In Russian, " Миша " (" Mischa " or " Misha ") is a shortened form of " Михаил " ( Mikhail ).

: Ensign Mikhail " Mischa " Kaminsky is a big, rugged Russian who drinks a lot both on and off the battlefield.

* 2006: Fantasia Elvetica ( First performance: December 09 2006 Orchester Musikkollegium Winterthur Switzerland ; Mikhail Pletnev, Conductor ; Sascha und Mischa Manz )

His name is usually seen as Mischa Ounskowsky, Mischa being the German transliteration of Misha ( the diminutive form of Mikhail ), and Ounskowsky being the French transliteration of his surname.

* Mikhail Rasumny as The Appraiser, Mischa Vaginisky ( as Mikhail Rasumni )

Among the artists the orchestra has performed with are Valery Afanassiev, Pierre Amoyal, Alison Balsom, İdil Biret, Han-Na Chang, Robert Cohen, Jean-Philippe Collard, Jose Cura, Nikolai Demidenko, Emre Elivar, Denyce Graves, Janine Jansen, Sumi Jo, Suna Kan, Olga Kern, Albert Dohmen, Lang Lang, Elisabeth Leonskaja, Mischa Maisky, Shlomo Mintz, Christiane Oelze, Gülsin Onay, Güher-Süher Pekinel, Mikhail Pletnev, Viktoria Postnikova, Vadim Repin, Olivier Charlier, György Sandor, Fazıl Say, Hüseyin Sermet, Sayaka Shoji, Akiko Suwanai, Alexander Ghindin, Nicola Benedetti, Sabine Meyer, Boris Berezovsky, Simona Houda-Šaturová, Emmanuel Pahud, Sharon Isbin Turkish State Polyphonic, Rome Philharmonic, Bulgarian State Radio and Schleswig-Holstein Festival Choirs.

Repin has also made two CDs of violin and piano music works with Boris Berezovsky ( pianist ) and has recorded chamber music with pianists Martha Argerich and Mikhail Pletnev, violist Yuri Bashmet, and cellist Mischa Maisky.

Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev, or Gorbachov ( more accurately reflecting the pronunciation of his name ) (; born 2 March 1931 ), is a former Soviet statesman, having served as General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union from 1985 until 1991, and as the last head of state of the Soviet Union, having served from 1988 until its dissolution in 1991.

Fascinated by the " exotic " Caucasus, the Russian poet Mikhail Lermontov wrote the romantic poem Tamara (; 1841 ) in which he utilized the old Georgian legend about a siren-like mountainous princess whom the poet gave the name of Queen Tamar.

Mikhail Alexandrovich Bakunin (; – 1 July 1876 ) was a Russian revolutionary, philosopher, and theorist of collectivist anarchism.

Mikhail Vasilyevich Lomonosov (; – ) was a Russian polymath, scientist and writer, who made important contributions to literature, education, and science.

Alexander Petrovich Sumarokov (;, Moscow –, Moscow ) was a Russian poet and playwright who single-handedly created classical theatre in Russia, thus assisting Mikhail Lomonosov to inaugurate the reign of classicism in Russian literature.

Mikhail Tal (;, Michail Nechem ' evič Tal, ; sometimes transliterated Mihails Tals or Mihail Tal ; November 9, 1936 – June 28, 1992 ) was a Soviet-Latvian chess Grandmaster and the eighth World Chess Champion.

Although generalized to triple integrals by Lagrange in 1773, and used by Legendre, Laplace, Gauss, and first generalized to n variables by Mikhail Ostrogradski in 1836, it resisted a fully rigorous formal proof for a surprisingly long time, and was first satisfactorily resolved 125 years later, by Élie Cartan in a series of papers beginning in the mid-1890s (; ).

Mikhail Mikhailovich Kasyanov (; )-( born 8 December 1957 ) was the Prime Minister of Russia from May 2000 to February 2004.

Mikhail Maratovich Fridman (; born 21 April 1964 in Lviv, Ukraine ) is a Jewish Russian businessman.

Mikhail Naumovich Epstein (; born 1950 ) is an American literary theorist and critical thinker.

Mikhail Ivanovich Kalinin (; June 3, 1946 ), known familiarly by Soviet citizens as " Kalinych ," was a Bolshevik revolutionary and the nominal head of state of Russia and later of the Soviet Union, from 1919 to 1946.

Mikhail Andreyevich Suslov (; 21 November 1902 – 25 January 1982 ) was a Soviet statesman during the Cold War.

Mikhail Nikolaevich Baryshnikov (; born January 27, 1948 ), nicknamed " Misha ", is a Russian American dancer, choreographer, and actor, often cited alongside Vaslav Nijinsky and Rudolf Nureyev as one of the greatest ballet dancers in history.

Mikhail Nikolayevich Tukhachevsky (; – June 12, 1937 ) was a Marshal of the Soviet Union, commander in chief of the Red Army ( 1925 – 1928 ), and one of the most prominent victims of Joseph Stalin's Great Purge.

Mikhail Yefimovich Fradkov (; born 1 September 1950 ) is a Russian politician and statesman who was the Prime Minister of Russia from March 2004 to September 2007.

