Notable Alumni of V. N. Karazin Kharkiv National University [Sorted List]

1. Yuri Kivshar

1959-. (aged 67)

physicist researcher

Yuri S. Kivshar, Australian physicist of Ukrainian origin, distinguished professor, head of Nonlinear Physics Centre of The Australian National University (ANU) (Canberra, Australia) and research director of The International Research Centre for Nanophotonics and Metamaterials (St. Petersburg, Russia), Australian Federation Fellow.

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2. Mikhail Lyubich

1959-. (aged 67)

mathematician university teacher

Mikhail Lyubich (born 25 February 1959 in Kharkiv, Ukraine) is a mathematician who has made important contributions to the fields of holomorphic dynamics and chaos theory.

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3. Nikolay Gredeskul

1865-1941 (aged 76)

university teacher jurist politician

Nikolay Andreyevich Gredeskul was a liberal politician from the Russian Empire.

4. Miriam Bernstein-Cohen

1895-1991 (aged 96)

stage actor theatrical director writer translator actor

Miriam Bernstein-Cohen, was an Israeli actress, director, poet and translator.

5. Boris Grynjov

1956-. (aged 70)

physicist

Borys Viktorovych Grynyov is a Ukrainian scientist, public figure, member of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine (NAS), Honored Science Worker of Ukraine, Doctor of Engineering Science, Professor. He is the Director of the Institute for Scintillation Materials.

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6. Nikolai Turczaninov

1796-1863 (aged 67)

botanist botanical collector

Nikolai Stepanovich Turchaninov, traditionally spelled Turczaninow was a Russian botanist and plant collector who first identified several genera and many species of plants.

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7. Alexander Gustav Winkler

1865-1935 (aged 70)

pianist music educator composer

Alexander Adolfovich Winkler, also Alexandre Adolfovitch Winkler (Russian: Александр Адольфович (Густав) Винклер; 3 March 1865 in Kharkiv – 6 August 1935 in Besançon), was a Russian pianist, composer and music educator of German descent.

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8. Semion Braude

1911-2003 (aged 92)

radio astronomer physicist

Semion Yakovlevich Braude was a Soviet and Ukrainian physicist and radio astronomer.

9. Viktor Hryhorovych

1815-1876 (aged 61)

slavist university teacher historian

Victor Ivanovich Grigorovich was a Russian Slavist, folklorist, literary critic, historian and journalist, one of the originators of Slavic studies in the Russian empire.

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10. Boris Levitan

1914-2004 (aged 90)

mathematician

Boris Levitan was a mathematician who worked on almost periodic functions, Sturm–Liouville operators and inverse scattering.

11. Ihor Isichenko

1956-. (aged 70)

writer scientist university teacher archbishop

Ihor Isichenko, is a Ukrainian religious and public figure, former Ukraine Orthodox archbishop, who converted to Catholicism in 2020. Isichenko played a key role in the revival and development of the Ukrainian Autocephalous Orthodox Church during its critical period in the mid 1990s. Since 2018, he has been a member of PEN Ukraine.

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12. Evgeny Markov

1835-1903 (aged 68)

writer literary critic

Evgeny Lvovich Markov was a Russian writer, critic and ethnographer.

13. Semyon Bogatyrev

1890-1960 (aged 70)

composer musicologist music educator musician

Semyon Semyonovich Bogatyrev was a Soviet and Russian musicologist and composer.

14. Arkady Gornfeld

1867-1941 (aged 74)

writer literary scholar literary historian bibliographer translator

Arkady Georgievich Gornfeld was a prominent Russian essayist, literary critic and translator, best known for a feud with dissident poet Osip Mandelstam.

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15. Sergey Zarudnyy

1821-1887 (aged 66)

civil servant jurist writer

Sergei Ivanovich Zarudny was a Russian legal scholar, lawyer, senator, and privy councillor in the Russian Empire, mostly during the reign of Alexander II. He was a supporter of the emancipation reform of 1861, which freed serfs; and played a key role in writing the Russian Judicial Reform Act of 1864, which established an independent judiciary and extended the right...

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16. Sergei Alexandrovsky

1956-. (aged 70)

poet translator

Sergei A. Alexandrovsky is a Ukrainian poet and translator who writes in Russian language.

17. Aleksandr Gradovsky

1841-1889 (aged 48)

docent

Aleksandr Gradovsky was a Russian jurist. A professor of law at St. Petersburg University since 1869, he was a leading theorist of Russian administrative and constitutional law. He was succeeded by Nikolay Korkunov.

