100 Notable alumni of
St. Petersburg State University

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St. Petersburg State University is 30th 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.

  1. Vladimir Putin

    Vladimir Putin
    Born in
    Russia Flag Russia
    Years
    1952-.. (age 73)
    Enrolled in St. Petersburg State University
    1970-1975 graduated with Candidate of Economic Sciences in international law
    Occupations
    politician
    Biography

    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.

  2. Vladimir Lenin

    Vladimir Lenin
    Born in
    Russia Flag Russia
    Years
    1870-1924 (aged 54)
    Enrolled in St. Petersburg State University
    In 1890 graduated with law degree in jurisprudence
    Occupations
    revolutionarypolitician
    Biography

    Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov, better known as Vladimir Lenin, was a Russian revolutionary, politician and political theorist who was the founder and first head of government of Soviet Russia from 1917 until his death in 1924, and of the Soviet Union from 1922 until his death. As the founder and leader of the Bolsheviks, Lenin led the October Revolution which established the world's first socialist state. His government won the Russian Civil War and created a one-party state under the Communist Party. Ideologically a Marxist, his developments to the ideology are called Leninism.

  3. Dmitry Medvedev

    Dmitry Medvedev
    Born in
    Russia Flag Russia
    Years
    1965-.. (age 60)
    Enrolled in St. Petersburg State University
    Studied in 1982-1987
    Occupations
    businesspersonpoliticianjurist
    Biography

    Dmitry Anatolyevich Medvedev is a Russian politician who has been serving as deputy chairman of the Security Council of Russia since 2020. Medvedev was also the president of Russia from 2008 to 2012 and prime minister of Russia from 2012 to 2020.

  4. Ayn Rand

    Ayn Rand
    Born in
    Russia Flag Russia
    Years
    1905-1982 (aged 77)
    Occupations
    screenwriterjournalistnovelistscience fiction writerwriter
    Biography

    Alice O'Connor, better known by her pen name Ayn Rand, was a Russian-born American writer and philosopher. She is known for her fiction and for developing a philosophical system which 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.

  5. Dmitri Mendeleev

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

    Dmitri Ivanovich Mendeleev was a Russian chemist 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).

  6. Lyudmila Ocheretnaya

    Lyudmila Ocheretnaya
    Born in
    Russia Flag Russia
    Years
    1958-.. (age 67)
    Enrolled in St. Petersburg State University
    In 1986 studied Romance studies
    Occupations
    politicianuniversity teacherflight attendant
    Biography

    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.

  7. Pavel Durov

    Pavel Durov
    Born in
    Russia Flag Russia
    Years
    1984-.. (age 41)
    Occupations
    computer scientistentrepreneur
    Biography

    Pavel Valeryevich Durov is a Russian technology entrepreneur best known as the founder and chief executive officer (CEO) of Telegram, a messaging platform launched in 2013.

  8. Ivan Pavlov

    Ivan Pavlov
    Born in
    Russia Flag Russia
    Years
    1849-1936 (aged 87)
    Enrolled in St. Petersburg State University
    Studied in 1870
    Occupations
    physiologistchemistphysicianneurologistresearcher
    Biography

    Ivan Petrovich Pavlov was a Russian and Soviet experimental neurologist and physiologist known for his discovery of classical conditioning through his experiments with dogs.

  9. Grigori Perelman

    Grigori Perelman
    Born in
    Russia Flag Russia
    Years
    1966-.. (age 59)
    Enrolled in St. Petersburg State University
    Studied in 1982-1987
    Occupations
    mathematician
    Biography

    Grigori Yakovlevich Perelman is a Russian mathematician and geometer who is known for his contributions to the fields of geometric analysis, Riemannian geometry, and geometric topology. In 2005, Perelman resigned from his research post in Steklov Institute of Mathematics and in 2006 stated that he had quit professional mathematics, owing to feeling disappointed over the ethical standards in the field. He lives in seclusion in Saint Petersburg and has declined requests for interviews since 2006.

  10. Igor Stravinsky

    Igor Stravinsky
    Born in
    Russia Flag Russia
    Years
    1882-1971 (aged 89)
    Enrolled in St. Petersburg State University
    In 1901 studied law
    Occupations
    composerpianistconductorlibrettist
    Biography

    Igor Fyodorovich Stravinsky was a Russian composer and conductor with French citizenship (from 1934) and American 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.

