24 Notable alumni of
Tomsk State University
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Tomsk State University is 958th in the world, 331st in Europe, and 25th in Russia by aggregated alumni prominence. Below is the list of 24 notable alumni from Tomsk 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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Kim Yong-nam
- Occupations
- politicianambassador
- Biography
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Kim Yong-nam is a North Korean retired politician who served as the President of the Presidium of the Supreme People's Assembly of North Korea, from 1998 until 2019. Previously, he served as Minister of Foreign Affairs from 1983 to 1998. He was elected a member of the Presidium of the Workers' Party of Korea (WPK) in 2010.
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Andrey Burkovsky
- Enrolled in Tomsk State University
- Studied in 2005
- Occupations
- actorKVN actor
- Biography
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Andrey Vladimirovich Burkovsky is a Russian-born American actor, former KVN player, champion of the Major League as a member of the Maximum team (2008). However, after becoming famous as a comedian he soon started taking on more serious roles in theater, on TV and in cinema. Since 2014, he has been an actor of the Moscow Art Theatre He is known for starring in Start original series The Mediator, More.tv original series An Hour Before the Dawn and in feature films Milk, Doctor Lisa and Tchaikovsky's Wife.
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Andrey Bezrukov
- Enrolled in Tomsk State University
- Studied in 1978-1983
- Occupations
- spy
- Biography
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Andrey Bezrukov, often referred to by his cover name Donald Heathfield, is a former KGB sleeper agent. He had served as both a KGB and SVR operative until his disclosure in the United States in 2010. His wife, Elena Stanislavovna Vavilova (Russian: Елена Вавилова), often referred to by her cover name Tracey Foley, is also a former KGB sleeper agent.
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Nikolai Burdenko
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- surgeonpoliticianmilitary personnelneurosurgeonnon-fiction writer
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Nikolay Nilovich Burdenko was a Russian and Soviet surgeon, the founder of Russian neurosurgery. He was Surgeon-General of the Red Army (1937–1946), an academician of the USSR Academy of Sciences (from 1939), an academician and the first director of the Academy of Medical Sciences of the USSR (1944–1946), a Hero of Socialist Labor (from 1943), Colonel General of medical services, and a Stalin Prize winner (1941). He was a veteran of the Russo-Japanese War, First World War, Winter War and the German-Soviet War.
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Edison Denisov
- Enrolled in Tomsk State University
- 1946-1951 studied mathematics
- Occupations
- film score composeruniversity teachercomposermusicologistmathematician
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Edison Vasilievich Denisov was a Russian composer in the so-called "Underground", "alternative" or "nonconformist" division of Soviet music.
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Kamchybek Tashiev
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- politician
- Biography
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Kamchybek Kydyrshaevich Tashiev is a Kyrgyzstani politician who was head of the political party Ata-Zhurt until its merger with the Respublika party in 2014. He is currently Chairman of the State Committee for National Security.
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Viktor Pepelyayev
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- prime ministerpolitician
- Biography
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Viktor Nikolayevich Pepelyayev was a Russian politician, a supporter of Admiral Alexander Kolchak, and the Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the State of Russia.
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Vladimir Mazur
- Enrolled in Tomsk State University
- Studied in 1992
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Vladimir Vladimirovich Mazur is a Russian statesman, who is currently serving as the 3rd governor of Tomsk Oblast in since 22 September 2022.
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Vadim Shumkov
- Enrolled in Tomsk State University
- In 1996 studied jurisprudence
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Vadim Mikhailovich Shumkov is a Russian politician who is currently the fifth governor of Kurgan Oblast.
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Garri Minkh
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- politician
- Biography
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Garry Vladimirovich Minkh, is a Russian politician and legal figure, who is currently the plenipotentiary of the President of the Russia in the State Duma. He has the federal state civilian service rank of 1st class Active State Councillor of the Russian Federation.
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Vera Nebolsina
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- chess player
- Biography
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Vera Nebolsina is a Russian professional chess player. She earned the title Woman Grandmaster (WGM) at age 17 in 2007.
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Yury Yershov
- Occupations
- university teachermathematician
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Yury Leonidovich Yershov is a Soviet and Russian mathematician.
