Notable Alumni of Bauman Moscow State Technical University [Sorted List]

1. Igor Grekhov

1934-. (aged 92)

physicist

Igor Vsevolodovich Grekhov is a Soviet and Russian physicist and electrical engineer, full member of the Russian Academy of Sciences. He is known as one of the founders of the power semiconductor device industry in the Soviet Union. His contributions to the field of pulsed power devices and converter technique were recognized by the awarding of the Lenin Prize, the...

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2. Vladimir Zotikov

1887-1970 (aged 83)

engineer

Vladimir Evgenievich Zotikov was a prominent Russian and Soviet scientist and textile engineer best known for having developed the theory of cotton-spinning. He devoted his life to the study and improvement of mechanical technology of fibrous materials.

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3. Vladimir Damgov

1947-2006 (aged 59)

mathematician politician physicist

Vladimir Nikolov Damgov was a Bulgarian physicist, mathematician, union leader, and parliamentarian. He contributed particularly to the application of Chaos theory to mechanical and radiophysical systems as well as to space exploration and space studies.

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4. Pyotr Stepanov

1959-. (aged 67)

politician

Pyotr Petrovich Stepanov is a Transnistrian politician and was the Prime Minister of Transnistria from 18 January 2012 until 10 July 2013.

5. Igor Kovalevsky

1965-. (aged 61)

radio personality

Igor Leonidovich Kovalevsky is a Catholic priest, general secretary of the Conference of Catholic Bishops of Russia from 1999 to 2020, the administrator parish of Saints Peter and Paul Cathedral in Moscow, director of Caritas in the European Part of Russia.

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6. Alexander Tselikov

1904-1984 (aged 80)

metallurgist

Alexander Ivanovich Tselikov was a Soviet metallurgist, industrial machines designer, and Hero of Socialist Labor (1964, 1984). He was elected a corresponding member of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR in 1953 and full member (academician) in 1964.

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7. Vasily Grinevetsky

1871-1919 (aged 48)

scientist

Vasily Ignatievich Grinevetsky was a professor of engineering at the Imperial Moscow Technical School in the Russian Empire. Along with his colleague, Karl Vasilievich Kirsh, he proposed founding the All-Russia Thermal Engineering Institute, which was eventually founded in 1921.

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8. Leonid Assur

1878-1920 (aged 42)

engineer

Leonid Vladimirovich Assur was a Russian mechanical engineer and scientist whose works on kinematics and dynamics established the theoretical principles of the Soviet school of Theory of Mechanisms and Machines (TMM).

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9. Alexey Mayorov

1961-. (aged 65)

statesperson businessperson politician

Alexei Petrovich Mayorov is a Russian politician who is currently serving as a senator since 2011 and member of the People's Khural of Kalmykia since 2013.

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10. Dmitry Litvinov

1854-1929 (aged 75)

botanist

Dmitry Ivanovich Litvinov was a Russian botanist responsible for the naming of a large variety of East European and Asian plants. He is known as the author of the concept of glacial refugia for the plants growing on chalk and limestone slopes of the banks of rivers in the European part of Russia. Together with Vasily Zinger, he discovered the...

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11. Oleg Ryakhovskiy

1933-2023 (aged 90)

triple jumper

Oleg Anatolevitch Ryakhovskiy was a Soviet and Russian triple jumper. He was a world record holder, the 1958 silver medallist at the European Athletics Championships, and twice Soviet national champion.

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12. Pyotr Bogdanov

1882-1938 (aged 56)

politician

Pyotr Alekseevich Bogdanov was a Soviet statesman, engineer and economist who was chairman of the Supreme Council of the National Economy of the Russian SFSR. He was executed during the Great Purge in 1939, then rehabilitated in 1956.

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13. Arkady Mordvinov

1896-1964 (aged 68)

architect

Arkady Grigoryevich Mordvinov was a Soviet architect and construction manager, notable for Stalinist architecture of Tverskaya Street, Leninsky Avenue, Hotel Ukraina skyscraper in Moscow and his administrative role in Soviet construction industry and architecture.

