Prominent Russians: Science and technology
Abram Ioffe
Science and technology
Abram Ioffe was the father of Soviet physics, founder of multiple physics institutes in Russia, and an educator of the country’s best scientists.
Zhores Alferov
Science and technology
Zhores Alferov is the Noble Prize winning academician with more than half a century’s experience of research in semiconductors.
Daniil Andreev
Science and technology
A philosopher and a mystic, Daniil Andreev was the only son of famous Russian writer Leonid Andreev.
Oleg Antonov
Science and technology
Oleg Antonov was a Soviet aircraft designer and creator of An-225 “Mriya,” the biggest, heavy cargo-lifting aircraft to date.
Aleksandr Bakulev
Science and technology
Aleksandr Bakulev was a Soviet scientist, surgeon and one of the founders of cardiovascular surgery in the USSR.
Vladimir Bekhterev
Science and technology
Vladimir Bekhterev was an outstanding Russian psychiatrist and neurologist, founder of reflexology in Russia.
Evgeny Botkin
Science and technology
It is hard to imagine a physician who took the Hippocratic Oath more seriously than Dr. Evgeny Botkin, physician to Tsar Nicholas II.
Evgeny Chazov
Science and technology
Evgeny Ivanovich Chazov is a prominent Russian cardiologist, former Soviet Health Care Minister, a Nobel Peace Prize winner and a Guinnes Book world record.
Svyatoslav Fyodorov
Science and technology
Throughout his life, Svyatoslav Fyodorov had done just that, helping hundreds of thousands of people through his pioneering eye surgery.
Lev Gumilev
Science and technology
Lev Gumilеv was a Russian historian and ethnographer whose unorthodox and sometimes paradoxical ideas have attracted wide public interest in modern Russia.
Mikhail Kalashnikov
Science and technology
Mikhail Kalashnikov is the designer of the immensely popular assault rifle named after him.
Pyotr Kapitsa
Science and technology
Pyotr Kapitsa, a physics Nobel Prize winner, invented the pulse method of creating super strong magnetic fields and a machine for adiabatic helium cooling.
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Abram Ioffe
Roman Abramovich
Chinghiz Aitmatov
Ivan Aivazovsky
Bella (Izabella) Akhmadulina
Anna Akhmatova
Vasily Aksenov
Boris Akunin
Aleksandr Menshikov
Alexander II Liberator
Alexander I
Alexander III the Peacemaker
Zhores Alferov
Nina Ananiashvili
Anatoly Kashpirovsky
Daniil Andreev
Leonid Andreev
Yury Andropov
Anna Pavlova
Anna Ioannovna
Anna Yaroslavna
St. Anthony of the Caves (Antony Pechersky)
Oleg Antonov
Andrey Arshavin
Viktor Astafiev
B
Isaac Babel
Ivan Bagramyan
Pyotr Bagration
Leon Bakst
Aleksandr Bakulev
Mikhail Bakunin
Miliy Balakirev
Konstantin Balmont
Yury Baluevsky
Yevgeny Baratynsky
Mikhail Barklay de Tolly (Michael Andreas Barclay de Tolly)
Mikhail Baryshnikov
St. Basil
Vasily Bazhenov
Vladimir Bekhterev
Timur Bekmambetov
Aleksandr Benckendorff
Aleksandr Benua
Boris Berezovsky
Olga Berggolts
Lavrentiy Beria
Vitus Bering
Mark Bernes
Dima Bilan
Aleksandr Blok
Fyodor Bondarchuk
Sergey Bondarchuk
St.Boris & Gleb
Aleksandr Borodin
Pavel Borodin
