List of people from Voronezh
Coat of Arms of Voronezh This is a list of notable people who were born or have lived in Voronezh Russia .
Ivan Nikitin (1824–1861) Nikolai Ge (1831–1894) Ivan Bunin (1870–1953) Anatoly Durov (1887–1928) Samuil Marshak (1887–1964) Pavel Cherenkov (1904–1990) Vladimir Zagorovsky (1925–1994) Dmitri Sautin (born 1974) Yulia Nachalova (1981–2019) Yevgeniya Serebrennikova (born 1982) Egor Vyaltsev (born 1985) Elena Danilova (born 1987) Igor Boev (born 1989) Viktoria Komova (born 1995) Vitali Lystsov (born 1995) Dmitri Skopintsev(born 1997)
Born in Voronezh
18th century
19th century
Valentin Zhukovski (1858–1918), Russian orientalistVasily Goncharov (1861–1915), Russian film director and screenwriter, one of the pioneers of the film industry in the Russian EmpireAnastasiya Verbitskaya (1861–1928), Russian novelist, playwright, screenplay writer, publisher and feministMikhail Olminsky (1863–1933), Russian CommunistSerge Voronoff (1866–1951), French surgeon of Russian extractionAndrei Shingarev (1869–1918), Russian doctor, publicist and politicianIvan Bunin (1870–1953), the first Russian writer to win the Nobel Prize for LiteratureAlexander Ostuzhev (1874–1953), Russian and Soviet drama actorValerian Albanov (1881–1919), Russian navigator and polar explorerJan Hambourg (1882–1947), Russian violinist, a member of a famous musical familyVolin (1882–1945), anarchistBoris Hambourg (1885–1954), Russian cellist who made his career in the USA, Canada, England and EuropeBoris Eikhenbaum (1886–1959), Russian and Soviet literary scholar, and historian of Russian literatureAnatoly Durov (1887–1928), Russian animal trainerSamuil Marshak (1887–1964), Russian and Soviet writer, translator and children's poetEduard Shpolsky (1892–1975), Russian and Soviet physicist and educatorGeorge of Syracuse (1893–1981), Eastern Orthodox archbishop of the Ecumenical Patriarchate Yevgeny Gabrilovich (1899–1993), Soviet screenwriterSemyon Krivoshein (1899–1978), Soviet tank commander; Lieutenant GeneralAndrei Platonov (1899–1951), Soviet Russian writer, playwright and poetIvan Pravov (1899–1971), Russian and Soviet film director and screenwriterWilliam Dameshek (1900–1969), American hematologist
20th century
Ivan Nikolaev (1901–1979), Soviet architect and educatorGalina Shubina (1902–1980), Russian poster and graphics artistPavel Cherenkov (1904–1990), Soviet physicist who shared the Nobel Prize in physics in 1958 with Ilya Frank and Igor Tamm for the discovery of Cherenkov radiation , made in 1934Yakov Kreizer (1905–1969), Soviet field commander, General of the army and Hero of the Soviet Union Iosif Rudakovsky (1914–1947), Soviet chess masterPawel Kassatkin (1915–1987), Russian writerAlexander Shelepin (1918–1994), Soviet state security officer and party statesmanGrigory Baklanov (1923–2009), Russian writerGleb Strizhenov (1923–1985), Soviet actorVladimir Zagorovsky (1925–1994), Russian chess grandmaster of correspondence chess and the fourth ICCF World Champion between 1962 and 1965Konstantin Feoktistov (1926–2009), cosmonaut and engineerVitaly Vorotnikov (1926–2012), Soviet statesmanArkady Davidowitz (1930), writer and aphorist
Grigory Sanakoev (1935), Russian International Correspondence Chess Grandmaster, most famous for being the twelfth ICCF World Champion (1984–1991)Yuri Zhuravlyov (1935), Russian mathematicianMykola Koltsov (1936–2011), Soviet footballer and Ukrainian football children and youth trainerVyacheslav Ovchinnikov (1936), Russian composerIya Savvina (1936–2011), Soviet film actressTamara Zamotaylova (1939), Soviet gymnast, who won four Olympic medals at the 1960 and 1964 Summer OlympicsYury Smolyakov (1941), Soviet Olympic fencerYevgeny Lapinsky (1942–1999), Soviet Olympic volleyball playerGalina Bukharina (1945), Soviet athleteVladimir Patkin (1945), Soviet Olympic volleyball playerVladimir Proskurin (1945), Soviet Russian football player and coachAleksandr Maleyev (1947), Soviet artistic gymnastValeri Nenenko (1950), Russian professional football coach and player
Vladimir Rokhlin, Jr. (1952), Russian-American mathematician and professor of computer science and mathematics at the Yale UniversityLyubov Burda (1953), Russian artistic gymnastMikhail Khryukin (1955), Russian swimmerAleksandr Tkachyov (1957), Russian gymnast and two times Olympic ChampionNikolai Vasilyev (1957), Russian professional football coach and playerAleksandr Babanov (1958), Russian professional football coach and playerSergey Koliukh (1960), Russian political figure; 4th Mayor of VoronezhYelena Davydova (1961), Soviet gymnastAleksandr Borodyuk (1962), Russian football manager and former international player for USSR and RussiaAleksandr Chayev (1962), Russian swimmerElena Fanailova (1962), Russian poetAlexander Litvinenko (1962–2006), officer of the Russian FSB and political dissidentYuri Shishkin (1963), Russian professional football coach and playerYuri Klinskikh (1964–2000), Russian musician, singer, songwriter, arranger, founder rock band Sektor GazaYelena Ruzina (1964), athleteIgor Bragin (1965), footballerGennadi Remezov (1965), Russian professional footballerValeri Shmarov (1965), Russian football player and coachKonstantin Chernyshov (1967), Russian chess grandmasterIgor Pyvin (1967), Russian professional football coach and playerVladimir Bobrezhov (1968), Soviet sprint canoer