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18. Mykola Sumtsov

1854-1922 (aged 68)

museologist literary scholar folklorist public figure ethnographer

Mykola Fedorovych Sumtsov or Nikolai Fyodorovich Sumtsov (Russian: Николай Фёдорович Сумцов, 18 April 1854, Saint Petersburg, Russian Empire – 12 September 1922 Kharkiv, Ukrainian SSR, USSR), sometimes spelled Sumcov, was an ethnographer, folklorist, art historian, literary scholar, educator and museum expert, who flourished in the Russian Empire, Ukrainian People's Republic, and Soviet Ukraine.

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19. Nikolay Sherbina

1821-1869 (aged 48)

poet

Nikolay Fyodorovich Shcherbina was a 19th-century Russian poet.

20. Pyotr Weinberg

1831-1908 (aged 77)

poet writer translator teacher literary historian

Pyotr Isaevich Veinberg was a Russian poet, translator, journalist and literary historian.

21. Emmanuel Metter

1878-1941 (aged 63)

conductor

Emmanuel Leonievich Metter was a Russian conductor.

22. Amvrosy Metlinsky

1814-1870 (aged 56)

ethnographer poet anthropologist

Amvrosy Metlinsky was a Ukrainian poet, ethnographer, folklorist and panslavist. Professor at the Imperial University of Kharkov.

23. Iryna Akimova

1960-. (aged 66)

politician economist

Iryna Mykhailivna Akimova is a Ukrainian politician and former First Deputy Head of Presidential Administration of Ukraine. She held this post from February 2010 till February 2014.

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24. Vasily Fesenkov

1889-1972 (aged 83)

astronomer

Vasiliy Grigorievich Fesenkov was a Soviet Russian astrophysicist.

25. Boris Gerasimovich

1889-1937 (aged 48)

astrophysicist astronomer

Boris Petrovich Gerasimovich was a Soviet astronomer and astrophysicist.

26. Yevhen Zakharov

1952-. (aged 74)

human rights defender

Yevgen Yukhymovych Zakharov is a Ukrainian human rights activist and member of the Ukrainian PEN. He is a chairman of the board of the Ukrainian Helsinki Human Rights Union, Director of the Kharkiv Human Rights Group. He was an activist in the dissident movement of the 1970s and 1980s.

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27. Vitali Milman

1939-. (aged 87)

mathematician university teacher

Vitali Davidovich Milman is a mathematician specializing in analysis. He is a professor at the Tel Aviv University. In the past he was a President of the Israel Mathematical Union and a member of the “Aliyah” committee of Tel Aviv University. He is the recipient of the 2024 Israel Prize in the field of mathematics and computer science.

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28. Peter von Köppen

1793-1864 (aged 71)

geographer

Peter von Köppen, was a Russian ethnographer, historian, statistician, and geographer of German heritage. An academician of the Petersburg Academy of Sciences (now Russian Academy of Sciences), he held the civil rank of Active State Councillor.

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29. Alexandru Hâjdeu

1811-1872 (aged 61)

writer

Alexandru Hâjdeu or Alexander Faddeevich Hizhdeu was a Romanian writer who lived in Bessarabia, now Moldova. He was the father of Romanian writer and philologist Bogdan Petriceicu Hasdeu. Alexandru Hâjdeu was one of the founding members of the Romanian Academy.

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30. Joel Engel

1868-1927 (aged 59)

ethnomusicologist composer teacher musicologist journalist

Joel Engel was a Russian music critic, composer and one of the leading figures in the Jewish art music movement. Born in the Russian Empire, and later moving to Berlin and then to Mandatory Palestine, Engel has been called "the true founding father of the modern renaissance of Jewish music."

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31. Yuriy Kolobov

1973-. (aged 53)

banker economist politician

Yuriy Kolobov is a former Minister of Finance of Ukraine.

32. Ivan Krasnov

1802-1871 (aged 69)

writer

Ivan Ivanovich Krasnov Russian: Краснов, Иван Иванович was a Russian general and author.

33. Vladimir Savon

1940-2005 (aged 65)

chess player

Vladimir Andreyevich Savon was a Ukrainian chess player. He was awarded the title of Grandmaster by FIDE in 1973.

