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, MS 1948^[1] - 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 - 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) - 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] - mathematician; winner of the Fields Medal in 1998
• Grigory Margulis, PhD 1970 - mathematician; Erastus L. DeForest 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)

Turing Award laureates

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

Literature, journalism and philosophy

Anton Chekhov, Writer

• Sergei Bulgakov - Russian Orthodox theologian, philosopher and economist
• Mitrofan Caspersz - notoriously reclusive public relations advisor and poet
• 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
• Sofokli Lazri - Albanian journalist and diplomat
• Mikhail Lermontov - poet, writer
• Merab Mamardashvili - philosopher
• Alpesh Patel - philosopher
• Musa Muradov - journalist
• Nitipoom Navaratna - columnist
• Aleksey Pisemsky - novelist and dramatist
• Anna Politkovskaya - journalist, human rights activist
• Vasily Rozanov - writer and philosopher
• Varlam Shalamov - writer, author of books on Soviet labor camps
• Dmitry Strelnikoff - poet, essayist, novelist
• Vladimir Toporov - philologist
• Nikolai Trubetzkoy - linguist and historian
• Ivan Turgenev - writer
• Maximilian Voloshin - poet

Academics

Pyotr Kapitsa, physicist and engineer

Chemistry

• Nikolay Emanuel - specialist in chemical kinetics and mechanics of chemical reactions
• Aleksandr Oparin - biochemist
• Nikolay Semyonov - professor of chemistry; Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1956

Computer science

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

Economics

• Sergey Glazyev - economist, politician
• Yuri Maltsev - Austrian School economist

Geosciences

• Boris Fedtschenko - botanist
• Grigori Gamburtsev - seismologist
• Grigorii Kozhevnikov - entomologist

History

• Zalpa Bersanova - Chechen ethnographer and author
• Anatoly Bokschanin - historian of Rome, professor
• Vladimir Guerrier - historian and founder of higher education for women in Russia
• Vasily Klyuchevsky - historian
• Nikolai Mashkin - historian of Rome, professor
• Sigurd Schmidt - historian, ethnographer

Linguistics and philology

• 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.

Mathematics

• Pavel Alexandrov - mathematician
• Vladimir Arnold - mathematician
• Pafnuty Chebyshev - mathematician
• Boris Demidovich - mathematician
• Vladimir Drinfeld - mathematician; winner of the Fields Medal 1990
• Messoud Efendiev - mathematician
• Israel Gelfand - mathematician
• Gu Chaohao - mathematician
• Mstislav Keldysh - mathematician; President of the USSR Academy of Sciences 1961–1975
• Andrey Kolmogorov - mathematician
• Maxim Kontsevich - mathematician; winner of the Fields Medal in 1998
• Grigory Landsberg - physicist
• Boris Levit - mathematician
• Nikolai Luzin - mathematician
• Grigory Margulis - mathematician; winner of the Fields Medal 1978
• Noor Muhammad - mathematician
• Sergei Novikov - mathematician; winner of the Fields Medal in 1970
• Andrei Okounkov - mathematician; winner of the Fields Medal in 2006
• Olga Oleinik - mathematician
• Ivan Petrovsky - mathematician
• Abraham Plessner - mathematician
• Yakov Sinai - mathematician
• Hoang Tuy - mathematician

Pedagogy

• Victor Della-Vos

Physics

• Alexey Abrikosov - physicist; Nobel Prize in Physics 2003
• Nikolay Bogolyubov - theoretical physicist and mathematician
• Ilya Frank - professor of physics; Nobel Prize in Physics 1958
• Vitaly Ginzburg - physicist; Nobel Prize in Physics 2003
• Pyotr Kapitsa - professor of physics; Nobel Prize in Physics 1978
• Lev Landau - professor of physics; Nobel Prize in Physics 1962
• Andrei Linde - 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
• Dmitry Zubarev - theoretical physicist
• Igor Zubov - physicist and high school physics teacher

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
• Margarita Louis-Dreyfus, Russian-born French billionaire, chairman of Louis Dreyfus^[12]
• Aleksander Mamut
• Elena Kotova

Musicians and actors

• Sergei Bodrov, Jr. - actor
• Nashenas - Afghan musician
• Natalia O'Shea - singer-songwriter
• Elena Zoubareva - opera singer

Visual arts

• Wassily Kandinsky - painter, printmaker and art theorist
• Vsevolod Meyerhold - theatre director and producer
• Vladimir Nemirovich-Danchenko - theatre director, writer
• Vsevolod Pudovkin - film director

Video games

• Vadim Gerasimov - co-developer of Tetris

See also

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

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