List of Moscow State University people

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

Literature, journalism and philosophy

Alexander Boot – lecturer on English literature who became a journalist and author in London
Sergei Bulgakov - Russian Orthodox theologian, philosopher and economist
Pyotr Chaadaev - philosopher
Boris Chicherin - jurist and political philosopher
Anton Chekhov - short story writer and playwright
Ekaterina Dashkova - major figure of the Russian Enlightenment
Semyon Desnitsky - lawyer; introduced the ideas of Adam Smith to the Russian public
Pavel Florensky - philosopher, Russian Orthodox theologian, historian
Alexander Griboedov - writer, diplomat
Yelena Khanga - journalist, writer, talk show host
Edward Kuznetsov - Soviet-Israeli dissident, refusenik, journalist, and writer
Sofokli Lazri - Albanian journalist and diplomat
Mikhail Lermontov - poet, writer
Merab Mamardashvili - philosopher
Musa Muradov - journalist
Alpesh Patel - philosopher
Anna Narinskaya - journalist, literary critic, and exhibition curator
Nitipoom Navaratna - columnist
Aleksey Pisemsky - novelist and dramatist
Anna Politkovskaya - journalist, human rights activist
Vasily Rozanov - writer and philosopher
Elena Rzhevskaya - writer and war interpreter
Varlam Shalamov - writer, author of books on Soviet labor camps
Dmitry Strelnikoff - poet, essayist, novelist
Mikhail Svetlov - poet
Vladimir Toporov - philologist
Nikolai Trubetzkoy - linguist and historian
Ivan Turgenev - writer
Lyudmila Ulitskaya - novelist and short-story writer, Austrian State Prize for European Literature
Maximilian Voloshin - poet

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

Mathematics

Pavel Alexandrov - mathematician
Vladimir Arnold - mathematician, Shaw Prize (2008), State Prize of the Russian Federation (2007), Wolf Prize (2001), Dannie Heineman Prize for Mathematical Physics, Harvey Prize (1994), RAS Lobachevsky Prize (1992), Crafoord Prize (1982), Lenin Prize (1965)
Hafez Bashar al-Assad (2023), son of Syrian authoritarian ruler Bashar al-Assad
Grigory Barenblatt - mathematician, Timoshenko Medal (2005)
Felix Berezin - mathematician and physicist
Joseph Bernstein - Israeli mathematician, Israel Prize (2004)
Vladimir Boltyansky - mathematician, educator, and author
Pafnuty Chebyshev - mathematician
Boris Demidovich - mathematician
Vladimir Drinfeld - Soviet-American mathematician; winner of the Fields Medal 1990
Eugene Dynkin - mathematician, Leroy P. Steele Prize (1993)
Messoud Efendiev - mathematician
Gregory Eskin - Russian-Israeli-American mathematician
Dmitry Fuchs - Russian-American mathematician
Israel Gelfand - Soviet-American mathematician
Victor Ginzburg - Russian American mathematician
Gu Chaohao - Chinese mathematician
Anatole Katok - American mathematician
Mstislav Keldysh - mathematician; President of the USSR Academy of Sciences 1961–1975
Tanya Khovanova - Soviet-American mathematician
Faina Mihajlovna Kirillova - mathematician and control theorist
Andrey Kolmogorov - mathematician
Maxim Kontsevich - mathematician; winner of the Fields Medal in 1998
Boris Korenblum - Soviet-Israeli-American mathematician
Grigory Landsberg - physicist, Order of Lenin
Leonid Levin - Soviet-American mathematician and computer scientist
Vladimir Levenshtein - mathematician
Boris Levit - mathematician
Nikolai Luzin - mathematician
Grigory Margulis - Russian-American mathematician; winner of the Fields Medal 1978
Sergei Novikov - mathematician; winner of the Fields Medal in 1970
Andrei Okounkov - mathematician; winner of the Fields Medal in 2006
Alexander Moiseevich Olevskii - Russian-Israeli mathematician
Olga Oleinik - mathematician
Ivan Petrovsky - mathematician
Abraham Plessner - mathematician
Leonid Polterovich - Russian-Israeli mathematician, 1998 Erdős Prize, 1996 EMS Prize
Vladimir Rokhlin - mathematician
Yakov Sinai - Russian-American mathematician
Ilya M. Sobol - mathematician
Bella Subbotovskaya - mathematician
Hoang Tuy - Vietnamese mathematician
Ernest Vinberg - mathematician, Humboldt Prize

