List of Famous people born in Russia

Yury Postrigay

First Name Yury

Born on August 31, 1988 (age 37)

Born in Russia, Sverdlovsk Oblast

Height 185 cm | 6'1

Yury Viktorovich Postrigay is a Russian canoeist, who won Men's K-2 200 metres Gold Medal in the 2012 Summer Olympics with Alexander Dyachenko.

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Valentina Ivanova

First Name Valentina

Last Name Ivanova

Born on October 27, 1915

Died on January 5, 1966 (aged 50)

Born in Russia

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Alla Vazhenina

First Name Alla

Born on May 29, 1983 (age 43)

Born in Russia, Kurgan Oblast

Height 175 cm | 5'9

Alla Ivanovna Vazhenina is a Russian weightlifter competing for Kazakhstan.

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Yevgeny Lukyanov

First Name Yevgeny

Born on December 10, 1951 (age 74)

Born in Russia

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Alexey Gennadievich Krasovsky

First Name Alexey

Born on December 20, 1971 (age 54)

Born in Russia, Nizhny Novgorod Oblast

Filmmaker

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Robert Nigmatulin

First Name Robert

Last Name Nigmatulin

Born on June 17, 1940 (age 85)

Born in Russia

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Boris Shavyrin

First Name Boris

Last Name Shavyrin

Born on April 27, 1902

Died on October 9, 1965 (aged 63)

Born in Russia, Yaroslavl Oblast

Boris Ivanovich Shavyrin was a Russian artillery and rocket engineer who developed the first air-augmented rocket, Gnom, or Gnome, as well as many other Soviet mortars and rockets.

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Vitaliy Durkin

First Name Vitaliy

Born on September 2, 1979 (age 46)

Born in Russia, Novosibirsk Oblast

Badmintoner

Sportsperson

Vitalij Valerievich Durkin is a Russian badminton player. In 2015, he competed at the European Games in Baku, Azerbaijan.

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Lala Kramarenko

First Name Lala

Last Name Kramarenko

Born on December 6, 2004 (age 21)

Born in Russia

Lala Dmitrievna Kramarenko is a Russian individual rhythmic gymnast. She is the 2019 junior world champion in ball and clubs and the 2018 European junior champion in ball and ribbon. At the 2021 European Championships she won team gold. Considered a "rising star" on the Russian team, she is a three-time junior national all around champion (2017-2019) and a two-time national all around silver medalist (2020-2021).

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Vyacheslav Akimov

First Name Vyacheslav

Born on April 27, 1990 (age 36)

Born in Russia, Chuvash Republic

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