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Famous Russian People

Name famous people whom are from Russia and/or of Russian descent.
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Last updated: April 25, 2022
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First submittedApril 22, 2022
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Communist revolutionary; first leader of the Soviet Union
Vladimir Lenin
Writer of 'War and Peace' and 'Anna Karenina'
Leo Tolstoy
Mathematician and physicist; best known for the pioneering theory of an expanding Universe
Alexander Friedmann
Viewed as Russia's greatest sniper; killed 40 enemy soldiers within a month
Vasily Zaitsev
Pilot and cosmonaut who became the first human to journey into outer space
Yuri Gagarin
Current President of the Russian Federation
Vladimir Putin
Poet and central representative of Romanticism in Russian literature
Alexander Pushkin
Painter and art theorist and significant pioneer of abstraction in art
Wassily Kandinsky
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Last Tsar of Russia; executed by the Bolsheviks
Nicholas II
Chemist and inventor; formulated the Periodic Law
Dmitri Mendeleev
Founded St. Petersburg in 1703 and bore the Russian Navy
Peter the Great
Nearly bankrupted his Empire in the Livonian War; killed his own son
Ivan the Terrible
Self-proclaimed holy man and nightmare for assassins
Grigori Rasputin
Prima ballerina; principal artist of the Imperial Russian Ballet
Anna Pavlova
Eighth and final leader of the Soviet Union
Mikhail Gorbachev
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