100 Notable alumni of
St. Petersburg State University
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St. Petersburg State University is 31st in the world, 11th in Europe, and 2nd in Russia by aggregated alumni prominence. Below is the list of 100 notable alumni from St. Petersburg State 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 St. Petersburg State University
- 1970-1975 graduated with Candidate of Economic Sciences in international law
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin is a Russian politician and former intelligence officer who has been President of Russia since 2012. Putin has held continuous positions as president or prime minister since 1999: as prime minister from 1999 to 2000 and from 2008 to 2012, and as president from 2000 to 2008. He is the longest-serving Russian or Soviet leader since Joseph Stalin.
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Vladimir Lenin
- Enrolled in St. Petersburg State University
- In 1890 graduated with law degree in jurisprudence
- Occupations
- politicianrevolutionary
- Biography
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Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov, better known as Vladimir Lenin, was a Russian revolutionary, politician, and political theorist. He served as the first and founding head of government of Soviet Russia from 1917 to 1924 and of the Soviet Union from 1922 to 1924. Under his administration, Russia, and later the Soviet Union, became a one-party socialist state governed by the Communist Party. Ideologically a Marxist, his developments to the ideology are called Leninism.
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Dmitry Medvedev
- Enrolled in St. Petersburg State University
- Studied in 1982-1987
- Occupations
- juristinternational forum participantpoliticianbusinessperson
- Biography
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Dmitry Anatolyevich Medvedev is a Russian politician who became deputy chairman of the Security Council of Russia in 2020. Medvedev was also president of Russia between 2008 and 2012 and prime minister of Russia between 2012 and 2020.
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Ayn Rand
- Occupations
- writerscience fiction writernovelistjournalistscreenwriter
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Alice O'Connor, better known by her pen name Ayn Rand, was a Russian-born American author and philosopher. She is known for her fiction and for developing a philosophical system she named Objectivism. Born and educated in Russia, she moved to the United States in 1926. After two early novels that were initially unsuccessful and two Broadway plays, Rand achieved fame with her 1943 novel The Fountainhead. In 1957, she published her best-selling work, the novel Atlas Shrugged. Afterward, until her death in 1982, she turned to non-fiction to promote her philosophy, publishing her own periodicals and releasing several collections of essays.
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Nikolai Gogol
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- prose writerhistorianwriteropinion journalistliterary critic
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Nikolai Vasilievich Gogol was a Russian novelist, short story writer, and playwright of Ukrainian origin.
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Dmitri Mendeleev
- Occupations
- physicisteconomistuniversity teacherchemist
- Biography
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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).
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Lyudmila Ocheretnaya
- Enrolled in St. Petersburg State University
- In 1986 studied Romance studies
- Occupations
- flight attendantuniversity teacherpolitician
- Biography
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Lyudmila Aleksandrovna Ocheretnaya is a Russian linguist who served as the First Lady of Russia from 2000 to 2008 and from 2012 to 2014 while married to her then-husband Vladimir Putin, the current president and former prime minister of Russia.
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Ivan Pavlov
- Occupations
- physicianchemistphysiologistresearcherneurologist
- Biography
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Ivan Petrovich Pavlov was a Russian and Soviet experimental neurologist and physiologist known for his discovery of classical conditioning through his experiments with dogs.
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Pavel Valeryevich Durov
- Occupations
- entrepreneurcomputer scientist
- Biography
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Pavel Valeryevich Durov is a Russian-born French-Kittitian–Emirati entrepreneur who is known for founding the social networking site VK and the app Telegram Messenger. He is the younger brother of Nikolai Durov. As of 29 September 2022, his net worth is estimated at US$15.1 billion. In 2022, he was recognized as the richest person in the United Arab Emirates, according to Forbes. In February 2023, Arabian Business named him the most powerful entrepreneur in Dubai.
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Igor Stravinsky
- Enrolled in St. Petersburg State University
- In 1901 studied law
- Occupations
- conductorpianistcomposermusician
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Igor Fyodorovich Stravinsky was a Russian composer and conductor with French citizenship (from 1934) and United States citizenship (from 1945). He is widely considered one of the most important and influential composers of the 20th century and a pivotal figure in modernist music.
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Grigori Perelman
- Enrolled in St. Petersburg State University
- Studied in 1982-1987
- Occupations
- mathematician
- Biography
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Grigori Yakovlevich Perelman is a Russian mathematician who is known for his contributions to the fields of geometric analysis, Riemannian geometry, and geometric topology. In 2005, Perelman abruptly quit his research job at the Steklov Institute of Mathematics, and in 2006 stated that he had quit professional mathematics, due to feeling disappointed over the ethical standards in the field. He lives in seclusion in Saint Petersburg, and has not accepted offers for interviews since 2006.
