EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTION

Location:
Moscow, Russia

Founding Date:
1755

Enrollment:
38,000

Official Website:
http://www.msu.ru/

STUDENTS

Name	Occupation	Birth	Death	Known for
Alexei A. Abrikosov	Physicist	25-Jun-1928		Particle physicist, explored superconductivity
Sergei Averintsev	Author	10-Dec-1937	21-Feb-2004	Myth of the Peoples of the World
Nikolay G. Basov	Physicist	14-Dec-1922	1-Jul-2001	Invention of the maser and laser
Andrei Bely	Author	26-Oct-1880	8-Jan-1934	Petersburg
Boris Berezovsky	Business	23-Jan-1946	23-Mar-2013	Russian oligarch, Putin critic
Nikolai Bukharin	Economist	9-Oct-1888	15-Mar-1938	Soviet theoretical economist
James F. Collins	Diplomat	4-Jun-1939		US Ambassador to Russia, 1997-2001
Ilya M. Frank	Physicist	23-Oct-1908	22-Jun-1990	Cherenkov radiation
Israel Gelfand	Mathematician	2-Sep-1913	5-Oct-2009	Banach algebras, Lie groups
Vitaly L. Ginzburg	Physicist	4-Oct-1916	8-Nov-2009	Type-II superconductors
Ivan Goncharov	Novelist	18-Jun-1812	27-Sep-1891	Oblomov
Mikhail Gorbachev	Head of State	2-Mar-1931		Final leader of the Soviet Union
Raisa Gorbachev	First Lady	5-Jan-1932	20-Sep-1999	First Lady of the Soviet Union
Roald Hoffmann	Chemist	18-Jul-1937		Woodward-Hoffmann reaction
Ion Iliescu	Head of State	3-Mar-1930		Twice President of Romania
Wassily Kandinsky	Artist	16-Dec-1866	13-Dec-1944	Abstractionist and theorist
Jomo Kenyatta	Head of State	20-Oct-1892	22-Aug-1978	President of Kenya, 1964-78
Zurab Noghaideli	Head of State	22-Oct-1964		Prime Minister of Georgia
Yevgeny Primakov	Head of State	29-Oct-1929	26-Jun-2015	Prime Minister of Russia, 1998-99
Vsevolod Pudovkin	Film Director	28-Feb-1893	30-Jun-1953	Mother
Alfred Rosenberg	Politician	12-Jan-1893	16-Oct-1946	Nazi Minister for Occupied Territories
Andrei Sakharov	Physicist	21-May-1921	14-Dec-1989	Developed the Soviet hydrogen bomb
Gabriel Schoenfeld	Government	c. 1955		Hudson Institute scholar, Necessary Secrets
Iosif S. Shklovskii	Astronomer	1-Jul-1916	3-Mar-1985	Synchrotron radiation of the Crab Nebula
Dimitri K. Simes	Government	?		Nixon Center
Alexander Solzhenitsyn	Author	11-Dec-1918	3-Aug-2008	The Gulag Archipelago
Sergey Stanishev	Head of State	5-May-1966		Prime Minister of Bulgaria
Rashid Sunyaev	Astronomer	1-Mar-1943		Sunyaev-Zeldovich effect
Igor Y. Tamm	Physicist	8-Jul-1895	12-Apr-1971	Cherenkov radiation
Nikolai Timofeev-Ressovsky	Biologist	20-Sep-1900	28-Mar-1981	Russian geneticist
Ivan Turgenev	Author	9-Nov-1818	3-Sep-1883	Fathers and Sons
Fyodor Tyutchev	Poet	23-Nov-1803	15-Jul-1873	Russian Golden Age poet
Immanuel Velikovsky	Author	10-Jun-1895	17-Nov-1979	Worlds in Collision
Wilfrid Voynich	Activist	31-Oct-1865	19-Mar-1930	Voynich manuscript

TEACHERS AND PROFESSORS

Name	Occupation	Birth	Death	Known for
Alexei A. Abrikosov	Physicist	25-Jun-1928		Particle physicist, explored superconductivity
Sergei Averintsev	Author	10-Dec-1937	21-Feb-2004	Myth of the Peoples of the World
Nikolay G. Basov	Physicist	14-Dec-1922	1-Jul-2001	Invention of the maser and laser
Ilya M. Frank	Physicist	23-Oct-1908	22-Jun-1990	Cherenkov radiation
Israel Gelfand	Mathematician	2-Sep-1913	5-Oct-2009	Banach algebras, Lie groups
Raisa Gorbachev	First Lady	5-Jan-1932	20-Sep-1999	First Lady of the Soviet Union
Lev Landau	Physicist	22-Jan-1908	1-Apr-1968	Superfluidity of helium
Alexander Luria	Psychologist	16-Jul-1902	14-Aug-1977	Pioneer of neuropsychology
Nikolay Semyonov	Chemist	15-Apr-1896	25-Sep-1986	Combustion, explosions, and chemical kinetics
Iosif S. Shklovskii	Astronomer	1-Jul-1916	3-Mar-1985	Synchrotron radiation of the Crab Nebula
Igor Y. Tamm	Physicist	8-Jul-1895	12-Apr-1971	Cherenkov radiation
Andrei Vyshinsky	Government	10-Dec-1883	22-Nov-1954	Soviet Prosecutor General during the Great Purge

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