Adolf Yushkevich - Adolf–Andrei Pavlovich Yushkevich was a Soviet historian of mathematics, leading expert in medieval mathematics of the East and the work of Leonhard Euler.
Aharon Dolgopolsky - Aharon Dolgopolsky is a Russian-born Israeli comparative linguist and one of the modern founders of comparative Nostratic linguistics.
Aharon Yariv - Aharon "Aharale" Rabinovich Yariv was an Israeli politician and soldier.
Albert Shesternyov - Albert Alekseyevich Shesternyov is a former soccer player for the Soviet Union.
Aleksandr Askoldov - Aleksandr Yakovlevich Askoldov was a Soviet Russian actor and film director.
Aleksandr Bibikov - Aleksandr Ilyich Bibikov was a Russian statesman and military officer.
Aleksandr Drakokhrust - Aleksandr Abramovich Drakokhrust is a Russian language poet, journalist and translator from Russia and Belarus.
Aleksandr Dugin - Aleksandr Gelyevich Dugin is a politologist and one of the most popular ideologists of Russian expansionism, nationalism and fascism, with close ties to the Kremlin and Russian military.
Aleksandr Grave - Aleksandr Konstantinovich Grave was a Russian actor with a long and distinguished career who played over 150 roles at the Vakhtangov Theatre in Moscow.
Aleksandr Ivannikov - Aleksandr Ivannikov was a Soviet ski jumper who competed from 1963 to 1972.
Aleksandr Kokorin - Aleksandr Aleksandrovich Kokorin is a footballer currently playing for FC Dynamo Moscow.
Aleksandr Lazutkin - Aleksandr Ivanovich Lazutkin is a Russian cosmonaut.
Aleksandr Leonov - Aleksandr Leonov is a boxer from Russia, who competed for his native country at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney, Australia.
Aleksandr Pavlovich Aleksandrov - Aleksandr Pavlovich Aleksandrov, born February 20, 1943 is a former Soviet cosmonaut and twice Hero of the Soviet Union.
Aleksandr Privalov - Aleksandr Vasiliyevich Privalov is a former Soviet biathlete and Olympic medalist.
Aleksandr Samedov - Aleksandr Samedov is a professional Russian footballer of Azeri ethnic origin.
Aleksandr Serebrov - Aleksandr Aleksandrovich Serebrov is a former Russian cosmonaut.
Aleksandr Sergeyevich Kabanov - Aleksandr Sergeyevich Kabanov is a Russian water polo player and head coach of Russian water polo team.
Aleksandr Sidelnikov - Aleksandr Nikolaevich Sidelnikov was an Soviet ice hockey player who played in the Soviet Hockey League.
Aleksandr Tochilin - Aleksandr Vasilyevich Tochilin is a retired Russian football player who played the most of his career for FC Dynamo Moscow and once represented Russia.
Aleksandra Krunić - Aleksandra Krunić is a Serbian professional tennis player, who is, as of 26 July 2010, ranked No. 248.
Aleksei Berezutski - Aleksei Vladimirovich Berezutski is a Russian football defender.
Aleksei Glushkov - Aleksei Yuryevich Glushkov is a Russian wrestler and Olympic bronze medalist in Greco-Roman wrestling.
Aleksei Prudnikov - Aleksei Pavlovich Prudnikov is former USSR and Russian football player who played as a goalkeeper.
Aleksey Khomyakov - Aleksey Stepanovich Khomyakov was a Russian religious poet who co-founded the Slavophile movement along with Ivan Kireevsky, and became one of its most distinguished theoreticians.
Aleksey Kudryavtsev - Aleksey Kudryavtsev is a retired Russian freestyle swimmer, who was affiliated with Profsoyuzy Moskva.
Aleksey Mitrofanov - Aleksey Valentinovich Mitrofanov is a Russian politician and former deputy of the State Duma of Russia from the Liberal Democratic Party of Russia.
Aleksey Morozov - Aleksey Alekseyevich Morozov is a Russian professional ice hockey player currently playing for Ak Bars Kazan of the Kontinental Hockey League.
Aleksey Verbov - Aleksey Igorevich Verbov is a volleyball player from Russia.
Alexander Grachev - Alexander Pavlovich Grachev is a Russian ice dancer.
Alexander Herzen - Aleksandr Ivanovich Herzen was a Russian pro-Western writer and thinker known as the "father of Russian socialism", and one of the main fathers of agrarian populism.
Alexander II of Russia - Alexander II, also known as Alexander the Liberator was the Emperor of the Russian Empire from 3 March 1855 until his assassination in 1881.
Alexander Izvolsky - Alexander Petrovich Izvolsky or Iswolsky was a Russian diplomat remembered as a major architect of Russia's alliance with the British Empire during the years leading to the outbreak of the...
Alexander Karpovtsev - Alexander Karpovtsev is a Russian retired ice hockey player who is currently an assistant coach for Ak Bars Kazan of the Kontinental Hockey League.
Alexander Kazhdan - Alexander Petrovich Kazhdan was a Soviet-American Byzantinist.
Alexander Khavanov - Alexander Pavlovich Khavanov is a professional ice hockey defenceman who last played in the NHL for the Toronto Maple Leafs.
Alexander Knyazhinsky - Alexander Leonidovich Knyazhinsky was a Russian cinematographer, noted for his work on Andrey Tarkovsky's Stalker.
Alexander Korolyuk - Alexander Ivanovich Korolyuk is a Russian professional ice hockey right winger currently playing for SKA Saint Petersburg of the Kontinental Hockey League.
Alexander Martynyuk - Alexander Akimovich Martynyuk is a retired ice hockey player who played in the Soviet Hockey League.
Alexander Melamid - Alexander Melamid is a Russian painter and performance artist who emigrated to New York City from the Soviet Union in 1977 with Vitaly Komar.
Alexander Mezhirov - Alexander Petrovich Mezhirov was a Soviet and Russian poet, translator and critic.
Alexander Mishnaevski - Alexander Mishnaevski is a Russian-born American violist, the principal violist of the Detroit Symphony Orchestra.
Alexander Pashkov - Alexander Konstantinovich Pashkov is a retired ice hockey player who played in the Soviet Hockey League.
Alexander Potresov - Alexander Nikolayevich Potresov was a Russian social democrat and one of the leaders of Menshevism.
Alexander Pushkin - Alexander Sergeyevich Pushkin was a Russian author of the Romantic era who is considered by many to be the greatest Russian poet and the founder of modern Russian literature.
Alexander Ragulin - Alexander Pavlovich "Rags" Ragulin was a defenseman for the Red Army ice hockey team, CSKA Moscow, a 10 time World Champion, and a 3-time Olympic champion.
Alexander Savchenkov - Alexander Savchenkov is a Russian ice hockey forward who is currently playing for Krylya Sovetov team in Russia.
Alexander Scriabin - Alexander Nikolayevich Scriabin was a Russian composer and pianist who initially developed a highly lyrical and idiosyncratic tonal language inspired by the music of Frédéric Chopin.
Alexander Soifer - Alexander Soifer is a Russian-born American mathematician and mathematics author.
Alexander Stepanov - Alexander Alexandrovich Stepanov is the primary designer and implementer of the C++ Standard Template Library, which he started to develop around 1992 while employed at HP Labs.
Alexander Suvorov - Alexander Vasilyevich Suvorov, Count Suvorov of Rymnik, Prince in Italy, Count of the Holy Roman Empire, was the fourth and last generalissimo of the Russian Empire.
Alexander Uspenski - Alexander Sergeyevich Uspenski is a Russian figure skater.
Alexander Varlamov - Alexander Egorovich Varlamov was a Russian composer.
Alexander Vassiliev - Alexander Vassiliev is a Russian journalist, writer and espionage historian living in London.
Alexandre Kojève - Alexandre Kojève was a Russian-born French Hegelian philosopher and statesman whose philosophical seminars had an immense influence on twentieth-century French philosophy, and on his student the...
Alexei Guryshev - Alexei Mikhailovich Guryshev was a Russian ice hockey center.
Alexei Markov - Alexei Mikhailovich Markov is a Russian professional road bicycle racer for UCI ProTeam Team Katusha.
Alexey Venetsianov - Alexey Gavrilovich Venetsianov was a Russian painter, renown for his paintings devoted to the peasant life and ordinary people.
Alexis Lichine - Alexis Lichine was a Russian wine writer and entrepreneur.
Alexis of Russia - Alexei Mikhailovich Romanov was the Tsar of Russia during some of the most eventful decades of the mid-17th century.
Alfred Kuchevsky - Alfred Iosifovich Kuchevsky was a Russian ice hockey player who played in the Soviet Hockey League.
Alina Jidkova - Alina Vladimirovna Jidkova, soubriquet Alinka, is a Women's Tennis Association tennis player.
Alisa Kleybanova - Alisa Mikhaelovna Kleybanova is a Russian professional tennis player.
Alissa Firsova - Alissa Firsova is a Russian and British composer, pianist and conductor.
Alla Kudryavtseva - Alla Alexandrovna Kudryavtseva is a professional tennis player from Russia.
Alyosha Mirny - Alyosha Mirny,, alternatively Romanised as Aljoša Mirnõi, also known under the handle of "Face", is a Russian blogger of unpublished real identity.
