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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 ethnicity contributed to its culture. They may be ethnic Ukrainians (like Nikolai Gogol), Belarusians (like Pavel Sukhoi), Georgians (like Stalin and Georgi Daneliya), Poles (like Kazimir Malevich), Tatars (like Rudolf Nureyev and Marat Safin), 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".

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)
Ivan Zholtovsky (1867–1959)
Nikolai Ladovsky (1881–1941)

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
Constantin Astori (1889–1975), 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
Anton Ivanov-Goluboy (1818–1863), 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
Andrei Kolkoutine (born 1957)
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
Igor Kufayev (1966 - ) artist, 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
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 (c. 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
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 (born 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 (born 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
Ivan Efremov, science fiction writer and geologist
Venedikt Erofeev, Moscow-Petushki
Viktor Erofeev
Yevgeny Yevtushenko, poet

F-R

Alexander Fadeyev (1901–1956), Soviet writer, The Young Guard
Konstantin Fedin
Afanasy Fet
Denis Fonvizin
Arkady Gaydar (1904–1941)
Vladimir Gilyarovsky
Nikolay Gnedich
Sergei Gorodetsky
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 (born 1929), novelist
Vyacheslav Ivanov
Dmitri Kantemir
Nikolai Karamzin (1766–1826), poet, author, historian
Lev Kassil
Valentin Katayev
Veniamin Kaverin
Daniil Kharms
Velimir Khlebnikov
Vladislav Khodasevich, Gavrila Derghavin
Mikhail Koltsov, journalist and satirist
Lev Kopelev
Vladimir Korolenko
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
Osip Mandelstam, poet
Alexandra Marinina
Vladimir Mayakovsky
Apollon Maykov
Dmitriy Merezhkovsky, playwright
Vladimir Nabokov (1899–1977), wrote first in Russian, then in English, author of Lolita
Semen Nadson, poet
Vladimir Narbut, poet
Alexandr Nekrasov, Priklyucheniya Kapitana Vrungelya
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
Dmitry Orlov, author of Reinventing Collapse
Aleksandr Ostrovsky, playwright
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 (born 1962), novelist, Omon Ra, Chapaev i Pustota
Yakov Perelman
Yevgeni 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 ru:Розов, Виктор Сергеевич

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
Mikhail Shishkin
Mikhail Sholokhov
Vasily Shukshin, Kalina Krasnaya
Konstantin Simonov
Andrei Sinyavsky
Boris Slutsky, poet
Fyodor Sologub
Alexander Isayevich Solzhenitsyn (born 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 ru:Жадовская, Юлия Валериановна
Vasily Zhukovsky
Mikhail Zoshchenko

Film directors

A-M

P-Z

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
Evgeny Belyaev (1926-1994), singer
Boris Berezovsky, pianist
Dima Bilan (born 1981), singer
Alexander Borodin (1833–1887), composer
Sergei Bortkiewicz, composer
Dmytro Bortniansky, composer
Valeri Brainin (born 1948), composer, musical scientist
Tatyana Bulanova (born 1969), singer
Fyodor Chaliapin (1873–1938), opera singer, bass
César Cui (1835–1918) composer
Alexander Dargomyzhsky, composer
Edison Denisov, composer
Nikolai Demidenko, composer
Valery Gergiev (born 1953), pianist, conductor
Emil Gilels (1916–1985), pianist
Alexander Glazunov (1865–1936), composer
Artem Ivanov (born 1986), singer
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
Lena Katina (born 1984), singer
Tikhon Khrennikov (born 1913), composer
Kyril Kondrashin (1914–1981), conductor
Leonid Kogan (1924–1982), violinist
Sergey Lazarev (born 1983), vocalist
Jevgenija Lisicina (born 1942), organist
Anatoly Konstantinovich Lyadov, composer
Sergei Lyapunov, composer
Roman Matin, musician, musical historian, and composer^[1]
Nikolai Medtner (1880–1951), composer, pianist
Vyacheslav Mescherin (died 1995), Synthesizer music composer, audio engineer
Viktoria Mullova (born 1959), violinist
Modest Mussorgsky (1839–1881), composer of Boris Godunov, Pictures at an Exhibition
Origa (born 1970), singer, performs theme songs for various anime series
Yuri Antonov (born 1945), composer, singer

