51 Notable alumni of Saint Petersburg State Institute of Technology
Updated: June 02, 2026 EliteDegrees
Saint Petersburg State Institute of Technology is ranked #4,862 in the world and #115 in Russia by aggregated alumni prominence. Below is the list of 51 notable alumni from Saint Petersburg State Institute of 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 Saint Petersburg State Institute of Technology won Nobel Prizes for Peace, in Physics, Chemistry, Physiology or Medicine, and Economics.
1. Alexei Purin
1955-. (aged 71)
poet
literary critic
Alexei Purin is a Russian poet and critic.
2. Ihnat Kančeŭski
1896-1923 (aged 27)
poet
philosopher
opinion journalist
Ihnat Kančeŭski was a Belarusian poet, philosopher and publicist who is regarded as a leading thinker within the Belarusian independence movement of the early 20th century.
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3. Piotr Drzewiecki
1865-1943 (aged 78)
politician
Piotr Drzewiecki was the mayor of Warsaw, also known as the President of Warsaw (Polish: Prezydent Miasta Stołecznego Warszawy), from 1918 to 1921. An engineer and social activist, he was also an organizer of the civil defense of Warsaw in 1920 against the invasion by the Red Army. As mayor of Warsaw during the struggle of women's suffrage in Poland...
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4. Eugenia Kumacheva
1955-. (aged 71)
university teacher
researcher
chemist
Eugenia Eduardovna Kumacheva OC FRS FRSC is a University Professor and Distinguished Professor of Chemistry at the University of Toronto. Her research interests span across the fields of fundamental and applied polymers science, nanotechnology, microfluidics, and interface chemistry. She was awarded the L'Oréal-UNESCO Awards for Women in Science in 2008 "for the design and development of new materials with many...
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5. Kazimierz Tyszka
1872-1952 (aged 80)
politician
Kazimierz Tyszka was Polish Minister of Railways, 1923–25, in Władysław Grabski's government.
6. Adam Hurynowicz
1869-1894 (aged 25)
translator
poet
Adam Hilary Kalistavich Hurynowicz was a poet and folklorist from the Russian Empire. He was best known for his Polish, Belarusian and Russian-language poems and folkloristics.
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7. Paweł Potocki
1879-1932 (aged 53)
engineer
geologist
Pavel Pototsky was a Polish engineer, oil specialist, based in Baku. He initiated and oversaw the Bibiheybat Bay drying project. In 1929, Pototsky was awarded the first prize for the best construction work by the All-Union Exhibition of National Economic Achievements of the USSR, and in 1931 he was awarded the Order of Lenin.
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8. Aaron Samuel Liberman
1845-1880 (aged 35)
activist
writer
journalist
Aaron Samuel Liebermann, also known by his pen names Bar Drora, Daniel Ish Ḥamudot, and later as Arthur Freeman, was a socialist author, Hebrew translator, and political essayist. A pioneer of Jewish socialism and the Jewish labour movement, he was described by Rudolf Rocker and Ber Borochov as the "father of Jewish socialism".
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9. Yevhen Neronovych
1888-1918 (aged 30)
politician
Yevhen Vasyliovych Neronovych was a Ukrainian politician, Bolshevik activist, member of the Ukrainian People's Republic of Soviets government.
10. Valentyn Sadovskyi
1886-1947 (aged 61)
economist
journalist
pedagogue
opinion journalist
jurist
Valentyn Sadovsky was a politician, scientist, journalist, economist of Ukraine. He was a member of the Shevchenko Scientific Society (1935) and the Ukrainian Science Institute in Warsaw.
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11. Mikhail Sazhin
1845-1934 (aged 89)
politician
Mikhail Petrovich Sazhin, also known by the pseudonym Armand Ross, was a Russian revolutionary anarchist. An activist during his years as a student, he was expelled and exiled for his revolutionary activities, forcing him to flee the country to Switzerland, where he became a disciple of the anarchist Mikhail Bakunin. During the 1870s, he participated in a series of uprisings,...
