Nikolai Ivanovich Kostomarov (May 16, 1817, vil. Yurasovka, Voronezh Guberniya, Russia - April 19, 1885, Saint Petersburg, Russia), of mixed Ukrainian and Russian origin, is one of the most distinguished Russian and Ukrainian historians, a Professor of History at the Kiev University and later at the St. Petersburg University, an author of many books, including his famous biography of the seventeenth century Ukrainian Cossack Hetman, Bohdan Khmelnytsky, …

Mykola Vitaliyovych Lysenko was a Ukrainian composer, pianist, conductor and folksong collector.

Mykhailo Petrovych Drahomanov was a famous Ukrainian political theorist, economist, historian, philosopher, ethnographer and public figure in Kiev. Born to the family of nobility of Cossack descent Drahomanov started his education at home, studied at Hadiach school, Poltava gymnasium and Kiev University. He was also an uncle of Larysa Kosach (Lesya Ukrainka) the great Ukrainian poetess. He lectured at Kiev University from 1870 to 1875, …

Vadym Meller was a Ukrainian-Russian Soviet painter, avant-garde artist (Cubist, Constructivist), theatrical designer, book illustrator and architect. The first artist who was awarded a gold medal in "Exposition Internationale des Modernes" (" Art Deco") in Paris 1925.

Borys Ivanovych Tarasyuk (born January 1, 1949) is a Ukrainian politician. He has twice served as the Minister for Foreign Affairs of Ukraine. He is from Zhytomyr Oblast. Tarasyuk studied international relations and international law at National Taras Shevchenko University of Kyiv, and graduated in 1975. He is fluent in English, French and Russian.

Nikolai Ge (or Ghe or Gay, ; -) was a Russian realist painter famous for his works on historical and religious motifs. Nikolai Ge was born in Voronezh to a Russian noble family of French origin. His grandfather emigrated to Russia in the 18th century. His parents died when he was still a child, so Nikolai was raised by his serf nurse.

Nikolai Nikolaevich Bogoliubov, (21 August 1909, Nizhny Novgorod - 13 February 1992, Moscow) was a Russian-Ukrainian mathematician and theoretical physicist known for his work in statistical field theory and dynamical systems. He was awarded the Dirac Medal in 1992. He was a student of Nikolay Mitrofanovich Krylov. He was born in Nizhny Novgorod, Russia.

Zygmunt Florenty Wróblewski was a Polish chemist and physicist. Wróblewski was born in Grodno (Russian Empire, now in Belarus). He studied at the Kiev University and after a six-year exile for participating in the January Uprising (1863), he studied in Berlin and Heidelberg. He defended his doctoral dissertation at the Munich University in 1876 and became an assistant professor of the Strasburg University. In 1880 he became member of the Polish Academy of Skills.

Mark Aldanov (Mark Alexandrovich Landau (–February 25, 1957) was a Russian emigrant writer, known for his historical novels. Mark Landau (Aldanov) was born in Kiev in the family of a rich industrialist. He graduated the physical-mathematical and law departments of Kiev University. He published serious research papers in chemistry. In 1919 he emigrated to France. During 1922-1924 he lived in Berlin and during 1941-1946, in the United States.

Vladimir Alekseyevich Betz (April 14, 1834 - 1894) - Russian anatomist and histologist, professor of the Kiev University, famous for the discovery of giant pyramidal neurons of primary motor cortex. Vladimir Betz began his education in the Nezhin Gymnasium. Later he transferred to the 2nd Kiev Gymnasium and graduated from it in 1853.

Metropolitan Ilarion ((January 14, 1882 Brusyliv, near Kiev – March 29 1972 in Winnipeg) was a Ukrainian churchman (1940 Archimandrite of the St. Onuphrius Monastery in Jableczna, 1940 Bishop of Chelm, 1944 Metropolitan of Chelm and Lublin (Podlachia), 1951 Primate of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of Canada), linguist, church historian, and historian of culture. He was also active in Ukrainian politics, both during the revolution and later in emigration.

Mikhail Ivanovich Tereshchenko (March 18, 1886, Kiev - April 1, 1956, Monaco) was a foreign minister of Russia from May 5 of 1917 to October 25 of 1917, Old Style. He was also a major landowner, owner of several sugar factories, and financier. Born to a rich Tereshchenko family of a sugar factory owners, entrepreneurs, and philanthropists, Mikhail Tereshchenko graduated from Kiev University and Leipzig University.

Yuri Vasilievich Kondratyuk (June 21 1897 - 1942) was the pseudonym adopted by Oleksandr Ignatyevich Shargei, a pioneer of astronautics and spaceflight. He was a theoretician and a visionary who, in the early twentieth century, foresaw ways of reaching the moon. Kondratyuk was born in Poltava, Ukraine. His father, Ignatiy Benediktovich Shargei, studied Physics and Mathematics at Kiev University.

Benedikt Konstantinovich Livshits (December 24, 1886 — May 15, 1939) was a poet and writer of the Silver Age of Russian Poetry. Benedikt was born to a Jewish family in Odessa. He studied Law at the Novorossia University there, then transferred to Kiev University where he graduated in 1912. He was then conscripted to the Russian Ground Forces and served in the 88th Infantry Regiment.

