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<html> <head> <title>Moscow, Russia</title> <meta name="googlebot" content="noodp"> <meta name="robots" content="noodp"> <link rel="apple-touch-icon-precomposed" href="/silly-nndb-icon.png" /><style type="text/css">  </style><script type="text/javascript" src="/sortable.js"></script> <link rel="stylesheet" href="/style.css" /> </head> <body bgcolor=#ffffff> <center> <table cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0 border=0><tr><td valign=top><table width=550 cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0> <tr><td bgcolor=white><table width="100%" cellpadding="4" cellspacing="0" background="/nndb.gif"> <tr> <td rowspan="2" align="left" valign="top"><a href="http://www.nndb.com/"><img src="/title.gif" width="260" height="50" border=0 alt="NNDB"></a></td> <td><table width="100%" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="6"> <tr align="center"> <td width="25%" nowrap>This is a beta version of NNDB</td> </tr> </table></td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right" valign="middle"> <form action="http://search.nndb.com/search/nndb.cgi" method="get"> <input type="hidden" name="nndb" value="1"></input> Search: <select name="omenu"> <option value="unspecified" selected>All Names</option> <option value="living">Living people</option> <option value="dead">Dead people</option> <option value="bands">Band Names</option> <option value="books">Book Titles</option> <option value="movies">Movie Titles</option> <option value="fulltext">Full Text</option> </select> for <input name="query" value="" size=24 maxlength=96> <input type=submit value="Search"> </form></td> </tr> </table>        </td></tr> <tr><td bgcolor=red height=2></td></tr> <map name=fool><area coords="102,0,240,14" href="/geo/871/000069664/bibliography/" alt="bibliography"></map><tr bgcolor=F0F0F0><td bgcolor=F0F0F0 style="padding: 0px 15px 15px 15px;"><img src="/red-profile-2.gif" align="right" height=15 width=240 border=0 usemap=#fool> <table cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0 width=100%><tr><td bgcolor=F0F0F0> Moscow, Russia LOCATION Population: 11,273,400 (2004) SCHOOLS <table border=1 class="bordered"> <tr><th>School</th><th>Founded</th></tr> <tr><td><a href="/edu/084/000112745/">International Lenin School</a></td><td><center>1926</center></td></tr><tr><td><a href="/edu/834/000111501/">Moscow State University</a></td><td><center>1755</center></td></tr></table> ORCHESTRA <table border=1 class="bordered"> <tr><th>Orchestra</th><th>Founded</th></tr> <tr><td><a href="/org/115/000196524/">Tchaikovsky Symphony Orchestra of Moscow Radio</a></td><td><center>1930</center></td></tr></table> VENUE <table border=1 class="bordered"> <tr><th>Venue</th><th>Founded</th></tr> <tr><td><a href="/org/116/000196525/">Bolshoi Theatre</a></td><td><center>1776</center></td></tr></table> COMPANY HEADQUARTERS <table border=1 class="bordered"> <tr><th>Company</th><th>Founded</th></tr> <tr><td><a href="/company/173/000112834/">Gazprom</a></td><td><center>1989</center></td></tr></table> BIRTHS <table border=1 class="sortable bordered" id="sort_births"> <tr><th>Name</th><th>Occupation</th><th>Birth</th><th>Death</th><th>Known for</th></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/021/000027937/">Alexei A. Abrikosov</a></td> <td><center>Physicist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>25-Jun-1928</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>Particle physicist, explored superconductivity</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/233/000092954/">Tsar Alexander II</a></td> <td><center>Royalty</center></td> <td align=right><tt>17-Apr-1818</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>13-Mar-1881</tt></td> <td>Tsar of Russia, 1855-81</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/242/000111906/">Tsar Alexis</a></td> <td><center>Royalty</center></td> <td align=right><tt>19-Mar-1629</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>8-Feb-1676</tt></td> <td>Tsar of Russia, 1645-76</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/627/000097336/">Anna</a></td> <td><center>Royalty</center></td> <td align=right><tt>28-Jan-1693</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>17-Oct-1740</tt></td> <td>Tsarina of Russia, 1730-40</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/111/000118754/">Olga Baclanova</a></td> <td><center>Actor</center></td> <td align=right><tt>19-Aug-1896</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>6-Sep-1974</tt></td> <td>The Docks of New York</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/768/000114426/">Andrei Bely</a></td> <td><center>Author</center></td> <td align=right><tt>26-Oct-1880</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>8-Jan-1934</tt></td> <td>Petersburg</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/210/000162721/">Boris Berezovsky</a></td> <td><center>Business</center></td> <td align=right><tt>23-Jan-1946</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>23-Mar-2013</tt></td> <td>Russian oligarch, Putin critic</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/554/000161071/">Max