MSU Notable Alumni

Notable Alumni of MSU

• Mikhail Gorbachev (1955) - Last leader of the Soviet Union, Nobel Peace Prize laureate.
• Andrei Sakharov (1942) - Nuclear physicist, human rights activist, Nobel Peace Prize laureate.
• Vitaly Ginzburg (1942) - Physicist, Nobel Prize in Physics.
• Sergei Sobolev (1929) - Mathematician, known for Sobolev spaces.
• Alexander Prokhorov (1939) - Physicist, Nobel Prize in Physics.
• Ilya Prigogine (1939) - Chemist, Nobel Prize in Chemistry.
• Leonid Kantorovich (1930) - Economist, Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences.
• Sergei Korolev (1930) - Rocket engineer, led the Soviet space program.
• Yuri Andropov (1936) - General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.
• Mikhail Sholokhov (1925) - Writer, Nobel Prize in Literature.