This survey took place between 22 and 25 January 2016 and was conducted throughout all of Russia in both urban and rural settings. The survey was carried out among 1600 people over the age of 18 in 137 localities of 48 of the country’s regions. The survey was conducted as a personal interview in respondents’ homes. The answer distribution is presented as percentages of the number of participants along with data from previous surveys. The statistical error of these studies does not exceed 3.4%.
WHICH RUSSIAN SCIENTISTS WHOM YOU CONSIDER TO BE PROMINENT CAN YOU NAME? (open question – respondents named scientists themselves; multiple answers)
| Mendeleev | 23 |
| Lomonosov | 18 |
| Korolev | 12 |
| Sakharov | 11 |
| Pavlov | 8 |
| Tsiolkovsky | 8 |
| Kurchatov | 6 |
| Kapitsa | 5 |
| Popov | 5 |
| Alferov | 5 |
| Pirogov | 3 |
| Vavilov | 3 |
| Tupolev | 2 |
| Landau | 2 |
| Kovalevskaya | 2 |
| Michurin | 2 |
| Kalashnikov | 2 |
| Sechenov | 2 |
| Fyodorov | 2 |
| Botkin | 1 |
| Mechnikov | 1 |
| Perelman | 1 |
| Lobachevsky | 1 |
| Sklifosovsky | 1 |
| Vernadsky | 1 |
| Timiryazev | 1 |
| Kulibin | 1 |
| Lavrentyev | 1 |
| Keldysh | 1 |
| Ukhtomsky | 1 |
| Roshal | 1 |
| Bekhterev, Vishnevsky, Fortov, Shmidt, Yablochkov, Vesserman, Bokeriya, Velikhov, Glushko, Ilizarov, Likhachev, Markov, Sikorsky, Filatov, Yangel, Zhukovsky | Each scientist received <1 |
| Other Soviet/modern scientists | 7 |
| Other | 2 |
| It is difficult to say/no answer/don’t remember | 37 |
WHICH RUSSIAN HISTORIANS CAN YOU NAME? (open question – respondents named historians themselves; multiple answers)
| Karamzin | 17 |
| Klyuchevsky | 6 |
| Solovyov | 6 |
| Gumilyov | 3 |
| Tatishchev | 3 |
| Lomonosov | 2 |
| Radzinsky | 2 |
| Kostomarov | 1 |
| Solzhenitsyn | 1 |
| Likhachov | 1 |
| Aksakov | 1 |
| Khrushchev | 1 |
| Radishchev | 1 |
| Sakharov | 1 |
| Pogodin | <1 |
| Gilyarovsky | <1 |
| Medvedev (Roy) | <1 |
| Suvorov | <1 |
| Belinsky | <1 |
| Vernadsky | <1 |
| Gushchin | <1 |
| Zabelin | <1 |
| Lenin | <1 |
| Rybakov | <1 |
| Pikul | <1 |
| Bakanov | <1 |
| Platonov | <1 |
| Uspensky | <1 |
| Other Soviet/modern historians | 4 |
| Other Russian historians | 4 |
| Other | 4 |
| It is difficult to say/no answer | 65 |
Translated by Middlebury Institute of International Studies at Monterey (formerly Monterey Institute of International Studies).