List of Famous people born in Tver Oblast, Russia
Mikhail Krug
Mikhail Vladirmirovich Vorobyov, known professionally as Mikhail Krug, was a Russian singer. Krug was one of the most popular singers of the style of music known as blatnaya pesnya or Russian chanson, a genre of music that has been popular in Russia since the beginning of the twentieth century.
Ilya Kovalchuk
Ilya Valeryevich Kovalchuk is a Russian professional ice hockey winger who is currently playing for Avangard Omsk of the Kontinental Hockey League. He previously played for the Atlanta Thrashers, New Jersey Devils, Los Angeles Kings, Montreal Canadiens and Washington Capitals in the NHL, as well as Ak Bars Kazan, Khimik Moscow Oblast, and SKA Saint Petersburg in the Russian Superleague (RSL) and Kontinental Hockey League (KHL).
Yekaterina Furtseva
Yekaterina Alexeyevna Furtseva was a Soviet politician and the second woman to be admitted as secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.
Darya Klishina
Darya Igorevna Klishina is a Russian long jumper.
Andrey Dementyev
Andrey Dmitriyevich Dementyev was a Russian and Soviet poet, a laureate of Lenin’s Young Communist League Award (1981), a USSR State Prize (1985), and Bunin Prize (2007).
Elisabeth Dmitrieff
Elisabeth Dmitrieff was a Russian-born feminist and revolutionary of the 1871 Paris Commune. Born Elisaviéta Loukinitcha Koucheleva, she was a co-founder of the Women's Union, created on 11 April 1871, in a café of the rue du Temple, with Nathalie Lemel.
Afanasy Nikitin
Afanasy Nikitin was a Russian merchant from Tver and one of the first Europeans to travel to and document his visit to India. He described his trip in a narrative known as The Journey Beyond Three Seas.
Anton Shagin
Anton Aleksandrovich Shagin is a Russian actor of theater, most famous for his role as Mels in Hipsters.
Yuri Belov
Yuri Andreevich Belov was a Soviet film and theatre actor. He was one of the most popular actors of Soviet cinema in the 1950's and 1960's.
Alexander Fadeyev
Alexander Alexandrovich Fadeyev was a Soviet writer, one of the co-founders of the Union of Soviet Writers and its chairman from 1946 to 1954.