- Wassily Kandinsky
Wassily Kandinsky (– December 13, 1944) was a Russian painter, printmaker and art theorist. One of the most famous 20th-century artists, he is credited with painting the first modern abstract works. Born in Moscow, Kandinsky spent his childhood in Odessa. As a young man he enrolled at the University of Moscow and chose to study law and economics. - Elizabeth Of Russia
Yelizaveta Petrovna (December 29, 1709 – January 5, 1762 (New Style); December 18, 1709 – December 25, 1761 (Old Style)), also known as Yelisavet and Elizabeth, was an Empress of Russia (1741 – 1762) who took the country into the War of Austrian Succession (1740 – 1748) and the Seven Years' War (1756 – 1763). - Paul Vinogradoff
Sir Paul Vinogradoff (transliterated: "Pavel Gavrilovich Vinogradov"; November 18 (30), 1854, Kostroma, Russia–December 19, 1925, Paris, France) was a highly reputable Anglo-Russian historian-medievalist. He became professor of history at the University of Moscow, but his zeal for the spread of education brought him into conflict with the authorities, and consequently he was obliged to leave Russia. - Inna Zobova
Inna Zobova (born June 28, 1976 in Kimsky, Russia) is a model. She was born with a hole in her heart, and at age six underwent surgery to correct it. Later on, she attended the University of Moscow and studied psychology and anthropology. She modeled on the side for extra money. In 1994, she was crowned Miss Russia. She went on the compete in the Miss Universe pageant where she came in third in the National Costume competition. - Paul Davenport
Paul Theodore Davenport, OC, BA, MA, Ph.D, LL.D (born 1946) is the ninth president of the University of Western Ontario. Born in Summit, New Jersey, he graduated magna cum laude from Stanford University in 1969 with a BA in economics. He was also a member of Phi Beta Kappa. He moved to Canada and earned an MA and Ph.D in economics from the University of Toronto. Beginning in 1973 he taught economics at McGill University. From 1986 to 1989, he was Vice Principal, … - Aleksey Konstantinovich Tolstoy
Aleksey Konstantinovich Tolstoy was a Russian poet, novelist and dramatist. Aleksey Konstantinovich Tolstoy was born in Saint Petersburg to the famed family of Count Tolstoy. He graduated from the University of Moscow in 1836. Aleksey spent most of his life at court, serving first as the Master of Ceremonies, later as Grand Master of Royal Hunting. He retired from service in 1861 to dedicate more time to writing poetry. - Grigory Barenblatt
Grigory Isaakovich Barenblatt (born July 10, 1927) is a Russian mathematician. He graduated in 1950 from University of Moscow, Department of Mechanics and Mathematics. He received his Ph.D. in 1953 from University of Moscow under the supervision of A. N. Kolmogorov. He also received a D.Sc. from University of Moscow in 1957. He is a Professor in Residence at the Department of Mathematics of the University of California, … - Sergei Nilus
Sergei Alexandrovich Nilus ; Russian language: Сергей Александрович Нилус; 1862-1929) was a Russian religious writer and self-described mystic. He was responsible for publishing for the first time "in full" "The Protocols of the Elders of Zion" in Russia in 1905 as "Chapter XII" (the last chapter) to an edition of his book about the coming of the anti-Christ; in 1903 an alleged "abridged" version had been published in Znamya (newspaper). - Mykolas Biržiška
Mykolas Biržiška, a Lithuanian editor, historian, professor of literature, diplomat, and politician, was one of the twenty signatories of the Act of Independence of Lithuania. Biržiška graduated from law school at the University of Moscow in 1907. He was arrested at a student meeting in 1902 for advocating Lithuanian causes and served part of a two-year sentence, but succeeded in regaining admission to the university. - Leonid Bunimovich
Leonid Bunimovich is a Russian mathematician, currently residing in the USA, who specializes in dynamical systems and known for his discovery of focusing chaotic billiards (the "Bunimovich stadium") and (more recently) for the Bunimovich mushroom, a billiard with mixed regular and chaotic dynamics. He received his bachelor's degree in 1967 and doctorate in 1973 from the University of Moscow. His thesis advisor was Yakov Sinai. - Lyuben Karavelov