Anastasia Baranova - Anastasia Baranova is a Russian-American actress, best known for her starring role as Jennifer "Scout" Lauer on the television series Scout's Safari.
Anastasiya Yermakova - Anastasiya Nikolayevna Yermakova is a Russian competitor in synchronized swimming and four-time Olympic champion.
Anatole Kaletsky - Anatole Kaletsky is a journalist and economist based in the United Kingdom.
Anatoli Firsov - Anatoli Vasilievich Firsov was a Russian ice hockey left wing and center, who competed internationally for the USSR. In the IIHF World Championships, he won the scoring title four times and was ...
Anatoli Gerk - Anatoli Anatolyevich Gerk is a Russian footballer who plays for Russian First Division side FC Ural Sverdlovsk Oblast.
Anatoli Ilyin - Anatoli Mikhaïlovitch Ilyin is a former Soviet Russian footballer.
Anatoli Kozhemyakin - Anatoli Yevgenyevich Kozhemyakin was a Soviet football player.
Anatoli Parov - Anatoli Vasilyevich Parov is a retired Soviet football player.
Anatoli Semenov - Anatoli Anatolievich Semenov is a retired professional ice hockey centre who was a star in the Soviet Union during the 1980s and later spent parts of 8 seasons in the National Hockey League.
Anatoliy Brandukov - Anatoliy Andreyevich Brandukov was a Russian cellist who premiered many cello pieces of prominent composers including Pyotr Tchaikovsky and Sergei Rachmaninoff.
Anatoly Kashirov - Anatoly Kashirov is a Russian professional basketball player.
Anatoly Kudryavitsky - Anthony Kudryavitsky born in Moscow in 1954, better known by his pen name Anatoly Kudryavitsky, is a Russian-Irish novelist, poet and literary translator.
Anatoly Nikolayevich Alexandrov - Anatoly Nikolayevich Alexandrov was a Russian composer of works for piano and for other instruments, and pianist.
Andrei Andreyevich Eshpai - Andrei Andreyevich Eshpai is a film director, screenwriter and producer of Mari descent.
Andrei Babitsky - Andrei Babitsky is a Russian journalist and war reporter, who has worked for Radio Liberty since 1989, covering the 1991 August Coup, Civil War in Tajikistan and, most notably, both Chechen Wars...
Andrei Bely - Andrei Bely was the pseudonym of Boris Nikolaevich Bugaev, a Russian novelist, poet, theorist, and literary critic.
Andrei Chesnokov - Andrei Eduardovich Chesnokov is a former professional tennis player from Russia.
Andrei Lezin - Andrei Lezin is a Russian figure skater.
Andrei Maximishin - Andrei Nikolaevich Maximishin is a Russian ice dancer.
Andrei Minenkov - Andrei Olegovich Minenkov is a Russian figure skater.
Andrei Okounkov - Andrei Yuryevich Okounkov is a Russian mathematician who works on representation theory and its applications to algebraic geometry, mathematical physics, probability theory and special functions.
Andrei Sakharov - Andrei Dmitrievich Sakharov was an eminent Soviet nuclear physicist, dissident and human rights activist.
Andrei Skopintsev - Andrei Borisovich Skopintsev is a Russian professional ice hockey defenceman who currently plays for MVD Balashikha of the KHL.
Andrei Solomatin - Andrei Yuryevich Solomatin is a retired Russian football player.
Andrei Trefilov - Andrei Viktorovich Trefilov is a retired Russian ice hockey goaltender.
Andrei Yakubik - Andrei Aleksandrovich Yakubik is a retired Soviet football player.
Andrew Pavlovsky - Andrew Pavlovsky is a contemporary Russian artist.
Andrey Chernyshov - Andrei Alekseyevich Chernyshiv is a Russian football manager and former player.
Andrey Ershov - Academician Andrey Petrovych Ershov was a Soviet computer scientist, notable as a pioneer in systems programming and programming language research.
Andrey Kistyakovsky - Andrey Andreyevich Kistyakovsky was a Russian translator and political activist.
Andrey Kobelev - Andrey Nikolayevich Kobelev is a former Russian footballer, who played as a midfielder, and coach.
Andrey Korotayev - Andrey Korotayev is an anthropologist, economic historian, and sociologist, with major contributions to world-systems theory, cross-cultural studies, Near Eastern history, and mathematical model...
Andrey Lukanov - Andrey Karlov Lukanov was a Bulgarian political figure.
Andrey Makarevich - Andrey Vadimovich Makarevich is a Soviet and Russian rock musician, founder of the Russia's oldest still active rock band Mashina Vremeni.
André Andersen - André Andersen is a Russian-born multi-instrumentalist and composer best known as the keyboardist and founder of the Denmark-based progressive metal band Royal Hunt.
André Eglevsky - André Eglevsky was a Russian-born American ballet dancer and teacher.
André Tchelistcheff - André Tchelistcheff was America's most influential post-Prohibition winemaker.
Anita Tsoy - Anita "Anna" Sergeyevna Tsoy is a Russian singer - songwriter of Korean descent.
Anna Arina Marenko - Anna Arina Marenko is a Junior Russian tennis player.
Anna Kotchneva - Anna Kotchneva is a former Soviet rhythmic gymnast.
Anna Levandi - Anna Levandi is a Russian retired competitive figure skater who represented the Soviet Union in international competition.
Anna Loginova - Anna Loginova was a Russian fashion model and later a trained bodyguard.
Anna Mikhailova - Anna Mikhailova is a Russian composer, organist and koto player.
Anna of Russia - Anna Ivanovna reigned as Duchess of Courland from 1711 to 1730 and as Empress of Russia from 1730 to 1740.
Anton Shunin - Anton Vladimirovich Shunin is a Russian football goalkeeper who currently plays for Dynamo Moscow.
Anton Singov - Anton Singov, who also goes by the pseudonym "Cooller", is a Russian professional gamer in the first-person shooter game series Quake.
Anton Volchenkov - Anton Alekseyevich Volchenkov, also known as the A-Train, the Human Shield and the Russian Bear, is a Russian professional ice hockey defenceman currently playing for the New Jersey ...
Anya Ulinich - Anya Ulinich is a modern Russian American novelist and short-story writer.
Anya Verkhovskaya - Anya Verkhovskaya is a Moscow-born consultant, chief operating officer, film producer, and activist.
Arcady Boytler - Arcady Arcadievic Boytler Rososky was a producer, screenwriter, and director, most renowned for his films during of the golden age of Mexican cinema.
Arie Eliav - Arie "Lova" Eliav, born Lev Lipschitz,, was an Israeli politician and former member of the Knesset.
Arina Martinova - Arina Valeryevna Martinova is a Russian figure skater.
Armen Grigoryan - Armen Grigoryan is a singer/songwriter and artist, the front man of "Krematorij" Russian rock-band.
Aron Gurevich - Aron Yakovlevich Gurevich was a Russian medievalist historian, working on the European culture of the Middle Ages.
Artem Grigoriev - Artem Sergeyevich Grigoriev is a Russian figure skater.
Artur Gachinski - Artur Andreyevich Gachinski is a Russian figure skater.
Artur Yusupov - Artur Mayakovich Yusupov is a German International Grandmaster of chess, and a chess writer.
Aslan Usoyan - Aslan Usoyan aka Grandpa Hassan is an ethnic Kurdish mobster and thief in law operating in Moscow.
Aylmer and Louise Maude - Aylmer Maude and Louise Maude were English translators of Tolstoy's works, and Aylmer Maude also wrote his friend Tolstoy's biography.
Bella Akhmadulina - Bella Akhatovna Akhmadulina is a Soviet and Russian poet who has been cited by Joseph Brodsky as the best living poet in the Russian language.
Boleslav Mlodzeevskii - Boleslav Kornelievich Mlodzeevskii, also Mlodzievskii was a Russian mathematician, a former president of the Moscow Mathematical Society.
Boris Batanov - Boris Alekseyevich Batanov was a Soviet football player.
Boris Berezovsky - Boris Abramovich Berezovsky is a Russian businessman, mathematician, member of Russian Academy of Sciences, who was accused of numerous crimes in Russia and sentenced to several years of impriso...
Boris Berman - Boris Berman is a Russian pianist and pedagogue.
Boris Ioganson - Boris Vladimirovich Ioganson was a Russian painter.
Boris Kochno - Boris Kochno was a Russian poet, dancer and librettist.
Boris Leven - Boris Leven was a Russian-born Academy Award-winning art director and production designer whose Hollywood career spanned fifty-three years.
Boris Mayorov - Boris Aleksandrovich Mayorov is a retired ice hockey player who played in the Soviet Hockey League.
Boris Mikhaylovich Zaytsev - Boris Mikhaylovich Zaytsev was a Russian ice hockey player who competed in the 1964 Winter Olympics.
Boris Mironov - Boris Olegovich Mironov is a retired Russian professional ice hockey defenceman.
Boris Pokrovsky - Boris Alexandrovich Pokrovsky was the operatic stage director of the Bolshoi Theatre between 1943 and 1982.
Boris Stomakhin - Boris Vladimirovich Stomakhin is a Russian radical political activist, and editor of "Radical politics" periodical.