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Ivan Turgenev
- Occupations
- prose writertranslatorwriteropinion journalistplaywright
- Biography
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Ivan Sergeyevich Turgenev was a Russian novelist, short story writer, poet, playwright, translator and popularizer of Russian literature in the West.
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Katerina Tikhonova
- Enrolled in St. Petersburg State University
- In 2005 studied Asian studies
- Occupations
- athletemanagersocial activist
- Biography
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Katerina Vladimirovna Tikhonova is a Russian scientist, manager, and former acrobatic dancer. She is the second daughter of Russian president Vladimir Putin.
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Kseniya Sobchak
- Occupations
- writeractormodelsocialitetelevision presenter
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Ksenia Anatolyevna Sobchak is a Russian public figure, TV anchor, journalist, socialite and actress. She is the younger daughter of the first democratically elected mayor of Saint Petersburg, Anatoly Sobchak, and the Russian senator Lyudmila Narusova. Sobchak became known to the wider public as the host of the reality show Dom-2, which aired on the Russian channel TNT. Later she became an anchor at independent television channel TV Rain. As of January 2023, she hosts the television show Dok-Tok with Alexander Gordon.
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Felix Dzerzhinsky
- Occupations
- politicianrevolutionary
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Felix Edmundovich Dzerzhinsky, nicknamed "Iron Felix", was a Bolshevik revolutionary and politician. From 1917 until his death in 1926, he led the first two Soviet secret police organizations, the Cheka and the OGPU, establishing state security organs for the post-revolutionary Soviet regime. He was one of the architects of the Red Terror and de-Cossackization.
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Olga Buzova
- Occupations
- entrepreneurmodelpresenteractorInstagram blogger
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Olga Igorevna Buzova is a Russian media personality and singer. Buzova is regarded as one of the most successful Russian contemporary entertainers.
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Alexander Kerensky
- Occupations
- politicianlawyerrevolutionary
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Alexander Fyodorovich Kerensky was a Russian lawyer and revolutionary who led the Russian Provisional Government and the short-lived Russian Republic for three months from late July to early November 1917 (N.S.)
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Anatoly Karpov
- Occupations
- writerpoliticianchess playermember of the State Dumajournalist
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Anatoly Yevgenyevich Karpov is a Russian and former Soviet chess grandmaster, former World Chess Champion, and politician. He was the 12th World Chess Champion from 1975 to 1985, a three-time FIDE World Champion (1993, 1996, 1998), twice World Chess champion as a member of the USSR team (1985, 1989), and a six-time winner of Chess Olympiads as a member of the USSR team (1972, 1974, 1980, 1982, 1986, 1988). The International Association of Chess Press awarded him nine Chess Oscars (1973–77, 1979, 1980, 1981, 1984).
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Maria Vorontsova
- Enrolled in St. Petersburg State University
- Studied biology
- Occupations
- endocrinologistbiologistgeneticist
- Biography
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Maria Vladimirovna Vorontsova, also referred to as Maria Faassen, is a Russian pediatric endocrinologist. She is the eldest child of Russian president Vladimir Putin.
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Alexander Blok
- Occupations
- opinion journalistplaywrightwriterphilosophertranslator
- Biography
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Alexander Alexandrovich Blok was a Russian lyrical poet, writer, publicist, playwright, translator and literary critic.
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Peter Kropotkin
- Occupations
- economistanarchistzoologistphilosopherautobiographer
- Biography
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Pyotr Alexeyevich Kropotkin was a Russian anarchist and geographer known as a proponent of anarchist communism.
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Anatoly Sobchak
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- statespersonpoliticianjurist
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Anatoly Aleksandrovich Sobchak was a Russian politician, a co-author of the Constitution of the Russian Federation, the first democratically elected mayor of Saint Petersburg, and a mentor and teacher of future presidents Vladimir Putin and Dmitry Medvedev.
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Pyotr Stolypin
- Enrolled in St. Petersburg State University
- Studied in 1881-1885
- Occupations
- politicianstatesperson
- Biography
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Pyotr Arkadyevich Stolypin was a Russian statesman who served as the third prime minister and the interior minister of the Russian Empire from 1906 until his assassination in 1911. Known as the greatest reformer of Russian society and economy, his reforms caused unprecedented growth of the Russian state, which was halted by his assassination.
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Lev Landau
- Enrolled in St. Petersburg State University
- Studied in 1924-1927
- Occupations
- university teachernon-fiction writertheoretical physicistphysicistinventor
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Lev Davidovich Landau was a Soviet physicist who made fundamental contributions to many areas of theoretical physics. He was also involved in the design of the Soviet atomic bomb.
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Anastasiya Ivleyeva
- Enrolled in St. Petersburg State University
- Studied in 2008
- Occupations
- television presenterInstagram bloggervideo bloggeractorYouTuber
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Anastasia Vyacheslavovna Ivleeva, better known as Nastya Ivleeva (Настя Ивлеева), is a Russian television presenter, actress and blogger. She also hosted the TV show Oryol i Reshka on the channel Friday!.