  11. Ivan Turgenev

    Ivan Turgenev
    Born in
    Russia Flag Russia
    Years
    1818-1883 (aged 65)
    Occupations
    translatornovelistpoetshort story writerwriter
    Biography

    Ivan Sergeyevich Turgenev was a Russian novelist, short story writer, poet, playwright, translator and popularizer of Russian literature in the West.

  12. Katerina Tikhonova

    Katerina Tikhonova
    Born in
    Germany Flag Germany
    Years
    1986-.. (age 39)
    Enrolled in St. Petersburg State University
    In 2005 studied Asian studies
    Occupations
    managerathletesocial activist
    Biography

    Katerina Vladimirovna Tikhonova is a Russian scientist, manager, and former acrobatic dancer. She is the second daughter of Russian president Vladimir Putin.

  13. Kseniya Sobchak

    Kseniya Sobchak
    Born in
    Russia Flag Russia
    Years
    1981-.. (age 44)
    Occupations
    politicianjournalisttelevision presentersocialitemodel
    Biography

    Ksenia Anatolyevna Sobchak is a Russian-Israeli public figure, TV anchor, journalist, socialite and actress. She is the younger daughter of the first democratically elected mayor of Saint Petersburg, Anatoly Sobchak, who was one of Vladimir Putin's mentors, 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.

  14. Felix Dzerzhinsky

    Felix Dzerzhinsky
    Born in
    Belarus Flag Belarus
    Years
    1877-1926 (aged 49)
    Occupations
    revolutionarypolitician
    Biography

    Felix Edmundovich Dzerzhinsky, nicknamed "Iron Felix", was a Soviet revolutionary and politician of Polish origin. 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 Bolshevik government. He was a key architect of the Red Terror and de-Cossackization.

  15. Alexander Kerensky

    Alexander Kerensky
    Born in
    Russia Flag Russia
    Years
    1881-1970 (aged 89)
    Occupations
    politicianrevolutionarylawyer
    Biography

    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.).

  16. Anatoly Karpov

    Anatoly Karpov
    Born in
    Russia Flag Russia
    Years
    1951-.. (age 74)
    Occupations
    member of the State Dumachess playerpoliticianwriterjournalist
    Biography

    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).

  17. Olga Buzova

    Olga Buzova
    Born in
    Russia Flag Russia
    Years
    1986-.. (age 39)
    Occupations
    writereditor-in-chiefInstagram bloggeractorpresenter
    Biography

    Olga Igorevna Buzova is a Russian media personality and singer. She is regarded as one of the most successful Russian contemporary entertainers.

  18. Maria Vorontsova

    Maria Vorontsova
    Born in
    Russia Flag Russia
    Years
    1985-.. (age 40)
    Enrolled in St. Petersburg State University
    Studied biology
    Occupations
    biologistendocrinologistgeneticist
    Biography

    Maria Vladimirovna Vorontsova, also referred to as Maria Faassen, is a Russian pediatric endocrinologist. She is the eldest child of Russian president Vladimir Putin.

  19. Alexander Blok

    Alexander Blok
    Born in
    Russia Flag Russia
    Years
    1880-1921 (aged 41)
    Occupations
    translatorphilosopherwriterplaywrightopinion journalist
    Biography

    Alexander Alexandrovich Blok was a Russian lyrical poet, writer, publicist, playwright, translator and literary critic.

  20. Anastasiya Ivleyeva

    Anastasiya Ivleyeva
    Born in
    Russia Flag Russia
    Years
    1991-.. (age 34)
    Enrolled in St. Petersburg State University
    Studied in 2008
    Occupations
    businesspersontelevision presentervloggerInstagram bloggerYouTuber
    Biography

    Anastasia Vyacheslavovna Ivleeva, better known as Nastya Ivleeva (Настя Ивлеева), is a Russian television presenter, actress and blogger. She also hosted the Ukrainian TV show Oryol i Reshka on the channels Inter and Friday!.

  21. Peter Kropotkin

    Peter Kropotkin
    Born in
    Russia Flag Russia
    Years
    1842-1921 (aged 79)
    Occupations
    philosopherpoliticianeconomistautobiographerexplorer
    Biography

    Pyotr Alexeyevich Kropotkin was a Russian anarchist and geographer known as a proponent of anarchist communism.

  22. Anatoly Sobchak

    Anatoly Sobchak
    Born in
    Russia Flag Russia
    Years
    1937-2000 (aged 63)
    Occupations
    politicianstatespersonjurist
    Biography

    Anatoly Aleksandrovich Sobchak was a Russian politician, a co-author of the Constitution of the Russian Federation, and the first democratically elected mayor of Saint Petersburg.

