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Vasyl KarazinUkrainian scholar, inventor,
public figureKharkiv University founder
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Nikolai Barabashovastronomer, academician, inventor,
Hero of Socialist Laborone of the authors and editor of the Atlas of the Other Side of the Moon, Kharkiv University President (1943-1945)
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Oles Honcharwriter, Hero of Ukraine,
academicianawarded World Intellectual of 1992-1993 by the International Biographical Centre, Cambridge, Great Britain
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Marin Drinovslavist historian, member of all Slavic
academies of his dayfather of Bulgarian historical science, Kharkiv University professor. On his proposal Sofia became the capital of Bulgaria.
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John of Shanghaiarchbishop of Shanghai
and San Franciscofounder of the Dutch Orthodox Church, canonized, alumnus of the School of Law, Kharkiv University.
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Nikolai Kostomarovhistorian, writer,
academicianfather of Ukrainian historical science, alumnus of the School of History and Philology, Kharkiv University
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Andrii Krasnovgeographer, traveller
one of the founders of modern geographical science, Kharkiv University professor
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Simon Kuznetseconomist, Nobel Prize
laureate,
academicianpioneer of economics establishment as an empirical scientific discipline, and developer of the quantitative economic theory. Student of the School of Law, Kharkiv University
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Lev Landautheoretical physicist, Nobel Prize
laureate,
academicianthe first to reveal the nature of diamagnetism in metals, one of the authors of the theory of superconductivity, Kharkiv University professor
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Ilya Mechnikovmicrobiologist, physiologist, embryologist,
Nobel
Prize laureate, academiciandiscoverer of the phagocytosis phenomenon, author of the theory of phagocytic immunity (Mechnikov theory), Kharkiv University student and later Doctor Honoris Causa
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Aleksandr Lyapunovmathematician, mechanician,
academicianauthor of the equilibrium and motion stability theory, Kharkiv University professor
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Mykola Lysenkocomposer
founder of Ukrainian classical music, student of the School of Natural Sciences of Kharkiv University
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Mikhail Ostrogradskymathematician, academician
the first Ukrainian scientist to become internationally recognized, Kharkiv University student
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Aleksei Pogorelovmathematician, academician, Lenin Prize laureate, State Prize laureate
the one to solve the Minkowski problem, and the Hilbert`s fourth problem, Kharkiv University student
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Alexander Potebnjalinguist, philologist,
ethnographer, folklore specialistfounder of the theory of grammar, Kharkiv University student. The Institute of Linguistics at the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine is named after him
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Henryk Siemiradzkipainter, member of all
the Academies of Art
of his dayauthor of the murals in the north wing of the Cathedral of Christ the Savior (Moscow) and the theater curtains Parnassus for Lviv Theatre of Opera, Kharkiv University student
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Vladimir Steklovmathematician, academician,
Vice-President of the USSR Academy of Sciencescontributor to the studies of orthogonal functional sets, author of the approximation technique later named Steklov function, Kharkiv University student
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Ludwig Struveastronomer, academician
President of the International Astronomical Union, author of the stellar evolution hypothesis, Kharkiv University professor
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Mykola Sumtsovphilologist, ethnographer,
literary critic, academicianone of the advocates of creation of the Ukrainian Academy of Sciences, author of more than 1,500 scientific works, the first Kharkiv University lecturer to give lectures in Ukrainian
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Mikhail Tugan-Baranovskyeconomist, historian,
state figureauthor of the theory of economic crises, one of the most remarkable representatives of the liberal movement in Ukraine, Kharkiv University student
