- Nikolay Andreyevich Andreyev[?] (1873 - 1932), sculptor, graphic artist and stage designer
- Mikhail Konstantinovich Anikushin[?] (1917 - ), sculptor
- Mark Zakharovich Shagal (1887 - 1985), painter
- Carl Fabergé (1846 - 1920), jewelery designer
- Isaak Levitan[?] (1860 - 1900), landscape painter
- Vera Ignat'evna Mukhina[?] (1889 - 1953), sculptress
- Alexander O. Nikulin[?] (1878 - 1945), painter
- Andrei Rublev[?] (circa 1360 - 1430), painter
- Valentin Aleksandrovich Serov[?] (1865 - 1911), painter
- Vasily Andreevich Tropinin[?] (1776 - 1857), painter
- Ivan Yakovlevich Vishnyakov[?] (1699 - 1761), painter
- Andrey Bely[?] (1880 - 1934), poet and author
- Isaak Babel, (1894-1940), author
- Mikhail Bulgakov, (1891-1940), playwright and author
- Ivan Alekseyevich Bunin (1870 - 1953), First Russian Nobel Prize Winner
- Anton Chekhov (1860 - 1904), playwright
- Fyodor Dostoyevsky (1821 - 1881), Brothers Karamazov - Crime and Punishment
- Ilya Gregoryevich Ehrenburg[?] (1891 - 1947), novelist and WWII war correspondent
- Nikolai Gogol (1809 - 1852), author, Dead Souls
- Ivan Alexandrovich Goncharov[?] (1812 - 1891), Oblomov[?]
- Maxim Gorky (1868 - 1936)
- Mikhail Yuryevich Lermontov[?] (1814 - 1841), poet, author and painter
- Nikolai Leskov[?] (1831 - 1895), storyteller, novelist, and journalist
- Nikolai Ogaryov[?] (1813 - 1877), author
- Mikhail Vasilyevich Lomonosov (1711 - 1765), linguistic reformer
- Vladimir Nabokov (1899 - 1977), wrote first in Russian, then in English, author of Lolita
- Boris Pasternak (1890 - 1960), refused Nobel Prize, Doctor Zhivago
- Aleksandr Pushkin, (1799 - 1837), Russian poet
- Alexander Radishchev (1749-1802), social critic
- Mikhail Saltykov-Shchedrin, (1826 - 1889), Russian novelist
- Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn (1918 - ), Nobel Prize for Literature
- Leo Tolstoy (1828 - 1910) War and Peace, Anna Karenina
- Yevgeny Zamyatin (1884 - 1937) We
- Mikhail Baryshnikov[?] (1948 - ), ballet dancer
- Sergei Bondarchuk (1920 - 1994), film director
- Boris Bruinov (1922 - 1997), actor
- Serge Diaghilev (1872 - 1929), ballet impresario
- Sergei Eisenstein (1898 - 1948), film director
- Nikita Mikhalkov[?] (1945 - ), actor, director, producer, writer, and politician
- Ivan Novikoff (1899 - 2002), ballet master
- Rudolf Nureyev[?] (1938 - 1993), ballet dancer
- Anna Pavlova (1882 - 1931), ballerina
- Alexander Lukich Ptushko[?] (1882 - 1931), film director
- Konstantin Sergeyevich Stanislavsky[?] (1868 - 1938), actor
- Galina Sergeyevna Ulanova[?] (1910 - 1988), ballerina
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who wrote much of their poetry in the Russian language)
- Anna Akhmatova (1889 - 1966), poet
- Valeri Bryusov[?] (1873 - 1924), poet, novelist, critic
- Denis Davydov[?] (1784 - 1839), poet
- Osip Mandelstam, (1891 - 1938), (also spelt Mandelshtam), Russian poet
- Vladimir Mayakovsky (1893 - 1930), poet
- Aleksandr Pushkin, (1799 - 1837), Russian poet
- Marina Tsvetaeva, (1892 - 1941), Russian poet
