75 Notable alumni of Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology

Updated: June 06, 2026 EliteDegrees

Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology is 857st in the world, 1st in North America, and 5st in the United States by aggregated alumni prominence. Below is the list of 75 notable alumni from Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology sorted by their wiki pages popularity. The directory includes famous graduates and former students along with research and academic staff. Many individuals affiliated with Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology won Nobel Prizes for Peace, in Physics, Chemistry, Physiology or Medicine, and Economics.

Alexey Vikhlinin

1. Alexey Vikhlinin

1970-. (aged 56)
astrophysicist
Alexey Vikhlinin is a Russian-American astrophysicist notable for achievements in the astrophysics of high energy phenomenon, namely galaxy cluster cosmology and the design of space-based X-ray observatories. He is currently a senior astrophysicist at the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory, part of the Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian in Cambridge, Massachusetts. He was recently the Science and Technology Definition Team...
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Boris Kholodenko

2. Boris Kholodenko

biologist
Boris Kholodenko is a Russian professor of Systems Biology at Systems Biology Ireland and Conway Institutes at University College Dublin, Ireland. He is also an adjunct professor at Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia where his group was behind the development of the first model of Epidermal growth factor receptor.
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Denis Denisenko

3. Denis Denisenko

1971-. (aged 55)
astronomer
Denis Denisenko is a Russian astronomer of the late 20th – early 21st century, discoverer of 10 supernovae, more than 150 variable stars, an asteroid, and a comet.
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Alexander A. Balandin

4. Alexander A. Balandin

1968-. (aged 58)
materials scientist
Alexander A. Balandin is a materials scientist, electrical engineer, and solid-state physicist best known for the discovery of unique thermal properties of graphene and few-layer graphene and their theoretical explanation; studies of phonons in nanostructures and low-dimensional materials, which led to the development of the field of phonon engineering; investigation of low-frequency electronic noise in materials and devices; and demonstration...
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Mike Gruntman

5. Mike Gruntman

1954-. (aged 72)
academic
Mike Gruntman is a Russian-American physicist, space engineer, and author. He is professor of astronautics and aerospace engineering at the Viterbi School of Engineering, University of Southern California.
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Peter Bezukladnikov

6. Peter Bezukladnikov

1959-. (aged 67)
businessperson engineer
Peter Wolframovich Bezukladnikov is former General Director of Russian biggest engineering company E4 Group (revenue $1.5bln, 18,000 employees) and formerly a scientist in the field of structural analysis of carbohydrates. From September 2009 - the executive vice president, director of the electric power department of the TEK Business Unit, Sistema OJSC.
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Andrey Varlamov

7. Andrey Varlamov

1954-. (aged 72)
university teacher scientist physicist
Andrey A. Varlamov is an Italian condensed matter physicist of Ukrainian origin, who works on superconductivity, fluctuation phenomena, graphene physics, and thermoelectricity. He is a principal investigator at the Institute of Superconductors, Oxides and Other Innovative Materials and Devices (SPIN-CNR) in Rome, Italy.
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Sergey I. Bozhevolnyi

8. Sergey I. Bozhevolnyi

1955-. (aged 71)
physicist researcher
Sergey I. Bozhevolnyi is a Russian-Danish physicist. He is currently a professor and the leader for the Centre for Nano Optics at the University of Southern Denmark.
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Mark Borodovsky

9. Mark Borodovsky

biologist
Mark Borodovsky is a Regents' Professor at the Join Wallace H. Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering of Georgia Institute of Technology and Emory University and Director of the Center for Bioinformatics and Computational Genomics at Georgia Tech. He has also been a Chair of the Department of Bioinformatics at the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology in Moscow, Russia from...
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Gennady Chibisov

10. Gennady Chibisov

1956-2008 (aged 52)
physicist
Gennady Chibisov was a Soviet/Russian cosmologist. He obtained his PhD in 1972, from the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology, with a thesis entitled "Entropy perturbations in cosmology". He is best known for his 1981 paper on the origin of cosmological density perturbations from quantum fluctuations, coauthored with Viatcheslav Mukhanov. This is the earliest of a number of calculations addressing...
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Vladilen Minin

11. Vladilen Minin

1932-. (aged 94)
physicist
Vladilen Fyodorovich Minin is a Soviet and Russian physicist, Doctor of Technical Sciences, a professor, a member of the Academy of Technological Sciences of the Russian Federation. He was the founder, general director and chief designer of the Institute of Applied Physics (1966-1996), the founder and president of the Urals-Siberian Branch of Russian Academy of Technological Sciences. He developed air-...
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Andrey Yepishin