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14. Ivan Knunyants

1906-1990 (aged 84)

organic chemist engineer inventor

Ivan Lyudvigovich Knunyants, was a Soviet chemist of Armenian origin, academician of the Academy of Sciences of the Soviet Union, a major general and engineer, who significantly contributed to the advancement of Soviet chemistry. He made more than 200 inventions, many of which used in the Soviet industry.

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15. Anatoly Savin

1920-2016 (aged 96)

scientist

Anatoly Ivanovich Savin was a Soviet and Russian scientist. He was a specialist in the field of information and control automation systems. He was also a Doctor of Technical Sciences. Savin was the chairman of the Council on the problems of image processing and the scientific director of OJSC Almaz-Antey.

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16. Elya Chavez

1984-. (aged 42)

singer

Elya Chavez is a Russian brite style singer of Portuguese descent singing in Russian, Japanese and English.

17. Karl Krug

1873-1952 (aged 79)

electrical engineer

Karl Adolfovich Krug was a prominent Russian electrical engineer of Baltic German origin. He is credited with founding electrical engineering in Russia having established the All Union Electrical Engineering Institute in Moscow which became one of the biggest scientific research centres in Europe.

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18. Yury Prokhorov

1929-2013 (aged 84)

mathematician university teacher

Yuri Vasilyevich Prokhorov was a Soviet and Russian mathematician, active in the field of probability theory. He was a PhD student of Andrey Kolmogorov at the Moscow State University, where he obtained his PhD in 1956.

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19. Evgeny Abramyan

1930-2014 (aged 84)

writer university teacher nuclear physicist engineer inventor

Evgeny Aramovich Abramyan was a Soviet-Armenian physicist, Professor, Doctor of Engineering Sciences, Winner of USSR State Prize, one of the founders of several research directions in the Soviet and Russian nuclear technology. Author of more than 100 inventions and several books on applied physics, Evgeny Abramyan led research teams at the Kurchatov Institute of Atomic Energy, Budker Institute of Nuclear...

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20. Valery Sudarenkov

1940-. (aged 86)

statesperson politician

Valery Vasilyevich Sudarenkov is a Soviet party and Russian politician, former 1st secretary of the Kaluga Regional Committee of the Communist Party, the former governor of the Kaluga Region and a representative of Kaluga Oblast in the Federation Council.

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21. Ivan Nikolaev

1901-1979 (aged 78)

architect

Ivan Sergeyevich Nikolaev was a Soviet architect and educator, notable for his late 1920s constructivist architecture and later work in industrial architecture.

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22. Boris Balmont

1927-2022 (aged 95)

politician scientist

Boris Vladimirovich Balmont was a Russian politician.

23. Aleksandr Laveykin

1951-. (aged 75)

flight engineer engineer astronaut

Aleksandr Ivanovich Laveykin is a retired Soviet cosmonaut.

24. Aleksandr Nikolayevich Balandin

1953-. (aged 73)

flight engineer engineer astronaut

Aleksandr Nikolayevich Balandin is a Russian cosmonaut. He is married with two children. He was selected as a cosmonaut on December 1, 1978, and retired on October 17, 1994.

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25. Anatoly Alexandrov

1951-. (aged 75)

physicist engineer

Anatoly Alexandrovich Alexandrov, D.N., is a Russian applied physicist and a design engineer who is the rector of the Bauman Moscow State Technical University.

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26. Alexandr Vasilevich Vlasov

1900-1962 (aged 62)

urban planner architect

Aleksandr Vasilyevich Vlasov was a Soviet architect. He served as Chief Architect of Kyiv from 1944 to 1950 and Chief Architect of Moscow from 1950 to 1955 as well as President of the USSR Academy of Architecture from 1955 to 1956 and 1st Secretary of the Board of the Union of Architects of the USSR from 1961 to 1962.

