Famous People

Architects

Aleksey Shchusev (1873-1949)
Alexander Kokorinov (1725-1772)
Andrei Stackenschneider (1802-1865)
Andrey Kvasov (1720 - after 1770)
Andrey Voronikhin (1759-1814)
Bartolomeo Rastrelli (1700-1771)
Carlo Rossi (architect) (1775-1849)
Dmitry Ukhtomsky (1719-1774)
Ivan Fyodorovich Michurin (1700-1763)
Ivan Starov, (1745-1808)
Konstantin Melnikov (1890-1974)
Konstantin Thon (1794-1881)
Matvei Kazakov (1738-1812)
Mikhail Zemtsov (1688-1743)
Postnik Yakovlev (1524-1612)
Vasily Bazhenov (1738-1799)
Vasily Stasov (1769-1848)
Vladimir Tatlin (1885-1953)
Yury Velten, (1730-1801)

Artists

Aleksandr Rodchenko (1891-1956), designer, constructivist painter
Aleksandra Ekster (1882-1949), painter, one of the founders of Art Deco
Aleksei Antropov (1716-1795) painter
Alexander Andreyevich Ivanov (1806-1858) painter
Alexander V. Kuprin (1880-1960), painter
Alexandr Zhdanov (1938-2006) painter and sculptor
Alexandre Benois (1870-1960), seminal influence on modern design
Alexei Kondratyevich Savrasov (1830-1897) painter
Alexej Harlamoff (1842-1922) painter
Alexej von Jawlensky (1864-1941) painter
Alexey Venetsianov (1780-1847) painter
Andrei Rublev (circa 1360-1430), medieval icon-painter
Andrei Ryabushkin (1861-1904), historical subjects
Anton Ivanov (1818-1864) painter
Anton Losenko (1737-1773) painter
Apollinary Vasnetsov (1856-1933), painter
Aristarkh Lentulov (1882 - 1943) painter
Arkhip Kuindzhi (1842-1910) painter
Boris Artzybasheff (1899-1965) painter
Boris Smirnov-Rusetsky (1905-1993) painter
Charles Radoff (1894-1986), painter
Dionisy, medieval icon-painter
Dmitry Levitzky (1735-1822), portrait painter
Fedor Alekseev (1753-1824), landscape painter
Fedor Slavyansky (1817-1876) painter
Feodor Bruni (1801-1875) painter
Feodor Vasilyev (1850-1873) painter
Feofan Grek, medieval icon-painter
Fyodor Rokotov (1736-1809), portrait painter
Grigory Soroka (1823-1864) painter
Ilya Mashkov (1881-1944) painter
Ilya Repin (1844-1930), painter
Isaac Levitan (1860-1900), landscape painter
Ivan Aivazovsky (1817-1900) painter
Ivan Khrutsky (1810-1885) painter
Ivan Nikitin (1690-1742) painter
Ivan Nikolaevich Kramskoi, (1837-1887), painter and the art critic
Ivan Petrovich Argunov (1729-1802) painter
Ivan Shishkin (1832-1898) painter
Ivan Yakovlevich Bilibin, illustrator
Karl Briullov (1799-1852), painter
Kazimir Malevich (1878-1935), suprematist painter, Black square
Konstantin Korovin (1861-1932) painter
Konstantin Makovsky (1839-1915) painter
Konstantin Savitsky (1844-1905) painter
Konstantin Somov (1869-1939) illustrator
Konstantin Vasiliev (1942-1976), painter
Ksenia Boguslavskaya (1892-1972), painter
Kuzma Petrov-Vodkin (1878-1939), painter
Leonid Pasternak (1862-1945), painter
Liubov Popova (1889-1924), cubist, abstract painter
Marc Chagall (1887-1985), painter
Maria Konstantinovna Bashkirtseva (1858-1884, painter
Marianne von Werefkin (1860-1938) painter
Mikhail Anikushin (1917-1997), sculptor
Mikhail Larionov (1881-1964) painter
Mikhail Vrubel (1856-1910) painter
Nicholas Roerich (1874-1947), painter
Nikolai Ge (1831-1894) painter
Nikolai Kasatkin (1859-1930) painter
Nikolay Andreyev (1873-1932), sculptor, graphic artist and stage designer
Nina Genke-Meller avant-garde artist (suprematist)
Orest Kiprensky (1782-1836) painter
Pavel Chistyakov (1832-1919), painter, Russian teacher
Pavel Fedotov (1815-1852) painter
Pavel Tchelitchew (1898-1957) painter
Peter Carl Fabergé (1846-1920), jewellery designer
Prokhor, medieval icon-painter
Pyotr Konchalovsky painter
Robert Falk (1886-1958), painter
Serge Poliakoff (1900-1969), painter
Sergei Bongart (1918-1985)
Simon Ushakov (1626-1686), painter
Svetoslav Roerich, (1904-1993), painter
Vadym Meller (1884-1962) painter (constructivist),theatrical designer
Valentin Serov (1865-1911) painter
Vasiliy Yermilov avant-garde artist(costructivist)
Vasily Andreevich Tropinin (1776-1857) painter
Vasily Perov (1834-1882) painter
Vasily Polenov (1844-1927), landscape painter
Vasily Surikov (1848-1916) painter
Vasily Vereshchagin (1842-1904), war artist
Vera Mukhina (1889-1953), sculptress
Viktor Vasnetsov (1848-1926), painter
Vladimir Borovikovsky (1757-1825) painter
Vladimir Tatlin (1885 - 1953), painter and architect.
Wassily Kandinsky (1866-1944), first abstract painter
Zinaida Serebriakova (1884-1967), painter of female nudes

