Notable Alumni of Kazan Federal University [Sorted List]

1. Boris Kochelaev

1934-2025 (aged 91)

physicist

Boris Ivanovich Kochelaev was a Soviet and Russian physicist and academic.

2. Roman Şäyxetdinef

1974-. (aged 52)

jurist politician

Roman Shaykhutdinov is a Deputy Prime Minister of the Republic of Tatarstan, responsible for development of Innopolis.

3. Nikolai Demert

1835-1876 (aged 41)

in-home tutor writer journalist

Nikolai Alexandrovich Demert was a Russian writer, journalist and publicist.

4. Lyubov Nikolayevna Vasilyeva

1901-1985 (aged 84)

botanist

Ljubov Nikolaevna Vassiljeva was a Soviet botanist, mycologist, and bryologist. The standard author abbreviation Lj.N.Vassiljeva is used to indicate this person as the author when citing a botanical name.

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5. Iustin Frățiman

1870-1927 (aged 57)

historian teacher curator

Iustin Ștefan Frățiman, also known as Frațman, Froțman, Frotziman or Frățimanu, was a historian, educator, librarian and political figure from Bessarabia, active in the Russian Empire and the Kingdom of Romania. After receiving a classical education, he worked for various seminaries of the Russian Orthodox Church, moving as far north as Olonets. Frățiman had settled in Soroca by the time...

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6. Murat Kamaletdinov

1928-2013 (aged 85)

geologist petroleum geologist

Murat Abdulkhakovich Kamaletdinov was a Bashkir petroleum geologist.

7. Naum Terebinsky

1851-. (aged 175)

politician

Naum Varlaamovich Terebinsky was a student of the theological seminary, a doctor of medicine, a deputy Orenburg City Duma, a deputy of the Third Imperial Duma from the Orenburg Governorate from 1907 to 1908. His son was Nikolai Naumovich Terebinsky (Russian: Николай Наумович Теребинский, 1880—1959), a professor, one of the pioneers of open heart surgery.

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8. Boris Keller

1874-1945 (aged 71)

botanist

Boris Aleksandrovich Keller was a Russian and Soviet biologist and a pioneer of plant ecology in the Soviet Union. Specializing in the vegetational ecology of the semi-arid steppe regions, he introduced the idea of vegetation complexes which are now termed as synusia in plant ecology. He served as the first director of the Komarov Botanical Institute.

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9. Valeriy Pisigin

1957-. (aged 69)

historian musicologist

Valeriy Fridrikhovich Pisigin is a Russian writer; historian; blues, British and American folk music researcher; and former political activist.

10. Aleksandr Artemyev

1820-1874 (aged 54)

statistician archaeologist historian archivist ethnographer

Aleksandr Ivanovich Artemyev was a Russian statistician, archeologist, ethnographer and geographer; State Councillor, senior editor of the Central Statistical Committee, member of the Statistical Council of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Empire.

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11. Valery Taliyev

1872-1932 (aged 60)

university teacher botanist

Valery Ivanovich Taliev was a Russian botanist and evolutionary biologist, best known for the concept of the role of man in the spreading of plants during the Holocene and for his evolutionary ideas. He is considered as one of the first natural scientists who explored the importance of anthropogenic factors in the evolution and geographic distribution of higher plants.

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12. Vladimir Moskovkin

1952-. (aged 74)

geographer

Vladimir Mikhailovich Moskovkin is a Post-Soviet and Ukrainian geographer, economist, scientometrist, teacher, publicist. Doctor of Geographical Sciences, professor.

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13. Aydar Akhatov

1957-. (aged 69)

economist ecologist artist

Aydar Gabdulkhaevich Akhatov is a Russian state, political and public figure, journalist, scientist-economist, ecologist, lawyer, artist. He is an ethnic Tatar.

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14. Julia Zabłocka

1931-1993 (aged 62)

historian

Rosalia Julianna Zabłocka (1931–1993) was a Polish classical scholar, historian and archaeologist who pioneered research on the ancient history of the Middle East at the Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań. In the late 1970s, she participated in archaeology developments in Iraq and was particularly active in the excavations of the Novae Fortress in today's Bulgaria. In 1982 she published an...

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15. Tatyana Larionova

1955-. (aged 71)

politician

Tatiana Petrovna Larionova is a Russian political figure and deputy of the 8th State Duma. In 2005, she was granted a Candidate of Sciences in Sociology degree.

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16. Mikhail Lyapunov

1820-1868 (aged 48)

astronomer

Mikhail Vasilyevich Lyapunov was a Russian astronomer and a head of the Demidov Lyceum in Yaroslavl.

