List of Famous people born in Russia
Andrei Mostovoy
Andrei Andreyevich Mostovoy is a Russian football player. He plays for FC Zenit Saint Petersburg.
Andrey Myagkov
Andrey Vasilyevich Myagkov (Russian: Андрей Васильевич Мягков; is a Soviet/Russian film and theater actor. He is best known for his roles in famous films directed by Eldar Ryazanov, such as The Irony of Fate, Office Romance, The Garage and A Cruel Romance.
Emilia Schüle
Emilia Schüle is a Russian-born German actress.
Vladimir Komarov
Vladimir Mikhaylovich Komarov was a Soviet test pilot, aerospace engineer, and cosmonaut. In October 1964, he commanded Voskhod 1, the first spaceflight to carry more than one crew member. He became the first Soviet cosmonaut to fly in space twice when he was selected as the solo pilot of Soyuz 1, its first crewed test flight. A parachute failure caused his Soyuz capsule to crash into the ground after re-entry on 24 April 1967, making him the first human to die in a space flight.
Valery Kipelov
Valery Alexandrovich Kipelov is a Russian musician and composer who was the vocalist and a founding member of heavy metal band Aria. Since 2002, Kipelov leads his own metal band, Kipelov.
Tatyana Vasileva
Tatyana Grigoryevna Vasilyeva is a Soviet and Russian theater and film actress, and TV presenter. She has appeared in more than seventy films since 1969. She was named a People's Artist of the Russian Federation in 1992.
Vitaly Zdorovetskiy
Vitaly Zdorovetskiy, better known by his YouTube username VitalyzdTv, is a Russian born-American YouTube personality, content creator and website owner. Zdorovetskiy's YouTube videos, as of November 2019, have reached over 1.7 billion views and over 10 million subscribers, while his vlog channel has more than 270 million views and 2.0 million subscribers.
Kostya Tszyu
Konstantin Borisovich "Kostya" Tszyu is a Soviet-born Australian former professional boxer who competed from 1992 to 2005. He held multiple light-welterweight world championships, including the undisputed and lineal titles between 2001 and 2005. Tszyu was an exceptional all-around boxer-puncher who relied heavily on accuracy and timing, and carried formidable punching power; he is often regarded as one of the hardest-punching light-welterweights in the division's history.
Vyacheslav Dobrynin
Vyacheslav Grigoryevich Dobrynin is a popular Russian composer and singer also known as Doctor Shlyager. He was awarded the People's Artist of Russia in 1996.'
Alexander Shlemenko
Alexander Pavlovich Shlemenko is a Russian mixed martial artist currently fighting in the Middleweight division for Bellator Fighting Championships. Alexander is an expert in hand-to-hand combat and traditional Kickboxing. He trains at the "Saturn Profi" sports club in Omsk, Russia, and holds a degree in Physical Culture at the Siberian University of Physical Culture. Shlemenko is ranked as the #8 Middleweight in the world by Fight!Magazine and #22 Middleweight according to global-mma.com rankings.