Authors

Afanasy Fet
Aleksandr Bek (1903-1972), author
Aleksandr Blok, poet
Aleksandr Griboyedov (1795-1828), writer, statesman, Woe from Wit
Aleksandr Kuprin, Poedinok/ Duel
Aleksandr Petrovich Sumarokov
Aleksandr Pushkin (1799-1837), the greatest Russian poet, novelist, Evgenij Onegin
Aleksandr Tvardovsky
Aleksei Nikolaevich Tolstoi Aelita
Aleksei Remizov
Aleksey Konstantinovich Tolstoy Knyaz Serebrynyj
Aleksey Pisemsky
Alexander Belyayev (1884-1942), science fiction author
Alexander Bogdanov, writer, philosopher, politician, Red Star
Alexander Fadeyev (1901-1956), author, Molodaya gvardiya, Chapayev
Alexander Gorodnitsky
Alexander Herzen
Alexander Isayevich Solzhenitsyn (b. 1918), Nobel Prize for Literature
Alexander M. Volkov
Alexander Radishchev (1749-1802), social critic
Alexandr Grin, novelist, Alye Parusa
Alexandr Ostrovsky, playwriter
Alexandr Sukhovo-Kobylin
Alexandra Marinina
Anatoly Gladilin
Andrei Platonov, author, Kotlovan, Chelengur
Andrei Sinyavsky
Andrey Bely (1880-1934), poet and author, Petersburg
Anna Akhmatova, poet
Anna Kashina
Anton Chekhov (1860-1904),short stories author and playwright, The Cherry Orchard, Three Sisters, The Seagull
Apollon Maykov
Arkady Gaydar (1904-1941)
Arkady Timofeevich Averchenko, satirist
Ayn Rand (1905-1982), American novelist
Bella Akhmadulina, poet
Benedikt Sarnov, literary critic, social and political commentator
Boris Akunin (b. 1956), author, essayist, translator, literary critic
Boris and Arkady Strugatsky
Boris Grebenshchikov, a musician, a band Aquarium
Boris Pasternak (1890-1960), Doctor Zhivago
Boris Pilnyak
Boris Polevoy
Boris Savinkov
Boris Slutsky, poet
Cherubina de Gabriak
Chinghiz Aitmatov, author
Daniil Andreyev, Roza Mira
Daniil Kharms
Denis Davydov
Denis Fonvizin
Dmitri Kantemir
Dmitri Pisarev
Dmitriy Merezhkovsky, playwriter
Dmitry Grigorovich
Eduard Bagritsky, poet
Eduard Limonov, Edichka
Eduard Uspensky
Evgeny Baratynsky, poet
Evgeny Petrov
Fazil Iskander, (b. 1929), novelist
Fedor Nikolaevich Glinka
Fyodor Dostoyevsky (1821-1881), Brothers Karamazov, Crime and Punishment
Fyodor Sologub
Fyodor Tyutchev
Galina Dyuragin (1898-1991), author, known under the pseudonym Alexandra Rachmanova
Gavrila Derzhavin
Gennadiy Aygi (1934-2006), author, translator
Genrich Altov, science fiction writer
Helena Blavatsky (1831-1891) "The Secret Doctrine", "Isis Unveiled"
Helena Roerich (1879-1949)
Igor Guberman, humorist
Igor Severyanin, poet
Ilya Ilf
Ilya Selvinsky, (1899-1968)
Innokenty Annensky, poet
Irina Ratushinskaya
Isaac Babel (1894-1940), author
Ivan Barkov, poet, diplomat and translator
Ivan Bunin (1870-1953), first Russian Nobel Prize Winner
Ivan Efremov, science fiction writer and geologist
Ivan Goncharov (1812-1891), Oblomov
Ivan Krylov
Ivan N. Smirnov
Ivan Smirnov, guitarist
Ivan Turgenev
Joseph Brodsky, poet and essayist, Nobel Prize laureate
K.R., Konstantin Romanov, Silver Age poet
Kir Bulychev (1934-2003), science fiction author
Konstantin Aksakov
Konstantin Balmont, poet
Konstantin Batyushkov, poet
Konstantin Fedin
