List of Famous people born in Russia

Alexey Semyonov is a Russian mathematician, Academician of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Rector of the Moscow State Pedagogical University, Head of the Department of mathematical logic and theory of algorithms Lomonosov State University, Professor, Dr.Sc.

Elena Aleksandrovna Valova is a Russian former pair skater who competed internationally for the Soviet Union. With her then-husband Oleg Vasiliev, she is the 1984 Olympic champion, 1988 Olympic silver medalist, and three-time World Champion. Their coach throughout their career was Tamara Moskvina.

Julia Vlassov is an American retired pair skater. She and partner Drew Meekins are the 2006 World Junior Champions.

Alexander Nikolayevich Skrinsky is a Russian nuclear physicist.

Yury Sergeyevich Osipov is a Soviet and Russian mathematician. He was elected a full member of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR in 1987 and was a president of its successor, the Russian Academy of Sciences from 17 December 1991 to 29 May 2013.

Alexander Jacob Varshavsky is a Russian-American biochemist, noted for his discovery of the N-end rule of ubiquitination. A native of Moscow, he is currently researching at Caltech.