Notable Alumni of Odessa National University [Sorted List]

1. Józef Nusbaum-Hilarowicz

1859-1917 (aged 58)

physician zoologist

Józef Nusbaum-Hilarowicz was a Polish zoologist who helped establish an evolutionary approach to the study of zoology in Lviv.

2. Samuil Shatunovsky

1859-1929 (aged 70)

mathematician university teacher

Samuil Osipovich Shatunovsky was a Russian and Soviet mathematician. He was born in Velikaia Znamenka, in a poor Jewish family as the 9th child. He completed secondary education in Kherson, then studied for a year in Rostov and moved to Saint Petersburg seeking a university degree. There he studied in several technical universities. Engineering however did not attract Shatunovsky and...

+ show more

3. Grigol Lordkipanidze

1881-1937 (aged 56)

politician

Grigol Lordkipanidze was a Georgian politician and author.

4. Aleksey Pavlovitch Hansky

1870-1908 (aged 38)

astronomer

Aleksey Pavlovitch Hansky was an astronomer from the Russian Empire.

5. Ilya Rubanovich

1859-1922 (aged 63)

university teacher revolutionary physicist opinion journalist politician

Ilya Adolfovich Rubanovich was a Russian revolutionary who joined 'The People's Will' ('Narodnaya Volya') in the 1880s. In 1881, this group assassinated Tsar Aleksandr II. During the repression which followed, Rubanovich fled abroad, eventually settling in Paris, France, and becoming a French citizen. There he co-founded the Group of 'Old Members of The People's Will' ('Gruppa Starykh Narodovol’tsev') in 1891,...

+ show more

6. Heorhii Afanasiev

1848-1925 (aged 77)

historian banker journalist diplomat

Georgiy Yemelyanovich Afanasyev was a Ukrainian and Russian historian, politician, and diplomat. Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Ukrainian State (1918). Received a master's degree for his thesis: "The main points of the ministerial Turgot" (1884); and his doctoral dissertation was: "The Conditions of the Grain Trade in France at the End of the 18th Century" (1892). From 1888 he...

+ show more

7. Nicolae Donici

1874-1960 (aged 86)

astronomer

Nicolae N. Donici was a Romanian astronomer born in Bessarabia.

8. Alexander Muchnik

1954-. (aged 72)

human rights defender lawyer journalist philosopher

Alexander Muchnik is a lawyer, human rights activist and journalist.

9. Aryeh Altman

1902-1982 (aged 80)

politician

Aryeh Altman was an Israeli politician who served as a member of the Knesset for Herut and Gahal between 1951 and 1965.

10. Nikolai Mikhailovich Albov

1866-1897 (aged 31)

botanical collector explorer geographer researcher botanist

Nikolai Mikhaylovich Albov was a Russian botanist and geographer. He made his mark first as an explorer of the Caucasus, to which he made several extensive trips financed by the Swiss Botanist Society, and later, after having moved to Argentina in 1895, of the Southern regions of South America. He is credited with being arguably the first European explorer to...

+ show more

11. Vladimir Matveevich Gessen

1868-1920 (aged 52)

university teacher jurist politician

Vladimir Matveevich Gessen was a Russian jurist and politician. He was the country's first theoretician of constitutional law and was instrumental for the spread of the idea of constitutional, representative government in Russia.

+ show more

12. Joshua L. Goldberg

1896-1994 (aged 98)

rabbi military officer

Joshua Louis Goldberg was a Belarusian-born American rabbi, the first to be commissioned as a U.S. Navy chaplain in World War II (and only the third to serve in the Navy in its history), the first to reach the rank of Navy Captain (the equivalent of Army Colonel), and the first to retire after a full active-duty career.

+ show more

13. Nicolai Ivanovich Andrusov

1861-1924 (aged 63)

explorer university teacher geologist paleontologist botanist

Nicolai Ivanovich Andrusov was a Russian geologist, stratigrapher and palaeontologist.