Konstantin Paustovsky
Konstantin Simonov
Korney Chukovsky
Kozma Prutkov, a pen name
Lazar Lagin, Hottabych
Leo Tolstoy (1828-1910) War and Peace, Anna Karenina
Leon Trotsky
Leonid Andreyev, The Seven Who Were Hanged
Leonid Leonov
Lev Gumilyov (Lev Gumilev), historian
Lev Kassil
Lev Kopelev
Lyudmila Ulitskaya
Marina Tsvetaeva
Mark Aldanov novelist
Maxim Gorky (1868-1936), novelist, My Universities
Maximilian Voloshin
Mikhail Artsybashev, author
Mikhail Bakhtin, philosopher
Mikhail Bulgakov (1891-1940), playwright and author, Master and Margarita
Mikhail Koltsov, journalist and satirist
Mikhail Lermontov (1814-1841), poet, author and painter
Mikhail Lomonosov (1711-1765), linguistic reformer
Mikhail Prishvin
Mikhail Saltykov-Shchedrin (1826-1889), novelist
Mikhail Sholokhov
Mikhail Veller
Mikhail Zoshchenko
Nadezhda Mandelstam
Nadezhda Teffi, humorist
Nicholas Yermakov
Nikolai Alekseevich Nekrasov (1821 - 1878), poet, journalist and editor
Nikolai Chernyshevsky (1828-1889), writer, journalist, politician
Nikolai Gogol (1809-1852), author, Dead Souls, Revizor
Nikolai Karamzin (1766-1826), poet, author, historian
Nikolai Leskov (1831-1895), storyteller, novelist and journalist, Levsha
Nikolai Ogaryov (1813-1877)
Nikolai Ostrovsky, Kak Zakalylas Stal
Nikolay Dobrolyubov
Nikolay Gnedich
Nikolay Gumilyov, poet
Nikolay Nosov, Neznaika
Nikolay Pomyalovsky, Ocherki Bursy
Nikolay Zabolotsky
Olga Berggolts, poet
Osip Mandelstam, poet
Osip Maximovich Brik
Pavel Bazhov, fairy tales author, The Malachite Casket
Peter Borisovich Kozlovski, (1783-1840) diplomat and man of letters
Peter Lavrovitch Lavrov, (1823-1900) socialist and revolutionist
Pyotr Yershov
Sasha Cherny (1880-1932), poet
Semen Nadson, poet
Semyon Gudzenko, poet
Sergei Aksakov, author
Sergei Dovlatov
Sergei Gorodetsky
Sergei Yesenin
Tatyana Tolstaya
Valentin Katayev
Valentin Rasputin
Valery Bryusov (1873-1924), poet
Varlam Shalamov (1907-1982), author of tales about Gulag
Vasil Bykov
Vasilisk Gnedov
Vasily Aksyonov, author
Vasily Shukshin, Kalina Krasnaya
Vasily Trediakovsky
Vasily Zhukovsky
Velimir Khlebnikov
Venedikt Erofeev, Moscow-Petushki
Veniamin Kaverin
Viktor Erofeev
Viktor Nekrasov, (1911-1988), writer
Viktor Pelevin (b. 1962), novelist, Omon Ra, Chapaev i Pustota
Viktor Suvorov, writer and spy
Vissarion Belinsky (1811-1848), writer, literary critic and philosopher
Vladimir Bukovsky (b. 1942), writer and dissident
Vladimir Dal
Vladimir Gilyarovsky
Vladimir Korolenko
Vladimir Mayakovsky
Vladimir Nabokov (1899-1977), author of Lolita
Vladimir Narbut, poet
Vladimir Obruchev, Plutonia
Vladimir Odoevsky
Vladimir Sorokin
Vladimir Tendryakov
Vladimir Voinovich
Vladislav Khodasevich
Vladislav Krapivin
Vyacheslav Ivanov
Xavier (Charles) Basil Radoff (1894-1986)
Yakov Perelman
Yakov Polonsky
Yanka Dyagileva
Yevgeny Yevtushenko
Yevgeny Yevtushenko, poet
Yevgeny Zamyatin (1884-1937), author of We
Yuri Dombrovsky, author
Yuri Olesha, Tri tolstyaka
Yury Trifonov, Dom na Naberezhnoi/ House on the Embankment
Yury Tynyanov
Zinaida Gippius

