(1888–1942) – Russian logician and mathematician Volodymyr Kedrowsky (1890–1970) – Ukrainian military leader, diplomat, author, and activist Lev Kritzman (1890–1938) – expelled 1910, later a Soviet agrarian economist Nykolai Chebotaryov (1894–1947) – Ukrainian and Russian mathematician, best known for the Chebotaryov density theorem Gherman Pântea (1894–1968) – Bessarabian-born soldier who served as Military Director of the Moldavian Democratic Republic Kadish Luz (1895–1972) – Israeli politician who served as Minister of Agriculture between 1955 and 1959 and Speaker of the Knesset from 1959 and 1969 Joshua L. Goldberg (1896–1994) – Belarusian-born American rabbi, who was the first rabbi to be commissioned as a U.S. Navy chaplain in World War II (and only the third to serve in the Navy in its history), the first to reach the rank of Navy Captain (the equivalent of Army Colonel), and the first to retire after a full active-duty career Mordechai Namir (1897–1975) – Israeli minister George Gamow (1904–1968) – theoretical physicist and cosmologist – notably an early advocate and developer of Lemaître's Big Bang theory. Petro Karyshkovsky (1921–1968)– Ukrainian historian, numismatist, a scholar and lexicographer. Ali Mohamed Shein (born 1948) – 7th President of Zanzibar Alla Dzhioyeva (born 1949) – South Ossetian teacher turned politician, who served as the Education Minister in 2002–2008 Yevhen Streltsov (born 1949) – Ukrainian professor Emmanuil Galitskiy – original staff member and head physics professor at the Bergen County Academies, New Jersey Oksana Mas (born 1969) – Ukrainian artist Valeria Kuharenko (born 1927) – doctor of philological sciences, professor, head of the department of lexicology and stylistics of the English language (1975-1983). Olga Hritsenko (1935–2020) – teacher, scientist, social worker; Honored Teacher of Ukraine See also List of modern universities in Europe (1801–1945) References External links 1865 establishments in the Russian Empire Educational institutions established in 1865 National universities in Ukraine 1865 establishments in Ukraine