50 Notable alumni of
Saint Petersburg State Institute of Technology

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Saint Petersburg State Institute of Technology is 916th in the world, 322nd in Europe, and 23rd in Russia by aggregated alumni prominence. Below is the list of 50 notable alumni from Saint Petersburg State Institute of Technology sorted by their wiki pages popularity. The directory includes famous graduates and former students along with research and academic staff.

  1. Dmitri Mendeleev

    Dmitri Mendeleev
    Born in
    Russia Flag Russia
    Years
    1834-1907 (aged 73)
    Occupations
    physicisteconomistuniversity teacherchemist
    Biography

    Dmitri Ivanovich Mendeleev was a Russian chemist and inventor. He is best known for formulating the Periodic Law and creating a version of the periodic table of elements. He used the Periodic Law not only to correct the then-accepted properties of some known elements, such as the valence and atomic weight of uranium, but also to predict the properties of three elements that were yet to be discovered (germanium, gallium and scandium).

  2. Aleksey Tolstoy

    Aleksey Tolstoy
    Born in
    Russia Flag Russia
    Years
    1883-1945 (aged 62)
    Occupations
    children's writerwriterscience fiction writerplaywrightscreenwriter
    Biography

    Aleksey Nikolayevich Tolstoy was a Russian writer whose works span across many genres, but mainly belonged to science fiction and historical fiction.

  3. Andrey Myagkov

    Andrey Myagkov
    Born in
    Russia Flag Russia
    Years
    1938-2021 (aged 83)
    Occupations
    writerpedagogueactorpainterdrama teacher
    Biography

    Andrey Vasilyevich Myagkov was a Soviet and Russian stage and film actor, theater director and writer. He is best known for his roles in famous films directed by Eldar Ryazanov, such as The Irony of Fate (1975), Office Romance (1977), The Garage (1979) and A Cruel Romance (1984).

  4. Sergei Prokudin-Gorskii

    Sergei Prokudin-Gorskii
    Born in
    Russia Flag Russia
    Years
    1893-1944 (aged 51)
    Occupations
    teacherchemistphotographertravelerpublisher
    Biography

    Sergey Mikhaylovich Prokudin-Gorsky was a Russian chemist and photographer. He is best known for his pioneering work in colour photography and his effort to document early 20th-century Russia.

  5. Vladimir Korolenko

    Vladimir Korolenko
    Born in
    Ukraine Flag Ukraine
    Years
    1853-1921 (aged 68)
    Occupations
    opinion journalistautobiographerwriterprose writerauthor
    Biography

    Vladimir Galaktionovich Korolenko was a writer, journalist, human rights activist and humanitarian from the Russian Empire. His best-known work includes the short novel The Blind Musician (1886), as well as numerous short stories based upon his experience of exile in Siberia. Korolenko was a strong critic of the Tsarist regime and in his final years of the Bolsheviks.

  6. Sergey Lazo

    Sergey Lazo
    Born in
    Moldova Flag Moldova
    Years
    1894-1920 (aged 26)
    Occupations
    military personnelpartisanrevolutionary
    Biography

    Sergey Georgiyevich Lazo (Russian: Серге́й Гео́ргиевич Лазо́, Romanian: Serghei Lazo; March 7, 1894 – April or May 1920) was a Russian nobleman, officer of the Imperial Russian Army, and Bolshevik leader in the October 1917 Revolution in the Russian Far East.

  7. Abram Ioffe

    Abram Ioffe
    Born in
    Ukraine Flag Ukraine
    Years
    1880-1960 (aged 80)
    Enrolled in Saint Petersburg State Institute of Technology
    Studied in 1902
    Occupations
    inventorphysicist
    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.

  8. Sergey Martinson

    Sergey Martinson
    Born in
    Russia Flag Russia
    Years
    1899-1984 (aged 85)
    Occupations
    actor
    Biography

    Sergey Aleksandrovich Martinson was a Soviet and Russian stage, film and voice actor. People's Artist of the RSFSR (1964).

  9. Gleb Krzhizhanovsky

    Gleb Krzhizhanovsky
    Born in
    Russia Flag Russia
    Years
    1872-1959 (aged 87)
    Occupations
    politicianengineereconomist
    Biography

    Gleb Maksimilianovich Krzhizhanovsky was a Soviet scientist, statesman, revolutionary, Old Bolshevik, and state figure as well as a geographer and writer.

