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Mikhail Chernyaev
Mikhail Grigoryevich Chernyaev (Михаил Григорьевич Черняев, 1828–1898) was a Russian general who stormed Tashkent in 1865, edited the Pan-Slav newspaper Russky Mir, and commanded the main Serbian army in 1876.
Mikhail Degtyarev
Mikhail Degtyarev is a Russian politician who has been Minister of Sport since 2024, after serving as governor of Khabarovsk Krai and a State Duma deputy; he also chairs the Russian Olympic Committee.
Mikhail Devyatyarov
Mikhail Devyatyarov (Михаил Талгатович Девятьяров), born 1959, Soviet cross-country skier; won 1988 Calgary Olympic gold in the 15 km classical and relay silver; father of skier Mikhail Devyatyarov Jr.
Mikhail Dragomirov
Mikhail Dragomirov (Михаил Иванович Драгомиров) was a Russian general of infantry and military theorist who led the first Danube crossing in the Russo-Turkish War of 1877–78.
Mikhail Drozdovsky
Mikhail Drozdovsky (Михаил Гордеевич Дроздовский) was a Russian major general and White movement commander who led about a thousand volunteers from Iaşi to the Don in 1918.
Mikhail E. Gertsenshtein
Mikhail E. Gertsenshtein (Михаил Евгеньевич Герценштейн; 1926–2010) was a Soviet physicist who in 1962 described the Gertsenshtein effect and, with V. I. Pustovoit, the first laser interferometric gravitational-wave detector.
Mikhail Fridman (Михаил Маратович Фридман)
Mikhail Fridman (Михаил Фридман), born 1964 in Lviv, is a businessman who co-founded Alfa Group, built Alfa-Bank into Russia's largest private bank, and co-founded LetterOne.
Mikhail Frunze
Mikhail Frunze (Михаил Васильевич Фрунзе), born 1885 in Pishpek, was a Soviet military commander who defeated Kolchak and Wrangel in the Russian Civil War and led the Red Army's 1924 military reform.
Mikhail Glinsky
Mikhail Glinsky (Михаил Львович Глинский) was a prince and commander who led a 1508 uprising in Lithuania, took Smolensk with Moscow in 1514, and guarded the young Ivan IV.
Mikhail Gorbachev (Михаил Сергеевич Горбачёв)
Mikhail Gorbachev, also known as Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev, was the last leader of the Soviet Union, whose perestroika and glasnost reforms helped end the Cold War.
Mikhail Gorodetsky
Mikhail Leonidovich Gorodetsky (Михаил Городецкий; 1966–2019) was a Russian physicist at Moscow State University who pioneered ultra-high-quality dielectric microresonators and worked on quantum measurement for gravitational-wave detectors, including LIGO.
Mikhail Grigorenko
Mikhail Grigorenko (Михаил Олегович Григоренко), born 1994 in Khabarovsk, is a Russian ice hockey forward with Traktor Chelyabinsk; ex-Buffalo first-rounder, three-time Gagarin Cup winner with CSKA, 2018 Olympic gold and 2022 silver medalist.
Mikhail Gromov (mathematician)
Mikhail Gromov, born in 1943, is a Soviet-born French mathematician known for Riemannian geometry, hyperbolic groups, and pseudoholomorphic curves, winner of the 2009 Abel Prize.
Mikhail Ignatyev
Mikhail Ignatyev (Михаил Борисович Игнатьев), Russian track and road cyclist born 1985 in Leningrad; 2004 Olympic points race champion (93 points) and 2008 Madison bronze medalist with Aleksey Markov.
Mikhail Ioffe
Mikhail Solomonovich Ioffe (Михаил Соломонович Иоффе) was a Soviet experimental plasma physicist who stabilized the magnetic-mirror plasma trap against the flute instability in 1961, after which the stabilizing coils became known as Ioffe rods.