Malkhaz Akishbaia is an ethnic Abkhaz and the Chairman of Cabinet of Ministers of the "de jure" Government of Abkhazia in Upper Abkhazia. Born in Sukhumi, Georgia in 1963, Akishbaia graduated from Kiev University and finished his master’s degree at University of Oxford, in England. During the Georgian-Abkhaz conflict, along with the other members of the Government who have survived the massacre of September 27, 1993, …

David Hofstein (1889 - August 12, 1952) was a Yiddish poet. He was born in Ukraine and received a traditional Jewish education; his application to the Kiev University was declined. Hofstein began to write in Yiddish, Hebrew, Russian, and Ukrainian. After the Russian Revolution of 1917, which he welcomed, Hofstein wrote only in Yiddish. He was coeditor of the Moscow Yiddish monthly "Shtrom", the last organ of free Jewish expression in the Soviet Union.

Maironis is one of the most famous Lithuanian romantic poets. He was born in Pasandravys, Raseiniai district municipality, Lithuania. Maironis graduated from Kaunas high school and went on to study Literature at Kiev University. However, in 1884, after one year of studies at the university, he entered Kaunas Spiritual Seminary. While being at the seminary, Maironis became an active member of the Lithuanian National Movement. Maironis wrote a number of poems.

Ephraim Markovich Sklyansky was a Soviet statesman. He joined the Bolsheviks during his years as a student in the medical faculty of Kiev University, from which he graduated in 1916; he was immediately drafted into the army, where he served as a doctor and became prominent in the clandestine military organizations of the Bolsheviks.

Nikolai Khristianovich Bunge was the preeminent architect of Russian capitalism under Alexander III of Russia. He was a distinguished economist, statesman, and academician of the St. Petersburg Academy of Sciences. Bunge was a professor of the Kiev University, of which he served as a dean between 1859 and 1880, when he was summoned to St. Petersburg to become a deputy minister and then (since 1881) Minister of Finance.

Kapiton Stepanovich Pavlov (1791-1842) was a Russian portrait painter. A native of Revel (now Tallinn), he was the son of a government official. He graduated from the Academy in St. Petersburg in 1815, after which he went to Ukraine; there, he spent thirty years painting. From 1820 until 1829 he taught painting at the gymnasium in Nezhin. He also taught at Kiev University from 1839 until 1841.

Ngarikutuke Tjiriange (born July 12, 1943) is a Namibian politician, a member of the National Assembly and secretary general of the ruling South-West Africa People's Organisation (SWAPO). Tjiriange studied law at Leningrad State University and received a doctorate from Kiev University in 1973. After researching at the International Institute for Labour Studies in Switzerland in 1974 and the International Institute for Human Rights in France in 1975, …

Mikhail Afanasievich Bulgakov (Russian: Михаил Афанасьевич Булгаков;, Kiev - March 10, 1940, Moscow) was a Russian-language novelist and playwright of the first half of the 20th century. He is best known for the novel "The Master and Margarita".

Oxana Shevel - Comparative Politics, post-Communist region Ph.D., Harvard University Oxana Shevel ’s area of research and teaching focuses on the post-Communist region surrounding Russia and issues such as nation- and state-building, the politics of citizenship and migration, and the influence of international institutions on democratization.

NICHOLAS RUSSEL Nicholas Russel was born Nikolai Konstantinovich Sudzilovskii in Mogilev, Russia, in December 3, 1850. He entered Petersburg University as a law student in 1868, but transferred to Kiev University where he forsook law to study medicine. Incurring the wrath of the Russian authorities by his seditious utterances at a student meeting, his arrest was ordered, and in 1874 he fled.

Yuri Gleba , Ph.D. -CEO- Dr. Gleba has over 30 years of research and management experience in plant genetics and biotechnology. (M. Sc. , Kiev University, 1971; Ph.D., Institute of Botany, Academy of Sciences of Ukraine; D.Sc. , Leningrad University, 1980). He founded the International Institute of Cell Biology, Kiev, Ukraine, in 1988 and is still serving as its Director.

Professional experience in creating complex rich and thin business solutions. Worked as Tester, QA Team Lead, Developer, PM in variuous comanies. My goal is to create a good computer company.

Igor Nesmyanovich, PhD, CISSP, Director, Business Intelligence, dthree Inc. Igor joined dthree inc. in 2002 where he leads the research and development for the company's internet consumer intelligence service and is responsible for scalability, security and reliability. Igor began his career as a scientist working for the Soviet space exploration program. Since 1985 his area of expertise has been Information Technology.

Galina Vinokurov , Data Processing and Editing Manager Galina graduated from Kiev University in the Ukraine in 1985 with an BA in Library Science. From 1985 to 1987, she worked as a ibrarian at the Scientific Library at the Department of Patent Information. In 1998, she trained to be a Client/Server Application Developer at Goal Training Inc. in Chicago. Galina joined MDI in May 1999. She coordinates and manages the data processing and editing functions.

Mr Elchin Mammadov is a senior Azeri lawyer and one of the directors in the Baku office of a leading law firm, which he joined in 1996 after having practised as a tax consultant with Price Waterhouse. He qualified as a lawyer in 1986 following graduation from Kiev University in International Law. Elchin’s firm was the first foreign law firm to establish a presence in Azerbaijan and specialises in the oil and gas sector.

Valentin led a distinguished and fascinating career as an interpreter, diplomat, journalist, and scholar. Born in St. Petersburg on July 2, 1916, Valentin graduated from Kiev University in 1938. After serving in the Soviet Pacific Fleet in 1938-39, he was recruited by the Soviet Foreign Ministry because of his German and English language skills--commodities in short supply due to Stalin's purges of the Ministry's ranks.

Dental Assistant and Team Leader, Anna grew up in the former Soviet Union. After studying Russian language and literature at Kiev University, Anna worked as a high school teacher and assistant principal. Upon moving to the United States Anna switched careers and completed a dental assistant program in Cleveland, Ohio. Anna joined Dr. Roznik's practice in 2001. When she's not busy caring for her patients Anna enjoys travel, reading and sports.