List of Famous people born in Russia

Maxim Lvovich Kontsevich is a Russian and French mathematician. He is a professor at the Institut des Hautes Études Scientifiques and a distinguished professor at the University of Miami. He received the Henri Poincaré Prize in 1997, the Fields Medal in 1998, the Crafoord Prize in 2008, the Shaw Prize and Fundamental Physics Prize in 2012, and the Breakthrough Prize in Mathematics in 2014.

Yulia Anatolyevna Chepalova is a former Russian cross-country skier.

Svetlana Katok is a Russian-American mathematician and a professor of mathematics at Pennsylvania State University.

Mikhail Vladislavovich Tyurin is a former Russian cosmonaut who flew several missions to the International Space Station and completed four spacewalks during his career. He was awarded the title Hero of the Russian Federation for his work as a cosmonaut.

Sergey Mikhaylovich Ignatyev is a Russian economist, banker, and official.

Grigory Alekseevich Rapota is a Russian politician and previous special representative of the Russian president in the Volga Federal District. Before that he was the special representative of the Russian president in the Southern Federal District.