| Name | Occupation | Birth | Death | Known for |
|---|
| Alexei A. Abrikosov |
Physicist |
25-Jun-1928 |
|
Particle physicist, explored superconductivity |
| Tsar Alexander II |
Royalty |
17-Apr-1818 |
13-Mar-1881 |
Tsar of Russia, 1855-81 |
| Tsar Alexis |
Royalty |
19-Mar-1629 |
8-Feb-1676 |
Tsar of Russia, 1645-76 |
| Anna |
Royalty |
28-Jan-1693 |
17-Oct-1740 |
Tsarina of Russia, 1730-40 |
| Olga Baclanova |
Actor |
19-Aug-1896 |
6-Sep-1974 |
The Docks of New York |
| Andrei Bely |
Author |
26-Oct-1880 |
8-Jan-1934 |
Petersburg |
| Boris Berezovsky |
Business |
23-Jan-1946 |
|
Russian oligarch, now in Israel |
| Max Boot |
Columnist |
1969 |
|
Conservative pundit |
| Sergey Brin |
Business |
21-Aug-1973 |
|
Co-Founder of Google |
| Nikolai Bukharin |
Economist |
9-Oct-1888 |
15-Mar-1938 |
Soviet theoretical economist |
| Fyodor Dostoevsky |
Novelist |
30-Oct-1821 |
28-Jan-1881 |
Crime and Punishment |
| Vitaly L. Ginzburg |
Physicist |
4-Oct-1916 |
|
Particle physicist, described superconductivity |
| Leonid Hurwicz |
Economist |
21-Aug-1917 |
|
Mechanism design theory |
| Tsar Ivan III |
Royalty |
22-Jan-1440 |
27-Oct-1505 |
Tsar of Russia, 1462-1505 |
| Igor Ivanov |
Government |
23-Sep-1945 |
|
Russia Minister of Foreign Affairs |
| Wilhelm Junker |
Explorer |
6-Apr-1840 |
13-Feb-1892 |
Reisen in Afrika |
| Wassily Kandinsky |
Artist |
16-Dec-1866 |
13-Dec-1944 |
Abstractionist and theorist |
| Paul Karrer |
Chemist |
21-Apr-1889 |
18-Jun-1971 |
Studied pigments, beta-carotene, etc. |
| Lena Katina |
Musician |
4-Oct-1984 |
|
t.A.T.u.'s redheaded femme |
| Noor Inayat Khan |
Spy |
1-Jan-1914 |
13-Sep-1944 |
British spy, children's author, captured by Nazis |
| Mikhail Khodorkovsky |
Business |
26-Jun-1963 |
|
Founder of Yukos, now jailed |
| Vladimir Komarov |
Astronaut |
16-Mar-1927 |
24-Apr-1967 |
Pilot of Soyuz 1 plunged to his death |
| Theodore Kosloff |
Dancer |
22-Jan-1882 |
22-Nov-1956 |
Why Change Your Wife? |
| Anna Kournikova |
Tennis |
7-Jun-1981 |
|
Sexy tennis player never wins tournaments |
| Peter Kropotkin |
Anarchist |
21-Dec-1842 |
8-Feb-1921 |
Libertarian anarchist revolutionary |
| Mikhail Lermontov |
Poet |
15-Oct-1814 |
27-Jul-1841 |
Russian romantic poet |
| Peter D. Ouspensky |
Philosopher |
5-Mar-1878 |
2-Oct-1947 |
Esoteric philosopher, Tertium Organum |
| Boris Pasternak |
Author |
10-Feb-1890 |
30-May-1960 |
Doctor Zhivago |
| Peter the Great |
Royalty |
9-Jun-1672 |
8-Feb-1725 |
Tsar of Russia, 1689-1725 |
| Nadia Petrova |
Tennis |
8-Jun-1982 |
|
Hard-hitting Russian seed |
| Ilya Prigogine |
Chemist |
25-Jan-1917 |
28-May-2003 |
Thermodynamic systems |
| Aleksandr Pushkin |
Poet |
26-May-1799 |
10-Feb-1837 |
Russia's greatest poet |
| Olesya Rulin |
Actor |
17-Mar-1986 |
|
High School Musical |
| Marat Safin |
Tennis |
27-Jan-1980 |
|
Won Grand Slam at 2000 U.S. Open |
| Andrei Sakharov |
Physicist |
21-May-1921 |
14-Dec-1989 |
Developed the Soviet hydrogen bomb |
| Aleksandr Scriabin |
Composer |
25-Dec-1871 |
14-Apr-1915 |
Prometheus: The Poem of Fire |
| Dimitri K. Simes |
Government |
? |
|
Nixon Center |
