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EspañolLIST OF RUSSIANS
This is a list of people associated with Imperial Russia, the Soviet Union, and Russia of today. For a long time Russia has been a multinational country, and many people of different nationalities contributed to its culture, to its glory, and to its sorrow. They may be ethnic Ukrainians (like Nikolai Gogol and Milla Jovovich), Georgians (like Stalin and Georgi Daneliya), Belarusians (like Kazimir Malevich), Tatars (like Rudolf Nureyev), Azerbaijanis (like Kerim Kerimov and Uzeyir Hajibeyov), Jews (like Trotsky and Maya Plisetskaya), Poles (like Vaslav Nijinsky), Armenians (like Aram Katchaturian), Germans (like Catherine the Great), Danish (like Vitus Bering and Vladimir Dal), French (like Karl Briullov), Greeks (like John Capodistria), Romanians (like Mikhail Kheraskov), Frenchmen (like Marius Petipa), Dutchmen (like Sergius Witte), Portuguese (like Anton de Vieira), or, naturally, ethnic Russians. Sometimes their exact ancestry is unknown. Sometimes their formal nationality was written down at random or for political or other reasons. They may have emigrated or immigrated, and thus may appear in other "Lists of...", but nevertheless their names are linked to the words "Russia", "Russian".
★ Vasily Bazhenov (1738-1799)
★ Savva Chevakinsky (1709-between 1774 and 1780)
★ Matvei Kazakov (1738-1812)
★ Alexander Kokorinov (1725-1772)
★ Ivan Sergei Kuznetsov (1867-1942)
★ Andrey Kvasov (1720 - after 1770)
★ Konstantin Melnikov (1890-1974)
★ Ivan Fyodorovich Michurin (1700–1763)
★ Alfred Alexandrovich Parland (1842-1920)
★ Bartolomeo Rastrelli (1700-1771)
★ Carlo Rossi (architect) (1775-1849)
★ Andrei Stackenschneider (1802-1865)
★ Aleksey Shchusev (1873-1949)
★ Vasily Stasov (1769-1848)
★ Ivan Starov, (1745–1808)
★ Vladimir Tatlin (1885-1953)
★ Konstantin Thon (1794-1881)
★ Dmitry Ukhtomsky (1719–1774)
★ Andrey Voronikhin (1759–1814)
★ Yury Velten, (1730-1801)
★ Postnik Yakovlev (1524-1612)
★ Mikhail Zemtsov (1688-1743)
★ Ivan Aivazovsky (1817-1900) painter
★ Fedor Alekseev (1753-1824), landscape painter
★ Nikolay Andreyev (1873-1932), sculptor, graphic artist and stage designer
★ Mikhail Anikushin (1917-1997), sculptor
★ Aleksei Antropov (1716-1795) painter
★ Ivan Petrovich Argunov (1729-1802) painter
★ Boris Artzybasheff (1899-1965) painter
★ Maria Konstantinovna Bashkirtseva (1858-1884, painter
★ Sergei Bongart (1918-1985)
★ Ksenia Boguslavskaya (1892-1972), painter
★ Vladimir Borovikovsky (1757-1825) painter
★ Alexandre Benois (1870-1960), seminal influence on modern design
★ Ivan Yakovlevich Bilibin, illustrator
★ Karl Briullov (1799-1852), painter
★ Feodor Bruni (1801-1875) painter
★ Marc Chagall (1887-1985), painter
★ Pavel Chistyakov (1832-1919), painter, Russian teacher
★ Carl-Ludwig Christinek (1732-1792)
★ Dionisy, medieval icon-painter
★ Aleksandra Ekster (1882-1949), painter, one of the founders of Art Deco
★ Robert Falk (1886-1958), painter
★ Peter Carl Fabergé (1846-1920), jewellery designer
★ Pavel Fedotov (1815-1852) painter
★ Nikolai Ge (1831-1894) painter
★ Nina Genke-Meller avant-garde artist (suprematist)
★ Feofan Grek, medieval icon-painter
★ Alexej Harlamoff (1842-1922) painter
★ Alexander Andreyevich Ivanov (1806-1858) painter
★ Andrei Ivanov (1775-1848) painter
★ Anton Ivanov (1818-1864) painter
★ Alexej von Jawlensky (1864-1941) painter
★ Nikolai Kasatkin (1859-1930) painter
★ Wassily Kandinsky (1866-1944), first abstract painter
★ Ivan Khrutsky (1810-1885) painter
★ Orest Kiprensky (1782-1836) painter
★ Pyotr Konchalovsky painter
★ Konstantin Korovin (1861-1932) painter
★ Ivan Nikolaevich Kramskoi, (1837-1887), painter and the art critic
★ Nikifor Krylov (1802-1831) painter
★ Arkhip Kuindzhi (1842-1910) painter
★ Alexander V. Kuprin (1880-1960), painter
★ Nikolai Dmitrievich Kuznetsov (1850-1929) painter
★ Mikhail Larionov (1881-1964) painter
★ Aristarkh Lentulov (1882 - 1943) painter
★ Isaac Levitan (1860-1900), landscape painter
★ Dmitry Levitzky (1735-1822), portrait painter
★ Ernst Lipgart (1847-1932) painter
★ Anton Losenko (1737-1773) painter
★ Kazimir Malevich (1878-1935), suprematist painter, ''Black square''
★ Konstantin Makovsky (1839-1915) painter
★ Ilya Mashkov (1881-1944) painter
★ Vadym Meller (1884-1962) painter (constructivist),theatrical designer
★ Vera Mukhina (1889-1953), sculptress
★ Grigoriis Musikiysky (1670-1740)
★ Ivan Nikitin (1690-1742) painter
★ Alexander Nikulin (1878-1945), painter
★ Leonid Pasternak (1862-1945), painter
★ Vasily Perov (1834-1882) painter
★ Kuzma Petrov-Vodkin (1878-1939), painter
★ Vasily Polenov (1844-1927), landscape painter
★ Serge Poliakoff (1900-1969), painter
★ Liubov Popova (1889-1924), cubist, abstract painter
★ Prokhor, medieval icon-painter
★ Charles Radoff (1894-1986), painter
★ Ilya Repin (1844-1930), painter
★ Aleksandr Rodchenko (1891-1956), designer, constructivist painter
★ Konstantin Rodko (1908)-(1995), naïve painter
★ Nicholas Roerich (1874-1947), painter
★ Svetoslav Roerich, (1904-1993), painter
★ Fyodor Rokotov (1736-1809), portrait painter
★ Andrei Rublev (circa 1360-1430), medieval icon-painter
★ Andrei Ryabushkin (1861-1904), historical subjects
★ Konstantin Savitsky (1844-1905) painter
★ Alexei Kondratyevich Savrasov (1830-1897) painter
★ Silvestr Feodosievich Shchedrin (1791-1830) painter
★ Yevgeni Shchukin (1959-) painter
★ Zinaida Serebriakova (1884-1967), painter of female nudes
★ Valentin Serov (1865-1911) painter
★ Ivan Shishkin (1832-1898) painter
★ Fedor Slavyansky (1817-1876) painter
★ Boris Smirnov-Rusetsky (1905-1993) painter
★ Konstantin Somov (1869-1939) illustrator
★ Grigory Soroka (1823-1864) painter
★ Vasily Surikov (1848-1916) painter
★ Pavel Tchelitchew (1898-1957) painter
★ Vladimir Tatlin (1885 - 1953), painter and architect.
★ Count Feodor Tolstoy (1783-1873) painter
★ Vasily Andreevich Tropinin (1776-1857) painter
★ Simon Ushakov (1626-1686), painter
★ Vasiliy Yermilov avant-garde artist(costructivist)
★ Feodor Vasilyev (1850-1873) painter
★ Konstantin Vasiliev (1942-1976), painter
★ Apollinary Vasnetsov (1856-1933), painter
★ Viktor Vasnetsov (1848-1926), painter
★ Alexey Venetsianov (1780-1847) painter
★ Vasily Vereshchagin (1842-1904), war artist
★ Ivan Vishnyakov (1699-1761), painter
★ Mikhail Vrubel (1856-1910) painter
★ Marianne von Werefkin (1860-1938) painter
★ Alexandr Zhdanov (1938-2006) painter and sculptor
''See also List of Russian authors, which lists authors who wrote in Russian language.''
★ Chinghiz Aitmatov, author
★ Anna Akhmatova, poet
★ Bella Akhmadulina, poet
★ Konstantin Aksakov
★ Sergei Aksakov, author
★ Boris Akunin (b. 1956), author, essayist, translator, literary critic
★ Mark Aldanov novelist
★ Genrich Altov, science fiction writer
★ Vasily Aksyonov, author
★ Daniil Andreyev, ''Roza Mira''
★ Leonid Andreyev, ''The Seven Who Were Hanged''
★ Innokenty Annensky, poet
★ Mikhail Artsybashev, author
★ Arkady Timofeevich Averchenko, satirist
★ Gennadiy Aygi (1934-2006), author, translator
★ Isaac Babel (1894-1940), author
★ Eduard Bagritsky, poet
★ Mikhail Bakhtin, philosopher
★ Konstantin Balmont, poet
★ Evgeny Baratynsky, poet
★ Ivan Barkov, poet, diplomat and translator
★ Konstantin Batyushkov, poet
★ Pavel Bazhov, fair tales author, ''The Malachite Casket''
★ Aleksandr Bek (1903-1972), author
★ Vissarion Belinsky (1811-1848), writer, literary critic and philosopher
★ Andrey Bely (1880-1934), poet and author, ''Petersburg''
★ Alexander Belyayev (1884-1942), science fiction author
★ Olga Berggolts, poet
★ Helena Blavatsky (1831-1891) "The Secret Doctrine", "Isis Unveiled"
★ Aleksandr Blok, poet
★ Alexander Bogdanov, writer, philosopher, politician, ''Red Star''
★ Osip Maximovich Brik
★ Joseph Brodsky, poet and esseyist, Nobel Prize laureat
★ Valery Bryusov (1873–1924), poet
★ Vladimir Bukovsky (b. 1942), writer and dissident
★ Mikhail Bulgakov (1891-1940), playwright and author, ''Master and Margarita''
★ Kir Bulychev (1934-2003), science fiction author
★ Ivan Bunin (1870-1953), first Russian Nobel Prize Winner
★ Vasil Bykov
★ Anton Chekhov (1860-1904),short stories author and playwright, ''The Cherry Orchard'', ''Three Sisters'', ''The Seagull''
★ Nikolai Chernyshevsky (1828-1889), writer, journalist, politician
★ Sasha Cherny (1880-1932), poet
★ Korney Chukovsky
★ Vladimir Dal
★ Denis Davydov
★ Gavrila Derzhavin
★ Nikolay Dobrolyubov
★ Yuri Dombrovsky, author
★ Fyodor Dostoyevsky (1821-1881), ''Brothers Karamazov'', ''Crime and Punishment''
★ Sergei Dovlatov
★ Yanka Dyagileva
★ Galina Dyuragin (1898-1991), author, known under the pseudonym Alexandra Rachmanova
★ Ivan Efremov, science fiction writer and geologist
★ Venedikt Erofeev, ''Moscow-Petushki''
★ Viktor Erofeev
★ Yevgeny Yevtushenko, poet
★ Alexander Fadeyev (1901-1956), author, ''Molodaya gvardiya'', ''Chapayev''
★ Konstantin Fedin
★ Afanasy Fet
★ Denis Fonvizin
★ Arkady Gaydar (1904-1941)
★ Vladimir Gilyarovsky
★ Nikolay Gnedich
★ Vasilisk Gnedov
★ Sergei Gorodetsky
★ Cherubina de Gabriak
★ Alexander Gorodnitsky
★ Zinaida Gippius
★ Anatoly Gladilin
★ Fedor Nikolaevich Glinka
★ Nikolai Gogol (1809-1852), author, ''Dead Souls'', ''Revizor''
★ Ivan Goncharov (1812-1891), ''Oblomov''
★ Maxim Gorky (1868-1936), novelist, ''My Universities''
★ Aleksandr Griboyedov (1795-1828), writer, statesman, ''Woe from Wit''
★ Semyon Gudzenko, poet
★ Lev Gumilyov (Lev Gumilev), historian
★ Nikolay Gumilyov, poet
★ Boris Grebenshchikov, a musician, a band ''Aquarium''
★ Dmitry Grigorovich
★ Alexandr Grin, novelist, ''Alye Parusa''
★ Igor Guberman, humorist
★ Alexander Herzen
★ Ilya Ilf
★ Fazil Iskander, (b. 1929), novelist
★ Vyacheslav Ivanov
★ Dmitri Kantemir
★ Nikolai Karamzin (1766-1826), poet, author, historian
★ Anna Kashina
★ Lev Kassil
★ Valentin Katayev
★ Veniamin Kaverin
★ Daniil Kharms
★ Velimir Khlebnikov
★ Vladislav Khodasevich, ''Gavrila Derghavin''
★ Mikhail Koltsov, journalist and satirist
★ Lev Kopelev
★ Vladimir Korolenko
★ Sergey Kozlov
★ Peter Borisovich Kozlovski, (1783-1840) diplomat and man of letters
★ Vladislav Krapivin
★ Ivan Krylov
★ Aleksandr Kuprin, ''Poedinok/ Duel''
★ Lazar Lagin, ''Hottabych''
★ Peter Lavrovitch Lavrov, (1823-1900) socialist and revolutionist
★ Leonid Leonov
★ Mikhail Lermontov (1814-1841), poet, author and painter
★ Nikolai Leskov (1831-1895), storyteller, novelist, and journalist, Levsha
★ Eduard Limonov, ''Edichka''
★ Mikhail Lomonosov (1711-1765), linguistic reformer
★ Nadezhda Mandelstam
★ Osip Mandelstam, poet
★ Alexandra Marinina
★ Vladimir Mayakovsky
★ Apollon Maykov
★ Dmitriy Merezhkovsky, playwriter
★ Vladimir Nabokov (1899-1977), wrote first in Russian, then in English, author of ''Lolita''
★ Semen Nadson, poet
★ Vladimir Narbut, poet
★ Alexandr Nekrasov
★ Nikolai Alekseevich Nekrasov (1821 – 1878), poet, journalist and editor
★ Viktor Nekrasov, (1911-1988), writer
★ Nikolay Nosov, ''Neznaika''
★ Vladimir Obruchev, ''Plutonia''
★ Vladimir Odoevsky
★ Nikolai Ogaryov (1813-1877)
★ Yuri Olesha, ''Tri tolstyaka''
★ Alexandr Ostrovsky, playwriter
★ Nikolai Ostrovsky, ''Kak Zakalylas Stal''
