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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)
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Anton Chekhov
(One of the Greatest Writers of All Time)
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Listed In: Writers
Birthdate: January 29, 1860
Sun Sign: Aquarius
Birthplace: Taganrog, Russia
Died: July 15, 1904
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Wassily Kandinsky
(Russian Painter, Art Theorist and a Pioneer in Abstract Art)
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5
Listed In: Artists & Painters
Birthdate: December 16, 1866
Sun Sign: Sagittarius
Birthplace: Moscow, Russia
Died: December 13, 1944
Height: 6'2" (188 cm)
4
Evgenia Medvedeva
(Former Competitive Russian Figure Skater)
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2
Listed In: Sportspersons
Birthdate: November 19, 1999
Sun Sign: Scorpio
Birthplace: Moscow, Russia
Height: 5'3" (160 cm)
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Lev Vygotsky
(Psychologist)
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2
Listed In: Intellectuals & Academics
Birthdate: November 17, 1896
Sun Sign: Scorpio
Birthplace: Orsha, Belarus
Died: June 11, 1934
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Katerina Tikhonova
(The Second Daughter of Russian President Vladimir Putin)
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Saule Omarova
(Lawyer)
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0
Listed In: Lawyers & Judges
Birthdate: November 2, 1966
Sun Sign: Scorpio
Birthplace: West Kazakhstan Province, Kazakhstan
8
Anna Chapman
(Media Personality)
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4
Listed In: Fashion
Birthdate: February 23, 1982
Sun Sign: Pisces
Birthplace: Volgograd, Russia
Height: 5'7" (170 cm)
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Andrey Melnichenko
(Industrialist)
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2
Listed In: Miscellaneous
Birthdate: March 8, 1972
Sun Sign: Pisces
Birthplace: Gomel, Belarus
Height: 5'9" (175 cm)
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Oleg Deripaska
(Entrepreneur, Investor, Businessperson)
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2
Listed In: Miscellaneous
Birthdate: January 2, 1968
Sun Sign: Capricorn
Birthplace: Dzerzhinsk, Nizhny Novgorod Oblast, Russian SFSR
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Andrei Sakharov
(Soviet Nuclear Physicist, Dissident and Winner of the 1975 Nobel Prize for Peace)
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2
Listed In: Activists
Birthdate: May 21, 1921
Sun Sign: Gemini
Birthplace: Moscow, Russia
Died: December 14, 1989
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Tony Hoare
(Computer scientist)
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0
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Ivan Turgenev
(Novelist, Short Story Writer, Poet & Popularizer of Russian Literature in the West)
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1
Listed In: Writers
Birthdate: November 9, 1818
Sun Sign: Scorpio
Birthplace: Oryol, Russia
Died: September 3, 1883
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Mahmoud Darwish
(Poet)
14
3
Listed In: Activists
Birthdate: March 13, 1941
Sun Sign: Pisces
Birthplace: Al-Birwa
Died: August 9, 2008
15
Margarita Louis-Dreyfus
(Businesswoman)
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2
Listed In: Business People
Birthdate: July 1, 1962
Sun Sign: Cancer
Birthplace: Saint Petersburg, Russia
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Irina Abramovich
(Roman Abramovich's Ex-Wife)
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0
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Raisa Gorbacheva
(Russian Activist and Wife of the Former President of the Soviet Union ‘Mikhail Gorbachev’)
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5
Listed In: Miscellaneous
Birthdate: January 5, 1932
Sun Sign: Capricorn
Birthplace: Rubtsovsk, Russia
Died: September 20, 1999
18
Georgy Lvov
(8th Prime Minister of Russia (March 1917 - July 1917))
1
0
Listed In: Leaders
Birthdate: November 2, 1861
Sun Sign: Scorpio
Birthplace: Dresden, Germany
Died: March 7, 1925
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L. L. Zamenhof
(Linguist, Ophthalmologist, Inventor, Poet, Translator, Esperantist, Physician, Writer, Bible translator)
1
0
Listed In: Intellectuals & Academics
Birthdate: December 15, 1859
Sun Sign: Sagittarius
Birthplace: Białystok
Died: April 14, 1917
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Irina Baeva
(Model)
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0
Listed In: Fashion
Birthdate: October 25, 1992
Sun Sign: Scorpio
Birthplace: Moscow, Russia
Height: 5'5" (165 cm)
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Sergei Yesenin
(One of the Most Popular Russian Lyric Poets of the 20th Century)
1
0
Listed In: Writers
Birthdate: October 3, 1895
Sun Sign: Libra
Birthplace: Konstantinovo, Russia
Died: December 28, 1925
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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
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Julia Apostoli
(Tennis player)
1
0
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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
Eugene Kaspersky
