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Russian writer, publicist, poet and politician (1918–2008)

Russian composer (1882–1971)

Russian tennis player

avant-garde painter of Russian origin (1866–1944)

German physicist (1864-1928)

19th-century Russian mathematician

Russian physicist (1916–2009)

Russian tennis player and model

Soviet pilot and cosmonaut, first human to conduct a spacewalk (1934-2019)

Soviet chess player

Soviet, Russian and American theoretical physicist

Russian chess player (1937–2025)

Russian business executive, entrepreneur, and investor who is a co-founder and the chief executive officer of Telegram

Russian female Olympic pole-vaulter

Russian mathematician (born 1966)

Russian-Belgian physical chemist (1917–2003)

Russian chess grandmaster

Russian businessman, philanthropist and former oligarch

Russian-born Dutch-British physicist

Russian-British physicist known for graphene work