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27. Joseph Poliakoff

1873-1959 (aged 86)

engineer inventor physicist

Joseph Lazarevich Poliakoff was a Ukrainian-born British telephone and sound engineer and inventor, particularly of hearing aids.

28. Alexander Mirzayan

1945-. (aged 81)

poet songwriter composer

Alexander Zavenovich Mirzayan is a Russian poet, composer, songwriter, bard and bard music theoretician. He was born in Baku. In 1969 he graduated from Bauman Moscow State Technical University and worked as a physics engineer in the Moscow Institute for Theoretical and Experimental Physics.

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29. Yuri Koptev

1940-. (aged 86)

statesperson scientist mechanical engineer

Yuri Nikolayevich Koptev is a former General Director of the Russian Space Agency (now known as Roscosmos), serving in that role from 1992 to 2004. He was replaced in 2004 by Anatoly Perminov, a former commander of the Russian Space Forces. He has the federal state civilian service rank of 1st class Active State Councillor of the Russian Federation.

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30. Pavel Zavalny

1961-. (aged 65)

politician

Pavel Nikolayevich Zavalny is a deputy for the United Russia party in the 7th State Duma of the Russian Federation. He is the head of the committee on Energy. He is president of the Russian Gas Society since 2013 and was director general of Gazprom Transgas Yugorsk until May 2012.

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31. Sergey Afanasyev

1918-2001 (aged 83)

engineer politician

Sergey Aleksandrovich Afanasyev was a Russian engineer and later politician who was the leading figure in the Soviet Union's missile and space program. He was the Minister of General Machine Building from 1965 to 1983.

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32. Grigori Tokaty

1913-2003 (aged 90)

engineer

Grigory Aleksandrovich Tokaev also known as Grigory Tokaty; (13 October 1909 – 23 November 2003) was a Soviet rocket scientist and politician. Eventually turned anti-communist, he defected to the United Kingdom and became a long-standing critic of Stalin's USSR.

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33. Vassili Nesterenko

1934-2008 (aged 74)

statesperson scientist

Vassili Nesterenko was a Soviet and Belarusian physicist from Ukraine and a former director of the Institute of Nuclear Energy at the National Academy of Sciences of Belarus (1977–1987).

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34. Song Jian

1931-. (aged 95)

cyberneticist military flight engineer

Song Jian is a Chinese aerospace engineer, demographer, and politician. He was deputy chief designer of China's submarine-launched ballistic missile (JL-1) and one of the country's leading scientists in the post-Cultural Revolution era. After a decade of two-child restrictions in the 1970s, and following the Chinese government's announcement in 1979 to advocate for one child per family, he became a...

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35. Alexander Kemurdzhian

1921-2003 (aged 82)

military flight engineer academic inventor

Aleksandr Leonovich Kemurdzhian was a Soviet mechanical engineer who worked at the VNIITransmash institute for most of the second half of the 20th century. He is best known for designing the metal chases for Lunokhod 1—the first ever planetary rover for space exploration in the Soviet space program.

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36. Nikolay Pilyugin

1908-1982 (aged 74)

military flight engineer scientist politician

Nikolai Alekseevich Pilyugin was a Soviet chief designer of rocket guidance systems.

37. Vladimir Barmin

1909-1993 (aged 84)

military flight engineer scientist engineer

Vladimir Pavlovich Barmin was a Russian engineer in the former Soviet space program who is remembered for being the designer of the first Soviet rocket launch complexes in the Soviet space program.

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38. Olga Rubtsova

1909-1994 (aged 85)

chess player

Olga Nikolayevna Rubtsova was a Soviet chess player and the fourth women's world chess champion. In 2015, she was inducted into the World Chess Hall of Fame.