14. Vitaly Barvinenko

1981-. (aged 45)

politician

Vitaliy Dmytrovych Barvinenko is a Ukrainian politician and People's Deputy of Ukraine, the first head of the Odesa District Council. He served as a Member of Parliament across the VI to VIII convocations. Vitaly holds a Doctorate in Law.

+ show more

15. Israel Guri

1893-1965 (aged 72)

trade unionist politician

Yisrael Guri was an Israeli politician who served as a member of the Knesset for Mapai between 1949 and 1965.

16. Konstantin Konik

1873-1936 (aged 63)

physician statesperson politician surgeon

Konstantin Konik was an Estonian politician and surgeon who served as a member of the Estonian Salvation Committee.

17. Juozas Gabrys

1880-1951 (aged 71)

jurist opinion journalist politician

Juozas Gabrys or Juozas Gabrys-Paršaitis was a Lithuanian politician and diplomat, best remembered for his efforts to popularize the idea of Lithuania's independence in the West during World War I.

+ show more

18. Nariman Dzhelyal

1980-. (aged 46)

presenter journalist teacher politician

Nariman Dzhelyal Enverovych is Ukraine's Ambassador to the Republic of Turkey, the first deputy chairman of the Mejlis of the Crimean Tatar People, journalist and activist.

+ show more

19. Mykola Vilinsky

1888-1956 (aged 68)

music educator composer

Mykola Mykolayovych Vilinsky was a Soviet and Ukrainian composer who held senior chairs at the Odesa Conservatory and later the Kyiv Conservatory. He wrote articles on Ukrainian and Moldovan music, and was a music critic and an expert on the works of the Ukrainian composer Mykola Lysenko.

+ show more

20. Simon Yakovlevich Rosenbaum

1860-1934 (aged 74)

zionist lawyer politician

Simon Yakovlevich Rosenbaum was a Jewish activist and attorney, member of the First State Duma of the Russian Empire in 1906–1907, Lithuanian Minister for Jewish Affairs from June 29, 1923 to his resignation on February 12, 1924 and Lithuanian consul in Palestine.

+ show more

21. Constantin Mimi

1868-1935 (aged 67)

winegrower engineer politician

Constantin Mimi was a Bessarabian politician and winemaker, whose family had noble origins.

22. Pavlo Hrytsenko

1950-. (aged 76)

university teacher dialectologist philologist linguist ukrainianist

Pavlo Yuhymovych Hrytsenko is a Ukrainian linguist, doctor of Philology, professor, director of Institute for the Ukrainian Language (Kyiv). Born in Matroska, Izmail Raion, Odesa Oblast, Ukraine. Hrytsenko is a specialist in dialectology of the Ukrainian language, typology of Slavic dialect systems, theory of linguistic geography, dialectal textology and textography, history of linguistics. He is a co-executor of The Slavic...

+ show more

23. Alla Dzhioyeva

1949-. (aged 77)

politician

Alla Aleksandrovna Dzhioyeva is a South Ossetian politician, who is currently Deputy Prime Minister in the South Ossetian government. She previously served as the Education Minister in 2002–2008. She won the 2011 presidential election, but the Supreme Court annulled the results, alleging that electoral fraud had been committed.

+ show more

24. Oksana Mas

1969-. (aged 57)

painter philosopher artist

Oksana Mas is a Ukrainian contemporary artist and the organizer of "ArtTogether", a global interactive art project aimed at visualizing the new cultural code of the modern generation and uniting people at a time of political and social turmoil.

+ show more

25. Imad Ashur

1988-. (aged 38)

association football coach

Imad Khaled Ashur is a Ukrainian professional football manager.

26. Vladimir Ippolitovich Lipsky

1863-1937 (aged 74)

botanist

Vladimir Ippolitovich Lipsky or Volodymyr Ipolytovych Lypsky was a Ukrainian scientist, botanist; a member of National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine (in 1922–1928, its president) and corresponding member of the USSR Academy of Sciences, and the director of the Botanical Gardens of the Odessa University.