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Nikolay Nekrasov
- Occupations
- writerliterary criticpoetautobiographerjournalist
- Biography
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Nikolay Alexeyevich Nekrasov was a Russian poet, writer, critic and publisher, whose deeply compassionate poems about the Russian peasantry made him a hero of liberal and radical circles in the Russian intelligentsia of the mid-nineteenth century, particularly as represented by Vissarion Belinsky and Nikolay Chernyshevsky. He is credited with introducing into Russian poetry ternary meters and the technique of dramatic monologue (On the Road, 1845). As the editor of several literary journals, notably Sovremennik, Nekrasov was also singularly successful and influential.
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Marina Leonidovna Kravets
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- comedianKVN actorradio personalitytelevision presenteractor
- Biography
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Marina Leonidovna Kravets is a Russian actress radio moderator and singer. She is the only permanent female participant of the Russian television show Comedy Club.
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Olga Skabeyeva
- Enrolled in St. Petersburg State University
- Studied in 2008
- Occupations
- political punditpropagandisttelevision presentertelevision journalistjournalist
- Biography
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Olga Vladimirovna Skabeyeva or Skabeeva is a Russian television presenter, political commentator, and propagandist. Skabeyeva received the nickname "Iron Doll of Putin TV" due to her criticism of the Russian opposition.
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Osip Mandelstam
- Occupations
- translatorwriterpoetauthorliterary critic
- Biography
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Osip Emilyevich Mandelstam was a Russian and Soviet poet. He was one of the foremost members of the Acmeist school.
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Alexander Borodin
- Occupations
- classical composercomposeropera composerchemistflautist
- Biography
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Alexander Porfiryevich Borodin was a Romantic composer and chemist of Georgian-Russian extraction. He was one of the prominent 19th-century composers known as "The Five", a group dedicated to producing a "uniquely Russian" kind of classical music. Borodin is known best for his symphonies, his two string quartets, the symphonic poem In the Steppes of Central Asia and his opera Prince Igor.
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Konstantin Ernst
- Occupations
- television directortelevision presenterscreenwritertelevision producerfilm producer
- Biography
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Konstantin Lvovich Ernst is a Russian media manager, producer and TV host. He is currently the CEO of Channel One Russia.
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Igor Sechin
- Occupations
- politicianentrepreneurRussian oligarch
- Biography
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Igor Ivanovich Sechin is a Russian oligarch and a government official, considered a close ally and "de facto deputy" of Vladimir Putin.
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Sergei Ivanov
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- politiciandiplomat
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Sergei Borisovich Ivanov is a Russian senior official and politician who has been serving as the Special Representative of the President of the Russian Federation on the Issues of Environmental Activities, Ecology and Transport since 12 August 2016. He has the federal state civilian service rank of 1st class Active State Councillor of the Russian Federation.
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Diana Arbenina
- Enrolled in St. Petersburg State University
- Studied in 1998
- Occupations
- writersongwritersingerpoetmusician
- Biography
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Diana Sergeyevna Arbenina is a Russian singer, musician, poet, and leader of the rock group Nochnye Snaipery.
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Korney Chukovsky
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- children's writerliterary criticliterary theoristopinion journalistjournalist
- Biography
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Korney Ivanovich Chukovsky was one of the most popular children's poets in the Russian language. His catchy rhythms, inventive rhymes and absurd characters have invited comparisons with the American children's author Dr. Seuss. Chukovsky's poems Tarakanische ("The Monster Cockroach"), Krokodil ("The Crocodile"), Telefon ("The Telephone") and Moydodyr ("Wash-'em-Clean") have been favorites with many generations of Russophone children. Lines from his poems, in particular Telefon, have become universal catch-phrases in the Russian media and everyday conversation. He adapted the Doctor Dolittle stories into a book-length Russian poem as Doctor Aybolit ("Dr. Ow-It-Hurts"), and translated a substantial portion of the Mother Goose canon into Russian as Angliyskiye Narodnyye Pesenki ("English Folk Rhymes"). He also wrote very popular translations of Walt Whitman, Mark Twain, Oscar Wilde, Rudyard Kipling, O. Henry, and other authors, and was an influential literary critic and essayist.
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Edita Piekha
- Enrolled in St. Petersburg State University
- Studied in 1964
- Occupations
- actorsinger
- Biography
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Edita Stanislavovna Piekha is a Soviet and Russian singer and actress of Polish descent. She was the third popular female singer, after Klavdiya Shulzhenko and Sofia Rotaru, to be named a People's Artist of the USSR (1988).
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Herman Gref
- Occupations
- economistinternational forum participantpoliticianbanker
- Biography
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Herman Oskarovich Gref is a Russian politician and businessman. He was the Minister of Economics and Trade of Russia from May 2000 to September 2007. He has the federal state civilian service rank of 1st class Active State Councillor of the Russian Federation.
