Russians called the most popular compatriots

Pushkin Alexander and Peter I – the most popular historic figures. Their names told on 21% and 20% of Russians during research JOINT-STOCK COMPANY "VTSIOM". Joseph Stalin consider as the most known – 17% of respondents. On 8% of votes collected Lomonosov Mikhail and Vladimir Ilyich Lenin. They are followed by Catherine II, cultural figures – Dostoevsky Fedor, Tolstoy Leo, Chaykovsky Petr, and also great commanders – Suvorov Alexander, Zhukov Georgy, everything was gathered by them on 6%. Thus only two thirds of respondents (63%) know that "the father of radio" is the Russian scientist Suvorov Alexander...