ilkovsky
- Occupations
- politicianmember of the State Dumaeconomist
- Biography
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Konstantin Konstantinovich Ilkovsky is a Russian politician and Governor of Zabaykalsky Krai between 2013 and 17 February 2016.
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Yuri Bilibin
- Occupations
- geologist
- Biography
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Yuri Alexandrovich Bilibin was a Soviet geologist.
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Rakhim Azimov
- Occupations
- politicianmember of the State Dumastatesperson
- Biography
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Rakhim Azizboyevich Azimov is a Russian political figure, deputy of the 7th and 8th State Duma convocations.
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Nikolai Kudryavtsev
- Occupations
- geologistpetroleum geologist
- Biography
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Nikolai Alexandrovich Kudryavtsev was a Soviet Russian petroleum geologist. He is the founding father of modern abiogenic theory for origin of petroleum, which states that some petroleum is formed from non-biological sources of hydrocarbons located deep in the Earth's crust and mantle.
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Dmitri Konovalov
- Years
- 1856-1929 (aged 73)
- Occupations
- chemist
- Biography
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Dmitri Petrovich Konovalov was a Russian-Soviet physical chemist who worked on gas-liquid phases of solutions in equilibrium and came up with several rules that were also independently worked on by J. Willard Gibbs and the rules are often called Gibbs-Konovalov rules. They provide the basis for distillation and separation of components that form azeotropes.
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Karol Bohdanowicz
- Occupations
- mining engineergeographeruniversity teachergeologist
- Biography
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Karol Bohdanowicz was a Polish geologist, an expert in mining geology and physical geography. Bohdanowicz' research contributed to the construction of the Caspian railway line and enabled the estimation of oil deposits in the desert areas of the Caspian Depression. He also discovered substantial gold deposits in Siberia. He was the author of about 200 scientific papers, including a number of textbooks on geology of deposits and two monographs: 'Mineral raw materials of the world' and 'Iron ores'.
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Abraham Moyshevich Hekkelman
- Occupations
- spypolitician
- Biography
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Arкadiy Mikhailovich Harting was a secret agent and officer of the Okhrana, the secret police of the Russian Empire. During his career spanning from 1879 to 1909, he served as a police informer, agent provocateur, officer and the Head of Okhrana foreign service based in Paris. Born to a Jewish family, he was later baptised and at the end of his career was awarded the rank of Active State Councilor, which gave him the rights of nobility.
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Gregor von Helmersen
- Occupations
- cartographergeologistexplorerprofessorgeographer
- Biography
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Gregor von Helmersen or Grigory Petrovich Helmersen was a Baltic German geologist.
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Dmitry Mushketov
- Occupations
- geologistpaleontologistexplorer
- Biography
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Dmitry Ivanovich Mushketov was a Russian and Soviet geologist and paleontologist. He was one of the victims of the Great Terror.
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Aleksandr Skochinsky
- Occupations
- mining engineerscientist
- Biography
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Alexander Alexandrovich Skochinsky was a Russian and Soviet mining scientist, academician of the Academy of Sciences of the Soviet Union (1935), the chairman of the West Siberian Branch of the Academy of Sciences of the Soviet Union (1944–1951).
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Ivan Pokrovsky
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Ivan Kornil'yevich Pokrovsky was a podporuchik of Imperial Russian Army, provincial secretary, entrepreneur, a deputy of Chelyabinsk City Duma, a party "agent" of the Constitutional Democratic Party in Chelyabinsk and a deputy of the Third Imperial Duma from 1907 to 1912. He also lived and worked in Belgium; soon after, he owned gold mines in the Urals and was a co-owner of a distillery and a sugar factory. His brother, Vladimir (Russian: Владимир), was the mayor of Chelyabinsk.
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Vladimir Shevyakov
- Enrolled in Saint-Petersburg Mining University
- Studied in 1878-1880
- Occupations
- zoologistbotanistacademic
- Biography
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Vladimir Timofeyevich Shevyakov publishing under the German spelling of his name as W. Shewiakoff, was a Russian biologist who worked on Protozoa, and a professor.
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Dmitri Ivanovich Sokolov
- Enrolled in Saint-Petersburg Mining University
- Studied in 1805
- Occupations
- geologistmineralogist
- Biography
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Dmitri Ivanovich Sokolov was a Russian geologist and specialist on mining who was a teacher at the St. Petersburg mining institute and a professor at St Petersburg University. He wrote some of the first Russian textbooks on mineralogy and geology, founded the first geology periodical in Russian and organized the geological museum of the university.
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Władimir Ptucha
- Years
- 1894-1938 (aged 44)
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Vladimir Vasilyevich Ptukha was a Soviet politician who served in various positions within the Communist Party of the Soviet Union including First Secretary of the Lower Volga Regional Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, First Secretary of the Stalingrad Regional Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, Second Secretary of the Far Eastern Regional Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. He was also a member of the NKVD troika.
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Grigori Levitski
- Occupations
- university teacherseismologistastronomerphysicist
- Biography
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Grigori Levitski was an astronomer from the Russian Empire.
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Nikolay Pogrebov
- Occupations
- hydrogeologistgeologist
- Biography
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Nikolay Pogrebov, was a Russian and Soviet hydrogeologist and an engineering geologist. In 1884–1887, he studied in and was graduated from the Saint Petersburg Mining Institute. In 1897–1919 he worked as the librarian and archivist of the Saint Petersburg Geology Committee. He was a professor at Leningrad Mining Institute from 1931 to 1936.