Boot</a></td> <td><center>Columnist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>1969</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>Conservative pundit</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/826/000044694/">Sergey Brin</a></td> <td><center>Business</center></td> <td align=right><tt>21-Aug-1973</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>Co-Founder of Google</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/106/000159626/">Nikolai Bukharin</a></td> <td><center>Economist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>9-Oct-1888</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>15-Mar-1938</tt></td> <td>Soviet theoretical economist</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/844/000024772/">Fyodor Dostoevsky</a></td> <td><center>Novelist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>30-Oct-1821</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>28-Jan-1881</tt></td> <td>Crime and Punishment</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/668/000206050/">André Eglevsky</a></td> <td><center>Dancer</center></td> <td align=right><tt>21-Dec-1917</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>4-Dec-1977</tt></td> <td>Preeminent ballet dancer</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/174/000196583/">Valery Gergiev</a></td> <td><center>Conductor</center></td> <td align=right><tt>2-May-1953</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>Principal Conductor, LSO</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/448/000281602/">Masha Gessen</a></td> <td><center>Author</center></td> <td align=right><tt>13-Jan-1967</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>The Man Without a Face</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/022/000027938/">Vitaly L. Ginzburg</a></td> <td><center>Physicist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>4-Oct-1916</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>8-Nov-2009</tt></td> <td>Type-II superconductors</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/192/000163700/">Leonid Hurwicz</a></td> <td><center>Economist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>21-Aug-1917</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>24-Jun-2008</tt></td> <td>Mechanism design theory</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/775/000097484/">Tsar Ivan III</a></td> <td><center>Royalty</center></td> <td align=right><tt>22-Jan-1440</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>27-Oct-1505</tt></td> <td>Tsar of Russia, 1462-1505</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/334/000028250/">Igor Ivanov</a></td> <td><center>Government</center></td> <td align=right><tt>23-Sep-1945</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>Russia Minister of Foreign Affairs</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/525/000097234/">Wilhelm Junker</a></td> <td><center>Explorer</center></td> <td align=right><tt>6-Apr-1840</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>13-Feb-1892</tt></td> <td>Reisen in Afrika</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/842/000082596/">Wassily Kandinsky</a></td> <td><center>Artist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>16-Dec-1866</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>13-Dec-1944</tt></td> <td>Abstractionist and theorist</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/772/000402563/">Andrey Karlov</a></td> <td><center>Diplomat</center></td> <td align=right><tt>4-Feb-1954</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>19-Dec-2016</tt></td> <td>Russian Ambassador to Turkey, assassinated</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/418/000100118/">Paul Karrer</a></td> <td><center>Chemist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>21-Apr-1889</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>18-Jun-1971</tt></td> <td>Synthesized vitamins A, B2, E, and K</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/800/000028716/">Lena Katina</a></td> <td><center>Musician</center></td> <td align=right><tt>4-Oct-1984</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>t.A.T.u.'s redheaded femme</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/650/000132254/">Noor Inayat Khan</a></td> <td><center>Spy</center></td> <td align=right><tt>1-Jan-1914</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>13-Sep-1944</tt></td> <td>British spy, children's author, captured by Nazis</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/633/000025558/">Mikhail Khodorkovsky</a></td> <td><center>Business</center></td> <td align=right><tt>26-Jun-1963</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>Founder of Yukos, now jailed</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/971/000401765/">Alexandre Kojève</a></td> <td><center>Philosopher</center></td> <td align=right><tt>28-Apr-1902</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>4-Jun-1968</tt></td> <td>Hegelian philosopher, Europeanist</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/060/000086799/">Vladimir Komarov</a></td> <td><center>Astronaut</center></td> <td align=right><tt>16-Mar-1927</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>24-Apr-1967</tt></td> <td>Pilot of Soyuz 1 plunged to his death</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/600/000135195/">Theodore Kosloff</a></td> <td><center>Dancer</center></td> <td align=right><tt>22-Jan-1882</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>22-Nov-1956</tt></td> <td>Why Change Your Wife?