Lyuben Karavelov (c. 1834 - 21 January 1879) was a Bulgarian writer and an important figure of the Bulgarian National Revival. Karavelov was born in Koprivshtitsa. He began his education in a church school, but in 1850 he moved to the school of Nayden Gerov in Plovdiv. He was then sent by his father to study in a Greek school for two years, before transferring to a Bulgarian school, where he also studied Russian literature. - `alí-Akbar Furútan
`Alí-Akbar Furútan was a prominent Iranian Bahá'í. Due to persecution, his family moved from Sabzivár in Khurásán to Ashkhabad across the Russian border. Furútan went to Moscow to study education and child psychology, after winning a scholarship to the University of Moscow in 1926. In 1930 he came back to Iran, being expelled from the Soviet Union because of his Bahá'í activities. In 1934 he was elected to the National Spiritual Assembly of Iran, … - Petras Klimas
Petras Klimas (February 23, 1891 - January 16, 1969) was a Lithuanian diplomat, author, and historian, and one of the twenty signatories of the Act of Independence of Lithuania. Klimas attended law school at the University of Moscow. After graduating, he returned to Vilnius and served on the Lithuanian Central Relief Committee. He was elected to the Council of Lithuania in 1917, and signed the Act of Independence in 1918. - Pelageya Polubarinova-Kochina
Pelageya Yakovlevna Polubarinova-Kochina (1899-1999) was a Russian woman mathematician and scientist, working in applied mathematics. Polubarinova-Kochina served as director of the division of hydromechanics at the University of Moscow. She was later head of the department of theoretical mechanics at the University of Novosibirsk and director of the department of applied hydrodynamics at the Hydrodynamics Institute. - Tony Rothman
Tony Rothman (b. 1953) is an American theoretical physicist specializing in cosmology, and science fiction writer. Rothman holds a B.A. from Swarthmore College, (1975) and a Ph.D from the University of Texas at Austin (1981), where he studied at the Center for Relativity. He continued on post-doctoral fellowships at Oxford, the University of Moscow and the University of Cape Town. - Alexander Kazhdan
Alexander Petrovich Kazhdan (born September 3, 1922, Moscow; died May 29, 1997, Washington, D.C.;) was one of the foremost Byzantinists of the late 20th century. - Julius Brutzkus
Julius Davidovich Brutzkus or Judah Loeb Brutzkus ("Yehuda Loeb ben David Brutzkus",) (1870-?) was a Lithuanian Jewish historian, scholar, and politician. He was born in 1870 in Polangen, in the governorate of Courland. He was the brother of the economist Boris Brutzkus. Julius studied at the gymnasium and University of Moscow, from which city his family, along with thousands of other Jewish families, was expelled in 1892. - Eugène Gabritschevsky
Eugène Gabritschevsky was a Russian biologist and artist. He was born into a comfortable family of scientists from Imperial Russia. His father was a renowned bacteriologist, and worked with Louis Pasteur in France and with Robert Koch in Germany. Gabritschevsky studied biology at the University of Moscow from 1913, specialising in problems related to heredity. He finished his studies successfully and went into research. In 1924, he was invited to the United States, … - Maksim Kovalevsky
Maksim Maksimovich Kovalevsky (1851 - 1916) was a sociologist and professor of Legal History at the University of St Petersburg. He was at the University of Moscow from 1878 to 1887, where he studied legal institutions of Caucasian highlanders. Later he settled abroad, becoming friends with Karl Marx and Frederick Engels. In 1906 he founded the Progressist Party. He was a member of the State Duma, and was nominated for a Nobel peace prize in 1912. - Alexei Pavlovich Fedchenko
Alexei Pavlovich Fedchenko (7 February 1844 - 15 September 1873) was a Russian naturalist and explorer well known for his travels in central Asia. He was born at Irkutsk, in Siberia, and after attending the gymnasium of his native town, proceeded to the university of Moscow, for the study more especially of zoology and geology. In 1868 he travelled through Turkestan, the district of the lower Syr-Darya and Samarkand; and shortly after his return he set out for Khokand, … - Rosa Liksom
Rosa Liksom - née Anni Ylävaara, January 7, 1958, Ylitornio - is a Finnish writer and artist. She has studied antropology at the Helsinki and Copenhagen and social sciences at the University of Moscow. Liksom avoids publicity, and has seldom allowed herself to be photographed. - Igor Glek