  10. Alexander Lodygin

    Alexander Lodygin
    Born in
    Russia Flag Russia
    Years
    1847-1923 (aged 76)
    Occupations
    entrepreneurinventorengineer
    Biography

    Alexander Nikolayevich Lodygin, known after immigration to US as Alexandre de Lodyguine was a Russian electrical engineer and inventor, one of the inventors of the incandescent light bulb.

  11. Pinhas Rutenberg

    Pinhas Rutenberg
    Born in
    Ukraine Flag Ukraine
    Years
    1879-1942 (aged 63)
    Occupations
    writerengineercivil engineer
    Biography

    Pinhas Rutenberg was a Russian businessman, hydraulic engineer and political activist. He played an active role in two Russian revolutions, in 1905 and 1917. During World War I, he was among the founders of the Jewish Legion and of the American Jewish Congress. Later, he immigrated to Mandatory Palestine, and through his connections managed to obtain a concession for production and distribution of electric power and founded the Palestine Electric Corporation, currently the Israel Electric Corporation. A vocal and committed Zionist, Rutenberg also participated in establishing the Haganah, the main Jewish militia in pre-war Palestine, and founded Palestine Airways. He subsequently served as a president of the Jewish National Council.

  12. Aleksandr Mazin

    Aleksandr Mazin
    Born in
    Ukraine Flag Ukraine
    Years
    1959-.. (age 65)
    Occupations
    science fiction writerpoet
    Biography

    Alexander Vladimirovich Mazin is a Ukrainian-born Russian writer, poet, and songwriter, specializing in the genres of science fiction, fantasy, and alternate history.

  13. Mykola Skrypnyk

    Mykola Skrypnyk
    Born in
    Ukraine Flag Ukraine
    Years
    1872-1933 (aged 61)
    Occupations
    statespersondiplomat
    Biography

    Mykola Oleksiiovych Skrypnyk, was a Ukrainian Bolshevik revolutionary and Communist leader who was a proponent of the Ukrainian Republic's independence, and later led the cultural Ukrainization effort in Soviet Ukraine. When the policy was reversed and he was removed from his position, he committed suicide rather than be forced to recant his policies in a show trial. He also was the Head of the Ukrainian People's Commissariat, equivalent to the modern-day position of Prime Minister of Ukraine.

  14. Germain Henri Hess

    Germain Henri Hess
    Born in
    Switzerland Flag Switzerland
    Years
    1802-1850 (aged 48)
    Occupations
    chemistphysicianmineralogist
    Biography

    Germain Henri Hess was a Swiss-Russian chemist and doctor who formulated Hess's law, an early principle of thermochemistry.

  15. Yevgeny Rein

    Yevgeny Rein
    Born in
    Russia Flag Russia
    Years
    1935-.. (age 89)
    Occupations
    prose writerscreenwriterpoet
    Biography

    Yevgeny Borisovich Rein is a Russian poet and writer, laureate of the State Prize of the Russian Federation (1997). His poetry won the Pushkin Prize of Russia, Tsarskoe Selo Art Prize (1997), or the Russian National Prize - the Poet (2012).

  16. Alexander Nesis

    Alexander Nesis
    Born in
    Russia Flag Russia
    Years
    1962-.. (age 62)
    Occupations
    entrepreneur
    Biography

    Alexander Nesis is an Europe-based entrepreneur and the largest stakeholder of a private equity firm ICT Holding Ltd. (Cyprus). He was the founder and the president of the ICT Group, a private equity entity based and operated in Russia from 1991 until 2013.

  17. Pyotr Lebedev

    Pyotr Lebedev
    Born in
    Russia Flag Russia
    Years
    1866-1912 (aged 46)
    Occupations
    university teacherphysicist
    Biography

    Pyotr Nikolaevich Lebedev was a Russian physicist. His name was also transliterated as Peter Lebedew and Peter Lebedev. Lebedev was the creator of first scientific school in Russia.

  18. Stefan Ossowiecki

    Stefan Ossowiecki
    Born in
    Russia Flag Russia
    Years
    1877-1944 (aged 67)
    Occupations
    chemistengineer
    Biography

    Stefan Ossowiecki was a Polish engineer who was, during his lifetime, promoted as one of Europe's best-known psychics. Two notable persons who credited his claims were pioneering French parapsychologist Gustav Geley and Nobel Prize-winning physiologist Charles Richet, who called Ossowiecki "the most positive of psychics."

