26 Notable alumni of Tomsk State University

Vladimir Igorevich Samokish is a Russian entrepreneur, political figure and deputy of the 8th State Duma. From 1993 to 2009, he worked as an individual entrepreneur and actively engaged in business. In 2009 he was appointed Deputy Governor of Tomsk Oblast. In 2015, he was elected deputy of the Tomsk City Duma. Since September 2021, he has served as deputy...

Vladimir Yevseyevich Zuev was a Soviet and Russian physicist, academician of the Academy of Sciences of the Soviet Union, Hero of Socialist Labour, USSR State Prize recipient, honorary citizen of Tomsk, expert in atmospheric physics and optics.

Viktor Yevgenyevich Panin was a Soviet and Russian physicist, professor, and advisor of the Russian Academy of Sciences. He was an expert in the fields of solid mechanics, plastic deformation and physical materials.

Victor Andreevich Toponogov was an outstanding Russian mathematician, noted for his contributions to differential geometry and so-called Riemannian geometry "in the large".

Anatoly Ivanovich Shirokov is a Russian politician serving as a senator from Magadan Oblast since 10 October 2014.

Jonas Aukštuolis was a Lithuanian diplomat. During World War I, he worked for the Lithuanian Society for the Relief of War Sufferers and was sent to Stockholm to organize contacts with German-occupied Lithuania. He was the Lithuanian representative in Sweden and Norway (1919–1922), Netherlands (1921–1922), Latvia (1923–1927), Estonia (1923–1930), Finland (1929–1934), Czechoslovakia (1932–1934), Argentina, Uruguay, and Brazil (1934–1939). In 1939,...

Garry Vladimirovich Minkh, is a Russian politician and legal figure, who is currently the plenipotentiary of the President of the Russia in the State Duma. He has the federal state civilian service rank of 1st class Active State Councillor of the Russian Federation.

Vera Nebolsina is a Russian professional chess player. She earned the title Woman Grandmaster (WGM) at age 17 in 2007.

Gavriil Vasilyevich Ksenofontov was a Yakutian historian, politician and lawyer who studied the history, ethnography and folklore of the Yakut, Evenki and Buryat peoples. He also served in the Russian Constituent Assembly and the Siberian Regional Duma during the Russian Revolution.

Gennadiy Martovich Prashkevich is a Russian science fiction writer, critic, editor, translator and International PEN member. He won the Aelita Prize (1994) and Garin-Mikhaylovsky Prize (1999). He is also a poet, translator and essayist.

Sergey Vladimirovich Ivanov is a Russian politician, who was a member of the State Duma from 2003 to 2021.

Yuliy Burkin is a Russian science fiction writer and musician. He has coauthored a trilogy Island Russia with Sergey Lukyanenko.

Abram Fet was a Russian mathematician, Soviet dissident, philosopher, Samizdat translator and writer. He used various pseudonyms for Samizdat, like N. A. Klenov, A.B. Nazyvayev, D.A. Rassudin, S.T. Karneyev, etc. If published, his translations were usually issued under the name of A.I. Fedorov, which reproduced Fet's own initials and sometimes under the names of real people who agreed to publish...

Viktor Petrovich Orlov, was a Russian politician, geologist, and mining engineer. He served as the Minister of Natural Resources from 1996 to 1998, and again from 1998 to 1999.

Vadim Mikhailovich Shumkov is a Russian politician who is currently the fifth governor of Kurgan Oblast.

Kim Yong-nam was a North Korean politician who served as the president of the Presidium of the Supreme People's Assembly of North Korea, from 1998 until 2019. Due to holding the office, he was considered the head of state of North Korea; the country's constitution was amended once he left office in 2019 to transfer this position to the President...

Andrey Vladimirovich Burkovsky is a Russian actor and a former KVN player (champion of the Major League as a member of the Maximum team in 2008). However, after becoming famous as a comedian he soon started taking on more serious roles in theater, on TV and in cinema. Since 2014, he has been an actor of the Moscow Art Theatre...

Nikolay Nilovich Burdenko was a Russian and Soviet surgeon, the founder of Russian neurosurgery. He was Surgeon-General of the Red Army (1937–1946), an academician of the USSR Academy of Sciences (from 1939), an academician and the first director of the Academy of Medical Sciences of the USSR (1944–1946), a Hero of Socialist Labor (from 1943), Colonel General of medical services,...

Edison Vasilievich Denisov was a Russian composer in the so-called "Underground", "alternative" or "nonconformist" division of Soviet music.

Viktor Nikolayevich Pepelyayev was a Russian politician, a supporter of Admiral Alexander Kolchak, a key perpetrator of the White Terror, and the Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the State of Russia.

Vladimir Vladimirovich Mazur is a Russian statesman, who is currently serving as the 3rd governor of Tomsk Oblast in since 22 September 2022.

Kamchybek Kydyrshaevich Tashiev is a Kyrgyzstani politician who was head of the political party Ata-Zhurt until its merger with the Respublika party in 2014. He was Chairman of the State Committee for National Security and the Kyrgyz Football Union from 2020 until February 10th, 2026.

Nikolai Osipovich Massalitinov was a Russian (later Bulgarian) stage actor, theatre director and pedagogue, associated originally with the Moscow Art Theatre and, since 1925, with Ivan Vazov National Theatre in Bulgaria. The actress Varvara Massalitinova was his sister.

Vladimir Kazimirovich Kravchenko is a Russian politician serving as a senator from Tomsk Oblast since 14 October 2021.

Yury Leonidovich Yershov is a Soviet and Russian mathematician.