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Mikhail Kotyukov
Mikhail Kotyukov is a Russian politician and United Russia member serving as Governor of Krasnoyarsk Krai, where he has reported to President Vladimir Putin on the region's development.
Mikhail Krivonosov
Mikhail Krivonosov (Михаил Петрович Кривоносов), Soviet Belarusian hammer thrower (1929–1994), first Soviet hammer star: six world records to 67.32 m, 1954 European champion, 1956 Olympic silver behind Hal Connolly.
Mikhail Kutuzov (Михаил Илларионович Голенищев-Кутузов)
Mikhail Illarionovich Golenishchev-Kutuzov (1745–1813), Russian field marshal and Prince of Smolensk, commanded Russian forces at Borodino in 1812 and directed the strategy that destroyed Napoleon's invasion; died at Bunzlau in 1813.
Mikhail Kuznetsov
Mikhail Kuznetsov (Михаил Николаевич Кузнецов), Soviet rower born 1952 in Moscow, TsSK VMF Moskva; won gold in the men's coxed four at Montreal 1976 (6:40.22) and world silver in the eight in 1977; distinct from the 1979 Kazakh triathlete and 1985 Russian canoe slalomist of the same name.
Mikhail Larionov
Mikhail Larionov (Михаил Ларионов, 1881–1964) was a Russian painter and leader of the Russian avant-garde who created Rayonism, an early abstract style, and designed Ballets Russes stage sets in France.
Mikhail Lavrentyev
Mikhail Alekseevich Lavrentyev (Михаил Лаврентьев) was a Soviet mathematician who created the theory of quasiconformal mappings and founded and chaired the Siberian Branch of the USSR Academy of Sciences.
Mikhail Lavrov
Mikhail Grigoryevich Lavrov (Михаил Григорьевич Лавров, 1927–1997), Soviet race walker from Voronezh; set the 20 km walk world record 1:27:58.2 in 1956, was disqualified in the 1956 Olympic 50 km walk, and later coached.
Mikhail Lazarev
Mikhail Petrovich Lazarev (Михаил Петрович Лазарев, 1788–1851) was a Russian admiral and navigator who made three circumnavigations, helped discover Antarctica, and led the Black Sea Fleet from 1833.
Mikhail Lermontov (Михаил Юрьевич Лермонтов)
Mikhail Yuryevich Lermontov (Михаил Юрьевич Лермонтов), 1814–1841, Russian Romantic poet and author of A Hero of Our Time; exiled for 'Death of the Poet', killed in a duel with Martynov at Pyatigorsk.
Mikhail Linge
Mikhail Linge (Михаил Иннокентьевич Линге, 1958–1994), Soviet 400 m sprinter; gold in the 4x400 m relay at the 1980 Moscow Olympics; career ended by a 1982 car crash; murdered in Moscow in 1994.
Mikhail Lomonosov
Mikhail Vasilyevich Lomonosov was a Russian polymath, chemist, physicist, astronomer, and poet who founded Russia's first chemical laboratory in 1748 and discovered the atmosphere of Venus.
Mikhail Loris-Melikov
Mikhail Loris-Melikov (Михаил Тариелович Лорис-Меликов) was a Russian statesman and general of Armenian descent who conquered Kars in 1878 and served as Minister of Internal Affairs from 1880 to 1881.
Mikhail Lukin
Mikhail Lukin is an American physicist at Harvard University, a University Professor who co-invented the DLCZ quantum repeater protocol and co-founded the quantum companies QuEra Computing and Quantum Diamond Technologies.
Mikhail Lyubich
Mikhail Lyubich, born 1959, is a mathematician in real and complex dynamics who proved the Feigenbaum–Coullet–Tresser conjecture and directs Stony Brook's Institute for Mathematical Sciences.
Mikhail M. Savitski
Mikhail M. Savitski is a proteomics and mass spectrometry scientist who heads the Proteomics Core Facility at EMBL Heidelberg and developed thermal proteome profiling for drug target identification.
Mikhail Matyushin
Mikhail Matyushin (Михаил Матюшин, 1861–1934) was a Russian painter, violinist, and composer of the avant-garde, best known for the 1913 opera Victory over the Sun.
Mikhail Miloradovich
Mikhail Miloradovich (Михаил Андреевич Милорадович) was a Russian general of infantry who fought Napoleon in 1812 and was mortally wounded in the 1825 Decembrist rising.
Mikhail Mishaqa
Mikhail Mishaqa (ميخائيل مشاقة) was a physician, merchant, and historian of Ottoman Syria, 1800 to 1888, who served the Shihab emirs and later as US vice-consul in Damascus.
Mikhail Mishustin (Михаил Владимирович Мишустин)
Mikhail Mishustin (Михаил Владимирович Мишустин, born 1966) is Russia's prime minister since January 2020, reappointed in May 2024; a technocrat, former head of the Federal Tax Service, non-siloviki, sanctioned over the Ukraine war.
Mikhail Mishustin's Second Cabinet
Mikhail Mishustin's second cabinet is the Russian government formed in May 2024 after Putin's inauguration, largely retaining its previous members while substituting Belousov for Sergei Shoigu as defense minister.
Mikhail Muravyov
Mikhail Muravyov (Михаил Артемьевич Муравьёв) was a Russian officer who commanded Red forces in Ukraine and the Red Army's Eastern Front before his anti-Bolshevik revolt of July 1918.
Mikhail Muravyov-Vilensky
Mikhail Muravyov-Vilensky (Михаил Николаевич Муравьёв-Виленский) was a Russian statesman who suppressed the Polish uprising of 1863–1864 as governor-general, then Russified the western provinces, earning the nickname "the Hangman."
Mikhail Naimy
Mikhail Naimy (ميخائيل نعيمة) was a Lebanese writer and poet who co-founded the New York Pen League with Kahlil Gibran and wrote The Book of Mirdad.
Mikhail Naumov
Mikhail Ivanovich Naumov (Михаил Иванович Наумов) was a Soviet major general and Hero of the Soviet Union who led partisan cavalry raids behind German lines in occupied Ukraine.
Mikhail Nestruyev
Mikhail Nestruev (Михаил Валерьевич Неструев, born 1968, Moscow) is a Russian pistol shooter, 2004 Olympic champion in 50 m free pistol and silver medalist in 10 m air pistol, five-time World Cup Final winner and former 25 m center-fire world record holder (594).
Mikhail Ogonkov
Mikhail Ogonkov (Михаил Павлович Огоньков), Soviet left back for Spartak Moscow and the USSR, 1956 Olympic football champion and two-time Soviet champion, career ended by a 1958 disqualification and a 1961 kidney injury.
Mikhail Osipov
Mikhail Osipov (Михаил Осипов; born 1859) was a Russian Imperial general and military topographer who in 1915 first published explicit solutions of Lanchester's attrition equations.
Mikhail Perlman
Mikhail Perlman (Михаил Романович Перльман, also Perelman), Soviet artistic gymnast, born 1923, died 2002; 1952 Helsinki Olympic team gold with CSKA Moskva; later directed 1980 Moscow Olympics ceremonies.
Mikhail Pervukhin
Mikhail Georgievich Pervukhin (Михаил Первухин, 1904–1978) was a Soviet deputy premier and chemical industry minister who helped organize the atomic project and chaired the commission at the first Soviet bomb test in 1949.
Mikhail Petrashevsky
Mikhail Petrashevsky, born Mikhail Butashevich-Petrashevsky (Михаил Буташевич-Петрашевский), was a Russian nobleman and socialist whose weekly discussion circle, the Petrashevsky Circle, was broken up in 1849.