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Mikhail Pogodin

Mikhail Pogodin (Михаил Петрович Погодин) was a Russian historian, journalist, and publisher, professor of Russian history at Moscow University and a leading defender of the Norman theory.

Mikhail Pokrovsky

Mikhail Pokrovsky (Михаил Николаевич Покровский) was a Russian Marxist historian and revolutionary who organized Soviet historical scholarship and served as deputy education commissar from 1918.

Mikhail Popkov (Михаил Викторович Попков)

Mikhail Popkov (Михаил Попков), the "Angarsk Maniac" and "Werewolf", is a Russian ex-policeman convicted of at least 91 murders of women in Irkutsk Oblast, 1992–2011, caught by DNA in 2012 and serving two life sentences plus added terms.

Mikhail Postnikov

Mikhail Postnikov, full name Mikhail Mikhailovich Postnikov (Михаил Михайлович Постников), was a Soviet and Russian mathematician in algebraic topology, known for the Postnikov system and the 1961 Lenin Prize.

Oct 22, 2026

Mikhail Prishvin

Mikhail Prishvin (Михаил Пришвин) was a Russian and Soviet prose writer known for nature writing and children's books, and for diaries kept from 1905 to 1954.

Mikhail Prokhorov (Михаил Дмитриевич Прохоров)

Mikhail Prokhorov (Михаил Прохоров) is a Russian metals and finance billionaire who built Norilsk Nickel, founded the ONEXIM investment group, owned the Brooklyn Nets, and ran for president in 2012.

Mikhail Rakitin

Mikhail Osipovich (Misha) Rakitin is a character in Dostoevsky's The Brothers Karamazov (1879-1880), a cynical seminarian and socialist writer who envies Alyosha's faith, plots with Grushenka for twenty-five roubles to corrupt him, and coins the "Karamazov question."

Oct 22, 2026

Mikhail Roman

Mikhail Roman (ميخائيل رومان; 1924–1973) was an Egyptian playwright born and died in Cairo who wrote seventeen plays on Egypt after the July revolution, several banned.

Mikhail Sadovsky

Mikhail Alexandrovich Sadovsky (Михаил Александрович Садовский; 1904–1994) was a Soviet geophysicist who led physical measurements at the first Soviet atomic bomb test and derived the Sadovsky formulas.

Oct 22, 2026

Mikhail Saltykov-Shchedrin

Mikhail Saltykov-Shchedrin (1826–1889) was a Russian satirical writer and publicist who under the pen name N. Shchedrin wrote The History of a Town, The Golovlyov Family, and the Fairy Tales.

Mikhail Semyonovich Tsvett

Mikhail Semyonovich Tsvett (Михаил Цвет; also Tsvet or Tswett), 1872 to 1919, was a Russian botanist who invented adsorption chromatography, a method ignored for 25 years before becoming a standard biochemical tool.

Mikhail Sergachev (Михаил Александрович Сергачёв)

Mikhail Sergachev (Михаил Александрович Сергачёв), Russian NHL defenseman, ninth pick of the 2016 draft, two-time Stanley Cup champion with Tampa Bay, traded to Utah in 2024, now Mammoth alternate captain and top-pairing defenseman.

Mikhail Shapiro

Mikhail Shapiro is a biochemical engineer at Caltech, an HHMI Investigator known for developing the first acoustic reporter genes, which make cells visible to ultrasound.

Sep 21, 2026

Mikhail Shaposhnikov

Mikhail Shaposhnikov, born 1956 in Sochi, Russia, is a theoretical particle physicist and cosmologist, professor emeritus at EPFL, known for electroweak baryogenesis, the νMSM, and the Higgs-as-inflaton proposal.

Oct 21, 2026

Mikhail Shchennikov

Mikhail Shchennikov (Михаил Анатольевич Щенников), born 1967, Russian race walker; Olympic 50 km walk silver 1996, four world indoor 5000 m walk titles, and the still-standing 18:07.08 indoor world record.

Mikhail Shcherbatov

Prince Mikhail Mikhailovich Shcherbatov (Михаил Щербатов), 1733 to 1790, was a Russian senator and historiographer under Catherine II who wrote a seven-volume History of Russia from the Earliest Times.

Mikhail Shein

Mikhail Shein, also known as Mikhail Borisovich Shein (Михаил Борисович Шеин), was a Russian boyar and voivode who led the twenty-month defense of Smolensk against the Polish-Lithuanian army in 1609–1611.

Sep 21, 2026

Mikhail Shifman

Mikhail Shifman (Михаил Шифман) is a theoretical physicist at the University of Minnesota, born in Riga in 1949, known for the penguin mechanism, QCD sum rules, and supersymmetric Yang-Mills results.

Mikhail Sholokhov

Mikhail Sholokhov (Михаил Шолохов) was a Soviet writer who won the 1965 Nobel Prize in Literature for his epic novel And Quiet Flows the Don.

Oct 21, 2026

Mikhail Shtalenkov

Mikhail Shtalenkov (Михаил Шталенков), Russian goaltender born 1965 in Moscow; 1992 Olympic gold with the Unified Team, 1998 silver, 11 Olympic wins, and seven NHL seasons with Anaheim, Edmonton, Phoenix, and Florida.

Sep 19, 2026

Mikhail Shufutinsky

Mikhail Shufutinsky (Михаил Шуфутинский), born 1948 in Moscow, is a Soviet and Russian chanson singer and pianist, informally called the king of Russian chanson, best known for the annual hit «Третье сентября».

Mikhail Skobelev

Mikhail Dmitrievich Skobelev (Михаил Дмитриевич Скобелев), 1843 to 1882, was a Russian general known as the "White General" who fought in the Russo-Turkish War and stormed Geok-Tepe in 1881.

Mikhail Skopin-Shuisky

Mikhail Skopin-Shuisky (Михаил Васильевич Скопин-Шуйский) was a Russian prince and commander of the Time of Troubles who broke False Dmitrii II's forces and relieved Moscow in 1610.

Mikhail Somov

Mikhail Somov (Михаил Михайлович Сомов) was a Soviet oceanologist and polar explorer, Hero of the Soviet Union, who led the North Pole-2 drifting station and the first Soviet Antarctic expedition.

Mikhail Speransky

Mikhail Speransky (Михаил Сперанский) was a Russian statesman and reformer who drafted the 1809 reform plan under Alexander I and codified the empire's laws under Nicholas I.

Mikhail Stepanovich Voronin

Mikhail Stepanovich Voronin (Михаил Степанович Воронин; 1838–1903) was a Russian botanist and mycologist, founder of Russian mycology, who identified the cause of clubroot of cabbage and became an academician in 1898.

Mikhail Suslin

Mikhail Suslin, also known as Mikhail Yakovlevich Suslin, was a Russian mathematician who discovered analytic sets by finding an error in Lebesgue's 1905 memoir and posed the Suslin problem.

Mikhail Suslov

Mikhail Andreyevich Suslov (Михаил Андреевич Суслов) was a Soviet Communist Party official who served as a Central Committee Secretary from 1947 until his death in 1982.

Mikhail Tal (Михаил Нехемьевич Таль)

Mikhail Tal, nicknamed the Magician from Riga, was a Soviet-Latvian chess grandmaster and the eighth World Chess Champion, defeating Mikhail Botvinnik in 1960 at age 23.