Trending Scientists in Russia this year
The 99 most-viewed scientists this year on Wikipedia (Russia). Ranked by real-world attention. Top: Zoya Boguslavskaya.
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275,825
Total Views (this year)
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Zoya Boguslavskaya
Russian literary critic
13,285
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Michael Jackson
American singer, songwriter, record producer, and dancer (1958–2009)
8,091
views
views
3
Andréi Chikatilo
Soviet serial killer (1936–1994)
7,951
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views
4
Jeffrey Epstein
American financier and sex offender (1953–2019)
7,658
views
views
5
Tatyana Tolstaya
Russian writer
7,328
views
views
6
Joseph Stalin
leader of the Soviet Union from 1924 to 1953
6,932
views
views
7
Vladimir Lenin
founding leader of the Soviet Union (1870–1924)
5,277
views
views
8
Alexander Pushkin
Russian poet, playwright, and novelist (1799–1837)
4,796
views
views
9
Vladimir Solovyov
Russian television presenter
4,796
views
views
10
Yuri Gagarin
Soviet pilot and cosmonaut, first human in space (1934–1968)
4,491
views
views
11
Nikolay Gumilev
Russian poet (1886-1921)
4,369
views
views
12
Avicenna
Persian polymath, physician and philosopher (c. 980–1037)
4,212
views
views
13
Alla Pugacheva
Soviet-Russian singer, composer, and actress
4,101
views
views
14
Jesus Christ
central figure of Christianity (6 or 4 BC – AD 30 or 33) (5-33)
4,038
views
views
15
Mikhail Gorbachev
leader of the Soviet Union from 1985 to 1991 (1931–2022)
3,946
views
views
16
Andrei Tarkovsky
Soviet and Russian film director, screenwriter, film editor, film theorist, theatre and opera director (1932–1986)
3,887
views
views
17
Josef Mengele
Nazi SS doctor and Military Officer at Auschwitz (1911–1979)
3,824
views
views
18
Valentina Tereshkova
Russian cosmonaut and pilot, first woman to have flown in space (born 1937)
3,697
views
views
19
Leonid Brezhnev
General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (1906–1982)
3,427
views
views
20
Elena Vorobey
Soviet and Russian stand-up comedian
3,382
views
views
21
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Russian novelist (1821–1881)
3,357
views
views
22
Mikhail Bulgakov
Russian author (1891–1940)
3,118
views
views
23
Sergei Shoigu
Secretary of the Security Council of the Russian Federation since 2024 and former Russian defense minister
3,083
views
views
24
Yury Grigorovich
Russian dancer and choreographer
3,078
views
views
25
Ole Nydahl
Danish lama
3,062
views
views
26
Leo Tolstoy
Russian author (1828–1910)
3,016
views
views
27
Alexander Lukashenko
President of the Republic of Belarus
2,848
views
views
28
Yulia Peresild
Russian actress of Estonian origin (born 1984)
2,839
views
views
29
Nikita Mikhalkov
Russian film director, writer, producer and actor (born 1945)
2,764
views
views
30
Leon Trotsky
Russian Marxist revolutionary (1879–1940)
2,722
views
views
31
Arnold Schwarzenegger
Austrian and American actor, bodybuilder, and politician (born 1947)
2,705
views
views
32
Andrei Belousov
Minister of Defense of the Russian Federation
2,650
views
views
33
Anna Akhmatova
Russian poet (1889–1966)
2,647
views
views
34
Hans Christian Andersen
Danish writer and poet (1805–1875)
2,583
views
views
35
Galina Volchek
Soviet and Russian theater and film director, actress and teacher (1933–2019)
2,557
views
views
36
Diana, Princess of Wales
member of the British royal family and Princess of Wales (1961–1997)
2,522
views
views
37
Albert Einstein
german-born theoretical physicist (1879–1955)
2,508
views
views
38
Charlie Chaplin
English comic actor and filmmaker (1889–1977)
2,484
views
views
39
Marilyn Monroe
American actress and model (1926–1962)
2,417
views
views
40
Mikhail Mishustin
Russian politician, Prime Minister of Russian Federation
2,415
views
views
41
Alexander Suvorov
Russian marshal (1730–1800)
2,414
views
views
42
Denis Manturov
Russian politician
2,385
views
views
43
Pavel Durov
technology entrepreneur (born 1984)
2,348
views
views
44
Dolph Lundgren
Swedish actor and martial artist
2,324
views
views
45
Paul Walker
American actor (1973–2013)
2,283
views
views
46
Andrey Lebedev
2,270
views
views
47
Sergei Korolev
Soviet rocket engineer and spacecraft designer (1907-1966)