P-Z

Nikolai Myaskovsky (1881–1950), composer
Aleksandra Pakhmutova (born 1929), composer
Nikolai Petrov (born 1943), pianist
Mikhail Pletnev (born 1957), composer
Gregor Piatigorsky (1903–1976), composer
Valery Polekh (1918–1992), composer, hornist
Sergei Prokofiev (1891–1953), composer
Alla Pugacheva (born 1949), singer and composer
Sergei Rachmaninoff (1873–1943) pianist, composer, conductor
Vadim Repin (born 1971), composer, violinist
Sviatoslav Richter (1915–1997), pianist
Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov (1844–1908), composer
Vladimir Rosing (1890–1963), singer, director
Mstislav Rostropovich (1927-2007), cellist, conductor
Gennady Rozhdestvensky (born 1931), composer
Sergey Lazarev (born 1983), vocalist
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 (born 1932), composer
Vissarion Shebalin (1902–1963), composer
Nicolas Slonimsky (1894–1995), composer
Regina Spektor (1980-), musician
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
Vera Timanova (1855-1942), pianist
Viktor Tsoy (1962–1990), poet, composer, musician, actor (one of the figures who defined the era of 80's)
Serafim Tulikov (1913–2004), composer
Galina Ustvolskaya (1919–2006), composer
Yulia Volkova (born 1985), singer
Arcadi Volodos (born 1972), pianist
Ivan Vïshnegradsky (1881–1956), composer
Alexander Zhiroff - cellist

Performing Arts

Theatre Directors

Performers

Vera Alentova (born 1942), actress
Mikhail Baryshnikov (born 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 (born 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 (born 1937), first woman in space
Gherman Titov (1935–2000)
Vladislav Volkov (1935–1971)
Boris Volynov
Boris Yegorov(1937–1994)
Aleksei Yeliseyev
Vitali Zholobov

Explorers

Fabian Gottlieb von Bellingshausen, the Russian officer who discovered Antarctica
Vitus Bering (1681–1741), explorer of north-eastern Asia and south-western Alaska
Semyon Ivanovich Dezhnev (c. 1605 – 1673), explorer of north-eastern Asia who discovered Bering Strait
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), explorer of Arctica

Inventors

Zhores Ivanovich Alferov (born 1930), physicist
Oleg Antonov(1906–1984) airplane designer
Nikolay Gennadiyevich Basov (1922–2001), laser inventor, Nobel Prize for Physics 1964, together with Alexandr Prokhorov
Yefim Alekseyevich Cherepanov and Miron Yefimovich Cherepanov, pioners of steam engines
Yuri Nikolaevich Denisyuk (the first practicable method of holography)
Vasily Degtyaryov (1880–1947), weapons designer
Mikhail Dolivo-Dobrovolsky, inventor of three-phase systems
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 (c. 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 and Scholars

A-C

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
Ivan Aksakov, philosopher
Pavel Sergeevich Alexandrov, mathematician
Zhores Ivanovich Alferov Nobel Prize winner
Aleksandr Amfiteatrov, historian
Dmitri Victorovich Anosov, mathematician
Vladimir Arnold, mathematician
Vladimir Arnoldi, botanist
Mikhail Bakhtin, philosopher and anthropologist
Mikhail Bakunin, political philosopher
Aleksei Aleksandrovich Balandin, chemist
Vasily Bartold, historian, orientalist, sociologist
Nikolai P. Barabashov, astronomer
Valeri L. Barsukov, chemist
Nikolay Nikolayevich Beketov, chemist
Vladimir Mikhailovich Bekhterev, psychologist and neuropathologist
Boris Belousov, chemist / biophysicist
Lev Semenovich Berg, biologist
Nikolai Berdyaev, philosopher
Nikolay Bogolyubov, mathematician and theoretical physicist
Vladimir Bogoraz, anthropologist
Dmitri Bondarenko, anthropologist
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