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Vladimir Ivanovich Vernadsky
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- teacherbiogeochemistchemistecologistgeochemist
- Biography
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Vladimir Ivanovich Vernadsky, also spelt Volodymyr Ivanovych Vernadsky was a Russian, Ukrainian, and Soviet mineralogist and geochemist who is considered one of the founders of geochemistry, biogeochemistry, and radiogeology. He was one of the founders and the first president of the Ukrainian Academy of Sciences (now National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine). Vladimir Vernadsky is most noted for his 1926 book The Biosphere in which he inadvertently worked to popularize Eduard Suess' 1875 term biosphere, by hypothesizing that life is the geological force that shapes the earth. In 1943 he was awarded the Stalin Prize. Vernadsky's portrait is depicted on the Ukrainian ₴1,000 hryvnia banknote.
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Sergei Yursky
- Enrolled in St. Petersburg State University
- Studied in 1955
- Occupations
- directorscreenwriterpoetactortranslator
- Biography
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Sergei Yurievich Yursky was a Soviet and Russian stage and film actor, theatre director and screenwriter. His best known film role is Ostap Bender in The Golden Calf (1968)
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Anatoliy Serdyukov
- Occupations
- managereconomistpoliticianbusinessperson
- Biography
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Anatoly Eduardovich Serdyukov is a Russian politician and businessman. He was Russia's Minister of Defense from 15 February 2007 to 6 November 2012, and made several major reforms of the Russian military. He has worked as an Industrial Director for Rostec, a state corporation, since October 2015.
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Alexander Alekhine
- Occupations
- writerchess theoreticianchess playertranslatorjurist
- Biography
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Alexander Aleksandrovich Alekhine was a Russian and French chess player and the fourth World Chess Champion, a title he held for two reigns.
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Boris Grebenshchikov
- Occupations
- rock musicianmulti-instrumentalistrecord producerwritersinger
- Biography
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Boris Borisovich Grebenshchikov is a prominent member of the generation which is widely considered to be the "founding fathers" of Russian rock music. He is the founder and lead singer of the band Aquarium which has been active since 1972. Grebenshchikov is frequently referred to as BG (Russian: БГ; pronounced "Beh-Geh"), after his initials.
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Lev Gumilyov
- Enrolled in St. Petersburg State University
- Studied in 1934-1935
- Studied in 1987
- Occupations
- historiantranslatorethnologistwriterphilosopher
- Biography
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Lev Nikolayevich Gumilev was a Soviet and Russian historian, ethnologist, anthropologist and translator. He had a reputation for his highly unorthodox theories of ethnogenesis and historiosophy. He was an exponent of Eurasianism. According to geographer Mark Bassin, Lev Gumilev, whose books have now sold millions of copies, can be compared in terms of influence to Herodotus, Karl Marx, Oswald Spengler or Albert Einstein.
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Menachem Mendel Schneerson
- Occupations
- Rebbe
- Biography
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Menachem Mendel Schneerson, known to adherents of the Chabad-Lubavitch movement as the Lubavitcher Rebbe or simply the Rebbe, was an Orthodox rabbi and the most recent Rebbe of the Lubavitch Hasidic dynasty. He is considered one of the most influential Jewish leaders of the 20th century.
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Mikhail Bakhtin
- Occupations
- linguistwriterphilosopherart theoristliterary critic
- Biography
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Mikhail Mikhailovich Bakhtin was a Russian philosopher, literary critic and scholar who worked on literary theory, ethics, and the philosophy of language. His writings, on a variety of subjects, inspired scholars working in a number of different traditions (Marxism, semiotics, structuralism, religious criticism) and in disciplines as diverse as literary criticism, history, philosophy, sociology, anthropology and psychology. Although Bakhtin was active in the debates on aesthetics and literature that took place in the Soviet Union in the 1920s, his distinctive position did not become well known until he was rediscovered by Russian scholars in the 1960s.
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Mukhtar Auezov
- Years
- 1897-1961 (aged 64)
- Occupations
- writerpoet
- Biography
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Mukhtar Omarkhanuli Auezov was a Kazakh writer, a social activist, a Doctor of Philology, and an honored academician of the Soviet Union (1946).
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Viktor Korchnoi
- Occupations
- writerchess player
- Biography
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Viktor Lvovich Korchnoi was a Soviet (before 1976) and Swiss (after 1980) chess grandmaster (GM) and chess writer. He is considered one of the strongest players never to have become World Chess Champion.
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Alexandra Elbakyan
- Enrolled in St. Petersburg State University
- 2017-2019 graduated with master's degree in linguistics
- Occupations
- programmercomputer scientistactivistneuroscientist
- Biography
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Alexandra Asanovna Elbakyan is a Kazakhstani computer programmer and creator of the website Sci-Hub, which provides free access to research papers without regard for copyright. According to a study published in 2018, Sci-Hub provides access to nearly all scholarly literature.
