List of Famous people born in Russia

Igor Grivennikov is a Russian former swimmer who competed in the 1972 Summer Olympics and won a silver in the 4 × 100 m freestyle relay.

Vladimir Vasilievich Krikunov is retired Soviet and Russian ice hockey player and former head coach of team Russia. He is currently a coach of the KHL club Dynamo Moscow. As a player Krikunov played for Dinamo Riga and Krylya Sovetov Moscow. During his coaching career he coached Dynamo Moscow and Team Russia. He won Russian championships as a coach in 2004/2005 season, bronze medal at world championships and lead Russian team in 2006 winter olympics.

Sergei Andreyevich Petrov is a Russian football player. He plays as a right-back or left-back for FC Krasnodar.

Maria Fominykh is a Russian Woman Grandmaster (WGM) (2017).

Galina Khomchik is a Russian singer, acoustic guitarist and pianist, a prominent figure of the country's modern folk/bard movement. Khomchik, the three Soviet bard festivals' laureate and a XX Workers' Festival's golden medal winner. A popular radio and TV presenter, she was the author of the TV series I'll Sing To You and Let's Fill With Music... and filmed an eight-part TV film on the history of the bard movement in the USSR. Khomchik is known also as director and producer of many musical videos, including those of the pop bard Oleg Mityaev. Both on her own and as a member of an all-star project Songs of Our Century she toured Europe, Australia, Israel and USA

Igor Leonidovich Volgin is a Soviet and Russian writer and historian, poet, specialist in literature.

Anatoly Gennadyevich Iksanov was the General Director of the Bolshoi Theatre of Russia between 2000 and July 2013. His successor was Vladimir Urin.