Igor V. Glek (born November 7, 1961 in Moscow) is a Russian chess master, coach, theorist, writer and organiser. He now lives in Essen, Germany and has been mainly resident there since 1994. Completing his University of Moscow engineering/economics qualification in 1983, he worked as an economist until 1986 and followed this with 2 years military service in the Soviet Army. From 1989, he was able to concentrate on chess, … - Ilya Frank
Ilya Mikhailovich Frank was a Russian winner of the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1958 jointly with Pavel Alekseyevich Cherenkov and Igor Y. Tamm, also of the Soviet Union. He received the award for his work in explaining the phenomenon of Cherenkov radiation. Frank graduated from the Moscow State University in 1930. In 1934 Cherenkov discovered that light is emitted by charged particles traveling at very high speeds through water. - Henry Charles Lea
Henry Charles Lea (September 19, 1825 - October 24, 1909) was an American historian, civic reformer, and political activist. Lea was born and lived in Philadelphia. His father, Isaac Lea (1792-1886) was a distinguished naturalist and a member of the "American Philosophical Society", and was by profession a publisher. Isaac Lea was descended from a Philadelphia Quaker family, and was born in Wilmington, Delaware. - Mikhail Nikolayevich Muravyov-Vilensky
Count Mikhail Nikolayevich Muravyov (1796-1866) was one of the most reactionary Russian imperial statesmen of the 19th century. He should not be confused with his grandson, Mikhail Nikolayevich Muravyov, who served as Russian Foreign Minister between 1897 and 1900. During his years at the University of Moscow, Muravyov set up the Mathematical Society, of which he would later become president. He volunteered during the Patriotic War of 1812 and was wounded at Borodino. - Boris Borisovitsch Rohdendorf
Boris Borissovich Rohdendorf (1904 - 1977) was a Russian entomologist and curator at the Zoological Museum at the University of Moscow. He attained the position of head of the Laboratory of Arthropods, Paleontological Institute, Academy of Sciences of the USSR (now Russian Academy of Sciences) in Moscow. A student of Andrey Martynov, he was a prolific taxonomist who described numerous new taxa, including fossil Diptera, and published important syntheses on fossil insects. - Sergei Aleksandrovich Buturlin
Sergei Aleksandrovich Buturlin was a Russian ornithologist. A scion of one of the oldest families of Russian nobility, Buturlin spent most his life in Russia. He went to school in Simbirsk (modern Ulyanovsk) and studied jurisprudence in St. Petersburg, but his interest in zoology was so strong that he spent most of his career collecting specimens across Russia and Siberia and describing the results of his observations. Until 1892 he collected in the Volga region, … - Sergei Yudin
Sergei Sergeevich Yudin (September 271891 - March 121954) was a Russian surgeon. Sergei Yudin was an outstanding Russian surgeon of the 20th century. Yudin lived a very productive, yet tragic, life. Sergei Yudin was born in Moscow into the family of a factory owner. In 1911, Yudin became a medical student at the University of Moscow. In autumn 1914, after the beginning of the First World War,Yudin was called into the army as a junior doctor. - Grigorii Nikolayevich Vyrubov
Grigorii Nikolayevich Vyrubov, or Grégoire Wyrouboff was a Russian Positivist philosopher and historian of science. Born in Moscow, Vyrubov was brought up in Italy and France before studying medicine and natural philosophy at the University of Moscow. Heavily influenced by Edmond Nikolayevich Pommier, Vyrubov founded the Positivist journal "Philosophie positive" with Emile Littré in 1867: he edited the journal until 1881. - Rudolf Westphal
Rudolf Westphal, German classical scholar, was born at Obernkirchen in Schaumburg. He studied at Marburg and Tübingen, and was professor at Breslau (1858-1862) and Moscow (1875-1879). He subsequently lived at Bückeburg, and died at Stadthagen in Schaumburg-Lippe on the 10th of July 1892. Westphal was a man of varied attainments, but his chief claim to remembrance rests upon his contributions on Greek music and metre. - J. Kevin Meaders