Boris Yegorov - Boris Borisovich Yegorov was a Soviet physician-cosmonaut and he became the first physician to make a space flight.
Denis Fonvizin - Denis Ivanovich Fonvizin is a playwright of the Russian Enlightenment whose plays are still staged today.
Denis Krivoshlykov - Denis Ivanovich Krivoshlykov is a Russian team handball player and Olympic Champion from 2000 in Sydney.
Denis Tolpeko - Denis Tolpeko is a Russian professional ice hockey centre currently playing for UHC Dynamo of the Kontinental Hockey League.
Dimitri Riabouchinsky - Dimitri Pavlovitch Riabouchinsky was a Russian French fluid dynamicist noted for his discovery of the Riabouchinsky solid technique.
Dimitri Simes - Dimitri K. Simes is a foreign policy analyst and author who serves as president of The Nixon Center and publisher of the foreign policy journal The National Interest.
Dina Kochetkova - Dina Anatolyevna Kochetkova is a Russian gymnast who competed at the 1996 Olympics.
Dinara Safina - Dinara Mikhailovna Safina is a Russian professional tennis player.
Dmitri Alexeievich Smirnov - Dmitri Alexeievich Smirnov was a leading Russian operatic tenor with a lyric voice and a bravura singing technique.
Dmitri Bondarenko - Dmitri Bondarenko is a Russian anthropologist, historian, and africanist.
Dmitri Capyrin - Dmitri Capyrin is a Russian composer of contemporary classical music.
Dmitri Egorov - Dmitri Fyodorovich Egorov, was a Russian and Soviet mathematician known for significant contributions to the areas of differential geometry and mathematical analysis.
Dmitri Galiamin - Dmitri Aleksandrovich Galiamin is a retired Russian football defender, and a current manager.
Dmitri Kharine - Dmitri Viktorovich Kharine, is a retired Russian footballer who played as a goalkeeper.
Dmitri Khlestov - Dmitri Alekseyevich Khlestov is a retired Russian football player.
Dmitri Kombarov - Dmitri Vladimirovich Kombarov is a Russian footballer who plays for FC Dynamo Moscow in the Russian Premier League.
Dmitri Mironov - Dmitri Olegovich Mironov is a retired Russian ice hockey defenseman.
Dmitriy Shevchenko (fencer) - Dmitriy Stepanovich Shevchenko is a Russian fencer, who won a gold Olympic medal in the team foil competition at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta and bronze Olympic medal in the individual fo...
Dmitry Berestov - Dmitry Vladimirovitch Berestov is a Russian weightlifter who won the gold medal in the 105 kg class at the 2004 Summer Olympics.
Dmitry Gorshkov - Dmitry Gorshkov is a Russian water polo player who played on the silver medal squad at the 2000 Summer Olympics and the bronze medal squads at the 1992 Summer Olympics and 2004 Summer Olympics.
Dmitry Lesnevsky - Dmitry Lesnevsky is a Russian producer and entrepreneur in film, television, and online media.
Dmitry Milyutin - Count Dmitry Alekseyevich Milyutin was Minister of War and the last Field Marshal of Imperial Russia.
Dmitry Rogozin - Dmitry Olegovich Rogozin is a Russian politician and diplomat.
Dmitry Shvidkovsky - Dmitry Shvidkovsky is a Russian educator and historian of architecture of Russia and the United Kingdom during the Age of Enlightenment.
Dmitry Ukolov - Dmitry Matveevich Ukolov was a Russian ice hockey player who played in the Soviet Hockey League.
Dmitry Ushakov - Dmitry Nikolayevich Ushakov was a Russian philologist and lexicographer.
Dmitry Venevitinov - Dmitry Vladimirovich Venevitinov was a minor Russian Romantic poet who died at the age of 21, carrying with him one of the greatest hopes of Russian literature.
Dmitry Zelenin - Dmitry Vadimovich Zelenin, born 27 November 1962 in Moscow is the governor of Tver Oblast, Russia.
Edith Urch - Edith Laura Urch, known to her friends as Urchie, was an English nurse and charity worker who founded the Ladyeholme Housing Association, a charity for homeless people, and ran it as gener...
Edouard Espinosa - Edouard Espinosa was co-founder and Principal Examiner of the Association of Operatic Dancing.
Eduard Ivanov - Eduard Georgievich Ivanov is a retired ice hockey player who played in the Soviet Hockey League.
Ekaterina Aleksandrovna Vasilieva - Ekaterina Aleksandrovna Vasilieva is a Russian water polo player, who won the bronze medal at the 2000 Summer Olympics.Now she plays in Rari Nantes Bologna.
Ekaterina Gordeeva - Ekaterina Alexandrovna Gordeeva is a Russian pair skater.
Ekaterina Vazem - Ekaterina Vazem was a Russian prima ballerina.
Elena Grinenko - Elena Grinenko is a professional ballroom dance champion, choreographer, and instructor.
Elena Likhovtseva - Elena Alexandrovna Likhovtseva is a Russian tennis player, currently inactive.
Elena Pingacheva - Elena Pingacheva is a Russian retired competitive figure skater.
Elena Romanovskaya - Elena Kostantinovna Romanovskaya is a Russian ice dancer.
Elena Shcheglova - Elena Shcheglova is a Russian figure skater who represented the Soviet Union in international competition.
Elena Tomas - Elena Tomas ; born 11 January 1961 in Moscow is an individual Rhythmic Gymnast.
Elena Zamolodchikova - Elena Mikhailovna Zamolodchikova, nicknamed "Zamo", is a two-time Olympic gymnast.
Elizabeth of Russia - Elizaveta Petrovna, also known as Yelisavet and Elizabeth, was the Empress of Russia who took the country into the War of Austrian Succession and the Seven Years' War.
Elizaveta Mukasei - Lt. Col. Elizaveta Mukasei was a Russian Soviet-era spy codenamed Elza.
Elizaveta Stekolnikova - Elizaveta Stekolnikova is an ice dancer who competed internationally for Kazakhstan.
Elsa Triolet - Elsa Yur'evna Triolet was a French writer.
Elvira Khasyanova - Elvira Ramilevna Khasyanova is a Russian synchro-swimmer.
Emilio Kosterlitzky - Emilio Kosterlitzky, also known as Emil Kosterlitzky, was a Russian-born polyglot linguist and soldier of fortune who eventually became a spy for the United States.
Ernest Beaux - Ernest Beaux, was a French perfumer best known for creating Chanel No. 5, perhaps the world's most famous perfume.
Eugene Kozlovsky - Eugene Antonovich Kozlovsky is a Russian writer, journalist, theatre director and film director.
Fedor Sokolov - Fedor Borisovich Sokolov is a pair skater.
Feodor III of Russia - Feodor III Alexeevich of Russia was the Tsar of all Russia between 1676 and 1682.
Firuz Kazemzadeh - Firuz Kazemzadeh is a professor emeritus of history at Yale University.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky - Fyodor Mikhaylovich Dostoyevsky, was a Russian writer and essayist, notably known for his novels Crime and Punishment and The Brothers Karamazov.
Fyodor Pavlov-Andreevich - Fyodor Pavlov-Andreevich, sometimes rendered Fedor, is a performance artist writer, theater director and filmmaker.
Fyodor Schechtel - Fyodor Osipovich Schechtel was a Russian architect, graphic artist and stage designer, the most influential and prolific master of Russian Art Nouveau and late Russian Revival.
Galina Dzhugashvili - Galina Yakovlevna "Galya" Dzhugashvili was a Russian translator of French.
Galina Gorokhova - Galina Yevgenyevna Gorokhova is a Russian and former Soviet retired fencer and five-time Olympic gold medalist, as well as a nine-time world gold medalist.
Gennady Khazanov - Gennady Viktorovich Khazanov is an acclaimed Russian stand-up comedian and part time actor, best known for his consistent parodies of Russian and Soviet politicians, and his mockery of various s...
Genndy Tartakovsky - Genndy Tartakovsky is a Russian-American television animator, director and producer.
Genrikh Sapgir - Genrikh Sapgir was a Russian poet and fiction writer.
Genrikh Sidorenkov - Genrikh Ivanovich Sidorenkov was a Russian ice hockey player who played in the Soviet Hockey League.
George Costakis - George Costakis by chance discovered some constructivist paintings in a Moscow studio in 1946, and he went on to search for the revolutionary art which might otherwise have been lost to the world.
George Sachs - George Sachs was a Russian-born German and American metallurgist.
Georgiy Mammadov - Georgiy Enverovich Mamedov is a Russian diplomat, and one of Russia's foremost authorities on the United States and Canada.
Georgy Boos - Georgy Valentinovich Boos is a Russian businessman and politician, the governor of Kaliningrad Oblast.
Georgy Chulkov - Georgy Ivanovich Chulkov was a Russian Symbolist poet, editor, writer and critic.
Geydar Dzhemal - Geydar Dzhakhidovich Dzhemal is a Russian political figure and thinker of Azerbaijani and Russian descent.
Gleb Axelrod - Gleb Borisovich Axelrod was a Russian pianist.
Gorsha Sur - Georgi "Gorsha" Sur is an ex-Soviet American ice dancer.