17. Sotlan Ğäbäşi

1891-1942 (aged 51)

composer musicologist

Ğäbäşi Soltanäxmät Xäsänğata ulı a.k.a. Soltan Ğäbäşi was a Tatar composer, musicologist and choirmaster.

18. Arif Selimov

1956-. (aged 70)

mathematician

Arif Salimov is an Azerbaijani/Soviet mathematician, Honored Scientist of Azerbaijan, known for his research in differential geometry. He earned his B.Sc. degree from Baku State University, Azerbaijan, in 1978, a PhD and Doctor of Sciences (Habilitation) degrees in geometry from Kazan State University, Russia, in 1984 and 1998, respectively. His advisor was Vladimir Vishnevskii. Salimov is Full Professor and Head...

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19. Leon Litinetsky

1967-. (aged 59)

politician

Leon Litinetsky is an Israeli politician. He served as a member of the Knesset for the Labor Party between 2008 and 2009, and for Yisrael Beiteinu between 2014 and 2015.

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20. Sergei Bakinsky

1886-1939 (aged 53)

diplomat military personnel politician

Sergei Segeyevich Bakinsky was a Bolshevik politician, revolutionary, the first People's Commissar of Ukrainian People's Republic of Soviets on nationalities.

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21. Nikolai A. Golovkinsky

1834-1897 (aged 63)

geologist

Nikolai A. Golovkinsky was a Russian geologist who studied among other things the Paleozoic sediments of Tatarstan. He was a professor at the Kazan University.

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22. Konstantin Pyatnitsky

1864-1938 (aged 74)

editing staff memoirist journalist publisher translator

Konstantin Petrovich Pyatnitsky was a Russian journalist, publisher and memoirist from the Russian Empire and Soviet Union. Pyatnitsky was a co-founder of the publishing company Znanie and one–time close associate of Maxim Gorky.

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23. Nikolay Neprimerov

1921-2017 (aged 96)

physicist

Nikolay Neprimerov was a Doctor of Technical Sciences and professor of physics at the Kazan State University. Neprimerov was Head of the Department of Radioelectronics of the Kazan University for 32 years and is author of more than 150 scientific papers and 9 monographs. He also authored a book about the everyday life of military pilots during World War II....

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24. Pyotr Pertsov

1868-1947 (aged 79)

literary critic writer journalist literary historian poet

Pyotr Petrovich Pertsov was a Russian poet, publisher, editor, literary critic, journalist and memoirist associated with the Russian Symbolist movement.

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25. Walter Anderson

1885-1962 (aged 77)

numismatist writer folklorist fairy tale scholar academic

Walter Arthur Alexander Anderson was a Baltic German ethnologist (folklorist) and numismatist.

26. Sergey Reformatsky

1860-1934 (aged 74)

university teacher chemist inventor

Sergey Nikolaevich Reformatsky was a Russian chemist.

27. Alexander Tarasov-Rodionov

1885-1938 (aged 53)

military personnel revolutionary prose writer writer military officer

Alexander Ignatyevich Tarasov-Rodionov was a Russian/Soviet writer and revolutionary, best known for his novel Chocolate which at the time of publication was acclaimed as a tale of heroic self-sacrifice but has since been criticized as a justification for the Red Terror.

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28. Ilya Berezin

1818-1896 (aged 78)

historian translator

Ilya Nikolayevich Berezin was a Russian Orientalist, the major authority on the culture, languages and history of Turkey, Iran and Mongolia, the Meritorious Professor of Saint Petersburg University, who wrote both in Russian and French.

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29. Alexey Fedorov-Davydov

1900-1969 (aged 69)

university teacher art historian

Aleksei Aleksandrovich Fedorov-Davydov was a Soviet art scholar and historian.

30. Ivan Mikhailovich Simonov

1794-1855 (aged 61)

astronomer

Ivan Mikhailovich Simonov was a Russian astronomer and a geodesist.

31. Wilhelm Anderson

1880-1940 (aged 60)

astrophysicist astronomer physicist university teacher

Wilhelm Robert Karl Anderson was a Russian-Estonian astrophysicist of Baltic German descent who studied the physical structure of the stars.

32. Yegor Wagner

1849-1903 (aged 54)

university teacher chemist

Yegor Yegorovich Wagner was a Russian organic chemist, famous for the discovery of the "Wagner reaction", named after him. Former representative of the Kazan School of Chemistry.