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12. Mussa Ekzekov
1964-. (aged 62)
public figure
patron of the arts
businessperson
Mussa Khabalevich Ekzekov is a Soviet and Russian scientist, businessperson, philanthropist and social activist.
13. Mečislovas Gedvilas
1901-1981 (aged 80)
politician
Mečislovas Gedvilas was a Lithuanian Communist politician who collaborated with occupying Soviet forces. He served as the first Prime Minister of the Lithuanian SSR from 1940 to 1956. Rivalry between him and Antanas Sniečkus, the first secretary of the Lithuanian Communist Party, led to his demotion to Minister of Education (1957–1973).
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14. Mikhail Brusnev
1864-1937 (aged 73)
engineer
politician
Mikhail Ivanovich Brusnev was a Russian revolutionary, Marxist, explorer and an early leader of the Russian Social Democratic movement from which the Bolshevik organisation and the Communist Party of the Soviet Union originated.
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15. Dmitri Bobyshev
1936-. (aged 90)
poet
Dmitry Vasilyevich Bobyshev is a Russian poet, translator and literary critic.
16. Vacłaŭ Ivanoŭski
1880-1943 (aged 63)
playwright
Seraphic Doctor
opinion journalist
publisher
politician
Vacłaŭ Leanardavič Ivanoŭski was a Belarusian political and public figure of the first half of the 20th century.
17. Piotr Wilniewczyc
1887-1960 (aged 73)
engineer
Piotr Wilniewczyc was a Polish engineer and arms designer. Among his most successful designs were the Vis-35 pistol, commonly known as the Radom for the arsenal in which it was produced, and the Mors submachine gun.
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18. Yury Yarov
1942-. (aged 84)
politician
Yury Fyodorovich Yarov is a Russian politician who was a deputy prime minister from 1992 until 1996. Previously he was the 4th Executive Secretary of the Commonwealth of Independent States from 6 November 1999 to 14 July 2004. He has the federal state civilian service rank of 1st class Active State Councillor of the Russian Federation.
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19. Nicholas Minorsky
1885-1970 (aged 85)
university teacher
mathematician
engineer
Nicolas Minorsky was a Russian American control theory mathematician, engineer and applied scientist. He is best known for his theoretical analysis and first proposed application of PID controllers in the automatic steering systems for U.S. Navy ships.
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20. Nikolai Zlatovratsky
1845-1911 (aged 66)
writer
Nikolai Nikolaievich Zlatovratsky, was a Russian writer.
21. Bolesław Wysłouch
1855-1937 (aged 82)
politician
Bolesław Wysłouch was a Polish nobleman, peasant advocate, a socialist, a senator and co-establisher of the original Polish Peasants Party.
22. Jan Stanisławski
1860-1907 (aged 47)
university teacher
painter
art educator
Jan Grzegorz Stanisławski was a Polish modernist painter, art educator, and founder and member of various innovative art groups and literary societies. In 1906 he became a full professor at the Academy of Fine Arts in Kraków.
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23. Joseph Deniker
1852-1918 (aged 66)
racial theorist
botanist
anthropologist
biologist
librarian
Joseph Yegorovich Deniker was a Russian-French naturalist and anthropologist, known primarily for his attempts to develop highly detailed maps of race in Europe.
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24. Mammad Hasan Hajinski
1875-1931 (aged 56)
diplomat
engineer
politician
Mammad Hasan Jafargulu oglu Hajinski was an Azerbaijani architect and statesman. He also served as a Minister for Foreign Affairs of Azerbaijan Democratic Republic (ADR) and the last Prime Minister of ADR.
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25. Nikolai Gorbunov
1892-1938 (aged 46)
chemist
civil servant
politician
Nikolai Petrovich Gorbunov was a Soviet politician, chemist, engineer, academic and mountaineer. At one time he served as personal secretary to Soviet leader Vladimir Lenin. Gorbunov was executed during the Great Purge.
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26. Nina Katerli
1934-2023 (aged 89)
human rights defender
writer
prose writer
chemistry
opinion journalist
Nina Katerli was a Russian writer, publicist, and human rights activist.