</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/217/000023148/">Anna Kournikova</a></td> <td><center>Tennis</center></td> <td align=right><tt>7-Jun-1981</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>Attractive tennis player, 2 Grand Slam titles</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/839/000024767/">Peter Kropotkin</a></td> <td><center>Anarchist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>21-Dec-1842</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>8-Feb-1921</tt></td> <td>Libertarian anarchist revolutionary</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/492/000179952/">Alexander Lebedev</a></td> <td><center>Business</center></td> <td align=right><tt>16-Dec-1959</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>Russian oligarch, ex-KGB</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/168/000205550/">Eugenie Leontovich</a></td> <td><center>Actor</center></td> <td align=right><tt>21-Mar-1900</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>3-Apr-1993</tt></td> <td>Russian-American stage actress</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/857/000024785/">Mikhail Lermontov</a></td> <td><center>Poet</center></td> <td align=right><tt>15-Oct-1814</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>27-Jul-1841</tt></td> <td>A Hero of Our Time</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/713/000352654/">Nastia Liukin</a></td> <td><center>Gymnastics</center></td> <td align=right><tt>30-Oct-1989</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>Five medals in 2008 Beijing Olympics</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/566/000261780/">Yuri Luzhkov</a></td> <td><center>Politician</center></td> <td align=right><tt>21-Sep-1936</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>Mayor of Moscow, 1992-2010</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/133/000355065/">Nikita Mikhalkov</a></td> <td><center>Film Director</center></td> <td align=right><tt>21-Oct-1945</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>Burnt by the Sun</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/550/000206929/">Sergei V. Mikhalkov</a></td> <td><center>Songwriter</center></td> <td align=right><tt>13-Mar-1913</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>27-Aug-2009</tt></td> <td>Lyricist, Russian National Anthem</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/711/000113372/">Peter D. Ouspensky</a></td> <td><center>Philosopher</center></td> <td align=right><tt>5-Mar-1878</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>2-Oct-1947</tt></td> <td>Esoteric philosopher, Tertium Organum</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/194/000173672/">Alexander Ovechkin</a></td> <td><center>Hockey</center></td> <td align=right><tt>17-Sep-1985</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>Washington Capitals</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/791/000029704/">Boris Pasternak</a></td> <td><center>Author</center></td> <td align=right><tt>10-Feb-1890</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>30-May-1960</tt></td> <td>Doctor Zhivago</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/599/000078365/">Peter the Great</a></td> <td><center>Royalty</center></td> <td align=right><tt>9-Jun-1672</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>8-Feb-1725</tt></td> <td>Tsar of Russia, 1689-1725</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/550/000060370/">Nadia Petrova</a></td> <td><center>Tennis</center></td> <td align=right><tt>8-Jun-1982</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>Hard-hitting Russian seed</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/664/000395476/">Maya Plisetskaya</a></td> <td><center>Dancer</center></td> <td align=right><tt>20-Nov-1925</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>2-May-2015</tt></td> <td>Iconic star of the Bolshoi Ballet</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/604/000100304/">Ilya Prigogine</a></td> <td><center>Chemist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>25-Jan-1917</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>28-May-2003</tt></td> <td>Theory of dissipative structures</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/858/000024786/">Aleksandr Pushkin</a></td> <td><center>Poet</center></td> <td align=right><tt>26-May-1799</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>10-Feb-1837</tt></td> <td>Russia's greatest poet</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/117/000196526/">Gennady Rozhdestvensky</a></td> <td><center>Conductor</center></td> <td align=right><tt>4-May-1931</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>Bolshoi, Vienna Symphony, Stockholm</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/892/000161409/">Olesya Rulin</a></td> <td><center>Actor</center></td> <td align=right><tt>17-Mar-1986</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>High