Among the most outstanding people of all time and nations as of April 2025, respondents most often named political figures, poets, scientists, and military leaders. Russians consider I. Stalin to be the most outstanding person of all time, as well as V. Putin, V. Lenin, and A. Pushkin. Older respondents more often mentioned figures from the Soviet era, while young people more often mentioned contemporaries or poets and scientists from the pre-Soviet period.
public opinion
On the question of the surveys in Russia
Denis Volkov on the problems of public opinion surveys and electoral research in Russia, and public opinion in democratic and authoritarian contexts.
This essay was published in Russian in Gorby magazine, №17, January 2025, pp. 84—89.