Grand Duchess Anna Petrovna of Russia - Grand Duchess Anna Petrovna of Russia, Tsesarevna of Russia was the elder daughter of Emperor Peter I of Russia and Catherine I of Russia.
Greg Kasavin - Gregory A. Kasavin is the former site director and executive editor at the gaming website GameSpot.
Gregory Lekhtman - Gregory Lekhtman is a Canadian inventor and entrepreneur, who created and markets the Exerloper system of exercise boots.
Grigori Gorin - Grigori Israelevich Gorin was a Soviet/Russian dramatist and a prose writer.
Grigory Margulis - Gregori Aleksandrovich Margulis is a Russian mathematician known for his far-reaching work on lattices in Lie groups, and the introduction of methods from ergodic theory into diophantine approxi...
Grigory Mkrtychan - Grigory Mkrtychevich Mkrtychan was a ice hockey player who played in the Soviet Hockey League.
Grigory Rapota - Grigory Alekseevich Rapota is a Russian politician and current special representative of the Russian president in the Volga Federal District.
Heinrich Freiherr von Stackelberg - Heinrich Freiherr von Stackelberg was a German economist who contributed to game theory and industrial organization and is known for the Stackelberg leadership model.
Hellin Kay - Hellin Kay is a photographer, filmmaker, fashion editor and stylist based in New York City and Los Angeles.
Henri Troyat - Henri Troyat was a French author, biographer, historian and novelist of Armenian descent.
Hilarion Alfeyev - Hilarion Alfeyev is a bishop of the Russian Orthodox Church.
Ignat Solzhenitsyn - Ignat Aleksandrovich Solzhenitsyn is a Russian-American conductor and pianist who is the music director of the Chamber Orchestra of Philadelphia and the principal guest conductor of the Moscow S...
Igor Boldin - Igor Petrovich Boldin is a retired ice hockey player who played in the Soviet Hockey League.
Igor Chislenko - Igor Leonidovich Chislenko was a Soviet footballer.
Igor Chugainov - Igor Valeryevich Chugainov is a retired Russian football defender and a current coach.
Igor Glek - Igor Vladimirovich Glek, is a Russian chess master, coach, theorist, writer and organiser.
Igor Kirillov - Igor Leonidovich Kirillov was a prominent news anchor for Central Television of the USSR, the main state broadcaster of the Soviet Union.
Igor Korneev - Igor Vladimirovich Korneev is a former Russian football midfielder.
Igor Korolev - Igor Borisovich Korolev is a professional hockey player currently playing for Lokomotiv Yaroslavl of the Russian League.
Igor Kvasha - Igor Vladimirovich Kvasha is a Russian theater and film actor.
Igor Moukhin - Igor Vladimirovich Moukhin, is a Soviet and Russian photographer.
Igor Pak - Igor Pak is a professor of mathematics at the University of California, Los Angeles, working in combinatorics and discrete probability.
Igor Rabiner - Igor Yakovlevich Rabiner is a Russian football journalist and writer known for his work with Sport-Express and his books, most notably his controversial bestseller How Spartak Was Being Killed...
Igor Semshov - Igor Petrovich Semshov is regarded as one of the best midfield players in Russian Premier League and at the same time as an unlucky international player, who plays for Dynamo Moscow.
Igor Shalimov - Igor Mihailovich Shalimov, is a retired football midfielder.
Igor Shpilband - Igor Shpilband is a former Soviet ice dancer and current ice dancing coach.
Igor Simutenkov - Igor Vitalyevich Simutenkov is a retired Russian soccer player.
Igor Stelnov - Igor Anatolievich Stelnov was a retired ice hockey player who played in the Soviet Hockey League.
Ilya Golosov - Ilya Alexandrovich Golosov was a Russian Soviet architect.
Ilya Nikulin - Ilya Vladimirovich Nikulin is a Russian professional ice hockey defenceman currently playing for Ak Bars Kazan of the Kontinental Hockey League.
Ilya Prigogine - Ilya, Viscount Prigogine was a Russian-born naturalized Belgian physical chemist and Nobel Laureate noted for his work on dissipative structures, complex systems, and irreversibility.
Ilya Savelev - Ilya Savelev is a Russian volleyball player who competed in the 2000 Summer Olympics.
Ilya Yashin - Ilya Yashin is the leader of Yabloko's youth wing.
Inga Skaya - Inga Skaya is a Canadian model who was crowned Miss Universe Canada 2007 on March 4, 2007.
Inna Lasovskaya - Inna Lasovskaya is a retired triple jumper from Russia.
Irena Ponaroshku - Irena Ponaroshku is a Russian media personality, known as a VJ and host of the Russian Top 10 on MTV Russia.
Irina Chebotaeva - Irina Chebotaeva, born January 16, 1985 in Moscow is a Russian fashion model.
Irina Khromacheva - Irina Khromacheva is a Junior Russian tennis player.
Irina Moiseeva - Irina Valentinovna Moiseeva is a Russian figure skater.
Irina Rodnina - Irina Konstantinovna Rodnina is one of the most successful figure skaters ever and the only pair skater to win 10 successive World Championships and three successive Olympic gold medals.
Irina Skobtseva - Irina Konstantinova Skobtseva is a Russian/Soviet actress, wife of Sergei Bondarchuk, and mother to Yelena and Fyodor Bondarchuk.
Irson Kudikova - Irson Kudikova is a Russian pop singer and model.
Ishtar Yasin Gutierrez - Ishtar Yasin Gutierrez was born in 1968 in Moscow, Russia to an Iraqi father and Chilean-Costa Rican mother She is a director and scriptwriter.
Ivan Bariev - Ivan Bariev is a Russian figure skater.
Ivan Blagov - Ivan Blagov is a Russian figure skater who currently competes representing Azerbaijan.
Ivan Dykhovichny - Ivan Vladimirovich Dykhovichny was a Russian film director and screenwriter.
Ivan Kireyevsky - Ivan Vasilyevich Kireyevsky was a Russian literary critic and philosopher who, together with Aleksey Khomyakov, co-founded the Slavophile movement.
Ivan Markov - Ivan Markov is a Russian professional wrestler.
Ivan Safronov - Ivan Ivanovich Safronov was a Russian journalist and columnist who covered military affairs for the daily newspaper Kommersant.
Ivan Shuvalov - Ivan Ivanovich Shuvalov was called the Maecenas of the Russian Enlightenment and the first Russian Minister of Education.
Julia Vorobieva - Julia Vorobieva is an Azerbaijani figure skater who has also competed for the Soviet Union.
Juri Gilsher - Cavalry Second Lieutenant Juri Vladimirovich Gilsher was a Russian fighter ace of World War I. Initially a cavalryman, but then an airman, Gilsher scored five victories between April and July 19...
Kantemir Berkhamov - Kantemir Mikhailovich Berkhamov is a Russian footballer currently playing for FC Nizhny Novgorod on loan from FC Lokomotiv Moscow.
Kaori Kawamura - Kaori Kawamura was a rock and pop singer in Japan, born in Moscow.
Karen Grigorian - Karen Ashotovich Grigorian was an Armenian chess master, and son of the poet Ashot Grashi.
Karen Kavaleryan - Karen Kavaleryan is a Russian lyricist of Armenian origin.
Karol Modzelewski - Karol Modzelewski is a Polish historian, writer and politician.
Klaus Mehnert - Klaus Mehnert was a globetrotting German political scientist and a journalist.
Konstantin Beskov - Konstantin Ivanovich Beskov was a Soviet/Russian football player and manager.
Konstantin Halafoff - Konstantin Ciryl Halafoff or K. C. Halafoff was a White Emigre Russian and Australian poet and ornithologist interested in the musicology of bird song.
Konstantin Korneyev - Konstantin Nikolayevich Korneyev is a Russian professional ice hockey defenceman currently playing for CSKA Moscow of the Kontinental Hockey League.
Konstantin Loktev - Konstantin Borisovich Loktev was an ice hockey player who played in the Soviet Hockey League.
Konstantin Makovsky - Konstantin Yegorovich Makovsky was an influential Russian painter, affiliated with the "Peredvizhniki".
Konstantin Yuon - Konstantin Fyodorovich Yuon or Juon was a noted Russian painter and theatre designer associated with the Mir Iskusstva.
Kristina Orbakaite - Kristina Edmundovna Orbakaitе better known as Kristina Orbakaite is a Russian singer and actress.
Ladislas Starevich - Ladislav Starevich, born Władysław Starewicz, was a Polish stop-motion animator who used insects and animals as his protagonists.
Larisa Brychyova - Larisa Igorevna Brychyova is an Aide to the President of Russia.
Lena Katina - Elena Sergeevna Katina, born October 4, 1984, better known as Lena Katina, is one half of the Russian music duo t.A.T.u., the other half being Yulia Volkova.
Leo Mikhailovich Lopatin - Leo Mikhailovich Lopatin was a Russian philosopher and former head of the Moscow Psychological Society until the formal liquidation of the Societ by the Soviet after the Revolution of 1917.
Leo Steinberg - Leo Stenberg is an American art critic and art historian and a naturalized citizen of the U.S. He is the son of Isaac Nachman Steinberg.
Leonard Blavatnik - Len Blavatnik is a Russian-American businessman, currently living in New York and London, including at a home on Kensington Palace Gardens.