★ Boris Pasternak (1890-1960), was not permitted by USSR to accept the Nobel Prize, ''Doctor Zhivago''
★ Konstantin Paustovsky
★ Viktor Pelevin (b. 1962), novelist, ''Omon Ra'', ''Chapaev i Pustota''
★ Yakov Perelman
★ Evgeny Petrov
★ Boris Pilnyak
★ Dmitri Pisarev
★ Aleksey Pisemsky
★ Andrei Platonov, author, ''Kotlovan'', ''Chelengur''
★ Yakov Polonsky
★ Boris Polevoy
★ Nikolay Pomyalovsky, ''Ocherki Bursy''
★ Mikhail Prishvin
★ Kozma Prutkov, a pen name
★ Aleksandr Pushkin (1799-1837), the greatest Russian poet, novelist, ''Evgenij Onegin''
★ Alexander Radishchev (1749-1802), social critic
★ Xavier (Charles) Basil Radoff (1894-1986)
★ Ayn Rand (1905-1982), American novelist
★ Valentin Rasputin
★ Irina Ratushinskaya
★ Aleksei Remizov
★ Helena Roerich (1879-1949)
★ K.R., Konstantin Romanov, Silver Age poet
★ Viktor Rozov
★ Mikhail Saltykov-Shchedrin (1826-1889), novelist
★ Benedikt Sarnov, literary critic, social and political commentator
★ Boris Savinkov, writer and terrorist
★ Ilya Selvinsky, (1899-1968)
★ Alexander Serafimovich
★ Igor Severyanin, poet
★ Varlam Shalamov (1907-1982), author of tales about Gulag
★ Boyan Shiryanov
★ Mikhail Shishkin
★ Mikhail Sholokhov
★ Vasily Shukshin, ''Kalina Krasnaya''
★ Konstantin Simonov
★ Andrei Sinyavsky
★ Boris Slutsky, poet
★ Fyodor Sologub
★ Alexander Isayevich Solzhenitsyn (b. 1918), Nobel Prize for Literature
★ Vladimir Sorokin
★ Ivan N. Smirnov
★ Ivan Smirnov, guitarist
★ Boris and Arkady Strugatsky
★ Aleksandr Petrovich Sumarokov
★ Alexandr Sukhovo-Kobylin
★ Viktor Suvorov, writer and spy
★ Nadezhda Teffi, humorist
★ Vladimir Tendryakov
★ Aleksey Konstantinovich Tolstoy ''Knyaz Serebrynyj''
★ Aleksei Nikolaevich Tolstoi ''Aelita''
★ Leo Tolstoy (1828-1910) ''War and Peace'', ''Anna Karenina''
★ Tatyana Tolstaya
★ Vasily Trediakovsky
★ Yury Trifonov, ''Dom na Naberezhnoi/ House on the Embankment''
★ Leon Trotsky
★ Marina Tsvetaeva
★ Ivan Turgenev
★ Aleksandr Tvardovsky
★ Fyodor Tyutchev
★ Yury Tynyanov
★ Lyudmila Ulitskaya
★ Eduard Uspensky
★ Boris Vasilyev, ''A zori zdes tikhie''
★ Alexander M. Volkov
★ Maximilian Voloshin
★ Vladimir Voinovich
★ Mikhail Veller
★ Nicholas Yermakov
★ Pyotr Yershov
★ Sergei Yesenin
★ Yevgeny Yevtushenko
★ Nikolay Zabolotsky
★ Yevgeny Zamyatin (1884-1937), author of ''We''
★ Iuliia Zhádovskaia
★ Vasily Zhukovsky
★ Mikhail Zoshchenko
=== Film directors
A-O
★ Fyodor Bondarchuk
★ Sergei Bondarchuk
★ Yevgeni Bauer
★ Grigori Chukhrai
★ Pavel Chukhrai
★ Georgi Daneliya
★ Alexander Dovzhenko
★ Sergei Eisenstein
★ Leonid Gaidai
★ Andrei Konchalovsky
★ Edmond Keosayan
★ Fjodor Khitruk
★ Elem Klimov
★ Grigori Kozintsev
★ Lev Kuleshov
★ Pavel Lungin
★ Nikita Mikhalkov
★ Aleksandr Petrov
★ Yakov Protazanov
★ Aleksandr Ptushko
★ Vsevolod Pudovkin
★ Mikhail Romm
★ Eldar Ryazanov
★ Karen Shakhnazarov
★ Larisa Shepitko
★ Vasily Shukshin
★ Alexander Sokurov
★ Ladislas Starevich
★ Andrei Tarkovsky
★ Dziga Vertov
★ Erika Hathaway
★ Ashley Rockwood
=== Musicians and Composers
A-O
★ Alexander Vasilyevich Alexandrov, composer
★ Achilles Alferaki (1846-1919), composer
★ Alexander Alyabyev, composer
★ Anton Arensky, composer
★ Boris Asafiev, composer
★ Mily Balakirev, composer
★ Boris Berezovsky, pianist
★ Dima Bilan (1981-), singer
★ Alexander Borodin (1833-1887), composer
★ Sergei Bortkiewicz, composer
★ Dmytro Bortniansky, composer
★ Tatyana Bulanova (1969-), singer
★ Fyodor Chaliapin (1873-1938), opera singer, bass
★ César Cui (1835-1918)
★ Alexander Dargomyzhsky, composer
★ Edison Denisov, composer
★ Nikolai Demidenko, composer
★ Valery Gergiev (1953), pianist, conductor
★ Emil Gilels (1916-1985), pianist
★ Alexander Glazunov (1865-1936), composer
★ Mikhail Glinka (1804-1857), composer of ''Russlan and Ludmilla''
★ Alexander Goedicke, composer
★ Evgeny Golubev, composer
★ Nikolai Golovanov (1891-1953), conductor
★ Alexander Gretchaninoff, composer
★ Vladimir Horowitz (1903-1989), pianist
★ Mikhail Ippolitov-Ivanov
★ Dmitry Kabalevsky (1904-1987)
★ Vasily Kalinnikov
★ Nikolai Kapustin
★ Aram Khachaturian (1903-1978)
★ Grigori Korchmar
★ Evgeni Kostitsyn (b. 1963), composer, pianist, and conductor
★ Lena Katina (b. 1984), singer
★ Tikhon Khrennikov (b. 1913), composer
★ Kyril Kondrashin (1914-1981), conductor
★ Leonid Kogan (1924-1982), violinist
★ Anatoly Konstantinovich Lyadov, composer
★ Sergei Lyapunov, composer
★ Nikolai Medtner (1880-1951), composer, pianist
★ Vyacheslav Mescherin (-1995), Synthesizer music composer, audio engineer
★ Viktoria Mullova (1959), violinist
★ Modest Mussorgsky (1839-1881), composer of ''Boris Godunov'', ''Pictures at an Exhibition''
★ Origa (1970), singer, performs theme songs for various anime series
★ Nikolai Myaskovsky (1881-1950), composer
★ Aleksandra Pakhmutova (1929-), composer
★ Nikolai Petrov (1943-), composer
★ Mikhail Pletnev (1957-), composer
★ Gregor Piatigorsky (1903-1976), composer
★ Valery Polekh (1918-1992), composer
★ Alla Pugacheva (1949-), singer and composer
★ Vadim Repin (1971-), composer, violinist
★ Mstislav Rostropovich (1927-), cellist
★ Gennady Rozhdestvensky (1931-), composer
★ Sergei Prokofiev (1891-1953), composer
★ Sergei Rachmaninoff (1873-1943)
★ Sergey Lazarev (1983-), vocalist
★ Sviatoslav Richter (1915-1997), pianist
★ Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov (1844-1908), composer
★ Mstislav Rostropovich (b. 1927), cellist and conductor
★ Nikolai Rubinstein (1835-1881), pianist, conductor and composer
★ Vasily Ilyich Safonov (1852-1918), composer and music educator
★ Alfred Schnittke (1934-1998), composer
★ Alexander Scriabin (1871-1915), composer and pianist
★ Dmitri Shostakovich (1906-1975), composer
★ Igor Stravinsky (1882-1971), composer
★ Vadim Salmanov (1912-1978), composer
★ Vasilii Sarenko (1814-1881), composer
★ Alexander Serov (1820-1871), composer
★ Rodion Shchedrin (1932-), composer
★ Vissarion Shebalin (1902-1963), composer
★ Nicolas Slonimsky (1894-1995), composer
★ Georgy Sviridov (1915-1998), composer
★ Andrei Sychra (1881-1956), composer
★ Aleksandr Taneyev (1881-1956), composer
★ Sergey Taneyev (1856-1915), composer
★ Mikael Tariverdiev (1893-1986), composer
★ Pyotr Tchaikovsky (1840-1893), composer
★ Boris Tchaikovsky (1881-1956), composer
★ Alexander Tcherepnin (1899-1977), composer
★ Viktor Tsoy (1962-1990), poet, composer, musician, acter (one of the figures who defined the era of 80's)
★ Serafim Tulikov (1913-2004), composer
★ Galina Ustvolskaya (1919- 2006), composer
★ Yulia Volkova (b. 1985), singer
★ Arcadi Volodos (1972-), pianist
★ Ivan Vïshnegradsky (1881-1956), composer
★ Anatoly Efros
★ Yury Lyubimov
★ Leonid Varpakhovsky
★ Konstantin Stanislavski
★ Michael Chekhov
★ Yevgeny Vakhtangov
★ Vera Alentova (b. 1942), actress
★ Mikhail Baryshnikov (b. 1948), ballet dancer
★ Sergei Bodrov, filmmaker
★ Sergei Bodrov Jr. (1971-2002), actor
★ Sergei Bondarchuk (1920-1994), film director
★ Boris Brunov (1922-1997), actor
★ Yul Brynner, actor
★ Dmitry Chaplin dancer So You Think You Can Dance Season 2
★ Sergei Diaghilev (1872-1929), ballet impresario
★ Michel Fokine (1880-1942), choreographer, dancer
★ Leonid Filatov, actor
★ Milla Jovovich, actress, model, and musician
★ Elizaveta Gerdt (1891-1975), ballerina
★ Pavel Gerdt (1844-1917), danseur
★ Vera Karalli (1889-1972), ballerina and actress
★ Tamara Karsavina (1885-1978), ballerina
★ Lila Kedrova (1918-2000), actress
★ Mathilde Kschessinska (1872-1971), prima ballerina assoluta
★ Lydia Lopokova (1892-1971), ballerina
★ Nikita Mikhalkov (b. 1945), filmmaker and politician
★ Solomon Mikhoels, Soviet-Yiddish actor
★ Vaslav Fomich Nijinsky (1890-1950), ballet dancer, choreographer
★ Ivan Novikoff (1899-2002), ballet master
★ Rudolf Nureyev (1938-1993), ballet dancer
★ Lubov Orlova (1902-1975), actress
★ Anna Pavlova (1882-1931), ballerina
★ Maya Plisetskaya (born 1925), ballerina
★ Olga Preobrajenska (1871-1962), ballerina
★ Alexander Ptushko (1900-1973), animation & film director
★ Stanislav Savich dancer So You Think You Can Dance Season 2
★ Yuri Soloviev (1940-1977), ballet dancer
★ Konstantin Stanislavsky (1868-1938), actor
★ Natalie Wood (1938-1981), actress
★ Galina Ulanova (1910-1988), ballerina
★ Agrippina Vaganova (1879-1951), ballet teacher
★ Vera Volkova (1904-1975), ballerina
=== Poets ===
(''who wrote much of their poetry in the Russian language, see List of Russian language poets'')
== Cosmonauts ==
★ Yuri Artyukhin (1930-1998)
★ Pavel Belyayev (1925-1970)
★ Georgi Beregovoi (1921-1995)
★ Valery Bykovsky
★ Lev Demin (1926-1998)
★ Georgi Dobrovolski (1928-1971)
★ Vladimir Dzhanibekov
★ Konstantin Feoktistov
★ Anatoli Filipchenko
★ Yuri Gagarin (1934-1968), first human in space
★ Viktor Gorbatko
★ Georgi Grechko
★ Aleksei Gubarev
★ Alexandr Kaleri
★ Yevgeny Khrunov (1933-2000)
★ Pyotr Klimuk
★ Vladimir Komarov (1927-1967)
★ Sergei Krikalyov, the person who accumulated most time in space (803 days)
★ Valeri Kubasov
★ Vasili Lazarev (1929-1990)
★ Valentin Lebedev
★ Aleksei Leonov, first person to walk in space
★ Oleg Makarov (1933-2003)
★ Andrian Nikolayev (1929-2004)
★ Viktor Patsayev (1933-1971)
★ Valeri Polyakov, the person who accumulated most time in space in a single spaceflight (437 days)
★ Pavel Popovich
★ Nikolai Rukavishnikov (1932-2002)
★ Valeri Ryumin
★ Gennadi Sarafanov (1942-2005)
★ Svetlana Savitskaya, second woman in space
★ Vladimir Shatalov
★ Georgi Shonin (1935-1997)
★ Valentina Tereshkova (b. 1937), first woman in space
★ Gherman Titov (1935-2000)
★ Vladislav Volkov (1935-1971)
★ Boris Volynov
★ Boris Yegorov(1937-1994)
★ Aleksei Yeliseyev
★ Vitali Zholobov
==Explorers==
★ Faddey Faddeyevich Bellingshausen, the Russian officer who discovered Antarctica
★ Vitus Bering (1681-1741), explorer of north-western and south-western Alaska
★ Semyon Ivanovich Dezhnev (circa 1605-1673), explorer of north-eastern Asia
★ Ivan Fedorov, explorer of north-western Alaska
★ Gerasim Izmailov, explorer of Alaska
★ Pyotr Kuzmich Kozlov, explorer of Mongolia and Tibet
★ Ivan Fedorovich Kruzenshtern, the first Russian to circumnavigate the world
★ Nicholai Miklukho-Maklai (1846-1888), anthropologist who lived among the natives of Papua New Guinea
★ Afanasiy Nikitin, the first European who documented his visit to India
★ Nikolai Przhevalsky (1839 - 1888), explorer of central and eastern Asia
★ Nikolai Alekseevich Severtzov (1827 - 1885)
★ Ferdinand Petrovich Wrangel (1796-1870), expolerer of Arctica
==Inventors==
★ Zhores Ivanovich Alferov (1930), physicist
★ Oleg Antonov(1906-1984) airplane designer
★ Nikolay Gennadiyevich Basov (1922 - 2001), laser inventor, Nobel Prize for Physics 1964, together with Alexandr Prokhorov
★ Vasily Degtyaryov (1880-1947), weapons designer
★ Pyotr Kozmitch Frolov (1775-1839), mining engineer and inventor horse-railway
★ Leonid Gobyato (1875-1915), Russian general, inventor of the modern Mortar (weapon)
★ Sergey Vladimirovich Ilyushin (1894-1977), aircraft constructor
★ Nikolai Kibalchich (1853-1881)
★ Sergei Pavlovich Korolev (1907-1966), rocket engineer and designer, ''Father of the space program''
★ Gleb Yevgeniyevich Kotelnikov,(1872—1944), inventor of the knapsack parachute.
