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
Alisher Usmanov09 September 1953, Russian
Business Magnate
Boris Pasternak10 February 1890, Russian, Russian
Poet & Writer
Lev Vygotsky17 November 1896, Russian
Psychologist
Anna Chapman23 February 1982, Russian
Media Personality
Andrei Sakharov21 May 1921, Russian
The Father of Soviet nuclear bomb’
Oleg Deripaska02 January 1968, Russian
Entrepreneur, Investor, Businessperson
Ivan Turgenev09 November 1818, Russian
Novelist
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
Immanuel Velikovsky10 June 1895, Israeli
Author
Imre Lakatos09 November 1922, Hungarian
Philosopher
Ivan Bunin22 October 1870, Russian
Writer
Alexander Herzen06 April 1812, Russian
Father of Russian socialism
John Dramani Mahama29 November 1958, Ghanaian
President of Ghana
Igor Tamm08 July 1895, Russian
Physicist
Andrey Melnichenko08 March 1972, Russian
Industrialist
Suleyman Rustam27 November 1906, Azerbaijani
Poet
Grigory Potemkin11 October 1739, Russian
linguist, military personnel
Tony Hoare11 January 1934, British
Computer scientist, Engineer, Programmer, Writer,
Vladimir Zhirinovsky25 April 1946, Kazakh, Russian
Jurist, Politician, Lawyer
Andrey Kolmogorov25 April 1903, Russian
Mathematician
Nadezhda Tolokonnikova07 November 1989, Russian
Singer
Roman Jakobson11 October 1896, Russian
Linguist
L. L. Zamenhof15 December 1859, Polish
Linguist, Ophthalmologist, Inventor, Poet,
Sergei Yesenin21 September 1895, Russian
poet, writer
Georgy Lvov02 November 1861, Russian
statesman, politician
P. D. Ouspensky04 March 1878, Russian
philosopher, writer
Grigory Margulis24 February 1946, American, Russian
Mathematician
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Vsevolod Meyerhold09 February 1874, Russian
Theatre Director
Eugene Kaspersky04 October 1965, Russian
computer scientist, programmer, inventor
Yevgeny Primakov29 October 1929, Russian
Geopolitician, Politician, Diplomat, Journalist,
Pafnuty Chebyshev04 May 1821, Russian
mathematician, statistician
Boris Akunin20 May 1956, Georgian, Russian
Writer, Translator, Historian, Science fiction
Lev Shestov31 January 1866, Russian
philosopher, university teacher
Vladimir Arnold12 June 1937, Ukrainian, Russian
Mathematician, Topologist, Professor, Scientist
Yegor Gaidar19 March 1956, Russian
Economist, Politician, Professor
Alexander Oparin02 March 1894, Russian
biologist, biochemist, chemist
Viktor Chernov07 December 1873, Russian
Political leader
Petr Mitrichev19 March 1985, Russian
Computer scientist
Israel Gelfand20 August 1913, American, Russian
mathematician, biologist, university teacher
Chulpan Khamatova01 October 1975, Russian
Actor
Elvira Nabiullina29 October 1963, Russian
Economist, Politician, Banker
Maxim Kontsevich25 August 1964, French, Russian
Mathematician, Topologist
Pavel Milyukov27 January 1859
Diplomat, Historian, Politician, Journalist
Vsevolod Pudovkin28 February 1893, Russian
Film director
Ivan Goncharov06 June 1812, Russian
linguist, writer, novelist, translator
Nikolai Rubinstein14 February 1835, Russian
composer, pianist, conductor, musician
Vitaly Ginzburg21 September 1916, Russian
physicist, astronomer, inventor, professor
Dmitry Rogozin21 December 1963, Russian
Journalist, Politician, Diplomat
Leonid Andreyev21 August 1871, Russian
playwright, writer, journalist, lawyer
Andrei Bely14 October 1880, Russian
poet, writer, autobiographer,playwright, literary
Diniyar Bilyaletdinov27 February 1985, Russian
Association football player
Fyodor Tyutchev23 November 1803, Russian
writer, poet, diplomat, philosopher
Vladimir Voevodsky04 June 1966, American, Russian
Mathematician
Vasily Zhukovsky29 January 1783, Russian
linguist, poet, translator, writer, literary
Roza Otunbayeva23 August 1950, Kyrgyz
Politician, Diplomat
Igor Shuvalov04 January 1967, Russian
Jurist, Politician, Lawyer
Lev Pontryagin03 September 1908, Russian
Mathematician
Alexander Stepanov16 November 1950, Russian
Computer scientist
Lyudmila Ulitskaya21 February 1943, Russian
Writer
Yuri Orlov13 August 1924, American
Physicist, Human rights activist, Nuclear
Alexander Ostrovsky31 March 1823, Russian
writer, librettist, playwright, journalist
Yakov Sinai21 September 1935, Russian
Mathematician
Alexander Shelepin18 August 1918, Russian
Politician
Mykola Azarov17 December 1947, Ukrainian
Politician
Yuri Knorozov19 November 1922, Russian
Linguist
Endre Szemerédi21 August 1940, Hungarian, American
Mathematician
Vladimir Drinfeld14 February 1954, American, Russian
Mathematician
Alexander Zinoviev29 October 1922, Russian
Philosopher
Andrei Okounkov26 June 1969, Russian
Mathematician
Jonas Basanavičius23 November 1851, Lithuanian
Doctor
Pyotr Aven16 March 1955, Russian
Politician, Banker, Economist
Andrei Sinyavsky08 October 1925, Russian
Writer
Alexander Guchkov14 October 1862, Russian
Politician
Valery Bryusov13 December 1873, Russian
Poet
Rashid Sunyaev01 March 1943, Russian
Astrophysicist
Vladimir Nemirovich-Danchenko23 December 1858, Georgian, Russian
Theatre Director
Lev Berg14 March 1876, Moldovan, Russian
Geographer
Vasily Rozanov02 May 1856, Russian
Writer
Mikhail Pokrovsky29 August 1868, Russian
Historian
Boris Berezovsky23 January 1946, British, Russian
entrepreneur, mathematician, politician, economist
Kōki Ishii06 November 1940, Japanese
Politician
Vyacheslav Ivanov28 February 1866, Russian
Poet
Aleksey Stepanovich Khomyakov13 May 1804, Russian
Theologian
Yevgeny Bagrationovich Vakhtangov13 February 1883, American, Russian
Actor