J. Kevin Meaders , J.D., CFP ™ , ChFC, CLU , CEO, founder and managing partner of Magellan Planning Group and a Registered Principal with Raymond James Financial Services, Inc. An Atlanta native, Kevin's family settled in Georgia in the late 1780's and is widely known for Meaders Pottery, which has some pieces proudly displayed in the Smithsonian. Kevin graduated from Oglethorpe University in Atlanta with a double B.A. in Philosophy and Political Science. - Stan Chudnovsky
Stan Chudnovsky is Co-Founder of Ooga Labs, a technology greenhouse in San Francisco, developing multiple Internet businesses simultaneously. Prior to Ooga, Stan spent 6-plus years at Tickle Inc., which was sold to Monster for over $100 million. Starting as VP of Engineering, Stan gained responsibilities over Product and Operations and then was named CEO after Tickle's founder and CEO, James Currier , departed in December 2005 to start Ooga Labs. - Alex Shtromas
Alex had been a member of PWPA in the UK since some time in the 1970s after he had emigrated from the USSR to join his sister's family there. In 1974 he began working as a research associate and lecturer in peace studies at the University of Bradford where Peter van den Dungen also worked. Van den Dungen, a rising star in peace history, was also at the meeting in Chicago. - Marvalene Hughes
Dr. Marvalene Hughes Dr. Marvalene Hughes , ('61), was named president of California State University in August 1994. Prior to her being named president, Dr. Hughes served as vice president/vice provost and professor at the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities campus, as well as system wide vice president for all University of Minnesota campuses. - Jared Greenberg
JARED GREENBERG Educated in Management at the United States Air Force Academy, Mr. Greenberg graduated at the top of his class, receiving several awards including the Civil Air Patrol Honor Roll – for the Civil Air Patrol cadet with the single highest honors, Air Force Outstanding Unit Award, and a National Defense Service Medal. Mr. Greenberg was responsible for the academic, military, and physical performance of fifty people. - Stan Chudnovsky
Stan Chudnovsky is Co-Founder of Ooga Labs, a technology greenhouse in San Francisco, developing multiple Internet businesses simultaneously. Prior to Ooga, Stan spent 6-plus years at Tickle Inc., which was sold to Monster for over $100 million. Starting as VP of Engineering, Stan gained responsibilities over Product and Operations and then was named CEO after Tickle's founder and CEO, James Currier , departed in December 2005 to start Ooga Labs. - Liu Hongru
Mr. LIU Hongru , aged 75, was appointed as an independent non-executive director of the Company in September 2004. Mr. Liu graduated from the University of Moscow in 1959 with an associate doctorate's degree. He was a vice governor of each of the Agricultural Bank of China and the People's Bank of China, a deputy director of the State Economic Restructuring Committee, and the chairman of the China Securities Regulatory Commission. - Milvi Tepp
Milvi Tepp has worked as a human resources manager in Estonian Mobile Phone EMT, Hotel Olümpia and Reval Hotel Group. She has graduated from the University of Moscow (PhD), has worked as a Management Consultant in Mainor and EKE Ariko and is now a professor of business administration in the Tallinn Technical University. - Mark Sigal
Mark Sigal Vice President of Release Engineering and Quality Assurance Mark Sigal, the former VP of Engineering at Zultys Technologies, has over 25 years of engineering management and software development experience. Prior to Zultys, Sigal worked for Zarak System (acquired by Spirent Communications) as the director of software development where he played an important leadership role in the architectural design and implementation of the Zarak's telephony testing equipment. - Armen Geronian
Armen Geronian , Director and Chief Technical Officer. Mr. Geronian, age 35, co-founded and has served as Chief Technical Officer, Assistant Secretary, and a director of Wizzard Delaware since its inception and of Wizzard since February 7, 2001. Mr. Geronian has spearheaded the development of our IVA product, and is responsible for all of our technical decisions regarding the software code and other attributes of our products and services.
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