★ Ivan Petrovich Kulibin (1735-1818), mechanic
★ Semyon Lavochkin (1900-1960), aircraft designer
★ Alexander Nikolayevich Lodygin (1847 - 1923), electrical engineer and inventor
★ Artem Ivanovich Mikoyan (1905-1970), aircraft designer
★ Constantin Perskyi engineer, invented word "television"
★ Alexander Popov (1859-1906), Russia's ''Marconi'', a developer of radio
★ Alexandr Prokhorov (1916-2002), physicist, Nobel Prize for Physics 1964, born in Queensland, Australia
★ Sergei Mikhailovich Prokudin-Gorskii (1863-1944), father of colour photography
★ Boris Rosing (1869-1933)
★ Igor Sikorsky (1889-1972), helicopter and aircraft designer
★ Nikolai Rynin (1887–1942) engineer
★ Pavel Sukhoi (1895-1975), aircraft constructor and designer
★ Leon Theremin (1896-1993), inventor of one of the first electronic musical instruments, the Theremin
★ Konstantin Tsiolkovsky (1857-1935), rocket scientist and pioneer of astronautics
★ Andrey Tupolev (1888-1972), aircraft designer and builder
★ Dmitry Ivanovich Vinogradov (1720?-1758), inventor of the Russian porcelain
★ Pavel Yablochkov, electrical engineer, inventor of Yablochkov candle
★ Nikolai Yegorovich Zhukovsky
★ Vladimir Zworykin (1889-1982) pioneer of TV technology
== Scientists ==
★ Alexei Abrikosov, physicist, Nobel Prize recipient
★ Tatyana Alexeyevna Afanasyeva, mathematician
★ Viktor Amazaspovich Ambartsumian, astronomer and astrophysicist
★ Delibash Boris Apostolovich, worked on the Sputnik program.
★ Lev Artsimovich, physicist
★ Pavel Sergeevich Alexandrov, mathematician
★ Zhores Ivanovich Alferov Nobel Prize winner
★ Dmitri Victorovich Anosov, mathematician
★ Vladimir Arnoldi, botanist
★ Vladimir Mikhailovich Bekhterev, psychologist and neuropathologist
★ Boris Belousov, chemist / biophysicist
★ Nikolay Bogolyubov, mathematician and theoretical physicist
★ Aleksei Aleksandrovich Balandin, chemist
★ Nikolai P. Barabashov, astronomer
★ Valeri L. Barsukov, chemist
★ Nikolay Nikolayevich Beketov, chemist
★ Lev Semenovich Berg, biologist
★ Alexander Borodin, chemist
★ Aleksandr L'vovich Brudno, computer scientist
★ Boris Yakovych Bukreyev, mathematician
★ Leonid Bunimovich, mathematician
★ Aleksandr Mikhailovich Butlerov
★ Nikolai Bugaev, mathematician
★ Pafnuti Chebyshev, mathematician
★ Pavel Cherenkov, physicist, Nobel Prize
★ Aleksei Chichibabin, chemist
★ Vasily V. Dokuchaev, the founder of the modern soil science
★ Dimitri Fedorovich Egorov, mathematician
★ Zinaida Vissarionovna Ermolyeva, microbiologist
★ Dmitry Aleksandrovich Fadeyev, mathematician
★ Famitsyn A.S., biologist
★ Vladimir Aleksandrovich Fock, physicist
★ Anatoly Timofeevich Fomenko, mathematician, chronologist
★ Valentin Fomine, physicist
★ Sergei Fomin, mathematician
★ Ilya Mikhailovich Frank, physicist, Nobel Prize winner
★ Eugène Gabritschevsky, biologist
★ Vitaly Ginzburg, physicist, Nobel Prize recipient
★ Boris Grakov, archaeologist
★ Alexander Gurwitsch, biologist
★ Abram Fedorovich Ioffe, physicist
★ Vladimir Ipatieff, chemist
★ Dmitri Ivanenko, physicist
★ Pyotr Kafarov, sinologist
★ Leonid Kantorovich, mathematician and economist
★ Pyotr Leonidovich Kapitsa, physicist, discoverer of superfluidity, Nobel Prize in physics
★ Nikolai Kardashev, astrophysicist
★ Kerim Kerimov, engineer
★ Isaak Markovich Khalatnikov, physicist
★ Julii Khariton, physicist
★ Orest Khvolson, physicist
★ Karl Klaus (1796 – 1864), chemist, discoverer of ruthenium.
★ Andrey Nikolaevich Kolmogorov, mathematician
★ Nikolai Koltsov, famous Russian biologist
★ Sergei Kopeikin, physicist
★ Sofia Kovalevskaya, mathematician
★ Alexander Kovalevsky, embryologist
★ Boris Kozo-Polyansky, biologist
★ Stepan Krasheninnikov
★ Feodosy Krasovsky
★ Aleksandr Semenovich Kronrod, mathematician, computer scientist, economist
★ Nikolay Mitrofanovich Krylov, mathematician and theoretical physicist
★ Igor Kurchatov, atomic bomb physicist
★ Olga Aleksandrovna Ladyzhenskaya, mathematician
★ Lev Landau, physicist and mathematician, Nobel Prize in physics
★ Georgy Langemak
★ Mikhail Lavrentyev, physicist and mathematician
★ Mikhail Lebedev, neuroscientist
★ Petr Nikolaevich Lebedev, physicist
★ Nikolai Lobachevsky, mathematician
★ Mikhail Lomonosov, polymath
★ Nikolai Nikolaevich Lusin, mathematician
★ Aleksandr Lyapunov, mathematician
★ Trofim Lysenko, biologist
★ Dmitri Maksutov
★ Anatoly Maltsev
★ Leonid Mandelshtam, physicist
★ Yuri Ivanovich Manin, mathematician
★ Andrei Markov, mathematician
★ Ilya Ilyich Mechnikov, biologist, Nobel Prize in medicine
★ Roy Medvedev
★ Zhores Medvedev
★ Dmitri Mendeleyev, chemist who developed a periodic table of the chemical elements
★ Konstantin Merezhkovsky, biologist, one of the creators of theory of endosymbiosis
★ Ivan Vladimirovich Michurin, selectionist
★ Aleksandr Fyodorovich Middendorf, zoologist
★ Peter Moscovic, known for his work with MRSA, MRi Techniques and sexually transmitted diseases
★ Victor Ivanovitsch Motschulsky
★ Gennadi Nevelskoi, captain and navigator
★ Boris Nikolsky
★ Igor Novikov, theoretical astrophysicist and cosmologist
★ Aleksandr Oparin, biologist and biochemist
★ Yuri Orlov, physict, dissident and human rights activist
★ Mikhail Vasilievich Ostrogradsky, mathematician, mechanician and physicist
★ Peter D. Ouspensky, polymath
★ Peter Simon Pallas, a German working in Russia zoologist
★ Ivan Pavlov, physician and physiologist
★ Eugene Podkletnov, physicist
★ Alexander Stepanovich Popov, physicist
★ Andrei Sakharov, nuclear physicist
★ Ivan Mikhailovich Sechenov, father of Russian physiology
★ Nikolay Semyonov , physicist and chemist, Nobel Prize for Chemistry
★ Nikolai Ivanovich Shakura
★ Iosif Shklovsky, astronomer and astrophysicist
★ Dmitri Skobeltsyn, physisist
★ Sergei Lvovich Sobolev, mathematician
★ Yulian Sokhotski, mathematician
★ Vladimir Steklov, physicist and mathematician
★ Georg Steller, naturalist and ornithologist of German origin.
★ Friedrich Wilhelm Struve (Vasily Yakovlevich Struve), astronomer
★ Igor Tamm, physicist, Nobel Prize
★ Kliment Arkadyevich Timiryazev, botanist
★ Nikolai V. Timofeeff-Ressovsky, biologist
★ Mikhail Tsvet, botanist, inventor of chromatography
★ Nikolay Umov, mathematician
★ Nikolai Vavilov, biologist
★ Sergey Ivanovich Vavilov, physicist
★ Vladimir Ivanovich Vernadsky, geochemist, creator of the Noosphere theory
★ Alexander Vilentin, physicist
★ Ivan Matveevich Vinogradov, mathematician
★ Grigory Volovik, physicist
★ Sergei Winogradsky, microbiologist, ecologist, and soil scientist
★ Mikhail Yangel
★ Sabir Yunusov
★ Tatyana Zaslavskaya
★ Alexander Dmitrievich Zasyadko
★ Yakov Zel'dovich, physicist, astrophysicist and cosmologist
★ Nikolay Dimitrievich Zelinskiy, chemist
★ Nikolai Yegorovich Zhukovsky, aero- and hydrodynamics.
''See also Tsar for the list of old Russian rulers''
★ Alexei Nikolaevich (1904- 1918) Son of Nicholas II
★ Alexis (1629-1676), "Aleksey Mikhaylovich the Quietest"
★ Alexander I (1777-1825), "Alexander the Blessed"
★ Alexander II (1818-1881), "Alexander the Liberator"
★ Alexander III (1845-1894), "Alexander the Peacemaker"
★ Alexandra (1872-1918), Tsarina of Russia
★ Alexius Petrovich (1690-1718)
★ Anastasia (1901-1918), youngest daughter of Tsar Nicholas II
★ Anna (1693-1740), empress of Russia from 1730 to 1740
★ Boris Godunov (1551-1605)
★ Catherine I (1683-1727)
★ Catherine II (1729-1796), "Catherine the Great" (More German Ancestry than Russian)
★ Grand Duke Constantine Pavlovich (1779-1831), viceroy of Poland who abdicated the Russian throne
★ Elizabeth (1709-1761), daughter of Peter I the Great and Catherine I
★ Fyodor I (1557-1598)
★ Fyodor II (1589-1605)
★ Fyodor III (1661-1682)
★ Patriarch Filaret, father of the first Romanov tsar
★ Ivan III (1440-1505)
★ Ivan IV (1530-1584)
★ Ivan V, joint ruler with Peter I
★ Ivan VI (1740-1764)
★ Maria Nikolayevna Romanova (1899-1918)
★ Marie Fyodorovna Romanova (1847-1928)
★ Michael (1596-1645)
★ Michael II (1878-1918)
★ Nicholas I (1825-1831)
★ Nicholas II (1868-1918)
★ Olga Nikolayevna Romanova (1895-1918)
★ Olga Romanova (1882-1960)
★ Paul I (1754-1801)
★ Peter I (1672-1725)
★ Peter II (1715-1730)
★ Peter III (1728-1762)
★ Tatiana Romanova (1897-1918)
★ Vasily (IV) Shuysky (1552-1612)
Politicians and diplomats
See also List of Russian Foreign Ministers
★ Alexander Bezborodko (1747-1799)
★ Aleksei Petrovich Bestuzhev-Ryumin (1693-1768)
★ Mikhail Petrovich Bestuzhev-Ryumin (1688-1760)
★ Zakhar Chernyshev (1722-1784)
★ Vasily Lukich Dolgorukov (about 1670-1739)
★ Nikolay Karlovich Giers (1820-1885)
★ Vasily Golitsyn (1643-1714) of the Galitzine family
★ Alexander Gorchakov (1798-1883) of the Gorchakov family
★ Ivan Andreyevich Khovansky (about 1600-1682)
★ Peter Borisovich Kozlovski (1783-1840)
★ Boris Ivanovich Kurakin (1676-1727)
★ Aleksey Borisovich Lobanov-Rostovsky (1824-1896)
★ Artamon Matveev (1625-1682)
★ Aleksandr Danilovich Menshikov (1673-1729)
★ Nikolai Vissarionovich Nekrasov (1879-1940), liberal politician
★ Nikolay Muravyov-Amursky (1809-1881)
★ Afanasy Ordin-Nashchokin (1605-1680)
★ Andrey Ivanovich Osterman (1686-1747)
★ Nikita Ivanovich Panin (1718-1783)
★ Nikita Petrovich Panin (1770-1837)
★ Konstantin Pobedonostsev (1827-1907)
★ Grigori Aleksandrovich Potemkin (1739-1791)
★ Alexei Grigorevich Razumovsky (1709–1771)
★ Anikita Ivanovich Repnin (1668-1726) of the Repnin family
★ Mikhail Speransky (1772-1839)
★ Ariadna Tyrkova-Williams (1869-1962), liberal politician
★ Mikhail Illarionovich Vorontsov (1714-1767)
★ Ekaterina Romanovna Vorontsova-Dashkova (1744-1810)
★ Artemy Petrovich Volynsky (1689-1740)
★ Yuri Andropov (1914-1984), general secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union
★ Leonid Brezhnev (1906-1982), leader of the Soviet Union for 18 years
★ Konstantin Chernenko (1911-1985), general secretary of the Soviet Communist Party
★ Mikhail Gorbachev (1931), general secretary of the Communist Party and president of the USSR
★ Nikita Khrushchev (1894-1971), general secretary of the communist party of the USSR and head of state
★ Vladimir Lenin (1870-1924), Bolshevik party leader and the first Soviet head of state
★ Vladimir Putin (b. 1952), president of Russia since 2000
★ Joseph Stalin (1879-1953), Soviet Union premier.