| Vladimir Sorokin |
Author |
7-Aug-1955 |
|
Wrote Goluboe Salo (Blue Lard) |
| Regina Spektor |
Singer/Songwriter |
18-Feb-1980 |
|
Anti-folk singer |
| Alexander Suvorov |
Military |
24-Nov-1729 |
18-May-1800 |
Russian general, fought Turks, French |
| Tsar Ivan V |
Royalty |
27-Aug-1666 |
29-Jan-1696 |
Nominal Tsar of Russia, 1682-96 |
| Julia Volkova |
Musician |
20-Feb-1985 |
|
t.A.T.u.'s butchy brunette |
| Lev Yashin |
Soccer |
22-Oct-1929 |
20-Mar-1990 |
Soviet soccer star |
| Name | Occupation | Birth | Death | Known for |
|---|
| Tsar Alexis |
Royalty |
19-Mar-1629 |
8-Feb-1676 |
Tsar of Russia, 1645-76 |
| Yuri Andropov |
Head of State |
14-Jun-1914 |
9-Feb-1984 |
Soviet General Secretary, 1982-84 |
| Nikolay G. Basov |
Physicist |
14-Dec-1922 |
1-Jul-2001 |
Invention of the maser and laser |
| Andrei Bely |
Author |
26-Oct-1880 |
8-Jan-1934 |
Petersburg |
| Lavrenty Beria |
Government |
29-Mar-1899 |
23-Dec-1953 |
Chief of the NKVD, 1940-46 |
| Aleksander Bovin |
Diplomat |
1930 |
29-Apr-2004 |
Russian Ambassador to Israel, 1991-7 |
| Leonid Brezhnev |
Head of State |
19-Dec-1906 |
10-Nov-1982 |
Leader of the Soviet Union 1964-82 |
| Nikolai Bukharin |
Economist |
9-Oct-1888 |
15-Mar-1938 |
Soviet theoretical economist |
| Mikhail Bulgakov |
Author |
3-May-1891 |
10-Mar-1940 |
The Master and Margarita |
| Nikolai Cherkasov |
Actor |
27-Jul-1903 |
14-Sep-1966 |
Aleksandr Nevsky |
| Konstantin Chernenko |
Head of State |
24-Sep-1911 |
10-Mar-1985 |
Soviet General Secretary, 1984-85 |
| Felix Dzerzhinsky |
Government |
11-Sep-1887 |
20-Jul-1926 |
The Black Pope of Bolshevism |
| Sergei Eisenstein |
Film Director |
23-Jan-1898 |
11-Feb-1948 |
Alexander Nevsky |
| John Field |
Composer |
26-Jul-1782 |
23-Jan-1837 |
Irish composer of Nocturnes |
| Boris Godunov |
Royalty |
c. 1551 |
13-Apr-1605 |
Tsar of Russia, 1598-1605 |
| Nikolai Gogol |
Author |
19-Mar-1809 |
21-Feb-1852 |
Dead Souls, The Overcoat |
| Maxim Gorky |
Playwright |
28-Mar-1868 |
17-Jun-1936 |
The Lower Depths |
| Andrei Gromyko |
Politician |
5-Jul-1909 |
2-Jul-1989 |
Cold War Foreign Minister of the USSR |
| Bill Haywood |
Labor Leader |
4-Feb-1869 |
18-May-1928 |
Industrial Workers of the World |
| Tsar Ivan III |
Royalty |
22-Jan-1440 |
27-Oct-1505 |
Tsar of Russia, 1462-1505 |
| Ivan the Terrible |
Royalty |
25-Aug-1530 |
18-Mar-1584 |
Russian Tsar, 1533-84 |
| Leonid Vitalyevich Kantorovich |
Mathematician |
19-Jan-1912 |
7-Apr-1986 |
Linear programming |
| Pyotr Kapitsa |
Physicist |
8-Jul-1894 |
8-Apr-1984 |
Discovered superfluidity |
| Babrak Karmal |
Head of State |
6-Jan-1929 |
3-Dec-1996 |
President of Afghanistan, 1979-86 |
| Aram Khachaturian |
Composer |
24-May-1903 |
1-May-1978 |
Gayane |
| Nikita Khrushchev |
Head of State |
5-Apr-1894 |
11-Sep-1971 |
Deposed leader of the Soviet Union |
| Paul Klebnikov |
Journalist |
3-Jun-1963 |
9-Jul-2004 |
Forbes journalist, killed in Moscow |
| Alexei Kosygin |
Head of State |
1904 |
18-Dec-1980 |
Premier of the Soviet Union, 1964-80 |
| Nikolai Krylenko |
Government |
2-May-1885 |
29-Jul-1938 |
Soviet prosecutor executed during the Great Purge |