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Gennadiy Prashkevich
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- science fiction writertranslatorwriterlinguist
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Gennadiy Martovich Prashkevich is a Russian science fiction writer, critic, editor, translator and International PEN member. He won the Aelita Prize (1994) and Garin-Mikhaylovsky Prize (1999). He is also a poet, translator and essayist. Some of his works (Razorvanoye chudo (The Torn Miracle, 1978), Pyat kostrov rombom (Five Bonfires In A Rhomb, 1989), Shpion protiv alkhimikov (A Spy Versus Alchemists, 1994), Shkatulka rytsarya (The Knight's Casket, 1996) became popular.
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Nikolai Masalitinov
- Enrolled in Tomsk State University
- Studied in 1900
- Occupations
- theatrical directorstage actordirectoractorpedagogue
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Nikolai Osipovich Massalitinov was a Russian (later Bulgarian) stage actor, theatre director and pedagogue, associated originally with the Moscow Art Theatre and, since 1925, with Ivan Vazov National Theatre in Bulgaria. The actress Varvara Massalitinova was his sister.
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Sergey Ivanov
- Enrolled in Tomsk State University
- Studied in 1992
- Occupations
- history teachermember of the State Dumapolitician
- Biography
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Sergey Vladimirovich Ivanov is a Russian politician, who was a member of the State Duma from 2003 to 2021.
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Yuli Burkin
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- writerscience fiction writermusicianpoetjournalist
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Yuliy Burkin is a Russian science fiction writer and musician. He has coauthored a trilogy Island Russia with Sergey Lukyanenko.
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Abram Ilyich Fet
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- topologistmathematician
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Abram Fet was a Russian mathematician, Soviet dissident, philosopher, Samizdat translator and writer. He used various pseudonyms for Samizdat, like N. A. Klenov, A.B. Nazyvayev, D.A. Rassudin, S.T. Karneyev, etc. If published, his translations were usually issued under the name of A.I. Fedorov, which reproduced Fet's own initials and sometimes under the names of real people who agreed to publish Fet's translations under their names.
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Viktor Orlov
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- statespersonpoliticianeconomist
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Viktor Petrovich Orlov, was a Russian politician, geologist, and mining engineer. He served as the Minister of Natural Resources from 1996 to 1998, and again from 1998 to 1999.
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Viktor Panin
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- physicist
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Viktor Yevgenyevich Panin was a Soviet and Russian physicist, professor, and advisor of the Russian Academy of Sciences. He was an expert in the fields of solid mechanics, plastic deformation and physical materials.
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Vladimir Zuyev
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- politicianphysicist
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Vladimir Yevseyevich Zuev was a Soviet and Russian physicist, academician of the Academy of Sciences of the Soviet Union, Hero of Socialist Labour, USSR State Prize recipient, honorary citizen of Tomsk, expert in atmospheric physics and optics.
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Viktor Toponogov
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- university teachermathematician
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Victor Andreevich Toponogov was an outstanding Russian mathematician, noted for his contributions to differential geometry and so-called Riemannian geometry "in the large".
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Vladimir Kravchenko
- Occupations
- politicianstatesperson
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Vladimir Kazimirovich Kravchenko is a Russian politician serving as a senator from Tomsk Oblast since 14 October 2021.
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Vladimir Samokish
- Enrolled in Tomsk State University
- Studied in 1997
- Occupations
- member of the State Dumaentrepreneurpolitician
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Vladimir Samokish is a Russian entrepreneur, political figure and deputy of the 8th State Duma. From 1993 to 2009, he worked as an individual entrepreneur and actively engaged in business. In 2009 he was appointed Deputy Governor of Tomsk Oblast. In 2015, he was elected deputy of the Tomsk City Duma. Since September 2021, he has served as deputy of the 8th State Duma.
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Jonas Aukštuolis
- Occupations
- diplomat
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Jonas Aukštuolis was a Lithuanian diplomat. During World War I, he worked for the Lithuanian Society for the Relief of War Sufferers and was sent to Stockholm to organize contacts with German-occupied Lithuania. He was the Lithuanian representative in Sweden and Norway (1919–1922), Netherlands (1921–1922), Latvia (1923–1927), Estonia (1923–1930), Finland (1929–1934), Czechoslovakia (1932–1934), Argentina, Uruguay, and Brazil (1934–1939). In 1939, he was recalled to Kaunas and was deported by the Soviets to a Gulag camp in June 1941. He died in one of the camps in Mordovia.
