Famous Russians and Ukrainians

 

Explore our list of famous Russians and Ukrainians. Those who have made a significant impact in society, both at home and abroad.

 

Famous Russians - Scientists and Inventors

Sergey Ilyushin	Mikhail Lomonosov
Mikhail Kalashnikov	Dmitri Mendeleev
Peter Kapitsa	Ivan Pavlov
Sergey Korolyov	Igor Sikorsky

 

 

Statesmen and Military Leaders

Leonid Brezhnev	Nicholas II
Catherine II (the Great)	Peter I (the Great)
Dmitry Donskoy	Vladimir Putin
Mikhail Gorbachev	Grigori Rasputin*
Ivan IV (the Terrible)	Joseph Stalin
Bohdan Khmelnytsky	Alexander Suvorov
Nikita Khrushchev	Leon Trotsky
Leonid Kravchuk	Vladimir I (the Great)
Nadezhda Krupskaya	Viktor Yanukovych
Mikhail Kutuzov	Boris Yeltsin
Vladimir Lenin	Viktor Yushchenko
Dmitry Medvedev	Georgy Zhukov

 

 

Russian Explorers and Cosmonauts

Vitus Bering	Alexei Leonov
Semyon Dezhnyov	Afanasy Nikitin
Yuri Gagarin	Nikolai Przhevalsky
Vladimir Komarov	Valentina Tereshkova

 

 

Famous Russians - Artists, Musicians, Performers

 

Painters and Sculptors

Ivan Aivazovsky	Valentin Serov
Vassily Kandinsky	Andrei Rublev
Isaac Levitan	Ilya Repin
Kazimir Malevich	Mikhail Vrubel

 

Authors and Poets

Anna Akhmatova	Vladimir Nabokov
Joseph Brodsky	Boris Pasternak
Mikhail Bulgakov	Alexander Pushkin
Ivan Bunin	Taras Shevchenko
Anton Chekhov	Aleks. Solzhenitsyn
Fyodor Dostoevsky	Leo Tolstoy
Nikolai Gogol	Marina Tsvetaeva
Maxim Gorky	Ivan Turgenev

 

Musicians and Composers

Mikhail Glinka	Dmitri Shostakovich
Modest Mussorgsky	Regina Spektor
Sergei Prokofiev	Igor Stravinsky
Alla Pugacheva	Peter Tchaikovsky
Sergei Rachmaninov	Viktor Tsoi
Nikolay Rastorguev	Yulia Volkova
Ruslana	Vladimir Vysotsky
Yulia Savicheva	Zemfira

 

Performers, Actors, Directors

Sergei Bezrukov	Mila Kunis
Sergei Bodrov (Jr.)	Yevgeny Leonov
Sergei Bondarchuk	Oleg Menshikov
Leonid Gaidai	Nonna Mordyukova

 

 

Famous Russians and Ukrainians - Sportsmen

 

Famous Russian Hockey Players

Vsevolod Bobrov	Sergei Makarov
Pavel Bure	Evgeni Malkin
Pavel Datsyuk	Alexander Maltsev
Sergei Fedorov	Boris Mikhailov
Viacheslav Fetisov	Alexander Mogilny
Anatoli Firsov	Alexander Ovechkin
Sergei Gonchar	Vladimir Petrov
Valeri Kharlamov	Anatoli Tarasov*
Ilya Kovalchuk	Vladislav Tretiak
Alexei Kovalev	Valeri Vasiliev
Vladimir Krutov	Alexander Yakushev
Igor Larionov	Alexei Yashin

 

Russian and Ukrainian Football Players

Andrei Arshavin	Roman Pavlyuchenko
Igor Belanov	Andrei Shevchenko
Vlad. Beschastnykh	Anatoliy Tymoshchuk
Oleg Blokhin	Lev Yashin

 

Tennis Players

Nikolay Davydenko	Marat Safin
Elena Dementieva	Dinara Safina
Yevgeny Kafelnikov	Maria Sharapova
Anna Kournikova	Vera Zvonareva

 

Russian Chess Champions

Alexander Alekhine	Alexander Khalifman
Mikhail Botvinnik	Vladimir Kramnik
Anatoly Karpov	Ruslan Ponomariov*
Garry Kasparov	Boris Spassky

 

 

Russian Businessmen and Economists

Roman Abramovich	Mikhail Khodorkovsky
Vagid Alekperov	Vladimir Lisin
Mikhail Fridman	Mikhail Prokhorov
Nikolai Kondratiev	Boris Berezovsky