classics, Dirac'86 and Lorentz'94 Medals Emmanuel Rashba – Soviet-American theoretical physicist known for the Rashba effect and prediction of the Electric dipole spin resonance, Lenin Prize Boris Rauschenbach – rocket scientist in control engineering, responsible for the first photographs of the far side of the Moon (1959) Mikhail Shifman – non-perturbative QCD classics, Sakurai Prize (1999), Lilienfeld Prize (2006) Andrey A. Varlamov - an Italian physicist of Ukrainian origin, and the principal investigator at the Institute of Superconductors, Oxides and Other Innovative Materials and Devices (SPIN-CNR) in Rome Alexei Vasilievich Shubnikov - crystallographer and mathematician, who pioneered Russian crystallography and its application Rashid Sunyaev – an author of the Sunyaev-Zel'dovich effect and a model of black holes Karen Ter-Martirosian – a theoretical physicist greatly contributed to high-energy physics Edward Trifonov - Russian-Israeli molecular biophysicist Misha Tsodyks - theoretical and computational neuroscientist Sergey Vavilov – a physicist, who founded the Soviet school of physical optics, known by his works in luminescence. In 1934 he co-discovered the Vavilov-Cherenkov effect, a discovery for which Pavel Cherenkov was awarded a Nobel Prize in Physics in 1958. Victor Veselago – put forward a theory for metamaterials of the 21st century in 1967 Grigory Volovik - theoretical physicist, who specializes in condensed matter physics. He is known for the Volovik effect. Vladimir Zakharov - mathematician and physicist, who is known for his contributions in nonlinear wave theory in plasmas, hydrodynamics, oceanology, geophysics, solid state physics, optics, and general relativity. Alexander Zamolodchikov – quantum field theory classics Sergey Yablonsky - mathematician, one of the founders of the Soviet school of mathematical cybernetics and discrete mathematics. Cosmonauts Yuri Baturin – cosmonaut (1998 and 2001 missions), former head of national security Aleksandr Kaleri – cosmonaut, spent 609 days on the Mir and ISS space stations Aleksandr Serebrov – cosmonaut, 373 days in outer space (four flights) Political and business persons Alexander Abramov – founder of Evraz Group, #137 on the Forbes list Boris Aleshin – deputy prime minister in Russian government (2003–2004), president of AvtoVAZ (2007–2009), general director of TsAGI (2009–) Serguei Beloussov – businessman, entrepreneur, investor and speaker, founder of Acronis, executive chairman of the board and chief architect of Parallels, Inc. Aleksandr Frolov – CEO of Evraz Group, #390 on the Forbes list Valentin Gapontsev – fiber laser technology pioneer, founder of IPG Photonics Mikhail Kirpichnikov – Russian Science & Technology Minister (1998–2000), dean of Biology at