+ show more

27. Valentyna Danishevska

1957-. (aged 69)

jurist

Valentyna Ivanivna Danishevska is a Ukrainian lawyer and judge who served as Chairwoman of the Supreme Court of Ukraine from 2017 to 2021. She is the first woman to hold the position of the Head of the Supreme Court of Ukraine.

+ show more

28. Kita Abashidze

1870-1917 (aged 47)

literary critic opinion journalist politician critic journalist

Prince Kita Abashidze (Georgian: კიტა აბაშიძე; 16 January 1870 – 17 December 1917) was a Georgian literary critic, journalist, and politician.

+ show more

29. Ignaty Potapenko

1856-1929 (aged 73)

playwright writer journalist

Ignaty Nikolayevich Potapenko, was a Russian writer and playwright.

30. Mirasadulla Mirgasimov

1883-1958 (aged 75)

surgeon

Mirasadulla Miralasgar oglu Mirgasimov was an Azerbaijani and Soviet surgeon and scientist. He was one of the founders and the first president of Azerbaijan National Academy of Sciences (1945–1947).

+ show more

31. Teodor Teodorov

1859-1924 (aged 65)

politician judge

Teodor Ivanov Teodorov was a leading Bulgarian politician and legal expert who served as Prime Minister of Bulgaria immediately after the First World War.

+ show more

32. Oleg Maltsev

1975-. (aged 51)

lecturer lawyer writer philosopher psychologist

Oleg Viktorovich Maltsev is a Ukrainian Candidate of Sciences in psychology and philosophy,. He is the academician of the European Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, author, and criminologist, and a practicing lawyer registered with the Ukrainian National Bar Association.

+ show more

33. Lev Pisarzhevsky

1874-1938 (aged 64)

chemist

Lev Vladimirovich Pisarzhevsky was a Ukrainian Soviet chemist who studied peroxides, peracids, and solutions.

34. Carol Schmidt

1846-1928 (aged 82)

politician

Karl Aleksandrovich Shmidt was an Imperial Russian politician active in the Bessarabia Governorate. A Bessarabian German, he was the longest serving mayor of Kishinev (now Chișinău, Moldova), serving from 1877 by 1903. He contributed greatly to its modernization and is considered one of the best mayors in the city's history. He was the father of Alexander Schmidt, who served as...

+ show more

35. Ion Nistor

1876-1962 (aged 86)

historian politician

Ion I. Nistor was a Romanian historian and politician. He was a titular member of the Romanian Academy from 1915 and a professor at the universities of Cernăuți and Bucharest, while also serving as Minister of State for Bukovina, Minister of Public Works, Minister of Labor, and Minister of Religious Affairs and the Arts with a number of governments from...

+ show more

36. Marjana Gaponenko

1981-. (aged 45)

poet writer

Marjana Michailowna Gaponenko is a German writer born in Odesa, Ukraine.

37. Stanisław Car

1882-1938 (aged 56)

lawyer judge politician

Stanisław Car was a Polish politician, lawyer, Marshal of the Sejm, deputy Prime Minister and the Minister of Justice.

38. Anna Pankratova

1897-1957 (aged 60)

historian educator politician

Anna Mikhailovna Pankratova was a leading Soviet historian, educator and member of the Academy of Sciences of the Soviet Union. A widely published author, she was editor in chief of the influential Russian historical journal Voprosy Istorii and headed the National Committee of USSR Historians. A member of the Communist Party, she became an elected member of the Presidium of...

+ show more

39. Yuly Aykhenvald

1872-1928 (aged 56)

journalist literary critic

Yuly Isayevich Aykhenvald was a Russian Jewish literary critic who developed a native brand of Aestheticism. Russian-American author Vladimir Nabokov called Aykhenvald "a Russian version of Walter Pater".