  23. Pyotr Stolypin

    Pyotr Stolypin
    Born in
    Germany Flag Germany
    Years
    1862-1911 (aged 49)
    Enrolled in St. Petersburg State University
    Studied in 1881-1885
    Occupations
    statespersonpolitician
    Biography

    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.

  24. Lev Landau

    Lev Landau
    Born in
    Azerbaijan Flag Azerbaijan
    Years
    1908-1968 (aged 60)
    Enrolled in St. Petersburg State University
    Studied in 1924-1927
    Occupations
    inventorphysicisttheoretical physicistnon-fiction writeruniversity teacher
    Biography

    Lev Davidovich Landau was a Soviet physicist who made fundamental contributions to many areas of theoretical physics. He was considered as one of the last scientists who were universally well-versed and made seminal contributions to all branches of physics. He is credited with laying the foundations of twentieth century condensed matter physics, and is also considered arguably the greatest Soviet theoretical physicist.

  25. Marina Leonidovna Kravets

    Marina Leonidovna Kravets
    Born in
    Russia Flag Russia
    Years
    1984-.. (age 41)
    Occupations
    television presenterradio personalityKVN actorcomedianpresenter
    Biography

    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.

  26. Nikolay Nekrasov

    Nikolay Nekrasov
    Born in
    Ukraine Flag Ukraine
    Years
    1821-1877 (aged 56)
    Occupations
    opinion journalistjournalistautobiographerpoetliterary critic
    Biography

    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.

  27. Olga Skabeyeva

    Olga Skabeyeva
    Born in
    Russia Flag Russia
    Years
    1984-.. (age 41)
    Enrolled in St. Petersburg State University
    Studied in 2008
    Occupations
    television journalisttelevision presenterpropagandistpolitical punditjournalist
    Biography

    Olga Vladimirovna Skabeyeva is a Russian television presenter and political commentator, commonly described as a governmental propagandist. Skabeyeva received the nickname "Iron Doll of Putin TV" due to her criticism of the Russian opposition.

  28. Osip Mandelstam

    Osip Mandelstam
    Born in
    Poland Flag Poland
    Years
    1891-1938 (aged 47)
    Occupations
    literary criticauthorpoetwritertranslator
    Biography

    Osip Emilyevich Mandelstam was a Russian and Soviet poet. He was one of the foremost members of the Acmeist school.

  29. Alexander Borodin

    Alexander Borodin
    Born in
    Russia Flag Russia
    Years
    1833-1887 (aged 54)
    Occupations
    physicianpianistflautistchemistopera composer
    Biography

    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.

  30. Edita Piekha

    Edita Piekha
    Born in
    France Flag France
    Years
    1937-.. (age 88)
    Enrolled in St. Petersburg State University
    Studied in 1964
    Occupations
    singeractor
    Biography

    Edita Stanislavovna Piekha is a Soviet and Russian singer and actress of Polish descent. The peak of her popularity in the countries of the former USSR was in the 1960s. Her most famous song is “Our Neighbor”. (Наш сосед) She was given the title Honorary Citizen of St. Petersburg.

  31. Igor Sechin

    Igor Sechin
    Born in
    Russia Flag Russia
    Years
    1960-.. (age 65)
    Occupations
    entrepreneurpoliticianRussian oligarch
    Biography

    Igor Ivanovich Sechin is a Russian oligarch and a government official, considered a close ally and "de facto deputy" of Vladimir Putin.

  32. Sergei Ivanov

    Sergei Ivanov
    Born in
    Russia Flag Russia
    Years
    1953-.. (age 72)
    Occupations
    diplomatpolitician
    Biography

    Sergei Borisovich Ivanov is a Russian senior official and politician who has been serving as the Special Presidential Envoy 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.

  33. Konstantin Ernst

    Konstantin Ernst
    Born in
    Russia Flag Russia
    Years
    1961-.. (age 64)
    Occupations
    film producertelevision producerscreenwritertelevision presentertelevision director
    Biography

    Konstantin Lvovich Ernst is a Russian media manager, producer and TV host. He is currently the CEO of Channel One Russia.

  34. Korney Chukovsky

    Korney Chukovsky
    Born in
    Russia Flag Russia
    Years
    1882-1969 (aged 87)
    Occupations
    translatorprose writerpoetjournalistopinion journalist
    Biography

    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 ("Crocodile"), Telefon ("The Telephone"), Chukokkala, 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.