★ Boris Yeltsin (1931-2007), president of Russia from 1991 to 1999
:''See List of socialists: Bolsheviks, Mensheviks, Communists.
:''See White Russians for opponents of Bolsheviks.''
★ Viktor Abakumov, head of the SMERSH counter-intelligence agency (1943-1946) and the MGB secret police (1946-1951)
★ Lavrenty Beria (1899-1953), Soviet chief of secret police under Joseph Stalin
★ Nikolai Bukharin (1888-1938), Politburo member (1919-1929), ''Pravda'' editor
★ Viktor Chernomyrdin (b. 1938), Prime Minister of Russia (1992-1998)
★ Sergey Mikhaylovich Darkin (b. 1963), governor of Primorsky Krai
★ Fedor Dan (1871-1949), Menshevik leader
★ Feliks Dzerzhinsky, founder of the Cheka secret police
★ Viktor Grishin (d. 1992), Politburo member, head of the Moscow party organization
★ Andrei Gromyko (1908-1989), Soviet foreign minister (1957-1985) and head of state (1985-1988)
★ Lazar Kaganovich, Politburo member (1930-1957), People's Commissar, deputy prime minister
★ Mikhail Kasyanov (b. 1957), Prime Minister of Russia from 2000 to 2004
★ Alexandra Kollontai (1872-1952), revolutionary, diplomat
★ Nikolai Krestinsky, Soviet finance minister and secretary of the Communist Party Central Committee (1919-1921)
★ Yegor Ligachev, second secretary of the Communist Party Central Committee under Mikhail Gorbachev
★ Maxim Litvinov, Soviet foreign minster (1930-1939)
★ Julius Martov, Menshevik leader
★ Vyacheslav Molotov (1890-1986), Soviet prime minister (1930-1941) and foreign minister (1939-1949 and 1953-1956)
★ George Plekhanov, founder of Russian Marxism
★ Alexei Rykov, Soviet prime minister (1924-1930)
★ Anatoly Sobchak, first post-Soviet mayor of Saint Petersburg
★ Leon Trotsky (1879-1940), Soviet foreign minister (1917-1918) and defense minister (1918-1925), creator of Trotskyism, founder of the Fourth International
★ Irakli Tsereteli, Menshevik leader
★ Andrey Vyshinsky, Soviet Prosecutor General and foreign minister (1949-1953)
★ Genrikh Yagoda, interior minister and head of the Soviet secret police (1934-1936)
★ Nikolai Yezhov, interior minister and head of the Soviet secret police (1936-1938)
★ Gennady Zyuganov (1944), head of the Russian Communist Party since 1993
=== Military ===
''See also List of people associated with World War II: Soviet Union.''
''See also List of Marshals of the Soviet Union.''
''See also List of Russian Field Marshals.''
★ Prince Pyotr Bagration (1765-1812)
★ Semion Cheliuskin (circa 1700-after 1760), Polar explorer, lieutenant-captain of the Russian Imperial Navy
★ Valery Chkalov (1904-1938), aircraft pilot
★ Vasily Ivanovich Chuikov (1900 -1982), commanded the Soviet 62nd Army to victory at the Battle of Stalingrad.
★ Lev Dovator (1903-1941), WWII general and Hero of the Soviet Union
★ Joseph Vladimirovich Gourko, commander-in-chief during the Russo-Turkish War, 1877-78.
★ Mikhail Kamensky (1738-1809), Catherinian Field Marshal
★ Konstantin Kaufmann (1818-1882), general who conquered the Khanate of Khiva
★ Ivan Kozhedub (1920-1991), WWII fighter pilot, thrice Hero of the Soviet Union
★ Mikhail Kutuzov
★ Sigismund Levanevsky (1902-1937), aircraft pilot, among the first to receive the title of Hero of the Soviet Union
★ Anatoly Liapidevsky (1908-1983), aircraft pilot, among the first to receive the title of Hero of the Soviet Union
★ Stepan Osipovich Makarov (1848 -- 1904), admiral, explorer
★ Alexander Matrosov, soldier, Hero of the Soviet Union
★ Aleksandr Sergeyevich Menshikov, commander-in-chief during the Crimean War
★ Mikhail Andreyevich Miloradovich, hero of the Napoleonic wars
★ Pavel Nakhimov (1802-1855), legendary admiral
★ Alexander Ostermann-Tolstoy, hero of the Napoleonic wars
★ Ivan Panfilov (1893-1941), WWII general and Hero of the Soviet Union
★ Ivan Paskevich, conqueror of Warsaw in 1831
★ Alexander Pokryshkin ( 1913 - 1985, WWII fighter pilot, thrice Hero of the Soviet Union
★ Konstantin Rokossovsky, marshal (a Pole)
★ Mikhail Skobelev, "White General" who conquered Central Asia
★ Oskar Victorovich Stark commander of the Port Arthur Squadron of the Imperial Russian fleet in 1904
★ Aleksandr Suvorov, Generaslissimo who never lost a battle
★ Victor Talalikhin (1918-1941), WWII lieutenant and Hero of the Soviet Union
★ Mikhail Tukhachevsky, marshal
★ Aleksandr Vasilevsky, marshal
★ Andrey Vlasov (1900-1946), Red Army general turned Nazi collaborator and the commander of volunteer Russian forces (ROA, "Russian Liberation Army") of the German army during WWII
★ Mikhail Vodopianov (1899-1975), aircraft pilot, among the first to receive the title of Hero of the Soviet Union
★ Kliment Voroshilov (1881-1969), marshal and politician
★ Aleksey Yermolov, hero of Battle of Borodino; military ruler of the Caucasus
★ Georgy Zhukov (1896-1974), marshal, chief of general staff of the Red Army and representative of STAVKA, four times Hero of the Soviet Union
== Sport
= Chess ===
★ Alexander Alekhine
★ Yuri Averbakh
★ Mikhail Chigorin
★ Mikhail Botvinnik
★ Semen Furman
★ Anatoly Karpov
★ Garry Kasparov
★ Alexander Khalifman
★ Victor Korchnoi
★ Alexander Kotov
★ Vladimir Kramnik
★ Grigory Levenfish
★ Alexander Petrov
★ Peter Romanovsky
★ Emmanuel Schiffers
★ Vasily Smyslov
★ Boris Spassky
★ Peter Svidler
★ Mark Taimanov
=== Gymnastics ===
★ Nikolai Andrianov (b. 1952), gymnast, world record for men for most Olympic medals
★ Yelena Davydova (b. 1961), Olympic gymnast
★ Maria Filatova (b. 1961), Olympic gymnast
★ Alina Kabaeva, Olympic gymnast
★ Svetlana Khorkina, Olympic gymnast. Known for her diva-like behavior. She is the most decorated gymnast though.
★ Sofia Muratova (b. 1929), Olympic gymnast
★ Alexei Nemov, (b. 1976), Olympic gymnast
★ Natalia Shaposhnikova (b. 1961), Olympic gymnast
★ Yelena Shushunova (b. 1969), Olympic gymnast
★ Alexander Tkachyov (b. 1957), Olympic gymnast
=== Tennis ===
★ Andrei Chesnokov, tennis player
★ Nikolay Davydenko, (b. 1981), tennis player
★ Elena Dementieva, (b. 1981), tennis player. Reached 2 Grand Slam finals in 2004 (French Open and U.S. Open)
★ Yevgeny Kafelnikov, (b. 1974), tennis player
★ Anna Kournikova, (b. 1981), tennis player, celebrity, and model.
★ Svetlana Kuznetsova, (b. 1985), tennis player. Won the 2004 U.S. Open.
★ Anastasia Myskina, (b. 1981), tennis player. Won the 2004 French Open.
★ Nadia Petrova, (b. 1982), tennis player
★ Marat Safin (b. 1980), tennis player. Won 2000 U.S. Open and 2005 Australian Open.
★ Maria Sharapova, (b. 1987), tennis player. Won 2004 Wimbledon at age of 17 and 2006 U.S. Open. Only Russian woman with more than 2 Grand Slam titles (2nd Russian woman to win the Grand Slam, 1st to win Wimbledon) and first Russian woman to reach No. 1 in the rankings.
★ Dmitry Tursunov, (b. 1982), tennis player
★ Mikhail Youzhny, (b. 1982), tennis player
=== Ice hockey ===
★ Pavel Bure (b. 1971), NHL star
★ Sergei Fedorov (b. 1969), NHL star
★ Viacheslav Fetisov (b. 1958)
★ Nikolai Khabibulin (b. 1973), NHL star goalie
★ Valery Kharlamov (1948-1981), Russia's most popular international ice hockey player
★ Vladimir Konstantinov
★ Ilya Kovalchuk -NHL Star
★ Vyacheslav Kozlov
★ Oleg Kvasha (b.1978)
★ Igor Larionov
★ Sergei Makarov
★ Evgeni Malkin -a Pittsburgh Penguin rookie
★ Alexander Ovechkin- NHL Star
★ Vladimir Vladimirovich Petrov
★ Alexei Ponikarovsky
★ Vladislav Tretiak (b. 1952), goalie
★ Alexander Yakushev (b. 1947)
★ Sergei Zubov
=== Weightlifting ===
★ Vasily Alexeev (b. 1942), Olympic weightlifter, set 80 World Records
★ Yuri Vlasov, Olympic weightlifter
★ Arkady Vorobyov (b. 1924), Olympic weightlifter
★ Leonid Zhabotinsky (b. 1938), Olympic weightlifter
★ Evgeny Abalakov, mountaineer
★ Vitaly Abalakov, mountaineer
★ Inga Artamonova (1936-1966), 4-time world all-around speed skating champion
★ Vladimir Beschastnykh, association football player
★ Yuriy Borzakovskiy
★ Anatoli Boukreev (1958-1997), mountaineer
★ Fedor Emelianenko, (b. 1976) Heavyweight champion of Pride Fighting Championships
★ Yelena Isinbayeva, (b. 1982), athlete
★ Anastasiya Kapachinskaya, (b.1979), athlete
★ Alexander Karelin, (b. 1967), Greco-Roman wrestling, champion
★ Andrei Kirilenko, (b. 1981), NBA basketball player
★ Sergei Mikhailovich Prokudin-Gorskii , photographer
★ Svetlana Krivelyova, (b.1969), athlete
★ Natalya Nazarova, (b. 1979), athlete
★ Evgeny Plushenko (b. 1982), figure skater
★ Roho (Boradzov Soslan Feliksovich) (b. 1980), Sumo wrestler
★ Nina Romashkova (b. 1929), athlete, the first Soviet Olympic Champion
★ Lidia Skoblikova (b. 1939), speed skater, most Olympic medals in speed skating
★ Irina Slutskaya (b. 1979), figure skater, an incredible athlete and second most successful female figure skater next to Michelle Kwan.
★ Dmitri Sychev (b. 1983), association football player
★ Kostya Tszyu (b. 1969), boxer
★ Alexei Yagudin (b. 1980), figure skater
★ Lev Yashin (1929-1990), football goalkeeper
★ Fedor Emelianenko, (b. 1976) Heavyweight champion of Pride Fighting Championships
★ Natasha Polevshchikova, Supermodel
★ Natalia Vodianova, Supermodel
★ Philip Piskov, Genius
During the times of the Soviet Union nationals of other constituent republics were traditionally known as "Russians" in the West. Some of them were even known under Russian or Russified names. Since the collapse of the Soviet Union they have now become known under their various nationalities.
