List of Famous people born in Russia

Ruslan Koryan is an Armenian professional footballer who plays as either a striker or attacking midfielder for FC Kyzylzhar.

Galina Ackerman or usually Galia Ackerman is a French-Russian writer, historian, journalist, translator, researcher at the University of Caen, specializing on Ukraine and Post-Soviet states. She was also a translator for slain Russian journalist Anna Politkovskaya.

Igor Andreyevich Kobzar is a Kirgiz-born Russian volleyball player. He is a member of the Russia men's national volleyball team and Russian club Zenit Saint Petersburg.

Oleg Viktorovich Petrov is a Russian former ice hockey right winger. He played in the National Hockey League between 1992 and 2003.

Vyacheslav Mikhailovich Podberyozkin is a Russian professional football player who plays for FC Ural Yekaterinburg. He primarily plays as an attacking midfielder and also played as a winger, wide midfielder or central midfielder.

Oleg Leonidovich Kosarev, known as The Elevator Man, is a Soviet-Russian serial rapist, pedophile and robber. He has been sentenced to long terms of imprisonment, the last one being in 2012. According to his own claims, during his criminal career he committed at least 140 rapes, of which more than 40 were proven in court.

Viktor Vladimirovich Yerofeyev is a Russian writer. As son of a high-ranking Soviet diplomat Vladimir Yerofeyev, he spent some of his childhood in Paris, which accounts for why much of his work has been translated from Russian into French, while comparatively little has been translated into English. His father, who was the interpreter for Molotov in the 1940s, wrote a book of memories; his brother is a curator at the Tretyakov Gallery.

Yuliya Ilinichna Rutberg is a Soviet and Russian stage and film actress, and People's Artist of the Russian Federation (2016). She is a Laureate of the Russian theatre awards.

Metropolitan Korniliy, secular name Konstantin Ivanovich Titov ; born August 1, 1947, in Orekhovo-Zuyevo, Moscow Oblast, Soviet Union is a Russian Orthodox Old-Rite Church bishop; Metropolitan of Moscow and All Rus, Primate of the Russian Orthodox Old-Rite Church.

Tatyana Vladimirovna Yerokhina is a Russian handball goalkeeper born on 7 September 1984. She plays for the club Lada Togliatti. As a member of the Russian national team, she competed at the 2015 World Women's Handball Championship and 2016 Summer Olympics, winning a gold medal in the latter.