  35. Diana Arbenina

    Diana Arbenina
    Born in
    Belarus Flag Belarus
    Years
    1974-.. (age 51)
    Enrolled in St. Petersburg State University
    Studied in 1998
    Occupations
    writersongwriterpoetsinger
    Biography

    Diana Sergeyevna Arbenina is a Russian singer, musician, poet, and leader of the rock group Nochnye Snaipery.

  36. Menachem Mendel Schneerson

    Menachem Mendel Schneerson
    Born in
    Ukraine Flag Ukraine
    Years
    1902-1994 (aged 92)
    Occupations
    Rebbe
    Biography

    Menachem Mendel Schneerson, known to adherents of the Chabad-Lubavitch movement as the Lubavitcher Rebbe or simply the Rebbe, was a Russian-American 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.

  37. Vladimir Ivanovich Vernadsky

    Vladimir Ivanovich Vernadsky
    Born in
    Russia Flag Russia
    Years
    1863-1945 (aged 82)
    Enrolled in St. Petersburg State University
    Studied in 1885
    Occupations
    university teachermineralogistgeologistphilosophergeochemist
    Biography

    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's 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.

  38. Herman Gref

    Herman Gref
    Born in
    Kazakhstan Flag Kazakhstan
    Years
    1964-.. (age 61)
    Occupations
    politicianbankereconomist
    Biography

    German 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.

  39. Anatoly Serdyukov

    Anatoly Serdyukov
    Born in
    Russia Flag Russia
    Years
    1962-.. (age 63)
    Occupations
    politicianeconomistmanagerbusinessperson
    Biography

    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 in the Russian military. He has worked as an Industrial Director for Rostec, a state corporation, since October 2015.

  40. Alexander Alekhine

    Alexander Alekhine
    Born in
    Russia Flag Russia
    Years
    1892-1946 (aged 54)
    Occupations
    translatorchess playerchess theoreticianwriterjurist
    Biography

    Alexander Aleksandrovich Alekhine was a Russian and French chess player and the fourth World Chess Champion, a title he held for two reigns.

  41. Boris Grebenshchikov

    Boris Grebenshchikov
    Born in
    Russia Flag Russia
    Years
    1953-.. (age 72)
    Occupations
    publisherradio personalitylyricistguitaristpoet
    Biography

    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.

  42. Sergei Yursky

    Sergei Yursky
    Born in
    Russia Flag Russia
    Years
    1935-2019 (aged 84)
    Enrolled in St. Petersburg State University
    Studied in 1955
    Occupations
    theatrical directorfilm directorwriterlecturerplaywright
    Biography

    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)

  43. Lev Gumilev

    Lev Gumilev
    Born in
    Russia Flag Russia
    Years
    1912-1992 (aged 80)
    Enrolled in St. Petersburg State University
    Studied in 1934-1935
    Studied in 1987
    Occupations
    geographeranthropologistphilosopherwriterethnologist
    Biography

    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.

  44. Viktor Korchnoi

    Viktor Korchnoi
    Born in
    Russia Flag Russia
    Years
    1931-2016 (aged 85)
    Occupations
    chess playerwriter
    Biography

    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.

  45. Mikhail Bakhtin

    Mikhail Bakhtin
    Born in
    Russia Flag Russia
    Years
    1895-1975 (aged 80)
    Occupations
    art theoristphilosopherwriterlinguistliterary scholar
    Biography

    Mikhail Mikhailovich Bakhtin was a Russian philosopher and literary critic who worked on the philosophy of language, ethics, and literary theory. 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.

  46. Mukhtar Auezov

    Mukhtar Auezov
    Years
    1897-1961 (aged 64)
    Occupations
    poetwriter
    Biography

    Mukhtar Omarkhanuli Auezov was a Kazakh writer, a social activist, a Doctor of Philology, and an honored academician of the Soviet Union (1946).

  47. Alexandra Elbakyan

    Alexandra Elbakyan
    Born in
    Kazakhstan Flag Kazakhstan
    Years
    1988-.. (age 37)
    Enrolled in St. Petersburg State University
    2017-2019 graduated with master's degree in linguistics
    Occupations
    activistcomputer scientistprogrammerneuroscientist
    Biography

    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.

  48. Leonid Parfyonov

    Leonid Parfyonov
    Born in
    Russia Flag Russia
    Years
    1960-.. (age 65)
    Enrolled in St. Petersburg State University
    Studied in 1982
    Occupations
    directorscreenwriteractorYouTubertelevision journalist
    Biography

    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.

