Student’s Day in Russia is celebrated at the end of the winter exams on January 25. Today we take a look back at famous Russians when they were just ordinary university students and instructors.
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Famous Russian writer Leo Tolstoy, author of Anna Karenina and War and Peace, as a law student.
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Vladimir Lenin, the future communist revolution leader, photographed here as a student of the faculty of law at St Petersburg State University.
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Anton Chekhov, author of The Cherry Orchard and Three Sisters, poses for the camera as a student of medicine.
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Yuri Gagarin, the first human being in space, at a meeting with students at the Peoples’ Friendship University of Russia.
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Yuri Andropov, leader of the USSR 1982-1984, as a student of Rechnoe College.
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The legendary Sergei Eistenstein, silent movie pioneer and Battleship Potemkin director, lecturing to students at the Gerasimov Institute of Cinematography.
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Russian/US poet, essayist, translator and Nobel Prize laureate Josef Brodsky worked as a professor at 6 different US universities. Pictured: the poet teaching at the University of Michigan.
