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Sergei Kamenev
Sergei Kamenev (Сергей Сергеевич Каменев, 1881 to 1936) was a Soviet military commander who, as Red Army commander-in-chief from 1919 to 1924, won the Russian Civil War.
Sergei Kharitonov
Sergei Kharitonov (Сергей Харитонов), "The Paratrooper," Russian heavyweight MMA fighter born 1980; Pride 2004 grand prix semifinalist, veteran of Pride, DREAM, Strikeforce, and Bellator, still competing past age 43.
Sergei Khrushchev (Сергей Никитич Хрущёв)
Sergei Khrushchev, also known as Sergei Nikitich Khrushchev (Сергей Никитич Хрущёв), was a Soviet missile engineer and son of Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev who later taught at Brown University in Rhode Island.
Sergei Kiriyenko
Sergei Kiriyenko is a Russian politician who served as Prime Minister in 1998, headed Rosatom from 2007 to 2016, and has been First Deputy Chief of the Presidential Staff since 2016.
Sergei Kirov (Сергей Миронович Киров)
Sergei Kirov (Сергей Миронович Киров, real name Kostrikov, 1886–1934), Soviet politician, first secretary of the Leningrad party organization and Politburo member, shot by Leonid Nikolaev in the Smolny on 1 December 1934; his murder triggered repression preceding the Great Terror.
Sergei Konenkov
Sergei Timofeevich Konenkov (Сергей Конёнков) was a Russian and Soviet sculptor known for wood-carved folklore figures, portraits of Einstein and Rachmaninoff, and New York years from 1924 to 1945.
Sergei Korolev (Серге́й Па́влович Королёв)
Sergei Korolev (Сергей Павлович Королёв) was a Soviet rocket engineer who led the design of Sputnik 1 and Yuri Gagarin's 1961 spaceflight, known publicly only as the Chief Designer.
Sergei Korotkikh
Sergei Korotkikh (Malyuta, Botsman), born 1974 in Tolyatti, is a Belarusian-born neo-Nazi militant: RNE Belarus member, NSO co-founder in Russia, Azov Battalion head of reconnaissance, Ukrainian citizen from 2014.
Sergei Krikalev (Сергей Константинович Крикалёв)
Sergei Konstantinovich Krikalev (Сергей Константинович Крикалёв) is a Russian cosmonaut born in 1958 who logged 803 days in space over six missions and held the cumulative spaceflight record until 2015.
Sergei L. Kosakovsky Pond
Sergei L. Kosakovsky Pond is a computational biologist at Temple University known for the HyPhy and Datamonkey software for detecting natural selection in genetic data.
Sergei Lazo
Sergei Lazo (Сергей Георгиевич Лазо, 1894–1920) was a Bolshevik commander in the Russian Far East who led partisans in Primorye and overthrew White authority in Vladivostok in January 1920.
Sergei Lukyanenko
Sergei Vasilyevich Lukyanenko (Сергей Васильевич Лукьяненко), born 1968, Russian sci-fi and fantasy author of the Night Watch cycle, adapted into Russia's first blockbuster film (2004); also wrote Spectrum, Labyrinth of Reflections, youngest Aelita laureate (1999).
Sergei M. Mirkin
Sergei M. Mirkin is a molecular biologist and the White Family Chair in Biology at Tufts University, best known for discovering H-DNA, the first multi-stranded DNA structure found in natural DNA.
Sergei Magnitsky
Sergei Magnitsky (Сергей Магнитский), Russian lawyer and auditor for Hermitage Capital who exposed a $230 million tax refund fraud, died in Moscow pre-trial detention in 2009; his death inspired the 2012 Magnitsky Act and global human rights sanctions laws.
Sergei Markov
Sergei Markov, also Sergey Leonidovich Markov (Сергей Леонидович Марков), was a Russian general-leitenant who co-organized the White Volunteer Army in the Civil War and was mortally wounded by a Soviet armored train in June 1918.
