Famous Alumni
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Throughout the rich history of the University, graduates have become the Nobel Prize laureates; ruled the country; headed ministries and departments; have become Olympic champions, poets, and discoverers.
Among them are
9 Nobel Prize winners
Ivan Pavlov
Physiology and Medicine, 1904
Nikolay Semenov
Chemistry, 1956 (with Sir Cyril Hinshelwood)
Lev Landau
Physics, 1962
Alexander Prokhorov
Physics, 1964 (with Charles Hard Townes and Nikolay Basov)
Wassily Leontief
Economics, 1973
Leonid Kantorovich
Economics, 1975 (with Tjalling Charles Koopmans)
Ilya Mechnikov
Physiology and Medicine, 1908
Joseph Brodsky
Literature, 1987
Alexey Ekimov
Chemistry, 2023 (with Moungi Bawendi and Louis Brus)
World-renowned researchers
Mikhail Lomonosov
Dmitri Mendeleev
Andrey Beketov
Vasily Dokuchaev
Alexander Popov
Kliment Timiryazev
Pyotr Semyonov-Tyan-Shansky
Vladimir Fock
Vasily Struve
Sergei Zhebelev
Nikolai Marr
Boris Piotrovsky
Mikhail Piotrovsky
Viktor Ambartsumian
Lyudmila Verbitskaya
Mikhail Kovalchuk
Vladimir Komarov
Nikolai Nikandrov
Grigori Perelman
Stanislav Smirnov
Dmitry Likhachev
Vladimir Vernadsky
Figures in arts
Sergei Diaghilev
Igor Stravinsky
Boris Strugatsky
Alexandre Benois
Alexander Blok
Olga Bergholz
Nicholas Roerich
Diana Arbenina
Boris Grebenshchikov
Mikhail Vrubel
Vasily Polenov
Ivan Bilibin
Igor Grabar
Ivan Turgenev
Dmitry Merezhkovsky
Fyodor Abramov
Ayn Rand
Athletes and Olympic champions
Nikolai Panin-Kolomenkin
Tatiana Kazankina
Yuko Kavaguti
Anatoly Karpov
Boris Spassky
Gennadiy Shatkov
Natalia Kuchinskaya
Elvīra Ozoliņa
Andrey Krylov
Irina Levitina
Jüri Tarmak
Figures in sports
Vyacheslav Sreznevsky
Georges Duperron
Ivan Lebedev
Heads of the country
Vladimir Putin
Vladimir Lenin
Alexander Kerensky
Pyotr Stolypin
Boris Shturmer
Alexander Krivoshein
Entrepreneurs and public figures
Igor Sechin
Konstantin Ernst
Boris Kovalchuk
Pavel Durov
Andrey Murov
Aleksei Feliksov
Dmitry Baikov
Political figures
Alexander Bastrykin
Igor Artemyev
Andrei Fursenko
Anatoly Sobchak
Aleksandr Konovalov
Antanas Smetona
Viktor Evtukhov
Mikhail Amosov
Jean-Claude Gacosso
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