List of Russian people

The Millennium of Russia monument in Veliky Novgorod, featuring the statues and reliefs of the most celebrated people in the first 1000 years of Russian history
Men of enlightenment at the Millennium of Russia
Statesmen at the Millennium of Russia
Military men and heroes at the Millennium of Russia
Writers and artists at the Millennium of Russia

This is a list of people associated with the modern Russian Federation, the Soviet Union, Imperial Russia, Russian Tsardom, the Grand Duchy of Moscow, Kievan Rus', and other predecessor states of Russia.

Regardless of ethnicity or emigration, the list includes famous natives of Russia and its predecessor states, as well as people who were born elsewhere but spent most of their active life in Russia. For more information, see the articles Russian citizens (Russian: россияне, romanizedrossiyane), Russians (Russian: русские, romanizedrusskiye) and Demographics of Russia. For specific lists of Russians, see Category:Lists of Russian people and Category:Russian people.

Statesmen

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Monarchs

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Ivan the Great
Alexander Nevsky
Peter the Great
Catherine the Great
  • Alexander I, first Russian king of Poland and first Russian grand duke of Finland
  • Alexander II "the Liberator", enacted the "Great Reforms" in Russian economy and social structure, including the emancipation reform of 1861
  • Alexander III "the Peacemaker", reversed some of the liberal reforms of his father, Alexander II; this policy is known in Russia as "counter-reforms"; he also opposed any reform that limited his autocratic rule; during his reign, Russia fought no major wars
  • Nicholas II, the last actual emperor, forced to abdicate after the February Revolution, killed with his family during the Russian Civil War

Statesmen of the Tsardom and Empire

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Aleksandr Menshikov

Soviet statesmen

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Contemporary Russian politicians

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Dmitry Medvedev
Vladimir Putin
  • Anatoly Sobchak, first post-Soviet mayor of St. Petersburg
  • Sergei Stepashin, Prime Minister in 1999, currently the head of the Account Chamber of Russia (the state audit agency)
  • Boris Yeltsin, the first President of Russia from 1991 to 1999
Boris Yeltsin

Military

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Army

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Vasily Chapaev
Nadezhda Durova
Mikhail Golenishchev-Kutuzov-Smolensky double HSU
Nikolay Kamensky
Mikhail Skobelev
Peter Wittgenstein
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Air Force

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Religious figures

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Orthodox leaders

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Orthodox saints

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Explorers

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Siberian explorers

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Explorers of Russian America

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Circumnavigators

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Travelers in the tropics

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Afanasy Nikitin

Explorers of Central Asia

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Polar explorers

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Cosmonauts

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Inventors and engineers

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Polymath inventors

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Weaponry makers

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Land transport developers

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Fyodor Pirotsky
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Aerospace engineers

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Structural engineers

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Electrical engineers

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Schilling

IT developers

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Optics and photography pioneers

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Communication engineers

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Alexander Popov

Musical instrument makers

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Vasily Andreyev

Miscellaneous inventors

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Franz San Galli

Scientists and scholars

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Polymaths

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Earth scientists

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Biologists and paleontologists

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Physicians and psychologists

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Ilya Mechnikov
Ivan Pavlov
Ivan Sechenov

Economists and sociologists

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Historians and archaeologists

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Linguists and ethnographers

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Nikolai Trubetzkoy

Mathematicians

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Nikolai Lobachevsky

Astronomers and cosmologists

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Physicists

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Chemists and material scientists

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Aleksandr Butlerov

Philosophers

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Imperial period

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Soviet period

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Modern

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Orientalists

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East Asian studies

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Art

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Visual arts

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Architects

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Bartolomeo Rastrelli

Sculptors and jewellers

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Painters

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Marc Chagall

Literature

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Novel and short story authors

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Fyodor Dostoevsky
Nikolai Gogol
Leo Tolstoy