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== Art ==
=== Artists ===
*[[Nikolay Andreyev]] ([[1873]]-[[1932]]), sculptor, graphic artist and stage designer
*[[Mikhail Anikushin]] ([[1917]]), sculptor
*[[Marc Chagall]] ([[1887]]-[[1985]]), painter
*[[Carl Fabergé]] ([[1846]]-[[1920]]), jewellery designer
*[[Andrei Kolkoutine]] (1957-)
*[[Alexander V. Kuprin]] ([[1880]]-[[1960]]), painter
*[[Isaac Levitan]] ([[1860]]-[[1900]]), landscape painter
*[[Kazimir Malevitj]]
*[[Vera Mukhina]] ([[1889]]-[[1953]]), sculptress
*[[Alexander Nikulin]] ([[1878]]-[[1945]]), painter
*[[Ilya Repin]] ([[1844]]-[[1930]]), painter and sculptor
*[[Andrei Rublev]] (circa [[1360]]-[[1430]]), painter
*[[Valentin Serov]] ([[1865]]-[[1911]]), painter
*[[Vladimir Tatlin]] ([[1885]] - [[1953]]), painter and architect.
*[[Vasily Andreevich Tropinin|Vasily Tropinin]] ([[1776]]-[[1857]]), painter
*[[Ivan Vishnyakov]] ([[1699]]-[[1761]]), painter

=== [[Author]]s ===
''See also [[Russian literature]] and [[List of Russian authors]].''
*[[Anna Akhmatova]] (1889–1966), poet
*[[Sergey Aksakov]] (1791–1859), novelist and nature writer
*[[Boris Akunin]] (b. [[1956]]), author, essayist, translator
*[[Alexander Beliaev]] ([[1884]]-[[1942]]), science fiction author
*[[Isaak Babel]] ([[1894]]-[[1940]]), author
*[[Andrey Bely]] ([[1880]]-[[1934]]), poet and author
*[[Vissarion Belinsky]] ([[1811]]-[[1848]]), writer, literary critic and philosopher
*[[Alexander Blok]] (1880–1921), poet
*[[Vladimir Bukovsky]] (b. [[1942]]), writer and dissident
*[[Mikhail Bulgakov]] ([[1891]]-[[1940]]), playwright and author
*[[Kir Bulychev]] ([[1934]]-[[2003]]), science fiction author
*[[Ivan Alekseyevich Bunin|Ivan Bunin]] ([[1870]]-[[1953]]), first Russian Nobel Prize Winner
*[[Anton Chekhov]] ([[1860]]-[[1904]]), playwright, ''The Cherry Orchard'', ''Three Sisters'', ''The Seagull''
*[[Nikolai Chernyshevsky]] (1828–1889), writer, journalist and politician
*[[Korney Chukovsky]] (1882–1969), children's poet
*[[Fyodor Dostoevsky]] ([[1821]]-[[1881]]), ''Brothers Karamazov'', ''Crime and Punishment''
*[[Ilya Ehrenburg]] ([[1891]]-[[1947]]), novelist and [[WWII]] war correspondent
*[[Nikolai Gogol]] ([[1809]]-[[1852]]), author, ''Dead Souls''
*[[Ivan Alexandrovich Goncharov|Ivan Goncharov]] ([[1812]]-[[1891]]), ''[[Oblomov]]''
*[[Maxim Gorky]] ([[1868]]-[[1936]]), novelist, ''My Universities''
*[[Lev Gumilyov]] ([[Lev Gumilev]])
*[[Mikhail Lermontov]] ([[1814]]-[[1841]]), poet, author and painter
*[[Nikolai Mikhailovich Karamzin|Nikolai Karamzin]] ([[1766]]-[[1826]]), poet, author, historian
*[[Nikolai Leskov]] ([[1831]]-[[1895]]), storyteller, novelist, and journalist
*[[Nikolai Ogaryov]] ([[1813]]-[[1877]])
*[[Mikhail Lomonosov]] ([[1711]]-[[1765]]), linguistic reformer
*[[Vladimir Nabokov]] ([[1899]]-[[1977]]), wrote first in Russian, then in English, author of ''[[Lolita]]''
*[[Boris Pasternak]] ([[1890]]-[[1960]]), was not permitted by [[USSR]] to accept the [[Nobel Prize]], ''Doctor Zhivago''
*[[Alexander Pushkin]] [[1799]]-[[1837]], poet, novelist, story teller, dramatist
*[[Alexander Radishchev]] ([[1749]]-[[1802]]), social critic
*[[Ayn Rand]] ([[1905]]-[[1982]]), [[United States|American]] novelist and philosopher born in [[Saint Petersburg|St. Petersburg]], [[Russia]]
*[[Varlam Shalamov]] ([[1907]]-[[1982]]), author of tales about [[Gulag]]
*[[Mikhail Saltykov-Shchedrin]] ([[1826]]-[[1889]]), novelist
*[[Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn|Alexander Solzhenitsyn]] (b. [[1918]]), [[Nobel Prize for Literature]]
*[[Viktor Suvorov]] (b. [[1947]])
*[[Leo Tolstoy]] ([[1828]]-[[1910]]) ''War and Peace'', ''Anna Karenina''
*[[Yevgeny Zamyatin]] ([[1884]]-[[1937]]), author of ''[[We (novel)|We]]''