27. Edward Woyniłłowicz
1847-1928 (aged 81)
politician
patron of the arts
Edward Woyniłłowicz was a Polish-Belarusian landowner, entrepreneur, philanthropist, public figure and the funder of the landmark "Red Church" of St. Simon and St. Helena on Independence Square in Minsk.
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28. Mikhail Zingarevich
1959-. (aged 67)
businessperson
Mikhail Gennadyevich Zingarevich is an entrepreneur, philanthropist, and invested in the forest industry, gold mining, and high-tech projects. He is an honorary professor at the Highest School of Technology and Energy at the Saint Petersburg State University for Technology and Design.
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29. Steponas Kairys
1879-1964 (aged 85)
engineer
politician
Steponas Kairys was a Lithuanian engineer, nationalist, and social democrat. He was among the 20 men to sign the Act of Independence of Lithuania on 16 February 1918.
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30. Stanisław Zaremba
1863-1942 (aged 79)
university teacher
mathematician
engineer
Stanisław Zaremba was a Polish mathematician and engineer. His research in partial differential equations, applied mathematics and classical analysis, particularly on harmonic functions, gained him a wide recognition. He was one of the mathematicians who contributed to the success of the Polish School of Mathematics through his teaching and organizational skills as well as through his research. Apart from his...
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31. Anatoly Naiman
1936-2022 (aged 86)
translator
prose writer
poet
writer
Anatoly Genrikhovich Naiman was a Russian poet, translator and writer. He was one of the four Akhmatova's Orphans.
32. Pinhas Rutenberg
1879-1942 (aged 63)
civil engineer
engineer
writer
Pinhas Rutenberg was a Russian businessman, hydraulic engineer and political activist. In Russia, he was a member of the Socialist Revolutionary Party and fled due to the Bolshevik revolution. During World War I, he was among the founders of the Jewish Legion and of the American Jewish Congress. Later, he immigrated to Mandatory Palestine and used his education and diplomacy...
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33. Alexander Lodygin
1847-1923 (aged 76)
engineer
inventor
entrepreneur
Alexander Nikolayevich Lodygin, known after immigration to US as Alexandre de Lodyguine was a Russian electrical engineer and inventor, one of the inventors of the incandescent light bulb.
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34. Mykola Skrypnyk
1872-1933 (aged 61)
diplomat
statesperson
Mykola Oleksiiovych Skrypnyk, was a Ukrainian Bolshevik revolutionary and Communist leader who was a proponent of the Ukrainian Republic's independence, and later led the cultural Ukrainization effort in Soviet Ukraine. When the policy was reversed and he was removed from his position, he committed suicide rather than be forced to recant his policies in a show trial. He also was...
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35. Aleksandr Mazin
1959-. (aged 67)
poet
science fiction writer
Alexander Vladimirovich Mazin is a Ukrainian-born Russian writer, poet, and songwriter, specializing in the genres of science fiction, fantasy, and alternate history.
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36. Yevgeny Rein
1935-. (aged 91)
prose writer
poet
screenwriter
Yevgeny Borisovich Rein is a Russian poet and writer, laureate of the State Prize of the Russian Federation (1997). His poetry won the Pushkin Prize of Russia, Tsarskoe Selo Art Prize (1997), or the Russian National Prize - the Poet (2012).
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37. Germain Henri Hess
1802-1850 (aged 48)
physician
chemist
mineralogist
Germain Henri Hess was a Swiss-Russian chemist and doctor who formulated Hess' law, an early principle of thermochemistry.
38. Alexander Nesis
1962-. (aged 64)
entrepreneur
Alexander Nesis is a Russian entrepreneur and the largest stakeholder of a private equity firm ICT Holding Ltd. (Cyprus). He was the founder and the president of the ICT Group, a private equity entity based and operated in Russia from 1991 until 2013.