★ List of Armenians
★ List of Belarusians
★ List of Estonians
★ List of Georgians
★ List of Kazakh historical figures
★ List of Latvians
★ List of Lithuanians
★ List of Ukrainians
★ List of Chuvashs
★ List of people from Tambov
★ List of Tatars
★ List of Tuvans
★ List of People in St. Petersburg
★ List of Jews from the Soviet Union
★ List of people by nationality
★ List of Russian rulers
★ Bards in Soviet Union
★ German-Russian
★ Hero of the Soviet Union
★ Russian People
Art
Architects
★ Vasily Bazhenov (1738-1799)
★ Savva Chevakinsky (1709-between 1774 and 1780)
★ Matvei Kazakov (1738-1812)
★ Alexander Kokorinov (1725-1772)
★ Ivan Sergei Kuznetsov (1867-1942)
★ Andrey Kvasov (1720 - after 1770)
★ Konstantin Melnikov (1890-1974)
★ Ivan Fyodorovich Michurin (1700–1763)
★ Alfred Alexandrovich Parland (1842-1920)
★ Bartolomeo Rastrelli (1700-1771)
★ Carlo Rossi (architect) (1775-1849)
★ Andrei Stackenschneider (1802-1865)
★ Aleksey Shchusev (1873-1949)
★ Vasily Stasov (1769-1848)
★ Ivan Starov, (1745–1808)
★ Vladimir Tatlin (1885-1953)
★ Konstantin Thon (1794-1881)
★ Dmitry Ukhtomsky (1719–1774)
★ Andrey Voronikhin (1759–1814)
★ Yury Velten, (1730-1801)
★ Postnik Yakovlev (1524-1612)
★ Mikhail Zemtsov (1688-1743)
Artists
A-M
★ Ivan Aivazovsky (1817-1900) painter
★ Fedor Alekseev (1753-1824), landscape painter
★ Nikolay Andreyev (1873-1932), sculptor, graphic artist and stage designer
★ Mikhail Anikushin (1917-1997), sculptor
★ Aleksei Antropov (1716-1795) painter
★ Ivan Petrovich Argunov (1729-1802) painter
★ Boris Artzybasheff (1899-1965) painter
★ Maria Konstantinovna Bashkirtseva (1858-1884, painter
★ Sergei Bongart (1918-1985)
★ Ksenia Boguslavskaya (1892-1972), painter
★ Vladimir Borovikovsky (1757-1825) painter
★ Alexandre Benois (1870-1960), seminal influence on modern design
★ Ivan Yakovlevich Bilibin, illustrator
★ Karl Briullov (1799-1852), painter
★ Feodor Bruni (1801-1875) painter
★ Marc Chagall (1887-1985), painter
★ Pavel Chistyakov (1832-1919), painter, Russian teacher
★ Carl-Ludwig Christinek (1732-1792)
★ Dionisy, medieval icon-painter
★ Aleksandra Ekster (1882-1949), painter, one of the founders of Art Deco
★ Robert Falk (1886-1958), painter
★ Peter Carl Fabergé (1846-1920), jewellery designer
★ Pavel Fedotov (1815-1852) painter
★ Nikolai Ge (1831-1894) painter
★ Nina Genke-Meller avant-garde artist (suprematist)
★ Feofan Grek, medieval icon-painter
★ Alexej Harlamoff (1842-1922) painter
★ Alexander Andreyevich Ivanov (1806-1858) painter
★ Andrei Ivanov (1775-1848) painter
★ Anton Ivanov (1818-1864) painter
★ Alexej von Jawlensky (1864-1941) painter
★ Nikolai Kasatkin (1859-1930) painter
★ Wassily Kandinsky (1866-1944), first abstract painter
★ Ivan Khrutsky (1810-1885) painter
★ Orest Kiprensky (1782-1836) painter
★ Pyotr Konchalovsky painter
★ Konstantin Korovin (1861-1932) painter
★ Ivan Nikolaevich Kramskoi, (1837-1887), painter and the art critic
★ Nikifor Krylov (1802-1831) painter
★ Arkhip Kuindzhi (1842-1910) painter
★ Alexander V. Kuprin (1880-1960), painter
★ Nikolai Dmitrievich Kuznetsov (1850-1929) painter
★ Mikhail Larionov (1881-1964) painter
★ Aristarkh Lentulov (1882 - 1943) painter
★ Isaac Levitan (1860-1900), landscape painter
★ Dmitry Levitzky (1735-1822), portrait painter
★ Ernst Lipgart (1847-1932) painter
★ Anton Losenko (1737-1773) painter
★ Kazimir Malevich (1878-1935), suprematist painter, ''Black square''
★ Konstantin Makovsky (1839-1915) painter
★ Ilya Mashkov (1881-1944) painter
★ Vadym Meller (1884-1962) painter (constructivist),theatrical designer
★ Vera Mukhina (1889-1953), sculptress
★ Grigoriis Musikiysky (1670-1740)
N-Z
★ Ivan Nikitin (1690-1742) painter
★ Alexander Nikulin (1878-1945), painter
★ Leonid Pasternak (1862-1945), painter
★ Vasily Perov (1834-1882) painter
★ Kuzma Petrov-Vodkin (1878-1939), painter
★ Vasily Polenov (1844-1927), landscape painter
★ Serge Poliakoff (1900-1969), painter
★ Liubov Popova (1889-1924), cubist, abstract painter
★ Prokhor, medieval icon-painter
★ Charles Radoff (1894-1986), painter
★ Ilya Repin (1844-1930), painter
★ Aleksandr Rodchenko (1891-1956), designer, constructivist painter
★ Konstantin Rodko (1908)-(1995), naïve painter
★ Nicholas Roerich (1874-1947), painter
★ Svetoslav Roerich, (1904-1993), painter
★ Fyodor Rokotov (1736-1809), portrait painter
★ Andrei Rublev (circa 1360-1430), medieval icon-painter
★ Andrei Ryabushkin (1861-1904), historical subjects
★ Konstantin Savitsky (1844-1905) painter
★ Alexei Kondratyevich Savrasov (1830-1897) painter
★ Silvestr Feodosievich Shchedrin (1791-1830) painter
★ Yevgeni Shchukin (1959-) painter
★ Zinaida Serebriakova (1884-1967), painter of female nudes
★ Valentin Serov (1865-1911) painter
★ Ivan Shishkin (1832-1898) painter
★ Fedor Slavyansky (1817-1876) painter
★ Boris Smirnov-Rusetsky (1905-1993) painter
★ Konstantin Somov (1869-1939) illustrator
★ Grigory Soroka (1823-1864) painter
★ Vasily Surikov (1848-1916) painter
★ Pavel Tchelitchew (1898-1957) painter
★ Vladimir Tatlin (1885 - 1953), painter and architect.
★ Count Feodor Tolstoy (1783-1873) painter
★ Vasily Andreevich Tropinin (1776-1857) painter
★ Simon Ushakov (1626-1686), painter
★ Vasiliy Yermilov avant-garde artist(costructivist)
★ Feodor Vasilyev (1850-1873) painter
★ Konstantin Vasiliev (1942-1976), painter
★ Apollinary Vasnetsov (1856-1933), painter
★ Viktor Vasnetsov (1848-1926), painter
★ Alexey Venetsianov (1780-1847) painter
★ Vasily Vereshchagin (1842-1904), war artist
★ Ivan Vishnyakov (1699-1761), painter
★ Mikhail Vrubel (1856-1910) painter
★ Marianne von Werefkin (1860-1938) painter
★ Alexandr Zhdanov (1938-2006) painter and sculptor
Authors
''See also List of Russian authors, which lists authors who wrote in Russian language.''
A-E
★ Chinghiz Aitmatov, author
★ Anna Akhmatova, poet
★ Bella Akhmadulina, poet
★ Konstantin Aksakov
★ Sergei Aksakov, author
★ Boris Akunin (b. 1956), author, essayist, translator, literary critic
★ Mark Aldanov novelist
★ Genrich Altov, science fiction writer
★ Vasily Aksyonov, author
★ Daniil Andreyev, ''Roza Mira''
★ Leonid Andreyev, ''The Seven Who Were Hanged''
★ Innokenty Annensky, poet
★ Mikhail Artsybashev, author
★ Arkady Timofeevich Averchenko, satirist
★ Gennadiy Aygi (1934-2006), author, translator
★ Isaac Babel (1894-1940), author
★ Eduard Bagritsky, poet
★ Mikhail Bakhtin, philosopher
★ Konstantin Balmont, poet
★ Evgeny Baratynsky, poet
★ Ivan Barkov, poet, diplomat and translator
★ Konstantin Batyushkov, poet
★ Pavel Bazhov, fair tales author, ''The Malachite Casket''
★ Aleksandr Bek (1903-1972), author
★ Vissarion Belinsky (1811-1848), writer, literary critic and philosopher
★ Andrey Bely (1880-1934), poet and author, ''Petersburg''
★ Alexander Belyayev (1884-1942), science fiction author
★ Olga Berggolts, poet
★ Helena Blavatsky (1831-1891) "The Secret Doctrine", "Isis Unveiled"
★ Aleksandr Blok, poet
★ Alexander Bogdanov, writer, philosopher, politician, ''Red Star''
★ Osip Maximovich Brik
★ Joseph Brodsky, poet and esseyist, Nobel Prize laureat
★ Valery Bryusov (1873–1924), poet
★ Vladimir Bukovsky (b. 1942), writer and dissident
★ Mikhail Bulgakov (1891-1940), playwright and author, ''Master and Margarita''
★ Kir Bulychev (1934-2003), science fiction author
★ Ivan Bunin (1870-1953), first Russian Nobel Prize Winner
★ Vasil Bykov
★ Anton Chekhov (1860-1904),short stories author and playwright, ''The Cherry Orchard'', ''Three Sisters'', ''The Seagull''
★ Nikolai Chernyshevsky (1828-1889), writer, journalist, politician
★ Sasha Cherny (1880-1932), poet
★ Korney Chukovsky
★ Vladimir Dal
★ Denis Davydov
★ Gavrila Derzhavin
★ Nikolay Dobrolyubov
★ Yuri Dombrovsky, author
★ Fyodor Dostoyevsky (1821-1881), ''Brothers Karamazov'', ''Crime and Punishment''
★ Sergei Dovlatov
★ Yanka Dyagileva
★ Galina Dyuragin (1898-1991), author, known under the pseudonym Alexandra Rachmanova
★ Ivan Efremov, science fiction writer and geologist
★ Venedikt Erofeev, ''Moscow-Petushki''
★ Viktor Erofeev
★ Yevgeny Yevtushenko, poet
F-R
★ Alexander Fadeyev (1901-1956), author, ''Molodaya gvardiya'', ''Chapayev''
★ Konstantin Fedin
★ Afanasy Fet
★ Denis Fonvizin
★ Arkady Gaydar (1904-1941)
★ Vladimir Gilyarovsky
★ Nikolay Gnedich
★ Vasilisk Gnedov
★ Sergei Gorodetsky
★ Cherubina de Gabriak
★ Alexander Gorodnitsky
★ Zinaida Gippius
★ Anatoly Gladilin
★ Fedor Nikolaevich Glinka
★ Nikolai Gogol (1809-1852), author, ''Dead Souls'', ''Revizor''
★ Ivan Goncharov (1812-1891), ''Oblomov''
★ Maxim Gorky (1868-1936), novelist, ''My Universities''
★ Aleksandr Griboyedov (1795-1828), writer, statesman, ''Woe from Wit''
★ Semyon Gudzenko, poet
★ Lev Gumilyov (Lev Gumilev), historian
★ Nikolay Gumilyov, poet
★ Boris Grebenshchikov, a musician, a band ''Aquarium''
★ Dmitry Grigorovich
★ Alexandr Grin, novelist, ''Alye Parusa''
★ Igor Guberman, humorist
★ Alexander Herzen
★ Ilya Ilf
★ Fazil Iskander, (b. 1929), novelist
★ Vyacheslav Ivanov
★ Dmitri Kantemir
★ Nikolai Karamzin (1766-1826), poet, author, historian
★ Anna Kashina
★ Lev Kassil
★ Valentin Katayev
★ Veniamin Kaverin
★ Daniil Kharms
★ Velimir Khlebnikov
★ Vladislav Khodasevich, ''Gavrila Derghavin''
★ Mikhail Koltsov, journalist and satirist
★ Lev Kopelev
★ Vladimir Korolenko
★ Sergey Kozlov
★ Peter Borisovich Kozlovski, (1783-1840) diplomat and man of letters
★ Vladislav Krapivin
★ Ivan Krylov
★ Aleksandr Kuprin, ''Poedinok/ Duel''
★ Lazar Lagin, ''Hottabych''
★ Peter Lavrovitch Lavrov, (1823-1900) socialist and revolutionist
★ Leonid Leonov
★ Mikhail Lermontov (1814-1841), poet, author and painter
★ Nikolai Leskov (1831-1895), storyteller, novelist, and journalist, Levsha
★ Eduard Limonov, ''Edichka''
★ Mikhail Lomonosov (1711-1765), linguistic reformer
★ Nadezhda Mandelstam
★ Osip Mandelstam, poet
★ Alexandra Marinina
★ Vladimir Mayakovsky
★ Apollon Maykov
★ Dmitriy Merezhkovsky, playwriter
★ Vladimir Nabokov (1899-1977), wrote first in Russian, then in English, author of ''Lolita''
★ Semen Nadson, poet
★ Vladimir Narbut, poet
★ Alexandr Nekrasov
★ Nikolai Alekseevich Nekrasov (1821 – 1878), poet, journalist and editor
★ Viktor Nekrasov, (1911-1988), writer
★ Nikolay Nosov, ''Neznaika''
★ Vladimir Obruchev, ''Plutonia''
★ Vladimir Odoevsky
★ Nikolai Ogaryov (1813-1877)
★ Yuri Olesha, ''Tri tolstyaka''
★ Alexandr Ostrovsky, playwriter
★ Nikolai Ostrovsky, ''Kak Zakalylas Stal''
★ Boris Pasternak (1890-1960), was not permitted by USSR to accept the Nobel Prize, ''Doctor Zhivago''
★ Konstantin Paustovsky
★ Viktor Pelevin (b. 1962), novelist, ''Omon Ra'', ''Chapaev i Pustota''
★ Yakov Perelman
★ Evgeny Petrov
★ Boris Pilnyak
★ Dmitri Pisarev
★ Aleksey Pisemsky
★ Andrei Platonov, author, ''Kotlovan'', ''Chelengur''
★ Yakov Polonsky
★ Boris Polevoy
★ Nikolay Pomyalovsky, ''Ocherki Bursy''
★ Mikhail Prishvin