Cosmonauts

Aleksei Gubarev
Aleksei Leonov, first person to walk in space
Aleksei Yeliseyev
Alexandr Kaleri
Anatoli Filipchenko
Andrian Nikolayev (1929-2004)
Boris Volynov
Boris Yegorov(1937-1994)
Gennadi Sarafanov (1942-2005)
Georgi Beregovoi (1921-1995)
Georgi Dobrovolski (1928-1971)
Georgi Grechko
Georgi Shonin (1935-1997)
Gherman Titov (1935-2000)
Konstantin Feoktistov
Lev Demin (1926-1998)
Nikolai Rukavishnikov (1932-2002)
Oleg Makarov (1933-2003)
Pavel Belyayev (1925-1970)
Pavel Popovich
Pyotr Klimuk
Sergei Krikalyov, the person who accumulated most time in space (803 days)
Svetlana Savitskaya, second woman in space
Valentin Lebedev
Valentina Tereshkova (b. 1937), first woman in space
Valeri Kubasov
Valeri Polyakov, the person who accumulated most time in space in a single spaceflight (437 days)
Valeri Ryumin
Valery Bykovsky
Vasili Lazarev (1929-1990)
Viktor Gorbatko
Viktor Patsayev (1933-1971)
Vitali Zholobov
Vladimir Dzhanibekov
Vladimir Komarov (1927-1967)
Vladimir Shatalov
Vladislav Volkov (1935-1971)
Yevgeny Khrunov (1933-2000)
Yuri Artyukhin (1930-1998)
Yuri Gagarin (1934-1968), first human in space

Explorers

Afanasiy Nikitin, the first European who documented his visit to India
Faddey Faddeyevich Bellingshausen, the Russian officer who discovered Antarctica
Ferdinand Petrovich Wrangel (1796-1870), expolerer of Arctica
Gerasim Izmailov, explorer of Alaska
Ivan Fedorov, explorer of north-western Alaska
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
Nikolai Alekseevich Severtzov (1827 - 1885)
Nikolai Przhevalsky (1839 - 1888), explorer of central and eastern Asia
Pyotr Kuzmich Kozlov, explorer of Mongolia and Tibet
Semyon Ivanovich Dezhnev (circa 1605-1673), explorer of north-eastern Asia
Vitus Bering (1681-1741), explorer of north-western and south-western Alaska

Inventors

Alexander Nikolayevich Lodygin (1847 - 1923), electrical engineer and inventor
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
Andrey Tupolev (1888-1972), aircraft designer and builder
Artem Ivanovich Mikoyan (1905-1970), aircraft designer
Boris Rosing (1869-1933)
Constantin Perskyi engineer, invented word "television"
Dmitry Ivanovich Vinogradov (1720?-1758), inventor of the Russian porcelain
Gleb Yevgeniyevich Kotelnikov,(1872-1944), inventor of the knapsack parachute.
Igor Sikorsky (1889-1972), helicopter and aircraft designer
Ivan Petrovich Kulibin (1735-1818), mechanic
Konstantin Tsiolkovsky (1857-1935), rocket scientist and pioneer of astronautics
Leon Theremin (1896-1993), inventor of one of the first electronic musical instruments, the Theremin
Leonid Gobyato (1875-1915), Russian general, inventor of the modern Mortar (weapon)
Nikolai Kibalchich (1853-1881)
Nikolai Rynin (1887-1942) engineer
Nikolai Yegorovich Zhukovsky
Nikolay Gennadiyevich Basov (1922 - 2001), laser inventor, Nobel Prize for Physics 1964, together with Alexandr Prokhorov
Oleg Antonov(1906-1984) airplane designer
Pavel Sukhoi (1895-1975), aircraft constructor and designer
Pavel Yablochkov, electrical engineer, inventor of Yablochkov candle
Pyotr Kozmitch Frolov (1775-1839), mining engineer and inventor horse-railway
Semyon Lavochkin (1900-1960), aircraft designer
Sergei Mikhailovich Prokudin-Gorskii (1863-1944), father of colour photography
Sergei Pavlovich Korolev (1907-1966), rocket engineer and designer, Father of the space program
Sergey Vladimirovich Ilyushin (1894-1977), aircraft constructor
Vasily Degtyaryov (1880-1947), weapons designer
Vladimir Zworykin (1889-1982) pioneer of TV technology
Zhores Ivanovich Alferov (1930), physicist

