List of Famous people born in Soviet Union
Vassili Bolvinov
Tamara Tikhonova
Tamara Ivanovna Tikhonova is a former Soviet Russian cross-country skier who competed from 1984 to 1992. She represented the Soviet Union at the 1988 Winter Olympics in Calgary, where she won three medals with golds in the 20 km freestyle and the 4 × 5 km relay, and a silver in the 5 km classical.
Nikolay Lazarev
Moses Znaimer
Moses Denid Znaimer, is a Canadian media executive. He is the co-founder and former head of Citytv, the first independent television station in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, and the current head of ZoomerMedia.
Alexander Gabyshev
Alexander Prokopievich Gabyshev is a Yakut shaman and anti-Putin political dissident. After being arrested and sentenced to involuntary confinement in a psychiatric hospital multiple times, his case has sparked condemnation of the political abuse of psychiatry in Russia.
Piers Bohl
Piers Bohl was a Latvian mathematician, who worked in differential equations, topology and quasi-periodic functions.
Dimitry Muravyev
Dimitry Muravyev is a former professional road bicycle racer from Kazakhstan. He turned professional in 2002 and has ridden internationally since then, although his primary victories have been the Kazakhstan national road race (2002) and the Kazakhstan national time trial.
Reinoldijus Šarkinas
Reinoldijus Šarkinas was Chairman of the Bank of Lithuania from 1996 to 2011. Šarkinas graduated studies at the Economics Faculty of Vilnius University in 1968. Between 1980 and 1982 he served as Financial Adviser to the Ministry of Education in Cuba and for several years was Deputy Minister of Finance, charged with budget management. Previously, he was Minister of Finance from February 1995 to February 1996.
Fyodor Kuznetsov
Fyodor Isidorovich Kuznetsov was a Colonel General and military commander in the Soviet Union.