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List of Moscow State University people

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Source revisionAug 1, 2026
Entity authorityQ6590776 ↗
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The list of Moscow State University people includes notable alumni, non-graduates, and faculty affiliated with the Lomonosov Moscow State University (also known as "Moscow State University"). A fuller list is available as a category.

Notable awards recipients

Nobel laureates

Alexey Abrikosov, MS 1948 – Soviet-Russian-American physicist; Nobel Prize in Physics (2003)

Ilya Frank – professor of physics; Nobel Prize in Physics (1958)

Vitaly Ginzburg, MS 1938, PhD 1942 – physicist; Nobel Prize in Physics (2003)

Mikhail Gorbachev, MA 1955 – Head of State of the Soviet Union; Nobel Peace Prize (1990)

Pyotr Kapitsa – professor of physics; Nobel Prize in Physics (1978)

Lev Landau – professor of physics; Nobel Prize in Physics (1962)

Boris Pasternak, MA 1913 – writer, Nobel Prize in Literature (1958)

Alexander Prokhorov – Australian-Soviet-Russian professor of physics; Nobel Prize in Physics (1964)

Andrei Sakharov, MS 1942 – nuclear physicist; Nobel Peace Prize (1975)

Nikolay Semyonov – professor of chemistry; Nobel Prize in Chemistry (1956)

Igor Tamm, MS 1918 – physicist; Nobel Prize in Physics (1958)

Fields Medal laureates

Vladimir Drinfeld (attended 1969–1974) – Soviet-American mathematician; Fields Medal (1990); Harry Pratt Judson Distinguished Service Professor at the University of Chicago

Maxim Kontsevich (attended 1980–1985) – Russian-French mathematician; Fields Medal (1998)

Grigory Margulis, PhD 1970 – Russian-American mathematician; Erastus L. De Forest Professor of Mathematics at Yale University; Fields Medal (1978)

Sergei Novikov, BA 1960 – mathematician; Fields Medal (1970)

Andrei Okounkov, PhD 1995 – mathematician; Fields Medal (2006); Professor of Mathematics at Princeton University

Vladimir Voevodsky (attended 1982) – Russian-American mathematician

Turing Award laureates

C. A. R. Hoare (attended as graduate student) – British computer scientist; Turing Award (1980)

Literature, journalism and philosophy

Academics

Astronomy

Alexander Salomonovich - radio astronomer

Iosif Shklovsky (1916– 1985), astronomer and astrophysicist.

Chemistry

Alexei Bogdanov - chemist and molecular biologist

Nguyen Dinh Duc - researcher of composite materials in Vietnam

Nikolay Emanuel - specialist in chemical kinetics and mechanics of chemical reactions

Alexei Kharitonenkov - Russian-American biochemist and medical researcher

Aleksandr Oparin - biochemist

Natalia Shustova - Professor of Chemistry

Nikolay Semyonov - professor of chemistry; Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1956

Computer science

Georgy Adelson-Velsky - Soviet-Israeli inventor of AVL tree algorithm; developer of Kaissa (the first World Computer Chess Champion)

C. A. R. Hoare - British computer scientist; winner of Turing Award in 1980

Lam M. Nguyen - Vietnamese-American computer scientist and applied mathematician; Research Scientist at IBM Research

Alexander Stepanov - Russian-American, known for C++ Standard Template Library

Economics

Sergey Glazyev - economist, politician

Avraham Katznelson - physician and Zionist political figure

Yuri Maltsev - Austrian School economist

Engineering

Klaudia Sergejewna Kildisheva (1917 - 1994), aviation engineer and H ero of Socialist Labor

Victor Lyatkher (1933), renewable energy engineer

Geosciences

Boris Fedtschenko - botanist

Naomi Feinbrun-Dothan - Russian-Israeli botanist

Alexander Goldfarb - Russian-American microbiologist, activist, and author

Grigori Gamburtsev - seismologist

Grigorii Kozhevnikov - entomologist

Boris Kozo-Polyansky - botanist and evolutionary biologist

Irina Pavlovna Zarutskaya - geomorphologist, cartographer

History

Suleyman Aliyarli - Azeri historian and Turkologist

Zalpa Bersanova - Chechen ethnographer and author

Anatoly Bokschanin - historian of Rome, professor

Igor Golomstock - art historian

Vladimir Guerrier - historian and founder of higher education for women in Russia

Anatoly Khazanov- anthropologist and historian

Vasily Klyuchevsky - historian

Nikolay Kun - historian, writer and educator

V. S. Lelchuk - historian

Nikolai Mashkin - historian of Rome, professor

Sigurd Schmidt - historian, ethnographer

Pavel Polian - geographer and historian

Alec Rasizade - professor of history and political science, author of Rasizade's algorithm

Konstantin Zel'in - historian

Law

Daphna Hacker - professor at the Tel Aviv University law faculty

Tatiana Vladislavovna Petrova - Environmental law lecturer

Anatoly Shesteryuk - Environmental and land law professor

Linguistics and philology

Victor Bayda – linguist

Alexander Dolin – Japanologist, author, translator, academic

Ahmet Cevat Emre – Turkish linguist

Elena Fedorova – philologist

Margalit Finkelberg – Belarusian-Israeli historian and linguist

Vyacheslav Ivanov – philologist

Yuri Knorozov – Russian linguist, epigrapher and ethnographer

Anatoly Moskvin – academic and linguist, arrested in 2011 after the bodies of 26 mummified young women were discovered in his home

Victor Raskin – distinguished professor of linguistics at Purdue University

Mathematics

Paleontology

Alexei Petrovich Pavlov - paleontologist and geologist

Maria Vasillievna Pavlova - paleontologist

Pedagogy

Alexander Bogomolny, Israeli American mathematician; creator of the mathematical education website Cut-the-Knot

Victor Della-Vos

Physics

Psychology

Alexander Luria (1902–1977) , neuropsychologist

Georgy Shchedrovitsky

Lev Semenovich Vygotsky - psychologist

Sociology

Alexander Bikbov - sociologist and political scientist

Georgi Derluguian - sociologist

Yuri Levada - sociologist

Other

Business and finance

Pyotr Aven

Oleg Deripaska

Andrey Melnichenko, billionaire, founder and chairman of EuroChem

Margarita Louis-Dreyfus, Russian-born French billionaire, chairman of Louis Dreyfus

Elena Kotova

Alexander Mamut (born 1960), Russian-Israeli lawyer, banker,, and investor

Yuri Milner (born 1961), Soviet-born Israeli entrepreneur, investor, physicist, and scientist.

Denis Morozov, Russian entrepreneur

Irina Nevzlin, Israeli entrepreneur and author

Oleg Vyugin, former head of Russian financial markets regulator

Musicians and actors

Nipun Akter - actress

Sergei Bodrov, Jr. - actor

Nashenas - Afghan musician

Natalia O'Shea - singer-songwriter

Alla Yoshpe - singer

Elena Zoubareva - opera singer

Elena Katina - singer

Politics

Leonid Gozman - politician and president of the Union of Right Forces

Lev Kamenev (né Rozenfeld; 1883–1936), Russian revolutionary and Soviet politician.

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