Leonid Nevzlin - Leonid Borisovich Nevzlin is a Russian-born Jewish businessman who currently lives in Israel.
Leonid Yuzefovich - Leonid Abramovich Yuzefovich is a Russian writer known for the series of crime fiction stories taking place in pre-Revolution Russian Empire.
Lev Dyomin - Lev Stepanovich Dyomin was a Soviet cosmonaut who flew on the Soyuz 15 mission.
Lev Gudkov - Lev Dmitrievich Gudkov is a Russian sociologist, director of the analytical Levada Center and editor-in-chief of the journal The Russian Public Opinion Herald.
Lev Kamenev - Lev Borisovich Kamenev was a Bolshevik revolutionary and a prominent Soviet politician.
Lev Kuznetsov - Lev Kuznetsov is a Russian politician and businessman.
Lev Landau - Lev Davidovich Landau was a prominent Soviet physicist who made fundamental contributions to many areas of theoretical physics.
Lev Manovich - Lev Manovich is an author of new media books, professor of Visual Arts, University of California, San Diego, U.S. and European Graduate School in Saas-Fee, Switzerland, where he teaches new medi...
Lev Yashin - Lev Ivanovich Yashin was a Russian-Soviet football goalkeeper, considered by many to be the greatest goalkeeper in the history of the game.
Ligalize - Andrey Vladimirovich Menshikov, mostly known under his stage name Ligalize, is a Russian hip hop artist and a former leader of the Legalny Bizne$$ band.
Lioubov Kılıç - Lioubov Sokolova Kılıç is a Russian volleyball player who plays for Fenerbahçe Acıbadem from Turkey.
Lubov Iliushechkina - Lubov Ivanovna Iliushechkina is a Russian pair skater.
Ludmila Vassilyeva - Ludmila Vassilyeva is a Russian scholar at the Institute of Oriental Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences in Moscow.
Lyubov Polishchuk - Lyubov Grigoryevna Polishchuk was a popular Russian actress.
Lyudmila Pakhomova - Lyudmila Alekseyevna Pakhomova was an ice dancer who competed for the Soviet Union.
Lyudmila Zykina - Lyudmila Georgievna Zykina was a national folk singer of Russia.
Léonide Massine - Leonid Fyodorovich Myasin, better known as Léonide Massine, the French transliteration, was a Russian choreographer and ballet dancer.
Marina Lizorkina - Marina Sergeevna Lizorkina is a Russian singer and a former member of girl group Serebro.
Marina Solodkin - Dr Marina Solodkin is a Russian-Israeli politician and a member of the Knesset for Kadima.
Marina Tsvetaeva - Marina Ivanovna Tsvetaeva was a Russian and Soviet poet and writer.
Marina Verenikina - Marina Verenikina is a Russian-American singer/musician.
Mariya Gromova - Mariya Igorevna Gromova is a Russian competitor in synchronized swimming.
Mariya Ocher - Singer-songwriter, poet, artist and occasional dj, Born Maria Ocheretianskaya an only child, to a voice and puppet theater actor father and an unemployed engineer Mother, on November 10, 1986, i...
Mark Zakharov - Mark Anatolyevich Zakharov is a Soviet and Russian theatrical director and playwright.
Max Boot - Max Boot is an American author, consultant, editorialist, lecturer, and military historian.
Maxim Shipov - Maxim Shipov is a Russian born figure skater who competes for Israel.
Maxim Udalov - Maxim Udalov is the drummer of the Russian heavy metal band Aria.
Maxim Zavozin - Maxim Igorevich Zavozin is a Hungarian-Russian-American ice dancer who has competed internationally for the United States and Hungary.
MD&C Pavlov - Alexey Vladimirovich Pavlov, best known under his stage name MD&C Pavlov, is a Russian hip hop performer and one of the first MC's in the Soviet Union.
Metropolitan Trifon - Metropolitan Trifon is a revered hierarch of the Russian Orthodox Church.
Michail Grobman - Michail Grobman is a painter and a poet working in Israel and Russia.
Michail Jurowski - Mikhail Vladimirowitsch Jurowski is a Russian conductor.
Michail Stifunin - Michail Stifunin is an ice dancer who competed internationally for Russia and France.
Michał Krasenkow - Michał Krasenkow is Poland's strongest chess player after World War II, a chess trainer and writer.
Mikhail Dostoyevsky - Mikhail Mikhailovich Dostoyevsky was a Russian short story writer, publisher, literary critic and an elder brother of Fyodor Dostoyevsky.
Mikhail Evstafiev - Mikhail Aleksandrovich Evstafiev, is a Russian artist, photographer, and writer.
Mikhail Gasparov - Mikhail Leonovich Gasparov was a Russian philologist and translator, renowned for his studies in classical philology and the history of versification, and a member of the informal Tartu-Moscow S...
Mikhail Gershkovich - Mikhail Danilovich Gershkovich is a retired Soviet football player and a current Russian coach.
Mikhail Khodorkovsky - Mikhail Borisovich Khodorkovsky is a Russian enterpreneur, businessman, philanthropist, and convicted felon.
Mikhail Lermontov - Mikhail Yuryevich Lermontov,, a Russian Romantic writer, poet and painter, sometimes called "the poet of the Caucasus", was the most important Russian poet after Alexander Pushkin's death.
Mikhail Lesin - Mikhail Yuriyevich Lesin is a Russian political figure, and currently an adviser to the Russian president.
Mikhail Margelov - Mikhail Margelov, the current Chairman of the Foreign Affairs Committee of the Federation Council of Russia.
Mikhail Meltyukhov - Mikhail Ivanovich Meltiukhov is a Russian military historian.
Mikhail Mikhalkov - Mikhail Vladimirovich Mikhalkov was a Soviet intelligence officer and writer working under the pen names M. Andronov and M. Lugovykh.
Mikhail Mukasei - Mikhail Mukasei was a Russian Soviet-era spy codenamed Zephyr.
Mikhail Nemirovsky - Mikhail Nemirovsky is a professional ice hockey player.
Mikhail Nestruyev - Mikhail Valeryevich Nestruyev is a pistol shooter from Moscow, Russia.
Mikhail Pogodin - Mikhail Petrovich Pogodin was a Russian historian and journalist who, jointly with Nikolay Ustryalov, dominated the national historiography between the death of Nikolay Karamzin in 1826 and the ...
Mikhail Polischuk - Mikhail Mikhailovich Polischuk is a freestyle swimmer from Russia, who won the silver medal in the 4x200m freestyle relay at the 2008 Summer Olympics.
Mikhail Prokhorov - Mikhail Dmitrievitch Prokhorov is a self-made Russian billionaire entrepreneur and owner of the New Jersey Nets.
Mikhail Shcherbatov - Prince Mikhailo Mikhailovich Shcherbatov was a leading ideologue and exponent of the Russian Enlightenment, on the par with Mikhail Lomonosov and Nikolay Novikov.
Mikhail Shtalenkov - Mikhail Alekseyevich Shtalenkov is a former amateur and professional ice hockey goaltender.
Mikhail Tikhomirov - Mikhail Nikolayevich Tikhomirov was a leading Soviet specialist in medieval Russian paleography.
Nikolai Dmitriev - Dmitriev Nikolai Konstantinovich was Doctor of Philology, professor, an outstanding Orientalist-Turkologist, corresponding member of the USSR Academy of Sciences, member of Russian Federation Ac...
Nikolai Erdman - Nikolay Robertovich Erdman was a Soviet dramatist and screenwriter primarily remembered for his work with Vsevolod Meyerhold in the 1920s.
Nikolai Ladovsky - Nikolai Alexandrovich Ladovsky was a Russian avant-garde architect and educator, leader of the rationalist movement in 1920s architecture, an approach emphasizing human perception of space and shape.
Nikolai Maksimov - Nikolai Maksimov is a Russian water polo player who played on the silver medal squad at the 2000 Summer Olympics and the bronze medal squad at the 2004 Summer Olympics.
Nikolai Manoshin - Nikolai Alekseyevich Manoshin is a retired Soviet football player and coach.
Nikolai Nevrev - Nikolai Vasilyevich Nevrev was a Russian painter.
Nikolai Puchkov - Nikolai Georgievich Puchkov was a ice hockey player who played in the Soviet Hockey League.
Nikolai Rubinstein - Nikolai Grigoryevich Rubinstein was a Russian pianist, conductor and composer.
Nikolai Sologubov - Nikolai Mikhailovich Sologubov was an ice hockey defenceman in the Soviet Union.
Nikolai Trubetzkoy - Prince Nikolai Sergeyevich Trubetzkoy was a Russian linguist and historian whose teachings formed a nucleus of the Prague School of structural linguistics.
Nikolai Vavilov - Nikolai Ivanovich Vavilov was a prominent Russian and Soviet botanist and geneticist best known for having identified the centres of origin of cultivated plants.
Nikolai Yudenich - Nikolai Nikolaevich Yudenich, was a commander of the Russian Caucasus Army and one of the most successful generals of the Russian Imperial Army during World War I. He was later a leader of the c...
Nikolay Anokhin - Nikolay Anokhin, contemporary Russian artist from Moscow, born in 1966.
