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Russia is home to a deep and distinguished intellectual tradition. Explore 26 Russian geniuses below, ranked by impact, IQ, and contribution to human knowledge.
Russia has played a central role in the Western intellectual tradition, producing thinkers, scientists, and artists who defined entire fields of human inquiry.
From the classical and medieval scholars to the scientific revolution and the modern era, Russia's geniuses have shaped philosophy, physics, mathematics, literature, and art.
Russian thinkers have influenced fields as diverse as mathematics, philosophy, literature, and the sciences — with intellectual traditions spanning multiple centuries.
| # | Name | IQ | Born | Field |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nadia Camukova | 200 | 1976 | 🇷🇺 Russian |
| 2 | Vitalik Buterin | 200 | 1994 | 🇷🇺 Russian |
| 3 | Fyodor Dostoevsky | 180 | 1821 | 🇷🇺 Russian |
| 4 | Ivan Pavlov | 180 | 1849 | 🇷🇺 Russian |
| 5 | Leo Tolstoy | 180 | 1828 | 🇷🇺 Russian |
| 6 | Dmitri Mendeleev | 175 | 1834 | 🇷🇺 Russian |
| 7 | Pitirim Sorokin | 175 | 1889 | 🇷🇺 Russian |
| 8 | Ilya Prigogine | 170 | 1917 | 🇷🇺 Russian |
| 9 | Igor Stravinsky | 165 | 1882 | 🇷🇺 Russian |
| 10 | Ayn Rand | 160 | 1905 | 🇷🇺 Russian |
| 11 | Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky | 160 | 1840 | 🇷🇺 Russian |
| 12 | Sergei Rachmaninoff | 160 | 1873 | 🇷🇺 Russian |
| 13 | Sofya Kovalevskaya | 156 | 1850 | 🇷🇺 Russian |
| 14 | Alexander Pushkin | — | 1799 | 🇷🇺 Russian |
| 15 | Anish Kumar Giri | — | 1994 | 🇷🇺 Russian |
| 16 | Anton Chekhov | — | 1860 | 🇷🇺 Russian |
| 17 | Daniil Dubov | — | 1996 | 🇷🇺 Russian |
| 18 | Evgeny Kissin | — | 1971 | 🇷🇺 Russian |
| 19 | Grigori Perelman | — | 1966 | 🇷🇺 Russian |
| 20 | Ivan Turgenev | — | 1818 | 🇷🇺 Russian |
| 21 | Jascha Heifetz | — | 1901 | 🇷🇺 Russian |
| 22 | Pyotr Kapitsa | — | 1894 | 🇷🇺 Russian |
| 23 | Sergei Winogradsky | — | 1856 | 🇷🇺 Russian |
| 24 | Sergey Karjakin | — | 1990 | 🇷🇺 Russian |
| 25 | Wassily Kandinsky | — | 1866 | 🇷🇺 Russian |
| 26 | Maya Plisetskaya | — | 1925 | 🇷🇺 Russian |
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