15 Notable alumni of South Ukrainian National Pedagogical University
Updated: June 03, 2026 EliteDegrees
South Ukrainian National Pedagogical University is ranked #5,499 in the world and #48 in Ukraine by aggregated alumni prominence. Below is the list of 15 notable alumni from South Ukrainian National Pedagogical University sorted by their wiki pages popularity. The directory includes famous graduates and former students along with research and academic staff. Many individuals affiliated with South Ukrainian National Pedagogical University won Nobel Prizes for Peace, in Physics, Chemistry, Physiology or Medicine, and Economics.
1. Semen Altman
1946-. (aged 80)
association football player
association football coach
Semen Yosypovych Altman is a Ukrainian football coach and former goalkeeper. He is of Jewish ancestry.
2. Mykola Milchev
1967-. (aged 59)
sport shooter
Mykola Mykolayovych Milchev is a Ukrainian sport shooter. He is the 2000 Olympic champion in skeet shooting. With a perfect score of 150, he set an Olympic record and tied the world record.
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3. Vyacheslav Zahorodnyuk
1972-. (aged 54)
figure skater
figure skating coach
Vyacheslav Vasylovych Zahorodnyuk is a Ukrainian former competitive figure skater. He represented the USSR until its dissolution and then represented Ukraine. He is the 1994 World bronze medalist, 1996 European champion, and 1989 World Junior champion.
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4. Vasyl Ishchak
1955-. (aged 71)
association football player
association football coach
Vasyl Yevhenovych Ishchak is a retired Ukrainian professional footballer and manager who coaches FC Ukraine United.
5. Serhei Petrenko
1955-. (aged 71)
canoeist
Serhiy Volodymyrovych Petrenko is a retired Soviet and Ukrainian sprint canoeist. He competed in doubles at the 1976 and 1980 Olympics and won two gold medals in 1976. He also won seven medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with three golds (C-1 500 m: 1974, 1975; C-2 10000 m: 1977), three silvers (C-1 500 m: 1978, 1979; C-2...
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6. Ruslan Katyshev
1983-. (aged 43)
athlete
Ruslan Katyshev is a visually impaired Ukrainian track and field athlete. In track and field Katyshev competes in the T11 classification long jump and triple jump events. He is also a P11 classification pentathlete. Katyshev has competed at two Summer Paralympic Games, winning a gold (long jump) and a bronze medal (triple jump) at the 2012 Games in London.
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7. Anatoly Karpovich Pokrytan
1920-2003 (aged 83)
university teacher
economist
Anatoly Karpovych Pokrytan was a Soviet and Ukrainian economist. He founded the Odesa Scientific School of Economic Thought at Odesa National Economics University, where he worked for over fifty years and was head of the Department of Political Economy.
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8. Halyna Zmiievska
1946-. (aged 80)
figure skating coach
Galina Yakovlevna Zmievskaya is a Ukrainian-American figure skating coach in the United States, formerly based in Odesa, Ukraine.
9. Anton Kisse
1958-. (aged 68)
politician
Anton Ivanovych Kisse is a Ukrainian politician and Bulgarian community leader currently serving as a People's Deputy of Ukraine since 12 December 2012, previously serving in the role from 22 June 2004 to 25 May 2006. A former member of Party of Regions and current president of the Association of Bulgarians in Ukraine, Kisse is a native of Budjak region...
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10. Vasyl Lomachenko
1988-. (aged 38)
soldier
boxer
Vasiliy Anatolyevich Lomachenko is a Ukrainian former professional boxer who competed between 2013 and 2024. He has held multiple world championships in three weight classes, including the World Boxing Organization (WBO) featherweight title from 2014 to 2016, the WBO super featherweight title from 2016 to 2018, the unified World Boxing Association (WBA) (Super version), World Boxing Council (WBC), WBO, and...
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11. GeeGun
1985-. (aged 41)
singer
rapper
Denis Aleksandrovich Ustimenko-Veinshtein, better known by his stage name GeeGun, is a Russian-Ukrainian rapper and singer.
12. Viktor Petrenko
1969-. (aged 57)
figure skater
figure skating coach
technical specialist
Viktor Vasyliovych Petrenko is a Ukrainian former competitive figure skater who represented the Soviet Union, the Unified Team, and Ukraine during his career. He is the 1992 Olympic Champion for the Unified Team. Petrenko became the first flagbearer for Ukraine.
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13. Semyon Tsvigun
1917-1982 (aged 65)
writer
military personnel
screenwriter
politician
Semyon Kuzmich Tsvigun was a Ukrainian Soviet officer of the KGB with important ties to Leonid Brezhnev. His sudden death (reportedly a suicide) heralded a major shift in Kremlin power politics.
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14. Alexander Roitburd
1961-2021 (aged 60)
painter
multimedia artist
video artist
artist
visual artist
Oleksandr Rojtburd was a participant of the Ukrainian New Wave and co-founder of the theory of the Ukrainian Transavantgard. He worked as a painter and installation artist, among other things with video and photo projects. He belongs to the first wave of post-independence, post-Soviet, and post-traditional Ukrainian artists.
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15. Svitlana Azarova
1976-. (aged 50)
composer
music teacher
Svitlana Azarova is a Ukrainian-Dutch composer of contemporary classical music, originally from the Ukrainian SSR.