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 laureate.
• Sergei Sobolev (1929) - Mathematician, known for Sobolev spaces.
• Sergei Eisenstein (1920) - Film director and pioneer in montage theory.
• Boris Nemtsov (1981) - Politician and outspoken critic of the Russian government.
• Evgeny Primakov (1953) - Politician, served as Prime Minister of Russia.
• Igor Kurchatov (1923) - Physicist, led the Soviet atomic bomb project.
• Alexander Prokhorov (1939) - Physicist, Nobel Prize in Physics laureate.
• Nikolai Vavilov (1917) - Botanist and geneticist, known for his work on plant genetics.