+ show more

40. Mark Krein

1908-1989 (aged 81)

mathematician university teacher

Mark Grigorievich Krein was a Soviet mathematician, one of the major figures of the Soviet school of functional analysis. He is known for works in operator theory (in close connection with concrete problems coming from mathematical physics), the problem of moments, classical analysis and representation theory.

+ show more

41. Aleksandar Belić

1876-1960 (aged 84)

university teacher philologist

Aleksandar Belić was a Serbian linguist and academic.

42. Maria Galina

1958-. (aged 68)

poet writer translator prose writer hydrobiologist

Maria Galina is a Russian-language writer of Ukrainian origin. She was born in Kalinin (now the city of Tver) and studied marine biology in Odessa. She lived in Bergen for a while, studying salmon.

+ show more

43. Alexandre Besredka

1870-1940 (aged 70)

biologist immunologist physician

Alexandre Mikhailovich Besredka was a Ukrainian-French biologist and immunologist born in Odessa. In 1910 he became a citizen of France.

44. Vladimir de Pachmann

1848-1933 (aged 85)

classical pianist

Vladimir de Pachmann or Pachman was a Russian pianist of German descent. He is known for performing the works of Chopin and for his eccentric performing style.

+ show more

45. Nikolai Chebotaryov

1894-1947 (aged 53)

mathematician scientist executive university teacher

Nikolai Grigorievich Chebotaryov was a Soviet mathematician. He is best known for the Chebotaryov density theorem.

46. Petre Melikishvili

1850-1927 (aged 77)

chemist

Petre Melikishvili was a Georgian chemist. He was the co-founder of Tbilisi State University (TSU), the first rector of TSU, head of the Department of Organic Chemistry (1919-1927), corresponding member of the USSR Academy of Sciences (1927) and professor at the University of Odessa.

+ show more

47. Mordechai Namir

1897-1975 (aged 78)

trade unionist politician

Mordechai Namir was an Israeli politician, who served as the mayor of Tel Aviv (1959–1969), a Knesset member and government minister, as well as being one of the heads of the Labour Zionist movement.

+ show more

48. Alexander Frumkin

1895-1976 (aged 81)

university teacher chemist

Alexander Naumovich Frumkin was a Soviet Russian electrochemist, member of the Russian Academy of Sciences since 1932, founder of the Russian Journal of Electrochemistry Elektrokhimiya and receiver of the Hero of Socialist Labor award. The Russian Academy of Sciences' A.N. Frumkin Institute of Physical Chemistry and Electrochemistry is named after him.

+ show more

49. Mykolas Sleževičius

1882-1939 (aged 57)

lawyer journalist diplomat politician

Mykolas Sleževičius was a Lithuanian lawyer, political and cultural figure, and journalist. One of the most influential figures in inter-war Lithuania, he served as the prime minister of Lithuania on three occasions. Taking the helm of the government at a difficult time in 1918 and again in 1919, Sleževičius has been credited with preparing Lithuania for the fights to come...

+ show more

50. Lev Sternberg

1861-1927 (aged 66)

ethnographer politician

Lev Yakovlevich Sternberg (Russian: Лев (Хаим-Лейб) Я́ковлевич Ште́рнберг) (May 3 [O.S. April 21] 1861 – August 14, 1927) was a Russian and Soviet ethnographer of Jewish origin who from 1889 to 1897 studied the Nivkhs (Gilyaks), Oroks, and Ainu on Sakhalin and in Siberia for the American Museum of Natural History, in New York City.

+ show more

51. Marina Loshak

1955-. (aged 71)

curator art director art historian co-collector collector

Marina Devovna Loshak is a Soviet and Russian curator, gallery owner, art manager, collector, museum worker. Director of the Pushkin Museum (2013-2023).

