List of Saint Petersburg State University people

The following is a list of notable alumni and faculty of Saint Petersburg State University in Russia.

Alumni

Nobel laureates

Valery Leibin - psychoanalyst, professor
Ilya Mechnikov - Russian-French, Physiology or Medicine in 1908
Yuri Orlov - zoologist, paleontologist
Ivan Pavlov - physiologist, psychologist, and physician; Nobel laureate in Physiology or Medicine in 1904
Nikolay Semyonov - Chemistry in 1956
Lev Landau - physicist; Nobel laureate in Physics in 1962
Aleksandr Prokhorov - Australian-Soviet-Russian, Physics in 1964
Wassily Leontief - Soviet-American economist; Nobel laureate in Economics in 1973
Leonid Kantorovich - economist, Nobel laureate in Economics in 1975
Joseph Brodsky - Russian-American, Literature in 1987

Fields medal

Academia

Gregory Areshian - Armenian-American archaeologist and historian.
Rakhat Achylova - Kyrgyz sociologist and politician
Volodymyr Barvinok — Ukrainian historian and writer
Kazimieras Būga — Lithuanian linguist and philologist
Nina Dyakonova- professor, Doctor of Philology
Viktor Fainberg - philologist and dissident
Nikolai Girenko - ethnologist and human rights activist
Lev Gumilev — historian, ethnologist, anthropologist, and translator
Igor Ivanov — pedagogue
Marju Lepajõe - classical philologist
Dmitry Likhachev — scholar
Anne Lill - classical philologist
Vladimir Lossky — Eastern Orthodox theologian
Yakov Lyubarsky - scholar, Doctor of Philology, specialist in Byzantine studies
Stepan Malkhasyants — Armenian academician, philologist, linguist, and lexicographer
Nikolay Marr — historian and linguist
Sergey Oldenburg — orientalist
Boris B. Piotrovsky — academician, historian-orientalist and archaeologist
Sergey Platonov — historian
Isaak Izrailevich Prezent - philosopher of biology
Fyodor Shcherbatskoy — Indologist
Mikhail Shultz — chemist, academician
Pitirim Sorokin — sociologist
Vasily Vasilievich Struve — orientalist
Max Vasmer — German linguist

Government and politics

Vladimir Burtsev, revolutionary activist, scholar, publisher and editor
David Dallin - Belarusian-American one-time Menshevik leader; writer and lecturer
Ben-Zion Dinur - Minister of Education of Israel
Dalia Grybauskaite - President of Lithuania 2009–19
Ion Inculeţ, president of the Moldavian Democratic Republic
Alexander Kerensky, second Prime Minister of the Russian Provisional Government
Vladimir Lenin - first head of the Russian SFSR
Dmitry Medvedev - politician, businessman, lawyer, and the third President of the Russian Federation (2008–2012)
Lyudmila Narusova - Russian Federation Senator
Vladimir Putin - second President of the Russian Federation (2000–2008, 2012-present); (2008–2012)
Mark Slonim - politician, literary critic, scholar, and translator
Antanas Smetona - President of Lithuania (first term 1919-1920; second term 1926-1940)
Anatoly Sobchak - Russian politician and a co-author of the Constitution of the Russian Federation
Ksenia Sobchak - candidate for Russian presidency, public figure, TV anchor, journalist, socialite, and actress
Levon Ter-Petrosyan - first President of Armenia (1991–1998)
Jazep Varonka - first Chairman of the People's Secretariat (i.e. Prime Minister) of the Belarusian National Republic
Augustinas Voldemaras - Prime Minister of Lithuania

Literature and the arts

Johann Admoni - composer, pianist, teacher, and public person
Alexander Blok - poet
Joseph Brodsky - Russian and American poet and essayist; Nobel Prize winner
Ilia Chavchavadze - Georgian writer, politician and public benefactor
Igor Chubais - philosopher, sociologist, and author
Solomon Dodashvili - Georgian philosopher, grammarian, belletrist
Ayn Rand - Russian-born American novelist and philosopher^[1]
Boris Grebenshchikov - founder and lead singer of the band Aquarium
Yehuda L. Katzenelson - writer and doctor
Alexander Kugel - theatre critic and editor
Julian Henry Lowenfeld - American-Russian poet, playwright, trial lawyer, composer, and translator
Salomon Mandelkern - poet and author
Olga Ozarovskaya - folklorist, storyteller, performer, writer, and an archivist of fairy tales
Mahapandit Rahul Sankrityayan - Indian historian
Nicholas Roerich - artist
Lyubov Speranskaya - theater artist
Maximilian Steinberg - composer of classical music
Igor Stravinsky - composer
Ivan Turgenev - writer

