Saint Petersburg State University
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Discover the notable alumni of Saint Petersburg State University. The list includes people like Katerina Tikhonova, Andrey Arshavin, Ivan Turgenev, Nikolai Gogol & Pyotr Stolypin. This list of notable alumni is loosely sorted by popularity and has people from different domains of life, such as writers, intellectuals & academics, leaders, miscellaneous and media personalities etc.
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Ayn Rand(Writer and Philosopher Known for Her Best-Selling Novels ‘The Fountainhead’ and ‘Atlas Shrugged’)
Birthdate: February 2, 1905
Sun Sign: Aquarius
Birthplace: Saint Petersburg, Russia
Died: March 6, 1982
Height: 5'2" (157 cm)
2
Vladimir Putin(President of Russia (2000 - 2008, Incumbent Since 2012))
Birthdate: October 7, 1952
Sun Sign: Libra
Birthplace: Saint Petersburg, Russia
3
Nikolai Gogol
(Russian Novelist, Short Story Writer and Playwright)
Birthdate: April 1, 1809
Sun Sign: Aries
Birthplace: Velyki Sorochyntsi, Ukraine
Died: March 4, 1852
Birthdate: May 23, 1951
Sun Sign: Gemini
Birthplace: Zlatoust, Russia
Height: 5'7" (170 cm)
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Mariya Putina(Russian Pediatric Endocrinologist and Eldest Daughter of Russian President Vladimir Putin)
Birthdate: April 28, 1985
Sun Sign: Taurus
Birthplace: Saint Petersburg, Russia
Height: 5'4" (163 cm)
Birthdate: December 9, 1842
Sun Sign: Sagittarius
Birthplace: Moscow, Russia
Died: February 8, 1921
Birthdate: October 31, 1892
Sun Sign: Scorpio
Birthplace: Moscow, Russia
Died: March 24, 1946
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Alexander Kerensky(Minister-President of the Russian Republic (September 1917 - November 1917))
Birthdate: May 4, 1881
Sun Sign: Taurus
Birthplace: Ulyanovsk, Russia
Died: June 11, 1970
Birthdate: March 1, 1956
Sun Sign: Pisces
Birthplace: Vilnius, Lithuania
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Pavel Durov
(French entrepreneur who is best known for being the founder of the social networking site VK and later of Telegram Messenger)
Birthdate: October 10, 1984
Sun Sign: Libra
Birthplace: Saint Petersburg, Russia
Birthdate: August 31, 1986
Sun Sign: Virgo
Birthplace: Dresden, Germany
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Mariss Jansons
(Conductor)
Birthdate: January 14, 1943
Sun Sign: Capricorn
Birthplace: Riga, Latvia
Died: November 30, 2019
13
Ksenia Sobchak(Host of the Reality Show 'Dom-2' on the Russian channel TNT)
Birthdate: November 5, 1981
Sun Sign: Scorpio
Birthplace: Saint Petersburg, Russia
14
Julius Martov
(Russian Revolutionary and Prominent Menshevik Leader)
Birthdate: November 24, 1873
Sun Sign: Sagittarius
Birthplace: Constantinople, Turkey
Died: April 4, 1923
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Andrey Markov
(Mathematician)
Birthdate: June 14, 1856
Sun Sign: Gemini
Birthplace: Ryazan, Russia
Died: July 20, 1922
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Anatoly Sobchak
(First democratically elected mayor of Saint Petersburg)
Birthdate: August 10, 1937
Sun Sign: Leo
Birthplace: Chita, Russia
Died: February 19, 2000
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Dmitry Medvedev(Prime Minister of Russia from 2012 to 2020 and President of Russia from 2008 to 2012)
Birthdate: September 14, 1965
Sun Sign: Virgo
Birthplace: Saint Petersburg, Russia
Height: 5'4" (163 cm)
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Alexander Stepanovich Popov
(Russian Physicist Who Was One of the First Persons to Invent a Radio Receiving Device)
Birthdate: March 16, 1859
Sun Sign: Pisces
Birthplace: Krasnoturinsk, Russia
Died: January 13, 1906
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Olga Buzova
(Russian Singer and Media Personality)
Birthdate: January 20, 1986
Sun Sign: Aquarius
Birthplace: Leningrad, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union
Height: 5'9" (175 cm)
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Sergei Ivanov
(Chief of the Presidential Administration of Russia (2011–2016))
Birthdate: January 31, 1953
Sun Sign: Aquarius
Birthplace: Saint Petersburg, Russia
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Viktor Korchnoi
(Soviet-Swiss Chess Grandmaster)
Birthdate: March 23, 1931
Sun Sign: Aries
Birthplace: Saint Petersburg, Russia
Died: June 6, 2016
22
Peter Svidler
(Russian Chess Grandmaster and an Eight-Time Russian Chess Champion)
Birthdate: June 17, 1976
Sun Sign: Gemini
Birthplace: Saint Petersburg, Russia
23
Sergey Nechayev
(Revolutionary)
Birthdate: October 2, 1847
Sun Sign: Libra
Birthplace: Ivanovo, Russia
Died: December 3, 1882