34. Andrey Valentinov

1958-. (aged 68)

historian science fiction writer prose writer archaeologist

Andriy Valentynov / Andrey Valentinov is the pen name of a Ukrainian Russian-speaking science/fantasy fiction writer Andriy Valentynovych Shmalko. Valentinov is a distinguished Ukrainian historian and archaeologist and works as an associate professor at Ukrainian studies department of Kharkiv National University. He resides in Kharkiv, Ukraine, and writes in Russian. Valentinov collaborates with other Russophone Ukrainian writers, such as H....

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35. Anatoly Vishnevsky

1935-2021 (aged 86)

academic economist editing staff demographer

Anatoly Vishnevsky was a Russian demographer and economist. He also wrote novels.

36. Borys Mykolaiovych Martos

1879-1977 (aged 98)

teacher politician historian ukrainianist economist

Borys Mykolayovych Martos was a Ukrainian politician, pedagogue, and economist who briefly served as Chairman of People's Ministers of the Ukrainian People's Republic from April to August 1919.

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37. Oleksandr Martynenko

1960-2024 (aged 64)

journalist spokesperson

Oleksandr Vladlenovych Martynenko was a Ukrainian media director and journalist. He was a director of Interfax-Ukraine from its founding in 1992 to 1998 and from 2003. From 1998 to 2002, he was deputy chief of the Presidential Administration of Ukraine and press secretary of President of Ukraine Leonid Kuchma. He was a long-time author of the magazine Dzerkalo Tyzhnia, where...

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38. Nikolai Barabashov

1894-1971 (aged 77)

politician astronomer

Nikolai Pavlovich Barabashov was a Soviet astronomer.

39. Nikolai Pylchykov

1857-1908 (aged 51)

physicist

Mykola Dmytroych Pylchykov was a physicist, inventor, and geologist in the Russian Empire. He is known for the discovery of the photovoltaic effect, new properties of X-rays, and ways to control various mechanisms of the radio provided a basis of radio control.

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40. Levko Borovykovsky

1806-1889 (aged 83)

translator of Adam Mickiewicz writer folklorist ethnographer poet

Levko Borovykovsky ([Borovykovs'kyj] (22 February 1806 – 26 December 1889 in Myliushky village, Poltava Governorate, Russian Empire) was a Ukrainian romantic poet, writer, translator, and folklorist.

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41. Bogdan Kistyakovsky

1868-1920 (aged 52)

sociologist

Bogdan Aleksandrovich Kistyakovski or Kistiakowsky (Russian: Богдан (Федoр) Александрович Кистяковский; 16 November 1869 – 16 April 1920) was a Russian philosopher, jurist, and sociologist. He reached prominence with his Gesellschaft und Einzelwesen (Society and Individuals) published in Berlin in 1899. Philosophically he defended transcendental idealism. In 1902 he contributed to Problems of Idealism (Problemy Idealizma), edited by Pavel Novgorodtsev. In...

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42. Leo Kiacheli

1884-1963 (aged 79)

writer short story writer

Leo Kiacheli was a Soviet and Georgian writer. He has been published since 1909, noted for the novels Gvadi Bigva, Tavadis Kali Maya (Princess Maya), Almasgir Kibulan, and Haki Adzba.

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43. Volodymyr Semynoženko

1950-. (aged 76)

physicist politician

Volodymyr Petrovych Semynozhenko is a Ukrainian politician and scientist, who served as the Vice Prime Minister of Ukraine for humanitarian policy from May 2001 to November 2002, and again for four months in 2010. He created and headed the Ministry of Science and Technology of Ukraine from 1996 to 1998, served as the Chair of the Parliamentary Committee on Sciences...

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44. Dmytro Antonovych

1877-1945 (aged 68)

historian diplomat art historian politician

Dmytro Antonovych was a Ukrainian politician and art historian.

45. Barbara Karinska

1886-1983 (aged 97)

costume designer

Varvara Jmoudsky, better known as Barbara Karinska or simply Karinska, was the Oscar-winning costumier of cinema, ballet, musical and dramatic theatre, lyric opera and ice spectacles. Over her 50-year career, that began at age 41, Karinska earned legendary status time and again through her continuing collaborations with stage designers including Christian Bérard, André Derain, Irene Sharaff, Raoul Pêne du Bois...

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46. Egor Kovalevsky

1809-1868 (aged 59)

orientalist explorer writer diplomat traveler

Egor or Yegor Petrovich Kovalevsky was a Russian traveller, writer, and diplomat.