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39. Evgeny Novitsky

1957-. (aged 69)

businessperson

Evgeny Grigorievich Novitsky is a Russian engineer and entrepreneur, former president of the large AFK Sistema conglomerate which holds many diversified businesses.

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40. Victor Remsha

1970-. (aged 56)

trader entrepreneur business broker insurance broker

Victor Mikhailovich Remsha is a Russian businessman who is the founder of Finam Investment Holding, a large Russian investment corporation. He is also on the boards of NAUFOR and MICEX-RTS.

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41. Dmitry Strashnov

1967-. (aged 59)

businessperson

Dmitry Yevgenevich Strashnov is a Russian businessman and manager, General Director of the Russian Post from 2013–2017.

42. Oleg Grigoryevich Makarov

1933-2003 (aged 70)

astronaut engineer

Oleg Grigoryevich Makarov was a Soviet cosmonaut.

43. Aleksandr Pavlovich Aleksandrov

1943-. (aged 83)

astronaut engineer

Aleksandr Pavlovich Aleksandrov is a former Soviet cosmonaut and twice Hero of the Soviet Union (November 23, 1983, and December 29, 1987).

44. Aleksei Yeliseyev

1934-. (aged 92)

politician writer engineer flight engineer astronaut

Aleksei Stanislavovich Yeliseyev is a retired Soviet cosmonaut who flew on three missions in the Soyuz programme as a flight engineer: Soyuz 5, Soyuz 8, and Soyuz 10. He made the world's eighth spacewalk during Soyuz 5 in 1969.

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45. Menachem Ussishkin

1863-1941 (aged 78)

engineer

Menachem Ussishkin was a Russian-born Zionist leader and head of the Jewish National Fund.

46. Galymzhan Zhakiyanov

1963-. (aged 63)

businessperson politician

Galymzhan Zhakiyanov is a Kazakh businessman and politician. He owned several companies in Kazakhstan and has served as the akim of Semipalatinsk Region and Pavlodar Region.

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47. Gennadi Strekalov

1940-2004 (aged 64)

flight engineer engineer astronaut

Gennady Mikhailovich Strekalov was an engineer, cosmonaut, and administrator at Russian aerospace firm RSC Energia. He flew into space five times and lived aboard the Salyut 6, Salyut 7, and Mir space stations, spending over 268 days in space. The catastrophic explosion of a Soyuz rocket in 1983 led to him being one of only four people to use a...

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48. Maksim Saburov

1900-1977 (aged 77)

politician economist

Maksim Zakharovich Saburov was a Soviet engineer, economist and politician, three-time Chairman of Gosplan and later First Deputy Premier of the Soviet Union. He was involved in the Anti-Party Group's attempt to displace Nikita Khrushchev in 1957.

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49. Boris Vannikov

1897-1962 (aged 65)

politician

Boris Lvovich Vannikov, was a Soviet politician and a political commissar who was one of the senior program managers in the Soviet program of nuclear weapons.

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50. Dmitry Grishin

1978-. (aged 48)

engineer

Dmitry Grishin is a businessman, investor and Internet entrepreneur. He is best known as the co-founder and former chairman and CEO of Mail.ru Group. Grishin also made significant contributions to Russia's internet presence, Runet, in its early days.

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51. Alexander Mikulin

1895-1985 (aged 90)

engineer military flight engineer

Aleksandr Aleksandrovich Mikulin was a Soviet aircraft engine designer and chief designer in the Mikulin OKB. His achievements include the first Soviet liquid-cooled aircraft piston engine, the Mikulin AM-34, and the Mikulin AM-3 turbojet engine for the Soviet Union's first jet airliner, the Tupolev Tu-104. Mikulin also took part in the Tsar Tank project.

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52. Vladimir Petlyakov

1891-1942 (aged 51)

military flight engineer engineer design engineer aircraft pilot

Vladimir Mikhailovich Petlyakov was a Soviet aeronautical engineer and aircraft designer.

