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Sergei Sazonov

Sergei Sazonov, also known as Sergei Dmitrievich Sazonov, was a Russian diplomat who served as foreign minister of the Russian Empire from 1910 to 1916.

Sergei Shoigu (Сергей Кужугетович Шойгу)

Sergei Shoigu (Сергей Кужугетович Шойгу), born 1955 in Tuva, built Russia's Emergency Situations Ministry (1991–2012), served as defense minister 2012–2024, then Security Council Secretary; dismissed by Putin in May 2024 for economist Andrei Belousov.

Sergei Skripal (Сергей Викторович Скрипаль)

Sergei Skripal (Сергей Викторович Скрипаль), born 1951, is a former GRU colonel convicted of spying for MI6 in 2006, freed in the 2010 Vienna spy swap, and poisoned with Novichok in Salisbury, England, on 4 March 2018 with his daughter Yulia.

Oct 10, 2026

Sergei Sobolev

Sergei Lvovich Sobolev (Сергей Львович Соболев) was a Soviet mathematician who created Sobolev spaces, gave generalized functions their first rigorous definition, and helped found the mathematics institute at Akademgorodok.

Sergei Solovyov

Sergei Mikhailovich Solovyov (Сергей Михайлович Соловьёв) was a Russian historian and professor at Moscow University, rector from 1871 to 1877, known for his 29-volume History of Russia.

Sergei Syrankov

Sergei Syrankov (Сергей Сыранков) is First Secretary of the Communist Party of Belarus and its 2025 presidential candidate, who finished second with 3.2 percent behind Lukashenka while endorsing him.

Sep 21, 2026

Sergei Tretiak

Sergei Tretiak is a Los Alamos National Laboratory theoretical chemist working on nonadiabatic excited-state dynamics in conjugated materials, perovskites, and nanostructures; he joined the Center for Integrated Nanotechnologies in 2005.

Sergei Uvarov

Sergei Uvarov (Сергей Семёнович Уваров) was a Russian statesman and count who was minister of education under Nicholas I and author of the ideology "Orthodoxy, Autocracy, Nationality."

Sep 20, 2026

Sergei V. Kalinin

Sergei V. Kalinin is a materials scientist known for scanning probe microscopy and machine learning; he is chief scientist at PNNL and a professor at the University of Tennessee.

Sergei Vavilov

Sergei Vavilov (Сергей Иванович Вавилов) was a Soviet physicist specializing in optics who served as president of the Academy of Sciences from 1945 to 1951.

Oct 10, 2026

Sergei Winogradsky

Sergei Winogradsky (1856–1953) was a Ukrainian-born microbiologist who described the nitrifying bacteria, named the process chemosynthesis, and pioneered microbial ecology; the Winogradsky column is named for him.

Sergei Witte

Sergei Yulyevich Witte (Сергей Юльевич Витте, 1849–1915), Russian finance minister 1892–1903 and prime minister 1905–1906; introduced the 1897 gold standard, built the Trans-Siberian Railway, negotiated the Treaty of Portsmouth, and issued the October Manifesto.

Sep 21, 2026

Sergei Y. Sokol

Sergei Y. Sokol is a developmental biologist and professor at Mount Sinai in New York, known for showing in 1991 that Wnt signaling induces a body axis in frog embryos.

Sergei Yesenin (Сергей Александрович Есенин)

Sergei Yesenin (Сергей Александрович Есенин, 1895-1925), Russian lyric poet from Konstantinovo, Ryazan; founder-imagist, author of Radunitsa, Pugachev, Anna Snegina, The Black Man; married Isadora Duncan; died Leningrad 1925; widely translated and received worldwide.

Sergei Zabolotnov

Sergei Zabolotnov (Сергей Валентинович Заболотнов), born 1963 in Tashkent, is a retired Soviet backstroke swimmer, 1984 Friendship Games 200 m world record holder (1:58.41) and 1988 Seoul Olympic relay bronze medalist.

Sergej Barbarez

Sergej Barbarez (born 1971, Mostar) is a Bosnian football manager and former midfielder-forward; Bundesliga top scorer 2000/01 (22 goals), 330 Bundesliga games, 47 Bosnia caps, and Bosnia head coach since April 2024, qualifying for the 2026 World Cup.

Sergej Djuranovic

Sergej Djuranovic is a molecular biologist who studies how microRNAs and mRNA sequence motifs control protein synthesis, known for ordering the steps of miRNA silencing and professor at Brown University since 2025.

Sergej Milinković-Savić (Сергеј Милинковић-Савић)

Sergej Milinković-Savić (Сергеј Милинковић-Савић), Serbian midfielder born in Lleida in 1995; Lazio star 2015-2023, now Al Hilal (contract to 2028), 56 Serbia caps, U20 World Cup 2015 winner.

Oct 22, 2026

Sergey Aksakov

Sergey Aksakov (Сергей Аксаков; 1791 to 1859) was a Russian writer and critic known for his autobiographical Family Chronicle trilogy, nature writing, and the fairy tale The Scarlet Flower.

Sergey Aksyonov (Сергей Валерьевич Аксёнов)

Sergey Aksyonov (Сергей Валерьевич Аксёнов), born 1972 in Bălți, is the pro-Russian head of the Russian-occupied administration of Crimea, installed after the February 2014 armed seizure of the Crimean parliament, sanctioned by the EU, US, and Canada.

Sergey Alifirenko

Sergey Alifirenko (Сергей Геннадьевич Алифиренко), born 1959 in Kirovakan, is a Russian sport shooter, Olympic gold medalist in 25 m rapid-fire pistol at Sydney 2000 (687.6) and bronze medalist at Athens 2004, later a coach in Maykop.

Sergey Andronov

Sergey Andronov (Сергей Владимирович Андронов), born 1989 in Penza, Russian ice hockey forward; Olympic gold 2018 and silver 2022, two-time Gagarin Cup winner and captain with CSKA Moscow, retired 2026.

Sergey Babinov

Sergey Babinov (Сергей Бабинов), born 1955 in Chelyabinsk, Soviet defenseman; 1976 Olympic champion, four-time world champion, nine Soviet titles with CSKA Moscow; later coach and Hockey Moscow director.

Oct 20, 2026

Sergey Bautin

Sergey Bautin (Сергей Викторович Баутин), 1967-2022, Russian defenseman; 1992 Unified Team Olympic gold medalist; drafted 17th overall by Winnipeg Jets; 132 NHL games; Russian Hockey Hall of Fame 2014.

Sergey Bebeshko

Sergey (Serhiy) Bebeshko, Ukrainian handball player and coach born 1968 in Nova Kakhovka; 1992 Barcelona Olympic champion with the Unified Team, played for SKA Kyiv and Spanish clubs, later coached Dinamo Minsk, Motor, Meshkov Brest, and Ukraine.

Sergey Beloglazov

Sergey Beloglazov (Сергей Алексеевич Белоглазов), Russian freestyle wrestler born 1956 in Kaliningrad; twin of Anatoly. Two Olympic bantamweight golds (1980, 1988), six world titles, Hall of Fame 2004, later coach for Japan, Russia, USA, Kazakhstan, Singapore.