People from Russia
72 people remembered here.
Mikhail Gorbachev1931 – 2022 · Leader of the Soviet UnionIf what you have done yesterday still looks big to you, you haven't done much today.
207 candles · 15 tributes
Nina Popova1945 – 2026 · Actress (theatreSixty years on one Moscow stage, and Zhenya in the first Soviet television serial.
91 candles · 6 tributes
Alexey Vishnevetsky1965 – 2026 · JournalistThe union deputy who said journalism is a duty of responsibility, not a race to be first.
76 candles · 5 tributes
Aleksandr Pashchenko1945 – 2026 · SingerFrom scenery crew to People's Artist, he gave Orenburg nearly 700 roles and his whole heart.
75 candles · 9 tributes
Georgy Matyukhin1934 – 2026 · economistFirst Bank of Russia chairman, who built a two-tier system as the Soviet Union ended.
61 candles · 9 tributes
Tadeusz Kasyanov1938 – 2026 · BoxerBoatswain Matveich and a pioneer of Soviet karate, who taught the fight and staged the stunts.
51 candles · 8 tributes
Natalia Danilova1955 – 2026 · ActressRemembered as Varvara Sinichkina and a Komissarzhevskaya stage mainstay.
48 candles · 5 tributes
Aleksandr Kupriyanov1952 – 2026 · Soviet footballerKuybyshev one-club man, Master of Sport, and Krylia Sovetov's 1,000th league goalscorer.
35 candles · 8 tributes
Sergei Tchepikov1967 – 2026 · BiathleteSix Olympics, two crystal globes, a life on skis and in public service.
18 candles · 7 tributes
David Rigert1947 – 2026 · Weightlifter and coachOlympic champion and record breaker remembered in Russia as the god of the barbell.
10 candles · 1 tributes
Farit Gubaev1951 – 2026 · Photographer and journalistKazan photographer who spent half a century recording the everyday life of Tatarstan.
9 candles · 1 tributes
Mikhail Lipskerov1939 – 2026 · ScreenwriterThe screenwriter behind The Littlest Gnome and The Wolf and the Calf, and a novelist at 68.
9 candles · 1 tributes
Oleg Garin1966 – 2026 · Footballer and coachFar Eastern striker whose goals won Lokomotiv two Russian Cups and a scoring record.
9 candles · 1 tributes
Denis Boytsov1986 – 2026 · Professional boxer (heavyweight)World junior champion and unbeaten heavyweight hope whose career ended in a Berlin tunnel in 2015.
9 candles · 1 tributes
Musa Taimazov1984 – 2026 · Para athleteTokyo Paralympic champion and world record holder who never gave up.
9 candles · 1 tributes
Kirill Gasilin1978 – 2026 · Fashion designerHe taught Russian fashion that the inside of a dress matters as much as the outside.
9 candles · 1 tributes
Yuri Shkuropat1937 – 2026 · Civil engineerA builder who led Irkutsk and helped raise much of the city he served.
8 candles · 1 tributes
Boris Ataev1957 – 2026 · Linguist and Caucasus scholarA son of Khunzakh who gave his life to the Avar language and the languages of Dagestan.
8 candles · 1 tributes
Andrei Doroshkevich1937 – 2026 · Astrophysicist and cosmologistCosmologist who foresaw that the afterglow of the Big Bang could be measured.
8 candles · 1 tributes
Sergei Sarbash1967 – 2026 · Jurist and judgeA judge and scholar who taught Russian lawyers how contracts are kept.
8 candles · 1 tributes
Vladislovas Jonaitis1935 – 2026 · DiplomatLithuanian born diplomat who served Moscow for four decades, from Ho Chi Minh City to Kinshasa to Sydney.
8 candles · 1 tributes
Anatoly Kashpirovsky1939 – 2026 · PsychotherapistLate-Soviet TV psychotherapist whose 1989 health sessions reached millions.
8 candles · 1 tributes
Vsevolod Bogdanov1944 – 2026 · JournalistLong-serving chairman of Russia's Union of Journalists.