12. Andrey Yepishin

1967-. (aged 59)
statesperson politician
Andrei Nikolayevich Yepishin is a Russian politician serving as a senator from Tver Oblast since 14 October 2021.
Vladimir Burkov

13. Vladimir Burkov

1939-2025 (aged 86)
mathematician university teacher
Vladimir Nikolaevich Burkov was a Russian control theorist and the author of more than four hundred publications on control problems, game theory, and combinatorial optimization. A laureate of the USSR State Prize, of the Prize of the Cabinet Council of the USSR, he was an Honoured Scholar of the Russian Federation. Vladimir Burkov was a vice-president of the Russian Project...
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Gennady Bisnovaty-Kogan

14. Gennady Bisnovaty-Kogan

1941-. (aged 85)
astrophysicist astronomer
Gennady Semyonovych Bisnovatyi-Kogan is an astrophysicist. He is known for predicting binary radio pulsars.
Edward Trifonov

15. Edward Trifonov

1937-. (aged 89)
biophysicist bioinformatician
Edward Nikolayevich Trifonov is a Russian-born Israeli molecular biophysicist and a founder of Israeli bioinformatics. In his research, he specializes in the recognition of weak signal patterns in biological sequences and is known for his unorthodox scientific methods.
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Aleksey Ryabinin

16. Aleksey Ryabinin

1970-. (aged 56)
public figure scientist writer
Aleksey Valerievich Ryabinin is a Russian Public Ombudsman for Copyright and Intellectual Property. Russian economist, politician and writer. Member of the Moscow City Parliament (2009–2014), a member of Russian Journalist Union.
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Dmitry Bisikalo

17. Dmitry Bisikalo

1961-. (aged 65)
astrophysicist professor astronomer
Dmitry Valerevich Bisikalo is a Russian astrophysicist and an expert in the interaction of binary stars. He is a member of the Russian Academy of Sciences, the IAU, Acting Chief of the Scientific Secretary of the Russian Academy of Sciences and Chief Researcher of the Institute of Astronomy of the Russian Academy of Sciences (RAS).
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Mesrop Aramian

18. Mesrop Aramian

1966-. (aged 60)
theologian
Mesrop Aramian is a priest of the Armenian Apostolic Church, theologian, scholar, writer, film producer, social entrepreneur and educator. Author of Ayb School's educational program (Araratian Baccalaureate) and founding chairman of the board of trustees.He is a co-founder of the Ayb Educational Foundation. He is a co-founder and member of the Board of Trustees of the Foundation for Armenian Science...
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Boris Chirikov

19. Boris Chirikov

1928-2008 (aged 80)
physicist theoretical physicist
Boris Valerianovich Chirikov was a Soviet and Russian physicist. He was the founder of the physical theory of Hamiltonian chaos and made pioneering contributions to the theory of quantum chaos. In 1959, he invented the Chirikov criterion which gives an analytical estimate for the overlap of resonances and provides the conditions for transition from integrability to global chaos in Hamiltonian...
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Vladimir Belinski

20. Vladimir Belinski

1941-. (aged 85)
physicist theoretical physicist
Vladimir Alekseevich Belinski is a Russian and Italian theoretical physicist involved in research in cosmology and general relativity. He worked at Landau Institute for Theoretical Physics from 1968 to 1989 and got his Habilitation (Doctor of Sciences) degree at this Institute in 1980. As of 2016, he holds the permanent professor position at International Network of the Centers for Relativistic...
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Alexander Holevo

21. Alexander Holevo

1943-. (aged 83)
mathematician university teacher
Alexander Semenovich Holevo is a Soviet and Russian mathematician, one of the pioneers of quantum information science.
Viktor Ivannikov

22. Viktor Ivannikov

1940-2016 (aged 76)
computer scientist
Viktor Petrovich Ivannikov was a Russian computer scientist, a member of Russian Academy of Sciences, the head of System Programming Chair for the Institute for System Programming, head of the Departments of system programming at the Faculty of Computational Mathematics and Cybernetics, Moscow State University and the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology.
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Mishik Kazaryan

23. Mishik Kazaryan

1948-2020 (aged 72)
physicist
Mishik Airazatovich Kazaryan was a Russian-Armenian physicist specialising in laser physics and optics, the winner of the State Prize of the USSR in the field of science and technology, foreign member of the Armenian National Academy of Sciences, member of the AM Prokhorov Academy of Engineering Sciences. Kazaryan was a creator of the brightest repetitively pulsed laser in the visible...
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Valentin Parmon

