List of Famous people named Anatoly

Anatoly Arkadyevich Kharlampiyev, was a Russian researcher of various kinds of national wrestling and martial arts, Merited Master of Sports of the USSR, and Honored Coach of Sports of the USSR. He was one of the founders of Sambo, a martial art technique developed in the Soviet Union. Kharlampiyev worked as a physical education trainer at the Communist University of the Toilers of the East, and also was a student of boxing, fencing, acrobatics, and mountaineering. In 1938, Kharlampiyev presented Sambo to the USSR All-Union Sports Committee, which recognized the martial art as an official sport.

Anatoly Klyan, was a Russian Channel One cameraman who was fatally injured when he was shot while traveling in a bus in Donetsk, Ukraine during the 2014 pro-Russian unrest.

Anatoly Sergeevich Chernyaev was a Russian historian and writer who was a principal foreign-policy advisor to General Secretary Mikhail Gorbachev during the final days of the Soviet Union.

General of the Army Anatoly Vasiliyevich Kvashnin was the Chief of the Russian General Staff from 1997 to 2004, when he was dismissed by President Vladimir Putin.

Anatoly Nikolaevich Biryukov was a Soviet serial killer, convicted for the killing of five babies in the Moscow area between September and October 1977.

Anatoly Ignatovich Pristavkin was a Russian writer and public figure.

Anatoly Andreyevich Gromyko was a Soviet and Russian scientist and diplomat. He specialized in American and African studies as well as international relations, and was a member of the Russian Academy of Sciences and the Union of Russian Artists.

Anatoly Vasilyevich Lyapidevsky was a Soviet aircraft pilot and one of first people to be awarded the title of Hero of the Soviet Union. A graduate of the Soviet Air Force Academy, he reached the rank of Major-General of the Soviet Air Force at 1946.

Anatoly Aleksandrovich Roshchin was a heavyweight Greco-Roman wrestler from Russia. Between 1962 and 1972 he won nine medals at the Summer Olympics and world championships, including four gold medals.

Lieutenant General Anatoly Nikolayevich Khrulyov is a Russian general who was the commander of the Russian 58th Army from 2006 until his retirement in 2010. He saw service in South Ossetia during the 2008 Russo-Georgian War, in the course of which he was wounded when his military column moving into Tskhinvali was attacked by Georgian forces on 9 August 2008. On 18 May 2015, he was appointed Chief of the General Staff of the armed forces of Georgia's breakaway Republic of Abkhazia, in which position he was succeeded, 3 August 2018, by Major General Vasily Lunyov, also a career Russian officer.