  19. Mikhail Solomentsev

    Mikhail Solomentsev
    Born in
    Russia Flag Russia
    Years
    1913-2008 (aged 95)
    Enrolled in Saint Petersburg State Institute of Technology
    Studied in 1935
    Occupations
    politicianengineer
    Biography

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

  20. Anatoly Naiman

    Anatoly Naiman
    Born in
    Russia Flag Russia
    Years
    1936-2022 (aged 86)
    Occupations
    poetprose writertranslatorwriter
    Biography

    Anatoly Genrikhovich Naiman was a Russian poet, translator and writer. He was one of the four Akhmatova's Orphans.

  21. Jan Stanisławski

    Jan Stanisławski
    Born in
    Ukraine Flag Ukraine
    Years
    1860-1907 (aged 47)
    Occupations
    painteruniversity teacherart educator
    Biography

    Jan Grzegorz Stanisławski was a Polish modernist painter, art educator, and founder and member of various innovative art groups and literary societies. In 1906 he became a full professor at the Academy of Fine Arts in Kraków.

  22. Joseph Deniker

    Joseph Deniker
    Born in
    Russia Flag Russia
    Years
    1852-1918 (aged 66)
    Occupations
    biologistanthropologistbotanistracial theoristnaturalist
    Biography

    Joseph Deniker was a Russian Empire and French naturalist and anthropologist, known primarily for his attempts to develop highly detailed maps of race in Europe.

  23. Mammad Hasan Hajinski

    Mammad Hasan Hajinski
    Born in
    Azerbaijan Flag Azerbaijan
    Years
    1875-1931 (aged 56)
    Occupations
    engineerarchitectpoliticiandiplomat
    Biography

    Mammad Hasan Jafargulu oglu Hajinski was an Azerbaijani architect and statesman. He also served as a Minister for Foreign Affairs of Azerbaijan Democratic Republic (ADR) and the last Prime Minister of ADR.

  24. Nikolai Gorbunov

    Nikolai Gorbunov
    Born in
    Russia Flag Russia
    Years
    1892-1938 (aged 46)
    Occupations
    chemistpoliticiancivil servant
    Biography

    Nikolai Petrovich Gorbunov was a Soviet politician, chemist, engineer and academic; at one time personal secretary to leader Vladimir Lenin.

  25. Edward Woyniłłowicz

    Edward Woyniłłowicz
    Born in
    Belarus Flag Belarus
    Years
    1847-1928 (aged 81)
    Occupations
    patron of the artspolitician
    Biography

    Edward Woyniłłowicz was a landowner, entrepreneur, philanthropist, public figure and the funder of the landmark "Red Church" of St. Simon and St. Helena on Independence Square in Minsk.

  26. Nina Katerli

    Nina Katerli
    Born in
    Russia Flag Russia
    Years
    1934-2023 (aged 89)
    Occupations
    prose writerwriteropinion journalistchemistry
    Biography

    Nina Katerli was a Russian writer, publicist, and human rights activist.

  27. Mikhail Zingarevich

    Mikhail Zingarevich
    Born in
    Russia Flag Russia
    Years
    1959-.. (age 65)
    Occupations
    businessperson
    Biography

    Mikhail Gennadyevich Zingarevich is a global entrepreneur and philanthropist, an investor in IT, pulp-and-paper and gold mining industries, property development, a member of the board of directors of the Ilim Group, honorary professor of the Highest School of Technology and Energy at the St. Petersburg State University for Technology and Design.

  28. Ludwig Martens

    Ludwig Martens
    Born in
    Ukraine Flag Ukraine
    Years
    1874-1948 (aged 74)
    Occupations
    diplomatpoliticianengineer
    Biography

    Ludwig Christian Alexander Karl Martens was a Russian Marxist revolutionary, Soviet diplomat and engineer.

  29. Stanisław Zaremba

    Stanisław Zaremba
    Born in
    Ukraine Flag Ukraine
    Years
    1863-1942 (aged 79)
    Occupations
    university teacherengineermathematician
    Biography

    Stanisław Zaremba was a Polish mathematician and engineer. His research in partial differential equations, applied mathematics and classical analysis, particularly on harmonic functions, gained him a wide recognition. He was one of the mathematicians who contributed to the success of the Polish School of Mathematics through his teaching and organizational skills as well as through his research. Apart from his research works, Zaremba wrote many university textbooks and monographies.