Nikolay Ivanovich Pirogov - Nikolay Ivanovich Pirogov was a prominent Russian scientist, doctor, pedagogue, public figure, and corresponding member of the Russian Academy of Sciences.
Nikolay Kasatkin - Nikolay Alexeyevich Kasatkin was a Russian painter.
Nikolay Khlystov - Nikolay Pavlovich Khlystov was a ice hockey player who played in the Soviet Hockey League.
Nikolay Vikhor - Nikolay Vikhor is a retired male discus thrower.
Nina Zhivanevskaya - Nina Aleksandrovna Zhivanevskaya is a 5-time Olympic backstroke swimmer from Russia, who has swum for Spain since 1999, following her marriage to a Spaniard.
Oleg Kvasha - Oleg Vladimirovich Kvasha is a Russian professional ice hockey forward currently playing for Atlant Moscow Oblast of the Kontinental Hockey League.
Oleg Pavlov - Oleg Pavlov is a prominent Russian writer, winner of the Russian Booker Prize.
Oleg Saprykin - Oleg Dmitrievich Saprykin is a professional ice hockey winger who currently plays for the SKA Saint Petersburg of the Kontinental Hockey League.
Oleg Timofeyev - Oleg Vitalyevich Timofeyev, is an American musicologist and musician of Russian origin, specializing in lute and Russian guitar.
Oleg Troyanovsky - Oleg Alexandrovich Troyanovsky was ambassador of the Soviet Union to Japan and China and was the Soviet Permanent Representative to the United Nations.
Olesya Rostovskaya - Olesya Rostovskaya is a Russian composer and organist, and a prominent performer and exponent of such rare instruments as carillon and thereminvox.
Olga Baclanova - Olga Vladimirovna Baclanova, or Baklanova, was a Russian-born actress, who achieved prominence during the silent film era.
Olga Bolbukh - Olga Alekseyevna Zharinova, is a Russian theater and film actress, better known under the pseudonym Olga Bolbukh.
Olga Morozova - Olga Vasilyevna Morozova is a retired female tennis player who competed for the Soviet Union.
Olga Naidenova - Olga Naidenova is a Russian figure skater.
Olga Novokshchenova - Olga Nikolayevna Novokshchenova is a Russian Synchro-swimmer.
Olga Puchkova - Olga Alekseyevna Puchkova is a Russian professional tennis player and model.
Patriarch Filaret (Feodor Romanov) - Feodor Nikitich Romanov was a Russian boyar who after temporary disgrace rose to become patriarch of Moscow as Filaret, and became de-facto ruler of Russia during the reign of his son, Mik...
Paul Karrer - Paul Karrer was a Swiss organic chemist best known for his research on vitamins.
Pavel Filonov - Pavel Nikolayevich Filonov was a Russian avant-garde painter, art theorist, and poet.
Pavel Kiselyov - Count Pavel Dmitrievich Kiselyov or Kiseleff is generally regarded as the most brilliant Russian reformer during Nicholas I's generally reactionary reign.
Pavel Kolobkov - Pavel Anatolyevich Kolobkov is a retired Russian Épée fencer.
Pavel Mamayev - Pavel Konstantinovich Mamayev is a footballer who plays as midfielder for CSKA Moscow.
Pavel Milyukov - Pavel Nikolayevich Milyukov, a Russian politician, was the founder, leader, and the most prominent member of the Constitutional Democratic party.
Pavel Pogrebnyak - Pavel Viktorovich Pogrebnyak is a Russian international footballer.
Peter Bezsonov - Peter Alexeyevich Bezsonov was a Russian student of folklore.
Peter I of Russia - Peter I the Great or Pyotr Alexeyevich Romanov ruled Russia and later the Russian Empire from until his death, jointly ruling before 1696 with his weak and sickly half-brother, Ivan V.
Peter Kropotkin - Peter Alexeyevich Kropotkin was a zoologist, an evolutionary theorist, geographer and one of the world's foremost anarcho-communists.
Peter Turchin - Peter Turchin is a Russian-American scientist, specializing in population biology and "cliodynamics"—mathematical modeling and statistical analysis of the dynamics of historical societies.
Petr Sokolov - Petr Sokolov was a Russian rugby league player.
Polina Kouklina - Polina Kouklina is a Russian fashion model.
Polina Shelepen - Polina Sergeyevna Shelepen is a Russian figure skater.
Pyotr Aven - Pyotr Olegovich Aven is a Russian businessman and politician.
Raisa Etush - Raisa Etush is a Russian film, television and theatre actress.
Regina Spektor - Regina Ilyinichna Spektor is a Russian-born American singer-songwriter and pianist.
Renat Sabitov - Renat Harisovich Sabitov is a Russian football defender/defensive midfielder of Tatar origin who currently plays for FC Spartak Moscow.
Revaz Tchomakhidze - Revaz Tchomakhidze is a Georgian water polo player who played on the silver medal squad at the 2000 Summer Olympics and the bronze medal squad at the 2004 Summer Olympics.
Roman Balashov - Roman Vladimirovich Balashov is a Russian water polo player who played on the silver medal squad at the 2000 Summer Olympics and the bronze medal squad at the 2004 Summer Olympics.
Roman Jakobson - Roman Osipovich Jakobson was a Russian linguist and literary theorist.
Roman Kostomarov - Roman Sergeyevich Kostomarov is a Russian ice dancer.
Roman Romanovich Kachanov - Roman Romanovich Kachanov is a Russian film director, screenwriter and actor.
Roman Romkowski - General Roman Romkowski was a Polish communist, and second in command in Poland's Ministry of Public Security during the 1940s and the beginning of 1950's.
Roman Sharonov - Roman Sergeyevich Sharonov is a central defender who plays for the Russian national team and Rubin Kazan.
Seda Pumpyanskaya - Seda Pumpyanskaya, is currently a special advisor to the Council of Europe, and was formerly the director of communication at the Strasbourg-based organization.
Semyon Gangeblov - Semyon Georgievich Gangeblov was a Russian military commander of the Napoleonic Wars.
Semyon Grigoriyev - Semyon Vyacheslavovich Grigoriyev, is a Russian diplomat and is the first Russian ambassador to Abkhazia.
Serge Ivanoff - Serge Petrovitch Ivanoff is a painter of Russian origin born in Moscow 25 December 1893 and died in Paris on 8 February 1983.
Serge Poliakoff - Serge Poliakoff was a Russian-born French modernist painter belonging to the 'New' Ecole de Paris.
Sergei Bazarevich - Sergei Valerianovich Bazarevich is a retired Russian professional basketball player.
Sergei Fomin - Sergei Vasilovich Fomin was a Soviet mathematician who, among his other accomplishments was a co-author with Kolmogorov of Introductory real analysis, a book that is widely read in Russian ...
Sergei Garbuzov - Sergei Garbuzov is a Russian water polo player who played on the silver medal squad at the 2000 Summer Olympics and the bronze medal squad at the 2004 Summer Olympics.
Sergei Grinkov - Sergei Mikhailovich Grinkov was an Olympic and World figure skating champion.
Sergei Gukov - Sergei Gukov is a string theorist who is a professor of physics at Caltech and at UCSB.
Sergei Ignashevich - Sergei Nikolaievich Ignashevich is a Russian professional footballer who currently plays for CSKA Moscow and the Russian national team.
Sergei Kharin - Sergei Anatolievich Kharin is a retired professional ice hockey player who played briefly in the National Hockey League and the Soviet Hockey League.
Sergei Kharkov - Sergei Kharkov AKA Sergej Charkov is a Russian gymnast, Olympic champion and world champion.
Sergei Khrushchev - Sergei Nikitich Khrushchev, son of former Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev, now resides in the United States where he is a Senior Fellow at the Watson Institute for International Studies at Brow...
Sergei M. Plekhanov - Sergei M. Plekhanov is a former Russian Soviet Government adviser who served under the administration of Mikhail Gorbachev.
Sergei Melgunov - Sergei Petrovich Melgunov was a Russian historian, publicist and politician best known for his opposition to the Soviet government and his numerous works on the Russian Revolution of 1917 and th...
Sergei Nemchinov - Sergei Lvovich Nemchinov is a retired Russian ice hockey player who played in the National Hockey League for the New York Rangers, Vancouver Canucks, New York Islanders and the New Jersey Devils.
Sergei Nilus - Sergei Aleksandrovich Nilus was a Russian religious writer and self-described mystic.
Sergei Ponomarenko - Sergei Vladilenovich Ponomarenko is a Russian ice dancer who competed for the Soviet Union and the Unified team.
Sergei Protopopov - Sergei Vladimirovich Protopopov was a Russian avant-garde composer and music theorist.
Sergei Pryakhin - Sergei Vasilievich Pryakhin is a retired Russian ice hockey forward.
Sergei Revin - Sergei Revin is a Russian cosmonaut that was selected in 1996, and completed spaceflight training in 1998.
Sergei Sakhnovski - Sergei Sakhnovski is an Israeli ice dancer with partner Galit Chait.
Sergei Shirokov - Sergei Sergeevich Shirokov is a Russian professional ice hockey winger currently with the Manitoba Moose of the American Hockey League.