  49. Dmitry Kiselyov

    Dmitry Kiselyov
    Born in
    Russia Flag Russia
    Years
    1954-.. (age 71)
    Enrolled in St. Petersburg State University
    In 1978 studied Scandinavian studies
    Occupations
    television presenterpropagandistnews presenter
    Biography

    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.

  50. Dalia Grybauskaitė

    Dalia Grybauskaitė
    Born in
    Lithuania Flag Lithuania
    Years
    1956-.. (age 69)
    Occupations
    university teacherpoliticianeconomistdiplomat
    Biography

    Dalia Grybauskaitė is a Lithuanian politician who served as the 8th president of Lithuania from 2009 to 2019. She is the first and so far only woman to hold the position and in 2014 she became the first President of Lithuania to be reelected for a second consecutive term.

  51. Tatyana Tolstaya

    Tatyana Tolstaya
    Born in
    Russia Flag Russia
    Years
    1951-.. (age 74)
    Enrolled in St. Petersburg State University
    In 1974 studied classical philology
    Occupations
    pedagogueopinion journalistwriterphilologistpresenter
    Biography

    Tatyana Nikitichna Tolstaya is a Russian writer, TV host, publicist, novelist, and essayist from the Tolstoy family.

  52. Nikolay Chernyshevsky

    Nikolay Chernyshevsky
    Born in
    Russia Flag Russia
    Years
    1828-1889 (aged 61)
    Occupations
    philosopherwriternovelistopinion journalisteconomist
    Biography

    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 the 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.

  53. Ljudmila Narusova

    Ljudmila Narusova
    Born in
    Russia Flag Russia
    Years
    1951-.. (age 74)
    Occupations
    member of the State Dumapoliticianstatespersonhistorianjournalist
    Biography

    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.

  54. Alexander Ulyanov

    Alexander Ulyanov
    Born in
    Russia Flag Russia
    Years
    1866-1887 (aged 21)
    Occupations
    university studentrevolutionarystudent
    Biography

    Aleksandr Ilyich Ulyanov was a Russian revolutionary and political activist who was executed for planning an assassination against Alexander III of Russia. He was the elder brother of Vladimir Lenin, the founder of the Soviet Union.

  55. Nicholas Miklouho-Maclay

    Nicholas Miklouho-Maclay
    Born in
    Russia Flag Russia
    Years
    1846-1888 (aged 42)
    Enrolled in St. Petersburg State University
    Studied in 1863-1864
    Occupations
    botanistexplorerzoologistmarine biologistbiologist
    Biography

    Nicholai Nikolaevich Miklouho-Maclay was a Russian explorer of Ukrainian origin. 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".

  56. Tatyana Chernigovskaya

    Tatyana Chernigovskaya
    Born in
    Russia Flag Russia
    Years
    1947-.. (age 78)
    Occupations
    university teacherresearcherscientistpsychologist
    Biography

    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.

  57. Alexander Stepanovich Popov

    Alexander Stepanovich Popov
    Born in
    Russia Flag Russia
    Years
    1859-1905 (aged 46)
    Occupations
    pedagogueengineerinventorphysicist
    Biography

    Alexander Stepanovich Popov was a Russian physicist who was one of the first people to invent a radio receiving device.

  58. Alexander Bastrykin

    Alexander Bastrykin
    Born in
    Russia Flag Russia
    Years
    1953-.. (age 72)
    Occupations
    politician
    Biography

    Alexander Ivanovich Bastrykin is a Russian lawyer and official who has served as the Chairman of the Investigative Committee of Russia since 15 January 2011. He served as the First Deputy Prosecutor General of Russia and Chairman of the Investigative Committee of the Prosecutor General's Office from 2007 to 2011.

  59. Gabriel Narutowicz

    Gabriel Narutowicz
    Born in
    Lithuania Flag Lithuania
    Years
    1865-1922 (aged 57)
    Enrolled in St. Petersburg State University
    Studied in 1886
    Occupations
    civil engineeruniversity teacherpoliticiandiplomatforeign minister
    Biography

    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, five days after assuming office. He previously served as the minister of public works from 1920 to 1922 and briefly as the 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.

  60. Olga Ladyzhenskaya

    Olga Ladyzhenskaya
    Born in
    Russia Flag Russia
    Years
    1922-2004 (aged 82)
    Enrolled in St. Petersburg State University
    Studied in 1947-1949
    Occupations
    mathematicianuniversity teacher
    Biography

    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 authored more than two hundred scientific publications, including six monographs.

