Discover the notable alumni of Moscow State University. The list includes people like Mikhail Gorbachev, Sergey Brin, Oleg Deripaska, Lev Vygotsky & Boris Pasternak. This list of notable alumni is loosely sorted by popularity and has people from different domains of life, such as intellectuals & academics, writers, leaders, scientists and business people etc.
Mikhail Gorbachev02 March 1931, Russian
Former General Secretary of the Communist Party of
Sergey Brin21 August 1973, Russian, American
Computer scientist
Lev Vygotsky17 November 1896, Russian
Psychologist
Boris Pasternak10 February 1890, Russian, Russian
Poet & Writer
Alisher Usmanov09 September 1953, Russian
Business Magnate
Andrei Sakharov21 May 1921, Russian
The Father of Soviet nuclear bomb’
Oleg Deripaska02 January 1968, Russian
Entrepreneur, Investor, Businessperson
Raisa Gorbacheva05 January 1932, Russian
First Lady of U.S.S.R
Ion Iliescu03 March 1930, Romanian
Former President of Romania
Mahmoud Darwish13 March 1941, Palestinian
Poet
Imre Lakatos09 November 1922, Hungarian
Philosopher
Immanuel Velikovsky10 June 1895, Israeli
Author
Ivan Bunin22 October 1870, Russian
Writer
Alexander Herzen06 April 1812, Russian
Father of Russian socialism
Igor Tamm08 July 1895, Russian
Physicist
Andrey Melnichenko08 March 1972, Russian
Industrialist
John Dramani Mahama29 November 1958, Ghanaian
President of Ghana
Suleyman Rustam27 November 1906, Azerbaijani
Poet
Grigory Potemkin11 October 1739, Russian
linguist, military personnel
Nikolai Bukharin09 October 1888, Russian
Russian Politician
Tony Hoare11 January 1934, British
Computer scientist, Engineer, Programmer, Writer,
Andrey Kolmogorov25 April 1903, Russian
Mathematician
Vladimir Zhirinovsky25 April 1946, Kazakh, Russian
Jurist, Politician, Lawyer
L. L. Zamenhof15 December 1859, Polish
Linguist, Ophthalmologist, Inventor, Poet,
Nadezhda Tolokonnikova07 November 1989, Russian
Singer
Eugene Kaspersky04 October 1965, Russian
computer scientist, programmer, inventor
Roman Jakobson11 October 1896, Russian
Linguist
Sergei Yesenin21 September 1895, Russian
poet, writer
P. D. Ouspensky04 March 1878, Russian
philosopher, writer
Pafnuty Chebyshev04 May 1821, Russian
mathematician, statistician
Georgy Lvov02 November 1861, Russian
statesman, politician
Vsevolod Meyerhold28 January 1874, Russian
actor, theatre director, playwright
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Yevgeny Primakov29 October 1929, Russian
Geopolitician, Politician, Diplomat, Journalist,
Vladimir Arnold12 June 1937, Ukrainian, Russian
Mathematician, Topologist, Professor, Scientist
Yegor Gaidar19 March 1956, Russian
Economist, Politician, Professor
Boris Akunin20 May 1956, Georgian, Russian
Writer, Translator, Historian, Science fiction
Petr Mitrichev19 March 1985, Russian
Computer scientist
Alexander Oparin02 March 1894, Russian
biologist, biochemist, chemist
Lev Shestov31 January 1866, Russian
philosopher, university teacher
Dmitry Rogozin21 December 1963, Russian
Journalist, Politician, Diplomat
Chulpan Khamatova01 October 1975, Russian
Actor
Israel Gelfand20 August 1913, American, Russian
mathematician, biologist, university teacher
Elvira Nabiullina29 October 1963, Russian
Economist, Politician, Banker
Ivan Goncharov06 June 1812, Russian
linguist, writer, novelist, translator
Maxim Kontsevich25 August 1964, French, Russian
Mathematician, Topologist
Roza Otunbayeva23 August 1950, Kyrgyz
Politician, Diplomat
Mykola Azarov17 December 1947, Ukrainian
Politician
Diniyar Bilyaletdinov27 February 1985, Russian
Association football player
Pavel Milyukov27 January 1859
Diplomat, Historian, Politician, Journalist
Yuri Orlov13 August 1924, American
Physicist, Human rights activist, Nuclear
Leonid Andreyev21 August 1871, Russian
playwright, writer, journalist, lawyer
Vasily Zhukovsky29 January 1783, Russian
linguist, poet, translator, writer, literary
Vitaly Ginzburg21 September 1916, Russian
physicist, astronomer, inventor, professor
Fyodor Tyutchev23 November 1803, Russian
writer, poet, diplomat, philosopher
Nikolai Rubinstein14 February 1835, Russian
composer, pianist, conductor, musician
Alexander Stepanov16 November 1950, Russian
Computer scientist
Andrei Bely14 October 1880, Russian
poet, writer, autobiographer,playwright, literary
Alexander Ostrovsky31 March 1823, Russian
writer, librettist, playwright, journalist
Lyudmila Ulitskaya21 February 1943, Russian
Writer
Igor Shuvalov04 January 1967, Russian
Jurist, Politician, Lawyer
Nikolay Yegorovich Zhukovsky17 January 1847, Russian
mathematician, physicist, engineer
Pyotr Aven16 March 1955, Russian
Politician, Banker, Economist
Sergei Bodrov, Jr.27 December 1971, Russian
Boris Berezovsky23 January 1946, British, Russian
entrepreneur, mathematician, politician, economist
Kōki Ishii06 November 1940, Japanese
Politician