List of Famous people born in Soviet Union

Arsen Bashirovich Kanokov is a Russian politician, who served as Head of the Kabardino-Balkaria republic from 2005 to 2013.

Anatoliy Alekseevich Nogovitsyn was a Russian military official. He served as the Deputy Chief of General Staff of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation. Holding the rank of Colonel General, he was known for being the primary spokesman of the Russian Armed Forces during 2008 South Ossetia War and for warning Poland about the possibility of a nuclear strike on 15 August 2008 after an agreement reached between the United States of America and Poland on 14 August 2008 about hosting part of a US missile defense shield in Poland. President Dmitry Medvedev later played down the nuclear attack threats against Poland.

Dmitry Svetushkin was a Moldovan chess player. He was awarded the title Grandmaster by FIDE in 2002.

Quandyq Ualihanuly Bishimbaev is a Kazakh politician who served as Minister of National Economy from 6 May 2016 to 28 December 2016.

Anna Vachiki Hakobyan, is the wife of the current Prime Minister of Armenia, Nikol Pashinyan. She is the editor-in-chief of the Armenian Times newspaper. Unofficially, Hakobyan is regarded as the "First Lady of Armenia", a position that is reserved for the spouses of the President of Armenia.

Peter or Pyotr Parfenovich Vlasov, better known under his pen name Vladimirov, was a Soviet diplomat and journalist. He is best known for The Vladimirov Diaries, in which he recounted the events in Yan'an during the Second World War, particularly information on Mao Zedong.

Magomedkhan Amanulayevich Gamzatkhanov , is a Russian professional wrestler, mixed martial artist and former military officer of Avar descent. Gamzatkhanov is better known by his ringname Volk Han (Волк-хан) and is renowned for his technical mastery of sambo.

Iskhak Razzakov was the first secretary of Communist Party of Kirghizia from 7 July 1950 to 9 May 1961.

Ivan Shevtsov was Russian novelist, known in the West for the anti-semitic aspects of his 1965 novel Aphid.

Lyubov Isaakovna Axelrod was a Russian revolutionary, Marxist philosopher and an art theoretician.