2,266
views
views
48
Julius Caesar
Roman general and dictator
2,243
views
views
49
Ilya Novikov
Lawyer
2,206
views
views
50
Gregory Potyomkin
Russian military leader and politician (1739–1791)
2,183
views
views
51
Andrej Karpathy
Slovakian-Canadian AI researcher (born 1986)
2,115
views
views
52
Marina Litvinovich
Russian opposition activist and politician
2,101
views
views
53
Pavel Gubarev
Ukrainian separatist leader (born 1983)
2,063
views
views
54
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Russian composer (1840–1893)
2,059
views
views
55
Konstantin Tsiolkovsky
Russian and Soviet rocket scientist and pioneer of the astronautic theory (1857-1935)
2,041
views
views
56
Boris Nemtsov
Russian scientist, statesman and liberal politician (1959–2015)
2,041
views
views
57
Boris Berezovsky
Russian oligarch, government official, engineer and mathematician (1946-2013)
2,009
views
views
58
Joseph Goebbels
Nazi politician and Propaganda Minister (1897–1945)
2,007
views
views
59
Oleg Tabakov
Soviet and Russian actor and theatre director (1935–2018)
1,990
views
views
60
Lev Gumilev
Soviet academic (1912-1992)
1,939
views
views
61
Benjamin Netanyahu
Prime Minister of Israel (born 1949), (1996–1999; 2009–2021; 2022–present)
1,931
views
views
62
Winston Churchill
British statesman, soldier and writer (1874–1965)
1,926
views
views
63
Efim Shifrin
Russian actor
1,926
views
views
64
Jennifer Lopez
American singer and actress (born 1969)
1,926
views
views
65
Joseph Brodsky
Russian-American poet (1940-1996)
1,922
views
views
66
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Russian writer, publicist, poet and politician (1918–2008)
1,921
views
views
67
Igor Girkin
Russian citizen from Moscow who played a significant role in the War in Donbass
1,893
views
views
68
Roman Trakhtenberg
Russian actor (1968–2009)
1,879
views
views
69
Mike Tyson
American boxer and media personality (born 1966)
1,877
views
views
70
Nikolai Gogol
Russian writer of Ukrainian origin (1809–1852)
1,876
views
views
71
Yevgeny Tkachuk
Russian actor, film director and screenwriter
1,856
views
views
72
Robert Oppenheimer
American theoretical physicist, known as "father of the atomic bomb" (1904–1967)
1,818
views
views
73
Vladimir Basov
Soviet actor, film director, and screenwriter (1923–1987)
1,814
views
views
74
Benito Mussolini
dictator of Italy from 1922 to 1945
1,795
views
views
75
Andrey Malakhov
Russian television presenter
1,795
views
views
76
Jensen Huang
American entrepreneur and businessman; founder and CEO of Nvidia
1,776
views
views
77
Yuri Shevchuk
Russian singer
1,740
views
views
78
Mikhail Lomonosov
Russian polymath (1711-1765)
1,738
views
views
79
Mao Zedong
1st chairman of the Chinese Communist Party and founder of the People's Republic of China (1893–1976)
1,730
views
views
80
Svetlana Alliluyeva
Joseph Stalin's daughter (1926–2011)
1,711
views
views
81
Yevgeniy Yevstigneyev
Soviet actor (1926–1992)
1,708
views
views
82
Oleg Deripaska
Russian businessman
1,705
views
views
83
Stepan Kubiv
Ukrainian central banker
1,699
views
views
84
Steve Jobs
American entrepreneur; co-founder of Apple Inc. (1955–2011)
1,693
views
views
85
Maxim Gorky
Russian and Soviet writer (1868–1936)
1,691
views
views
86
Alexander Gordon
Russian journalist
1,689
views
views
87
John Lennon
British musician (1940–1980)
1,630
views
views
88
Marcus Aurelius
16th Roman Emperor from 161 to 180 and Stoic philosopher
1,621
views
views
89
Stephen Hawking
British theoretical physicist, cosmologist and author (1942–2018)
1,606
views
views
90
Sergey Brin
American billionaire businessman (born 1973)
1,601
views
views
91
Leo XIV
267th Pope of the Catholic Church (2025–)
1,601
views
views
92
Mary Magdalene
follower of Jesus (-100)
1,599
views
views
93
Oljas Süleimenov
Kazakh writer, poet, diplomat
1,597
views
views
94
Vladimir Nabokov
Russian-American novelist, lepidopterist, professor (1899–1977)
1,575
views
views
95
Alan Turing
English computer scientist (1912–1954)
1,575
views
views
96
Maria Vorontsova
daughter and eldest child of Vladimir Putin
1,564
views
views
97
Nikolay Tsiskaridze
Russian ballet dancer
1,563
views
views
98
Stephen King
American novelist and writer (born 1947)
1,555
views
views
99
Vladimir Medinsky
Russian politician
1,553
views
views