Vitaly Lazarevich Ginzburg, ForMemRS was a Russian physicist who was honored with the Nobel Prize in Physics in 2003, together with Alexei Abrikosov and Anthony Leggett for their "pioneering contributions to the theory of superconductors and superfluids."
Vitaly Korotich is a Soviet, Ukrainian and Russian writer and journalist.
Born in 1936 in Kyiv, he graduated from the Kyiv Medical University in 1959 and worked as a doctor between 1959 and 1966. Later, he became a full-time writer, and served as an officer of the Union of Soviet Writers.
Vitaliy Vyacheslavovich Naumkin ; born 21 May 1945) is a Russian scholar of Central Asia and Middle East. Naumkin graduated with honors from Moscow State University from the Institute of Asia and Africa, where he studied Arabic and Arab culture. He then served in the Soviet army from 1968-70 as an officer and Arabic teacher.