+ show more

52. Nikodim Kondakov

1844-1925 (aged 81)

archaeologist art historian Byzantinist professor medievalist

Nikodim Pavlovich Kondakov (Russian: Никоди́м Па́влович Кондако́в; 1 (13) November 1844 – 17 February 1925) was an art historian with special expertise in the history of Russian and Serbian Christian icons. He is remembered as a pioneer among art historians who studied the treasures of Mount Athos like Frenchman Gabriel Millet.

+ show more

53. Ivan Pokhitonov

1850-1923 (aged 73)

graphic artist painter

Ivan Pavlovich Pokhitonov was a Russian landscape painter and graphic artist, who spent much of his working life in France and Belgium.

54. Moses Schönfinkel

1888-1942 (aged 54)

scientist

Moses Ilyich Schönfinkel was a logician and mathematician, known for the invention of combinatory logic.

55. Mykola Vasylenko

1866-1935 (aged 69)

historian lawyer diplomat politician

Mykola Prokopovych Vasylenko was a Ukrainian scholar and public figure. He briefly served as temporary Otaman of the Council of Ministers (a post akin to that of Prime Minister), later holding the post of Minister of Education and Director of the All-Ukrainian Academy of Sciences (a predecessor to the modern National Academy of Sciences).

+ show more

56. Mykola Arkas

1852-1909 (aged 57)

poet writer composer naval officer adult educator

Mykola Mykolayovych Arkas was a Ukrainian composer, writer, historian, and cultural activist of Greek ancestry. In 1908, Arkas wrote History of Ukraine, first popular history of Ukraine published in Ukrainian. His most notable musical composition was the opera Kateryna.

+ show more

57. Georgi Iwanowitsch Tschelpanow

1862-1936 (aged 74)

psychologist philosopher

Georgy Ivanovich Chelpanov was a Russian Imperial and Soviet psychologist, philosopher and logician.

58. Kadish Luz

1895-1972 (aged 77)

military personnel economist politician

Kadish Luz was an Israeli politician who served as Minister of Agriculture between 1955 and 1959 and as Speaker of the Knesset from 1959 and 1969.

59. Lev Alburt

1945-. (aged 81)

writer coach non-fiction writer chess player

Lev Osipovich Alburt is an American chess Grandmaster, writer and coach. He was born in Orenburg, Russia, and became three-time Ukrainian Champion. After defecting to the United States in 1979, he became three-time U.S. Champion.

+ show more

60. Pyotr Shirshov

1905-1953 (aged 48)

marine biologist explorer zoologist politician

Pyotr Petrovich Shirshov was a Soviet oceanographer, hydrobiologist, polar explorer, statesman, academician (1939), the first minister of Ministry of Maritime Fleet of the USSR and Hero of the Soviet Union (1938).

+ show more

61. Wincenty Rzymowski

1883-1950 (aged 67)

journalist diplomat opinion journalist politician

Wincenty Rzymowski was a Polish politician and writer.

62. Volodymyr Yavorivsky

1942-2021 (aged 79)

screenwriter politician writer journalist poet

Volodymyr Oleksandrovych Yavorivsky was a Ukrainian poet, writer, journalist and politician who served as a People's Deputy of Ukraine twice, first from 1990 to 1998 and later from 2002 to 2012. A co-founder of the People's Movement of Ukraine before joining the Yulia Tymoshenko Bloc.

+ show more

63. Khosrov bey Sultanov

1879-1943 (aged 64)

politician

Khosrov bey Alipasha bey oghlu Sultanov, also spelled as Khosrow Sultanov, was an Azerbaijani statesman, General Governor of Karabakh and Minister of Defense of the Azerbaijani Democratic Republic. He was the primary architect responsible for the Shusha and Khaibalikend massacres.

+ show more

64. Yuriy Karmazin

1957-2022 (aged 65)

jurist politician

Yurii Karmazin was a Ukrainian politician and judge. Karmazin served four terms as a People's Deputy of Ukraine.