=== [[Musician]]s and [[Composer]]s ===
*[[Boris Berezovsky (pianist)|Boris Berezovsky]] ([[1969]]), pianist
*[[Alexander Borodin]] ([[1833]]-[[1887]]), composer
*[[Valeri Brainin]] ([[1948]]), composer, musical scientist
*[[Fyodor Chaliapin]] ([[1873]]-[[1938]]), opera singer, bass
*[[Cesar Cui]] ([[1835]]-[[1918]])
*[[Valery Gergiev]] ([[1953]]), pianist, conductor
*[[Alexander Glazunov]] ([[1865]]?-[[1936]]), composer
*[[Reinhold Moritzovich Gliere|Reinhold Gliere]] ([[1875]]-[[1956]]), composer
*[[Mikhail Glinka|Mikhail Ivanovich Glinka]] ([[1804]]-[[1857]]), composer of ''[[Russlan and Ludmilla]]''
*[[Nikolai Golovanov]] ([[1891]]-[[1953]]), conductor
*[[Emil Grygoryevich Gilels]] ([[1916]]-[[1985]]), pianist
*[[Vladimir Horowitz]] ([[1903]]-[[1989]]), pianist
*[[Dmitry Kabalevsky]] ([[1904]]-[[1987]])
*[[Aram Ilyich Khachaturian|Aram Khachaturian]] ([[1903]]-[[1978]]), composer
*Lena Katina (b. [[1984]]) and Yulia Volkova (b. [[1985]]), [[pop music]] group [[t.A.T.u.]]
*[[Tikhon Khrennikov]] ([[1913]]-[[2007]]), composer
*[[Kyril Kondrashin]] ([[1914]]-[[1981]]), conductor
*[[Leonid Kogan]] ([[1924]]-[[1982]]), violinist
*[[Viktoria Mullova]] ([[1959]]), violinist
*[[Modest Mussorgsky|Modest Petrovich Mussorgsky]] ([[1839]]-[[1881]]), composer of ''[[Boris Godunov]]'', ''Pictures at an Exhibition''
*[[David Oistrakh]] ([[1908]]-[[1974]]), violinist
*[[Igor Oistrakh]] (b. [[1931]]), violinist
*[[Sergei Prokofiev]] ([[1891]]-[[1953]]), composer
*[[Sergei Rachmaninov]] ([[1873]]-[[1943]])
*[[Vadim Repin]] (b. [[1971]]), violinist
*[[Sviatoslav Teofilovich Richter]] ([[1915]]-[[1997]]), pianist
*[[Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov]] ([[1844]]-[[1908]]), composer
*[[Mstislav Rostropovich]] ([[1927]]-[[2007]]), cellist and conductor
*[[Anton Rubinstein]] ([[1829]]-[[1894]]) pianist, composer
*[[Nikolai Rubinstein]] ([[1835]]-[[1881]]), pianist, conductor and composer
*[[Vasily Ilyich Safonov]] ([[1852]]-[[1918]]), composer and music educator
*[[Alexander Scriabin|Alexander Nikolayevich Scriabin]] ([[1871]]-[[1915]]), composer and pianist
*[[Dmitri Shostakovich]] ([[1906]]-[[1975]]), composer
*[[Igor Stravinsky]] ([[1882]]-[[1971]]), composer
*[[Sergey Taneyev]] ([[1856]]-[[1915]]), composer
*[[Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky|Pyotr Tchaikovsky]] ([[1840]]-[[1893]]), composer
*[[Grigory Vasilyevich]] ([[1915]]-[[1998]]), composer
*[[Vyacheslav Mescherin]] (-[[1995]]), Synthesizer music composer, audio engineer