★ Kozma Prutkov, a pen name
★ Aleksandr Pushkin (1799-1837), the greatest Russian poet, novelist, ''Evgenij Onegin''
★ Alexander Radishchev (1749-1802), social critic
★ Xavier (Charles) Basil Radoff (1894-1986)
★ Ayn Rand (1905-1982), American novelist
★ Valentin Rasputin
★ Irina Ratushinskaya
★ Aleksei Remizov
★ Helena Roerich (1879-1949)
★ K.R., Konstantin Romanov, Silver Age poet
★ Viktor Rozov
S-Z
★ Mikhail Saltykov-Shchedrin (1826-1889), novelist
★ Benedikt Sarnov, literary critic, social and political commentator
★ Boris Savinkov, writer and terrorist
★ Ilya Selvinsky, (1899-1968)
★ Alexander Serafimovich
★ Igor Severyanin, poet
★ Varlam Shalamov (1907-1982), author of tales about Gulag
★ Boyan Shiryanov
★ Mikhail Shishkin
★ Mikhail Sholokhov
★ Vasily Shukshin, ''Kalina Krasnaya''
★ Konstantin Simonov
★ Andrei Sinyavsky
★ Boris Slutsky, poet
★ Fyodor Sologub
★ Alexander Isayevich Solzhenitsyn (b. 1918), Nobel Prize for Literature
★ Vladimir Sorokin
★ Ivan N. Smirnov
★ Ivan Smirnov, guitarist
★ Boris and Arkady Strugatsky
★ Aleksandr Petrovich Sumarokov
★ Alexandr Sukhovo-Kobylin
★ Viktor Suvorov, writer and spy
★ Nadezhda Teffi, humorist
★ Vladimir Tendryakov
★ Aleksey Konstantinovich Tolstoy ''Knyaz Serebrynyj''
★ Aleksei Nikolaevich Tolstoi ''Aelita''
★ Leo Tolstoy (1828-1910) ''War and Peace'', ''Anna Karenina''
★ Tatyana Tolstaya
★ Vasily Trediakovsky
★ Yury Trifonov, ''Dom na Naberezhnoi/ House on the Embankment''
★ Leon Trotsky
★ Marina Tsvetaeva
★ Ivan Turgenev
★ Aleksandr Tvardovsky
★ Fyodor Tyutchev
★ Yury Tynyanov
★ Lyudmila Ulitskaya
★ Eduard Uspensky
★ Boris Vasilyev, ''A zori zdes tikhie''
★ Alexander M. Volkov
★ Maximilian Voloshin
★ Vladimir Voinovich
★ Mikhail Veller
★ Nicholas Yermakov
★ Pyotr Yershov
★ Sergei Yesenin
★ Yevgeny Yevtushenko
★ Nikolay Zabolotsky
★ Yevgeny Zamyatin (1884-1937), author of ''We''
★ Iuliia Zhádovskaia
★ Vasily Zhukovsky
★ Mikhail Zoshchenko
=== Film directors
★ Fyodor Bondarchuk
★ Sergei Bondarchuk
★ Yevgeni Bauer
★ Grigori Chukhrai
★ Pavel Chukhrai
★ Georgi Daneliya
★ Alexander Dovzhenko
★ Sergei Eisenstein
★ Leonid Gaidai
★ Andrei Konchalovsky
★ Edmond Keosayan
★ Fjodor Khitruk
★ Elem Klimov
★ Grigori Kozintsev
★ Lev Kuleshov
★ Pavel Lungin
★ Nikita Mikhalkov
P-Z
★ Aleksandr Petrov
★ Yakov Protazanov
★ Aleksandr Ptushko
★ Vsevolod Pudovkin
★ Mikhail Romm
★ Eldar Ryazanov
★ Karen Shakhnazarov
★ Larisa Shepitko
★ Vasily Shukshin
★ Alexander Sokurov
★ Ladislas Starevich
★ Andrei Tarkovsky
★ Dziga Vertov
★ Erika Hathaway
★ Ashley Rockwood
=== Musicians and Composers
★ Alexander Vasilyevich Alexandrov, composer
★ Achilles Alferaki (1846-1919), composer
★ Alexander Alyabyev, composer
★ Anton Arensky, composer
★ Boris Asafiev, composer
★ Mily Balakirev, composer
★ Boris Berezovsky, pianist
★ Dima Bilan (1981-), singer
★ Alexander Borodin (1833-1887), composer
★ Sergei Bortkiewicz, composer
★ Dmytro Bortniansky, composer
★ Tatyana Bulanova (1969-), singer
★ Fyodor Chaliapin (1873-1938), opera singer, bass
★ César Cui (1835-1918)
★ Alexander Dargomyzhsky, composer
★ Edison Denisov, composer
★ Nikolai Demidenko, composer
★ Valery Gergiev (1953), pianist, conductor
★ Emil Gilels (1916-1985), pianist
★ Alexander Glazunov (1865-1936), composer
★ Mikhail Glinka (1804-1857), composer of ''Russlan and Ludmilla''
★ Alexander Goedicke, composer
★ Evgeny Golubev, composer
★ Nikolai Golovanov (1891-1953), conductor
★ Alexander Gretchaninoff, composer
★ Vladimir Horowitz (1903-1989), pianist
★ Mikhail Ippolitov-Ivanov
★ Dmitry Kabalevsky (1904-1987)
★ Vasily Kalinnikov
★ Nikolai Kapustin
★ Aram Khachaturian (1903-1978)
★ Grigori Korchmar
★ Evgeni Kostitsyn (b. 1963), composer, pianist, and conductor
★ Lena Katina (b. 1984), singer
★ Tikhon Khrennikov (b. 1913), composer
★ Kyril Kondrashin (1914-1981), conductor
★ Leonid Kogan (1924-1982), violinist
★ Anatoly Konstantinovich Lyadov, composer
★ Sergei Lyapunov, composer
★ Nikolai Medtner (1880-1951), composer, pianist
★ Vyacheslav Mescherin (-1995), Synthesizer music composer, audio engineer
★ Viktoria Mullova (1959), violinist
★ Modest Mussorgsky (1839-1881), composer of ''Boris Godunov'', ''Pictures at an Exhibition''
★ Origa (1970), singer, performs theme songs for various anime series
P-Z
★ Nikolai Myaskovsky (1881-1950), composer
★ Aleksandra Pakhmutova (1929-), composer
★ Nikolai Petrov (1943-), composer
★ Mikhail Pletnev (1957-), composer
★ Gregor Piatigorsky (1903-1976), composer
★ Valery Polekh (1918-1992), composer
★ Alla Pugacheva (1949-), singer and composer
★ Vadim Repin (1971-), composer, violinist
★ Mstislav Rostropovich (1927-), cellist
★ Gennady Rozhdestvensky (1931-), composer
★ Sergei Prokofiev (1891-1953), composer
★ Sergei Rachmaninoff (1873-1943)
★ Sergey Lazarev (1983-), vocalist
★ Sviatoslav Richter (1915-1997), pianist
★ Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov (1844-1908), composer
★ Mstislav Rostropovich (b. 1927), cellist and conductor
★ Nikolai Rubinstein (1835-1881), pianist, conductor and composer
★ Vasily Ilyich Safonov (1852-1918), composer and music educator
★ Alfred Schnittke (1934-1998), composer
★ Alexander Scriabin (1871-1915), composer and pianist
★ Dmitri Shostakovich (1906-1975), composer
★ Igor Stravinsky (1882-1971), composer
★ Vadim Salmanov (1912-1978), composer
★ Vasilii Sarenko (1814-1881), composer
★ Alexander Serov (1820-1871), composer
★ Rodion Shchedrin (1932-), composer
★ Vissarion Shebalin (1902-1963), composer
★ Nicolas Slonimsky (1894-1995), composer
★ Georgy Sviridov (1915-1998), composer
★ Andrei Sychra (1881-1956), composer
★ Aleksandr Taneyev (1881-1956), composer
★ Sergey Taneyev (1856-1915), composer
★ Mikael Tariverdiev (1893-1986), composer
★ Pyotr Tchaikovsky (1840-1893), composer
★ Boris Tchaikovsky (1881-1956), composer
★ Alexander Tcherepnin (1899-1977), composer
★ Viktor Tsoy (1962-1990), poet, composer, musician, acter (one of the figures who defined the era of 80's)
★ Serafim Tulikov (1913-2004), composer
★ Galina Ustvolskaya (1919- 2006), composer
★ Yulia Volkova (b. 1985), singer
★ Arcadi Volodos (1972-), pianist
★ Ivan Vïshnegradsky (1881-1956), composer
Performing Arts
Theatre Directors
★ Anatoly Efros
★ Yury Lyubimov
★ Leonid Varpakhovsky
★ Konstantin Stanislavski
★ Michael Chekhov
★ Yevgeny Vakhtangov
Performers
★ Vera Alentova (b. 1942), actress
★ Mikhail Baryshnikov (b. 1948), ballet dancer
★ Sergei Bodrov, filmmaker
★ Sergei Bodrov Jr. (1971-2002), actor
★ Sergei Bondarchuk (1920-1994), film director
★ Boris Brunov (1922-1997), actor
★ Yul Brynner, actor
★ Dmitry Chaplin dancer So You Think You Can Dance Season 2
★ Sergei Diaghilev (1872-1929), ballet impresario
★ Michel Fokine (1880-1942), choreographer, dancer
★ Leonid Filatov, actor
★ Milla Jovovich, actress, model, and musician
★ Elizaveta Gerdt (1891-1975), ballerina
★ Pavel Gerdt (1844-1917), danseur
★ Vera Karalli (1889-1972), ballerina and actress
★ Tamara Karsavina (1885-1978), ballerina
★ Lila Kedrova (1918-2000), actress
★ Mathilde Kschessinska (1872-1971), prima ballerina assoluta
★ Lydia Lopokova (1892-1971), ballerina
★ Nikita Mikhalkov (b. 1945), filmmaker and politician
★ Solomon Mikhoels, Soviet-Yiddish actor
★ Vaslav Fomich Nijinsky (1890-1950), ballet dancer, choreographer
★ Ivan Novikoff (1899-2002), ballet master
★ Rudolf Nureyev (1938-1993), ballet dancer
★ Lubov Orlova (1902-1975), actress
★ Anna Pavlova (1882-1931), ballerina
★ Maya Plisetskaya (born 1925), ballerina
★ Olga Preobrajenska (1871-1962), ballerina
★ Alexander Ptushko (1900-1973), animation & film director
★ Stanislav Savich dancer So You Think You Can Dance Season 2
★ Yuri Soloviev (1940-1977), ballet dancer
★ Konstantin Stanislavsky (1868-1938), actor
★ Natalie Wood (1938-1981), actress
★ Galina Ulanova (1910-1988), ballerina
★ Agrippina Vaganova (1879-1951), ballet teacher
★ Vera Volkova (1904-1975), ballerina
=== Poets ===
(''who wrote much of their poetry in the Russian language, see List of Russian language poets'')
== Cosmonauts ==
A-N
★ Yuri Artyukhin (1930-1998)
★ Pavel Belyayev (1925-1970)
★ Georgi Beregovoi (1921-1995)
★ Valery Bykovsky
★ Lev Demin (1926-1998)
★ Georgi Dobrovolski (1928-1971)
★ Vladimir Dzhanibekov
★ Konstantin Feoktistov
★ Anatoli Filipchenko
★ Yuri Gagarin (1934-1968), first human in space
★ Viktor Gorbatko
★ Georgi Grechko
★ Aleksei Gubarev
★ Alexandr Kaleri
★ Yevgeny Khrunov (1933-2000)
★ Pyotr Klimuk
★ Vladimir Komarov (1927-1967)
★ Sergei Krikalyov, the person who accumulated most time in space (803 days)
★ Valeri Kubasov
★ Vasili Lazarev (1929-1990)
★ Valentin Lebedev
★ Aleksei Leonov, first person to walk in space
★ Oleg Makarov (1933-2003)
★ Andrian Nikolayev (1929-2004)
P-Z
★ Viktor Patsayev (1933-1971)
★ Valeri Polyakov, the person who accumulated most time in space in a single spaceflight (437 days)
★ Pavel Popovich
★ Nikolai Rukavishnikov (1932-2002)
★ Valeri Ryumin
★ Gennadi Sarafanov (1942-2005)
★ Svetlana Savitskaya, second woman in space
★ Vladimir Shatalov
★ Georgi Shonin (1935-1997)
★ Valentina Tereshkova (b. 1937), first woman in space
★ Gherman Titov (1935-2000)
★ Vladislav Volkov (1935-1971)
★ Boris Volynov
★ Boris Yegorov(1937-1994)
★ Aleksei Yeliseyev
★ Vitali Zholobov
==Explorers==
★ Faddey Faddeyevich Bellingshausen, the Russian officer who discovered Antarctica
★ Vitus Bering (1681-1741), explorer of north-western and south-western Alaska
★ Semyon Ivanovich Dezhnev (circa 1605-1673), explorer of north-eastern Asia
★ Ivan Fedorov, explorer of north-western Alaska
★ Gerasim Izmailov, explorer of Alaska
★ Pyotr Kuzmich Kozlov, explorer of Mongolia and Tibet
★ Ivan Fedorovich Kruzenshtern, the first Russian to circumnavigate the world
★ Nicholai Miklukho-Maklai (1846-1888), anthropologist who lived among the natives of Papua New Guinea
★ Afanasiy Nikitin, the first European who documented his visit to India
★ Nikolai Przhevalsky (1839 - 1888), explorer of central and eastern Asia
★ Nikolai Alekseevich Severtzov (1827 - 1885)
★ Ferdinand Petrovich Wrangel (1796-1870), expolerer of Arctica
==Inventors==
★ Zhores Ivanovich Alferov (1930), physicist
★ Oleg Antonov(1906-1984) airplane designer
★ Nikolay Gennadiyevich Basov (1922 - 2001), laser inventor, Nobel Prize for Physics 1964, together with Alexandr Prokhorov
★ Vasily Degtyaryov (1880-1947), weapons designer
★ Pyotr Kozmitch Frolov (1775-1839), mining engineer and inventor horse-railway
★ Leonid Gobyato (1875-1915), Russian general, inventor of the modern Mortar (weapon)
★ Sergey Vladimirovich Ilyushin (1894-1977), aircraft constructor
★ Nikolai Kibalchich (1853-1881)
★ Sergei Pavlovich Korolev (1907-1966), rocket engineer and designer, ''Father of the space program''
★ Gleb Yevgeniyevich Kotelnikov,(1872—1944), inventor of the knapsack parachute.
