People from Russia

68 people remembered here.

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  Shalva Bedoyev

  1940 – 2026 · Painter

  Ossetian-born Russian painter and teacher who became a People's Artist of Russia.

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  Zosima Ostapenko

  1950 – 2026 · Russian Orthodox archbishop

  Russian Orthodox archbishop who rebuilt church life in Kalmykia and later led Solikamsk.

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  Nikolay Velikdan

  1956 – 2026 · Politician and agronomist

  Village agronomist from Sovetskoye Runo who rose to lead the Duma of Stavropol Krai and gave his life to his native land.

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  Sergey Sosedov

  1968 – 2026 · Music critic

  Sharp-tongued Russian music critic and TV talent-show judge whose blunt verdicts defined an era of entertainment television.

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  Vyacheslav Dolgov

  1937 – 2026 · Diplomat

  Career ambassador who carried Russia through the 1990s, then taught a generation at MGIMO.

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  Konstantin Polezhayev

  1972 – 2026 · Russian politician

  Belgorod mayor and housing deputy who rose from road engineer to city leader.

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  Igor Grekhov

  1934 – 2026 · Russian physicist and electrical engineer

  A physicist who helped build Soviet power electronics and kept climbing for forty years.

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  Alexander Danilin

  1960 – 2026 · Psychiatrist

  A Moscow doctor who spent thirteen years talking about the human soul on national radio.

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  Pyotr Starchik

  1938 – 2026 · Bard

  He sang banned poets in small rooms, and no psychiatric ward could silence him.

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  Irina Gensler

  1930 – 2026 · Ballet dancer and teacher

  Kirov character dancer who kept the tradition of national dance alive for generations of students.

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  Viktor Khelemendik

  1934 – 2026 · Journalist

  Journalist and scholar who studied how press, radio and television shape one another.

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  Lyudmila Marts

  1935 – 2026 · Art historian and curator

  She knew Russian sculpture and its sculptors by heart, and gave the Tretyakov its modern collection.

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  Sergey Kucherov

  1980 – 2026 · Track cyclist

  A sprinter of iron will who rode for Russia at two Olympic Games.

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  Yekaterina Dronova

  1957 – 2026 · Actress of theatre

  Fontanka stage artist and Honored Artist of Russia whose character work lit Russian theatre and detective television for decades.

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  Boris Ebzeyev

  1950 – 2026 · Russian constitutional judge and head of Karachay-Cherkessia

  A constitutional judge who helped write Russia's 1993 Constitution.

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  Misha Mavashi

  1985 – 2026 · Rapper

  Rapper of Moya krepost and founder of Northern Man, who urged a generation toward sport and sobriety.

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  Sergey Mikhalyov

  1953 – 2026 · Politician

  Rostov mining engineer and first deputy speaker who helped rescue forty-six trapped miners in 2003.

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  Alisa Aksyonova

  1931 – 2026 · Soviet and Russian museum director

  Museum director who turned Vladimir-Suzdal into a world heritage museum empire and became a Hero of Labour.

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  Yevgeny Sverdlov

  1938 – 2026 · biochemist

  Russian biochemist who led the Institute of Molecular Genetics and shaped a generation of scientists.

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  Aleksey Borovitin

  1954 – 2026 · Ski jumper

  Soviet ski jumper, two-time world championship bronze medallist, Olympian and later coach of Russia's women jumpers.

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