53. Sergey Kud-Sverchkov

1983-. (aged 43)

astronaut engineer

Sergey Vladimirovich Kud-Sverchkov is a Russian cosmonaut, selected in 2010 by Roscosmos. He made his first spaceflight in 2020 aboard the International Space Station as a flight engineer for ISS Expedition 63/64.

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54. Vyacheslav Malyshev

1902-1957 (aged 55)

politician

Vyacheslav Aleksandrovich Malyshev was a Soviet politician and an engineer who was one of the senior program managers in the Soviet program of nuclear weapons during the 1940s and 1950s.

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55. Boris Shchukin

1894-1939 (aged 45)

pedagogue director actor film actor

Boris Vasilyevich Shchukin was a Russian and Soviet actor, theater director and pedagogue. In 1936, Shchukin was among the first group of recipients of the honorary title of People's Artist of the USSR. In 1941, he was posthumously awarded the Stalin Prize. He was most famous for his portrayals of Vladimir Lenin. On October 7, 1939, Shchukin died of cardiovascular...

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56. Ilya Sachkov

1986-. (aged 40)

entrepreneur

Ilya Sachkov is a Russian cybersecurity expert and founder and CEO of Group-IB, a cybersecurity company specialising in the detection and prevention of cyberattacks. He received an award from Russian president Vladimir Putin for his work in 2019. In September 2021, he was detained by the Russian government's Federal Security Service on treason charges.

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57. Gregory Rapota

1944-. (aged 82)

statesperson politician

Grigory Alekseevich Rapota is a Russian politician who currently serves as a Senator from the executive authority of Kursk Oblast. Prior to his appointment, he was the special representative of the Russian president in the Volga Federal District between 2008 and 2011. Before that he was the special representative of the Russian president in the Southern Federal District (North Caucasus...

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58. Oleg Skripochka

1969-. (aged 57)

flight engineer engineer astronaut

Oleg Ivanovich Skripochka is a Russian engineer and cosmonaut. In 2011 he was in space serving as an Expedition 25/26 crewmember.

59. Nikolay Dollezhal

1899-2000 (aged 101)

nuclear physicist engineer physicist

Nikolay Antonovich Dollezhal was a Russian engineer of Czech origin whose career was spent in the former Soviet program of nuclear weapons and later played an influential role in developing the commercial nuclear power industry of Russia.

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60. Oleg Artemyev

1970-. (aged 56)

astronaut engineer

Oleg Germanovich Artemyev is a Russian Cosmonaut for the Russian Federal Space Agency. He was selected as part of the RKKE-15 Cosmonaut group in 2003. He was a flight engineer of Expedition 39 and 40 to the International Space Station. In 2018, he returned to space as the commander of Soyuz MS-08, and in 2022, he returned to space as...

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61. Vladimir Grammatikov

1942-. (aged 84)

pedagogue lecturer film producer film dramaturge film director

Vladimir Alexandrovich Grammatikov is a Russian and Soviet theater and film actor, director, screenwriter and producer. He was awarded as Honored Artist of the Russian Federation in 1995.

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62. Vatslav Vorovsky

1871-1923 (aged 52)

diplomat literary critic politician

Vatslav Vatslavovich Vorovsky was a Russian Bolshevik revolutionary, literary critic, journalist, and Soviet diplomat. One of the first Soviet diplomats, Vorovsky is best remembered as the victim of a May 1923 political assassination in Switzerland, where he was the official representative of the Soviet government to the Conference of Lausanne.

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63. Rustem Khamitov

1954-. (aged 72)

politician

Rustem Zakievich Khamitov is a Russian politician and engineer who served as the 2nd Head of the Republic of Bashkortostan from 19 July 2010 to 11 October 2018. Khamitov is a member of the United Russia party, and belongs to the party's Supreme Council.

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64. Konstantin Feoktistov

1926-2009 (aged 83)

science astronaut engineer astronaut university teacher

Konstantin Petrovich Feoktistov, was Russian engineer and a cosmonaut in the former Soviet space program.

