The advent of Russian intellectuals is an issue which relates to how to view the essence and characteristics of Russian intellectuals, how to evaluate intellectuals’ role in Russian culture, and problems regarding intellectuals’ national features, genres and their intrinsic laws and development trends as well. The controversy over this issue in the Russian academic circle mainly results from their diverse classification standards towards intellectuals. They can’t come to an agreement because they are based on either social structure or characteristics or functions of intellectuals. However, their views are actually complementary, and should be analyzed synthetically.