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Leonid Parfyonov
- Enrolled in St. Petersburg State University
- Studied in 1982
- Occupations
- editing stafftelevision presenterhistorianpresentertelevision producer
- Biography
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Leonid Gennadyevich Parfyonov is a Russian journalist, news presenter, TV producer and author of many documentary TV shows. Parfyonov is known for his studio work and productions for the NTV (of which he was Producer General between 1997 and 1999). From December 3, 2004, until December 20, 2007, he was an editor-in-chief of Russky Newsweek, Russian edition of Newsweek. From 2012 until 2018, Parfyonov was a member of Presidential Council for Civil Society and Human Rights.
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Dalia Grybauskaitė
- Occupations
- diplomatpoliticianuniversity teachereconomistinternational forum participant
- Biography
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Dalia Grybauskaitė is a Lithuanian politician who served as the eighth president of Lithuania from 2009 to 2019. She is the first woman to hold the position and in 2014 she became the first President of Lithuania to be reelected for a second consecutive term.
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Dmitry Kiselyov
- Enrolled in St. Petersburg State University
- In 1978 studied scandinavian studies
- Occupations
- television presenternews presenterpropagandist
- Biography
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Dmitry Konstantinovich Kiselyov is a Russian TV presenter and propagandist. In 2013, Kiselyov was appointed by Russian President Vladimir Putin to head Rossiya Segodnya, a Russian state-controlled media group. He also serves as deputy director of the All-Russia State Television and Radio Broadcasting Company.
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Nikolay Chernyshevsky
- Occupations
- economistopinion journalistnovelistwriterphilosopher
- Biography
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Nikolay Gavrilovich Chernyshevsky was a Russian literary and social critic, journalist, novelist, democrat, and socialist philosopher, often identified as a utopian socialist and leading theoretician of Russian nihilism and Narodniks. He was the dominant intellectual figure of the 1860s revolutionary democratic movement in Russia, despite spending much of his later life in exile to Siberia, and was later highly praised by Karl Marx, Georgi Plekhanov, and Vladimir Lenin.
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Lyudmila Narusova
- Occupations
- historianstatespersonpoliticianmember of the State Dumajournalist
- Biography
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Lyudmila Borisovna Narusova is a Russian politician, a member of the Federation Council of Russia, representing Tuva. From 2010 to 2012, she represented Bryansk Oblast in the Federation Council of Russia.
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Olga Ladyzhenskaya
- Enrolled in St. Petersburg State University
- Studied in 1947-1949
- Occupations
- university teachermathematician
- Biography
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Olga Aleksandrovna Ladyzhenskaya was a Russian mathematician who worked on partial differential equations, fluid dynamics, and the finite difference method for the Navier–Stokes equations. She received the Lomonosov Gold Medal in 2002. She is the author of more than two hundred scientific works, among which are six monographs.
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Tatyana Tolstaya
- Enrolled in St. Petersburg State University
- In 1974 studied classical philology
- Occupations
- writerphilologistpedagoguetelevision presenterjournalist
- Biography
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Tatyana Nikitichna Tolstaya is a Russian writer, TV host, publicist, novelist, and essayist from the Tolstoy family.
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Nicholas Miklouho-Maclay
- Enrolled in St. Petersburg State University
- Studied in 1863-1864
- Occupations
- ethnographeranthropologisttravelerbiologistmarine biologist
- Biography
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Nicholai Nikolaevich Miklouho-Maclay was a Russian explorer. He worked as an ethnologist, anthropologist and biologist who became famous as one of the earliest scientists to settle among and study indigenous people of New Guinea "who had never seen a European".
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Aleksandr Ulyanov
- Occupations
- studentrevolutionary
- Biography
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Aleksandr Ilyich Ulyanov was a Russian revolutionary and political activist. He was the elder brother of Vladimir Lenin, the founder of the Soviet Union.
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Alexander Stepanovich Popov
- Occupations
- physicistinventorengineer
- Biography
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Alexander Stepanovich Popov was a Russian physicist who was one of the first people to invent a radio receiving device.
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Gabriel Narutowicz
- Enrolled in St. Petersburg State University
- Studied in 1886
- Occupations
- diplomatpoliticianuniversity teachercivil engineerforeign minister
- Biography
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Gabriel Józef Narutowicz was a Polish professor of hydroelectric engineering and politician who served as the first President of Poland from 11 December 1922 until his assassination on 16 December, five days after assuming office. He previously served as the Minister of Public Works from 1920 to 1922 and briefly as Minister of Foreign Affairs in 1922. A renowned engineer and politically independent, Narutowicz was the first elected head of state following Poland's regained sovereignty from partitioning powers.
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Vitaly Mutko
- Occupations
- statespersoneconomistpoliticianminister
- Biography
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Vitaly Leontiyevich Mutko is a Russian politician who served as the Deputy Prime Minister of Russia from 2016 to 2020.