  30. Steponas Kairys

    Steponas Kairys
    Born in
    Lithuania Flag Lithuania
    Years
    1878-1964 (aged 86)
    Occupations
    politicianengineer
    Biography

    Steponas Kairys was a Lithuanian engineer, nationalist, and social democrat. He was among the 20 men to sign the Act of Independence of Lithuania on 16 February 1918.

  31. Dmitri Bobyshev

    Dmitri Bobyshev
    Born in
    Ukraine Flag Ukraine
    Years
    1936-.. (age 88)
    Occupations
    poet
    Biography

    Dmitry Vasilyevich Bobyshev is a Soviet poet, translator and literary critic.

  32. Piotr Wilniewczyc

    Piotr Wilniewczyc
    Born in
    Russia Flag Russia
    Years
    1887-1960 (aged 73)
    Occupations
    engineer
    Biography

    Piotr Wilniewczyc was a Polish engineer and arms designer. Among his most successful designs were the Vis-35 pistol, commonly known as the Radom for the arsenal in which it was produced, and the Mors submachine gun.

  33. Vacłaŭ Ivanoŭski

    Vacłaŭ Ivanoŭski
    Born in
    Belarus Flag Belarus
    Years
    1880-1943 (aged 63)
    Occupations
    playwrightjournalist
    Biography

    Vacłaŭ Leanardavič Ivanoŭski was a Belarusian political and public figure of the first half of the 20th century.

  34. Yury Yarov

    Yury Yarov
    Born in
    Russia Flag Russia
    Years
    1942-.. (age 82)
    Enrolled in Saint Petersburg State Institute of Technology
    Studied in 1964
    Occupations
    politician
    Biography

    Yury Fyodorovich Yarov is a Russian politician who was a deputy prime minister from 1992 until 1996. Previously he was the 4th Executive Secretary of the Commonwealth of Independent States from 6 November 1999 to 14 July 2004. He has the federal state civilian service rank of 1st class Active State Councillor of the Russian Federation.

  35. Nicholas Minorsky

    Nicholas Minorsky
    Born in
    Russia Flag Russia
    Years
    1885-1970 (aged 85)
    Occupations
    university teacherengineermathematician
    Biography

    Nicolas Minorsky was a Russian American control theory mathematician, engineer and applied scientist. He is best known for his theoretical analysis and first proposed application of PID controllers in the automatic steering systems for U.S. Navy ships.

  36. Nikolai Zlatovratsky

    Nikolai Zlatovratsky
    Born in
    Russia Flag Russia
    Years
    1845-1911 (aged 66)
    Occupations
    writer
    Biography

    Nikolai Nikolaievich Zlatovratsky, was a Russian writer.

  37. Bolesław Wysłouch

    Bolesław Wysłouch
    Born in
    Belarus Flag Belarus
    Years
    1855-1937 (aged 82)
    Occupations
    politician
    Biography

    Bolesław Wysłouch was a Polish nobleman, peasant advocate, a socialist, a senator and co-establisher of the original Polish Peasants Party.

  38. Mussa Ekzekov

    Mussa Ekzekov
    Born in
    Russia Flag Russia
    Years
    1964-.. (age 60)
    Occupations
    patron of the artspublic figurebusinessperson
    Biography

    Mussa Khabalevich Ekzekov is a Soviet and Russian scientist, businessperson, philanthropist and social activist.

  39. Mečislovas Gedvilas

    Mečislovas Gedvilas
    Born in
    Lithuania Flag Lithuania
    Years
    1901-1981 (aged 80)
    Occupations
    politician
    Biography

    Mečislovas Gedvilas was a Lithuanian Communist politician who collaborated with occupying Soviet forces. He served as the first Prime Minister of the Lithuanian SSR from 1940 to 1956. Rivalry between him and Antanas Sniečkus, the first secretary of the Lithuanian Communist Party, led to his demotion to Minister of Education (1957–1973).

  40. Mikhail Brusnev

    Mikhail Brusnev
    Born in
    Russia Flag Russia
    Years
    1864-1937 (aged 73)
    Occupations
    politicianengineer
    Biography

    Mikhail Ivanovich Brusnev was a Russian revolutionary, Marxist, explorer and an early leader of the Russian Social Democratic movement from which the Bolshevik organisation and the Communist Party of the Soviet Union originated.

  41. Alexei Purin

    Alexei Purin
    Born in
    Russia Flag Russia
    Years
    1955-.. (age 69)
    Occupations
    literary criticpoet
    Biography

    Alexei Purin is a Russian poet and critic.