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33. Vasily Bervi-Flerovsky

1829-1918 (aged 89)

economist writer sociologist

Vasily Vasiliyevich Bervi-Flerovsky was a Russian economist, sociologist, journalist and prominent theorist of the Narodnik and nihilist movements.

34. Viktor Shershunov

1950-2007 (aged 57)

statesperson politician

Viktor Andreyevich Shershunov was the governor of Kostroma Oblast, Russia, from 1997 to 2007. He previously worked at the Prosecutor's Office of Kostroma Oblast.

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35. Mikołaj Kruszewski

1851-1887 (aged 36)

linguist

Mikołaj Habdank Kruszewski, was a Polish linguist active in the Russian Empire, most significant as the co-inventor of the concept of the phoneme. From 1883, he was a professor at Kazan University. His notable works include On Sound Alternation (1881) and Outline of Linguistic Science (1883). The former is the introduction to his master's thesis on morphophonemic alternation in Old...

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36. Vladimir Adoratsky

1878-1945 (aged 67)

politician philosopher

Vladimir Viktorovich Adoratsky was a Russian revolutionary, Soviet historian, academic and Marxist philosopher.

37. Vasily Vasilyev

1818-1900 (aged 82)

writer

Vasily Pavlovich Vasilyev or Wassiljew was the preeminent Russian Sinologist of the 19th Century.

38. Sultan Majid Afandiyev

1887-1938 (aged 51)

politician

Sultan Majid Afandiyev, also spelled Efendiyev (May 26, 1887 – April 21, 1938) was an Azerbaijani revolutionary and statesman, one of the founders of the Communist Party of Azerbaijan. He was repressed during the Great Terror.

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39. Jiang Ping

1930-2023 (aged 93)

jurist politician

Jiang Ping was a Chinese legal scholar. He was the President of China University of Political Science and Law, and a member of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress.

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40. Militsa Nechkina

1901-1985 (aged 84)

historian university teacher

Militsa Vasilyevna Nechkina was a Soviet historian. She taught at Moscow State University and extensively studied the Decembrist revolt of 1825.

41. Mirfatıyx Zäkief

1928-2023 (aged 95)

historian pedagogue linguist university teacher

Mirfatyh Zakievich Zakiev was a Soviet and Russian Turkologist of Tatar origin.

42. Marina Razbezhkina

1948-. (aged 78)

documentary filmmaker director film director screenwriter film actor

Marina Razbezhkina is a Russian screenwriter, producer, director and documentary filmmaker. Working on such films asHarvest Time, The Hollow and Optical Axis she has multiple awards at international film festivals including the Chicago International Film Festival.

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43. Lenar Safin

1969-. (aged 57)

statesperson politician

Lenar Rinatovich Safin is a Russian politician. From 2020 to 2022, he served as a senator from Tatarstan.

44. Nikolay Likhachyov

1862-1936 (aged 74)

sigillographer philologist historian librarian art historian

Nikolay Petrovich Likhachyov, alternatively transliterated as Likhachev (12 April 1862 – 14 April 1936) was the first and foremost Russian sigillographer (that is, an expert on seals) who also contributed significantly to an array of auxiliary historical disciplines, including palaeography, epigraphy, diplomatics, genealogy, and numismatics. He was elected a member of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR in 1925...

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45. Fäwziä Bäyrämevä

1950-. (aged 76)

public figure human rights defender

Fauziya Aukhadiyevna Bayramova is a Tatar politician and writer. She was a founder of the Tatarstan independence party The Ittifaq Party. From 1990 to 1995 she was a member of the State Council of the Republic of Tatarstan. From 1994 to 1997 she was the chair of the Milli Majlis, the unrecognized Tatar parliament, which she helped to establish. She...

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46. Taliä Xäbrievä

1958-. (aged 68)

academic

Taliya Yarullovna Habrieva is a Russian scholar of constitutional law. She was instrumental in preparing the 2020 amendments to the Constitution of Russia that allowed President Vladimir Putin to remain in power after 2024.

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47. Alexander Mikhaylovich Zaytsev

1841-1910 (aged 69)

university teacher chemist

Aleksander Mikhaylovich Zaytsev, also Zaitsev, Saytzeff, or Saytzev was a Russian chemist. He worked on organic compounds and proposed Zaytsev's rule, which predicts the product composition of an elimination reaction.

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48. Yuliya Zaripova

1986-. (aged 40)

athletics competitor middle-distance runner

Yuliya Mikhailovna Zaripova is a disgraced former Russian middle-distance runner who specialised in the 3000 metres steeplechase event.