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Alexei Kudrin
- Enrolled in St. Petersburg State University
- Studied in 1983
- Occupations
- economistinternational forum participantfinance ministerpolitician
- Biography
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Alexei Leonidovich Kudrin is a Russian liberal politician and economist. Previously he served as the Chairman of the Accounts Chamber from 2018 to 2022 and as Minister of Finance from 2000 to 2011. Since December 9, 2022 Corporate Development Advisor at Yandex.
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Tatyana Chernigovskaya
- Occupations
- researcherpsychologist
- Biography
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Tatyana Vladimirovna Chernigovskaya is a Soviet and Russian scientist in the field of neuroscience, psycholinguistics and theory of mind, a Honored Worker of Science (2010). On her initiative in 2000 was first open training specialization "Psycholinguistics" (in General Linguistics Department of St. Petersburg State University Faculty of Philology), Member of the Council on Science and Education under President of the Russian Federation.
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Yuly Martov
- Years
- 1873-1923 (aged 50)
- Occupations
- opinion journalistpolitician
- Biography
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Julius Martov or L. Martov was a Russian politician, revolutionary and the leader of the Mensheviks, a faction of the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party (RSDLP). A close associate of Vladimir Lenin, Martov broke with him following the RSDLP ideological split, after which Lenin led the opposing faction, the Bolsheviks.
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Vladimir Propp
- Occupations
- writeruniversity teacherlinguistphilologistliterary critic
- Biography
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Vladimir Yakovlevich Propp was a Soviet folklorist and scholar who analysed the basic structural elements of Russian folk tales to identify their simplest irreducible structural units.
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Garegin Nzhdeh
- Occupations
- writerfedayeenpoliticianmilitary officerphilosopher
- Biography
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Garegin Ter-Harutyunyan, better known by his nom de guerre Garegin Nzhdeh, was an Armenian statesman, military commander and nationalist political thinker. As a member of the Armenian Revolutionary Federation, he was involved in the national liberation struggle and revolutionary activities during the First Balkan War and World War I and became one of the key political and military leaders of the First Republic of Armenia (1918–1921). He is widely admired as a charismatic national hero by Armenians.
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Alexander Bastrykin
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Alexander Ivanovich Bastrykin is a Russian official, former First Deputy Prosecutor General of Russia, and former Chairman of The Investigative Committee of the Prosecutor General's Office. Since January 15, 2011, he is the head of the Investigative Committee of Russia.
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Mikhail Veller
- Enrolled in St. Petersburg State University
- Studied in 1972
- Occupations
- writerscience fiction writerprose writerphilosopherjournalist
- Biography
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Mikhail Iosifovich Veller is a Russian writer of Ukrainian Jewish extraction. He holds a dual citizenship of Russia and Estonia.
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Dmitry Likhachov
- Enrolled in St. Petersburg State University
- Studied in 1928
- Occupations
- university teachertranslatorwriterlinguisthistorian
- Biography
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Dmitry Sergeyevich Likhachev was a Russian medievalist, linguist, and a former inmate of Gulag. During his lifetime, Likhachev was considered the world's foremost scholar of the Old Russian language and its literature.
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George Gamou
- Occupations
- inventorwriterbiochemistastrophysicistphysicist
- Biography
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George Gamow, sometimes Gammoff; born Georgiy Antonovich Gamov was a Soviet and American polymath, theoretical physicist and cosmologist. He was an early advocate and developer of Lemaître's Big Bang theory. Gamow discovered a theoretical explanation of alpha decay by quantum tunneling, invented the liquid drop model and the first mathematical model of the atomic nucleus, worked on radioactive decay, star formation, stellar nucleosynthesis, Big Bang nucleosynthesis (which he collectively called nucleocosmogenesis), and molecular genetics.
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Pitirim Sorokin
- Occupations
- writerpoliticianuniversity teachersociologistphilosopher
- Biography
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Pitirim Alexandrovich Sorokin was a Russian American sociologist and political activist, who contributed to the social cycle theory.
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Sergey Mironov
- Occupations
- statespersonmember of the State Dumapolitician
- 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 St. Petersburg State University
- Studied in 1924
- Occupations
- prose writerwriterscience fiction writergeologistphilosopher
- 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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Ivan Bilibin
- Occupations
- paintergraphic artistillustrator
- Biography
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Ivan Yakovlevich Bilibin was a Russian illustrator and stage designer who took part in the Mir iskusstva ("World of Art"), contributed to the Ballets Russes, co-founded the Union of Russian Artists, and from 1937 was a member of the Artists' Union of the USSR. Ivan Bilibin gained popularity with his illustrations of Russian folk tales and Slavic folklore. Throughout his career he was inspired by the art and culture of medieval Russia.