=== Performing Arts ===
*[[Mikhail Baryshnikov]] (b. 1948), ballet dancer
*[[Sergei Bodrov]], filmmaker
*[[Sergei Bodrov, Jr.]], actor
*[[Sergei Bondarchuk]] (1920–1994), film director
*[[Boris Bruinov]] (1922–1997), actor
*[[Sergei Diaghilev]] (1872–1929), ballet impresario
*[[Sergei Eisenstein]] (1898–1948), film director
*[[Lila Kedrova]] (1918–2000), actress
*[[Nikita Mikhalkov]] (b. 1945), filmmaker and politician
*[[Solomon Mikhoels]], [[Soviet]]-[[Yiddish]] actor
*[[Ivan Novikoff]] (1899–2002), ballet master
*[[Rudolf Nureyev]] (1938–1993), ballet dancer
*[[Anna Pavlova]] (1882–1931), ballerina
*[[Alexander Ptushko]] (1882–1931), film director
*[[Konstantin Stanislavsky]] (1868–1938), actor
*[[Galina Ulanova]] (1910–1988), ballerina

=== [[Poet]]s ===

(''who wrote much of their poetry in the [[Russian language]], see [[List of Russian language poets]]'')

== [[Cosmonaut]]s ==
*[[Yuri Artyukhin]]
*[[Pavel Ivanovich Belyayev|Pavel Belyayev]] ([[1925]]-[[1970]])
*[[Georgi Timofeyevich Beregovoi|Georgi Beregovoi]] ([[1921]]-[[1995]])
*[[Valery Bykovsky]]
*[[Lev Demin]]
*[[Georgi Dobrovolski]]
*[[Vladimir Dzhanibekov]]
*[[Konstantin Feoktistov]]
*[[Anatoli Filipchenko]]
*[[Yuri Gagarin]] ([[1934]]-[[1968]]), first human in space
*[[Viktor Gorbatko]]
*[[Georgi Grechko]]
*[[Aleksei Gubarev]]
*[[Alexandr Kaleri]]
*[[Yevgeny Khrunov]]
*[[Pyotr Klimuk]]
*[[Vladimir Komarov]]
*[[Valeri Kubasov]]
*[[Vasili Lazarev]]
*[[Valentin Lebedev]]
*[[Aleksei Leonov]]
*[[Oleg Makarov]]
*[[Andrian Nikolayev]]
*[[Viktor Patsayev]]
*[[Pavel Popovich]]
*[[Nikolai Rukavishnikov]]
*[[Gennadi Sarafanov]]
*[[Svetlana Savitskaya]], second woman in space
*[[Vladimir Shatalov]]
*[[Georgi Shonin]]
*[[Valentina Tereshkova]] (b. [[1937]]), first woman in space
*[[Gherman Titov]]
*[[Vladislav Volkov]]
*[[Boris Volynov]]
*[[Boris Yegorov]]
*[[Aleksei Yeliseyev]]
*[[Vitali Zholobov]]

== [[Explorer]]s ==
*[[Vitus Bering]] ([[1681]]-[[1741]]), explorer of north-western and south-western [[Alaska]]
*[[Semyon Dezhnev|Semyon Ivanovich Dezhnev]] (circa [[1605]]-[[1673]]), explorer of north-eastern [[Asia]]
*[[Ivan Fyodorov (navigator)|Ivan Fedorov]], explorer of north-western [[Alaska]]

