The following is a list of notable alumni and faculty of Saint Petersburg State University in Russia .
Alumni
Nobel laureates
Leonid Kantorovich Lev Landau
Academia
Lev Gumilev
Gregory Areshian - Armenian-American archaeologist and historian .Rakhat Achylova - Kyrgyz sociologist and politicianVolodymyr Barvinok — Ukrainian historian and writerKazimieras Būga — Lithuanian linguist and philologist Nina Dyakonova - professor, Doctor of PhilologyViktor Fainberg - philologist and dissidentNikolai Girenko - ethnologist and human rights activistLev Gumilev — historian, ethnologist, anthropologist, and translatorIgor Ivanov — pedagogueMarju Lepajõe - classical philologistDmitry Likhachev — scholarAnne Lill - classical philologistVladimir Lossky — Eastern Orthodox theologianYakov Lyubarsky - scholar, Doctor of Philology, specialist in Byzantine studiesStepan Malkhasyants — Armenian academician, philologist, linguist, and lexicographerNikolay Marr — historian and linguistSergey Oldenburg — orientalist Boris B. Piotrovsky — academician, historian-orientalist and archaeologistSergey Platonov — historianIsaak Izrailevich Prezent - philosopher of biologyFyodor Shcherbatskoy — Indologist Mikhail Shultz — chemist , academicianPitirim Sorokin — sociologistVasily Vasilievich Struve — orientalistMax Vasmer — German linguist
Government and politics
Vladimir Lenin Ksenia Sobchak
Vladimir Burtsev , revolutionary activist, scholar, publisher and editorDavid Dallin - Belarusian-American one-time Menshevik leader; writer and lecturerBen-Zion Dinur - Minister of Education of IsraelDalia Grybauskaite - President of Lithuania 2009–19Ion 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)Lyudmila Narusova - Russian Federation SenatorVladimir Putin - second President of the Russian Federation (2000–2008, 2012-present); (2008–2012)Mark Slonim - politician, literary critic, scholar, and translatorAntanas 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 FederationKsenia Sobchak - candidate for Russian presidency, public figure, TV anchor, journalist, socialite, and actressLevon Ter-Petrosyan - first President of Armenia (1991–1998)Jazep Varonka - first Chairman of the People's Secretariat (i.e. Prime Minister) of the Belarusian National Republic Augustinas Voldemaras - Prime Minister of Lithuania
Literature and the arts
Salomon Mandelkern Ayn Rand Ivan Turgenev Johann Admoni - composer, pianist, teacher, and public personAlexander Blok - poetJoseph Brodsky - Russian and American poet and essayist; Nobel Prize winnerIlia Chavchavadze - Georgian writer, politician and public benefactorIgor Chubais - philosopher, sociologist, and authorSolomon Dodashvili - Georgian philosopher, grammarian, belletrist Ayn Rand - Russian-born American novelist and philosopher[ 1] Boris Grebenshchikov - founder and lead singer of the band AquariumYehuda L. Katzenelson - writer and doctorAlexander Kugel - theatre critic and editorJulian Henry Lowenfeld - American-Russian poet, playwright, trial lawyer, composer, and translatorSalomon Mandelkern - poet and authorOlga Ozarovskaya - folklorist, storyteller, performer, writer, and an archivist of fairy talesMahapandit Rahul Sankrityayan - Indian historianNicholas Roerich - artistLyubov Speranskaya - theater artistMaximilian Steinberg - composer of classical musicIgor Stravinsky - composerIvan Turgenev - writer
Science and mathematics
Dmitri Mendeleev Grigori Perelman
Alexander Barvinok - mathematician Raissa Berg - Russian-American geneticist and evolutionary biologistAbram Besicovitch - Russian-British mathematicianLev M. Bregman - Soviet-Israeli mathematicianPafnuty Chebyshev - mathematicianYakov Eliashberg - Russian-American mathematicianVera Faddeeva - mathematicianVladimir Fock - physicistSergey Fomin - Russian-American mathematicianLeonid Frankfurt - Russian-Israeli physicistGeorge Gamow - Soviet-American cosmologist Israel Gohberg - Soviet-Israeli mathematicianMikhail Gromov - Franco-Russian mathematician, Abel Prize winnerAlexander Alfonsovich Grossheim - Ukrainian botanistGeorges Gurvitch - Russian-born French sociologist and juristSolomon Herzenstein - zoologistCecil Hoare FRS - British protozoologist and parasitologist Alexander Its - mathematicianIvan Ivanov - mathematicianDmitry Ivanovsky - biologistFaina Mihajlovna Kirillova - mathematician and control theorist Leo Klejn - archaeologist, anthropologist, and philologist.Wladimir Köppen - Russian-German geographer , meteorologist , climatologist and botanist Yuri Linnik - mathematicianMikhail Lomonosov - scientist, writer and polymathAleksandr Lyapunov - mathematician, mechanician and physicistVictor Lyatkher , renewable energy engineerAndrey Markov - mathematicianDmitri Mendeleev - chemist ; creator of the first version of the periodic table of elements Boris Nikolsky - chemistGrigori Perelman - mathematician, Fields Medal winner (2006, declined), and only man to solve a Millennium Prize Problem (2010, prize declined)Konstantin Petrzhak - physicistLev Pavlovich Rapoport - theoretical physicistAlexander Raikhel - Soviet-American entomologistNatasha Raikhel - Soviet-American plant cell biologistVladimir Rokhlin - mathematicianNikolai Semenov - physicist and chemistStanislav Smirnov - mathematician, Fields Medal winner (2010)Jacob Tamarkin - Russian-American mathematicianVladimir Vernadsky - mineralogist and geochemist Georgy Voronoy - mathematicianEmil 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 museumSergei Winogradsky - microbiologist , ecologist and soil scientist Yuri Yappa - theoretical physicistVictor Zalgaller - Russian-Israeli mathematician
Other
Faculty only
References
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