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Andrea Pezzi
- Occupations
- television presenterentrepreneur
- Biography
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Andrea Pezzi is an Italian TV presenter and entrepreneur. He made his debut as a DJ for Radio Deejay and later became a video jockey for MTV Europe and MTV Italia from 1996 to 2003. Pezzi later moved to Rai and Mediaset to work as a television host.
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Vladimir Dzhanibekov
- Occupations
- painterpoliticianpostage stamp designerastronautaircraft pilot
- Biography
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Vladimir Aleksandrovich Dzhanibekov is a retired Soviet Air Force Major General and a cosmonaut veteran of five orbital missions.
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Pafnuty Chebyshev
- Occupations
- university teacherstatisticianmathematician
- Biography
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Pafnuty Lvovich Chebyshev was a Russian mathematician and considered to be the founding father of Russian mathematics.
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Andrey Illarionov
- Enrolled in St. Petersburg State University
- Studied in 1983
- Occupations
- economistpublic figurepoliticianinternational forum participant
- Biography
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Andrey Nikolayevich Illarionov is a Russian economist and former senior policy advisor to Vladimir Putin, the President of Russia, from April 2000 to December 2005. Since April 2021, he is a senior fellow at the non-governmental organization Center for Security Policy, which is based out of Washington, D.C. in the United States.
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Galina Starovoytova
- Occupations
- politicianmember of the State Dumasociologisthuman rights activistanthropologist
- Biography
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Galina Vasilyevna Starovoitova was a Soviet dissident, Russian politician and ethnographer known for her work to protect ethnic minorities and promote democratic reforms in Russia. She was shot to death in her apartment building in 1998.
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Mustafa Shokay
- Occupations
- opinion journalistpolitician
- Biography
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Mustafa bek Shokay was a Kazakh social and political activist and ideologue of the Turkestan Autonomy. From 1921, he lived in exile in France.
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Georgy Chicherin
- Occupations
- musicologistpoliticianrevolutionarydiplomat
- Biography
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Georgy Vasilyevich Chicherin was a Russian Marxist revolutionary and a Soviet politician who served as the first People's Commissar for Foreign Affairs in the Soviet government from March 1918 to July 1930.
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Dmitry Kozak
- Enrolled in St. Petersburg State University
- Studied in 1985
- Occupations
- lawyerjuristinternational forum participantpolitician
- Biography
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Dmitry Nikolayevich Kozak is a Russian politician who has served as the Deputy Kremlin Chief of Staff since 24 January 2020. He previously served as the Deputy Prime Minister of Russia from 2008 to 2020. He has the federal state civilian service rank of 1st class Active State Councillor of the Russian Federation.
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Klim Zhukov
- Occupations
- historianscience fiction authorvideo bloggerhistorical reenactmentmedievalist
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Klim Zhukov is a Russian author, vlogger, and historical reenactor. He is a medievalist historian and science fiction author. He is also involved in historical reenactment. He is a bestselling author. In a survey conducted in 2019, he entered the top 10 trust rating in the Russian Internet. He collaborates with Dmitry Puchkov.
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Vsevolod Merkulov
- Occupations
- playwrightwriterpoliticiantorturer
- Biography
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Vsevolod Nikolayevich Merkulov (Russian: Всеволод Николаевич Меркулов; 27 November [O.S. 25 October] 1895 – 23 December 1953) was the head of NKGB from February to July 1941, and again from April 1943 to March 1946. He was a leading member of what was later derisively described as the "Beria gang".
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Antanas Smetona
- Occupations
- writerlawyerpoliticianpedagoguejournalist
- Biography
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Antanas Smetona was a Lithuanian intellectual, journalist and politician who served as the first president of Lithuania from 1919 to 1920 and again from 1926 until the Soviet occupation of Lithuania in 1940. Referred to as the "Leader of the Nation" during his presidency, Smetona is recognised as one of the most important Lithuanian political figures between World War I and World War II, and a prominent ideologists of Lithuanian nationalism and the movement for national revival.
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Viktor Shklovsky
- Occupations
- essayistlinguistliterary scholarliterary criticscience fiction writer
- Biography
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Viktor Borisovich Shklovsky was a Russian and Soviet literary theorist, critic, writer, and pamphleteer. He is one of the major figures associated with Russian formalism.
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Vyacheslav Menzhinsky
- Occupations
- politicianmilitary personnel
- Biography
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Vyacheslav Rudolfovich Menzhinsky was a Bolshevik revolutionary, Soviet statesman and Communist Party official who served as chairman of the OGPU from 1926 to 1934. He was master of more than 10 languages (including Korean, Chinese, Turkish, and Persian, the last one learned especially in order to read works by Omar Khayyám).
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Wassily Leontief
- Occupations
- pedagoguestatisticianeconomist
- Biography
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Wassily Wassilyevich Leontief, was a Soviet-American economist known for his research on input–output analysis and how changes in one economic sector may affect other sectors.