Mikhail Ishchenko
Mikhail Ishchenko (Михаил Алексеевич Ищенко), born 1950 in Morozovsk, is a Ukrainian handball goalkeeper who won Olympic gold (Montreal 1976) and silver (Moscow 1980) for the USSR and the 1982 world title. Not the artistic swimmer Nataliya Ishchenko.
Mikhail Ivanov (olympedia 101321)
Mikhail Petrovich Ivanov (Михаил Петрович Иванов), Russian cross-country skier born 1977 in Ostrov, Pskov; 2002 Olympic 50 km classical gold medalist after Mühlegg's disqualification, 2001 Lahti world bronze.
Mikhail Ivanov (olympedia 54826)
Mikhail Vladimirovich Ivanov (Михаил Владимирович Иванов), Soviet water polo center forward, Olympedia athlete 54826: Olympic gold 1980 Moscow, bronze 1988 Seoul, world champion 1982, Dynamo Moscow captain, later coach. Not the 1977 cross-country skier.
Mikhail Kalashnikov (Михаил Тимофеевич Калашников)
Mikhail Kalashnikov (Михаил Калашников) was a Soviet and Russian small arms designer who created the AK-47 assault rifle, adopted in 1949; over 70 million AK rifles were produced.
Mikhail Kalinin (Михаил Иванович Калинин)
Mikhail Kalinin (Михаил Иванович Калинин, 1875–1946), Bolshevik revolutionary and nominal Soviet head of state 1919–1946 as chairman of VTsIK, TsIK USSR, and Presidium of the Supreme Soviet; namesake of Kaliningrad.
Mikhail Kamensky
Mikhail Fedotovich Kamensky (Михаил Федотович Каменский) was a Russian field marshal, made a count by Paul I in 1797, who defeated the Turks at Kozludzha in 1774 but failed as commander against Napoleon in 1806.
Mikhail Karnaukhov
Mikhail Karnaukhov (Михаил Карнаухов) names two athletes: a Belarusian ice hockey goaltender born 1994 (Dinamo Minsk, KHL) and a Russian luger born 2002, 2020 Youth Olympic gold and bronze medalist.
Mikhail Kashlev
Mikhail Kashlev (Михаил Кашлев) is a molecular biologist who studies transcription elongation and fidelity as a Senior Investigator at the National Cancer Institute in Frederick, Maryland, and is known for discovering RNA polymerase backtracking.
Mikhail Katkov
Mikhail Katkov, also known as Mikhail Nikiforovich Katkov, was a Russian journalist and publisher who edited Moskovskie Vedomosti and Russky Vestnik and influenced government policy until his death in 1887.
Mikhail Katsnelson
Mikhail Katsnelson, born 1957 in Magnitogorsk, is a Russian-Dutch theoretical physicist at Radboud University, a pioneer of graphene theory and winner of the 2013 Spinoza Prize.
Mikhail Katukov
Mikhail Katukov (Михаил Ефимович Катуков; 1900–1976) was a Soviet tank commander, twice Hero of the Soviet Union, who led the 1st Guards Tank Army from 1943 to 1945.
Mikhail Khodorkovsky (Михаил Борисович Ходорковский)
Mikhail Khodorkovsky (Михаил Ходорковский) is a Russian former oil executive who built Yukos into Russia's largest oil company, was arrested in 2003, and lives in exile as an opposition figure.
Mikhail Khovanov
Mikhail Khovanov is a mathematician, formerly at Columbia and now a professor at Johns Hopkins University, who created Khovanov homology, a link invariant that categorifies the Jones polynomial and detects the unknot.
Mikhail Kirponos
Mikhail Kirponos was a Soviet colonel general, a Hero of the Soviet Union in 1940, who commanded the Southwestern Front and was killed in 1941 breaking out of the encirclement of Kiev.
Mikhail Kosiborod
Mikhail N. Kosiborod is an American cardiologist and clinical trialist who led the STEP-HFpEF trials of semaglutide in obesity-related heart failure, contributing to Science's 2023 Breakthrough of the Year.