24. Valentin Parmon

1948-. (aged 78)
chemist
Valentin Nikolayevich Parmon is a Russian scientist who is credited with inventing new and improved catalytic processes in the field of energy technology.
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Yuri Gulyayev

25. Yuri Gulyayev

1935-. (aged 91)
physicist
Yuri Vasilyevich Gulyayev — (born 18 September 1935 in Tomilino, Moscow Oblast) is a Soviet and Russian physicist and inventor, Full Member and Member of the Presidium of Russian Academy of Sciences (1992), head of the Semiconductor Electronics chair in the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology (1971). Yuri Gulyayev works in the field of solid-state physics, radiophysics, electronics, computer...
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Nikolay Sevastyanov

26. Nikolay Sevastyanov

1961-. (aged 65)
military flight engineer engineer physicist
Nikolai Sevastianov graduated from the Aerodynamics and Space Exploration Department of the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology in 1984. In 1984 he took a job at NPO Energia as an engineer and rose through the ranks to the position of a deputy general designer. Since 2000 he has been director general of Gascom joint-stock company. In May 2005 –...
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Sergei B. Chernyshev

27. Sergei B. Chernyshev

1952-. (aged 74)
scientist
Sergei L Chernyshev, is from Bohodukhiv, Kharkiv Oblast, Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic. He is a Russian philosopher, educator and a scholar in the field of organization and management science.
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Alexander Beider

28. Alexander Beider

1963-. (aged 63)
sociolinguist linguist
Alexander Borisovich Beider is the author of reference books in the field of Jewish onomastics and the linguistic history of Yiddish.
Yuri Ryazanov

29. Yuri Ryazanov

1970-. (aged 56)
entrepreneur film screenwriter film director manager film producer
Yuri Viktorovich Ryazanov is a Russian businessman and politician. He is a member of the Federal Council of the all-Russian political party Party of Action and the Vice President of Novoe Sodruzhestvo. He is a member of the board of directors of Rostselmash, Empils and Buhler Industries.
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Alexander Arkadyevich Migdal

30. Alexander Arkadyevich Migdal

1945-. (aged 81)
computer scientist theoretical physicist physicist entrepreneur
Alexander "Sasha" Arkadyevich Migdal is a Russian-American mathematical and theoretical physicist currently working at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey.
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Nikolay Kudryavtsev

31. Nikolay Kudryavtsev

1950-. (aged 76)
physicist
Nikolay Kudryavtsev is president of Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology.
Mikhail Shifman

32. Mikhail Shifman

1949-. (aged 77)
physicist theoretical physicist
Mikhail "Misha" Arkadyevich Shifman is a theoretical physicist (high energy physics), formerly at the Institute for Theoretical and Experimental Physics, Moscow, currently Ida Cohen Fine Professor of Theoretical Physics, William I. Fine Theoretical Physics Institute, University of Minnesota.
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Victor Veselago

33. Victor Veselago

1929-2018 (aged 89)
physicist university teacher
Victor Georgievich Veselago was a Soviet Russian physicist, doctor of physical and mathematical sciences, and a university professor. In 1967, he was the first to publish a theoretical analysis of materials with negative permittivity, ε, and permeability, μ.
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Konstantin Babkin

34. Konstantin Babkin

1971-. (aged 55)
public figure businessperson politician
Konstantin Anatolyevich Babkin is a Russian businessman and politician. He is the chairman of the federal council of the political party Party of Business, which supports Vladimir Putin in Russia.
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Ivan Maximov

35. Ivan Maximov

1958-. (aged 68)
film director director animation director animator screenwriter
Ivan Leonidovich Maximov is a Russian artist, animator and film director.
Viatcheslav Mukhanov

36. Viatcheslav Mukhanov

1956-. (aged 70)
astrophysicist theoretical physicist physicist
Viatcheslav Fyodorovich Mukhanov is a Soviet/Russian born German theoretical physicist and cosmologist. He is best known for the theory of Quantum Origin of the Universe Structure. Working in 1980-1981 with Gennady Chibisov in the Lebedev Physical Institute in Moscow he predicted the spectrum of inhomogeneities in the Universe, which are originated from the initial quantum fluctuations. The numerous experiments in...
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Viktor Golyshev

