1
Mikhail Gorbachev
(Former General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union)
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Listed In: Leaders
Birthdate: March 2, 1931
Sun Sign: Pisces
Birthplace: Privol'noe, Russia
Height: 5'9" (175 cm)
2
Anton Chekhov
(One of the Greatest Writers of All Time)
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18
Listed In: Writers
Birthdate: January 29, 1860
Sun Sign: Aquarius
Birthplace: Taganrog, Russia
Died: July 15, 1904
3
Wassily Kandinsky
(Russian Painter, Art Theorist and a Pioneer in Abstract Art)
45
9
Listed In: Artists & Painters
Birthdate: December 16, 1866
Sun Sign: Sagittarius
Birthplace: Moscow, Russia
Died: December 13, 1944
Height: 6'2" (188 cm)
4
Mariya Putina
(Russian Pediatric Endocrinologist and Eldest Daughter of Russian President Vladimir Putin)
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83
Listed In: Miscellaneous
Birthdate: April 28, 1985
Sun Sign: Taurus
Birthplace: Saint Petersburg, Russia
Height: 5'4" (163 cm)
5
Evgenia Medvedeva
(Former Competitive Russian Figure Skater)
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6
Listed In: Sportspersons
Birthdate: November 19, 1999
Sun Sign: Scorpio
Birthplace: Moscow, Russia
Height: 5'3" (160 cm)
6
Lev Vygotsky
(Soviet Psychologist Known for His Work on Psychological Development in Children)
36
4
Listed In: Intellectuals & Academics
Birthdate: November 17, 1896
Sun Sign: Scorpio
Birthplace: Orsha, Belarus
Died: June 11, 1934
7
Oleg Deripaska
(Entrepreneur, Investor, Businessperson)
5
2
Listed In: Miscellaneous
Birthdate: January 2, 1968
Sun Sign: Capricorn
Birthplace: Dzerzhinsk, Nizhny Novgorod Oblast, Russian SFSR
8
Anna Politkovskaya
(Russian Journalist and Human Rights Activist)
8
7
Listed In: Media Personalities
Birthdate: August 30, 1958
Sun Sign: Virgo
Birthplace: New York, New York, United States
Died: October 7, 2006
9
Andrei Sakharov
(Soviet Nuclear Physicist, Dissident and Winner of the 1975 Nobel Prize for Peace)
12
2
Listed In: Activists
Birthdate: May 21, 1921
Sun Sign: Gemini
Birthplace: Moscow, Russia
Died: December 14, 1989
10
Andrey Melnichenko
(Industrialist)
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3
Listed In: Miscellaneous
Birthdate: March 8, 1972
Sun Sign: Pisces
Birthplace: Gomel, Belarus
Height: 5'9" (175 cm)
11
Tony Hoare
(Computer scientist)
2
0
12
Katerina Tikhonova
(The Second Daughter of Russian President Vladimir Putin)
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40
13
Ivan Turgenev
(Novelist, Short Story Writer, Poet & Popularizer of Russian Literature in the West)
8
2
Listed In: Writers
Birthdate: November 9, 1818
Sun Sign: Scorpio
Birthplace: Oryol, Russia
Died: September 3, 1883
14
Saule Omarova
(Lawyer)
2
2
Listed In: Lawyers & Judges
Birthdate: November 2, 1966
Sun Sign: Scorpio
Birthplace: West Kazakhstan Province, Kazakhstan
15
Raisa Gorbacheva
(Russian Activist and Wife of the Former President of the Soviet Union ‘Mikhail Gorbachev’)
10
8
Listed In: Miscellaneous
Birthdate: January 5, 1932
Sun Sign: Capricorn
Birthplace: Rubtsovsk, Russia
Died: September 20, 1999
16
Mahmoud Darwish
(Poet)
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6
Listed In: Activists
Birthdate: March 13, 1941
Sun Sign: Pisces
Birthplace: Al-Birwa
Died: August 9, 2008
17
Margarita Louis-Dreyfus
(Businesswoman)
4
3
Listed In: Business People
Birthdate: July 1, 1962
Sun Sign: Cancer
Birthplace: Saint Petersburg, Russia
18
Georgy Lvov
(8th Prime Minister of Russia (March 1917 - July 1917))
2
0
Listed In: Leaders
Birthdate: November 2, 1861
Sun Sign: Scorpio
Birthplace: Dresden, Germany
Died: March 7, 1925
19
Sergei Yesenin
(One of the Most Popular Russian Lyric Poets of the 20th Century)
3
1
Listed In: Writers
Birthdate: October 3, 1895
Sun Sign: Libra
Birthplace: Konstantinovo, Russia
Died: December 28, 1925
20
Irina Baeva
(Russian Actress and Model)
1
1
Listed In: Fashion
Birthdate: October 25, 1992
Sun Sign: Scorpio
Birthplace: Moscow, Russia
Height: 5'5" (165 cm)
21
Immanuel Velikovsky
(Author)
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0
Listed In: Intellectuals & Academics
Birthdate: June 10, 1895
Sun Sign: Gemini
Birthplace: Vitebsk
Died: November 17, 1979
22
L. L. Zamenhof
(Linguist, Ophthalmologist, Inventor, Poet, Translator, Esperantist, Physician, Writer, Bible translator)
2
1
Listed In: Intellectuals & Academics
Birthdate: December 15, 1859
Sun Sign: Sagittarius
Birthplace: Białystok
Died: April 14, 1917
23
Irina Abramovich
(Roman Abramovich's Ex-Wife)
1
1
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Vladimir Pozner Jr.