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Viktor Shklovsky
(Novelist)
Birthdate: January 24, 1893
Sun Sign: Aquarius
Birthplace: Saint Petersburg, Russia
Died: December 6, 1984
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Dmitri Ivanovsky
(Russian Botanist, the Co-Discoverer of Viruses and One of the Founders of Virology)
Birthdate: October 28, 1864
Sun Sign: Scorpio
Birthplace: Gdov, Russia
Died: June 20, 1920
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Alexander Friedmann
(Physicist and Mathematician Best Known for His Pioneering Theory That the Universe Was Expanding)
Birthdate: June 16, 1888
Sun Sign: Gemini
Birthplace: St. Petersburg, Russia
Died: September 16, 1925
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Nikolay Chernyshevsky
(Critic)
Birthdate: July 24, 1828
Sun Sign: Leo
Birthplace: Saratov, Russia
Died: October 29, 1889
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Valentin Glushko
(Engineer)
Birthdate: September 2, 1908
Sun Sign: Virgo
Birthplace: Odesa, Russian Empire
Died: January 10, 1989
Birthdate: January 14, 1891
Sun Sign: Capricorn
Birthplace: Warsaw, Poland
Died: December 27, 1938
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Aleksandr Ulyanov
(Russian Revolutionary and Elder Brother of Vladimir Lenin)
Birthdate: April 12, 1866
Sun Sign: Aries
Birthplace: Nizhny Novgorod, Russia
Died: May 20, 1887
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Boris Grebenshchikov
(Musician)
Birthdate: November 27, 1953
Sun Sign: Sagittarius
Birthplace: Saint Petersburg, Russia
32
Nikolay Nekrasov
(Poet who Introduced Ternary Meters and the Technique of Dramatic Monologue into Russian Poetry)
Birthdate: December 10, 1821
Sun Sign: Sagittarius
Birthplace: Nemyriv, Ukraine
Died: January 8, 1878
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Vladimir Bekhterev
(Russian Neurologist and the Father of Objective Psychology Known for Noting the Role of the 'Hippocampus' in Memory)
Birthdate: January 20, 1857
Sun Sign: Aquarius
Birthplace: Sorali, Russia
Died: December 24, 1927
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Georgy Chicherin
(Revolutionary)
Birthdate: November 24, 1872
Sun Sign: Sagittarius
Birthplace: Tambov Governorate, Russian Empire
Died: July 7, 1936
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Nikolai Kondratiev
(Russian Economist Known for His Contributions to 'Business Cycle Theory' Known as 'Kondratiev Waves')
Birthdate: March 4, 1892
Sun Sign: Pisces
Birthplace: Galuevskaya, Russia
Died: September 17, 1938
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Tatyana Kazankina
(Russian Athlete and Olympic Gold Medalist)
Birthdate: December 17, 1951
Sun Sign: Sagittarius
Birthplace: Saratov Oblast, Russia
Birthdate: March 17, 1856
Sun Sign: Pisces
Birthplace: Omsk, Russia
Died: April 14, 1910
Birthdate: December 28, 1968
Sun Sign: Capricorn
Birthplace: Shchuchinsk, Kazakhstan
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Alexei Kudrin
(4th Chairman of the Accounts Chamber)
Birthdate: October 12, 1960
Sun Sign: Libra
Birthplace: Dobele, Latvia
Height: 5'10" (178 cm)
Birthdate: July 8, 1974
Sun Sign: Cancer
Birthplace: Vałožyn, Belarus
Height: 5'5" (165 cm)
Birthdate: May 3, 1951
Sun Sign: Taurus
Birthplace: Saint Petersburg, Russia
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Valery Durov
(Philologist, Educator)
Birthdate: July 13, 1945
Sun Sign: Cancer
Birthplace: Saint Petersburg, Russia
Height: 5'9" (175 cm)
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Roy Medvedev
(Political Writer)
Birthdate: November 14, 1925
Sun Sign: Scorpio
Birthplace: Tbilisi, Georgia
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Valery Leontyev
(Soviet-Russian Pop Singer and Actor)
Birthdate: March 19, 1949
Sun Sign: Pisces
Birthplace: Ust'-Usa, Russia
Height: 5'9" (175 cm)
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Galina Starovoytova
(Politician)
Birthdate: May 17, 1946
Sun Sign: Taurus
Birthplace: Chelyabinsk, Russia
Died: November 20, 1998
Birthdate: March 19, 1947
Sun Sign: Pisces
Birthplace: Berlin, Germany
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Vasily Dokuchaev
(Russian Ecologist and Geologist Who Conducted Path-Breaking Research on Soil Science)
Birthdate: March 1, 1846
Sun Sign: Pisces
Birthplace: Milyukovo, Russia
Died: November 8, 1903
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Ivan Kalyayev
(Poet, Revolutionary)
Birthdate: July 6, 1877
Sun Sign: Cancer
Birthplace: Warsaw, Poland
Died: May 23, 1905
Birthdate: July 26, 1963
Sun Sign: Leo
Birthplace: Saint Petersburg, Russia
Birthdate: December 22, 1898
Sun Sign: Capricorn
Birthplace: Saint Petersburg, Russia
Died: December 27, 1974