49. Ivan Lypa

1865-1923 (aged 58)

literary critic politician writer physician poet

Ivan Lvovych Lypa was a Ukrainian physician and politician who served as Ukrainian minister of Religious Affairs. He is a father of another Ukrainian political leader and physician Yurii Lypa.

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50. Alfiya Kogogina

1968-. (aged 58)

politician

Alfiya Gumarovna Kogogina is a Russian political figure and deputy of the 6th, 7th, and 8th State Dumas.

51. Yevgeny Zavoisky

1907-1976 (aged 69)

nuclear physicist physicist

Yevgeny Konstantinovich Zavoisky was a Soviet physicist known for discovery of electron paramagnetic resonance in 1944. He likely observed nuclear magnetic resonance in 1941, well before Felix Bloch and Edward Mills Purcell, but dismissed the results as not reproducible. Zavoisky is also credited with design of luminescence camera for detection of nuclear processes in 1952 and discovery of magneto-acoustic resonance...

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52. Vasily Likhachyov

1952-2019 (aged 67)

diplomat statesperson politician

Vasily Nikolayevich Likhachyov was a Russian politician, the Permanent Representative for Russia to the European Council (1998), and Deputy Minister of Justice in Russia. Since 2011 until his death he was a Russian State Duma deputy from the Communist Party of the Russian Federation.

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53. Ruslan Möxämmätşin

1981-. (aged 45)

basketball player association football coach association football player

Ruslan Nailevich Mukhametshin is a Russian professional football coach and a former player. He is an assistant coach for FC Mordovia Saransk.

54. Daniil Mordovtsev

1830-1905 (aged 75)

historian writer

Daniil Lukich Mordovtsev was a Russian writer and historian.

55. Pyotr Boborykin

1836-1921 (aged 85)

journalist writer

Pyotr Dmitriyevich Boborykin was a Russian writer, playwright, and journalist.

56. Nikolay Zinin

1812-1880 (aged 68)

inventor organic chemist

Nikolay Nikolaevich Zinin was a Russian organic chemist.

57. Mikhail Lavrentyev

1900-1980 (aged 80)

mathematician physicist university teacher politician

Mikhail Alekseyevich Lavrentyev was a Soviet mathematician and hydrodynamicist.

58. Oleg Morozov

1953-. (aged 73)

statesperson politician

Oleg Viktorovich Morozov is a Russian and former Soviet politician. He has the federal state civilian service rank of 1st class Active State Councillor of the Russian Federation. He was a deputy in the State Duma between 1993 and 2012 and again since 2020. He served as a member of the Federation Council between September 2015 and September 2020. From...

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59. Ludwik Rajchman

1881-1965 (aged 84)

physician social activist microbiologist

Ludwik Witold Rajchman was a Polish physician and bacteriologist. He is regarded as the founder of UNICEF, and served as its first chairman from 1946 to 1950.

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60. Aleksandr Vishnevsky

1906-1975 (aged 69)

cardiac surgeon military physician inventor physiologist surgeon

Alexander Alexandrovich Vishnevsky was a Soviet surgeon, member of the Academy of Medical Sciences of the USSR (1953), honoured worker of science of the RSFSR (1956), Colonel General of Medical Corps (1966), and a Hero of Socialist Labor (1966). Vishnevsky first conducted a cardiac surgery under the local anesthesia (1953).

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61. Leonid Kulik

1883-1942 (aged 59)

university teacher mineralogist

Leonid Alekseyevich Kulik was a Soviet mineralogist who is noted for his research into meteorites.

62. Pavel Chikov

1978-. (aged 48)

jurist

Pavel Vladimirovich Chikov is a Russian lawyer, human rights activist, and public figure. Chikov is the head of the Agora International Human Rights Group and a former member of the Presidential Council for Civil Society and Human Rights from 2012 to 2019.

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63. Jan Piłsudski

1876-1950 (aged 74)

jurist politician

Jan Piłsudski, was a Polish politician and younger brother of Marshal Józef Piłsudski.

64. Kamil Isxaqof

1949-. (aged 77)

diplomat

Kamil Iskhakov, is Russian regional development minister's assistant. He has the federal state civilian service rank of 1st class Active State Councillor of the Russian Federation. He is of Tatar descent.

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65. Nikolai Semashko

1874-1949 (aged 75)

statesperson physician

Nikolai Aleksandrovich Semashko was a Russian revolutionary and Soviet bureaucrat and physician who became People's Commissar of Public Health in 1918, and served in that role until 1930. He was one of the organizers of the health system in the Soviet Union (often called the Semashko system), an academician of the Academy of Medical Sciences (1944) and of the Russian...

