List of Saint Petersburg State University people

The following is a list of notable alumni and faculty of Saint Petersburg State University in Russia.

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Alumni

Nobel laureates

• Ivan Pavlov - physiologist, psychologist, and physician; Nobel laureate in Physiology or Medicine in 1904
• Ilya Mechnikov - Physiology or Medicine in 1908
• Nikolay Semyonov - Chemistry in 1956
• Lev Landau - physicist; Nobel laureate in Physics in 1962
• Aleksandr Prokhorov - Physics in 1964
• Wassily Leontief - economist; Nobel laureate in Economics in 1973
• Leonid Kantorovich - economist, Nobel laureate in Economics in 1975
• Joseph Brodsky - Literature in 1987

Fields medal

• Grigori Perelman
• Stanislav Smirnov

Academia

• Volodymyr Barvinok — Ukrainian historian and writer
• Kazimieras Būga — Lithuanian linguist and philologist
• Lev Gumilev — Russian historian
• Igor Ivanov — pedagogue
• Dmitry Likhachev — scholar
• Vladimir Lossky — Eastern Orthodox theologian
• Stepan Malkhasyants — Armenian academician, philologist, linguist, and lexicographer
• Nikolay Marr — historian and linguist
• Sergey Oldenburg — orientalist
• Boris B. Piotrovsky — academician, historian-orientalist and archaeologist
• Sergey Platonov — historian
• Fyodor Shcherbatskoy — Indologist
• Mikhail Shultz — chemist, academician
• Pitirim Sorokin — sociologist
• Vasily Vasilievich Struve — orientalist
• Max Vasmer — German linguist

Government and politics

• Dalia Grybauskaite - President of Lithuania 2009–present
• Ion Inculeţ, president of the Moldavian Democratic Republic
• Alexander Kerensky, second Prime Minister of the Russian Provisional Government
• Vladimir Lenin - first head of the Russian SFSR
• Dmitry Medvedev - politician, businessman, lawyer, and the third President of the Russian Federation (2008–2012)
• Vladimir Putin - second President of the Russian Federation (2000–2008, 2012-present); Prime Minister of Russia (2008–2012)
• Antanas Smetona - President of Lithuania (first term 1919-1920; second term 1926-1940)
• Anatoly Sobchak - Russian politician and a co-author of the Constitution of the Russian Federation
• Levon Ter-Petrosyan - first President of Armenia (1991–1998)
• Augustinas Voldemaras - Prime Minister of Lithuania

Literature and the arts

• Ivan Turgenev - writer
• Alexander Blok - poet
• Ilia Chavchavadze - Georgian writer, politician and public benefactor
• Solomon Dodashvili - Georgian philosopher, grammarian, belletrist
• Ayn Rand - Russian-born American novelist and philosopher
• Mahapandit Rahul Sankrityayan - Indian historian, scholar
• Nicholas Roerich - artist
• Igor Stravinsky - composer

Science and mathematics

• Pafnuty Chebyshev - mathematician
• Vladimir Fock - physicist
• George Gamow - cosmologist
• Mikhail Gromov - Franco-Russian mathematician, Abel Prize winner
• Alexander Alfonsovich Grossheim - Ukrainian botanist
• Cecil Hoare FRS - British protozoologist and parasitologist
• Ivan Ivanov - mathematician
• Dmitry Ivanovsky - biologist
• Wladimir Köppen - geographer, meteorologist, climatologist and botanist
• Yuri Linnik - mathematician
• Mikhail Lomonosov - scientist, writer and polymath
• Aleksandr Lyapunov - mathematician, mechanician and physicist
• Andrey Markov - mathematician
• Dmitri Mendeleev - chemist; creator of the first version of the periodic table of elements
• Boris Nikolsky - chemist
• Grigori Perelman - mathematician, Fields Medal winner (2006, declined), and only man to solve a Millennium Prize Problem (2010, prize declined)
• Konstantin Petrzhak - physicist
• Lev Pavlovich Rapoport - theoretical physicist
• Vladimir Rokhlin - mathematician
• Nikolai Semenov - physicist and chemist
• Stanislav Smirnov - mathematician, Fields Medal winner (2010)
• Vladimir Vernadsky - mineralogist and geochemist
• Georgy Voronoy - mathematician
• Emil Wiesel - Russian-German artist; museum curator; full member of the Russian Imperial Academy of Arts (since 1914); organizer of international art exhibitions; councilor of Hermitage and Russian museum
• Sergei Winogradsky - microbiologist, ecologist and soil scientist
• Yuri Yappa - theoretical physicist

Other

• Vladas Petronaitis - Lithuanian patriot, soldier and martyr
• Józef Pluskowski - Polish poet and member of the Polish Resistance
• Yakov Rekhter - co-founder of BGP and MPLS networking protocols
• Gennadiy Shatkov - Olympic champion in boxing

Faculty only

• Leonhard Euler - Swiss mathematician and physicist
• Nikolai Gogol - greatest Russian literature writer of Ukrainian origin; historian
• Ivan Sechenov - physiologist

References

• Alumni list of Saint-Petersburg University

• Page 54, Barbara Branden, The Passion of Ayn Rand, Doubleday (1986), hardcover, 442 pages, ISBN 0-385-19171-5