Moscow State University - Famous Alumni and Faculty

Famous Alumni and Faculty

Famous alumni of the Moscow State University
Ivan Turgenev
Anton Chekhov
Boris Pasternak
Vitaly Ginzburg
Andrei Sakharov
Mikhail Gorbachev

11 Nobel laureates and 5 Fields Medal winners are affiliated with the university. It is the alma mater of many famous writers such as Anton Chekhov and Ivan Turgenev, politicians such as Mikhail Gorbachev or Mikhail Suslov, as well as renowned mathematicians and physicists such as Boris Demidovich, Vladimir Arnold, and Andrey Kolmogorov.

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