List of people from Yekaterinburg

This is a list of notable people who were born or have lived in Yekaterinburg (1924–1991: Sverdlovsk), Russia.

Born in Yekaterinburg

18th and 19th century

1701–1900

  • Ivan Polzunov (1728–1766), Russian inventor. He created the first steam engine in Russia and the first two-cylinder engine in the world.
  • Juvenaly of Alaska (1761–1796), Protomartyr of America, was a hieromartyr and member of the first group of Orthodox missionaries who came from the monastery of Valaam to evangelize the native inhabitants of Alaska
  • Fyodor Reshetnikov (1841–1871), Russian author
  • Leonard Turzhansky (1875–1945), Russian impressionist painter
  • Peter Ermakov (1884–1952), Russian Bolshevik, notable as having been among those responsible for the execution of the deposed Tsar Nicholas II, his wife, their children, and their retinue
  • Pyotr Tayozhny (1887–1952), Russian sculptor
  • Julian Shchutsky (1897–1938), Russian sinologist

20th century

1901–1930

1931–1940

  • Alexander Avdonin (born 1932), Russian mineralogist, archeologist
  • Vitaliy Konovalov (1932–2013), Soviet politician
  • Roman Tkachuk (1932–1994), Soviet theatre and film actor
  • Erik Bulatov (born 1933), Russian artist
  • Vladimir Krasnopolsky (1933–2022), Russian film director, producer, and screenwriter
  • Valeri Urin (1934–2023), Soviet football player
  • Eduard Lazarev (1935–2008), Moldovan composer of Russian descent
  • Georgy Koshlakov (1936–2017), deputy Prime Minister of Tajikistan
  • Edouard Pliner (born 1936), Soviet and Russian figure skating coach
  • Aleksandr Demyanenko (1937–1999), Russian film and theater actor
  • Albert Filozov (1937–2016), Soviet and Russian actor
  • Aleksei Zasukhin (1937–1996), Soviet boxer
  • Old Man Bukashkin (1938–2005), Russian artist and poet
  • Oleg Dementiev (1938–1991), Russian chess master who won the Russian Chess Championship in 1971
  • Viktor Dolnik (1938–2013), Russian ornithologist
  • Alexander Dolsky (born 1938), Soviet and Russian poet, writer, artist and most famously known for being a bard
  • Valery Kichin (born 1938), Russian journalist, film and theater critic, radio host
  • Igor Bakalov (1939–1992), Soviet sports shooter
  • Igor Ksenofontov (1939–1999), Soviet and Russian figure skating coach, founder of the Yekaterinburg figure skating school, president of the Sverdlovsk Figure Skating Federation
  • Dmitri Z. Garbuzov (1940–2006), Russian-American physicist; one of the pioneers and inventors of room temperature continuous-wave-operating diode lasers and high-power diode lasers
  • Alexei Khvostenko (1940–2004), Russian avant-garde poet, singer-songwriter, artist and sculptor

1941–1950

1951–1960

1961–1965

1966–1970

1971–1975

1976–1980

1981–1985

1986–1990

1991–2000

21st century

Lived in Yekaterinburg

  • Onésime Clerc (1845-1920), Russian naturalist of Swiss origin
  • Pavel Bazhov (1879–1950), Russian writer; between 1889 and 1893 he studied in a religious school in Yekaterinburg
  • Dmitry Kharitonov (1896–1970), the first native Russian arachnologist
  • Sergei Vonsovsky (1910–1998), Soviet and Russian physicist; Honorary citizen of Yekaterinburg. One of the streets of Yekaterinburg is called after academician Vonsovsky.
  • Chiang Fang-liang (1916–2004), wife of President Chiang Ching-kuo and served as First Lady of the Republic of China on Taiwan from 1978 to 1988; moved to Yekaterinburg during World War I
  • Gennady Mesyats (born 1936), Russian physicist, founder of several scientific schools; Honorary citizen of Yekaterinburg
  • Eduard Rossel (born 1937), Russian politician of German origin, governor (1995–2009) of Sverdlovsk Oblast; Honorary citizen of Yekaterinburg
  • Nikolay Karpol (born 1938), national women volleyball team coach (VC Uralochka-NTMK Yekaterinburg); Honorary Citizen of the Sverdlovsk Oblast
  • Vladislav Krapivin (born 1938), Russian children's books writer; Honorary citizen of Yekaterinburg
  • Arkady Chernetsky (born 1950), Russian politician; Mayor of Yekaterinburg (1992–2010)
  • Evgeny Fateev (born 1958), Russian physicist and astrophysicist
  • Vassily Sigarev (born 1977), Russian playwright, screenwriter and film director; graduated from the Yekaterinburg Theatre Institute
  • Louis J. Marinelli (born 1986), American activist, self-subscribed Californian nationalist activist, migrated from the United States due to Anti-Russian hysteria.[1][2]
  • Sofia Nikitchuk (born 1993), Russian actress, model and beauty pageant titleholder who was crowned Miss Russia 2015

See also

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References

  1. ^ Sheffield, Matthew (18 April 2017). "CalExit in trouble: Leader of California secession movement resigns, applies for Russian citizenship". Salon. Retrieved 2017-04-18.
  2. ^ Marinelii, Louis. "Louis Marinelli's Farewell Statement". Yes Calforina. Retrieved 2017-05-22.
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