65. Yelena Kondakova

1957-. (aged 69)

engineer astronaut politician

Yelena Vladimirovna Kondakova is the third Soviet or Russian female cosmonaut to travel to space and the first woman to make a long-duration spaceflight. Her first trip into space was on Soyuz TM-20 on 4 October 1994. She returned to Earth on 22 March 1995, after a five-month stay at the Mir space station. Kondakova's second flight was as a...

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66. Semyon Lavochkin

1900-1960 (aged 60)

military flight engineer scientist engineer aircraft pilot inventor

Semyon Alekseyevich Lavochkin was a Soviet aerospace engineer, Soviet aircraft designer who founded the Lavochkin aircraft design bureau. Many of his fighter designs were produced in large numbers for Soviet forces during World War II.

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67. Andrei Tupolev

1888-1972 (aged 84)

politician military flight engineer aircraft pilot engineer businessperson

Andrei Nikolayevich Tupolev was a Russian and later Soviet aeronautical engineer known for his pioneering aircraft designs as the director of the Tupolev Design Bureau.

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68. Fyodor Sergeyev

1883-1921 (aged 38)

statesperson politician

Fyodor Andreyevich Sergeyev, better known as Comrade Artyom (Russian: товарищ Артём), was a Russian Bolshevik revolutionary, Soviet politician, agitator, and journalist. He was a close friend of Sergei Kirov and Joseph Stalin. Sergeyev was an ideologist of the Donetsk–Krivoy Rog Soviet Republic.

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69. Semyon Farada

1933-2009 (aged 76)

television actor stage actor actor film actor

Semyon Lvovich Ferdman PAR, better known by his stage name Semyon Farada was a Soviet and Russian stage and film actor.

70. Pavał Suchi

1895-1975 (aged 80)

military flight engineer inventor design engineer

Pavel Osipovich Sukhoi was a Soviet aerospace engineer and aircraft designer known as the founder of the Sukhoi Design Bureau. Sukhoi designed military aircraft with Tupolev and Sukhoi for 50 years, and produced many notable Soviet planes such as the Sukhoi Su-7, Su-17, and Su-24. His planes set two altitude world records (1959, 1962) and two world speed records (1960,...

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71. Arkady Ukupnik

1953-. (aged 73)

singer film score composer manufacturer composer songwriter

Arkady Semyonovich Ukupnik is a Russian composer, pop singer, actor, and producer.

72. Vladimir Shukhov

1853-1939 (aged 86)

photographer physicist military engineer engineer inventor

Vladimir Grigoryevich Shukhov was a Russian and Soviet engineer-polymath, scientist and architect renowned for his pioneering works on new methods of analysis for structural engineering that led to breakthroughs in industrial design of the world's first hyperboloid structures, diagrid shell structures, tensile structures, gridshell structures, oil reservoirs, pipelines, boilers, ships and barges. He is also the inventor of the first...

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73. Sergey Alexeyevich Lebedev

1902-1974 (aged 72)

computer scientist engineer inventor university teacher

Sergey Alekseyevich Lebedev was a Soviet scientist in the fields of electrical engineering and computer science, and designer of the first Soviet computers.

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74. Anton Kamolov

1976-. (aged 50)

television presenter journalist showman actor radio personality

Anton Igorevich Komolov is a Russian radio and TV presenter of entertainment programs, a DJ, an actor of dubbing, a showman.

75. Mikhail Yanshin

1902-1976 (aged 74)

theatrical director film director actor screenwriter

Mikhail Mikhailovich Yanshin was a Soviet stage and film actor.

76. Georgy Malenkov

1902-1988 (aged 86)

politician

Georgy Maximilianovich Malenkov was a Soviet politician who succeeded Joseph Stalin as Premier and the overall leader of the Soviet Union in March 1953. Shortly thereafter, Malenkov entered into a power struggle with the party's First Secretary, Nikita Khrushchev, which culminated in his removal from the premiership in 1955 as well as the Central Committee Presidium in 1957.

