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Anton Chekhov
Russian dramatist and author (1860–1904)
Mikhail Gorbachev
leader of the Soviet Union from 1985 to 1991 (1931–2022)
Ivan Turgenev
Russian writer (1818–1883)
Andrei Sakharov
Soviet nuclear physicist and human rights activist (1921–1989)
Sergei Yesenin
Russian poet (1895–1925)
Wassily Kandinsky
avant-garde painter of Russian origin (1866-1944)
Anna Politkovskaya
Russian journalist (1958–2006)
Vitaly Ginzburg
Russian physicist (1916–2009)
Fyodor Tyutchev
Russian poet (1803–1873)
Alexander Herzen
Russian author, philosopher, and revolutionary (1812–1870)

Alexei Abrikosov
Soviet, Russian and American theoretical physicist

Lev Vygotsky
Soviet psychologist (1896-1934)

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Soviet physicist (1895–1971)

Andrey Kolmogorov
Russian mathematician (1903–1987)
Vladimir Zhirinovsky
Russian politician (1946–2022)
Roza Otunbayeva
President of Kyrgyzstan

Ilya Frank
Soviet physicist
Ion Iliescu
President of Romania (1990–1996; 2000–2004)

Alexander Ostrovsky
Russian playwright (1823-1886)
Aleksey Konstantinovich Tolstoy
count, Russian poet, novelist and playwright
Vladimir Arnold
Russian mathematician who studied integrable systems and differential equations (1937–2010)
Alexander Oparin
Soviet biochemist (1894-1980)
Svetlana Alliluyeva
Joseph Stalin's daughter (1926–2011)
Alexander Griboyedov
Russian diplomat, playwriter, poet, and composer (1795–1829)
Egor Gajdar
Russian economist (1956-2009)
Boris Akunin
Russian writer, translation, and historian
Mykola Azarov
Ukrainian politician (born 1947)
Denis Fonvizin
Russian writer (1745-1792)
Raisa Gorbacheva
wife of Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev (1932-1999)
Imre Lakatos
Hungarian philosopher of mathematics and science (1922-1974)
Evgeny Primakov
4th Russian Prime Minister (1929–2015)
Varlam Shalamov
Soviet writer, journalist, poet and Gulag survivor
Georgy Lvov
Russian statesman and the first post-imperial prime minister of Russia (1861-1925)
Dmitry Peskov
Russian politician and diplomat (born 1967)
Vasily Grossman
Russian Soviet writer and journalist (1905-1964)
Pafnuty Chebyshev
Russian mathematician (1821–1894)
Andrey Korotayev
Russian anthropologist, economic historian, comparative political scientist, and sociologist
Lyudmila Ulitskaya
Russian writer
Nino Burjanadze
Georgian politician and lawyer
Tony Hoare
British computer scientist
Vsevolod Pudovkin
Soviet film director, screenwriter and actor (1893–1953)
Lev Shestov
Russian existentialist philosopher (1866 – 1938)
Elvira Nabiullina
Russian economist and Governor of the Bank of Russia

Sergey Stanishev
Bulgarian politician
Sergey Vavilov
Soviet physicist

Chulpan Khamatova
Russian actress
Nikolay Zhukovsky
Russian scientist in mechanics and aerohydrodinamics
Andrei Belousov
Minister of Defense of the Russian Federation

Ernst Öpik
Estonian astronomer and astrophysicist (1893-1985)

Musa Cälil
Soviet poet

Oleg Deripaska
Russian businessman
Mamuka Bakhtadze
Georgian politician
Ivan Ilyin
Russian political philosopher (1883–1954)
Maximilian Voloshin
Russian poet (1877-1932)

Ene Ergma
Estonian politician and astrophysicist (born 1944)

Israel Gelfand
Soviet-American mathematician
Olga Ladyzhenskaya
Russian mathematician (1922–2004)

Grigory Margulis
Russian mathematician

Vladislav Listyev
Russian journalist (1956-1995)
Sergey Bodrov, Jr.
Russian actor (1971-2002)