School Musical</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/641/000044509/">Marat Safin</a></td> <td><center>Tennis</center></td> <td align=right><tt>27-Jan-1980</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>Winner of 2 Grand Slam titles</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/261/000206640/">Dinara Safina</a></td> <td><center>Tennis</center></td> <td align=right><tt>27-Apr-1986</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>Champion, 2008 US Open Series</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/823/000079586/">Andrei Sakharov</a></td> <td><center>Physicist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>21-May-1921</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>14-Dec-1989</tt></td> <td>Developed the Soviet hydrogen bomb</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/304/000093025/">Aleksandr Scriabin</a></td> <td><center>Composer</center></td> <td align=right><tt>25-Dec-1871</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>14-Apr-1915</tt></td> <td>Prometheus: The Poem of Fire</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/633/000132237/">Dimitri K. Simes</a></td> <td><center>Government</center></td> <td align=right><tt>?</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>Nixon Center</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/089/000278252/">Vladimir Sokoloff</a></td> <td><center>Actor</center></td> <td align=right><tt>26-Dec-1889</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>15-Feb-1962</tt></td> <td>For Whom the Bell Tolls</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/559/000027478/">Vladimir Sorokin</a></td> <td><center>Author</center></td> <td align=right><tt>7-Aug-1955</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>Wrote Goluboe Salo (Blue Lard)</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/481/000160998/">Regina Spektor</a></td> <td><center>Singer/Songwriter</center></td> <td align=right><tt>18-Feb-1980</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>Anti-folk singer</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/290/000205672/">Konstantin Stanislavsky</a></td> <td><center>Actor</center></td> <td align=right><tt>5-Jan-1863</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>7-Aug-1938</tt></td> <td>Inventor of "method" acting</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/324/000098030/">Alexander Suvorov</a></td> <td><center>Military</center></td> <td align=right><tt>24-Nov-1729</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>18-May-1800</tt></td> <td>Russian general, fought Turks, French</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/162/000196571/">Yevgeny Svetlanov</a></td> <td><center>Conductor</center></td> <td align=right><tt>6-Sep-1928</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>3-May-2002</tt></td> <td>Director, USSR State Symphony, 1965-2002</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/905/000255140/">Andrey Ternovskiy</a></td> <td><center>Computer Programmer</center></td> <td align=right><tt>c. 1992</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>Chatroulette</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/782/000097491/">Tsar Ivan V</a></td> <td><center>Royalty</center></td> <td align=right><tt>27-Aug-1666</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>29-Jan-1696</tt></td> <td>Nominal Tsar of Russia, 1682-96</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/799/000028715/">Julia Volkova</a></td> <td><center>Musician</center></td> <td align=right><tt>20-Feb-1985</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>t.A.T.u.'s butchy brunette</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/936/000065741/">Lev Yashin</a></td> <td><center>Soccer</center></td> <td align=right><tt>22-Oct-1929</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>20-Mar-1990</tt></td> <td>Soviet soccer star</td> </tr> </table> DEATHS <table border=1 class="sortable bordered" id="sort_deaths"> <tr><th>Name</th><th>Occupation</th><th>Birth</th><th>Death</th><th>Known for</th></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/242/000111906/">Tsar Alexis</a></td> <td><center>Royalty</center></td> <td align=right><tt>19-Mar-1629</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>8-Feb-1676</tt></td> <td>Tsar of Russia, 1645-76</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/312/000024240/">Yuri Andropov</a></td> <td><center>Head of State</center></td> <td align=right><tt>14-Jun-1914</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>9-Feb-1984</tt></td> <td>Soviet General Secretary, 1982-84</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/850/000099553/">Nikolay G. Basov</a></td> <td><center>Physicist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>14-Dec-1922</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>1-Jul-2001</tt></td> <td>Invention of the maser and laser</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/167/000207543/">Warren A. Bechtel</a></td> <td><center>Business</center></td> <td align=right><tt>12-Sep-1872</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>28-Aug-1933</tt></td> <td>Founder of Bechtel