Musicians and Composers

Achilles Alferaki (1846-1919), composer
Aleksandr Taneyev (1881-1956), composer
Aleksandra Pakhmutova (1929-), composer
Alexander Alyabyev, composer
Alexander Borodin (1833-1887), composer
Alexander Dargomyzhsky, composer
Alexander Glazunov (1865-1936), composer
Alexander Goedicke, composer
Alexander Gretchaninoff, composer
Alexander Scriabin (1871-1915), composer and pianist
Alexander Serov (1820-1871), composer
Alexander Tcherepnin (1899-1977), composer
Alexander Vasilyevich Alexandrov, composer
Alfred Schnittke (1934-1998), composer
Alla Pugacheva (1949-), singer and composer
Anatoly Konstantinovich Lyadov, composer
Andrei Sychra (1881-1956), composer
Anton Arensky, composer
Aram Khachaturian (1903-1978)
Arcadi Volodos (1972-), pianist
Boris Asafiev, composer
Boris Tchaikovsky (1881-1956), composer
César Cui (1835-1918)
Dima Bilan (1981-), singer
Dmitri Shostakovich (1906-1975), composer
Dmitry Kabalevsky (1904-1987)
Dmytro Bortniansky, composer
Edison Denisov, composer
Emil Gilels (1916-1985), pianist
Evgeni Kostitsyn (b. 1963), composer, pianist and conductor
Evgeny Golubev, composer
Fyodor Chaliapin (1873-1938), opera singer, bass
Galina Ustvolskaya (1919- 2006), composer
Gennady Rozhdestvensky (1931-), composer
Georgy Sviridov (1915-1998), composer
Gregor Piatigorsky (1903-1976), composer
Grigori Korchmar
Igor Stravinsky (1882-1971), composer
Ivan Vïshnegradsky (1881-1956), composer
Kyril Kondrashin (1914-1981), conductor
Lena Katina (b. 1984), singer
Leonid Kogan (1924-1982), violinist
Mikael Tariverdiev (1893-1986), composer
Mikhail Glinka (1804-1857), composer
Mikhail Ippolitov-Ivanov
Mikhail Pletnev (1957-), composer
Mily Balakirev, composer
Modest Mussorgsky (1839-1881), composer
Mstislav Rostropovich (1927-), cellist
Mstislav Rostropovich (b. 1927), cellist and conductor
Nicolas Slonimsky (1894-1995), composer
Nikolai Demidenko, composer
Nikolai Golovanov (1891-1953), conductor
Nikolai Kapustin
Nikolai Medtner (1880-1951), composer, pianist
Nikolai Myaskovsky (1881-1950), composer
Nikolai Petrov (1943-), composer
Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov (1844-1908), composer
Nikolai Rubinstein (1835-1881), pianist, conductor and composer
Origa (1970), singer
Pyotr Tchaikovsky (1840-1893), composer
Rodion Shchedrin (1932-), composer
Serafim Tulikov (1913-2004), composer
Sergei Bortkiewicz, composer
Sergei Lyapunov, composer
Sergei Prokofiev (1891-1953), composer
Sergei Rachmaninoff (1873-1943)
Sergey Lazarev (1983-), vocalist
Sergey Taneyev (1856-1915), composer
Sviatoslav Richter (1915-1997), pianist
Tatyana Bulanova (1969-), singer
Tikhon Khrennikov (b. 1913), composer
Vadim Repin (1971-), composer, violinist
Vadim Salmanov (1912-1978), composer
Valery Gergiev (1953), pianist, conductor
Valery Polekh (1918-1992), composer
Vasilii Sarenko (1814-1881), composer
Vasily Ilyich Safonov (1852-1918), composer and music educator
Vasily Kalinnikov
Viktoria Mullova (1959), violinist
Vissarion Shebalin (1902-1963), composer
Vladimir Horowitz (1903-1989), pianist
Vyacheslav Mescherin (-1995), Synthesizer music composer, audio engineer
Yulia Volkova (b. 1985), singer