D-J

Vladimir Dal, linguist
Igor Diakonov, historian and linguist
Vasily V. Dokuchaev, the founder of the modern soil science
Dimitri Fedorovich Egorov, mathematician
Zinaida Vissarionovna Ermolyeva, microbiologist, ru:Ермольева, Зинаида Виссарионовна
Ludvig Faddeev, mathematician
Andrey Famintsyn, biologist [1]
Vladimir Aleksandrovich Fock, physicist
Anatoly Timofeevich Fomenko, mathematician, chronologist
Sergei Fomin, mathematician
Ilya Mikhailovich Frank, physicist, Nobel Prize winner
Eugène Gabritschevsky, biologist
Vitaly Ginzburg, physicist, Nobel Prize recipient
Nikolai Girenko, anthropologist
Boris Grakov, archaeologist
Leonid Grinin, philosopher
Lev Gumilev, geographer and ethnologist
Alexander Gurwitsch, biologist
Abram Fedorovich Ioffe, physicist
Vladimir Ipatieff, chemist
Dmitri Ivanenko, physicist
Vladimir Jochelson, anthropologist

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
Anatoly Khazanov, anthropologist
Orest Khvolson, physicist
Karl Klaus (1796–1864), chemist, discoverer of ruthenium.
Andrey Nikolaevich Kolmogorov, mathematician
Nikolai Koltsov, famous Russian biologist
Sergei Kopeikin, physicist
Andrey Korotayev, historian, economist, anthropologist
Sofia Kovalevskaya, mathematician
Alexander Kovalevsky, embryologist
Boris Kozo-Polyansky, biologist [2]
Stepan Krasheninnikov
Feodosy Krasovsky
Aleksandr Semenovich Kronrod, mathematician, computer scientist, economist
Nikolay Mitrofanovich Krylov, mathematician and theoretical physicist
Mikhail Kryukov, anthropologist
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
Yuri Levada, sociologist
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, historian
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
Nicholai Miklukho-Maklai, anthropologist
Victor Ivanovitsch Motschulsky

N-S

Gennadi Nevelskoi, captain and navigator
Boris Nikolsky
Igor Novikov, theoretical astrophysicist and cosmologist
Sergei Petrovich Novikov, mathematician
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
Svetlana Pletneva, archeologist
Eugene Podkletnov, physicist
Alexander Stepanovich Popov, physicist
Ivan Privalov, mathematician
Boris Rybakov, historian
Viktor Safronov, astronomer
Andrei Sakharov, nuclear physicist, human rights activist, Nobel Peace Prize laureate, 1975
Viktor Sarianidi, archaeologist
Afanasy Shchapov, historian, anthropologist
Dmitry Shirkov, theoretical 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
Arsenij Sokolov, theoretical physicist
Sergei Starostin, linguist
Vladimir Steklov, physicist and mathematician
Georg Steller, naturalist and ornithologist of German origin.
Friedrich Wilhelm Struve (Vasily Yakovlevich Struve), astronomer

