List of Moscow State University people explained

The list of Moscow State University people includes notable alumni, non-graduates, and faculty affiliated with the Lomonosov Moscow State University (also known as "Moscow State University"). A fuller list is available as a category.

Notable awards recipients

Nobel laureates

• Alexey Abrikosov, MS 1948^[1] - Soviet-Russian-American physicist; Nobel laureate in Physics in 2003
• Ilya Frank - professor of physics; Nobel Prize in Physics in 1958
• Vitaly Ginzburg, MS 1938,^[2] PhD 1942 - physicist; Nobel laureate in Physics in 2003
• Mikhail Gorbachev, MA 1955^[3] - Head of State of the Soviet Union; winner of Nobel Peace Prize in 1990
• Pyotr Kapitsa - professor of physics; Nobel laureate in Physics in 1978
• Lev Landau - professor of physics;^[4] Nobel laureate in Physics in 1962
• Boris Pasternak, MA 1913^[5] - writer, Nobel Prize in Literature in 1958
• Alexander Prokhorov - Australian-Soviet-Russian professor of physics; Nobel Prize in Physics in 1964
• Andrei Sakharov, MS 1942 - nuclear physicist; winner of the Nobel Peace Prize in 1975
• Nikolay Semyonov - professor of chemistry;^[6] Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1956
• Igor Tamm, MS 1918^[7] - physicist; winner of the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1958

Fields Medal laureates

• Vladimir Drinfeld (attended 1969 - 1974) - Soviet-American mathematician; winner of the Fields Medal in 1990; Harry Pratt Judson Distinguished Service Professor at the University of Chicago
• Maxim Kontsevich (attended 1980 - 1985)^[8] - Russian-French mathematician; winner of the Fields Medal in 1998
• Grigory Margulis, PhD 1970 - Russian-American mathematician; Erastus L. De Forest Professor of Mathematics at Yale University;^[9] winner of the Fields Medal in 1978
• Sergei Novikov, BA 1960^[10] - mathematician; winner of the Fields Medal in 1970
• Andrei Okounkov, PhD 1995 - mathematician; winner of the Fields Medal] in 2006; Professor of Mathematics at Princeton University^[11]
• Vladimir Voevodsky (attended 1982) - Russian-American mathematician

Turing Award laureates

• C. A. R. Hoare (attended as graduate student) - British computer scientist; winner of Turing Award in 1980

Academics

Astronomy

• Alexander Salomonovich - radio astronomer

Chemistry

• Nikolay Emanuel - specialist in chemical kinetics and mechanics of chemical reactions
• Alexei Kharitonenkov - biochemist and medical researcher
• Aleksandr Oparin - biochemist
• Natalia Shustova - Professor of Chemistry
• Nguyen Dinh Duc - researcher of composite materials in Vietnam
• Nikolay Semyonov - professor of chemistry; Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1956

Computer science

• Georgy Adelson-Velsky - Soviet-Israeli inventor of AVL tree algorithm; developer of Kaissa (the first World Computer Chess Champion)
• C. A. R. Hoare - British computer scientist; winner of Turing Award in 1980
• Alexander Stepanov - Russian-American, known for C++ Standard Template Library

Economics

• Sergey Glazyev - economist, politician
• Avraham Katznelson - physician and Zionist political figure
• Yuri Maltsev - Austrian School economist

Engineering

• Klaudia Sergejewna Kildisheva (1917 - 1994),aviation engineer and H ero of Socialist Labor
• Victor Lyatkher (1933), renewable energy engineer

Geosciences

• Boris Fedtschenko - botanist
• Naomi Feinbrun-Dothan - Russian-Israeli botanist
• Alexander Goldfarb - Russian-American microbiologist, activist, and author
• Boris Kozo-Polyansky - botanist and evolutionary biologist
• Grigori Gamburtsev - seismologist
• Grigorii Kozhevnikov - entomologist
• Irina Pavlovna Zarutskaya - geomorphologist, cartographer

History

• Zalpa Bersanova - Chechen ethnographer and author
• Anatoly Bokschanin - historian of Rome, professor
• Igor Golomstock - art historian
• Vladimir Guerrier - historian and founder of higher education for women in Russia
• Anatoly Khazanov- anthropologist and historian
• Vasily Klyuchevsky - historian
• Nikolay Kun - historian, writer and educator
• Nikolai Mashkin - historian of Rome, professor
• Suleyman Aliyarli - Azeri historian and Turkologist
• Sigurd Schmidt - historian, ethnographer
• Pavel Polian - geographer and historian
• Alec Rasizade - professor of history and political science, author of Rasizade's algorithm
• V. S. Lelchuk - historian
• Konstantin Zel'in - historian

Law

• Daphna Hacker - professor at the Tel Aviv University law faculty
• Tatiana Vladislavovna Petrova - Environmental law lecturer^[12]
• Anatoly Shesteryuk - Environmental and land law professor