Anatoly Alexandrovich Popov (; born July 10, 1960 ) is an ethnic Russian who was the Prime Minister of the Chechen Republic, Russia, from February 10, 2003, following the resignation of Mikhail Babich, to March 16, 2004.

Yuzhnoye Design Bureau (; ), located in Dnipropetrovsk, Ukraine, is a designer of satellites and rockets, and formerly of Soviet intercontinental ballistic missiles ( ICBMs ) established by Mikhail Yangel.

Mikhail Mordkin (; December 9, 1880, Moscow, Russian Empire-July 5, 1944, New Jersey ,) graduated from the Bolshoi Ballet School in 1899, and in the same year was appointed ballet master.

Mikhas ( Mikhail ) Klimkovich (; ) ( 20 November 18995 November 1954 ) was a Belarusian poet, librettist, and author of the lyrics to the Anthem of the Byelorussian SSR.

I am Cuba (;, Ya Kuba ) is a 1964 Soviet-Cuban film directed by Mikhail Kalatozov at Mosfilm.

Mikhail Alekseyevich Yasnov (; – 23 July 1991 ) was a Soviet politician.

Mikhail Aleksandrovich Vrubel (; March 17, 1856 – April 14, 1910, all n. s.

Mikhail Marynich (;, born 13 January 1940 in Homiel Voblast ) — an opposition leader in Belarus.

Mikhail Mikhaylovich Zhvanetsky (;, transliterated: Mykhailo Mykhailovych Zhvanetsky ) ( born 6 March 1934, Odessa, Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union ) is a famous Soviet and Russian satiric writer and stand-up comedian.

During the January Uprising in 1863, heavy fighting occurred within the city, but was brutally pacified by Mikhail Muravyov, nicknamed The Hangman by the population because of the number of executions he organized.

* January 27 – Mikhail Baryshnikov, Russian-born dancer

* January 16 – January 24 – Siege of Geok Tepe: Russian troops under General Mikhail Skobelev defeat the Turkomans.

* January 26 – Mikhail Suslov, Soviet politician and Politburo member ( b. 1902 )

* January 28, 1820 – A Russian expedition led by Fabian Gottlieb von Bellingshausen and Mikhail Petrovich Lazarev approaches the Antarctic coast ( see History of Antarctica ).

* January 28 – Mikhail Ippolitov-Ivanov, Russian composer ( b. 1859 )

* January 28 ( NS ) – History of Antarctica: An Imperial Russian Navy expedition led by Fabian Gottlieb von Bellingshausen and Mikhail Petrovich Lazarev sights the coast of Antarctica.

Basil's Scene was performed on 18 January 1927 at the Bolshoi Theatre in the 1926 revision by Mikhail Ippolitov-Ivanov, commissioned in 1925 to accompany the Rimsky-Korsakov edition.

It is certain that on 28 January 1820 ( New Style ), the expedition led by Fabian von Bellingshausen and Mikhail Petrovich Lazarev on two ships reached a point within 20 miles ( 40 km ) of the Antarctic mainland and saw ice-fields there.

In the 24th Soviet final, played at Moscow in January – February 1957, Spassky shared fourth place with Tolush, as both scored 13 / 21, while Mikhail Tal won the first of his six Soviet titles, which began his ascent to the world title in 1960.

In 1864, following the January Uprising, Mikhail Muravyov, the Russian Governor General of Lithuania, banned the language in education and publishing, and barred use of the Latin alphabet altogether, although books printed in Lithuanian continued to be printed across the border in East Prussia and in the United States.

Raisa Maximovna Gorbachova ( Raisa Maksimovna Gorbachyova, née Titarenko, Титаре ́ нко ; 5 January 1932-20 September 1999 ) was the wife of Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev.

Mikhail Vasilyevich Ostrogradsky ( transcribed also Ostrohradskyy, Ostrogradskii, Ostrogradskiĭ ) (,, September 24, 1801 – January 1, 1862 ) was a Russian / Ukrainian mathematician, mechanician and physicist.

After 1991 January events in Lithuania, then-Mayor of Kuji city Yoshiaki Kuji condemned military actions of Soviet Union by sending a protest note to the General Secretary of the CPSU Mikhail Gorbachev.

Mikhail Leontyevich Mil (); 22 November 1909 – 31 January 1970 was a Soviet aerospace engineer.

In January 1998 it was announced that Sibneft would merge with Mikhail Khodorkovsky's Yukos to create the third-largest oil company in the world.

On 4 January 2004, Mikhail Saakashvili won the pre-term presidential elections in with an overwhelming majority.

On January 25, 2004 Abashidze met the newly-elected President Mikhail Saakashvili in Batumi and declared his intention to work with Saakashvili.

Mikhail Ivanovich Chigorin also ( Tchigorin ; ) ( 12 November 1850 ( 31 October old style ), Gatchina – 25 January 1908, Lublin ) was a leading Russian chess player.

* January 31 – Mikhail Mil dies, aged 61

New elections were ordered following the resignation of Shevardnadze and the election of President Mikhail Saakashvili in January 2004.

Mikhail Mikhailovich Ippolitov-Ivanov () ( 28 January 1935 ) was a Russian composer, conductor and teacher.