Science and mathematics

Alexander Barvinok - mathematician
Raissa Berg - Russian-American geneticist and evolutionary biologist
Abram Besicovitch - Russian-British mathematician
Lev M. Bregman - Soviet-Israeli mathematician
Pafnuty Chebyshev - mathematician
Yakov Eliashberg - Russian-American mathematician
Vera Faddeeva - mathematician
Vladimir Fock - physicist
Sergey Fomin - Russian-American mathematician
Leonid Frankfurt - Russian-Israeli physicist
George Gamow - Soviet-American cosmologist
Israel Gohberg - Soviet-Israeli mathematician
Mikhail Gromov - Franco-Russian mathematician, Abel Prize winner
Alexander Alfonsovich Grossheim - Ukrainian botanist
Georges Gurvitch - Russian-born French sociologist and jurist
Solomon Herzenstein - zoologist
Cecil Hoare FRS - British protozoologist and parasitologist
Alexander Its - mathematician
Ivan Ivanov - mathematician
Dmitry Ivanovsky - biologist
Faina Mihajlovna Kirillova - mathematician and control theorist
Leo Klejn - archaeologist, anthropologist, and philologist.
Wladimir Köppen - Russian-German geographer, meteorologist, climatologist and botanist
Yuri Linnik - mathematician
Mikhail Lomonosov - scientist, writer and polymath
Aleksandr Lyapunov - mathematician, mechanician and physicist
Victor Lyatkher, renewable energy engineer
Andrey Markov - mathematician
Dmitri Mendeleev - chemist; creator of the first version of the periodic table of elements
Boris Nikolsky - chemist
Grigori Perelman - mathematician, Fields Medal winner (2006, declined), and only man to solve a Millennium Prize Problem (2010, prize declined)
Konstantin Petrzhak - physicist
Lev Pavlovich Rapoport - theoretical physicist
Alexander Raikhel - Soviet-American entomologist
Natasha Raikhel - Soviet-American plant cell biologist
Vladimir Rokhlin - mathematician
Nikolai Semenov - physicist and chemist
Stanislav Smirnov - mathematician, Fields Medal winner (2010)
Jacob Tamarkin - Russian-American mathematician
Vladimir Vernadsky - mineralogist and geochemist
Georgy Voronoy - mathematician
Emil Wiesel - Russian-German artist; museum curator; full member of the Russian Imperial Academy of Arts (since 1914); organizer of international art exhibitions; councilor of Hermitage and Russian museum
Sergei Winogradsky - microbiologist, ecologist and soil scientist
Yuri Yappa - theoretical physicist
Victor Zalgaller - Russian-Israeli mathematician

Other

Alexander Alekhine - Russian-French fourth World Chess Champion
Viktor Korchnoi - Soviet and Swiss chess grandmaster and chess writer
Grigory Levenfish - chess player; 2x Soviet champion
Vladas Petronaitis - Lithuanian patriot, soldier and martyr
Józef Pluskowski - Polish poet and member of the Polish Resistance
Yakov Rekhter - co-founder of BGP and MPLS networking protocols
Gennadiy Shatkov - Olympic champion in boxing
Eduard Vinokurov (1942–2010) - Kazakh-born Soviet Olympic and world champion fencer
Mahinda Balasuriya - 32nd Inspector General of the Sri Lanka Police (IGP) (2009–2011).

Faculty only

Leonhard Euler - Swiss mathematician and physicist
Nikolai Gogol - Russian literature writer of Ukrainian origin; historian
Rada Granovskaya - psychologist
Ivan Sechenov - physiologist
Zare Yusupova - philologist, Kurdish linguist
Rahul Sankrityayan - Indian independence activist, writer and a polyglot who wrote in Hindi.

References

^ Page 54, Barbara Branden, The Passion of Ayn Rand, Doubleday (1986), hardcover, 442 pages, ISBN 0-385-19171-5

Alumni list of Saint-Petersburg University

[1] Page 54, Barbara Branden, The Passion of Ayn Rand, Doubleday (1986), hardcover, 442 pages, ISBN 0-385-19171-5

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