page_title: Saint Petersburg Lyceum 239
section_title: Famous alumni
hierarchical_section_title: Saint Petersburg Lyceum 239 / Famous alumni
caption_attribution_description: English: Photo of Annenshule gymnazum from 1912. Copied from history of school 239 http://www.sch239.spb.ru:8001/pages/history/history.pdf Wikiolap 17:24, 31 August 2006 (UTC)
context_page_description: Presidential Physics and Mathematics Lyceum No. 239, is a public high school in Saint Petersburg, Russia that specializes in mathematics and physics. The school opened in 1918 and it became a specialized city school in 1961. The school is noted for its strong academic programs. It is the alma mater of numerous winners of International Mathematical Olympiads and it has produced many notable alumni. The lyceum has been named the best school in Russia in 2015, 2016, and 2017.
context_section_description: Yelena Bonner (1940) – human rights activist (widow of Andrei Sakharov)
  Leonid Kharitonov – actor
  Alisa Freindlich (c. 1942 – 1953) – major Russian movie and theater actress
  Yuri Matiyasevich (1962–1963) – mathematician who solved Hilbert's tenth problem
  Andrei Tolubeyev (?–1963) – theatrical and cinema actor, People's Artist of Russia
  Natalia Kuchinskaya (1964–1966) – Olympic champion in gymnastics (Mexico City,1968), the first of a number of young gymnastics champions
  Boris Grebenshchikov (1968–1970) – rock musician, who is one of the "founding fathers" of Russian rock music
  Mikhail Zurabov (?–1970) – minister of health of the Russian Federation, chair of the Russian pension fund administration
  Sergey Fursenko – businessman, president of the football club Zenit Saint Petersburg
  Grigori Perelman (1980–1982) – mathematician who was awarded Fields Medal for his proof of the Poincaré conjecture
  Alexander Khalifman (1981–1983) – FIDE World Chess champion in 1999
  Stanislav Smirnov (1985–1987) – mathematician and recipient of Fields Medal in 2010 for his work on the mathematical foundations of statistical physics, particularly finite lattice models
caption: Annenschule gymnasium in 1912.
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