47. Hryhoriy Hrynko

1890-1938 (aged 48)

reformer politician

Hryhoriy Fedorovych Hrynko was a Ukrainian revolutionary and Soviet bureaucrat who held high office in the government of the Soviet Union. He served as People's Commissar for Finance in Moscow, from 1930 to 1937, replacing Nikolai Bryukhanov.

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48. Aleksei Pogorelov

1919-2002 (aged 83)

mathematician physicist university teacher politician

Aleksei Vasilyevich Pogorelov, was a Soviet mathematician. Specialist in the field of convex and differential geometry, geometric PDEs and elastic shells theory, the author of novel school textbooks on geometry and university textbooks on analytical geometry, on differential geometry, and on the foundations of geometry.

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49. Anatolii Zahorodnii

1951-. (aged 75)

physicist researcher

Anatoliy Hlibovych Zahorodniy is a Ukrainian theoretical physicist and an organizer of science; an academician of NANU (since 2006), Vice President (2011–2020) and President of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine (since October 2020). Director of Nikolay Bogolyubov Institute of Theoretical Physics of the NAS of Ukraine (since 2002). Doctor of Physical and Mathematical Sciences (1990), Professor (1998), Laureate...

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50. Yelena Ubiyvovk

1918-1942 (aged 24)

partisan

Yelena Konstantinovna Ubiyvovk was a partisan and leader of a Komsomol cell during the Second World War. She was posthumously declared a Hero of the Soviet Union on 8 May 1965, over twenty years after her death.

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51. Yevhen Chykalenko

1861-1929 (aged 68)

opinion journalist publisher patron of the arts public figure agronomist

Yevhen Kharlampiyovych Chykalenko was a Ukrainian public figure, philanthropist, landowner, agronome, publisher and patron of the arts. He was one of the initiators of the convocation of the Central Rada in 1917. He played an important role in the Ukrainian national revival in the early 20th century by co-funding the only Ukrainian-language newspapers in the Russian Empire.

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52. Sergei Natanovich Bernstein

1880-1968 (aged 88)

mathematician university teacher

Sergei Natanovich Bernstein was a Ukrainian and Soviet mathematician of Jewish origin known for contributions to partial differential equations, differential geometry, probability theory, and approximation theory.

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53. Vladimir Steklov

1863-1926 (aged 63)

mathematician inventor physicist university teacher

Vladimir Andreevich Steklov was a prominent Russian and Soviet mathematician, mechanician and physicist.

54. Constantin Dobrogeanu-Gherea

1855-1920 (aged 65)

literary critic writer sociologist politician journalist

Constantin Dobrogeanu-Gherea was a Romanian Marxist theorist, politician, sociologist, literary critic, and journalist. He was also an entrepreneur in the city of Ploiești. Constantin Dobrogeanu-Gherea was the father of communist activist Alexandru Dobrogeanu-Gherea and of philosopher Ionel Gherea.

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55. Léon Metchnikoff

1838-1888 (aged 50)

revolutionary sociologist historian university teacher ethnologist

Lev Ilyich Mechnikov was a Russian and Swiss geographer, sociologist and anarchist theorist.

56. Borys Antonenko-Davydovych

1899-1984 (aged 85)

translator prose writer German–Ukrainian translator writer

Borys Antonenko-Davydovych, born Borys Davydov (Ukrainian: Борис Давидов), was a Ukrainian writer, translator and linguist. During the Great Purge he was sentenced to the death penalty, which was later replaced with ten years jail in a gulag. Antonenko-Davydovych wrote a number of prose books; he had been translating from German and Russian. One of the most famous of his works...

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57. Maria Mezentseva

1989-. (aged 37)

volunteer entrepreneur politician

Maria Mezentseva is a Ukrainian politician. Mezentseva was elected to Verkhovna Rada, the Ukrainian parliament, in 2019. She holds several positions related to European integration, including deputy chairperson of the Committee on Ukraine's Integration into the European Union (as of 2020) and chairperson of the Ukrainian delegation to the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (as of 2021).

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58. Anton Korobov

1985-. (aged 41)

chess player

Anton Sergiyovych Korobov is a Ukrainian chess player. He was awarded the title Grandmaster by FIDE in 2003. Korobov is a four-time Ukrainian champion. He was voted the best male chess player of Ukraine of 2012.

