Россия
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Россия — деятели с русскими и советскими корнями
Эта страница документирует 65 выдающихся деятелей, связанных со страной Россия, чьи биографии связаны с Российской империей, Советским Союзом или государствами-преемниками — через рождение, происхождение родителей или более раннюю родословную. Каждый профиль снабжён источниками и фиксирует конкретное происхождение и связь.
Александр Грищук
Moscow's fearless blitz king and three-time Candidates finalist
Алексей Навальный
Russia's most prominent dissident, martyred for truth.
Андрей Сахаров
Physicist and Nobel Peace laureate (1975), born in Moscow
Анна Чапман
Russia's most glamorous Cold War ghost
Даниил Дубов
Moscow chess prodigy who became world rapid chess champion and Magnus Carlsen's second
Даниил Квят
Ufa-born Formula 1 driver with three Grand Prix podiums
Данила Козловский
Russia's most celebrated young actor and director, famous in Russia and globally for Vampire Academy
Евгений Касперский
Cybersecurity expert born in Novorossiysk in 1965; co-founder in 1997 and chief executive since 2007 of Kaspersky Lab
Джордж Блейк
Dutch-British double agent who spied for the KGB and became one of the Cold War's most notorious moles
Ян Непомнящий
Bryansk-born chess prodigy and two-time World Chess Championship Challenger
Игорь Акинфеев
CSKA Moscow goalkeeper since 2003 and Russia's most capped goalkeeper, with 111 caps
Илья Сегалович
Gorky (Nizhny Novgorod)-born co-founder and CTO of Yandex
Казимир Малевич
Painter and theorist born in Kiev; founder of Suprematism and painter of the Black Square
Константин Хабенский
Leningrad-born actor who starred in Night Watch and became the face of modern Russian cinema internationally
Лев Ландау
Theoretical physicist born in Baku; Nobel Prize in Physics (1962)
Людвиг Фаддеев
Leningrad mathematical physicist who solved the three-body problem and transformed quantum field theory
Мария Бутина
Barnaul-born Russian operative who infiltrated the NRA and US Republican circles — imprisoned then deported
Никита Мазепин
Moscow-born Formula 1 driver, son of billionaire Dmitry Mazepin — lost his F1 seat after Russia's Ukraine invasion
Павел Буре
Moscow-born NHL winger nicknamed the Russian Rocket, Hockey Hall of Fame 2012
Пётр Свидлер
Leningrad-born chess grandmaster — eight-time Russian Chess Champion and Candidates stalwart
Пётр Бадмаев
Born a Buryat Buddhist in Siberia — became Tsar's personal physician, geopolitical adviser, and Russia's most exotic figure
Регина Тодоренко
Odessa-born presenter who became one of Russia's most popular TV hosts — now in exile
Светлана Ходченкова
Moscow-born actress who played Viper in The Wolverine and became Russia's most internationally recognised star
Илья Варламов
Russia's most popular urban blogger who fled to exile after opposing the Ukraine war
Виктор Пелевин
Born in Moscow — Russia's most mysterious and celebrated contemporary novelist
Виктор Цой
Leningrad rock idol with Korean roots — the voice of Soviet youth who died at 28 and became a cult god
Владимир Спиваков
Born in Ufa to a family of musicians — founded the Moscow Virtuosi and became Russia's most beloved conductor
Евгений Кафельников
Sochi-born tennis player — first Russian to win a Grand Slam singles title and a former World No. 1
Александр Солженицын
Writer born in Kislovodsk; Nobel Prize in Literature (1970)
Вадим Мошкович
Moscow-born founder of the Russian agricultural group Rusagro
Михаил Шелков
Main owner of VSMPO-AVISMA, the world's third-largest producer of titanium sponge
Дмитрий Пумпянский
Ural industrialist; chairman of Sinara Group and builder of the pipe maker TMK
Вагит Алекперов
Born in Baku — founded LUKOIL, Russia's largest private oil company, and became one of the world's richest men
Владимир Потанин
Born in Moscow — controls Norilsk Nickel, the world's largest producer of nickel and palladium
Алексей Мордашов
Born in Cherepovets — controls Severstal, Russia's most efficient steelmaker, and was the majority shareholder of TUI travel group
Татьяна Бакальчук
Founded Wildberries from her Moscow apartment while on maternity leave — built the largest e-commerce platform in Russia
Людвиг Кноп
The Bremen apprentice who became the Russian Empire's cotton baron
Иммануил Нобель
The Swede who armed the Tsar's navy and fathered a dynasty
Людвиг Нобель
Built Russian oil, and his death created the Nobel Prize
Роберт Нобель
Sent to buy walnut wood, bought an oil refinery instead
Мариус Петипа
The Frenchman who created Russian classical ballet
Леонард Эйлер
The greatest mathematician of the age spent most of his life in Saint Petersburg
Георг Вильгельм Стеллер
The naturalist whose name is on half the North Pacific's wildlife
Витус Беринг
The Dane who mapped the gap between Asia and America for Russia
Пётр Карл Фаберже
Jeweller to the Romanovs, died stateless in Lausanne
Бартоломео Растрелли
Paris-born architect who gave Saint Petersburg its face
Джон Филд
The Irishman who invented the nocturne, in Russia
Савва Морозов
Textile magnate who bankrolled the theatre and the revolutionaries
Этьен Морис Фальконе
Sculpted the Bronze Horseman, Russia's defining monument
Карл Фёдорович фон Мекк
Baltic German engineer who built Russia's railways
Надежда Филаретовна фон Мекк
Tchaikovsky's patron for thirteen years, by correspondence only
Чарльз Камерон
Scottish architect of the imperial summer palaces
Огюст Монферран
Forty years building one cathedral in Saint Petersburg
Борис Семёнович Якоби
Invented electrotyping and the electric boat, in Russia
Франц Лефорт
The Genevan who became Peter the Great's closest advisor
Василий Гроссман
Born in Berdichev, author of Life and Fate — the novel the KGB confiscated in 1961
Абрам Ганнибал
African-born godson of Peter the Great who became a Russian general-in-chief and military engineer; great-grandfather of Alexander Pushkin
Александр Пушкин
Russia's national poet, born in Moscow; great-grandson of the African-born general Abram Gannibal
Лили Голден
Soviet historian of Africa born in Tashkent to an African-American agronomist and a Jewish mother; mother of Yelena Khanga
Елена Ханга
Moscow-born journalist and TV host, granddaughter of African-American agronomists who moved to Soviet Uzbekistan in 1931
Мирра Андреева
Tennis player born in Krasnoyarsk in 2007; 2026 French Open champion, the youngest since 1992, and Olympic doubles silver medallist
Иосиф (Евзель) Гинцбург
Banker born in Vitebsk in 1812, founder of the Günzburg bank in St Petersburg and of the Society for the Promotion of Culture among the Jews of Russia; died in Paris
Рафаэль Потеляхов
Bukharan Jewish merchant of the first guild in Kokand, one of the largest suppliers of Central Asian cotton to Russian industry; later lived in Berlin and London
Николай Бернштейн
Physiologist born in Moscow in 1896 who founded the modern study of motor control and biomechanics, posing the 'degrees-of-freedom problem'
Юрий Кнорозов
Soviet linguist born in Kharkov in 1922 whose phonetic reading of Maya hieroglyphs, published in 1952, opened the way to their decipherment