65. Nasib bey Yusifbeyli

1881-1920 (aged 39)

politician

Nasib bey Yusif bey oghlu Yusifbeyli or Usubbeyov (Azerbaijani: Usubbəyov; 5 July 1881 – 31 May 1920) was an Azerbaijani publicist, statesman and major political figure in the Azerbaijan Democratic Republic.

+ show more

66. Grigory Fichtengolz

1888-1959 (aged 71)

mathematician university teacher

Grigorii Mikhailovich Fikhtengol'ts was a Soviet mathematician working on real analysis and functional analysis. Fikhtengol'ts was one of the founders of the Leningrad school of real analysis.

+ show more

67. Alexander Granovskiy

1972-. (aged 54)

politician

Oleksandr Hranovskyi, is a Ukrainian businessperson, shareholder at Vertex United.

68. Andrey Stavnitser

1982-. (aged 44)

businessperson

Andrey Alekseyevich Stavnitser is a Ukrainian businessman, co-owner and CEO of TIS. Stavnitser is also the co-owner of Neptune Grain Terminal, a P&O Maritime Ukraine towage operator and a founding partner of SD Capital Investment Company. He is honorary consul of Austria in Odesa. In 2021, Stavnitser was included in the list of the 100 richest Ukrainians by Forbes magazine,...

+ show more

69. Leonid Plyushch

1939-2015 (aged 76)

mathematician human rights defender

Leonid Ivanovych Plyushch was a Ukrainian mathematician and Soviet dissident.

70. Irina Ratushinskaya

1954-2017 (aged 63)

poet writer

Irina Borisovna Ratushinskaya was a Russian Soviet dissident, poet and writer.

71. Andrii Kostin

1973-. (aged 53)

prosecutor lawyer politician

Andriy Yevhenovych Kostin is a Ukrainian lawyer, politician and diplomat.

72. Georges Florovsky

1893-1979 (aged 86)

university teacher theologian historian philosopher priest

Georges Vasilievich Florovsky was a Russian Orthodox priest, theologian, and historian.

73. Maxim Kalashnikov

1966-. (aged 60)

YouTuber futurist writer journalist presenter

Vladimir Alexandrovich Kucherenko, better known by the pen name Maxim Kalashnikov (Максим Калашников), is a Russian writer, publicist, and political activist.

+ show more

74. Don-Aminado

1888-1957 (aged 69)

lawyer poet

Don Aminado was a Russian emigre writer. He was born Aminodav Shpolyansky into a Jewish family in Elizavetgrad in the Kherson Governorate of the old Russian empire. He studied law in Odessa and Kiev, and showed literary promise during his student years. In the decade of the 1910s, he published in various outlets such as Rannee Utro, Novy Satirikon and...

+ show more

75. Boris Kaufman

1973-. (aged 53)

banker

Borys Rafailovych Kaufman, is a Ukrainian businessperson, shareholder at Vertex United.

76. Dmitri Golubov

1983-. (aged 43)

politician

Dmitri Ivanovich Golubov is a Ukrainian politician and former People's Deputy of Ukraine, cybercriminal, former carder. He is also the leader of the Internet Party of Ukraine, although he has never taken part in any election as a candidate of this party.

+ show more

77. Natasha Yarovenko

1979-. (aged 47)

film actor actor model

Natalia "Natasha" Olegovna Yarovenko is a Ukrainian born actress residing in Spain.

78. Nikolay Gamaleya

1859-1949 (aged 90)

physician biologist virologist epidemiologist

Nikolay Fyodorovich Gamaleya was a Russian, Ukrainian and Soviet physician and scientist of Zaporozhian Cossack origin who played a pioneering role in microbiology and vaccine research.

+ show more

79. Mykola Zelinsky

1861-1953 (aged 92)

university teacher chemist inventor

Nikolay Dmitriyevich Zelinsky was a Russian and Soviet chemist and educator. He was a professor at Moscow University from 1893 and an academician of the Academy of Sciences of the Soviet Union (1929).