★ Ivan Petrovich Kulibin (1735-1818), mechanic
★ Semyon Lavochkin (1900-1960), aircraft designer
★ Alexander Nikolayevich Lodygin (1847 - 1923), electrical engineer and inventor
★ Artem Ivanovich Mikoyan (1905-1970), aircraft designer
★ Constantin Perskyi engineer, invented word "television"
★ Alexander Popov (1859-1906), Russia's ''Marconi'', a developer of radio
★ Alexandr Prokhorov (1916-2002), physicist, Nobel Prize for Physics 1964, born in Queensland, Australia
★ Sergei Mikhailovich Prokudin-Gorskii (1863-1944), father of colour photography
★ Boris Rosing (1869-1933)
★ Igor Sikorsky (1889-1972), helicopter and aircraft designer
★ Nikolai Rynin (1887–1942) engineer
★ Pavel Sukhoi (1895-1975), aircraft constructor and designer
★ Leon Theremin (1896-1993), inventor of one of the first electronic musical instruments, the Theremin
★ Konstantin Tsiolkovsky (1857-1935), rocket scientist and pioneer of astronautics
★ Andrey Tupolev (1888-1972), aircraft designer and builder
★ Dmitry Ivanovich Vinogradov (1720?-1758), inventor of the Russian porcelain
★ Pavel Yablochkov, electrical engineer, inventor of Yablochkov candle
★ Nikolai Yegorovich Zhukovsky
★ Vladimir Zworykin (1889-1982) pioneer of TV technology
== Scientists ==
A-J
★ Alexei Abrikosov, physicist, Nobel Prize recipient
★ Tatyana Alexeyevna Afanasyeva, mathematician
★ Viktor Amazaspovich Ambartsumian, astronomer and astrophysicist
★ Delibash Boris Apostolovich, worked on the Sputnik program.
★ Lev Artsimovich, physicist
★ Pavel Sergeevich Alexandrov, mathematician
★ Zhores Ivanovich Alferov Nobel Prize winner
★ Dmitri Victorovich Anosov, mathematician
★ Vladimir Arnoldi, botanist
★ Vladimir Mikhailovich Bekhterev, psychologist and neuropathologist
★ Boris Belousov, chemist / biophysicist
★ Nikolay Bogolyubov, mathematician and theoretical physicist
★ Aleksei Aleksandrovich Balandin, chemist
★ Nikolai P. Barabashov, astronomer
★ Valeri L. Barsukov, chemist
★ Nikolay Nikolayevich Beketov, chemist
★ Lev Semenovich Berg, biologist
★ Alexander Borodin, chemist
★ Aleksandr L'vovich Brudno, computer scientist
★ Boris Yakovych Bukreyev, mathematician
★ Leonid Bunimovich, mathematician
★ Aleksandr Mikhailovich Butlerov
★ Nikolai Bugaev, mathematician
★ Pafnuti Chebyshev, mathematician
★ Pavel Cherenkov, physicist, Nobel Prize
★ Aleksei Chichibabin, chemist
★ Vasily V. Dokuchaev, the founder of the modern soil science
★ Dimitri Fedorovich Egorov, mathematician
★ Zinaida Vissarionovna Ermolyeva, microbiologist
★ Dmitry Aleksandrovich Fadeyev, mathematician
★ Famitsyn A.S., biologist
★ Vladimir Aleksandrovich Fock, physicist
★ Anatoly Timofeevich Fomenko, mathematician, chronologist
★ Valentin Fomine, physicist
★ Sergei Fomin, mathematician
★ Ilya Mikhailovich Frank, physicist, Nobel Prize winner
★ Eugène Gabritschevsky, biologist
★ Vitaly Ginzburg, physicist, Nobel Prize recipient
★ Boris Grakov, archaeologist
★ Alexander Gurwitsch, biologist
★ Abram Fedorovich Ioffe, physicist
★ Vladimir Ipatieff, chemist
★ Dmitri Ivanenko, physicist
K-M
★ Pyotr Kafarov, sinologist
★ Leonid Kantorovich, mathematician and economist
★ Pyotr Leonidovich Kapitsa, physicist, discoverer of superfluidity, Nobel Prize in physics
★ Nikolai Kardashev, astrophysicist
★ Kerim Kerimov, engineer
★ Isaak Markovich Khalatnikov, physicist
★ Julii Khariton, physicist
★ Orest Khvolson, physicist
★ Karl Klaus (1796 – 1864), chemist, discoverer of ruthenium.
★ Andrey Nikolaevich Kolmogorov, mathematician
★ Nikolai Koltsov, famous Russian biologist
★ Sergei Kopeikin, physicist
★ Sofia Kovalevskaya, mathematician
★ Alexander Kovalevsky, embryologist
★ Boris Kozo-Polyansky, biologist
★ Stepan Krasheninnikov
★ Feodosy Krasovsky
★ Aleksandr Semenovich Kronrod, mathematician, computer scientist, economist
★ Nikolay Mitrofanovich Krylov, mathematician and theoretical physicist
★ Igor Kurchatov, atomic bomb physicist
★ Olga Aleksandrovna Ladyzhenskaya, mathematician
★ Lev Landau, physicist and mathematician, Nobel Prize in physics
★ Georgy Langemak
★ Mikhail Lavrentyev, physicist and mathematician
★ Mikhail Lebedev, neuroscientist
★ Petr Nikolaevich Lebedev, physicist
★ Nikolai Lobachevsky, mathematician
★ Mikhail Lomonosov, polymath
★ Nikolai Nikolaevich Lusin, mathematician
★ Aleksandr Lyapunov, mathematician
★ Trofim Lysenko, biologist
★ Dmitri Maksutov
★ Anatoly Maltsev
★ Leonid Mandelshtam, physicist
★ Yuri Ivanovich Manin, mathematician
★ Andrei Markov, mathematician
★ Ilya Ilyich Mechnikov, biologist, Nobel Prize in medicine
★ Roy Medvedev
★ Zhores Medvedev
★ Dmitri Mendeleyev, chemist who developed a periodic table of the chemical elements
★ Konstantin Merezhkovsky, biologist, one of the creators of theory of endosymbiosis
★ Ivan Vladimirovich Michurin, selectionist
★ Aleksandr Fyodorovich Middendorf, zoologist
★ Peter Moscovic, known for his work with MRSA, MRi Techniques and sexually transmitted diseases
★ Victor Ivanovitsch Motschulsky
N-Z
★ Gennadi Nevelskoi, captain and navigator
★ Boris Nikolsky
★ Igor Novikov, theoretical astrophysicist and cosmologist
★ Aleksandr Oparin, biologist and biochemist
★ Yuri Orlov, physict, dissident and human rights activist
★ Mikhail Vasilievich Ostrogradsky, mathematician, mechanician and physicist
★ Peter D. Ouspensky, polymath
★ Peter Simon Pallas, a German working in Russia zoologist
★ Ivan Pavlov, physician and physiologist
★ Eugene Podkletnov, physicist
★ Alexander Stepanovich Popov, physicist
★ Andrei Sakharov, nuclear physicist
★ Ivan Mikhailovich Sechenov, father of Russian physiology
★ Nikolay Semyonov , physicist and chemist, Nobel Prize for Chemistry
★ Nikolai Ivanovich Shakura
★ Iosif Shklovsky, astronomer and astrophysicist
★ Dmitri Skobeltsyn, physisist
★ Sergei Lvovich Sobolev, mathematician
★ Yulian Sokhotski, mathematician
★ Vladimir Steklov, physicist and mathematician
★ Georg Steller, naturalist and ornithologist of German origin.
★ Friedrich Wilhelm Struve (Vasily Yakovlevich Struve), astronomer
★ Igor Tamm, physicist, Nobel Prize
★ Kliment Arkadyevich Timiryazev, botanist
★ Nikolai V. Timofeeff-Ressovsky, biologist
★ Mikhail Tsvet, botanist, inventor of chromatography
★ Nikolay Umov, mathematician
★ Nikolai Vavilov, biologist
★ Sergey Ivanovich Vavilov, physicist
★ Vladimir Ivanovich Vernadsky, geochemist, creator of the Noosphere theory
★ Alexander Vilentin, physicist
★ Ivan Matveevich Vinogradov, mathematician
★ Grigory Volovik, physicist
★ Sergei Winogradsky, microbiologist, ecologist, and soil scientist
★ Mikhail Yangel
★ Sabir Yunusov
★ Tatyana Zaslavskaya
★ Alexander Dmitrievich Zasyadko
★ Yakov Zel'dovich, physicist, astrophysicist and cosmologist
★ Nikolay Dimitrievich Zelinskiy, chemist
★ Nikolai Yegorovich Zhukovsky, aero- and hydrodynamics.
Statesmen and military
Before 1917
Royal
''See also Tsar for the list of old Russian rulers''
A-F
★ Alexei Nikolaevich (1904- 1918) Son of Nicholas II
★ Alexis (1629-1676), "Aleksey Mikhaylovich the Quietest"
★ Alexander I (1777-1825), "Alexander the Blessed"
★ Alexander II (1818-1881), "Alexander the Liberator"
★ Alexander III (1845-1894), "Alexander the Peacemaker"
★ Alexandra (1872-1918), Tsarina of Russia
★ Alexius Petrovich (1690-1718)
★ Anastasia (1901-1918), youngest daughter of Tsar Nicholas II
★ Anna (1693-1740), empress of Russia from 1730 to 1740
★ Boris Godunov (1551-1605)
★ Catherine I (1683-1727)
★ Catherine II (1729-1796), "Catherine the Great" (More German Ancestry than Russian)
★ Grand Duke Constantine Pavlovich (1779-1831), viceroy of Poland who abdicated the Russian throne
★ Elizabeth (1709-1761), daughter of Peter I the Great and Catherine I
★ Fyodor I (1557-1598)
★ Fyodor II (1589-1605)
★ Fyodor III (1661-1682)
★ Patriarch Filaret, father of the first Romanov tsar
I-Z
★ Ivan III (1440-1505)
★ Ivan IV (1530-1584)
★ Ivan V, joint ruler with Peter I
★ Ivan VI (1740-1764)
★ Maria Nikolayevna Romanova (1899-1918)
★ Marie Fyodorovna Romanova (1847-1928)
★ Michael (1596-1645)
★ Michael II (1878-1918)
★ Nicholas I (1825-1831)
★ Nicholas II (1868-1918)
★ Olga Nikolayevna Romanova (1895-1918)
★ Olga Romanova (1882-1960)
★ Paul I (1754-1801)
★ Peter I (1672-1725)
★ Peter II (1715-1730)
★ Peter III (1728-1762)
★ Tatiana Romanova (1897-1918)
★ Vasily (IV) Shuysky (1552-1612)
Politicians and diplomats
See also List of Russian Foreign Ministers
★ Alexander Bezborodko (1747-1799)
★ Aleksei Petrovich Bestuzhev-Ryumin (1693-1768)
★ Mikhail Petrovich Bestuzhev-Ryumin (1688-1760)
★ Zakhar Chernyshev (1722-1784)
★ Vasily Lukich Dolgorukov (about 1670-1739)
★ Nikolay Karlovich Giers (1820-1885)
★ Vasily Golitsyn (1643-1714) of the Galitzine family
★ Alexander Gorchakov (1798-1883) of the Gorchakov family
★ Ivan Andreyevich Khovansky (about 1600-1682)
★ Peter Borisovich Kozlovski (1783-1840)
★ Boris Ivanovich Kurakin (1676-1727)
★ Aleksey Borisovich Lobanov-Rostovsky (1824-1896)
★ Artamon Matveev (1625-1682)
★ Aleksandr Danilovich Menshikov (1673-1729)
★ Nikolai Vissarionovich Nekrasov (1879-1940), liberal politician
★ Nikolay Muravyov-Amursky (1809-1881)
★ Afanasy Ordin-Nashchokin (1605-1680)
★ Andrey Ivanovich Osterman (1686-1747)
★ Nikita Ivanovich Panin (1718-1783)
★ Nikita Petrovich Panin (1770-1837)
★ Konstantin Pobedonostsev (1827-1907)
★ Grigori Aleksandrovich Potemkin (1739-1791)
★ Alexei Grigorevich Razumovsky (1709–1771)
★ Anikita Ivanovich Repnin (1668-1726) of the Repnin family
★ Mikhail Speransky (1772-1839)
★ Ariadna Tyrkova-Williams (1869-1962), liberal politician
★ Mikhail Illarionovich Vorontsov (1714-1767)
★ Ekaterina Romanovna Vorontsova-Dashkova (1744-1810)
★ Artemy Petrovich Volynsky (1689-1740)
After 1917
Heads of state
★ Yuri Andropov (1914-1984), general secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union
★ Leonid Brezhnev (1906-1982), leader of the Soviet Union for 18 years
★ Konstantin Chernenko (1911-1985), general secretary of the Soviet Communist Party
★ Mikhail Gorbachev (1931), general secretary of the Communist Party and president of the USSR
★ Nikita Khrushchev (1894-1971), general secretary of the communist party of the USSR and head of state
★ Vladimir Lenin (1870-1924), Bolshevik party leader and the first Soviet head of state
★ Vladimir Putin (b. 1952), president of Russia since 2000
★ Joseph Stalin (1879-1953), Soviet Union premier.