Performing Arts

Film Directors

Aleksandr Petrov
Aleksandr Ptushko
Alexander Dovzhenko
Alexander Sokurov
Andrei Konchalovsky
Andrei Tarkovsky
Dziga Vertov
Edmond Keosayan
Eldar Ryazanov
Elem Klimov
Fjodor Khitruk
Fyodor Bondarchuk
Georgi Daneliya
Grigori Chukhrai
Grigori Kozintsev
Karen Shakhnazarov
Ladislas Starevich
Larisa Shepitko
Leonid Gaidai
Lev Kuleshov
Mikhail Romm
Nikita Mikhalkov
Pavel Chukhrai
Pavel Lungin
Sergei Bondarchuk
Sergei Eisenstein
Vasily Shukshin
Vsevolod Pudovkin
Yakov Protazanov
Yevgeni Bauer

Performers

Agrippina Vaganova (1879-1951)
Alexander Ptushko (1900-1973), animation & film director
Anna Pavlova (1882-1931), ballerina
Boris Brunov (1922-1997), actor
Elizaveta Gerdt (1891-1975), ballerina
Galina Ulanova (1910-1988), ballerina
Ivan Novikoff (1899-2002), ballet master
Konstantin Stanislavsky (1868-1938), actor
Leonid Filatov, actor
Lila Kedrova (1918-2000), actress
Lubov Orlova (1902-1975), actress
Lydia Lopokova (1892-1971), ballerina
Mathilde Kschessinska (1872-1971)
Maya Plisetskaya (born 1925), ballerina
Michel Fokine (1880-1942), choreographer, dancer
Mikhail Baryshnikov (b. 1948), ballet dancer
Milla Jovovich, actress, model and musician
Natalie Wood (1938-1981), actress
Nikita Mikhalkov (b. 1945), filmmaker and politician
Olga Preobrajenska (1871-1962), ballerina
Pavel Gerdt (1844-1917), danseur
Rudolf Nureyev (1938-1993), ballet dancer
Sergei Bodrov Jr. (1971-2002), actor
Sergei Bodrov, filmmaker
Sergei Bondarchuk (1920-1994), film director
Sergei Diaghilev (1872-1929), ballet impresario
Solomon Mikhoels, actor
Tamara Karsavina (1885-1978), ballerina
Vaslav Fomich Nijinsky (1890-1950), ballet dancer, choreographer
Vera Karalli (1889-1972), ballerina and actress
Vera Volkova (1904-1975), ballerina
Yul Brynner, actor
Yuri Soloviev (1940-1977), ballet dancer

Theatre Directors

Anatoly Efros
Konstantin Stanislavski
Leonid Varpakhovsky
Michael Chekhov
Yevgeny Vakhtangov
Yury Lyubimov

