Stats: Top 70 most important and famous people from Russia

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Hint	Answer	% Correct
President from 2000 to 2008 and since 2012	Vladimir Putin	93%
Leader of the Revolution, head of government of Soviet Russia from 1917 to 1924	Vladimir Lenin	91%
Writer, author of War and Peace and Anna Karenina	Leo Tolstoy	89%
Final leader of the Soviet Union from 1985 to the country's dissolution in 1991	Mikhail Gorbachev	86%
King, considered the unifier of Russia	Ivan III	85%
The First Tsar, who launched the Massacre of Novgorod	Ivan the Terrible	85%
Novelist, author of Crime and Punishment, The Idiot and The Brothers Karamazov	Fyodor Dostoevsky	84%
Composer of Swan Lake and The Nutcracker	Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky	80%
Mystic and self-proclaimed holy man known for having befriended with the royal family of the last Emperor of Russia	Grigori Rasputin	79%
Empress, key figure of renaissance of culture and sciences, and led to the founding of many new cities, universities, and theatres	Catherine the Great	76%
The first human to journey into outer space	Yuri Gagarin	76%
First president of the Russian Federation from 1991 to 1999	Boris Yeltsin	75%
Chemist known for formulating the Periodic Law and creating a version of the periodic table of elements	Dmitri Mendeleev	75%
The last Tsar	Nicholas II of Russia	75%
Leader of Soviet Union from 1953 to 1964 who stunned the communist world with his denunciation of his predecessor Joseph Stalin's crimes	Nikita Khrushchev	73%
Tsar, key figure of the modernisation of the country, transforming it into a European power	Peter the Great	73%
Tennis player, winner of US Open in 2021	Daniil Medvedev	67%
President from 2008 to 2012	Dmitry Medvedev	67%
Writer, author of Lolita	Vladimir Nabokov	67%
The greatest Russian poet and the founder of modern Russian literature, author of Boris Godunov	Alexander Pushkin	66%
Physiologist known for his discovery of classical conditioning through his experiments with dogs, winner of Nobel Prize in Medicine in 1904	Ivan Pavlov	64%
Tsar of the emancipation of Russia's serfs in 1861, for which he is known as the Liberator	Alexander II	59%
Marshal who organized the defense of Leningrad, Moscow, and Stalingrad. He participated in planning several major offensives, including the Battle of Kursk and the Battle of Berlin	Georgy Zhukov	57%
Writer, author of Doctor Zhivago, winner of the Nobel Prize in literature in 1958	Boris Pasternak	55%
Playwright one of the key figures in the birth of early modernism	Anton Chekhov	52%
Painter credited as one of the pioneers of abstraction in western art	Wassily Kandinsky	52%
One of the most important and influential composers of the XX century and a pivotal figure in modernist music	Igor Stravinsky	51%
Oligarch and politician. The former owner of Chelsea	Roman Abramovich	50%
Writer, author of The Gulag Archipelago	Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn	49%
Writer, author of The Master and Margarita	Mikhail Bulgakov	49%
Composer known for the premiere of his First Symphony in 1926 and was regarded throughout his life as one of the greatest composers of XX century	Dmitri Shostakovich	47%
Female tennis player, winner of 5 Grand Slam titles	Maria Sharapova	47%
Writer, known for his hard science fiction stories	Isaac Asimov	46%
Footballer, goalkeeper who won the Ballon d'Or in 1963	Lev Yashin	46%
The first woman to journey into outer space	Valentina Tereshkova	46%
Director of the Ivan's Childhood, Solaris, Mirror and Stalker	Andrei Tarkovsky	45%
Composer of The Love for Three Oranges, Lieutenant Kijé, the ballet Romeo and Juliet and Peter and the Wolf	Sergei Prokofiev	45%
Composer and one of the best pianists of early XX century	Sergei Rachmaninoff	43%
Opposition leader and activist against current government	Alexei Navalny	42%
Composer of Flight of the Bumblebee and Scheherazade	Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov	42%
Actor famous for his roles in The Ten Commandments, Anastasia and The Magnificent Seven. Winner of Academy Award in 1957	Yul Brynner	39%
Writer, author of A Sportsman's Sketches, a milestone of Russian realism and Fathers and Sons	Ivan Turgenev	37%
Leading figure in the Soviet government from the 1920s. He served as Minister of Foreign Affairs from 1939 to 1949	Vyacheslav Molotov	37%
One of the greatest medieval painters of Orthodox Christian icons and frescos	Andrei Rublev	36%
Field Marshal who defeated Napoleon using attrition warfare in the Patriotic war of 1812	Mikhail Kutuzov	35%
Russian-French painter, early modernist, he was associated with several major artistic styles	Marc Chagall	34%
Painter of Barge Haulers on the Volga and Religious Procession in Kursk Province	Ilya Repin	30%
Ice hockey player of Washington Capitals, one of the greatest goal scorers of all time	Alexander Ovechkin	29%
Nuclear physicist, dissident and activist for nuclear disarmament, peace, and human rights. Winner of Nobel Peace Prize in 1975	Andrei Sakharov	29%
Polymath of XVIII century who made important contributions to literature, education and science. His famous discoveries were the atmosphere of Venus and the law of conservation of mass in chemical reactions	Mikhail Lomonosov	29%
Composer of In the Steppes of Central Asia and Prince Igor	Alexander Borodin	28%
Miner became a celebrity in 1935 as part of a campaign intended to increase worker productivity and to demonstrate the superiority of the socialist economic system	Alexei Stakhanov	28%
Scientist, one of the founding fathers of modern rocketry and astronautics	Konstantin Tsiolkovsky	27%
Novelist, author of And Quiet Flows the Don, winner of Nobel Prize in literature in 1965	Mikhail Sholokhov	27%
Painter considered one of the greatest masters of marine art	Ivan Aivazovsky	24%
Prince of the Russian Empire and the last Generalissimo of the Russian Empire, considered one of the greatest military commanders in Russian history and one of the great generals of the early modern period	Alexander Suvorov	23%
Female poet, author of Requiem, her tragic masterpiece about the Stalinist terror	Anna Akhmatova	23%
Writer, the greatest figure in Russian Romanticism	Mikhail Lermontov	23%
One of the greatest female ballet dancers of all time	Maya Plisetskaya	22%
Prime Minister from 1906 to 1911, considered the greatest reformer of Russian society and economy, his reforms caused unprecedented growth of the Russian state, which was stopped by his assassination	Pyotr Stolypin	22%
Painter the most important artist in Russian Symbolist tradition and a pioneering figure of Modernist art	Mikhail Vrubel	18%
Two times winner of Olympic gold medal, considered the greatest female pole-vaulter of all time	Yelena Isinbayeva	18%
Painter of The Last Day of Pompeii	Karl Bryullov	16%
Philosopher, the father of Russian Marxism	Georgi Plekhanov	15%
The main Russian Symbolist composer and a major representative of the Russian Silver Age	Alexander Scriabin	14%
Mathematician known primarily for his work on hyperbolic geometry	Nikolai Lobachevsky	14%
Philosopher and revolutionary who advocated anarcho-communism	Peter Kropotkin	14%
Philosopher, utopian socialist and leading theoretician of Russian nihilism	Nikolay Chernyshevsky	12%
Philosopher, played a significant role in the development of Russian philosophy and poetry at the end of the XIX century and in the spiritual renaissance of the early XX century	Vladimir Solovyov	8%
Gymnast, he held the record for men for the most Olympic medals at 15 until Michael Phelps surpassed him	Nikolai Andrianov	7%

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