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Dmitry Raikov

Dmitry Raikov, full name Dmitry Abramovich Raikov (Дмитрий Абрамович Райков, 1905–1980), was a Soviet mathematician known for his decomposition theorem for the Poisson distribution and work in functional analysis.

Dmitry Rybolovlev (Дмитрий Евгеньевич Рыболовлев)

Dmitry Rybolovlev (Дмитрий Евгеньевич Рыболовлев) is a Russian-born billionaire investor who built Uralkali, sold his stake for billions, and became majority owner of the football club AS Monaco.

Dmitry Rylov

Dmitry Rylov (Дмитрий Вадимович Рылов), born 2001 in Kirov, is a Russian pair skater; with Apollinariia Panfilova he won the 2020 World Junior title and 2020 Winter Youth Olympics pairs gold, and trains in Perm. Not the swimmer Yevgeny Rylov.

Dmitry Sakunenko

Dmitry Sakunenko (Дмитрий Николаевич Сакуненко, 1930–2014), Soviet speed skater; first under 8 minutes for 5,000 m (7:54.9, Medeo 1955), all-around world record 184.638, 1956 Olympian, 1955 European bronze medalist.

Dmitry Sautin

Dmitry Sautin is a Russian diver, born in 1974 in Voronezh, who won eight Olympic medals across five Games from 1992 to 2008, the most of any male diver.

Dmitry Senyavin

Dmitry Nikolaevich Senyavin (1763 to 1831) was a Russian admiral who defeated the Turkish fleet at the battles of the Dardanelles and Athos in 1807, and later commanded the Baltic Fleet.

Dmitry Shemyaka

Dmitry Shemyaka (Дмитрий Юрьевич Шемяка) was a Moscow Rurikovich prince of Galich and Uglich who seized Moscow and blinded Vasily II in 1446, was defeated in 1450, and was poisoned in Novgorod in 1453.

Dmitry Shevchenko

Dmitry Shevchenko names several Russian athletes: foil fencer Dmitry Stepanovich Shevchenko (born 1967, 1996 Olympic team gold, 2000 bronze) and discus thrower Dmitry Igorevich Shevchenko (born 1968, 1993 world silver, three Olympiads).

Dmitry Sidorov

Dmitry Ivanovich Sidorov (1962–2016) was a Russian documentary film director and professor at the Saint Petersburg State Institute of Film and Television, known for Clean Water (1993) and The Gazes. A Phenomenology (2003).

Dmitry Solovyov

Dmitry Solovyov (Дмитрий Владимирович Соловьёв), born 1989 in Moscow, Russian ice dancer with Ekaterina Bobrova; 2014 Olympic team gold, 2018 team silver, 2013 European champion, 2013 World bronze. Not the swimmer or runner of the same name.

Dmitry Svatkovsky

Dmitry Svatkovsky (Дмитрий Валерьевич Сватковский), born 1971 in Moscow, Russian modern pentathlete; 2000 Sydney Olympic individual champion, 1992 team silver, two-time world champion, later Nizhny Novgorod official and European pentathlon president.

Dmitry Temiakov

Dmitry Temiakov is a structural biologist and professor of biochemistry and molecular biology at Thomas Jefferson University in Philadelphia, known for Cell papers on mitochondrial RNA polymerase, TFB2, and TEFM.

Dmitry the Pretender

Dmitry the Pretender (Димитрий Самозванец) is a five-act tragedy in verse by Alexander Sumarokov, first performed in 1771 and the first Russian play to bring recent national history to the stage, drawing on False Dmitry I.

Dmitry Tolstoy

Dmitry Tolstoy (Дмитрий Андреевич Толстой), 1823 to 1889, was a Russian statesman who held the Synod, education, and interior posts and directed the educational counter-reforms and reaction of the 1880s.

Dmitry Torgovanov

Dmitry Torgovanov (Дмитрий Николаевич Торгованов, born 1972, Leningrad) is a Russian handball pivot, Olympic champion 2000, world champion 1993 and 1997, later coach of Neva St. Petersburg and the Russian national team.

Dmitry Trubetskoy

Dmitry Trubetskoy, or Dmitry Timofeyevich Trubetskoy (Дмитрий Трубецкой), was a Russian prince and commander who co-led the volunteer army that liberated Moscow in 1612 and was a candidate for the throne in 1613.