  61. Alexei Kudrin

    Alexei Kudrin
    Born in
    Latvia Flag Latvia
    Years
    1960-.. (age 65)
    Enrolled in St. Petersburg State University
    Studied in 1983
    Occupations
    politicianfinance ministereconomist
    Biography

    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 9.December 2022, he is a corporate development advisor at Yandex.

  62. Garegin Nzhdeh

    Garegin Nzhdeh
    Born in
    Azerbaijan Flag Azerbaijan
    Years
    1886-1955 (aged 69)
    Occupations
    military personnelpoliticianfedayeenwriterphilosopher
    Biography

    Garegin Ter-Harutyunyan, better known by his nom de guerre Garegin Nzhdeh, was an Armenian statesman, military commander and nationalist revolutionary. 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.

  63. Vitaly Mutko

    Vitaly Mutko
    Born in
    Russia Flag Russia
    Years
    1958-.. (age 67)
    Occupations
    ministerpoliticianeconomiststatesperson
    Biography

    Vitaly Leontiyevich Mutko is a Russian politician who served as the Deputy Prime Minister of Russia from 2016 to 2020.

  64. Yuly Martov

    Yuly Martov
    Born in
    Turkey Flag Turkey
    Years
    1873-1923 (aged 50)
    Occupations
    politicianopinion journalist
    Biography

    Yuliy Osipovich Tsederbaum, better known as Julius Martov, was a Russian revolutionary, politician, and a leader of the Mensheviks, a faction of the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party (RSDLP). A close associate of Vladimir Lenin prior to 1903, Martov broke with him following the RSDLP's ideological schism, after which Lenin led the opposing faction, the Bolsheviks. Martov opposed Lenin's plan for a party restricted to professional revolutionaries, and called for a mass party modelled after Western European social democratic parties.

  65. Mikhail Veller

    Mikhail Veller
    Born in
    Ukraine Flag Ukraine
    Years
    1948-.. (age 77)
    Enrolled in St. Petersburg State University
    Studied in 1972
    Occupations
    short story writerjournalistscience fiction writerwriterprose writer
    Biography

    Mikhail Iosifovich Veller is a Russian writer of Ukrainian Jewish extraction. He holds a dual citizenship of Russia and Estonia.

  66. Vladimir Propp

    Vladimir Propp
    Born in
    Russia Flag Russia
    Years
    1895-1970 (aged 75)
    Occupations
    anthropologistliterary historianliterary criticphilologistlinguist
    Biography

    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.

  67. Sergei Mironov

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

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

  68. Dmitry Likhachov

    Dmitry Likhachov
    Born in
    Russia Flag Russia
    Years
    1906-1999 (aged 93)
    Enrolled in St. Petersburg State University
    Studied in 1928
    Occupations
    literary historianhistorianlinguistwritertranslator
    Biography

    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.

  69. George Gamow

    George Gamow
    Born in
    Ukraine Flag Ukraine
    Years
    1904-1968 (aged 64)
    Occupations
    astronomernuclear physicistcosmologistuniversity teacherphysicist
    Biography

    George Gamow was a Soviet and American polymath, theoretical physicist and cosmologist. He was an early advocate and developer of Georges Lemaître's Big Bang theory. Gamow discovered a theoretical explanation of alpha decay by quantum tunneling, invented the liquid drop model - the first mathematical model of the atomic nucleus, worked on radioactive decay, star formation, stellar nucleosynthesis, Big Bang nucleosynthesis (which he collectively called nucleocosmogenesis), predicted the existence of the cosmic microwave background radiation and molecular genetics. Gamow was a key figure in the development and understanding of quantum tunneling.

  70. Pitirim Sorokin

    Pitirim Sorokin
    Born in
    Russia Flag Russia
    Years
    1889-1968 (aged 79)
    Occupations
    sociologistuniversity teacherpoliticianwriterphilosopher
    Biography

    Pitirim Alexandrovich Sorokin was a Russian American sociologist and political activist, who contributed to the social cycle theory.

  71. Ivan Yefremov

    Ivan Yefremov
    Born in
    Russia Flag Russia
    Years
    1908-1972 (aged 64)
    Enrolled in St. Petersburg State University
    Studied in 1924
    Occupations
    short story writerprose writerwriterscience fiction writerphilosopher
    Biography

    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.

  72. Ivan Bilibin

    Ivan Bilibin
    Born in
    Russia Flag Russia
    Years
    1876-1942 (aged 66)
    Occupations
    graphic artistpainterillustrator
    Biography

    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.