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59. Szolem Mandelbrojt

1899-1983 (aged 84)

university teacher mathematician professor

Szolem Mandelbrojt was a Polish-French mathematician who specialized in mathematical analysis. He was a professor at the Collège de France from 1938 to 1972, where he held the Chair of Analytical Mechanics and Celestial Mechanics.

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60. Valery Mezhlauk

1893-1938 (aged 45)

economist cartoonist politician

Valery Ivanovich Mezhlauk was a government and party official in the Soviet Union during the decades of the 1920s and 1930s. He is best remembered as the Chairman of the State Planning Committee (Gosplan) from 1934 to 1937. He became a victim of Stalin’s Great Purge and was executed on July 29, 1938. He was posthumously rehabilitated in 1956.

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61. Joseph Timchenko

1852-1924 (aged 72)

technician inventor film director mechanic

Joseph Andriyovych Tymchenko — Ukrainian inventor and mechanic. He invented a type of a film camera.

62. Mykhailo Petrenko

1817-1862 (aged 45)

civil servant playwright poet judge

Mykhailo Mykolayovych Petrenko was a Ukrainian romantic poet notable for his musical works, and a member of the Kharkiv Romantic School. He was married to Anna Evgrafivna Myrgorodova.

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63. Natalia Zabila

1903-1985 (aged 82)

children's writer poet writer

Natalia Lvivna Zabila was a Ukrainian poet, novelist, and playwright.

64. Izmail Sreznevsky

1812-1880 (aged 68)

lexicographer linguist

Izmail Ivanovich Sreznevsky was a Russian philologist, Slavist, historian, paleographer, folklorist and writer.

65. Ivan Svitlychny

1929-1992 (aged 63)

poet writer translator

Ivan Oleksiyovych Svitlychnyi was a Ukrainian poet, literary critic, and Soviet dissident.

66. Boris Chichibabin

1923-1994 (aged 71)

poet writer

Boris Alekseyevich Chichibabin was a Russian-language Ukrainian poet and a laureate of the USSR State Prize (1990), who is typically regarded as one of the Sixtiers.

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67. Alexander Vilenkin

1949-. (aged 77)

university teacher physicist non-fiction writer

Alexander Vilenkin is the Leonard Jane Holmes Bernstein Professor of Evolutionary Science and Director of the Institute of Cosmology at Tufts University. A theoretical physicist who has been working in the field of cosmology for 25 years, Vilenkin has written over 260 publications.

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68. Maria Burmaka

1970-. (aged 56)

singer

Mariya Viktorivna Burmaka is a Ukrainian singer-songwriter, TV personality and musician active in the genres of rock, pop, folk, and world music. She also holds the title of People's Artist of Ukraine (1998). Early in her career, Burmaka won several important and All-Ukrainian musical contests or festivals, which quickly made her famous and made her an icon of the Ukrainian...

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69. Otto Struve

1897-1963 (aged 66)

astronomer

Otto Lyudvigovich Struve was a Russian-American astronomer of Baltic German origin. Otto was the descendant of famous astronomers of the Struve family; he was the son of Ludwig Struve, grandson of Otto Wilhelm von Struve and great-grandson of Friedrich Georg Wilhelm von Struve. He was also the nephew of Karl Hermann Struve.

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70. Pyotr Vologodsky

1863-1925 (aged 62)

lawyer politician

Pyotr Vasilievich Vologodsky was a Russian statesman, public figure, and mason. He was the first chairman of the Council of Ministers of the Russian state and the second and last chairman of the Provisional Siberian government.

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71. Alexander Khatisian

1874-1945 (aged 71)

political scientist writer official physician politician

Alexander Khatisian was an Armenian politician, doctor and journalist.

72. Leonid Reshetnikov

1947-. (aged 79)

historian opinion journalist

Leonid Petrovich Reshetnikov is a Soviet and Russian secret service agent, Lieutenant-General of Foreign Intelligence Service, director of the Russian Institute for Strategic Studies (29 April 2009 – 4 January 2017) where he actively supported interference in the United States elections. He is called "the right hand of Mr. Putin on the Balkans."

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73. Maik Yohansen

1895-1937 (aged 42)

linguist poet translator

Maik Hervasiiovych Yohansen or Mike Johansen (Ukrainian: Майк Гервасійович Йогансен; pseudonyms Villi Vetselius [Willy Wetzelius] and M. Kramar; 16 October 1895, Kharkiv, Ukraine – 27 October 1937, Kyiv, Ukraine) – was a Ukrainian poet, prose writer, dramatist, translator, critic and linguist. He was one of the founders of VAPLITE.