== [[Inventor]]s ==
*[[Zhores Ivanovich Alferov]] ([[1930]]), physicist
*[[Vasily Degtyarev]] ([[1880]]-[[1947]]), weapons designer
*[[Pyotr Kozmitch Frolov]] ([[1775]]-[[1839]]), mining engineer and inventor
*[[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''
*[[Semyon Lavochkin]] ([[1900]]-[[1960]]), aircraft designer
*[[Artem Ivanovich Mikoyan]] ([[1905]]-[[1970]]), aircraft designer
*[[Alexander Popov (physicist)|Alexander Popov]] ([[1859]]-[[1906]]), Russia's ''Marconi'', an inventor of [[Radio]]
*[[Alexandr Prokhorov]] ([[1916]]-[[2002]]), physicist, Nobel Prize for Physics [[1964]], born in Queensland, Australia
*[[Boris Rosing]] ([[1869]]-[[1933]])
*[[Igor Ivanovich Sikorsky|Igor Sikorsky]] ([[1889]]-[[1972]]), helicopter and aircraft designer
*[[Pavel Sukhoi]] ([[1895]]-[[1975]]), aircraft constructor and designer
*[[Leon Theremin]] ([[1896]]-[[1993]]), inventor of one of the first [[electronic musical instrument]]s, the [[Theremin]]
*[[Konstantin Tsiolkovsky]] ([[1857]]-[[1935]]), rocket scientist and pioneer of astronautics
*[[Andrey Tupolev]] ([[1888]]-[[1972]]), aircraft designer and builder
*[[Vladimir Kosma Zworykin|Vladimir Zworykin]] ([[1899]]-[[1982]]), physicist and electrical engineer
*[[Pavel Yablochkov]], electrical engineer, inventor of [[Yablochkov candle]]

== [[Humanities]] and [[Social sciences]] ==
*[[Mikhail Bakunin]] ([[1814]]-[[1876]]), [[libertarian socialism|anarchist]]
*[[Nicolas Berdyaev]] ([[1874]]- [[1948]]), philosopher of religion and politics
*[[Aleksandr Ivanovich Gertsen|Aleksandr Gertsen]], father of Russian [[socialism]]
*[[Wassily Leontief]], [[economist]], [[Nobel Prize]] winner
*[[Peter Kropotkin]] ([[1842]]-[[1921]]), [[libertarian socialism|anarchist]]
*[[Alexei Losev]] ([[1893]]-[[1988]])
*[[Alexey Pavlovich Okladnikov]] ([[1908]]-[[1981]]), archeologist, historian, and ethnographer
*[[Sergei Ozhegov]], [[lexicographer]]
*[[Peter Ouspensky]] ([[1878]]-[[1947]]), author of ''[[In Search of the Miraculous]]'' and ''[[Tertium Organum]]''
*[[Yevgeny Polivanov]] ([[1891]]-[[1938]]), [[Linguistics|linguist]] and [[Orientalism|orientalist]]
*[[Yevgeny Tarle]] ([[1874]]–[[1955]]), historian