(computer scientist, programmer, inventor)
1
1
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Elvira Nabiullina
(Chairwoman of the Bank of Russia since 2013, Former Minister of Economic Development of Russia)
1
0
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John Dramani Mahama
(President of Ghana)
11
1
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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)
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Anna Politkovskaya
(Russian Journalist and Human Rights Activist)
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4
Listed In: Media Personalities
Birthdate: August 30, 1958
Sun Sign: Virgo
Birthplace: New York, New York, United States
Died: October 7, 2006
30
Marina Granovskaia
(Director)
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Roman Jakobson
(Linguist)
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0
Listed In: Intellectuals & Academics
Birthdate: October 11, 1896
Sun Sign: Libra
Birthplace: Moscow
Died: July 18, 1982
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Yuri Bezmenov
(Journalist)
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1
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Vasily Grossman
(Writer)
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0
Listed In: Writers
Birthdate: December 12, 1905
Sun Sign: Sagittarius
Birthplace: Berdychiv, Ukraine
Died: September 14, 1964
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Vladimir Zhirinovsky
(Member of the State Duma since 1993)
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1
Listed In: Lawyers & Judges
Birthdate: April 25, 1946
Sun Sign: Taurus
Birthplace: Almaty, Kazakhstan
Height: 5'9" (175 cm)
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Alexander Ostrovsky
(Playwright)
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0
Listed In: Writers
Birthdate: April 12, 1823
Sun Sign: Aries
Birthplace: Moscow, Russia
Died: June 14, 1886
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Lyubov Sobol
(Russian Political Leader and Lawyer)
3
1
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Sergei Bodrov Jr.
(Russian Actor Who Died While Filming Due to a Ice-Slide in Kolka Glacier )
1
0
Listed In: Film & Theater Personalities
Birthdate: December 27, 1971
Sun Sign: Capricorn
Birthplace: Moscow, Russia
Died: September 20, 2002
Height: 5'9" (175 cm)
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Jang Song-thaek
(Former Minister of the State Security Department)
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4
Listed In: Leaders
Birthdate: January 22, 1946
Sun Sign: Aquarius
Birthplace: Chongjin, Northern Korea
Died: December 12, 2013
39
Dmitry Rogozin
(Russian Politician and Former Director General of Roscosmos (2018 - 2022))
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0
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Ivan Ilyin
(Philosopher, Opinion journalist)
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0
Listed In: Miscellaneous
Birthdate: April 9, 1883
Sun Sign: Aries
Birthplace: Moscow, Russian Empire
Died: December 21, 1954
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Vsevolod Meyerhold
(One of the Seminal Forces in Modern International Theatre Executed Due to His Experiments Dealing Symbolism )
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1
Listed In: Film & Theater Personalities
Birthdate: February 9, 1874
Sun Sign: Aquarius
Birthplace: Penza, Russia
Died: February 2, 1940
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Lev Shestov
(Former existentialist and religious philosopher best known for his critiques of both philosophic rationalism and scientism)
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1
Listed In: Intellectuals & Academics
Birthdate: February 12, 1866
Sun Sign: Aquarius
Birthplace: Kyiv, Ukraine
Died: November 19, 1938
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Dariga Nazarbayeva
(Politician)
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0
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Nadezhda Tolokonnikova
(Singer)
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2
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Yury Dud
(Journalist, & YouTuber)
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0
Listed In: Media Personalities
Birthdate: October 11, 1986
Sun Sign: Libra
Birthplace: Potsdam, Germany
Height: 6'4" (193 cm)
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Kim Yong-ju
(Politician)
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0
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Ion Iliescu
(Former President of Romania)
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7
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Kim Kyong-hui
(Military officer)
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3
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Vladimir Voevodsky
(Mathematician)
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0
Listed In: Scientists
Birthdate: June 4, 1966
Sun Sign: Gemini
Birthplace: Moscow, Russia
Died: September 30, 2017
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Varlam Shalamov
(Writer)
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1
Listed In: Writers
Birthdate: June 18, 1907
Sun Sign: Gemini
Birthplace: Vologda, Russia
Died: January 17, 1982
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