Genghis Khan

Genghis Khan

male, deceased (1227)
mongol, azerbaijan, See Below, Khwarezmid empire, Demography, resistance movement…eurasia
(IPA: ; ; classic Mongolian: (see below for alternative spellings); ca. 1162 -August 18, 1227) was a Mongol "Khan" (ruler; posthumously "Khagan",...
Stephen Kotkin

Stephen Kotkin

male
University of Rochester alumni, University of California, Berkeley alumni, Princeton University faculty, university of rochester, Ob River, Martin Malia…eurasia
Stephen Mark Kotkin is Professor of History and diretor of the Progam in Russian Studies at Princeton University. He specializes in the history of...
Johanna Nichols

Johanna Nichols

female
professor, Ingush language, Chechen language, eurasia, caucasus, linguistics
Linguist Johanna Nichols is a professor in the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures at the University of California, Berkeley. Her...
Nafeez Mosaddeq Ahmed

Nafeez Mosaddeq Ahmed

male
ussr, Islamic Human Rights Commission, pipelines, Pipeline transport, September 11, 2001, George W. Bush administration…eurasia
Nafeez Mosaddeq Ahmed is a London-born author and political scientist specializing in interdisciplinary security studies. He teaches International...
Mikael Fortelius

Mikael Fortelius

male, 55 years old
Indricothere, eurasia, university of helsinki, mammal, developmental biology, tooth
Mikael Fortelius (born 1 February, 1954) is Professor of Evolutionary Palaeontology at the University of Helsinki. His research involves the...
Nicholas J. Spykman

Nicholas J. Spykman

male, deceased (1943)
Balance of power in international relations, realism, Yale University, balance of power, environmental determinism, Geostrategy…eurasia
Nicholas John Spykman (b.1893 - d.1943) was a Dutch-American geostrategist, known as the "godfather of containment." As a political scientist he...

Stephen F. Jones

male
Oxford University, London School of Economics, University of California, Santa Cruz, University of London, University of Essex, American…eurasia
Stephen F. Jones is an American expert on post-Communist societies in the former Soviet Union and Eastern Europe who currently serves as a...
Semyon Dezhnyov

Semyon Dezhnyov

male, deceased (1673)
Siberia, Explorer of Asia, Russian, koch, Russian and Soviet polar explorer, eurasia
Semyon (Semнon, Semion, Simon) Ivanovich Dezhnev was a Russian explorer who in 1648 led the expedition that doubled the known extent of the e...

Maureen Greenwood

female
non-governmental organization, United States foreign policy, United States Congress, University of Michigan alumni, Administration, legislation…eurasia
Maureen Greenwood-Basken is an American human rights activist. She has an undergraduate degree in Psychology and Slavic Studies from the University...
Nikolai Nikitin

Nikolai Nikitin

male, deceased (1973)
Volgograd, stalingrad, engineer, eurasia, motherland, Russian architecture
Nikolai Vasilyevich Nikitin (15 December 1907 - 3 March 1973) was a heavily awarded structural designer and construction engineer of the Soviet...