== [[Scientist]]s and [[Mathematician]]s ==
*[[Alexei Abrikosov]], [[physicist]], [[Nobel Prize]] recipient
*[[Pavel Sergeevich Alexandrov]], mathematician
*[[Boris Belousov]], [[chemist]] / [[biophysicist]]
*[[Pafnuti Chebyshev]] ([[1821]]-[[1894]]), mathematician
*[[Pavel Cherenkov]] ([[1904]]-[[1990]]), physicist, [[Nobel Prize]]
*[[Anatoly Timofeevich Fomenko]] ([[1945]]-), mathematician, chronologist
*[[Ilya Mikhailovich Frank]] ([[1908]]-[[1990]]), physicist, [[Nobel Prize]] winner
*[[Alexander Frumkin]] ([[1895]]-[[1976]]), electrochemist
*[[Vitaly Ginzburg]], [[physicist]], [[Nobel Prize]] recipient
*[[Abram Ioffe]] ([[1880]]-[[1960]]), physicist
*[[Pyotr Kafarov]] ([[1817]]-[[1878]]), [[Sinology|sinologist]]
*[[Pyotr Leonidovich Kapitsa]], physicist, discoverer of [[superfluidity]]
*[[Nikolai Kardashev]] (b. [[1932]]), astrophysicist
*[[Julii Khariton]] ([[1904]]-[[1996]]), physicist
*[[Andrey Nikolaevich Kolmogorov]] ([[1903]]-[[1987]]), mathematician
*[[Sofia Kovalevskaya]] ([[1850]]-[[1891]]), mathematician
*[[Lev Landau]] ([[1908]]-[[1968]]), physicist and mathematician
*[[Mikhail Lavrentyev]] ([[1900]]-[[1980]]), physicist and mathematician
*[[Nikolai Lobachevsky]] ([[1792]]-[[1856]]), mathematician
*[[Nikolai Nikolaevich Lusin]], mathematician
*[[Aleksandr Lyapunov]] ([[1857]]-[[1918]]), mathematician
*[[Trofim Lysenko]], biologist
*[[Leonid Mandelshtam]] ([[1879]]-[[1944]]), physicist
*[[Andrei Markov]] ([[1856]]-[[1922]]), mathematician
*[[Dmitri Mendeleyev]] ([[1834]]-[[1907]]), chemist who developed a periodic table of the chemical elements
*[[Ivan Michurin]], selectionist
*[[Aleksandr Fyodorovich Middendorf]], [[zoologist]]
*[[Gennadi Nevelskoi]] ([[1813]]-[[1876]]), captain and navigator
*[[Igor Dmitrievich Novikov|Igor Novikov]] (b. [[1935]]), theoretical astrophysicist and cosmologist
*[[Mikhail Vasilievich Ostrogradsky]]
*[[Aleksandr Oparin]], [[biologist]] and [[biochemist]]
*[[Peter Simon Pallas]] ([[1741]]-[[1811]]), a German-born Russian [[zoologist]]
*[[Ivan Pavlov]] ([[1849]]-[[1936]]), physician and physiologist
*[[Nikolay Semyonov]] ([[1896]] -[[1986]]), physicist and chemist, [[Nobel Prize]] for Chemistry
*[[Iosif Shklovsky]] ([[1916]]-[[1985]]), astronomer and astrophysicist
*[[Yulian Sokhotski]] ([[1842]]-[[1927]]), mathematician
*[[Vladimir Steklov]] ([[1863]]-[[1926]]), physicist and mathematician
*[[Georg Steller]] ([[1709]]-[[1746]]), [[natural history|naturalist]] and [[ornithologist]] of [[Germany|German]]  origin.
*[[Friedrich Wilhelm Struve]] (Vasily Yakovlevich Struve) ([[1793]]-[[1864]]), astronomer
*[[Igor Tamm]] ([[1895]]-[[1971]]), physicist, [[Nobel Prize]]
*[[Paul Samuilovich Urysohn]] ([[1898]]-[[1924]]), a mathematician
*[[Ivan Matveevich Vinogradov]], mathematician
*[[Nikolai Vavilov]], biologist
*[[Yakov Zeldovich]] ([[1914]]-[[1987]]), physicist, astrophysicist and cosmologist

== Statesmen and military ==
=== Before 1917 ===
==== Royal ====
''See also [[Tsar]] for complete list of old Russian rulers''

