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Peter the Great
Tsar/Emperor of Russia from 1682 to 1725
Ivan Pavlov
Russian physiologist (1849-1936)
Konstantin Tsiolkovsky
Russian and Soviet rocket scientist and pioneer of the astronautic theory (1857-1935)
Vitaly Ginzburg
Russian physicist (1916–2009)
Grigori Perelman
Russian mathematician (born 1966)
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Soviet physicist (1895–1971)
Alexander Prokhorov
Soviet and Russian physicist (1916-2002)
Nikolay Basov
Soviet physicist (1922-2001)
Andre Geim
Russian-born Dutch-British physicist
Nicholas Roerich
Russian painter, writer, archaeologist and philosopher (1874–1947)
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Russian mathematician
Wladimir Köppen
German meteorologist (1846–1940)
Ivan Michurin
Russian botanist (1855-1935)
Vladimir Bekhterev
Russian neurologist
Nikolai Marr
Georgian ethnologist and linguist (1864–1934)
Jan Baudouin de Courtenay
Polish linguist and slavist (1845-1929)
Juri Lotman
Russian-Estonian semiotician (1922–1993)
Alexey Pajitnov
Russian video game designer (born 1955)
Nikolay Zhukovsky
Russian scientist in mechanics and aerohydrodinamics
Anatoly Fomenko
Russian mathematician
Alexandr Yakovlev
Soviet aeronautical engineer, aircraft designer and founder of the Yakovlev Design Bureau (1906–1989)
Mikhail Gromov
Russian and French mathematician and academic
Israel Gelfand
Soviet-American mathematician
Ivan Yefremov
Soviet paleontologist, science fiction author and social thinker (1908–1972)
Vladimir A. Obruchev
Russian and Soviet geologist and writer (1863–1956)
Grigory Margulis
Russian mathematician
Vladimir Voevodsky
Russian mathematician (1966–2017)
Vladimir Shukhov
Russian engineer-polymath, scientist and architect (1853-1939)
Stepan Makarov
Russian admiral
Kliment Timiryazev
Russian biologist (1843-1920)
Dmitri Ivanovsky
Russian virologist (1864-1920)
Efim Zelmanov
Russian-american mathematician
Lev Berg
Russian and Soviet geographer, biologist and ichthyologist (1876–1950)
Maxim Kontsevich
Russian-born French mathematician and Fields Medallist
Mikhail Tsvet
Russian-Italian botanist (1872-1919)
Eugene Kaspersky
Russian specialist in the information security field
Yakov Sinai
Russian-American mathematician
Sergei Winogradsky
Ukrainian microbiologist (1856-1953)
Andrei Okounkov
Russian mathematician
Sergei Novikov
Soviet and Russian mathematician (1938–2024)
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Russian sinologist, historian, and missionary (1777–1853)
Pyotr Lebedev
Russian Physicist (1866–1912)
Aleksei N. Leontiev
Russian psychologist (1903–1979)
Vladimir Drinfeld
mathematician from the former Ukrainian SSR, who emigrated to the United States and is currently working at the University of Chicago
Armen Takhtajan
Soviet-Armenian botanist (1910-2009)
Grigory Orlov
Russian noble (1734-1783)
Andrei Linde
Russian-born American theoretical physicist
Stanislav Smirnov
Russian mathematician
Dmitry Likhachov
Russian philologist (1906-1999)
Lina Stern
Soviet biochemist, physiologist and humanist (1875-1968)
Sergey Chaplygin
Russian mathematician (1869–1942)
Mikhail Pokrovsky
Russian historian (1868–1932)
Victor Skumin
Russian scientist, writer, philosopher
Sergey Starostin
Russian linguist and philologist (1953–2005)
Nikolai Luzin
Russian mathematician (1883–1950)
Rashid Sunyaev
Russian astronomer (born 1943)
Pavel Yablochkov
Russian engineer (1847–1894)
Vasily Bartold
Russian orientalist (1869–1930)
Nikolay Kamov
Soviet aeronautical engineer, helicopter designer (1902-1973)
Yulii Khariton
Soviet and Russian physicist (1904-1996)