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66. Liliä Gildievä

1976-. (aged 50)

journalist

Lilia Faridovna Gildeeva is a Russian journalist who worked for the NTV news program Segodnya from 2006 to 2022. She is famous for joking on air with her partner and colleague Alexey Pivovarov.

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67. Nikolai Nikiforov

1982-. (aged 44)

politician economist

Nikolay Anatolyevich Nikiforov is a Russian politician. In 2012, he became Minister of Communications and Mass Media of Russia.

68. Ilsur Metshin

1969-. (aged 57)

politician

Ilsur Raisovich Metshin is a Russian politician of Tatar descent. He has served as the mayor of Kazan since 2005.

69. Nikolai Fyodorov

1958-. (aged 68)

economist jurist statesperson politician

Nikolay Vasilyevich Fyodorov is the First Deputy Chairman of the Federation Council. He is also the former president of the Chuvash Republic in Russia.

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70. Pavel Ivanovich Melnikov

1818-1883 (aged 65)

novelist ethnographer historian librarian school teacher

Pavel Ivanovich Melnikov was a Russian writer, best known for his novels In the Forests and On the Hills, which describe the unique life of Transvolga and use its dialects.

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71. Aleksey Obmochaev

1989-. (aged 37)

volleyball player

Aleksey Aleksandrovich Obmochaev is a Russian volleyball player, a member of Russia men's national volleyball team and Russian club Kuzbass Kemerovo. He was a champion at the 2011 World Cup, and a gold medalist at the 2012 Olympics.

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72. Ilya Ulyanov

1831-1886 (aged 55)

pedagogue teacher politician

Ilya Nikolayevich Ulyanov OSV was a Russian public figure in the field of public education. He was the father of revolutionary Vladimir Lenin, who became a Bolshevik leader and founder of the Soviet Union, and Aleksandr Ulyanov, who was executed for his attempt to assassinate Tsar Alexander III in 1886.

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73. Sergey Aksakov

1791-1859 (aged 68)

memoirist journalist literary critic prose writer translator

Sergey Timofeyevich Aksakov was a 19th-century Russian literary figure remembered for his semi-autobiographical tales of family life, as well as his books on hunting and fishing.

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74. Alexander Butlerov

1828-1886 (aged 58)

university teacher chemist academic

Alexander Mikhaylovich Butlerov was a Russian chemist, one of the principal creators of the theory of chemical structure (1857–1861), the first to incorporate double bonds into structural formulas, the discoverer of hexamine (1859), the discoverer of formaldehyde (1859) and the discoverer of the formose reaction (1861). He first proposed the idea of possible tetrahedral arrangement of valence bonds in carbon...

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75. Stanislav Govorukhin

1936-2018 (aged 82)

actor screenwriter television director politician film director

Stanislav Sergeyevich Govorukhin was a Soviet and Russian film director, actor, screenwriter, producer and politician. He was named People's Artist of Russia in 2006. His movies often featured detective or adventure plots.

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76. Aydat Mätşin

1963-. (aged 63)

politician

Aidar Raisovich Metshin is a Russian political figure, former mayor of Nizhnekamsk, and a deputy of the 8th State Duma.

77. Valiulla Yakupov

1963-2012 (aged 49)

mufti

Valiulla Makhmutovich Yakupov was a prominent Muslim cleric in Tatarstan, Russia, and the deputy to the Muslim province's chief mufti. He was also known as a strong critic of radical Islamist organisations which advocate Salafism, a radical form of Islam. According to news agency Interfax, Yakupov founded Russia's first Islamic literary publishing house. Yakupov was killed by suspected radical Islamists...

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78. Yevgenia Ginzburg

1904-1977 (aged 73)

journalist writer

Yevgenia Solomonovna Ginzburg was a Soviet writer who served an 18-year sentence in the Kolyma Gulag. Her given name is often Latinized to Eugenia.

79. Irina Volynets

1978-. (aged 48)

journalist politician

Irina Volynets is a Russian journalist, pro-government campaigner against human rights and for repressive legislation, and leader of the National Parents Committee social movement. In 2017, she became a candidate in the 2018 Russian presidential election, but withdrew her candidacy in favor of Vladimir Putin.

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80. Hugo Kaho

1885-1964 (aged 79)

biologist botanist

Richard Hugo Kaho was an Estonian plant physiologist and politician. He was a member of VI Riigikogu (its National Council). From 1938 until 1940, he was the rector of the University of Tartu.

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