37. Viktor Golyshev

1937-. (aged 89)
translator linguist
Viktor Petrovich Golyshev is a well-known English-to-Russian translator. His translations include Light in August, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, All the King's Men, Theophilus North, 1984, Other Voices, Other Rooms, Set This House on Fire, Pulp, and others. He has won the Foreign Literature and Illuminator awards. He has said about modern American literature, "It isn't quite worthy of...
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Dmitry Zelenin

38. Dmitry Zelenin

1962-. (aged 64)
banker economist politician
Dmitry Vadimovich Zelenin is a Russian businessman and politician. During 2003-2011 he was governor of Tver Oblast, Russia.
Aleksandr Polyakov

39. Aleksandr Polyakov

1945-. (aged 81)
theoretical physicist professor physicist
Alexander Markovich Polyakov is a Russian theoretical physicist, formerly at the Landau Institute in Moscow and, since 1989, at Princeton University, where he is the Joseph Henry Professor of Physics Emeritus.
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Yuri Baturin

40. Yuri Baturin

1949-. (aged 77)
Research Cosmonaut university teacher journalist diplomat flight engineer
Yuri Mikhailovich Baturin, is a Russian cosmonaut and former politician. He has the federal state civilian service rank of 1st class Active State Councillor of the Russian Federation.
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Rashid Sunyaev

41. Rashid Sunyaev

1943-. (aged 83)
astronomer university teacher physicist astrophysicist inventor
Rashid Alievich Sunyaev is a Soviet, and Russian, German astrophysicist of Tatar descent. He got his MS degree from the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology (MIPT) in 1966. He became a professor at MIPT in 1974. Sunyaev was the head of the High Energy Astrophysics Department of the Russian Academy of Sciences, and has been chief scientist of the...
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Andrey Savelyev

42. Andrey Savelyev

1962-. (aged 64)
writer politician
Andrey Nikolayevich Savelyev is a Russian politician and a former member of the Russian State Duma. He was elected to the Duma in December 2003 as a member of the Rodina faction and is currently Chairman of the Great Russia Party. He did not stand for re-election in 2007 as his party was denied registration by the Central Election Commission...
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Ratmir Timashev

43. Ratmir Timashev

1966-. (aged 60)
entrepreneur philanthropist
Ratmir Vilyevich Timashev is a Russian-born, American IT entrepreneur, and founder and former CEO of Veeam Software.
Boris Babaian

44. Boris Babaian

1933-. (aged 93)
computer scientist inventor
Boris Artashesovich Babayan is a Soviet and Russian computer scientist of Armenian descent, notable as the pioneering creator of supercomputers in the former Soviet Union and Russia.
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Vladimir Pentkovski

45. Vladimir Pentkovski

1946-2012 (aged 66)
computer scientist programmer
Vladimir Mstislavovich Pentkovski was a Soviet-American computer scientist, a graduate of the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology and winner of the highest former Soviet Union's USSR State Prize (1987). He was one of the leading architects of the Soviet Elbrus supercomputers and the high-level programming language El-76. At the beginning of 1990s, he immigrated to the United States where...
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Aleksandr Serebrov

46. Aleksandr Serebrov

1944-2013 (aged 69)
scientist aerospace engineer military flight engineer aircraft pilot astronaut
Aleksandr Aleksandrovich Serebrov was a Soviet cosmonaut. He graduated from Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology (1967), and was selected as a cosmonaut on 1 December 1978. He retired on 10 May 1995. He was married and had one child.
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Yuri Ryzhov

47. Yuri Ryzhov

1930-2017 (aged 87)
diplomat physicist
Yuri Alekseyevich Ryzhov was a Soviet and Russian scientist in the field of fluid dynamics, political and social activist, diplomat, Doctor of Technical Sciences (1970), member of the Russian Academy of Sciences (Academician since 1987; Corresponding Member since 1981), former Russian Ambassador to France (1992-1998).
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Vladimir Fortov

48. Vladimir Fortov

1946-2020 (aged 74)
physicist university teacher
Vladimir Yevgenyevich Fortov was a Russian physicist and politician who served as director of the Joint Institute for High Temperatures (1992–2013) and as president of the Russian Academy of Sciences (2013–2017). His research was in thermal physics, shock waves and plasma physics.
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Aleksandr Kaleri

49. Aleksandr Kaleri

1956-. (aged 70)
flight engineer engineer astronaut university teacher
Aleksandr "Sasha" Yuriyevich Kaleri is a former Russian cosmonaut and veteran of extended stays on the Mir Space Station and the International Space Station (ISS). Kaleri has most recently been in space in 2010 and 2011 aboard the ISS serving as a flight engineer for the long duration Expedition 25/26 missions. He has spent the fifth-longest time in space of...
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Lev Ponomaryov