T - Z

Igor Tamm, physicist, Nobel Prize
Igor Ternov, theoretical physicist
Kliment Arkadyevich Timiryazev, botanist
Nikolai V. Timofeeff-Ressovsky, biologist
Valery Tishkov, anthropologist
Mikhail Tsvet, botanist, inventor of chromatography
Peter Turchin, biologist and historian
Valentin Turchin, cybernetician
Sergei Tyablikov, theoretical physicist
Andrey Nikolayevich Tychonoff, mathematician
Nikolay Umov, physicist
Max Vasmer, linguist
Nikolai Vavilov, biologist
Sergey Ivanovich Vavilov, physicist
Vladimir Ivanovich Vernadsky, geochemist, creator of the Noosphere theory
Ivan Matveevich Vinogradov, mathematician
Anatoly Vlasov, theoretical physicist
Grigory Volovik, physicist [3]
Sergei Winogradsky, microbiologist, ecologist, and soil scientist
Mikhail Yangel
Sabir Yunusov
Andrey Zaliznyak, linguist
Tatyana Zaslavskaya
Alexander Dmitrievich Zasyadko
Yakov Zel'dovich, physicist, astrophysicist and cosmologist
Nikolay Dimitrievich Zelinskiy, chemist
Nikolai Yegorovich Zhukovsky, aero- and hydrodynamics
Dmitry Zubarev, theoretical physicist.

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)
Grand Duchess Maria Nikolaevna of Russia (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

Alexander Bezborodko (1747–1799)
Aleksei Petrovich Bestuzhev-Ryumin (1693–1768)
Mikhail Petrovich Bestuzhev-Ryumin (1688–1760)
Zakhar Chernyshev (1722–1784)
Vasily Lukich Dolgorukov (1672–1739)
Nikolay Karlovich Giers (1820–1885)
Vasily Golitsyn (1643–1714) of the Galitzine family
Alexander Gorchakov (1798–1883) of the Gorchakov family
Ivan Andreyevich Khovansky (c. 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 (born 1931), general secretary of the Communist Party and president of the USSR, Nobel Peace Prize laureate, 1990
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
Dmitry Medvedev (born 1965), president of Russia since 2008
Vladimir Putin (born 1952), president of Russia from 2000 to 2008
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 (born 1938), Prime Minister of Russia (1992-1998)
Sergey Mikhaylovich Darkin (born 1963), governor of Primorsky Krai
Fedor Dan (1871–1949), Menshevik leader
Feliks Dzerzhinsky, founder of the Cheka secret police
Viktor Grishin (died 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 (born 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 minister (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 (born 1944), head of the Russian Communist Party since 1993

Military

A-N

Prince Pyotr Bagration (1765–1812)
Semion Cheliuskin (c. 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

Gymnastics

Nikolai Andrianov (born 1952), gymnast, world record for men for most Olympic medals
Yelena Davydova (born 1961), Olympic gymnast
Maria Filatova (born 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 (born 1929), Olympic gymnast
Alexei Nemov (born 1976), Olympic gymnast
Natalia Shaposhnikova (born 1961), Olympic gymnast
Yelena Shushunova (born 1969), Olympic gymnast
Alexander Tkachyov (born 1957), Olympic gymnast

Tennis

Andrei Chesnokov, tennis player
Nikolay Davydenko (born 1981), current top 4 tennis player.
Elena Dementieva (born 1981), current top 3 tennis player. Reached 2 Grand Slam finals in 2004 (French Open and U.S. Open), Silver Medal at the 2000 Summer Olympics and Gold Medal at the 2008 Summer Olympics.
Yevgeny Kafelnikov (born 1974), former world no. 1 tennis player.
Anna Kournikova (born 1981), former top 10 tennis player, celebrity, and model.
Svetlana Kuznetsova (born 1985), former world no. 2 and current top 9 tennis player. Won the 2004 U.S. Open and 2009 French Open.
Anastasia Myskina (born 1981), former world no. 2 tennis player. Won the 2004 French Open (becoming the first Russian woman to win a grand slam title).
Nadia Petrova (born 1982), former top 3 tennis player.
Marat Safin (born 1980), former world no. 1 tennis player. Won 2000 U.S. Open and 2005 Australian Open.
Dinara Safina (born 1986), current world no. 1 ladies tennis player.
Maria Sharapova (born 1987), former world no. 1 tennis player (currently ranks no. 53). Won 2004 Wimbledon at age of 17 as well as 2006 U.S. Open and 2008 Australian Open.
Dmitry Tursunov (born 1982), tennis player
Mikhail Youzhny (born 1982), tennis player