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74. Nikolai Korotkov

1874-1920 (aged 46)

surgeon physician

Nikolai Sergeyevich Korotkov, also Korotkoff was a Russian surgeon, a pioneer of 20th-century vascular surgery, and the inventor of auscultatory technique for blood pressure measurement.

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75. Bogdan Petriceicu Hasdeu

1838-1907 (aged 69)

politician historian romanist poet prose writer

Bogdan Petriceicu Hasdeu was a Romanian writer and philologist who pioneered many branches of Romanian philology and history.

76. Ołeksandr Feldman

1960-. (aged 66)

entrepreneur politician

Olexandr Borysovych Feldman is a Ukrainian politician and public figure, People's Deputy of Ukraine (since 2002), businessman, multi-millionaire. He is considered to be one of the most influential people in Kharkiv. In 2013 he entered the rating of the hundred richest Ukrainians of the Ukrainian magazine Forbes, finishing 35th ($ 287m). Since June 2015, the co-chairman of the political party...

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77. Nikolai Aseev

1889-1963 (aged 74)

translator of Adam Mickiewicz architect writer screenwriter furniture designer

Nikolai Nikolayevich Aseyev was a Russian and Soviet Futurist poet and writer.

78. Mykola Kostomarov

1817-1885 (aged 68)

translator of Adam Mickiewicz critic opinion journalist historian poet

Mykola Ivanovych Kostomarov or Nikolai Ivanovich Kostomarov (Russian: Николай Иванович Костомаров) was one of the most distinguished Russian–Ukrainian historians, one of the first anti-Normanists, and the father of modern Ukrainian historiography. He was a professor of Russian history at the St. Vladimir University of Kiev and later at the St. Petersburg University, an Active State Councillor of Russia, an author...

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79. Volodymyr Sosiura

1897-1965 (aged 68)

poet writer translator

Volodymyr Mykolaiovych Sosiura was a Ukrainian poet, translator, journalist, war correspondent and a veteran of Ukrainian–Soviet War.

80. Hryhir Tiutiunnyk

1931-1980 (aged 49)

screenwriter writer journalist

Hryhir Mykhaylovych Tiutiunnyk was a Ukrainian writer and brother of Hryhoriy Tiutiunnyk.

81. Borys Hrinchenko

1863-1910 (aged 47)

anthropologist linguist historian journalist politician

Borys Dmytrovych Hrinchenko was a classical Ukrainian prose writer, political activist, historian, publicist, and ethnographer. He was instrumental in the Ukrainian cultural revival of the late 19th and beginning of the 20th centuries.

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82. Ilya Ivanovich Ivanov

1870-1932 (aged 62)

biologist geneticist zoologist

Ilya Ivanovich Ivanov was a Russian and Soviet biologist who specialized in the field of artificial insemination and the interspecific hybridization of animals. He is famous for his controversial attempts to create a human–ape hybrid by inseminating three female chimpanzees with human sperm.

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83. Ossip Bernstein

1882-1962 (aged 80)

chess player chess composer

Ossip Samoilovich Bernstein was a French chess player and businessman. He was one of the inaugural recipients of the title International Grandmaster from FIDE in 1950.

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84. Jerzy Neyman

1894-1981 (aged 87)

mathematician statistician philosopher university teacher

Jerzy Spława-Neyman was a Polish mathematician and statistician who first introduced the modern concept of a confidence interval into statistical hypothesis testing and, with Egon Pearson, revised Ronald Fisher's null hypothesis testing. Neyman allocation, an optimal strategy for choosing sample sizes in stratified sampling, is named for him.

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85. Dmytro Yavornytsky

1855-1940 (aged 85)

linguist anthropologist ethnographer historian folklorist

Dmytro Ivanovych Yavornytsky was a Ukrainian academician, historian, archeologist, ethnographer, folklorist, and lexicographer.

86. Józef Piłsudski

1867-1935 (aged 68)

military personnel politician statesperson military leader military officer

Józef Klemens Piłsudski was a Polish statesman who served as the Chief of State (1918–1922) and first Marshal of Poland (from 1920). In the aftermath of World War I, he became an increasingly dominant figure in Polish politics and exerted significant influence on shaping the country's foreign policy. Piłsudski is viewed as a father of the Second Polish Republic, which...