| Vardan Kushnir |
Criminal |
22-Nov-1969 |
24-Jul-2005 |
Russian spammer, murdered |
| Lev Landau |
Physicist |
22-Jan-1908 |
1-Apr-1968 |
Superfluidity of helium |
| Jakob Michael Reinhold Lenz |
Poet |
12-Jan-1751 |
24-May-1792 |
Sturm und Drang movement |
| Maxim Litvinov |
Government |
17-Jul-1876 |
31-Dec-1951 |
Soviet foreign minister ousted in nod to Hitler |
| Alexander Luria |
Psychologist |
16-Jul-1902 |
14-Aug-1977 |
Pioneer of neuropsychology |
| Donald Maclean |
Spy |
25-May-1913 |
6-Mar-1983 |
Spy for Moscow, Cambridge Five |
| Tsar Michael |
Royalty |
22-Jul-1596 |
12-Jul-1645 |
Tsar of Russia, 1613-45 |
| Anastas Mikoyan |
Politician |
25-Nov-1895 |
21-Oct-1978 |
Knew where the shrimps stay in winter |
| Vyacheslav Molotov |
Government |
9-Mar-1890 |
8-Nov-1986 |
Stalin's right-hand-man |
| Tsar Peter II |
Royalty |
23-Oct-1715 |
29-Jan-1730 |
Tsar of Russia, 1727-30 |
| Philaret |
Royalty |
1553 |
12-Oct-1633 |
Patriarch of Moscow |
| Kim Philby |
Spy |
1-Jan-1912 |
11-May-1988 |
One of the Cambridge Five in MI6 |
| Nikolai Podgorny |
Head of State |
18-Feb-1903 |
11-Jan-1983 |
President of the USSR 1965-77 |
| Aleksandr M. Prokhorov |
Physicist |
11-Jul-1916 |
8-Jan-2002 |
Invention of the maser and laser |
| Sergei Prokofiev |
Composer |
23-Apr-1891 |
5-Mar-1953 |
Scythian Suite, Peter and the Wolf |
| Emelian Pugachev |
Anarchist |
1740 |
10-Jan-1775 |
Bloody insurrectionist in southern Russia, 1773-74 |
| John Reed |
Activist |
22-Oct-1887 |
19-Oct-1920 |
Ten Days That Shook the World |
| Mstislav Rostropovich |
Musician |
27-Mar-1927 |
27-Apr-2007 |
Cellist and conductor |
| Andrei Sakharov |
Physicist |
21-May-1921 |
14-Dec-1989 |
Developed the Soviet hydrogen bomb |
| Aleksandr Scriabin |
Composer |
25-Dec-1871 |
14-Apr-1915 |
Prometheus: The Poem of Fire |
| Nikolay Semyonov |
Chemist |
15-Apr-1896 |
25-Sep-1986 |
Researcher of chemical kinetics |
| Dmitri Shostakovich |
Composer |
25-Sep-1906 |
9-Aug-1975 |
Symphony No. 7 |
| Stalin |
Head of State |
18-Dec-1878 |
5-Mar-1953 |
Brutal dictator, Soviet Union |
| Aleksandr Sumarokov |
Playwright |
14-Nov-1717 |
12-Oct-1777 |
Founder of Russian classical drama |
| Igor Y. Tamm |
Physicist |
8-Jul-1895 |
12-Apr-1971 |
Cherenkov radiation |
| Vladimir Tatlin |
Sculptor |
16-Dec-1885 |
31-May-1953 |
Monument to the Third International |
| Nikolai Tikhonov |
Politician |
14-May-1905 |
1-Jun-1997 |
Premier of the Soviet Union, 1980-85 |
| Tsar Ivan V |
Royalty |
27-Aug-1666 |
29-Jan-1696 |
Nominal Tsar of Russia, 1682-96 |
| Raoul Wallenberg |
Activist |
4-Aug-1912 |
16-Jul-1947 |
Worked to save Hungarian Jews |
| Henryk Wieniawski |
Violinist |
10-Jul-1835 |
31-Mar-1880 |
Polish violinist and composer |
| Lev Yashin |
Soccer |
22-Oct-1929 |
20-Mar-1990 |
Soviet soccer star |
| Boris Yeltsin |
Head of State |
1-Feb-1931 |
23-Apr-2007 |
First president of post-Soviet Russia |
| Georgi Zhukov |
Military |
1-Dec-1896 |
18-Jun-1974 |
Soviet commander during WWII |
| Grigory Zinoviev |
Government |
23-Sep-1883 |
25-Aug-1936 |
Old Bolshevik executed during the Great Purge |