50. Lev Ponomaryov

1941-. (aged 85)
mathematician human rights defender physicist politician
Lev Aleksandrovich Ponomaryov is a Russian political and civil activist. He is an executive director of the all-Russian movement "For Human Rights." He is a member of the Federal Political Council of Solidarnost, and was deputy to the State Duma in its first period.
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Alex Konanykhin

51. Alex Konanykhin

1966-. (aged 60)
banker KMGi Group entrepreneur
Alex Konanykhin (born Alexander Pavlovich Konanykhin (Russian: Александр Павлович Конаныхин; September 25, 1966) is an entrepreneur and former banker. He started his career by founding a private bank in Russia towards the end of communist rule. Konanykhin is sometimes spelled as Konanykhine.
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Tatiana Sorokko

52. Tatiana Sorokko

1971-. (aged 55)
journalist model
Tatiana Sorokko is a Russian-born American model, fashion journalist, and haute couture collector. She walked the runways for the world's most prominent designers and fashion houses, appeared on covers of leading fashion magazines, and became the first Russian model of the post-Soviet period to gain international recognition. After modeling, Sorokko worked as contributing editor for Vogue, Vanity Fair and Harper's...
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Valery Fadeyev

53. Valery Fadeyev

1960-. (aged 66)
editing staff presenter editor-in-chief television presenter journalist
Valery Aleksandrovich Fadeyev is a Russian journalist and public figure who currently serves as the Chairman of the Human Rights Council. He previously served as secretary of the Civic Chamber of the Russian Federation.
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David Yang

54. David Yang

1968-. (aged 58)
entrepreneur inventor
David Evgenievich Yang is a Russian businessman, entrepreneur in the field of IT technologies, founder and chairman of the Board of Directors of ABBYY, creator of Fine Reader, Lingvo, Iiko, and Yva.ai products.
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Serg Bell

55. Serg Bell

1971-. (aged 55)
physicist entrepreneur computer scientist executive inventor
Serg Bell is a Singaporean businessman born in Leningrad, USSR, entrepreneur, investor and speaker, the founder and chairman of the board of Constructor, formerly known as Schaffhausen Institute of Technology (SIT) and multiple global IT companies, including Acronis, a global data protection company, and was the senior founding partner of Runa Capital, a technology investment firm. He is also executive...
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Vladimir Ashurkov

56. Vladimir Ashurkov

1972-. (aged 54)
politician physicist manager businessperson public figure
Vladimir Lvovich Ashurkov is a Russian political figure and the Executive Director of the Anti-Corruption Foundation. A former banker, Ashurkov was the Director of Group Portfolio Management and Control at Alfa Group Consortium from 2006 to 2012, when he was asked to step down due to his political involvement with Alexei Navalny. He was also on the board of the...
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Andre Geim

57. Andre Geim

1958-. (aged 68)
scientist inventor physicist professor
Sir Andre Konstantin Geim is a Russian-born British physicist working in England in the School of Physics and Astronomy at the University of Manchester.
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Aleksandr Filippenko

58. Aleksandr Filippenko

1944-. (aged 82)
actor
Aleksandr Georgievich Filippenko is a Soviet and Russian actor, People's Artist of Russia (2000).
Boris Nadezhdin

59. Boris Nadezhdin

1963-. (aged 63)
lecturer engineer politician
Boris Borisovich Nadezhdin is a Russian opposition politician. He served in the State Duma from 1999 to 2003. He was also a municipal councillor in Moscow and was considered to be a close ally of opposition politician Boris Nemtsov who was murdered in 2015.
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Natan Sharansky

60. Natan Sharansky

1948-. (aged 78)
politician writer mathematician human rights defender chess player
Natan Sharansky is a Ukrainian-born, Israeli politician, professional chess player and author. He served as Chairman of the Executive for the Jewish Agency from June 2009 to August 2018, and currently serves as Chairman for the Institute for the Study of Global Antisemitism and Policy (ISGAP), an American non-partisan organization. A former Soviet dissident, he spent nine years imprisoned as...
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Pavlo Klimkin

61. Pavlo Klimkin

1967-. (aged 59)
diplomat politician
Pavlo Anatoliiovych Klimkin is a Ukrainian diplomat who from 19 June 2014 until 29 August 2019 served as Minister of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine. A Moscow-educated physicist, he has worked in the Ukrainian Foreign Ministry since 1993, with positions including director of the department for the European Union, as well as deputy foreign minister in the First Azarov Government, where...
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Alexander Abramov