- Yevgeny Yevtushenko[?], (1933 - ), Russian novelist
- Zhores Ivanovich Alferov (1930 - ), physicist
- Pyotr Kozmitch Frolov[?], mining engineer and inventor
- Sergey Vladimirovich Ilyushiin[?] (1894 - 1977), aircraft constructor
- Nikolai Kibalchich (1853 - 1881)
- Sergei Pavlovich Korolev (1907 - 1966), rocket engineer and designer, "Father of the space program"
- Alexander Stepanovitch Popov[?] (1859 - 1906), Russia's Marconi
- Alexandr Mikhailovich Prokhorov[?] (1916 - 2002), physicist, Nobel Prize for Physics 1964
- Boris Lwowitsch Rosing[?] (1869 - 1933)
- Igor Ivanovich Sikorsky (1889 - 1972), helicopter and aircraft designer
- Pavel Osipovich Sukhoi (1895 - 1975), aircraft constructor and designer
- Konstantin Eduardovitch Tsiolkovsky, (1857 - 1935), rocket scientist and pioneer of astronautics
- Andrei Nicholayevich Tupolev, (1888 - 1972), aircraft designer and builder
- Vladimir Kosma Zworykin[?] (1899 - 1982), physicist and electrical engineer
- Pavel Ivanovich Belyayev[?] (1925 - 1970), cosmonaut
- Georgi Timofeyevich Beregovoi[?] (1921 - 1995), cosmonaut
- Lev Mikhailovich Dovator[?] (1903 - 1941), WWII general and Hero of the Soviet Union
- Yuri Gagarin (1934 - 1968), pilot and cosmonaut
- Isai Ivanovich Panfilov[?] (1893 - 1941), WWII general and Hero of the Soviet Union
- Victor Vasilyevich Talalikhin[?] (1918 - 1941), WWII lieutentant and Hero of the Soviet Union
- Kliment Yefremovich Voroshilov (1881 - 1969), marshal and politician
- Pyotr Klimentyevich Voroshilov[?] (1914 - 1984), Red Army leader and commander
- Georgi Konstantinovich Zhukov (1896 - 1974), marshal, commander of the general staff of the Red Army
- Alexander Borodin, (1833 - 1887), Russian composer
- Fyodor Ivanovich Chaliapin[?] (1873 - 1938), opera singer, bass
- Cesar Cui (1835 - 1918),
- Valeri Giergev[?]
- Alexander Glazounov (1865–1936), composer
- Reinhold Moritzovich Gliere[?] (1875 - 1956), composer
- Mikhail Glinka (1804 - 1857), composer of Russlan and Ludmilla[?]
- Nicolai Golovanov[?], conductor
- Emil Grygoryevich Gilels[?] (1916 - 1985), pianist
- Dmitry Borisovich Kabalevsky[?] (1904 - 1987)
- Aram Ilyich Katchaturian (1903 - 1978)
- Kyril Kondrashin[?], conductor
- Leonid Kogan[?] (1924 - 1982), violinist
- Viktoria Mullova[?], violinist
- Modest Mussorgsky (1839 - 1881), composer of Boris Godunov
- David Oistrakh (1908 - 1974), violinist
- Igor Davidovich Oistrakh[?] (1931 - ), violinist
- Sergei Prokofiev (1891 - 1953), composer
- Sergei Rachmaninov (1873 - 1943),
- Sviatoslav Richter (1915 - 1997), pianist
- Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov (1844 - 1908),
- Mstislav Rostropovich (1927 - ), cellist and conductor
- Nikolai Grigoryevich Rubinstein[?] (1835 - 1881), pianist, conductor and composer
- Alexander Nikolayevich Scriabin[?] (1871 - 1915), composer and pianist
- Dmitri Shostakovich (1906 - 1975), composer
- Igor Stravinsky, (1882 - 1971), Russian
- Sergey Taneyev[?] (1856 - 1915), composer
- Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (1840 - 1893), composer