Sergei Starostin - Dr. Sergei Anatolyevich Starostin was a Russian historical linguist and scholar, best known for his work with hypothetical proto-languages, especially the controversial theory of Altaic language...
Sergei Vasilenko - Sergei Nikiforovich Vasilenko was a Russian and Soviet composer and music teacher whose compositions showed a strong tendency towards mysticism.
Sergei Voronov - Sergei Evgeneyvich Voronov is a Russian figure skater.
Sergei Zubov - Sergei Alexandrovich Zubov is a Russian professional ice hockey defenceman currently playing for SKA St. Petersburg of the Kontinental Hockey League.
Sergey Brin - Sergey Mikhaylovich Brin is a Russian American computer scientist and industrialist who, along with Larry Page, is best known as the co-founder of Google, Inc., the world’s largest Internet comp...
Sergey Doronin - Sergey Ivanovich Doronin is a Russian physicist, PhD, senior scientist in theoretical department of the Institute of Problems of Chemical Physics, Russian Academy of Sciences.
Sergey Golovkin - Sergey Golovkin was a Soviet serial killer known as "The Fisher" or "The Udav" who killed and butchered 11 boys in the Moscow area between 1986 and 1992.
Sergey Lavrov - Sergey Viktorovich Lavrov is the Foreign Minister of Russia.
Sergey Lazarev - Sergey Vyacheslavovich Lazarev, born 1 April 1983 is a singer, dancer and actor born in Moscow, Russia.
Sergey Rodionov - Sergei Yurievich Rodionov is a Russian football coach.
Sergey Sharikov - Sergey Sharikov, also known as Serguei/Sergei Charikov, is a left-handed Russian sabre fencer.
Sergey Yustinovich Bagotsky - Sergey Yustinovich Bagotsky was a Russian Marxist revolutionary and Soviet medicine and Red Cross diplomat, Soviet head of the Red Cross representative mission to Geneva from 1918 to 1936.
Shlomo Mintz - Shlomo Mintz is an Israeli violin virtuoso, violist and conductor.
Simon Shnapir - Simon Shnapir is an American pair skater.
Slav Baboshin - Wiacheslav "Slav" Aleksandrovich Baboshin is a Russian ice dancer, coach and choreographer based in Australia.
Slava Mogutin - Slava Mogutin is a New York-based Russian artist and author, who works across different media, including photography, video, text, installation, sculpture and painting.
Sofia Kovalevskaya - Sofia Vasilyevna Kovalevskaya, was the first major Russian female mathematician, responsible for important original contributions to analysis, differential equations and mechanics, and the firs...
Stanislav Petukhov - Stanislav Petukhov is a retired ice hockey player who played in the Soviet Hockey League.
Stanislava Komarova - Stanislava Stanislavovna Komarova is a Russian swimmer.
Stas Misezhnikov - Stas Misezhnikov is an Israeli politician who currently serves as a member of the Knesset for Yisrael Beiteinu and as the country's Minister of Tourism.
Stenberg brothers - Vladimir Stenberg and Georgii Stenberg, Soviet artists and designers.
Svetlana Alliluyeva - Svetlana Iosifovna Alliluyeva is the youngest child and only daughter of Soviet Premier Joseph Stalin and Nadezhda Alliluyeva.
Svetlana Chervonnaya - Svetlana Chervonnaya is a historian living in Russia specializing in the political history of the Cold War period and Soviet espionage activities in the United States of America.
Svetlana Romashina - Svetlana Alekseyevna Romashina is a Russian competitor in synchronized swimming.
Svetlana Savitskaya - Svetlana Yevgenyevna Savitskaya is a former Soviet female aviator and cosmonaut who flew aboard Soyuz T-7 in 1982, becoming the second woman in space some 19 years after Valentina Tereshkova.
Svetlana Tkacheva - Svetlana Tkacheva is a Russian female ice hockey player.
Tatiana Panova - Tatiana Urayevna Panova is a Russian professional female tennis player.
Tatyana Drubich - Tatyana Drubich is a Russian film actress.
Tatyana Nazarenko - Professor Tatyana Grigorievna Nazarenko is one of the leading Russian Contemporary Painters that has set new directions in Russian Art and Painting starting from the 1970s.
Tatyana Voronina - Tatyana Voronina is the Soviet and Russian singer.
Tigran Vardanjan - Tigran Vardanjan is a Russian figure skater who competes internationally for Hungary.
Timati - Timati is the stage name of Russian rapper, Rap-singer, and actor Timur Ildarovich Yunusov, also referred as Mr. Black Star.
Timofei Shishkanov - Timofei Mikhailovich Shishkanov is a Russian professional ice hockey forward currently with Avangard Omsk of the Kontinental Hockey League.
Valentin Nefyodov - Valentin Valentinovich Nefyodov is a Russian football midfielder who plays for Illychivets after moving from the derelegated club Naftovyk in the Ukrainian Premier League in the summer transfer ...
Valentin Turchin - Valentin Fyodorovich Turchin was a Soviet and American cybernetician and computer scientist.
Valentin Valentinovich Ivanov - Valentin Valentinovich Ivanov is a Russian international football referee and a former player.
Valeri Brainin - Valeri Brainin, Russian/German musicologist, music manager, composer, and poet.
Valeri Kharlamov - Valeri Borisovich Kharlamov was a star ice hockey player from the Soviet Union and is considered one of the greatest players in the world.
Valery Muratov - Valery Alekseyevich Muratov is a former ice speed skater from the USSR, who represented his native country in three consecutive Winter Olympics, starting in 1968 in Grenoble, France.
Valery Shumakov - Valery Ivanovich Shumakov was a Russian surgeon and transplantologist, famous for being the founding father of organ transplants in Russia and was a pioneer of artificial organ surgery.
Valery Voronin - Valery Ivanovich Voronin was a footballer from the Soviet Union.
Valery Zakharevich - Valery Vladimirovich Zakharevich is a Russian fencer, who won two Olympic medals in the team épée competition: the bronze medal at the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona and silver medal at the...
Vasilisa Bardina - Vasilisa Alekseyevna Bardina is a Russian professional tennis player.
Vasily Maklakov - Vasily Alekseyevich Maklakov was a Russian trial lawyer and liberal parliamentary orator, one of the leaders of the Constitutional Democratic Party and Russian Freemasonry, notable for his advoc...
Vasily Smyslov - Vasily Vasilyevich Smyslov was a Soviet and Russian chess grandmaster, and was World Chess Champion from 1957 to 1958.
Vasily Strelnikov - Vasily Strelnikov is a well-known Russian-American New York-born VJ, most commonly known to the Boomerang Generation as the voice behind MTV Russia, which he was during the 1998/2002 timeframe.
Vasily Zarubin - Vasily Mikhailovich Zarubin Василий Михайлович Зарубин was a Soviet intelligence officer.
Vera Ilyina - Vera Sergeyevna Ilyina is a Russian diver who competed in the 1992 Summer Olympics, 1996 Summer Olympics, 2000 Summer Olympics and 2004 Summer Olympics.
Vera Karalli - Vera Alexeyevna Karalli was a notable Russian ballet dancer, choreographer and actress during the early years of the twentieth century.
Vera Menchik - Vera Menchik was a British-Czech chess player who gained renown as the world's first women's chess champion.
Vera Yurasova - Vera Yurasova is a Russian physicist who has made major contributions to the study of the processes of interactions between ion beams and solid surfaces, both their experimental characteristics ...
Vera Zvonareva - Vera Igorevna Zvonareva is a professional tennis player from Russia.
Viacheslav Fetisov - Viacheslav "Slava" Alexandrovich Fetisov is a retired professional ice hockey defenseman.
Victor Brailovsky - Dr Victor Brailovsky is a computer scientist, aliyah activist and a former Israeli politician.
Victor Maslov - Victor Aleksandrovich Maslov was a Soviet Russian footballer and coach.
Victor Pelevin - Victor Olegovich Pelevin is a Russian fiction writer.
Victor Polupanov - Victor Andreevich Polupanov is a retired ice hockey player who played in the Soviet Hockey League.
Victor Tsyplakov - Victor Tsyplakov is a retired ice hockey player who played in the Soviet Hockey League.
Victor Vicas - Victor Vicas was a Russian-born French film director and screenwriter.
Victor Yoran - Victor Yoran is a Russian cellist, with a recorded repertoire of Bach cello music.
Vika Jigulina - Vika Jigulina is a Russian-born Romanian music producer, singer, and DJ. She was born in Moscow and graduated from the Rachmaninov School of Music.
Viktor Deni - Viktor Deni was a Russian satirist, cartoonist and poster artist.
Viktor Kuzkin - Viktor Grigorievich Kuzkin was an ice hockey defender who played in the Soviet Hockey League.
Viktor Nikiforov - Viktor Vasilievich Nikiforov is an Soviet ice hockey player.
Viktor Nogin - Viktor Pavlovich Nogin was a prominent Bolshevik in Moscow, holding many high positions in the party and in government, including Chairman of the Moscow Military-Revolutionary Committee and Chai...
Viktor Pavlov - Viktor Pavlovich Pavlov was a Russian film and television actor.
Viktor Samokhin - Viktor Sergeyevich Samokhin is a retired Soviet and Russian football player and a current coach.