  73. Andrea Pezzi

    Andrea Pezzi
    Born in
    Italy Flag Italy
    Years
    1973-.. (age 52)
    Occupations
    entrepreneurtelevision presenter
    Biography

    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.

  74. Pafnuty Chebyshev

    Pafnuty Chebyshev
    Born in
    Russia Flag Russia
    Years
    1821-1894 (aged 73)
    Occupations
    statisticianuniversity teachermathematician
    Biography

    Pafnuty Lvovich Chebyshev was a Russian mathematician and considered to be the founding father of Russian mathematics.

  75. Vladimir Dzhanibekov

    Vladimir Dzhanibekov
    Born in
    Uzbekistan Flag Uzbekistan
    Years
    1942-.. (age 83)
    Occupations
    astronautpostage stamp designerpoliticianpainteraircraft pilot
    Biography

    Vladimir Aleksandrovich Dzhanibekov is a retired Soviet Air Force Major General and a cosmonaut veteran of five orbital missions.

  76. Galina Starovoytova

    Galina Starovoytova
    Born in
    Russia Flag Russia
    Years
    1946-1998 (aged 52)
    Occupations
    sociologistmember of the State Dumapoliticiananthropologisthuman rights activist
    Biography

    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.

  77. Andrey Illarionov

    Andrey Illarionov
    Born in
    Russia Flag Russia
    Years
    1961-.. (age 64)
    Enrolled in St. Petersburg State University
    Studied in 1983
    Occupations
    politicianpublic figureeconomist
    Biography

    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.

  78. Georgy Chicherin

    Georgy Chicherin
    Born in
    Russia Flag Russia
    Years
    1872-1936 (aged 64)
    Occupations
    revolutionarypoliticianmusicologistdiplomat
    Biography

    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.

  79. Mustafa Shokay

    Mustafa Shokay
    Born in
    Kazakhstan Flag Kazakhstan
    Years
    1890-1941 (aged 51)
    Occupations
    politicianopinion journalist
    Biography

    Mustafa bek Shokay was a Kazakh social and political activist and ideologue of the Turkestan Autonomy. From 1921, he lived in exile in France.

  80. Klim Zhukov

    Klim Zhukov
    Born in
    Russia Flag Russia
    Years
    1977-.. (age 48)
    Occupations
    writermedievalisthistorical reenactmentvloggerscience fiction writer
    Biography

    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.

  81. Dmitry Kozak

    Dmitry Kozak
    Born in
    Ukraine Flag Ukraine
    Years
    1958-.. (age 67)
    Enrolled in St. Petersburg State University
    Studied in 1985
    Occupations
    politicianjuristlawyer
    Biography

    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.

  82. Antanas Smetona

    Antanas Smetona
    Born in
    Lithuania Flag Lithuania
    Years
    1874-1944 (aged 70)
    Occupations
    pedagoguepoliticianlawyerwriterjournalist
    Biography

    Antanas Smetona was a Lithuanian intellectual, journalist and politician. He served as the first president of Lithuania from 1919 to 1920 and later as the authoritarian head of state 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 ideologist of Lithuanian nationalism and the movement for national revival.

  83. Vsevolod Merkulov

    Vsevolod Merkulov
    Born in
    Azerbaijan Flag Azerbaijan
    Years
    1895-1953 (aged 58)
    Occupations
    politicianwriterplaywrighttorturer
    Biography

    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".

  84. Viktor Shklovsky

    Viktor Shklovsky
    Born in
    Russia Flag Russia
    Years
    1893-1984 (aged 91)
    Occupations
    poetscreenwriterfilm scholarcriticscience fiction writer
    Biography

    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.

  85. Vyacheslav Menzhinsky

    Vyacheslav Menzhinsky
    Born in
    Russia Flag Russia
    Years
    1874-1934 (aged 60)
    Occupations
    military personnelpolitician
    Biography

    Vyacheslav Rudolfovich Menzhinsky was a Soviet revolutionary and politician who served as chairman of the OGPU, the secret police of the Soviet Union, from 1926 to 1934.

  86. Andrey Markov

    Andrey Markov
    Born in
    Russia Flag Russia
    Years
    1856-1922 (aged 66)
    Occupations
    statisticianuniversity teachermathematician
    Biography

    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.

  87. Wassily Leontief

    Wassily Leontief
    Born in
    Russia Flag Russia
    Years
    1906-1999 (aged 93)
    Occupations
    statisticianpedagogueeconomist
    Biography

    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.

