MININ Notable Alumni

Notable Alumni of MININ

• Andrey Sakharov - Graduated in 1942, renowned physicist and Nobel Peace Prize laureate for his efforts to reduce nuclear tensions.
• Natalia Solzhenitsyn - Graduated in 1967, notable for her contributions to Russian literature and human rights activism.
• Vladimir Putin - Attended briefly in the late 1970s, later became President of Russia.
• Mikhail Gorbachev - Studied at Kozma Minin Nizhny Novgorod State Pedagogical University in the 1950s, former General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union and Nobel Peace Prize laureate.