Viktor Tyumenev - Viktor Nikolaevich Tyumenev is a retired ice hockey player who played in the Soviet Hockey League.
Viktor Yakushev - Viktor Prokhorovich Yakushev was a ice hockey player who played in the Soviet Hockey League.
Viktoria Nikishina - Viktoria Aleksandrovna Nikishina is a Russian foil fencer.
Vitali Grishin - Vitali Nikolayevich Grishin is a Russian footballer currently playing for FC Amkar Perm.
Vitali Karamnov - Vitali Vladimirovich Karamnov is a retired professional hockey player who briefly played in the NHL with the St. Louis Blues.
Vitali Prokhorov - Vitali Vladimirovich Prokhorov is a retired professional hockey player who played briefly with the St. Louis Blues in the NHL. He played left wing and shot left-handed.
Vitaly Karamnov - Vitaly Karamnov is a Russian professional ice hockey center currently playing for Dinamo Riga of the Kontinental Hockey League.
Vitaly Komar - Vitaly Komar is a Russian painter and performance artist who was born in Moscow in 1943.
Vitaly Lunkin - Vitaly Lunkin is a Russian professional poker player who has won two World Series of Poker bracelets.
Vlad Topalov - Vlad Mikhailovich Topalov is a singer, dancer and actor born in Moscow, Russia.
Vladimir Alekseyevich Solovyov - Vladimir Alekseyevich Solovyov is a former Soviet cosmonaut, twice Hero of the Soviet Union.
Vladimir Barmin - Vladimir Pavlovich Barmin was the Soviet scientist, designer of the rocket launch complexes.
Vladimir Belinski - Vladimir Alekseyevich Belinski is a Russian theoretical physicist involved in research in cosmology and general relativity.
Vladimir Boltyansky - Vladimir Grigorevich Boltyansky or Boltyanski, Boltyanskii, Boltjansky is a Soviet and Jewish Russian mathematician, educator and author of popular mathematical books and articles.
Vladimir Favorsky - Vladimir Andreyevich Favorsky was a Soviet graphic artist, woodcut illustrator, painter, muralist, and teacher.
Vladimir Gusinsky - Vladimir Aleksandrovich Gusinsky is a Russian media baron, is known as the founder of Media-Most holding that included Most Bank, the NTV channel, the newspaper Segodnya and magazines.
Vladimir Keilis-Borok - Vladimir Keilis-Borok was born in Moscow, Russia on July 31, 1921.
Vladimir Kostin - Vladimir Kostin was a Russian basketball referee.
Vladimir Krutov - Vladimir Yevgenyevich Krutov born June 1, 1960 in Moscow, Soviet Union is a former Russian hockey forward.
Vladimir Odoevsky - Prince Vladimir Fyodorovich Odoevsky was a prominent Russian philosopher, writer, music critic, philanthropist and pedagogue.
Vladimir Pavlovich Efroimson - Vladimir Pavlovich Efroimson was one of the most prominent Soviet geneticists, a former student of Nikolai Koltsov, who was among the geneticists that had to struggle against the persecution of ...
Vladimir Potanin - Vladimir Olegovich Potanin is a Russian oligarch.
Vladimir Shadrin - Vladimir Nikolaevich Shadrin is a retired ice hockey player who played in the Soviet Hockey League.
Vladimir Solovyov (philosopher) - Vladimir Sergeyevich Solovyov was a Russian philosopher, poet, pamphleteer, literary critic, who played a significant role in the development of Russian philosophy and poetry at the end of the 1...
Vladimir Timoshinin - Vladimir Timoshinin is a retired diver from Russia, who is best known for winning the gold medal in the men's 10 m platform at the 1991 European Championships in Athens, Greece.
Vladimir Turchinsky - Vladimir Yevgenyevich Turchinsky was a Russian bodybuilder, television and radio presenter, actor, author, singer and businessman.
Vladimir Uspenski - Vladimir Sergeyevich Uspenski is a Russian figure skater.
Vladimir Vysotsky - Vladimir Semyonovich Vysotsky was an iconic Soviet and Russian singer, songwriter, poet, and actor of mixed Jewish and Russian descent whose career had an immense and enduring effect on Russian ...
Vladimir Yegorov - Vladimir Yegorov was the governor of Kaliningrad Oblast of Russia in 2001-2005.
Vladimir Yurzinov - Vladimir Yurzinov is a retired ice hockey player who played in the Soviet Hockey League.
Vladimir Zubkov - Vladimir Zubkov is a retired ice hockey player who played in the Soviet Hockey League for HC Spartak Moscow and HC CSKA Moscow.
Vladislav Pavlovich - Vladislav Yuryevich Pavlovich is a former Russian fencer, who won gold Olympic medals in the team foil competition at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta.
Vladislav Volkov - Vladislav Nikolayevich Volkov was a Soviet cosmonaut who flew on the Soyuz 7 and Soyuz 11 missions.
Vronsky & Babin - Vronsky & Babin were regarded by many as one of the foremost duo-piano teams of the twentieth century.
Vyacheslav Chukanov - Vyacheslav Chukanov is a Soviet equestrian and Olympic champion.
Vyacheslav Ganelin - Vyacheslav "Slava" Ganelin is a Lithuanian Jewish jazz musician and composer.
Vyacheslav Oltarzhevsky - Vyacheslav Konstantinovich Oltarzhevsky was a Russian Soviet architect.
Vyacheslav Pimenov - Vyacheslav Igorevich Pimenov, born 1 March 1991 in Moscow, is a professional Russian triathlete, the Russian supersprint junior champion and the Olympic Distance junior silver medalist of the ye...
Vyacheslav Starshinov - Vyacheslav Ivanovich Starshinov is a retired ice hockey player who played in the Soviet Hockey League.
Walter Barshai - Walter Barshai is a Russian author, scientist and humanitarian, and the founder of the Tairus Research and Production facility within the Russian Academy of Sciences in Novosibirsk, Russia.
Wassily Kandinsky - Wassily Wassilyevich Kandinsky was a Russian painter, and art theorist.
Wladimir Kaminer - Wladimir Kaminer is a Russian-born German short story writer, columnist, and disc jockey of Jewish origin.
Wladimir Vogel - Wladimir Rudolfowitsch Vogel was a Swiss composer of German and Russian extraction.
Yana Churikova - Yana Churikova is a Russian journalist and television host who worked on MTV Russia before moving to Channel One, where she hosted six seasons of the Star Factory show.
Yaroslav Korolev - Yaroslav Igorevich Korolev is a Russian professional basketball player.
Yaroslava Shvedova - Yaroslava Vyacheslavovna Shvedova is a Russian-born professional tennis player representing Kazakhstan.
Yegor Titov - Yegor Ilyich Titov is a retired Russian football midfielder, who last played for Lokomotiv Astana.
Yelena Baturina - Yelena Nikolayevna Baturina is a Russian businesswoman, Russia's richest woman and the only Russian woman worth more than a billion dollars.
Yelena Gulyayeva - Yelena Gulyayeva, née Rodina is a retired Russian high jumper.
Yelena Khanga - Yelena Khanga was born in 1961 and raised in Moscow, USSR, and came to the United States in 1990 to write Soul to Soul: The Story of a Black Russian American Family: 1865 - 1992.
Yelena Koreneva - Yelena Alekseyevna Koreneva is a Russian actress.
Yelena Miroshina - Yelena Miroshina was a female diver from Russia, best known for twice winning the gold medal at the European Championships in the women's 10 m platform.
Yelena Plotnikova - Yelena Plotnikova is a female volleyball player from Russia, who represented her native country at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, Greece.
Yelena Soya - Yelena Igorevna Soya is a Russian Synchro-swimmer.
Yevgeni Mayorov - Yevgeni Mayorov was a ice hockey player who played in the Soviet Hockey League.
Yevgeni Mishakov - Yevgeni Dmitrievich Mishakov was an ice hockey player who played in the Soviet Hockey League.
Yevgeni Urbansky - Yevgeni Urbansky was a prominent Soviet Russian actor.
Yevgenia Albats - Yevgenia Markovna Albats is a Russian investigative journalist, political scientist, writer and radio host.
Yevgeniya Sidorova - Yevgeniya Nikolaevna Sidorova was a Soviet alpine skier who competed for the Soviet Union in the 1956 Winter Olympics, in the 1960 Winter Olympics, and in the 1964 Winter Olympics.
Yevgeny Chichvarkin - Yevgeny Alexandrovich Chichvarkin is known as a Russian businessman and, to lesser extent, politician.
Yevgeny Groshev - Yevgeny Nikolaevich Groshev is a retired ice hockey player who played in the Soviet Hockey League.
Yevgeny Morgunov - Yevgeny Alexandrovich Morgunov was a Soviet and Russian actor, film director, and script writer, Meritorious Artist of Russian SFSR.
Yosef Sprinzak - Yosef Sprinzak was a leading Zionist activist in the first half of the 20th century, an Israeli politician, and the first Speaker of the Knesset, a role he held from 1949 until his death in 1959.
Zoya Kosmodemyanskaya - Zoya Anatolyevna Kosmodemyanskaya, alternatively Romanised as Kosmodem'yanskaya was a Soviet partisan, and a Hero of the Soviet Union.