Saint Petersburg State University alumni

Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin is a Russian politician and former intelligence officer who has served as President of Russia since 2012, having previously served from 2000 to 2008. Putin also served as Prime Minister of Russia from 1999 to 2000 and again from 2008 to 2012. He has been described as the de facto leader of Russia since 2000.

founding leader of the Soviet Union (1870–1924)

Russian chemist (1834–1907)

President of Russia from 2008 to 2012, Prime Minister of Russia (2012-2020) and Deputy Chairman of the Security Council of Russia since 2020

Russian writer of Ukrainian origin (1809–1852)

Russian-born American writer and public philosopher (1905–1982)

Russian physiologist (1849-1936)

Soviet theoretical physicist (1908–1968)

Russian chess player

Russian-French chess player (1892–1946)

Russian chess player (1937–2025)

Russian mathematician (born 1966)

Soviet and Russian physicist (1916-2002)

Russian writer and nihilist philosopher (1828–1889)

Russian mathematician (1912-1986)

Russian economist (1906-1999)

Soviet physical chemist (1896-1986)

Soviet Armenian astrophysicist (1908–1996)

Russian-American theoretical physicist and cosmologist (1904–1968)

Russian physicist

Soviet-Swiss chess grandmaster

Russian mathematician

first President of Armenia from 1991 to 1998

Russian sociologist (1889-1968)

first President of Lithuania from 4 April 1919 until 19 June 1920 (1874-1944)

Soviet academic (1912-1992)

Russian linguist and 1983–2013 wife of Russian president Vladimir Putin

Russian television personality and politician

Russian novelist, poet, religious thinker, and literary critic (1865–1941)

Jānis Pliekšāns (11 September 1865 – 11 September 1929), known by his pseudonym Rainis, was a Latvian poet, playwright, translator, and politician. Rainis' works include the classic plays Uguns un nakts (Fire and Night, 1905) and Indulis un Ārija (Indulis and Ārija, 1911), and a highly regarded translation of Goethe's Faust. His works had a profound influence on the literary Latvian language, and the ethnic symbolism he employed in his major works has been central to Latvian nationalism.

Russian physicist

Russian mathematician (1857–1918)

Russian senior official and statesman (born 1953)

Russian politician (1937-2000)

Russian artist (1870–1960)

Kazakh computer scientist and founder of Sci-Hub

Russian mathematician (1922–2004)

Russian soil scientist (1846-1903)

Russian virologist (1864-1920)

Russian politician (born 1953)

Soviet economist (1892-1938)

German philosopher (1882–1950)

Russian poet and translator (1821–1897)

Russian physicist (1898-1974)

Russian politician

Russian historian of ancient history (1870–1952)

Soviet poet

Soviet and Russian recording artist; singer

Soviet poet (1883–1945)

Soviet mathematician (1891-1983)

Russian television propagandist

Estonian politician (1875–1941)

Russian philologist (1906-1999)

Russian poet, critic and translator (1855–1909)

Estonian prime minister (1890-1945)

Georgian historian and linguist (1876-1940)

Soviet writer (1920–1983)

Estonian lawyer and politician (1872–1940)

Russian-Soviet writer and memoirist (1902-1989)