Scientists

Abram Fedorovich Ioffe, physicist
Aleksandr Fyodorovich Middendorf, zoologist
Aleksandr L'vovich Brudno, computer scientist
Aleksandr Lyapunov, mathematician
Aleksandr Mikhailovich Butlerov
Aleksandr Oparin, biologist and biochemist
Aleksandr Semenovich Kronrod, mathematician, computer scientist, economist
Aleksei Aleksandrovich Balandin, chemist
Aleksei Chichibabin, chemist
Alexander Borodin, chemist
Alexander Dmitrievich Zasyadko
Alexander Gurwitsch, biologist
Alexander Kovalevsky, embryologist
Alexander Stepanovich Popov, physicist
Alexei Abrikosov, physicist, Nobel Prize recipient
Anatoly Maltsev
Anatoly Timofeevich Fomenko, mathematician, chronologist
Andrei Markov, mathematician
Andrei Sakharov, nuclear physicist
Andrey Nikolaevich Kolmogorov, mathematician
Boris Belousov, chemist / biophysicist
Boris Grakov, archaeologist
Boris Nikolsky
Boris Yakovych Bukreyev, mathematician
Delibash Boris Apostolovich, worked on the Sputnik program.
Dimitri Fedorovich Egorov, mathematician
Dmitri Ivanenko, physicist
Dmitri Maksutov
Dmitri Mendeleyev, chemist who developed a periodic table of the chemical elements
Dmitri Skobeltsyn, physisist
Dmitri Victorovich Anosov, mathematician
Eugène Gabritschevsky, biologist
Eugene Podkletnov, physicist
Feodosy Krasovsky
Friedrich Wilhelm Struve (Vasily Yakovlevich Struve), astronomer
Gennadi Nevelskoi, captain and navigator
Georg Steller, naturalist and ornithologist of German origin.
Georgy Langemak
Igor Kurchatov, atomic bomb physicist
Igor Novikov, theoretical astrophysicist and cosmologist
Igor Tamm, physicist, Nobel Prize
Ilya Ilyich Mechnikov, biologist, Nobel Prize in medicine
Ilya Mikhailovich Frank, physicist, Nobel Prize winner
Iosif Shklovsky, astronomer and astrophysicist
Isaak Markovich Khalatnikov, physicist
Ivan Matveevich Vinogradov, mathematician
Ivan Mikhailovich Sechenov, father of Russian physiology
Ivan Pavlov, physician and physiologist
Ivan Vladimirovich Michurin, selectionist
Julii Khariton, physicist
Karl Klaus (1796 - 1864), chemist, discoverer of ruthenium.
Kerim Kerimov, engineer
Kliment Arkadyevich Timiryazev, botanist
Konstantin Merezhkovsky, biologist, one of the creators of theory of endosymbiosis
Leonid Bunimovich, mathematician
Leonid Kantorovich, mathematician and economist
Leonid Mandelshtam, physicist
Lev Artsimovich, physicist
Lev Landau, physicist and mathematician, Nobel Prize in physics
Lev Semenovich Berg, biologist
Mikhail Lavrentyev, physicist and mathematician
Mikhail Lebedev, neuroscientist
Mikhail Lomonosov, polymath
Mikhail Tsvet, botanist, inventor of chromatography
Mikhail Vasilievich Ostrogradsky, mathematician and physicist
Mikhail Yangel
Nikolai Bugaev, mathematician
Nikolai Ivanovich Shakura
Nikolai Kardashev, astrophysicist
Nikolai Koltsov, famous Russian biologist
Nikolai Lobachevsky, mathematician
Nikolai Nikolaevich Lusin, mathematician
Nikolai P. Barabashov, astronomer
Nikolai V. Timofeeff-Ressovsky, biologist
Nikolai Vavilov, biologist
Nikolai Yegorovich Zhukovsky, aero- and hydrodynamics.
Nikolay Bogolyubov, mathematician and theoretical physicist
Nikolay Dimitrievich Zelinskiy, chemist
Nikolay Mitrofanovich Krylov, mathematician and theoretical physicist
Nikolay Nikolayevich Beketov, chemist
Nikolay Semyonov , physicist and chemist, Nobel Prize for Chemistry
Nikolay Umov, mathematician
Olga Aleksandrovna Ladyzhenskaya, mathematician
Orest Khvolson, physicist
Pafnuti Chebyshev, mathematician
Pavel Cherenkov, physicist, Nobel Prize
Pavel Sergeevich Alexandrov, mathematician
Peter D. Ouspensky, polymath
Peter Simon Pallas, a German working in Russia zoologist
Petr Nikolaevich Lebedev, physicist
Pyotr Kafarov, sinologist
Pyotr Leonidovich Kapitsa, physicist, discoverer of superfluidity, Nobel Prize in physics
Roy Medvedev
Sabir Yunusov
Sergei Fomin, mathematician
Sergei Kopeikin, physicist
Sergei Lvovich Sobolev, mathematician
Sergei Winogradsky, microbiologist, ecologist and soil scientist
Sergey Ivanovich Vavilov, physicist
Sofia Kovalevskaya, mathematician
Stepan Krasheninnikov
Tatyana Alexeyevna Afanasyeva, mathematician
Tatyana Zaslavskaya
Trofim Lysenko, biologist
Valeri L. Barsukov, chemist
Vasily V. Dokuchaev, the founder of the modern soil science
Victor Ivanovitsch Motschulsky
Viktor Amazaspovich Ambartsumian, astronomer and astrophysicist
Vitaly Ginzburg, physicist, Nobel Prize recipient
Vladimir Aleksandrovich Fock, physicist
Vladimir Arnoldi, botanist
Vladimir Ipatieff, chemist
Vladimir Ivanovich Vernadsky, geochemist, creator of the Noosphere theory
Vladimir Mikhailovich Bekhterev, psychologist and neuropathologist
Vladimir Steklov, physicist and mathematician
Yakov Zel'dovich, physicist, astrophysicist and cosmologist
Yulian Sokhotski, mathematician
Yuri Ivanovich Manin, mathematician
Zhores Ivanovich Alferov Nobel Prize winner
Zhores Medvedev