- Grigory Vasilyevich[?] (1915 - 1998), composer
- Yuri Vladimirovich Andropov, (1914 - 1984), General Secretary November 12, 1982 - February 9, 1984
- Nikolai Ivanovich Bukharin, (1888 - 1938), Bolshevik Leader
- Konstantin Ustinovich Chernenko, (1911 - 1985), Soviet general secretary
- Boris Godunov (1551 - 1605), tzar
- Mikhail Gorbachev (1931 - ), liberator, Nobel Prize winner
- Andrei Andreyevich Gromyko[?] (1908 - 1989), "Cold War" Foreign Minister
- Nikita Khrushchev, (1894 - 1971), Soviet general secretary
- Vladimir Lenin, (1870 - 1924), first Soviet leader
- Vladimir Putin (1952 - )
- Joseph Stalin, (1879 - 1953), (a pseudonym) - Soviet leader
- Boris Yeltsin, (1931 - ), President of Russia 1991-1999
- Ivan III of Russia, (1440-1505), (Ivan the Great)
- Ivan IV of Russia, (1530 - 1584), Russian Czar
- Peter I of Russia, (1672 - 1725), czar of Russia
- Alexander I of Russia, (1777 - 1825), Russian, Polish ruler
- Alexander II of Russia (1818 - 1881)
- Alexander III of Russia (1845 - 1894)
- Alexandra of Russia (1872 - 1918)
- Princess Brassova (1880 - 1952)
- Nicholas I of Russia, (1825-1831), Tsar
- Nicholas II of Russia (1868 - 1918)
- Anastasia Nicolaievna Romanova (1901 - 1918)
- Maria Nicolaievna Romanova (1899 - 1918)
- Marie Fyodorovna Romanova (1848 - 1928)
- Olga Nicolaievna Romanova (1895 - 1918)
- Olga Alexandrovna Romanova (1882 - 1960)
- Tatiana Nicolaievna Romanova (1897 - 1918)
- Mikhail Alexandrovich Romanov[?], Grand Duke
- Aleksey I of Russia (1629 - 1676)
- Catherine I of Russia, (1683 - 1727), Russian tsarina
- Peter III of Russia, (1728 - 1762), czar of Russia
- Catherine II of Russia, (1729 - 1796), Russia
- Paul I of Russia
- Alexius Petrovich (1690 - 1718)
- Pafnuti Lvovich Chebyshev (1821 - 1894), mathematician
- Pavel Alekseyevich Cherenkov (1904 - 1990), physicist
- Il'ja Mikhailovich Frank[?] (1908 - 1990), physicist
- Alexander Naumovich Frumkin[?] (1895 - 1976), electrochemist
- Vladimir Mikhailovich Komarov (1927 - 1967), cosmonaut
- Sofia Vasilyevna Kovalevskaya, (1850-1891), mathematician
- Lev Davidovich Landau (1908 - 1968), physicist and mathematician
- Aleksandr Mikhailovich Lyapunov (1857 - 1918), mathematician
- Leonid Isaakovich Mandelshtam (1879 - 1944), physicist
- Andrei Andreevich Markov (1856 - 1922), mathematician
- Dmitri Mendeleev (1834 - 1907), chemist, creator of the Periodic Table of Elements
- Gennadi Nevelskoi, captain and navigator
- Igor Dmitrievich Novikov (1935 - ), theoretical astrophysicist and cosmologist
- Ivan Pavlov (1849 - 1936), physician and physiologist
- Nikolay Nikolayevich Semyonov[?], physicist and chemist, Nobel Prize for Chemistry
- Iosif Samuilovich Shklovsky[?] (1916 - 1985), astronomer and astrophysicist
- Yulian Vasilievich Sokhotski (1842 - 1927), mathematician
- Vladimir Andreevich Steklov (1863 - 1926) , physicist and mathematician
- Igor Yevgenyevich Tamm (1895 - 1971), physicist
- Yakov Borisovich Zel'dovich[?] (1914 - 1987), physicist, astrophysicist and cosmologist
See also: List of people by nationality