Ice hockey

Maxim Afinogenov, NHL star
Pavel Bure (born 1971), NHL star
Sergei Fedorov (born 1969), NHL star
Viacheslav Fetisov (born 1958)
Nikolai Khabibulin (born 1973), NHL star goalie
Valeri Kharlamov (1948–1981), Russia's most popular international ice hockey player
Vladimir Konstantinov
Ilya Kovalchuk, NHL star
Vyacheslav Kozlov
Oleg Kvasha (born 1978)
Igor Larionov
Sergei Makarov
Evgeni Malkin, NHL star
Alexander Ovechkin, NHL superstar
Vladimir Vladimirovich Petrov
Alexei Ponikarovsky
Vladislav Tretiak (born 1952), goalie
Alexander Yakushev (born 1947)
Alexie Yashin forward
Sergei Zubov
Alexei Kovalev from the Montreal Canadiens. Forward. Best 2007 Montreal Canadiens scorer on December 1 of 2007 (before the game) with 12 goals, 10 assists (and so 22 points)
Andrei Markov from the Montreal Canadiens. Defenseman. In nomination for the 2007-2008 All Star Game

Weightlifting

Vasily Alexeev (born 1942), Olympic weightlifter, set 80 World Records
Yuri Vlasov, Olympic weightlifter
Arkady Vorobyov (born 1924), Olympic weightlifter
Leonid Zhabotinsky (born 1938), Olympic weightlifter

Other

Evgeny Abalakov, mountaineer
Vitaly Abalakov, mountaineer
Inga Artamonova (1936–1966), 4-time world all-around speed skating champion
Gennady Bachinsky (1971-2008), radio talk show presenter
Vladimir Beschastnykh, association football player
Yuriy Borzakovskiy
Anatoli Boukreev (1958–1997), mountaineer
Fedor Emelianenko (born 1976), Heavyweight champion of Pride Fighting Championships
Ekaterina Gordeeva (born 1971), figure skater, two-time Olympic pairs champion
Sergei Grinkov (1967-1995), figure skater, two-time Olympic pairs champion
Yelena Isinbayeva (born 1982), athlete
Anastasiya Kapachinskaya (born 1979), athlete
Svetlana Kapanina (born 1968), powered aerobatic pilot
Alexander Karelin (born 1967), Greco-Roman wrestling, champion
Andrei Kirilenko (born 1981), NBA basketball player
Sergei Mikhailovich Prokudin-Gorskii, photographer
Svetlana Krivelyova (born 1969), athlete
Mikhail Mamistov (born 1961), powered and glider aerobatic pilot
Natalya Nazarova (born 1979), athlete
Roman Pavlyuchenko (born 1981), association football player
Evgeny Plushenko (born 1982), figure skater
Natalja Ragosina (born 1976), Boxing World Champion
Roho (Boradzov Soslan Feliksovich) (born 1980), Sumo wrestler
Nina Romashkova (born 1929), athlete, the first Soviet Olympic Champion
Lidia Skoblikova (born 1939), speed skater, most Olympic medals in speed skating
Irina Slutskaya (born 1979), figure skater, an incredible athlete and second most successful female figure skater next to Michelle Kwan.
Dmitri Sychev (born 1983), association football player
Kostya Tszyu (born 1969), boxer
Alexei Yagudin (born 1980), figure skater
Julia Vlassov (born 1990), figure skater
Lev Yashin (1929–1990), football goalkeeper
Fedor Emelianenko (born 1976), Heavyweight champion of Pride Fighting Championships
Natasha Polevshchikova, Supermodel
Natalia Vodianova, Supermodel

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 people by Russian subdivision/nationalities

List of people by Russian cities

List of people from Saint Petersburg

References

^ John Douglas (May 2008). "Roman Matin - Russian Guitar Player". Jazz Review. Retrieved July 16, 2009.

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