Nikolai Ivanovich Il'minskii was a Russian professor of Turkic languages at the Kazan University. He is known as the "Enlightener of Natives", due to his work with native Tatars on behalf of the Russi

Ilya Nikolayevich Ulyanov was a Russian public figure in the field of public education. He was the father of revolutionary Vladimir Lenin, who became a Bolshevik leader and founder of the Soviet Union