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87. Andrii Biletskyi

1979-. (aged 47)

politician

Andriy Yevheniiovych Biletsky is a Ukrainian far-right politician and brigadier general. He is the leader of the political party National Corps and commander of the 3rd Army Corps of the Ukrainian Ground Forces.

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88. Mikhail Elizarov

1973-. (aged 53)

television director man of letters novelist literary scholar prose writer

Mikhail Yuryevich Elizarov is a modern Russian writer and singer-songwriter, laureate of the Russian Booker Prize in 2008 for the novel The Librarian.

89. Oleksandr Bakumov

1989-. (aged 37)

jurist politician

Oleksandr Serhiyovych Bakumov is a Ukrainian soldier, professor, and politician currently serving as a People's Deputy of Ukraine from Ukraine's 173rd electoral district since 29 August 2019. He is a member of Servant of the People. Prior to becoming a People's Deputy, he was a captain in the State Border Guard Service of Ukraine during the war in Donbas, for...

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90. Yevhenii Muraev

1976-. (aged 50)

politician

Yevheniy Volodymyrovych Murayev is a Ukrainian politician and media owner. He was the leader of the now-banned political party Nashi.

91. Oles Honchar

1918-1995 (aged 77)

critic short story writer writer prose writer opinion journalist

Oleksandr "Oles" Terentiiovych Honchar was a Soviet and Ukrainian writer and public figure. He also was a veteran of World War II and member of the Ukrainian parliament.

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92. Alexander Schlichter

1868-1940 (aged 72)

politician economist

Alexander Grigorievich Schlichter was a Ukrainian Bolshevik revolutionary, Soviet politician and academician.

93. John of Shanghai and San Francisco

1896-1966 (aged 70)

Eastern Orthodox monk Eastern Orthodox priest

Saint John of Shanghai and San Francisco was a prelate of the Russian Orthodox Church Outside Russia who is venerated as a saint in the Eastern Orthodox Church.

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94. Ivan Lypa

1865-1923 (aged 58)

literary critic politician writer physician poet

Ivan Lvovych Lypa was a Ukrainian physician and politician who served as Ukrainian minister of Religious Affairs. He is a father of another Ukrainian political leader and physician Yurii Lypa.

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95. Gennady Orlov

1945-. (aged 81)

journalist

Gennady Sergeyevich Orlov is a Russian sports journalist and a former Soviet footballer. He has lived in Leningrad since 1966 and has been a commentator since 1974. Orlov is best known for being a football commentator on Leningrad Television and, subsequently, Petersburg – Channel 5 for many years.

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96. Aleksander Jabłoński

1898-1980 (aged 82)

physicist

Aleksander Jabłoński was a Polish physicist and member of the Polish Academy of Sciences. His research was in molecular spectroscopy and photophysics.

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97. Dimitri Uznadze

1887-1950 (aged 63)

university teacher philosopher psychologist

Dimitri Uznadze was a Georgian psychologist and professor of psychology, co-founder of the Tbilisi State University (TSU) and of the Georgian Academy of Sciences (GAS).

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98. Mykola Lysenko

1842-1912 (aged 70)

music educator conductor composer classical composer pianist

Mykola Vitaliiovych Lysenko was a Ukrainian composer, pianist, conductor and ethnomusicologist of the late Romantic period. In his time he was the central figure of Ukrainian music, with an oeuvre that includes operas, art songs, choral works, orchestral and chamber pieces, and a wide variety of solo piano music. He is often credited with founding a national music tradition during...

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99. Lev Kopelev

1912-1997 (aged 85)

literary historian military personnel opinion journalist university teacher biographer

Lev Zalmanovich Kopelev (Russian: Лев Залма́нович (Зино́вьевич) Ко́пелев, German: Lew Sinowjewitsch Kopelew, 9 April 1912 – 18 June 1997) was a Soviet author and dissident.

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100. Mikhail Gurevich

1892-1976 (aged 84)

military flight engineer engineer inventor aircraft pilot

Mikhail Iosifovich Gurevich was a Soviet aircraft designer who co-founded the Mikoyan-Gurevich military aviation bureau along with Artem Mikoyan. The bureau is famous for its fighter aircraft, rapid interceptors and multi-role combat aircraft which were staples of the Soviet Air Forces throughout the Cold War. The bureau designed 170 projects of which 94 were made in series. In total, 45,000...

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