Oleg Gorobiy (1971), Russian sprint canoerAnatoli Kanishchev (1971), Russian professional association footballerRuslan Mashchenko (1971), Russian hurdlerAleksandr Ovsyannikov (1974), Russian professional footballerDmitri Sautin (1974), Russian diver who has won more medals than any other Olympic diverSergey Verlin (1974), Russian sprint canoerMaxim Narozhnyy (1975–2011), Paralympian athleteAleksandr Cherkes (1976), Russian football coach and playerAndrei Durov (1977), Russian professional footballerNikolai Kryukov (1978), Russian artistic gymnastKirill Gerstein (1979), Jewish American and Russian pianistEvgeny Ignatov (1979), Russian sprint canoeistAleksey Nikolaev (1979), Russian-Uzbekistan footballerAleksandr Palchikov (1979), former Russian professional football playerKonstantin Skrylnikov (1979), Russian professional footballerAleksandr Varlamov (1979), Russian diverAngelina Yushkova (1979), Russian gymnastMaksim Potapov (1980), professional ice hockey player
Alexander Krysanov (1981), Russian professional ice hockey forwardYulia Nachalova (1981–2019), Soviet and Russian singer, actress and television presenterAndrei Ryabykh (1982), Russian football playerMaxim Shchyogolev (1982), Russian theatre and film actorEduard Vorganov (1982), Russian professional road bicycle racerAnton Buslov (1983–2014), Russian astrophysicist, blogger, columnist at The New Times magazine and expert on transportation systemsDmitri Grachyov (1983), Russian footballerAleksandr Kokorev (1984), Russian professional football playerDmitry Kozonchuk (1984), Russian professional road bicycle racer for Team Katusha Alexander Khatuntsev (1985), Russian professional road bicycle racerEgor Vyaltsev (1985), Russian professional basketball playerSamvel Aslanyan (1986), Russian handball playerMaksim Chistyakov (1986), Russian football playerYevgeniy Dorokhin (1986), Russian sprint canoerDaniil Gridnev (1986), Russian professional footballerVladimir Moskalyov (1986), Russian football refereeElena Danilova (1987), Russian football forwardSektor Gaza (1987–2000), punk bandRegina Moroz (1987), Russian female volleyball playerRoman Shishkin (1987), Russian footballerViktor Stroyev (1987), Russian footballerElena Terekhova (1987), Russian international footballerNatalia Goncharova (1988), Russian diverYelena Yudina (1988), Russian skeleton racerDmitry Abakumov (1989), Russian professional association football playerIgor Boev (1989), Russian professional racing cyclistIvan Dobronravov (1989), Russian actorAnna Bogomazova (1990), Russian kickboxer, martial artist, professional wrestler and valetYuriy Kunakov (1990), Russian diverVitaly Melnikov (1990), Russian backstroke swimmerKristina Pravdina (1990), Russian female artistic gymnastVladislav Ryzhkov (1990), Russian footballer
Danila Poperechny (1994), Russian stand-up comedian, actor, youtuber, podcasterDarya Stukalova (1994), Russian Paralympic swimmerViktoria Komova (1995), Russian Olympic gymnastVitali Lystsov (1995), Russian professional footballerMarina Nekrasova (1995), Russian-born Azerbaijani artistic gymnastVladislav Parshikov (1996), Russian football playerDmitri Skopintsev (1997), Russian footballerAlexander Eickholtz (1998) American sportsman
Angelina Melnikova (2000), Russian Olympic gymnast
Lived in Voronezh
Aleksey Khovansky (1814–1899), editorIvan Kramskoi (1837–1887), Russian painter and art criticMitrofan Pyatnitsky (1864–1927), Russian musicianMikhail Tsvet (1872–1919), Russian botanistAlexander Kuprin (1880–1960), Russian painter, a member of the Jack of Diamonds group Yevgeny Zamyatin (1884-1937), Russian writer, went to school in VoronezhOsip Mandelstam (1891–1938), Russian poetNadezhda Mandelstam (1899-1980), Russian writerGavriil Troyepolsky (1905–1995), Soviet writerNikolay Basov (1922–2001), Soviet physicist and educatorVasily Peskov (1930–2013), Russian writer, journalist, photographer, traveller and ecologistValentina Popova (1972), Russian weightlifterIgor Samsonov , painterTatyana Zrazhevskaya , Russian boxer
See also
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