*[[Aleksey I of Russia|Alexis]] ([[1629]]-[[1676]]), "Aleksey Mikhaylovich the Quietest"
*[[Alexander I of Russia|Alexander I]] ([[1777]]-[[1825]]), "Alexander the Blessed"
*[[Alexander II of Russia|Alexander II]] ([[1818]]-[[1881]]), "Alexander the Liberator"
*[[Alexander III of Russia|Alexander III]] ([[1845]]-[[1894]]), "Alexander the Peacemaker"
*[[Alexandra Fyodorovna]] ([[1872]]-[[1918]]), Tsarina of Russia
*[[Alexius Petrovich]] ([[1690]]-[[1718]])
*[[Anna I of Russia|Anna]] ([[1693]]-[[1740]]), empress of [[Russia]] from [[1730]] to [[1740]]
*[[Boris Godunov]] ([[1551]]-[[1605]])
*[[Catherine I of Russia|Catherine I]] ([[1683]]-[[1727]])
*[[Catherine II of Russia|Catherine II]] ([[1729]]-[[1796]]), "Catherine the Great"
*[[Elizabeth of Russia|Elizabeth]] ([[1709]]-[[1761]]), daughter of Peter I the Great and Catherine I
*[[Feodor I of Russia|Fyodor I]] (1557-1598)
*[[Feodor II of Russia|Fyodor II]] (1589-1605)
*[[Feodor III of Russia|Fyodor III]] (1661-1682)
*[[Ivan III of Russia|Ivan III]] ([[1440]]-[[1505]]), "Ivan the Great"
*[[Ivan IV of Russia|Ivan IV]] ([[1530]]-[[1584]]), "Ivan the Terrible"
*[[Ivan V of Russia|Ivan V]], joint ruler with [[Peter I of Russia|Peter I]]
*[[Ivan VI of Russia|Ivan VI]] ([[1740]]-[[1764]])
*[[Michael I of Russia|Michael]] ([[1596]]-[[1645]]), tsar of Russia from [[1613]] to [[1645]] and founder of the [[Romanov dynasty]]
*[[Michael II of Russia|Michael II]] ([[1878]]-[[1918]]), Grand Duke
*[[Nicholas I of Russia|Nicholas I]] ([[1825]]-[[1831]]), "Nicolas I the Unforgettable"
*[[Nicholas II of Russia|Nicholas II]] ([[1868]]-[[1918]]), "Nicholas II the Bloody"
*[[Paul of Russia|Paul I]] ([[1754]]-[[1801]])
*[[Peter I of Russia|Peter I]] ([[1672]]-[[1725]]), "Peter the Great"; joint ruler with [[Ivan V of Russia|Ivan V]]
*[[Peter II of Russia|Peter II]] ([[1715]]-[[1730]]), died of smallpox on his wedding day
*[[Peter III of Russia|Peter III]] ([[1728]]-[[1762]])
*[[Grand Duchess Anastasia of Russia|Anastasia]] ([[1901]]-[[1918]]), youngest daughter of Tsar Nicholas II
*[[Maria Nicolaievna Romanova]] ([[1899]]-[[1918]])
*[[Marie Fyodorovna Romanova]] ([[1848]]-[[1928]])
*[[Olga Nicolaievna Romanova]] ([[1895]]-[[1918]])
*[[Olga Romanova]] ([[1882]]-[[1960]])
*[[Tatiana Nicolaievna Romanova|Tatiana Romanova]] ([[1897]]-[[1918]])
*[[Vasili IV of Russia|Vasily (IV) Shuysky]] ([[1552]]-[[1612]])

==== [[Politician]]s and [[diplomat]]s ====
*[[Aleksei Petrovich Bestuzhev-Ryumin]] ([[1693]]-[[1768]])
*[[Mikhail Petrovich Bestuzhev-Ryumin]] ([[1688]]-[[1760]])
*[[Zakhar Grigor'evich Chernyshev|Zakhar Chernyshev]] ([[1722]]-[[1784]]), Minister of War
*[[Vasily Lukich Dolgorukov]] (about [[1670]]-[[1739]])
*[[Boris Ivanovich Kurakin]] ([[1676]]-[[1727]])
*[[Aleksandr Danilovich Menshikov]] ([[1673]]-[[1729]])
*[[Mikhail Illarionovich Vorontsov]] ([[1714]]-[[1767]])
*[[Artemy Petrovich Volynsky]] ([[1689]]-[[1740]])

=== After 1917 ===
==== Heads of state ====
*[[Yuri Andropov]] ([[1914]]-[[1984]]), general secretary of the [[Soviet Communist Party]]
*[[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]] dictator
*[[Boris Yeltsin]] ([[1931]]), [[president of Russia]] from [[1991]] to [[1999]]

==== Revolution, politics and state figures ====
:''See  [[List of socialists#Bolsheviks|List of socialists: Bolsheviks, Mensheviks, Communists]].''
:''See  [[White Russians (Russian Civil War)|White Russians]] for opponents of Bolsheviks.''