62. Alexander Abramov

1959-. (aged 67)
chemist entrepreneur physicist
Alexander Grigoryevich Abramov is a Russian businessperson, who until March 2022 was the Chairman of the Board of directors of Evraz, one of Russia's largest steel producers. Since 1998, he has amassed one of the largest steel and iron empire in Russia, which employed 71,591 people around the world, with steel output of 13,57 million tones and turnover of $14,1...
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Alexander Medvedev

63. Alexander Medvedev

1955-. (aged 71)
economist businessperson association football player
Alexander Ivanovich Medvedev is the current Deputy Chairman of the Management Committee of Russian energy company Gazprom and since February 2019 he is the director general and president of the football club Zenit, Saint Petersburg.
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Yuri Orlov

64. Yuri Orlov

1924-2020 (aged 96)
university teacher nuclear physicist human rights defender
Yuri Fyodorovich Orlov was a particle accelerator physicist, human rights activist, Soviet dissident, founder of the Moscow Helsinki Group, a founding member of the Soviet Amnesty International group. He was declared a prisoner of conscience while serving nine years in prison and internal exile for monitoring the Helsinki human rights accords, he was declared a prisoner of conscience by Amnesty...
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Sergey Guriyev

65. Sergey Guriyev

1971-. (aged 55)
university teacher economist social scientist
Sergei Maratovich Guriev is a Russian economist, currently serving as the 10th dean and a professor of economics at the London Business School since August 2024.
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Igor Rybakov

66. Igor Rybakov

1972-. (aged 54)
businessperson writer
Igor Vladimirovich Rybakov is a Russian businessman and co-founder of Technonicol, a manufacturer of construction materials. In September 2025, Rybakov held 1,513th position on the Forbes Real-Time Billionaires list, with an estimated net worth of $2.4 billion.
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Aleksei Yeliseyev

67. 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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Sergey Alexeyevich Lebedev

68. 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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Vadim Abdrashitov

69. Vadim Abdrashitov

1945-2023 (aged 78)
film director pedagogue
Vadim Yusupovich Abdrashitov was a Russian film director. He was internationally renowned as one of Russian cinema's most notable independent directors, with awards from the Berlin and Venice Film Festivals, and was a People's Artist of Russia.
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Aleksandr Galitsky

70. Aleksandr Galitsky

1955-. (aged 71)
entrepreneur
Alexander "Sasha" Galitsky is an international technology entrepreneur. He is the founder of ELVIS-PLUS and the founder and managing partner of Almaz Capital, and involved in many technology companies in Europe and the USA. In the Soviet years, he was a defense scientist in the Soviet space industry. Alexander Galitsky identities himself a Ukrainian.
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Pavel A. Pevzner

71. Pavel A. Pevzner

1956-. (aged 70)
computer scientist bioinformatician
Pavel Arkadevich Pevzner is the Ronald R. Taylor Professor of Computer Science and director of the NIH Center for Computational Mass Spectrometry at University of California, San Diego. He serves on the editorial board of PLoS Computational Biology and he is a member of the Genome Institute of Singapore scientific advisory board.
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Nikolay Storonsky

72. Nikolay Storonsky

1984-. (aged 42)
trader businessperson entrepreneur chief executive officer
Nik Storonsky is a British billionaire entrepreneur and technology executive. He is the co-founder and CEO of Revolut, and the founder of venture capital firm QuantumLight.
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Yelena Nikolayeva

73. Yelena Nikolayeva

1969-. (aged 57)
public figure politician
Yelena Nikolayevna Nikolayeva is a Russian race walker.
Konstantin Novoselov

74. Konstantin Novoselov

1974-. (aged 52)
university teacher inventor physicist
Sir Konstantin Sergeevich Novoselov is a Russian–British physicist. His work on graphene with Andre Geim earned them the Nobel Prize in Physics in 2010. Novoselov is a professor at the Centre for Advanced 2D Materials, National University of Singapore and is also the Langworthy Professor of the School of Physics and Astronomy at the University of Manchester.
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Alexandra Boltasseva

75. Alexandra Boltasseva

1978-. (aged 48)
computer scientist physicist
Alexandra Boltasseva, is Ron And Dotty Garvin Tonjes Distinguished Professor of electrical and computer engineering at Purdue University, and editor-in-chief for The Optical Society's Optical Materials Express journal. Her research focuses on plasmonic metamaterials, manmade composites of metals that use surface plasmons to achieve optical properties not seen in nature.
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