(Journalist, TV Personality)
1
1
Listed In: Film & Theater Personalities
Birthdate: April 1, 1934
Sun Sign: Aries
Birthplace: Paris, France
Height: 5'6" (168 cm)
25
John Dramani Mahama
(President of Ghana)
12
2
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Eugene Kaspersky
(computer scientist, programmer, inventor)
2
2
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Boris Berezovsky
(Russian Business Oligarch, Government Official, Engineer and Mathematician)
1
2
Listed In: Scientists
Birthdate: January 23, 1946
Sun Sign: Aquarius
Birthplace: Moscow, Russia
Died: March 23, 2013
Height: 5'9" (175 cm)
28
Roman Jakobson
(Linguist)
0
0
Listed In: Intellectuals & Academics
Birthdate: October 11, 1896
Sun Sign: Libra
Birthplace: Moscow
Died: July 18, 1982
29
Vladimir Zhirinovsky
(Member of the State Duma since 1993)
0
1
Listed In: Lawyers & Judges
Birthdate: April 25, 1946
Sun Sign: Taurus
Birthplace: Almaty, Kazakhstan
Height: 5'9" (175 cm)
30
Yuri Bezmenov
(Journalist)
0
1
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Vasily Grossman
(Writer)
0
0
Listed In: Writers
Birthdate: December 12, 1905
Sun Sign: Sagittarius
Birthplace: Berdychiv, Ukraine
Died: September 14, 1964
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Alexander Ostrovsky
(Russian Playwright)
2
0
Listed In: Writers
Birthdate: April 12, 1823
Sun Sign: Aries
Birthplace: Moscow, Russia
Died: June 14, 1886
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Ivan Ilyin
(Russian Political Philosopher, Jurist, Orator, Publicist, and Conservative Monarchist)
0
0
Listed In: Miscellaneous
Birthdate: April 9, 1883
Sun Sign: Aries
Birthplace: Moscow, Russian Empire
Died: December 21, 1954
34
Yevgeny Primakov
(Prime Minister of Russia from 1998 to 1999)
1
1
Listed In: Leaders
Birthdate: October 29, 1929
Sun Sign: Scorpio
Birthplace: Kyiv, Ukraine
Died: June 26, 2015
35
Jang Song-thaek
(Former Minister of the State Security Department)
3
4
Listed In: Leaders
Birthdate: January 22, 1946
Sun Sign: Aquarius
Birthplace: Chongjin, Northern Korea
Died: December 12, 2013
36
Sergei Bodrov Jr.
(Russian Actor Who Died Due to a Ice-Slide in Kolka Glacier While Filming)
3
2
Listed In: Film & Theater Personalities
Birthdate: December 27, 1971
Sun Sign: Capricorn
Birthplace: Moscow, Russia
Died: September 20, 2002
Height: 5'9" (175 cm)
37
Dmitry Rogozin
(Russian Politician and Former Director General of Roscosmos (2018 - 2022))
0
0
38
Lev Shestov
(Former existentialist and religious philosopher best known for his critiques of both philosophic rationalism and scientism)
4
1
Listed In: Intellectuals & Academics
Birthdate: February 12, 1866
Sun Sign: Aquarius
Birthplace: Kyiv, Ukraine
Died: November 19, 1938
39
Elvira Nabiullina
(Russian Economist and Governor of the Bank of Russia)
1
1
40
Lyubov Sobol
(Russian Political Leader and Lawyer)
3
2
41
Vsevolod Meyerhold
(Russian and Soviet Theatre Director, Actor and Theatrical Producer)
1
1
Listed In: Film & Theater Personalities
Birthdate: February 9, 1874
Sun Sign: Aquarius
Birthplace: Penza, Russia
Died: February 2, 1940
42
Nadezhda Tolokonnikova
(Singer)
1
3
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Dariga Nazarbayeva
(Politician)
0
0
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Varlam Shalamov
(Writer)
2
1
Listed In: Writers
Birthdate: June 18, 1907
Sun Sign: Gemini
Birthplace: Vologda, Russia
Died: January 17, 1982
45
Boris Akunin
(Writer of detective and historical fiction)
3
3
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Andrey Kolmogorov
(Russian Mathematician Who Contributed to ‘Probability Theory’, ‘Probability Space’, ‘Topology’, ‘Intuitionistic Logic’ and ‘Turbulence Studies’)
1
2
Listed In: Scientists
Birthdate: April 25, 1903
Sun Sign: Taurus
Birthplace: Tambov, Russia
Died: October 20, 1987
47
Yury Dud
(Journalist, & YouTuber)
2
1
Listed In: Media Personalities
Birthdate: October 11, 1986
Sun Sign: Libra
Birthplace: Potsdam, Germany
Height: 6'4" (193 cm)
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Ion Iliescu
(Former President of Romania)
3
7
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Ivan Goncharov
(Novelist)
1
0
Listed In: Media Personalities
Birthdate: June 18, 1812
Sun Sign: Gemini
Birthplace: Ulyanovsk, Russia
Died: September 1, 1891
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Kim Kyong-hui
(Military officer)
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