Linguistics and philology

• Victor Bayda - linguist
• Ahmet Cevat Emre - Turkish linguist
• Elena Fedorova - philologist
• Margalit Finkelberg - Belarusian-Israeli historian and linguist
• Vyacheslav Ivanov - philologist
• Yuri Knorozov - Russian linguist, epigrapher and ethnographer
• Anatoly Moskvin - academic and linguist, arrested in 2011 after the bodies of 26 mummified young women were discovered in his home.
• Victor Raskin - distinguished professor of linguistics at Purdue University

Paleontology

• Alexei Petrovich Pavlov - paleontologist and geologist
• Maria Vasillievna Pavlova - paleontologist

Pedagogy

• Victor Della-Vos
• Alexander Bogomolny, Israeli American mathematician; creator of the mathematical education website Cut-the-Knot

Psychology

• Georgy Shchedrovitsky
• Lev Semenovich Vygotsky - psychologist

Sociology

• Georgi Derluguian - sociologist
• Yuri Levada - sociologist

Other

Business and finance

• Pyotr Aven
• Oleg Deripaska
• Andrey Melnichenko, billionaire, founder and chairman of EuroChem
• Margarita Louis-Dreyfus, Russian-born French billionaire, chairman of Louis Dreyfus^[13]
• Elena Kotova
• Alexander Mamut, Russian-Israeli lawyer, banker and investor
• Denis Morozov, Russian entrepreneur
• Irina Nevzlin, Israeli entrepreneur and author
• Oleg Vyugin, former head of Russian financial markets regulator

Musicians and actors

• Nipun Akter - actress
• Sergei Bodrov, Jr. - actor
• Nashenas - Afghan musician
• Natalia O'Shea - singer-songwriter
• Alla Yoshpe - singer
• Elena Zoubareva - opera singer
• Elena Katina - singer

Politics

• Leonid Gozman - politician and president of the Union of Right Forces
• Marina Solodkin - Israeli politician
• Vladislav Stashinsky - deputy of the State Duma of the 2nd convocation, first Minister of Internal Affairs of Lithuania in 1918 and director of the Bank of Lithuania
• Araik Tunyan - member of the Constitutional Court of Armenia

Religion

• ʻAlí-Akbar Furútan, Hand of the Cause of the Baháʼí Faith

Sports

• Semyon Belits-Geiman - swimmer, world record holder and two-time Olympic medalist
• Marina Granovskaia - director at Chelsea F.C.
• Nikita Mazepin - former Formula 1 driver of Team Haas F1
• Nikolai Melnikov - Olympic champion water polo player
• Mikhail Romm - football player and author

Visual arts

• Anna Alchuk - poet and visual artist
• Wassily Kandinsky - painter, printmaker and art theorist
• Vsevolod Meyerhold - theatre director and producer
• Ernst Neizvestny - sculptor, painter, graphic artist, and art philosopher
• Vladimir Nemirovich-Danchenko - theatre director, writer
• Leonid Pasternak - post-impressionist painter
• Vsevolod Pudovkin - film director
• Yuli Raizman -- film director and screenwriter
• Yulia Spiridonova - photographer

Video games

• Vadim Gerasimov - co-developer of Tetris

Automobiles

• Misha Charoudin - test driver, automotive influencer, social media personality

See also

• • List of Russian scientists

Notes and References

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3. Book: Testa, David W. Del. Government Leaders, Military Rulers, and Political Activists. 2001. Greenwood Publishing Group. 1573561533. 70.
4. Book: Gribbin, J.. Q Is For Quantum: Particle Physics From A-Z. 1999. Universities Press. 8173712433. 204.
5. Book: Frank Northen Magill . Alison Aves . Dictionary of World Biography. 1999. Routledge. 1579580483. 2899.
6. Book: Laidler, Keith J.. Chemical Kinetics, 3/E. 1987. Pearson Education. 8131709728. 513.
7. Book: Jagdish Mehra . Helmut Rechenberg . Jagdish Mehra . Helmut Rechenberg . The Historical Development of Quantum Theory, Volume 4. 1982. Springer. 0387951784. 240.
8. Web site: A Very Pleasurable Universe - Internationally Acclaimed Mathematician Maxim Kontsevich Chooses Berkeley as His Academic Home. Robert Sanders. 1994-10-12. The Berkeleyan, University of California, Berkeley.
9. Web site: Yale's Margulis Wins 2005 Wolf Prize for Mathematics. 2005-02-23. Yale University Office of Public Affairs.
10. Book: Elaine McKinnon Riehm . Frances Hoffman . Turbulent Times in Mathematics. 2011. American Mathematical Society. 0821869140. 216.
11. Web site: Okounkov wins Fields Medal. The Daily Princetonian. 2006-05-19.
12. http://www.lomonosov-fund.ru/enc/ru/encyclopedia:0131468 The Department of Environment and Land Law Law Faculty, MSU - Petrova
13. News: Katz. Alan. Louis-Dreyfus Widow Chairman Ousts Men Running Commodities Giant. 10 November 2014. Bloomberg. 31 January 2012.