Sport

Chess

Alexander Alekhine
Alexander Khalifman
Alexander Kotov
Alexander Petrov
Anatoly Karpov
Boris Spassky
Emmanuel Schiffers
Garry Kasparov
Grigory Levenfish
Mark Taimanov
Mikhail Botvinnik
Mikhail Chigorin
Peter Romanovsky
Peter Svidler
Semen Furman
Vasily Smyslov
Victor Korchnoi
Vladimir Kramnik
Yuri Averbakh

Gymnastics

Alexander Tkachyov (b. 1957)
Alexei Nemov, (b. 1976)
Alina Kabaeva
Maria Filatova (b. 1961)
Natalia Shaposhnikova (b. 1961)
Nikolai Andrianov (b. 1952), world record for men for most Olympic medals
Sofia Muratova (b. 1929)
Svetlana Khorkina
Yelena Davydova (b. 1961)
Yelena Shushunova (b. 1969)

Tennis

Anastasia Myskina, (b. 1981). Won the 2004 French Open.
Andrei Chesnokov
Anna Kournikova, (b. 1981)
Dmitry Tursunov, (b. 1982)
Elena Dementieva, (b. 1981)
Marat Safin (b. 1980). Won 2000 U.S. Open and 2005 Australian Open.
Maria Sharapova, (b. 1987). First Russian woman to reach No. 1 in the rankings.
Mikhail Youzhny, (b. 1982)
Nadia Petrova, (b. 1982)
Nikolay Davydenko, (b. 1981)
Svetlana Kuznetsova, (b. 1985). Won the 2004 U.S. Open.
Yevgeny Kafelnikov, (b. 1974)

Ice hockey

Alexander Ovechkin- NHL
Alexander Yakushev (b. 1947)
Alexei Ponikarovsky
Igor Larionov
Ilya Kovalchuk -NHL
Nikolai Khabibulin (b. 1973), NHL goalie
Oleg Kvasha (b.1978)
Pavel Bure (b. 1971), NHL
Sergei Fedorov (b. 1969), NHL
Sergei Makarov
Sergei Zubov
Valery Kharlamov (1948-1981)
Viacheslav Fetisov (b. 1958)
Vladimir Konstantinov
Vladimir Vladimirovich Petrov
Vladislav Tretiak (b. 1952), goalie
Vyacheslav Kozlov

Weightlifting

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

Other Sports

Alexander Karelin, (b. 1967), Greco-Roman wrestling, champion
Alexei Yagudin (b. 1980), figure skater
Anastasiya Kapachinskaya, (b.1979), athlete
Anatoli Boukreev (1958-1997), mountaineer
Andrei Kirilenko, (b. 1981), NBA basketball player
Dmitri Sychev (b. 1983), association football player
Evgeny Abalakov, mountaineer
Evgeny Plushenko (b. 1982), figure skater
Fedor Emelianenko, (b. 1976) Heavyweight champion of Pride Fighting Championships
Fedor Emelianenko, (b. 1976) Heavyweight champion of Pride Fighting Championships
Inga Artamonova (1936-1966), 4-time world all-around speed skating champion
Irina Slutskaya (b. 1979), figure skater
Kostya Tszyu (b. 1969), boxer
Lev Yashin (1929-1990), football goalkeeper
Lidia Skoblikova (b. 1939), speed skater, most Olympic medals in speed skating
Natalya Nazarova, (b. 1979), athlete
Natasha Polevshchikova, Supermodel
Nina Romashkova (b. 1929), athlete, the first Soviet Olympic Champion
Roho (Boradzov Soslan Feliksovich) (b. 1980), Sumo wrestler
Svetlana Krivelyova, (b.1969), athlete
Vitaly Abalakov, mountaineer
Vladimir Beschastnykh, association football player
Yelena Isinbayeva, (b. 1982), athlete