Corporation</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/768/000114426/">Andrei Bely</a></td> <td><center>Author</center></td> <td align=right><tt>26-Oct-1880</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>8-Jan-1934</tt></td> <td>Petersburg</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/722/000160242/">Lavrenty Beria</a></td> <td><center>Government</center></td> <td align=right><tt>29-Mar-1899</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>23-Dec-1953</tt></td> <td>Chief of the NKVD, 1940-46</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/395/000045260/">Aleksander Bovin</a></td> <td><center>Diplomat</center></td> <td align=right><tt>9-Aug-1930</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>29-Apr-2004</tt></td> <td>Russian Ambassador to Israel, 1991-7</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/214/000047073/">Leonid Brezhnev</a></td> <td><center>Head of State</center></td> <td align=right><tt>19-Dec-1906</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>10-Nov-1982</tt></td> <td>Leader of the Soviet Union, 1964-82</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/106/000159626/">Nikolai Bukharin</a></td> <td><center>Economist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>9-Oct-1888</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>15-Mar-1938</tt></td> <td>Soviet theoretical economist</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/504/000028420/">Mikhail Bulgakov</a></td> <td><center>Author</center></td> <td align=right><tt>3-May-1891</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>10-Mar-1940</tt></td> <td>The Master and Margarita</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/844/000099547/">Pavel A. 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Frank</a></td> <td><center>Physicist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>23-Oct-1908</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>22-Jun-1990</tt></td> <td>Cherenkov radiation</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/666/000026588/">Yuri Gagarin</a></td> <td><center>Astronaut</center></td> <td align=right><tt>9-Mar-1934</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>27-Mar-1968</tt></td> <td>First person to orbit earth</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/022/000027938/">Vitaly L. 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align=right><tt>2-Jul-1989</tt></td> <td>Cold War Foreign Minister of the USSR</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/585/000160105/">Big Bill Haywood</a></td> <td><center>Labor Leader</center></td> <td align=right><tt>4-Feb-1869</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>18-May-1928</tt></td> <td>Industrial Workers of the World</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/775/000097484/">Tsar Ivan III</a></td> <td><center>Royalty</center></td> <td align=right><tt>22-Jan-1440</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>27-Oct-1505</tt></td> <td>Tsar of Russia, 1462-1505</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/933/000092657/">Ivan the Terrible</a></td> <td><center>Royalty</center></td> <td align=right><tt>25-Aug-1530</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>18-Mar-1584</tt></td> <td>Russian Tsar, 1533-84</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/713/000160233/">Leonid Vitalyevich Kantorovich</a></td> <td><center>Mathematician</center></td> <td align=right><tt>19-Jan-1912</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>7-Apr-1986</tt></td> <td>Linear 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align=right><tt>22-Jan-1908</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>1-Apr-1968</tt></td> <td>Superfluidity of helium</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/291/000094009/">Jakob Michael Reinhold Lenz</a></td> <td><center>Poet</center></td> <td align=right><tt>12-Jan-1751</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>24-May-1792</tt></td> <td>Sturm und Drang movement</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/181/000159701/">Maxim Litvinov</a></td> <td><center>Government</center></td> <td align=right><tt>17-Jul-1876</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>31-Dec-1951</tt></td> <td>Soviet foreign minister, ousted in nod to Hitler</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/689/000113350/">Alexander Luria</a></td> <td><center>Psychologist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>16-Jul-1902</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>14-Aug-1977</tt></td> <td>Pioneer of neuropsychology</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/571/000165076/">Donald Maclean</a></td> <td><center>Spy</center></td> <td align=right><tt>25-May-1913</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>6-Mar-1983</tt></td> <td>Spy for Moscow, Cambridge Five</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/594/000107273/">Tsar Michael</a></td> <td><center>Royalty</center></td> <td align=right><tt>22-Jul-1596</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>12-Jul-1645</tt></td> <td>Tsar of Russia, 1613-45</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/550/000206929/">Sergei V. 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