Sergei Maslov
Sergei Maslov is a Russian-born physicist turned computational systems biologist at Brookhaven National Laboratory, known for work on protein network topology and the 2002 PECASE award.
Sergei Mavrodi (Сергей Пантелеевич Мавроди)
Sergei Mavrodi (Сергей Пантелеевич Мавроди), founder of the MMM pyramid scheme, defrauded millions of Russians in 1994, served in the Duma, was convicted of fraud in 2007, relaunched MMM-2011 and Bitcoin-based schemes, and died in 2018.
Sergei Motorin (Сергей Михайлович Моторин)
Sergei Mikhailovich Motorin (Сергей Михайлович Моторин), KGB Line PR major in the Washington residency, was recruited by the FBI and executed after Robert Hanssen and Aldrich Ames betrayed his name in 1985.
Sergei Muravyov-Apostol
Sergei Muravyov-Apostol (Сергей Иванович Муравьёв-Апостол) was a Russian lieutenant colonel who led the Decembrist Chernigov regiment rising near Kiev in 1825 and was hanged in Saint Petersburg in 1826.
Sergei Muromtsev
Sergei Muromtsev (Сергей Андреевич Муромцев, 1850–1910) was a Russian jurist, professor of Roman law at Moscow University, and first Chairman of the First State Duma in 1906.
Sergei Naryshkin
Sergei Naryshkin is a Russian politician and intelligence official who serves as Director of the Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR) and chairs the Russian Historical Society.
Sergei Nechaev
Sergei Gennadievich Nechaev (Сергей Нечаев), 1847–1882, was a Russian revolutionary who led the secret society Narodnaya rasprava and instigated the 1869 murder of a member of his own group.
Sergei Novikov
Sergei Petrovich Novikov (1938–2024) was a Soviet and Russian topologist and mathematical physicist who in 1970 became the first Soviet mathematician to receive the Fields Medal.
Sergei Parajanov
Sergei Parajanov (Սարգիս Հովսեփի Փարաջանյան, 1924–1990), Soviet film director of Armenian descent born in Tbilisi; maker of The Color of Pomegranates and Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors; imprisoned 1973–1977; museum in Yerevan.
Sergei Pavlovich (Сергей Владимирович Павлович)
Sergei Pavlovich (Сергей Владимирович Павлович), Russian UFC heavyweight born 1992, 21-3 with 16 first-round KO wins; lost interim title fight to Tom Aspinall at UFC 295, ranked #3.
Sergei Polunin (Сергей Владимирович Полунин)
Sergei Polunin, born 1989 in Kherson, is a Russian and Serbian ballet dancer who became the Royal Ballet's youngest-ever principal before resigning in 2012 and appearing in the film Red Sparrow.
Sergei Prokofiev (Сергей Сергеевич Прокофьев)
Sergei Prokofiev (Сергей Сергеевич Прокофьев, 1891–1953), Soviet composer, pianist, and conductor from Sontsovka; St Petersburg Conservatory graduate under Lyadov and Rimsky-Korsakov, creator of Romeo and Juliet, Peter and the Wolf, and the Fifth Symphony, censured in 1948.
Sergei Pyzhianov
Sergei Pyzhianov, born Sergey Nikolayevich Pyzhyanov in 1960, is a Russian pistol shooter who won 10 m air pistol silver at the 1992 Barcelona Olympics.
Sergei Rachmaninoff (Сергей Васильевич Рахманинов)
Sergei Rachmaninoff (Сергей Васильевич Рахманинов, 1873–1943), Russian composer, virtuoso pianist, and conductor; composer of four piano concertos, three symphonies, Aleko, and the Symphonic Dances, who left Russia in 1917 and died in Beverly Hills.
Sergei S. Sheiko
Sergei S. Sheiko, also known as S. S. Sheiko, is a polymer materials scientist at UNC Chapel Hill known for molecular brushes and solvent-free elastomers mimicking biological tissues.