★ Boris Yeltsin (1931-2007), president of Russia from 1991 to 1999
Revolution, politics and state figures
:''See List of socialists: Bolsheviks, Mensheviks, Communists.
:''See White Russians for opponents of Bolsheviks.''
A-L
★ Viktor Abakumov, head of the SMERSH counter-intelligence agency (1943-1946) and the MGB secret police (1946-1951)
★ Lavrenty Beria (1899-1953), Soviet chief of secret police under Joseph Stalin
★ Nikolai Bukharin (1888-1938), Politburo member (1919-1929), ''Pravda'' editor
★ Viktor Chernomyrdin (b. 1938), Prime Minister of Russia (1992-1998)
★ Sergey Mikhaylovich Darkin (b. 1963), governor of Primorsky Krai
★ Fedor Dan (1871-1949), Menshevik leader
★ Feliks Dzerzhinsky, founder of the Cheka secret police
★ Viktor Grishin (d. 1992), Politburo member, head of the Moscow party organization
★ Andrei Gromyko (1908-1989), Soviet foreign minister (1957-1985) and head of state (1985-1988)
★ Lazar Kaganovich, Politburo member (1930-1957), People's Commissar, deputy prime minister
★ Mikhail Kasyanov (b. 1957), Prime Minister of Russia from 2000 to 2004
★ Alexandra Kollontai (1872-1952), revolutionary, diplomat
★ Nikolai Krestinsky, Soviet finance minister and secretary of the Communist Party Central Committee (1919-1921)
★ Yegor Ligachev, second secretary of the Communist Party Central Committee under Mikhail Gorbachev
★ Maxim Litvinov, Soviet foreign minster (1930-1939)
M-Z
★ Julius Martov, Menshevik leader
★ Vyacheslav Molotov (1890-1986), Soviet prime minister (1930-1941) and foreign minister (1939-1949 and 1953-1956)
★ George Plekhanov, founder of Russian Marxism
★ Alexei Rykov, Soviet prime minister (1924-1930)
★ Anatoly Sobchak, first post-Soviet mayor of Saint Petersburg
★ Leon Trotsky (1879-1940), Soviet foreign minister (1917-1918) and defense minister (1918-1925), creator of Trotskyism, founder of the Fourth International
★ Irakli Tsereteli, Menshevik leader
★ Andrey Vyshinsky, Soviet Prosecutor General and foreign minister (1949-1953)
★ Genrikh Yagoda, interior minister and head of the Soviet secret police (1934-1936)
★ Nikolai Yezhov, interior minister and head of the Soviet secret police (1936-1938)
★ Gennady Zyuganov (1944), head of the Russian Communist Party since 1993
=== Military ===
''See also List of people associated with World War II: Soviet Union.''
''See also List of Marshals of the Soviet Union.''
''See also List of Russian Field Marshals.''
A-N
★ Prince Pyotr Bagration (1765-1812)
★ Semion Cheliuskin (circa 1700-after 1760), Polar explorer, lieutenant-captain of the Russian Imperial Navy
★ Valery Chkalov (1904-1938), aircraft pilot
★ Vasily Ivanovich Chuikov (1900 -1982), commanded the Soviet 62nd Army to victory at the Battle of Stalingrad.
★ Lev Dovator (1903-1941), WWII general and Hero of the Soviet Union
★ Joseph Vladimirovich Gourko, commander-in-chief during the Russo-Turkish War, 1877-78.
★ Mikhail Kamensky (1738-1809), Catherinian Field Marshal
★ Konstantin Kaufmann (1818-1882), general who conquered the Khanate of Khiva
★ Ivan Kozhedub (1920-1991), WWII fighter pilot, thrice Hero of the Soviet Union
★ Mikhail Kutuzov
★ Sigismund Levanevsky (1902-1937), aircraft pilot, among the first to receive the title of Hero of the Soviet Union
★ Anatoly Liapidevsky (1908-1983), aircraft pilot, among the first to receive the title of Hero of the Soviet Union
★ Stepan Osipovich Makarov (1848 -- 1904), admiral, explorer
★ Alexander Matrosov, soldier, Hero of the Soviet Union
★ Aleksandr Sergeyevich Menshikov, commander-in-chief during the Crimean War
★ Mikhail Andreyevich Miloradovich, hero of the Napoleonic wars
★ Pavel Nakhimov (1802-1855), legendary admiral
★ Alexander Ostermann-Tolstoy, hero of the Napoleonic wars
P-Z
★ Ivan Panfilov (1893-1941), WWII general and Hero of the Soviet Union
★ Ivan Paskevich, conqueror of Warsaw in 1831
★ Alexander Pokryshkin ( 1913 - 1985, WWII fighter pilot, thrice Hero of the Soviet Union
★ Konstantin Rokossovsky, marshal (a Pole)
★ Mikhail Skobelev, "White General" who conquered Central Asia
★ Oskar Victorovich Stark commander of the Port Arthur Squadron of the Imperial Russian fleet in 1904
★ Aleksandr Suvorov, Generaslissimo who never lost a battle
★ Victor Talalikhin (1918-1941), WWII lieutenant and Hero of the Soviet Union
★ Mikhail Tukhachevsky, marshal
★ Aleksandr Vasilevsky, marshal
★ Andrey Vlasov (1900-1946), Red Army general turned Nazi collaborator and the commander of volunteer Russian forces (ROA, "Russian Liberation Army") of the German army during WWII
★ Mikhail Vodopianov (1899-1975), aircraft pilot, among the first to receive the title of Hero of the Soviet Union
★ Kliment Voroshilov (1881-1969), marshal and politician
★ Aleksey Yermolov, hero of Battle of Borodino; military ruler of the Caucasus
★ Georgy Zhukov (1896-1974), marshal, chief of general staff of the Red Army and representative of STAVKA, four times Hero of the Soviet Union
== Sport
★ Alexander Alekhine
★ Yuri Averbakh
★ Mikhail Chigorin
★ Mikhail Botvinnik
★ Semen Furman
★ Anatoly Karpov
★ Garry Kasparov
★ Alexander Khalifman
★ Victor Korchnoi
★ Alexander Kotov
★ Vladimir Kramnik
★ Grigory Levenfish
★ Alexander Petrov
★ Peter Romanovsky
★ Emmanuel Schiffers
★ Vasily Smyslov
★ Boris Spassky
★ Peter Svidler
★ Mark Taimanov
=== Gymnastics ===
★ Nikolai Andrianov (b. 1952), gymnast, world record for men for most Olympic medals
★ Yelena Davydova (b. 1961), Olympic gymnast
★ Maria Filatova (b. 1961), Olympic gymnast
★ Alina Kabaeva, Olympic gymnast
★ Svetlana Khorkina, Olympic gymnast. Known for her diva-like behavior. She is the most decorated gymnast though.
★ Sofia Muratova (b. 1929), Olympic gymnast
★ Alexei Nemov, (b. 1976), Olympic gymnast
★ Natalia Shaposhnikova (b. 1961), Olympic gymnast
★ Yelena Shushunova (b. 1969), Olympic gymnast
★ Alexander Tkachyov (b. 1957), Olympic gymnast
=== Tennis ===
★ Andrei Chesnokov, tennis player
★ Nikolay Davydenko, (b. 1981), tennis player
★ Elena Dementieva, (b. 1981), tennis player. Reached 2 Grand Slam finals in 2004 (French Open and U.S. Open)
★ Yevgeny Kafelnikov, (b. 1974), tennis player
★ Anna Kournikova, (b. 1981), tennis player, celebrity, and model.
★ Svetlana Kuznetsova, (b. 1985), tennis player. Won the 2004 U.S. Open.
★ Anastasia Myskina, (b. 1981), tennis player. Won the 2004 French Open.
★ Nadia Petrova, (b. 1982), tennis player
★ Marat Safin (b. 1980), tennis player. Won 2000 U.S. Open and 2005 Australian Open.
★ Maria Sharapova, (b. 1987), tennis player. Won 2004 Wimbledon at age of 17 and 2006 U.S. Open. Only Russian woman with more than 2 Grand Slam titles (2nd Russian woman to win the Grand Slam, 1st to win Wimbledon) and first Russian woman to reach No. 1 in the rankings.
★ Dmitry Tursunov, (b. 1982), tennis player
★ Mikhail Youzhny, (b. 1982), tennis player
=== Ice hockey ===
★ Pavel Bure (b. 1971), NHL star
★ Sergei Fedorov (b. 1969), NHL star
★ Viacheslav Fetisov (b. 1958)
★ Nikolai Khabibulin (b. 1973), NHL star goalie
★ Valery Kharlamov (1948-1981), Russia's most popular international ice hockey player
★ Vladimir Konstantinov
★ Ilya Kovalchuk -NHL Star
★ Vyacheslav Kozlov
★ Oleg Kvasha (b.1978)
★ Igor Larionov
★ Sergei Makarov
★ Evgeni Malkin -a Pittsburgh Penguin rookie
★ Alexander Ovechkin- NHL Star
★ Vladimir Vladimirovich Petrov
★ Alexei Ponikarovsky
★ Vladislav Tretiak (b. 1952), goalie
★ Alexander Yakushev (b. 1947)
★ Sergei Zubov
=== Weightlifting ===
★ Vasily Alexeev (b. 1942), Olympic weightlifter, set 80 World Records
★ Yuri Vlasov, Olympic weightlifter
★ Arkady Vorobyov (b. 1924), Olympic weightlifter
★ Leonid Zhabotinsky (b. 1938), Olympic weightlifter
Other
★ Evgeny Abalakov, mountaineer
★ Vitaly Abalakov, mountaineer
★ Inga Artamonova (1936-1966), 4-time world all-around speed skating champion
★ Vladimir Beschastnykh, association football player
★ Yuriy Borzakovskiy
★ Anatoli Boukreev (1958-1997), mountaineer
★ Fedor Emelianenko, (b. 1976) Heavyweight champion of Pride Fighting Championships
★ Yelena Isinbayeva, (b. 1982), athlete
★ Anastasiya Kapachinskaya, (b.1979), athlete
★ Alexander Karelin, (b. 1967), Greco-Roman wrestling, champion
★ Andrei Kirilenko, (b. 1981), NBA basketball player
★ Sergei Mikhailovich Prokudin-Gorskii , photographer
★ Svetlana Krivelyova, (b.1969), athlete
★ Natalya Nazarova, (b. 1979), athlete
★ Evgeny Plushenko (b. 1982), figure skater
★ Roho (Boradzov Soslan Feliksovich) (b. 1980), Sumo wrestler
★ Nina Romashkova (b. 1929), athlete, the first Soviet Olympic Champion
★ Lidia Skoblikova (b. 1939), speed skater, most Olympic medals in speed skating
★ Irina Slutskaya (b. 1979), figure skater, an incredible athlete and second most successful female figure skater next to Michelle Kwan.
★ Dmitri Sychev (b. 1983), association football player
★ Kostya Tszyu (b. 1969), boxer
★ Alexei Yagudin (b. 1980), figure skater
★ Lev Yashin (1929-1990), football goalkeeper
★ Fedor Emelianenko, (b. 1976) Heavyweight champion of Pride Fighting Championships
★ Natasha Polevshchikova, Supermodel
★ Natalia Vodianova, Supermodel
★ Philip Piskov, Genius
Former Soviet Union
During the times of the Soviet Union nationals of other constituent republics were traditionally known as "Russians" in the West. Some of them were even known under Russian or Russified names. Since the collapse of the Soviet Union they have now become known under their various nationalities.
★ List of Armenians
★ List of Belarusians
★ List of Estonians
★ List of Georgians
★ List of Kazakh historical figures
★ List of Latvians
★ List of Lithuanians
★ List of Ukrainians
List of people by Russian subdivision/nationalities
★ List of Chuvashs
★ List of people from Tambov
★ List of Tatars
★ List of Tuvans
List of people by Russian cities
★ List of People in St. Petersburg
See also
★ List of Jews from the Soviet Union
★ List of people by nationality
★ List of Russian rulers
★ Bards in Soviet Union
★ German-Russian
★ Hero of the Soviet Union
Related Links
★ Russian People
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