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77. Sergei Korolev

1907-1966 (aged 59)

scientist military flight engineer physicist university teacher engineer

Sergei Pavlovich Korolev was the lead Soviet rocket engineer and spacecraft designer during the Space Race between the United States and the Soviet Union in the 1950s and 1960s. He invented the R-7 Rocket, Sputnik 1, and was involved in the launching of Laika, Sputnik 3, the first human-made object to make contact with another celestial body, Belka and Strelka,...

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78. Aleksei Guskov

1958-. (aged 68)

manufacturer screenwriter television actor film producer actor

Aleksei Gennadyevich Guskov is a Soviet and Russian actor and producer. He was awarded People's Artist of Russia in 2007.

79. Vladimir Solovyov

1946-. (aged 80)

flight engineer engineer astronaut

Vladimir Rudolfovich Solovyov is a Russian TV presenter and propagandist. He has been an anchor on the television show Evening with Vladimir Solovyov on Russia-1 since 2012. He is one of the most famous news anchors in Russia, though he has become controversial internationally for his staunch nationalism, signature ad hominem attacks against both domestic political and international rivals, and...

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80. Alexei Russkikh

1968-. (aged 58)

statesperson Governor of Ulyanovsk Oblast politician

Aleksey Yuryevich Russkikh, is a Russian statesman and politician who is currently the Governor of the Ulyanovsk Oblast since 8 April 2021. He is a member of the Communist Party.

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81. Alexander Avdeev

1975-. (aged 51)

politician

Aleksandr Alekseyevich Avdeyev is a Russian and Soviet politician and diplomat. He was the Ambassador of the Soviet Union to Luxembourg from 1987 to 1990, the Russian Ambassador to Bulgaria from 1992 to 1996 and the Ambassador of Russia to France from 2002 to 2008. He later served as the Minister of Culture from 2008 to 2012.

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82. Sergey Gaplikov

1970-. (aged 56)

statesperson politician

Sergey Anatolyevich Gaplikov, born in 1970, is a Russian politician who served as Head of the Komi Republic from September 2015 to April 2020 when he resigned during the 2018–2020 Shies protests.

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83. Vladimir Kotelnikov

1908-2005 (aged 97)

mathematician astronomer engineer politician

Vladimir Aleksandrovich Kotelnikov was an information theory and radar astronomy pioneer from the Soviet Union. He was elected a member of the Russian Academy of Sciences in the Department of Technical Science (radio technology) in 1953. From 30 July 1973 to 25 March 1980 Kotelnikov served as chairman of the Supreme Soviet of the RSFSR.

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84. Viktor Makeyev

1924-1985 (aged 61)

inventor scientist university teacher politician

Viktor Petrovich Makeyev was a Soviet engineer in the Soviet space program who was also a central and founding figure in development of Submarine-launched ballistic missile (SLBM) for the Soviet Navy.

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85. Igor Stechkin

1922-2001 (aged 79)

engineer

Igor Yakovlevich Stechkin was a Russian small arms designer.

86. Dmitrii Kozlov

1919-2009 (aged 90)

university teacher chief executive officer engineer

Dmitry Ilyich Kozlov was a Russian aerospace engineer who founded the Progress Rocket Space Center, the developer and manufacturer of the Soyuz family of rockets.

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87. Krzysztof Matyjaszewski

1950-. (aged 76)

university teacher chemical technologist polymer chemist engineer chemist

Krzysztof "Kris" Matyjaszewski is a Polish-American chemist. He is the J.C. Warner Professor of the Natural Sciences at the Carnegie Mellon University Matyjaszewski is best known for the discovery of atom transfer radical polymerization (ATRP), a novel method of polymer synthesis that has revolutionized the way macromolecules are made.

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