  42. Eugenia Kumacheva

    Eugenia Kumacheva
    Born in
    Ukraine Flag Ukraine
    Years
    1955-.. (age 69)
    Occupations
    chemistresearcher
    Biography

    Eugenia Kumacheva is a University Professor and Distinguished Professor of Chemistry at the University of Toronto. Her research interests span across the fields of fundamental and applied polymers science, nanotechnology, microfluidics, and interface chemistry. She was awarded the L'Oréal-UNESCO Awards for Women in Science in 2008 "for the design and development of new materials with many applications including targeted drug delivery for cancer treatments and materials for high density optical data storage". In 2011, she published a book on the Microfluidic Reactors for Polymer Particles co-authored with Piotr Garstecki. She is Canadian Research Chair in Advanced Polymer Materials. She is Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS) and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada (FRSC).

  43. Adam Hurynowicz

    Adam Hurynowicz
    Born in
    Belarus Flag Belarus
    Years
    1869-1894 (aged 25)
    Occupations
    poettranslator
    Biography

    Adam Hilary Kalistavich Hurynowicz was a poet and folklorist from the Russian Empire. He was best known for his Polish, Belarusian and Russian-language poems and folkloristics.

  44. Ihnat Kančeŭski

    Ihnat Kančeŭski
    Born in
    Lithuania Flag Lithuania
    Years
    1896-1923 (aged 27)
    Occupations
    opinion journalistphilosopherpoet
    Biography

    Ihnat Kančeŭski was a Belarusian poet, philosopher and publicist who is regarded as a leading thinker within the Belarusian independence movement of the early 20th century.

  45. Piotr Drzewiecki

    Piotr Drzewiecki
    Born in
    Poland Flag Poland
    Years
    1865-1943 (aged 78)
    Occupations
    politician
    Biography

    Piotr Drzewiecki was the mayor of Warsaw, also known as the President of Warsaw (Polish: Prezydent Miasta Stołecznego Warszawy), from 1918 to 1921. An engineer and social activist, he was also an organizer of the civil defense of Warsaw in 1920 against the invasion by the Red Army. As mayor of Warsaw during the struggle of women's suffrage in Poland in 1918, he promised that service in the city administrative posts would become open to women beginning January 1, 1918.

  46. Paweł Potocki

    Paweł Potocki
    Born in
    Russia Flag Russia
    Years
    1879-1932 (aged 53)
    Occupations
    geologistengineer
    Biography

    Pavel Pototsky was a Polish engineer, oil specialist, based in Baku. He initiated and oversaw the Bibiheybat Bay drying project. In 1929, Pototsky was awarded the first prize for the best construction work by the All-Union Exhibition of National Economic Achievements of the USSR, and in 1931 he was awarded the Order of Lenin.

  47. Valentyn Sadovskyi

    Valentyn Sadovskyi
    Years
    1886-1947 (aged 61)
    Occupations
    opinion journalistpedagoguejournalisteconomistgeographer
    Biography

    Valentyn Sadovsky was a politician, scientist, journalist, economist of Ukraine. He was a member of the Shevchenko Scientific Society (1935) and the Ukrainian Science Institute in Warsaw.

  48. Aaron Samuel Liberman

    Aaron Samuel Liberman
    Born in
    Belarus Flag Belarus
    Years
    1845-1880 (aged 35)
    Occupations
    journalistwriteractivist
    Biography

    Aaron Samuel Liebermann, also known by his pen names Bar Drora and Daniel Ish Ḥamudot and later as Arthur Freeman, was a socialist author, Hebrew translator, and political essayist. A pioneer of Jewish socialism and the Jewish labour movement, he was described by Rudolf Rocker and Ber Borochov as the "father of Jewish socialism".

  49. Yevhen Neronovych

    Yevhen Neronovych
    Born in
    Ukraine Flag Ukraine
    Years
    1888-1918 (aged 30)
    Occupations
    politician
    Biography

    Yevhen Vasilevich Neronovych was Ukrainian politician, Bolshevik activist, member of the Ukrainian People's Republic of Soviet government.

  50. Kazimierz Tyszka

    Kazimierz Tyszka
    Born in
    Poland Flag Poland
    Years
    1872-1952 (aged 80)
    Occupations
    politician
    Biography

    Kazimierz Tyszka was Polish Minister of Railways, 1923–25, in Władysław Grabski's government.