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Andrey Markov
- Occupations
- university teacherstatisticianmathematician
- Biography
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Andrey Andreyevich Markov was a Russian mathematician best known for his work on stochastic processes. A primary subject of his research later became known as the Markov chain. He was also a strong, close to master-level chess player.
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Juri Lotman
- Enrolled in St. Petersburg State University
- 1939-1950 graduated with specialist degree in philology
- In 1952 graduated with candidate of philology
- In 1961 graduated with Doctor of Sciences in Philology
- Occupations
- semiotician
- Biography
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Juri Lotman was a prominent Russian-Estonian literary scholar, semiotician, and historian of Russian culture, who worked at the University of Tartu. He was elected a member of the British Academy (1977), Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters (1987), Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences (1989) and Estonian Academy of Sciences (1990). He was a founder of the Tartu–Moscow Semiotic School. The number of his printed works exceeds 800 titles. His archive (which is now kept at the University of Tallinn and at the Tartu University Library) which includes his correspondence with a number of Russian and Western intellectuals, is immense.
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Alexander Friedmann
- Enrolled in St. Petersburg State University
- Studied in 1906-1910
- Occupations
- physicistscientistmathematicianmeteorologist
- Biography
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Alexander Alexandrovich Friedmann was a Russian and Soviet physicist and mathematician. He originated the pioneering theory that the universe is expanding, governed by a set of equations he developed known as the Friedmann equations.
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Olga Bergholz
- Enrolled in St. Petersburg State University
- Studied in 1930
- Occupations
- children's writerwriterpoetplaywrightjournalist
- Biography
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Olga Fyodorovna Bergholz was a Soviet and Russian poet, writer, playwright and journalist. She is most famous for her work on the Leningrad radio during the city's blockade, when she became the symbol of city's strength and determination.
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Levon Ter-Petrosyan
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- politicianhistorian
- Biography
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Levon Hakobi Ter-Petrosyan, also known by his initials LTP, is an Armenian politician and historian who served as the first president of Armenia from 1991 until his resignation in 1998.
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Akaki Tsereteli
- Occupations
- writeropinion journalistpoettranslatorpublic figure
- Biography
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Count Akaki Tsereteli, often mononymously known as Akaki, was a prominent Georgian poet and national liberation movement figure.
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Valentin Glushko
- Enrolled in St. Petersburg State University
- Studied in 1925
- Occupations
- writerphysicistpoliticianaerospace engineerengineer
- Biography
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Valentin Petrovich Glushko was a Soviet engineer who was program manager of the Soviet space program from 1974 until 1989.
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Nikolai Kondratiev
- Occupations
- economistpolitician
- Biography
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Nikolai Dmitriyevich Kondratiev was a Russian Soviet economist and proponent of the New Economic Policy (NEP) best known for the business cycle theory known as Kondratiev waves.
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Pyotr Yershov
- Occupations
- children's writerprose writerwriterpoetplaywright
- Biography
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Pyotr Pavlovich Yershov was a Russian poet and author of the famous fairy-tale poem The Little Humpbacked Horse (Konyok-Gorbunok).
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Leonid Kantorovich
- Enrolled in St. Petersburg State University
- Studied in 1926-1930
- Occupations
- economistuniversity teachermathematician
- Biography
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Leonid Vitalyevich Kantorovich was a Soviet mathematician and economist, known for his theory and development of techniques for the optimal allocation of resources. He is regarded as the founder of linear programming. He was the winner of the Stalin Prize in 1949 and the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences in 1975.
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Ilya Kormiltsev
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- lyricistmusic criticpublishertranslatorliterary critic
- Biography
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Ilya Valeryevich Kormiltsev was a Russian poet, translator, and publisher. Kormiltsev is most famous for working during the 1980s and the 1990s as a songwriter in Nautilus Pompilius, one of the most popular rock bands in the Soviet Union and, later, Russia. He was also a prominent literary translator and publisher. Since 1997, he translated into Russian many important pieces of modern prose, such as Chuck Palahniuk's Fight Club, or Irvine Welsh's Trainspotting. In 2003, he established Ultra.Kultura publishing house, which immediately gained a scandalous reputation and was closed by the authorities in 2007. Through its brief history, Ultra.Kultura published numerous counter-culture books in a wide range from ultra-right to radical left authors.
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Vitaly Bianki
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- children's writerwriternaturalistjournalistornithologist
- Biography
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Vitaly Valentinovich Bianki was a popular Russian children’s writer and a prolific author of books on nature.
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Yelena Bonner
- Years
- 1923-2011 (aged 88)
- Occupations
- human rights activistwriterdissidentpediatrician
- Biography
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Yelena Georgiyevna Bonner was a human rights activist in the former Soviet Union and wife of the physicist Andrei Sakharov. During her decades as a dissident, Bonner was noted for her characteristic blunt honesty and courage.