Dmitry Trush

Dmitry Trush (Дмитрий Владимирович Труш), born 1973, Russian artistic gymnast with Dynamo Voronezh; 1996 Atlanta Olympic team gold medalist, 1994 world and European team silver medalist, later a coach in the USA.

Dmitry Ukolov

Dmitry Ukolov (Дмитрий Матвеевич Уколов, 1929–1992), Soviet ice hockey defenseman for Spartak and CSKA Moscow; 1956 Olympic champion, 1954 and 1956 world champion, seven-time Soviet champion, Hall of Fame 2004.

Dmitry Utkin (Дмитрий Валерьевич Уткин)

Dmitry Utkin (Дмитрий Валерьевич Уткин), call sign 'Wagner', was a retired GRU lieutenant colonel and field commander of the Wagner Group, which took its name from his nom de guerre; he died in the August 2023 plane crash with Prigozhin.

Dmitry V. Bulavin

Dmitry V. Bulavin is a Russian-born biologist known for work on p38 MAPK and the Wip1 phosphatase in cancer and aging, and director of IRCAN in Nice since 2024.

Dmitry Vasilenko

Dmitry Andreyevich Vasilenko (Дмитрий Андреевич Василенко), born 1975 in Cherkessk, Russian artistic gymnast, 1996 Atlanta Olympic team gold medalist; also 1994 Worlds team silver, 1997 bronze; died 2019 of ALS. Not the short-track skater or weightlifting official of the same name.

Dmitry Vasilyev

Dmitry Vasilyev (Дмитрий Викторович Васильев), Russian ski jumper born 1979 in Ufa; two-time Olympian (2006, 2014), 5th overall in the 2008/09 World Cup, Four Hills podium finisher; distinct from the 1962-born biathlete of the same name.

Dmitry Volkov

Dmitry Volkov (Дмитрий Аркадьевич Волков), Soviet breaststroke swimmer, 1966-2025; three Olympic medals (two bronze Seoul 1988, silver Barcelona 1992) and 1990 short course 100 m breaststroke world record 59.30.

Dmitry Voskoboynikov

Dmitry Voskoboynikov (Дмитрий Вячеславович Воскобойников), Soviet volleyball player, 1964 Tokyo Olympic gold medalist; world champion 1962, World Cup 1965; Burevestnik and CSKA Moskva player, distinct from fencer Pavel Voskoboynikov.

Dmitry Yazov (Дмитрий Тимофеевич Язов)

Dmitry Timofeyevich Yazov (Дмитрий Тимофеевич Язов), 1923–2020, last Marshal of the Soviet Union and last USSR defense minister (1987–1991), appointed after the Rust affair, advocate of the defensive doctrine, and GKChP August 1991 coup member.

Dmitry Yushkevich

Dmitry Yushkevich (Дмитрий Юшкевич), born 1971 in Cherepovets, Russian defenseman; 1992 Olympic gold (Unified Team), 1998 silver, 1993 world champion, 786 NHL games with Flyers and Maple Leafs; later KHL coach with CSKA and Lokomotiv.

DMM KARIYUSHI AQUARIUM

DMM Kariyushi Aquarium (DMMかりゆし水族館), entertainment aquarium opened May 2020 in Tomigusuku, Okinawa, inside iias Okinawa Toyosaki mall near Naha Airport; about 60 tanks, 190 species, digital projection exhibits, distinct from Churaumi Aquarium.

DMMETCOV19 trial

DMMETCOV19 (NCT04626089) was a withdrawn ClinicalTrials.gov trial of metformin glycinate by Laboratorios Silanes in hospitalized COVID-19 patients with metabolic syndrome or type 2 diabetes; its completed sister trial DMMETCOV19-2 (NCT04625985) reported faster viral clearance.

DMOZ

DMOZ, also known as the Open Directory Project, was a multilingual web directory built by volunteer editors, launched in 1998 and closed by AOL in March 2017 after 19 years.

DMPK

DMPK (DM1 protein kinase, dystrophia myotonica protein kinase) is a human gene at 19q13.32 encoding a serine-threonine kinase; CTG repeat expansion in its 3' UTR causes myotonic dystrophy type 1. Distinct from the physics DMPK equation.