List of Famous people born in Russia

Maksim Aleksandrovich Belyayev is a Russian professional footballer. He plays as a centre-back for FC Arsenal Tula.

Michail Ryklin is a Russian author of books and essays, and an internationalist university professor of Philosophy.

Iegor Gran is a Russian-born French novelist.

Aidan Salakhova is an Azeri and Russian artist, gallerist and public person. In 1992 she founded the Aidan Gallery in Moscow. Salakhova's works can be found in many private and state collections including the State Tretyakov Gallery, the Moscow Museum of Modern Art, the Ekaterina Cultural Foundation, Francois Pinault Foundation, Teutloff Museum and the Boghossian Foundation; in private collections of I. Khalilov, P-K. Broshe, T. Novikov, V. Nekrasov, V. Bondarenko and others. At the 2011 Venice Biennale, Salakhova's name hit the headlines when her work was politically censored.