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39. Pyotr Lebedev
1866-1912 (aged 46)
physicist
university teacher
Pyotr Nikolaevich Lebedev was a Russian physicist. His name was also transliterated as Peter Lebedew and Peter Lebedev. Lebedev was the creator of the first scientific school in Russia.
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40. Stefan Ossowiecki
1877-1944 (aged 67)
engineer
chemist
Stefan Ossowiecki was a Polish engineer who was, during his lifetime, promoted as one of Europe's best-known psychics. Two notable persons who credited his claims were pioneering French parapsychologist Gustav Geley and Nobel Prize-winning physiologist Charles Richet, who called Ossowiecki "the most positive of psychics."
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41. Mikhail Solomentsev
1913-2008 (aged 95)
engineer
politician
Mikhail Sergeyevich Solomentsev was a Soviet politician and bureaucrat.
42. Sergei Prokudin-Gorskii
1863-1944 (aged 81)
photographer
chemist
teacher
inventor
traveler
Sergey Mikhaylovich Prokudin-Gorsky was a Russian chemist and photographer. He is best known for his pioneering work in colour photography and his effort to document early 20th-century Russia.
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43. Vladimir Korolenko
1853-1921 (aged 68)
autobiographer
literary critic
writer
prose writer
opinion journalist
Vladimir Galaktionovich Korolenko was a Russian writer, journalist and humanitarian of Ukrainian origin. His best-known work includes the short novel The Blind Musician (1886), as well as numerous short stories based upon his experience of exile in Siberia. Korolenko was a strong critic of the Tsarist regime and in his final years of the Bolsheviks.
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44. Abram Ioffe
1880-1960 (aged 80)
physicist
inventor
Abram Fedorovich Ioffe was a prominent Soviet physicist. He received the Stalin Prize (1942) and the Lenin Prize (1961) (posthumously). Ioffe was an expert in various areas of solid state physics and electromagnetism. He established research laboratories for radioactivity, superconductivity, and nuclear physics, many of which became independent institutes.
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45. Sergey Lazo
1894-1920 (aged 26)
partisan
military personnel
revolutionary
Sergey Georgiyevich Lazo (Russian: Серге́й Гео́ргиевич Лазо́, Romanian: Serghei Lazo; March 7, 1894 – April or May 1920) was a Russian nobleman, officer of the Imperial Russian Army, and Bolshevik leader in the October 1917 Revolution in the Russian Far East.
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46. Gleb Krzhizhanovsky
1872-1959 (aged 87)
economist
engineer
politician
Gleb Maksimilianovich Krzhizhanovsky was a Soviet scientist, statesman, revolutionary, Old Bolshevik, and state figure as well as a geographer and writer.
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47. Dmitri Mendeleev
1834-1907 (aged 73)
economist
physicist
chemist
university teacher
Dmitri Ivanovich Mendeleev was a Russian chemist known for formulating the periodic law and creating a version of the periodic table of elements. He used the periodic law not only to correct the then-accepted properties of some known elements, such as the valence and atomic weight of uranium, but also to predict the properties of three elements that were yet...
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48. Aleksey Tolstoy
1882-1945 (aged 63)
playwright
science fiction writer
writer
children's writer
poet
Aleksey Nikolayevich Tolstoy was a Russian writer whose works span across many genres, but mainly belonged to science fiction and historical fiction.
49. Andrey Myagkov
1938-2021 (aged 83)
actor
pedagogue
writer
theatrical director
drama teacher
Andrey Vasilyevich Myagkov was a Soviet and Russian stage and film actor, theater director and writer. He is best known for his roles in famous films directed by Eldar Ryazanov, such as The Irony of Fate (1975), Office Romance (1977), The Garage (1979) and A Cruel Romance (1984).
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50. Sergey Martinson
1899-1984 (aged 85)
actor
Sergey Aleksandrovich Martinson was a Soviet and Russian stage, film and voice actor. People's Artist of the RSFSR (1964).
51. Ludwig Martens
1874-1948 (aged 74)
diplomat
engineer
politician
Ludwig Christian Alexander Karl Martens was a Russian Marxist revolutionary, Soviet diplomat, and engineer.