*[[Viktor Abakumov]], police official, head of [[Smersh]]
*[[Lavrenty Beria]] ([[1899]]-[[1953]]), Soviet chief of secret police under [[Joseph Stalin]], executed with 6 companions on December 23.
*[[Nikolai Ivanovich Bukharin|Nikolai Bukharin]] ([[1888]]-[[1938]]), [[Bolshevik]] party leader, [[Soviet]] statesman
*[[Viktor Chernomyrdin]] ([[1938]]), Prime Minister of Russia from [[1992]] to [[1998]]
*[[Sergey Mikhaylovich Darkin]] ([[1963]]-present), governor of [[Primorsky Krai]]
*[[Fyodor Dan]], [[Menshevik]]
*[[Felix Edmundovich Dzerzhinsky|Feliks Dzerzhinsky]], [[Cheka]]
*[[Viktor Grishin]]
*[[Andrei Andreyevich Gromyko|Andrei Gromyko]] ([[1908]]-[[1989]]), Foreign Minister of the [[USSR]] during the [[Cold War]]
*[[Lazar Kaganovich]]
*[[Mikhail Kasyanov]] (b. [[1957]]), Prime Minister of Russia from [[2000]] to [[2004]]
*[[Alexandra Mikhailovna Kollontai|Alexandra Kollontai]] ([[1872]]-[[1952]]), revolutionary, diplomat
*[[Nikolai Krestinsky]], [[Old Bolshevik]], repressed
*[[Yegor Ligachev]]
*[[Maxim Litvinov]]
*[[Julius Martov]], [[menshevik]]
*[[Vyacheslav Mikhailovich Molotov]] ([[1890]]-[[1986]]), Soviet politician
*[[George Plekhanov]]
*[[Alexei Rykov]]
*[[Alexander Shlyapnikov]]
*[[Leon Trotsky]] ([[1879]]-[[1940]]) (real name: Lev Davidovich Bronstein), [[Russian Revolution]]ary
*[[Irakli Tsereteli]], [[menshevik]]
*[[Andrey Vyshinsky]]
*[[Genrikh Yagoda]], [[NKVD]]
*[[Nikolai Ivanovich Yezhov]], [[NKVD]]
*[[Gennady Zyuganov]] ([[1944]]), leader of Russian communists since [[1993]]

=== [[Military]] ===
''See also [[List of people associated with World War II#Soviet Union|List of people associated with World War II: Soviet Union]].''<br>
''See also [[Marshal of the Soviet Union#List of Marshals of the Soviet Union|List of Marshals of the Soviet Union]].''
*[[Petr Bagration]] ([[1765]]-[[1812]]), hero of [[Battle of Borodino]]
*[[Semion Ivanovich Cheliuskin|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 62nd Russian army to victory at the [[Battle of Stalingrad]].
*[[Lev Mikhailovich Dovator|Lev Dovator]] ([[1903]]-[[1941]]), [[WWII]] general and [[Hero of the Soviet Union]]
*[[Ivan Nikitovich Kozhedub|Ivan Kozhedub]] ([[1920]]-[[1991]]), [[WWII]] fighter pilot, thrice [[Hero of the Soviet Union]]
*[[Mikhail Illarionovich Kutuzov|Mikhail Kutuzov]] commanded the Russian army to victory at the [[Battle of Borodino]]
*[[Sigismund Levanevsky]] ([[1902]]-[[1937]]), aircraft pilot, among the first to receive the title of [[Hero of the Soviet Union]]
*[[Anatoly Vasilyevich Liapidevsky|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]]
*[[Pavel Nakhimov]] ([[1802]]-[[1855]]), admiral
*[[Isai Panfilov]] ([[1893]]-[[1941]]), [[WWII]] general and [[Hero of the Soviet Union]]
*[[Aleksandr Ivanovich Pokryshkin|Alexander Pokryshkin]] (b. [[1913]]), [[WWII]] fighter pilot, thrice [[Hero of the Soviet Union]]
*[[Aleksandr Vasilievich Suvorov|Aleksandr Suvorov]]
*[[Victor Talalikhin]] ([[1918]]-[[1941]]), [[WWII]] lieutenant and [[Hero of the Soviet Union]]
*[[Mikhail Tukhachevsky]]
*[[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 Vasilyevich Vodopianov|Mikhail Vodopianov]] ([[1899]]-[[1975]]), aircraft pilot, among the first to receive the title of [[Hero of the Soviet Union]]
*[[Kliment Yefremovich Voroshilov|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]]