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

Physics

Alexey Abrikosov - Soviet-Russian-American physicist; Nobel Prize in Physics 2003
Nikolay Bogolyubov - theoretical physicist and mathematician
Fidel Castro Díaz-Balart - nuclear physicist
Paul Epstein- Russian-American mathematical physicist
Ilya Frank - professor of physics; Nobel Prize in Physics 1958
Vitaly Ginzburg - physicist; Nobel Prize in Physics 2003
Sergey Gavrilets - mathematical biologist
Pyotr Kapitsa - professor of physics; Nobel Prize in Physics 1978
Lev Landau - professor of physics; Nobel Prize in Physics 1962
Eugene Levich - Russian-Israeli physicist
Andrei Linde - Russian-American physicist
Alexander Prokhorov - professor of physics; Nobel Prize in Physics in 1964
Andrei Sakharov - nuclear physicist; Nobel Peace Prize 1975
Dmitry Shirkov - theoretical physicist
Arsenij Sokolov - theoretical physicist
Igor Tamm - physicist; Nobel Prize in Physics 1958
Igor Ternov - theoretical physicist
Sergei Tyablikov - theoretical physicist
Anatoly Vlasov - physicist
Akiva Moiseevich Yaglom - physicist, mathematician, statistician, and meteorologist
Michael Zhdanov - geophysicist
Dmitry Zubarev - theoretical physicist

Psychology

Georgy Shchedrovitsky
Lev Semenovich Vygotsky - psychologist

Sociology

Georgi Derluguian - sociologist
Yuri Levada - sociologist

Other

Wassily Kandinsky, painter and art theorist

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

References

^ Kshamata Muktavat; Arun K. Upadhayaya; et al. (2010). Applied Physics. I. K. International Pvt Ltd. p. 553. ISBN 9380578008.
^ Gregersen, Erik (2009). The Universe: A Historical Survey of Beliefs, Theories, and Laws. The Rosen Publishing Group. p. 173. ISBN 1615300554.
^ Testa, David W. Del (2001). Government Leaders, Military Rulers, and Political Activists. Greenwood Publishing Group. p. 70. ISBN 1573561533.
^ Gribbin, J. (1999). Q Is For Quantum: Particle Physics From A-Z. Universities Press. p. 204. ISBN 8173712433.
^ Frank Northen Magill; Alison Aves, eds. (1999). Dictionary of World Biography. Routledge. p. 2899. ISBN 1579580483.
^ Laidler, Keith J. (1987). Chemical Kinetics, 3/E. Pearson Education. p. 513. ISBN 8131709728.
^ Jagdish Mehra; Helmut Rechenberg (1982). The Historical Development of Quantum Theory, Volume 4. Springer. p. 240. ISBN 0387951784.
^ Robert Sanders (1994-10-12). "A Very Pleasurable Universe - Internationally Acclaimed Mathematician Maxim Kontsevich Chooses Berkeley as His Academic Home". The Berkeleyan, University of California, Berkeley.
^ "Yale's Margulis Wins 2005 Wolf Prize for Mathematics". Yale University Office of Public Affairs. 2005-02-23.
^ Elaine McKinnon Riehm; Frances Hoffman (2011). Turbulent Times in Mathematics. American Mathematical Society. p. 216. ISBN 0821869140.
^ "Okounkov wins Fields Medal". The Daily Princetonian. 2006-05-19.
^ The Department of Environment and Land Law Law Faculty, MSU - Petrova (in Russian)
^ Katz, Alan (31 January 2012). "Louis-Dreyfus Widow Chairman Ousts Men Running Commodities Giant". Bloomberg. Retrieved 10 November 2014.

[1] Kshamata Muktavat; Arun K. Upadhayaya; et al. (2010). Applied Physics. I. K. International Pvt Ltd. p. 553. ISBN 9380578008.

[2] Gregersen, Erik (2009). The Universe: A Historical Survey of Beliefs, Theories, and Laws. The Rosen Publishing Group. p. 173. ISBN 1615300554.

[3] Testa, David W. Del (2001). Government Leaders, Military Rulers, and Political Activists. Greenwood Publishing Group. p. 70. ISBN 1573561533.

[4] Gribbin, J. (1999). Q Is For Quantum: Particle Physics From A-Z. Universities Press. p. 204. ISBN 8173712433.

[5] Frank Northen Magill; Alison Aves, eds. (1999). Dictionary of World Biography. Routledge. p. 2899. ISBN 1579580483.

[6] Laidler, Keith J. (1987). Chemical Kinetics, 3/E. Pearson Education. p. 513. ISBN 8131709728.

[7] Jagdish Mehra; Helmut Rechenberg (1982). The Historical Development of Quantum Theory, Volume 4. Springer. p. 240. ISBN 0387951784.

[8] Robert Sanders (1994-10-12). "A Very Pleasurable Universe - Internationally Acclaimed Mathematician Maxim Kontsevich Chooses Berkeley as His Academic Home". The Berkeleyan, University of California, Berkeley.

[9] "Yale's Margulis Wins 2005 Wolf Prize for Mathematics". Yale University Office of Public Affairs. 2005-02-23.

[10] Elaine McKinnon Riehm; Frances Hoffman (2011). Turbulent Times in Mathematics. American Mathematical Society. p. 216. ISBN 0821869140.

[11] "Okounkov wins Fields Medal". The Daily Princetonian. 2006-05-19.

[Petrova-12] The Department of Environment and Land Law Law Faculty, MSU - Petrova (in Russian)

[Bloomberg-13] Katz, Alan (31 January 2012). "Louis-Dreyfus Widow Chairman Ousts Men Running Commodities Giant". Bloomberg. Retrieved 10 November 2014.

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