List of Famous people born in Russia

Yaakov Kedmi, also known as Yasha Kazakov and Yakov Iosifovich Kazakov is an Israeli former politician and diplomat. He was the head of the Nativ liaison bureau from 1992 to 1999, specializing in the repatriation of Eastern European Jews to Israel.

Andrei Igoryevich Malyukov was a Soviet and Russian film director, screenwriter and producer. He was a laureate of the Vasilyev Brothers State Prize of the RSFSR (1980) and People's Artist of the Russian Federation (2004).

Vladimir Ivanovich Markin was a Russian journalist and politician. He served as Chairman of the Department for Interaction with Mass Media of the Investigative Committee of Russia from 2007 to 2016, the first person to hold the position following the Committee's founding. He also served as First Deputy Chairman of RusHydro from 2016 to 2019.

Vadim Viktorovich Bakatin is a Russian politician who served as the last chairman of the KGB in 1991. He is the last surviving former chairman of this organization. He was appointed to dismantle the KGB, but he was unable to control this organization and to fulfill the task due to political reasons. He was able to fulfill plan of KGB disintegration into separate organizations. He ran for the Russian presidency as an independent candidate in June 1991.