1 Mikhail Gorbachev
2011
Listed In: Leaders
Famous As: Former General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union
Birthdate: March 2, 1931
Sun Sign: Pisces
Birthplace: Privolnoye, Russia
Height: 5'9" (175 cm)
2 Sergey Brin
493
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Famous As: Computer scientist
Birthdate: August 21, 1973
Sun Sign: Leo
Birthplace: Moscow
Height: 5'8" (173 cm)
3 Anton Chekhov
193
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Famous As: Playwright, Short-story writer
Birthdate: January 29, 1860
Sun Sign: Aquarius
Birthplace: Taganrog, Russia
Died: July 15, 1904
4 Lev Vygotsky
310
Listed In: Intellectuals & Academics
Famous As: Psychologist
Birthdate: November 17, 1896
Sun Sign: Scorpio
Birthplace: Orsha
Died: June 11, 1934
5 Katerina Tikhonova
222
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Sun Sign: Virgo
Birthplace: Dresden, Germany
6 Alisher Usmanov
40
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Sun Sign: Virgo
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7 Anna Chapman
21
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Famous As: Media Personality
Birthdate: February 23, 1982
Sun Sign: Pisces
Birthplace: Volgograd, Russia
Height: 5'7" (170 cm)
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10 Tony Hoare
20
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12 Boris Berezovsky
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14 Oleg Deripaska
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17 Georgy Lvov
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18 Eugene Kaspersky
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19 Margarita Louis-Dreyfus
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20 Irina Baeva
00
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40
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22 Kim Kyong-hui
00
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23 L. L. Zamenhof
00
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32 Vladimir Pozner Jr.
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33 Imre Lakatos
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34 Alexander Herzen
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41 Marina Granovskaia
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42 Yevgeny Primakov
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