  88. Olga Bergholz

    Olga Bergholz
    Born in
    Russia Flag Russia
    Years
    1910-1975 (aged 65)
    Enrolled in St. Petersburg State University
    Studied in 1930
    Occupations
    journalistplaywrightpoetwriterchildren's writer
    Biography

    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.

  89. Juri Lotman

    Juri Lotman
    Born in
    Russia Flag Russia
    Years
    1922-1993 (aged 71)
    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

    Juri Lotman, a prominent Russian-Estonian literary scholar, semiotician, and historian of Russian culture, worked at the University of Tartu. He was elected a member of the British Academy (1977), the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters (1987), the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences (1989) and the 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 extensive archive (now kept at the University of Tallinn and at the Tartu University Library) includes his correspondence with a number of Russian and Western intellectuals.

  90. Alexander Friedmann

    Alexander Friedmann
    Born in
    Russia Flag Russia
    Years
    1888-1925 (aged 37)
    Enrolled in St. Petersburg State University
    Studied in 1906-1910
    Occupations
    mathematicianscientistphysicistmeteorologist
    Biography

    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.

  91. Levon Ter-Petrosyan

    Levon Ter-Petrosyan
    Born in
    Syria Flag Syria
    Years
    1945-.. (age 80)
    Occupations
    historianpolitician
    Biography

    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.

  92. Akaki Tsereteli

    Akaki Tsereteli
    Born in
    Georgia Flag Georgia
    Years
    1840-1915 (aged 75)
    Occupations
    translatorpoetopinion journalistwriterpublic figure
    Biography

    Count Akaki Tsereteli, often mononymously known as Akaki, was a prominent Georgian poet and national liberation movement figure.

  93. Valentin Glushko

    Valentin Glushko
    Born in
    Ukraine Flag Ukraine
    Years
    1908-1989 (aged 81)
    Enrolled in St. Petersburg State University
    Studied in 1925
    Occupations
    engineerpoliticianaerospace engineerphysicistwriter
    Biography

    Valentin Petrovich Glushko was a Soviet engineer who was program manager of the Soviet space program from 1974 until 1989.

  94. Ilya Kormiltsev

    Ilya Kormiltsev
    Born in
    Russia Flag Russia
    Years
    1959-2007 (aged 48)
    Occupations
    translatorpublishermusic criticlyricistjournalist
    Biography

    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.

  95. Leonid Kantorovich

    Leonid Kantorovich
    Born in
    Russia Flag Russia
    Years
    1912-1986 (aged 74)
    Enrolled in St. Petersburg State University
    Studied in 1926-1930
    Occupations
    university teachereconomistmathematician
    Biography

    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.

  96. Sergey Gorshkov

    Sergey Gorshkov
    Born in
    Ukraine Flag Ukraine
    Years
    1910-1988 (aged 78)
    Enrolled in St. Petersburg State University
    Studied in 1927
    Occupations
    politicianadmiralwriternaval officer
    Biography

    Sergey Georgyevich Gorshkov was an admiral of the fleet of the Soviet Union. Twice awarded the title Hero of the Soviet Union, he oversaw the expansion of the Soviet Navy into a global force during the Cold War as its Commander-in-Chief from 1956 to 1985.

  97. Pyotr Yershov

    Pyotr Yershov
    Born in
    Russia Flag Russia
    Years
    1815-1869 (aged 54)
    Occupations
    playwrightpoetwriterprose writerchildren's writer
    Biography

    Pyotr Pavlovich Yershov was a Russian poet and author of the fairy-tale poem The Little Humpbacked Horse (Konyok-Gorbunok).

  98. Vitaly Bianki

    Vitaly Bianki
    Born in
    Russia Flag Russia
    Years
    1894-1959 (aged 65)
    Occupations
    ornithologistjournalistnaturalistwriterchildren's writer
    Biography

    Vitaly Valentinovich Bianki was a popular Russian children's writer and a prolific author of books on nature.

  99. Nikolai Kondratiev

    Nikolai Kondratiev
    Born in
    Russia Flag Russia
    Years
    1892-1938 (aged 46)
    Enrolled in St. Petersburg State University
    Studied in 1914
    Occupations
    politicianeconomist
    Biography

    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.

  100. Yelena Bonner

    Yelena Bonner
    Years
    1923-2011 (aged 88)
    Occupations
    pediatriciandissidentwriterhuman rights activist
    Biography

    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.