Evgeny Botkin
Mikhail Botvinnik
Viktor Bout
Leonid Brezhnev
Sergey Brin
Joseph Brodsky
Aleksey Brusilov
Karl Bryullov
Valery Bryusov
Semyon Budenny
Nikolay Bukharin
Mikhail Bulgakov
Ivan Bunin
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Catherine I
Catherine II the Great
Marc Chagall
Anna Chakvetadze
Feodor Chaliapin
Vasily Chapaev
Yury Chayka
Evgeny Chazov
Anton Chekhov
Mikhail Chekhov
Konstantin Chernenko
Viktor Chernomyrdin
Sergey Cheskidov
Boris Chirkov
Valery Chkalov
Anatoly Chubais
Korney Chukovsky
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Yury Gagarin
Arkady Gaidamak
Egor Gaidar
Arkady Gaidar
Aleksandr Galich
Rasul Gamzatov
Nikolay Gastello
Valery Gergiev
Nikolay Ghe
Vladimir Gilyarovsky
Aleksandr Glazunov
Mikhail Glinka
Boris Godunov
Nikolay Gogol
Tatyana Golikova
Ivan Goncharov
Mikhail Gorbachev
Maxim Gorky (Aleksey Peshkov)
Andrey Grechko
German Gref
Aleksandr Griboyedov
Boris Gromov
Andrey Gromyko
Nikolay Gumilev
Lev Gumilev
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Igor the Brave
Igor Chapurin
Ivan III the Great
Andrey Illarionov
Ilya Muromets
Kirsan Ilyumzhinov
Ivan IV the Terrible
Ivan Kalita
Sergey Ivanov
Igor Ivanov
Aleksandr Izosimov
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Alina Kabayeva
Mikhail Kalashnikov
Mikhail Kalatozov
Lev Kamenev
Vassily Kandinsky
Pyotr Kapitsa
Nikolay Karamzin
Dmitry Karbyshev
Anatoly Karpov
Garry Kasparov
Mikhail Kasyanov
Mstislav Keldysh
Aleksandr Kerensky
Yerofey Khabarov
Konstantin Khabensky
Aram Khachaturyan
Aleksansdr Khanzhonkov
Valery Kharlamov
Daniil Kharms
Aleksandr Khloponin
Bohdan Khmelnitsky
Mikhail Khodorkovsky
Svetlana Khorkina
Viktor Khristenko
Nikita Khrushchev
Sergey Kirienko
Sergey Kirov
Aleksandr Kolchak
Aleksandra Kollontai
Anatoly Komm
Pyotr Konchalovsky
Andrey Konchalovsky
Ivan Konev
Fyodor Konyukhov
Ilya Kormiltsev
Lavr Kornilov
Sergey Korolev
Mikhail Koshkin
Zoya Kosmodemyanskaya
Aleksey Kosygin
Anna Kournikova
Sofia Kovalevskaya
Dmitry Kozak
Ivan Kozhedub
Ivan Kramskoy
Ivan Kruzenshtern (Adam Johann von Krusenstern)
Ivan Krylov
Ksenia Sobchak
Matilda Kshesinskaya
Aleksey Kudrin
Aleksandr Kuprin
Igor Kurchatov
Mikhail Kutuzov
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Lev Landau
Sergey Lavrov
Lazar Kaganovich
Sergey Lemeshev
Vladimir Lenin
Aleksey Leonov
Mikhail Lermontov
Nikolay Leskov
Isaac Levitan
Yury Levitan
Maris Liepa
Ilse Liepa
Dmitry Likhachyov
Eduard Limonov
Vladislav Listyev
Aleksandr Litvinenko
Nikolai Lobachevsky
Mikhail Lomonosov
Ulyana Lopatkina
Andrey Lugovoy
Vladimir Lukin
Sergey Lukyanenko
Anatoly Lunacharsky
Yury Luzhkov
The Lykovs
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Anton Makarenko
Nikolay Makarov
Nestor Makhno
Georgy Malenkov
Kazimir Malevich
Rodion Malinovsky
Savva Mamontov
Anastasia Myskina
Osip Mandelstam
Aleksey Maresyev
Maria Feodorovna, Empress Consort of Russia
Samuil Marshak
Aleksandr Matrosov
Valentina Matvienko
Vladimir Mayakovsky
Dmitry Medvedev
Leonid Melamed
Dmitry Mendeleev
Ivan Michurin
Mikhail Kalinin
Nikita Mikhalkov
Sergey Mikhalkov
Artyom Mikoyan
Anastas Mikoyan
