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.

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Notable awards recipients

Nobel laureates

Alexey Abrikosov

Vitaly Ginzburg

• 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

Grigory Margulis

• 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

Anton Chekhov, writer

Anna Narinskaya

• 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
• Uliana Malashenko - journalist
• 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

Pyotr Kapitsa, physicist and engineer

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

Alec Rasizade

• 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

• 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

Lev Landau

Igor Tamm

• 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

• 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
• Aun Pornmoniroth - Deputy Prime Minister of Cambodia

Religion

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

Sports

Semyon Belits-Geiman

Nikita Mazepin

• 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

• Category:Moscow State University alumni
• List of Russian scientists