+ show more

80. Svetlana Martynchik

1965-. (aged 61)

writer painter

Max Frei is the pen name of Svetlana Yuryevna Martynchik (Russian: Светла́на Ю́рьевна Марты́нчик; Ukrainian: Світлана Юріївна Мартинчик) (born 1965 in Odessa, Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union), a fantasy writer from Odessa, Ukraine. She writes in Russian and mostly publishes in Russia while holding Ukrainian citizenship. She permanently resides in Vilnius, Lithuania. Martynchik has collaborated many years on her books with...

+ show more

81. Efim Geller

1925-1998 (aged 73)

chess player

Efim Petrovich Geller was a Soviet chess player and world-class grandmaster at his peak. He won the Soviet Championship twice (in 1955 and 1979) and was a Candidate for the World Championship on six occasions (1953, 1956, 1962, 1965, 1968, and 1971). He won four Ukrainian SSR Championship titles (in 1950, 1957, 1958, and 1959) and shared first in the...

+ show more

82. Olga Kovitidi

1962-. (aged 64)

jurist statesperson lawyer politician

Olga Fyodorovna Kovitidi, is a Russian and former Ukrainian politician, who currently serves as Russian Federation Senator from Crimea since 2014. Kovitidi was previously a member of the Verkhovna Rada of Crimea from 2006 until 2014, when it was dissolved amidst the generally internationally unrecognised Russian annexation of Crimea, which she supported. During her tenure in the Rada, she briefly...

+ show more

83. Alexander Bogomolets

1881-1946 (aged 65)

pathologist immunologist non-fiction writer university teacher politician

Oleksandr Oleksandrovych Bogomolets was a Soviet and Ukrainian pathophysiologist.

84. Leon Pinsker

1821-1891 (aged 70)

politician writer journalist physician political activist

Leon Pinsker or Judah Leib Pinsker was a physician and Zionist activist.

85. Aleko Konstantinov

1863-1897 (aged 34)

lawyer journalist writer translator prose writer

Aleko Konstantinov was a Bulgarian writer, best known for his character Bay Ganyo, one of the most popular characters in Bulgarian fiction.

86. Nariman Narimanov

1870-1925 (aged 55)

opinion journalist politician writer playwright physician

Nariman Karbalayi Najaf oghlu Narimanov was an Azerbaijani Bolshevik revolutionary, writer, publicist, politician and statesman. For just over one year, beginning in May 1920, Narimanov headed the government of Soviet Azerbaijan. He was subsequently elected chairman of the Union Council of the Transcaucasian SFSR. He was also Party Chairman of the Central Executive Committee of the Soviet Union from 30...

+ show more

87. Sergei Witte

1849-1915 (aged 66)

diplomat statesperson politician

Count Sergei Yulyevich Witte, also known as Sergius Witte, was a Russian statesman who served as the first prime minister of the Russian Empire, replacing the emperor as head of government. Neither liberal nor conservative, he attracted foreign capital to boost Russia's industrialization. Witte's strategy was to avoid the danger of wars.

+ show more

88. Waldemar Haffkine

1856-1930 (aged 74)

bacteriologist immunologist physician microbiologist botanist

Waldemar Mordechai Wolff Haffkine CIE, born Vladimir Aronovich Khavkin (Russian: Владимир Аронович (Маркус-Вольф) Хавкин; 15 March 1860 – 26 October 1930) was a Russian-French bacteriologist known for his pioneering work in vaccines.

+ show more

89. Gleb Pavlovsky

1951-2023 (aged 72)

journalist opinion journalist lecturer political scientist historian

Gleb Olegovich Pavlovsky was a Russian political scientist who also described himself as a "political technologist". During the Soviet era, he was prosecuted as a dissident. From 1996 to 2011, he was a political adviser to Vladimir Putin. After that, he became a critic of the Russian government.