Kuzma Minin and Count Dmitry Pozharsky
Andrey Mironov
Sergey Mironov
Igor Moiseev
Vyacheslav Molotov
Aleksey Mordashov
Savva Morozov
Modest Mussorgsky
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Elvira Nabiullina
Vladimir Nabokov
Pavel Nakhimov
Sergey Naryshkin
The Naryshkins
Natalia Makarova
Nikolay Nekrasov
Boris Nemtsov
Pyotr Nesterov
Anna Netrebko
Leonid Nevzlin
Nicholas I
Afanasy Nikitin
Nikolay Basov
Nikolay Burdenko
Yury Nikulin
Vatslav Nizhinsky
Nicholas II
Valeria Novodvorskaya
Rudolph Nureyev
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Oleg Veshchy (The Prophet)
Princess Olga of Kiev
Grigory Ordzhonikidze
Aleksey Orlov (Chesmensky)
Lyubov Orlova
Nikolay Ostrovsky
Alexander Ovechkin
The Ovechkin Family
Sergey Ozhegov
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Nikita Panin
Boris Pasternak
Paul I
Ivan Pavlov
Yakov Pavlov
Peter I the Great
Marius Petipa
Kuzma Petrov-Vodkin
Mikhail Piotrovsky
Kira Plastinina
Vyacheslav Plehve
Fyodor Plevako
Maya Plisetskaya
Nikolay Podgorny
Dzhokhan Pollyeva
Vladimir Potanin
Mikhail Prokhorov
Sergey Prokofiev
Emelyan Pugachev
Alla Pugacheva
Aleksandr Pushkin
Vladimir Putin
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Aleksandr Radishchev
Arkady Raikin
Sergey Rakhmaninov
Faina Ranevskaya
Grigory Rasputin
Stepan (Stenka) Razin
Nikolay Rimsky-Korsakov
Konstantin Rokossovsky
Aleksey Mikhailovich Romanov
Anastasia Romanova
The Romanovs
Dietmar Rosenthal
Karl Rossi
Mstislav Rostropovich
Robert Rozhdestvensky
Andrei Rublev
Aleksandr Rutskoy
The Ryabushinsky family
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Viktor Sadovnichy
Marat Safin
Nikas Safronov
Andrey Sakharov
Tanya Savicheva
Aleksey Savrasov
Alfred Schnittke
Aleksandr Scriabin
Dinara Safina
Igor Sechin
Anatoly Serdyukov
Kirill Serebrennikov
Valentin Serov
Varlam Shalamov
Maria Sharapova
Aleksey Shchusev
Eduard Shevardnadze
Ivan Shishkin
Sergey Shmatko
Sergey Shoigu
Mikhail Sholokhov
Dmitry Shostakovich
The Shparos
Vasily Shukshin
Klavdia Shulzhenko
Vasily Shuysky
Igor Sikorsky
Denis Simachev
Nikolay Sklifosovsky
Sergey Solovyov
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Sergius of Radonezh (Sergey Radonezhsky)
Aleksey Stakhanov
Joseph Stalin
Konstantin Stanislavsky
Pyotr Stolypin
Igor Stravinsky
Arkady and Boris Strugatsky
Pavel Sukhoi
Vasily Surikov
Ivan Susanin
Aleksandr Suvorov
Georgy Sviridov
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Mikael Tariverdiev
Andrey Tarkovsky
Vasily Tatishchev
Pyotr Tchaikovsky
Theophanes the Greek
Leo Tolstoy
Aleksey Tolstoy
Aleksey N Tolstoy
Georgy Tovstonogov
Vasily Trediakovsky
Pavel Tretyakov
Leon Trotsky (Lev Bronstein)
Zurab Tsereteli
Konstantin Tsiolkovsky
Nikolay Tsiskaridze
Viktor Tsoy
Marina Tsvetaeva
Mikhail Tukhachevsky
Andrey Tupolev
Ivan Turgenev
Fyodor Tyutchev
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Nikolai Valuev
Vasily Klyuchevsky
Viktor Vasnetsov
Viktor Kochubey
Viktor Pelevin
Galina Vishnevskaya
Vladimir Monomakh (Monomachus)
Anastassia Volochkova
Mikhail Vrubel
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