== [[Sportsman|Sports]] ==
=== [[Chess]] ===
*[[Mikhail Chigorin]]
*[[Alexander Alekhine]]
*[[Mikhail Botvinnik]]
*[[Vasily Smyslov]]
*[[Viktor Korchnoi]]
*[[Boris Spassky]]
*[[Anatoly Karpov]]
*[[Garry Kasparov]]
*[[Vladimir Kramnik]]

=== [[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
*[[Alexander Ovechkin]] (b. [[1985]]), [[NHL]] star
*[[Vladimir Petrov]]
*[[Vladislav Tretiak]] (b. [[1952]]), goalie
*[[Alexander Yakushev]] (b. [[1947]])

=== Other ===
*[[Evgeny Abalakov]], [[mountaineer]]
*[[Vitaly Abalakov]], [[mountaineer]]
*[[Inga Artamonova]] (1936-1966), 4-time world all-around [[speed skating]] champion
*[[Vladimir Beschastnykh]], [[association football]] player
*[[Anatoli Boukreev]] ([[1958]]-[[1997]]), [[mountaineer]]
*[[Andrey Chesnokov]], tennis player
*[[Yelena Davydova]] (b. [[1961]]), Olympic gymnast
*[[Elena Dementieva]], tennis player
*[[Yevgeny Kafelnikov]] (b. [[1974]]), [[tennis]] player
*[[Alexander Karelin]] (b. [[1967]]), Greco-Roman [[wrestling]] champion
*[[Svetlana Khorkina]], Olympic gymnast
*[[Andrei Kirilenko (athlete)|Andrei Kirilenko]] (b. [[1981]]), [[NBA]] star
*[[Olga Korbut]] (b. [[1955]]), Olympic gymnast
*[[Anna Kournikova]] (b. [[1981]]), tennis player and celebrity
*[[Anastasia Myskina]] (b. 1981), tennis player
*[[Alexei Nemov]] (b. [[1976]]), Olympic gymnast
*[[Nadia Petrova]] (b. 1982), tennis player
*[[Marat Safin]] (b. [[1980]]), [[tennis]] player
*[[Yelena Shushunova]] (b. [[1969]]), gymnast
*[[Dmitry Sychev]] (b. [[1983]]), association football player
*[[Lev Yashin]] ([[1929]]-[[1990]]), football goalkeeper
*[[Alina Kabaeva]] (b. [[1983]]), rhythmic gymnast, Deputy of State Duma

== [[Criminal]]s ==
*[[Andrei Chikatilo]]

== Other ==
*[[Roman Abramovich]] (b. [[1966]]), businessman, 49th richest person in the [[Forbes]] list
*[[Ivan Fedorov (printer)|Ivan Fedorov]], the first [[Russia]]n printer
*[[Vilyam Genrikovich Fisher]], a [[Soviet Union|Soviet]] [[spy]] in the [[United States]]
*[[Ibrahim Petrovich Gannibal|Ibrahim Gannibal]], grandgrandfather of [[Alexander Pushkin]]
*[[Fanya Kaplan]], [[Eser]], attempted to assassinate [[Vladimir Lenin]]
*[[Mikhail Khodorkovsky]] (b. [[1963]]), businessman, billionaire
*[[Nestor the Chronicler]]
*[[Yemelian Ivanovich Pugachev|Yemelian Pugachev]], [[Cossack]] [[insurgent]]
*[[Grigori Rasputin]] ([[1872]]-[[1916]]), friar, adventurer, mystic wonder-worker
*[[Stenka Razin]] ([[1630]]-[[1671]]), cossack insurgent
*[[Aleksei Stakhanov]], the work over-achiever who gave the name to the [[stakhanovite]] movement

== 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]] many nations (rightfully) chose to "regain" their nationality in the eyes of the world. Therefore some names may be missing from the list above and you may wish to look into the following lists. 

*[[List of Estonians]]
*[[List of Georgians]]
*[[List of Kazakh historical figures]]
*[[List of Latvians]]
*[[List of Lithuanians]]
*[[List of Ukrainians]]

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