+ show more

90. Gyunduz Mamedov

1974-. (aged 52)

prosecutor jurist Prosecutor General of Ukraine

Gyunduz Aidynovych Mamedov is an Azerbaijani-born Ukrainian lawyer and human rights activist who has served as Prosecutor of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea since 22 August 2016, and also served as Deputy Prosecutor General of Ukraine from 18 October 2019 to 21 July 2021. In his position as Prosecutor of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea, he is the counterpart to...

+ show more

91. Danylo Zabolotny

1866-1929 (aged 63)

biologist botanist microbiologist

Danylo Kyrylovych Zabolotny was a Ukrainian and Soviet epidemiologist and the founder of the world's first research department of epidemiology. In 1927, he published one of the first texts in his field, Fundamentals of Epidemiology.

+ show more

92. Vadym Merikov

1976-. (aged 50)

politician

Vadym Ivanovych Merikov is a Ukrainian politician. He is a former People's Deputy of Ukraine and served as the governor of the Mykolaiv Oblast from July 28, 2014, to June 29, 2016.

+ show more

93. Wasyl Petiowka

1967-. (aged 59)

politician

Vasyl Vasyliovych Petiovka is a Ukrainian politician currently serving as a People's Deputy of Ukraine since 12 December 2012.

94. Ihor Klymenko

1972-. (aged 54)

police officer

Ihor Volodymyrovych Klymenko is a Ukrainian police general serving as the minister of internal affairs since 7 February 2023 (acting since 18 January). He succeeded Denys Monastyrsky following his death in a helicopter crash. He had been the chief of the National Police of Ukraine from 25 September 2019 until 19 January 2023.

+ show more

95. Krste Misirkov

1874-1926 (aged 52)

historian writer

Krste Petkov Misirkov was a philologist, journalist, historian and ethnographer from the region of Macedonia.

96. Ivan Sechenov

1829-1905 (aged 76)

philosopher psychologist mathematician engineer physiologist

Ivan Mikhaylovich Sechenov was a Russian psychologist, physiologist, and medical scientist.

97. George Gamow

1904-1968 (aged 64)

cosmologist university teacher physicist astrophysicist biochemist

George Gamow was a Soviet and American polymath, theoretical physicist and cosmologist. He was an early advocate and developer of Georges Lemaître's Big Bang theory. Gamow discovered a theoretical explanation of alpha decay by quantum tunneling, invented the liquid drop model (the first mathematical model of the atomic nucleus), worked on radioactive decay, star formation, stellar nucleosynthesis, Big Bang nucleosynthesis...

+ show more

98. Ali Mohamed Shein

1948-. (aged 78)

politician minister

Ali Mohamed Shein was the 7th President of Zanzibar, from 2010 to 2020. He was previously Vice President of Tanzania from 2001 to 2010. Shein is originally from the island of Pemba, and he is a member of the ruling Chama Cha Mapinduzi (CCM) party. He is a medical doctor by profession.

+ show more

99. Gherman Pântea

1894-1968 (aged 74)

military personnel lawyer diplomat politician

Gherman Vasile Pântea was a Bessarabian-born soldier, civil servant and political figure, active in the Russian Empire and Romania. As an officer of the Imperial Russian Army during most of World War I, he helped organize the committees of Bessarabian soldiers, oscillating between loyalty to the Russian Provisional Government and the cause of Bessarabian emancipation. Pântea was subsequently Military Director...

+ show more

100. Mariusz Zaruski

1867-1941 (aged 74)

military officer writer painter poet sailor

Mariusz Zaruski was a brigadier-general in the Polish Army, a pioneer of Polish sports yachting, an outstanding climber of the winter and caves of Tatra Mountains. He was a photographer, painter, poet and writer, a seamen and traveler, a conspirator, legionnaire and lancer in Polish cavalry.

+ show more