8 candles · 1 tributes
Valery Lysenko1961 – 2026 · Drummer and singerHe named Mister Twister and kept Soviet rockabilly swinging for forty years.
7 candles · 1 tributes
Vladimir Dengin1942 – 2026 · ClimberUncle Vova of the Krasnoyarsk Pillars, who climbed, explored and wrote for a lifetime.
7 candles · 1 tributes
Mars Akhmetshin1948 – 2026 · Writer and editorBashkir writer whose stories taught children kindness, honesty and selflessness.
7 candles · 1 tributes
Mujahit Akhmetzyanov1950 – 2026 · Children's poet and teacherTatar children's poet and village schoolmaster who wrote for the young all his life.
7 candles · 1 tributes
Maksim Ovodenko1930 – 2026 · Metallurgical engineerHero of Socialist Labour who rebuilt Samara's aviation metalworks and its workers' town.
7 candles · 1 tributes
Anton Grunis1979 – 2026 · Major generalRussian major general and Hero of Russia killed in occupied Donetsk at 46.
7 candles · 1 tributes
Alexander Romanovich1952 – 2026 · PoliticianA Soviet military interpreter who became a deputy speaker of Russia's State Duma.
7 candles · 1 tributes
Pavel Syutkin1922 – 2026 · Army officer and Second World War veteranA wartime gunner who waited 63 years, and through homelessness, for his Hero's star.
7 candles · 1 tributes
Irina Kostrina1938 – 2026 · Theatre designerPuppet theatre artist who gave the Wolf, the Calf and the Smallest Gnome their faces.
6 candles · 1 tributes
Nikolay Koshman1944 – 2026 · Colonel generalThe railway builder Moscow sent to rebuild Chechnya.
6 candles · 1 tributes
Alexander Sizov1948 – 2026 · PoliticianFrom the motor plant floor to the State Duma, he spent his life serving Yaroslavl.
6 candles · 1 tributes
Andrey Terentyev1982 – 2026 · ActorThe actor who played Spirt in We Are from the Future, and gave Russian screens more than 50 roles.
6 candles · 1 tributes
Larisa Naumova1945 – 2026 · PainterA Crimean-born painter who found the sacred in apples, balconies and ordinary lives.
6 candles · 1 tributes
Gennady Sobolev1935 – 2026 · HistorianLeningrad historian who survived the blockade as a child and spent his life writing its history.
6 candles · 1 tributes
Sergei Predybailov1982 – 2026 · Handball player and coachBeach handball world medallist and Astrakhan winger who scored over 1,000 goals, then taught the game.
6 candles · 1 tributes
Nikolay Tevetkel1937 – 2026 · PoetPeople's Poet of Chuvashia who gave Shakespeare's sonnets to the Chuvash language.
6 candles · 1 tributes
Aleksei Kozlov1935 – 2026 · SaxophonistFounder of Arsenal and a defining voice of Soviet and Russian jazz.
6 candles · 1 tributes
Nikolay Podgornov1949 – 2026 · PoliticianFirst post-Soviet head of Vologda Oblast, from farm director to regional governor.
6 candles · 1 tributes
Yevgeny Chigrin1961 – 2026 · Poet and essayistA poet of islands, music and far horizons whose saddest verses still carried light.
5 candles · 1 tributes
Oleg Kim1949 – 2026 · Basketball coachHonoured Coach of the USSR who built teams in Alma-Ata, Samara and Tula over five decades.
5 candles · 1 tributes
Vladimir Steiskal1927 – 2026 · ArchitectHe drew the neighbourhoods where generations of Muscovites made their homes.
5 candles · 1 tributes
Georgy Sidorov1961 – 2026 · EngineerEngineer and inventor whose cleaner, energy-saving refining methods reached plants across Russia.
5 candles · 1 tributes
Andrei Medvedev1952 – 2026 · ConductorConductor and composer who carried the Leningrad variety orchestra tradition into a new century.
5 candles · 1 tributes