Krasnodar - Notable People

Notable People

  • Alexandre Bondar (b. 1972), writer and novelist
  • Natalia Chernova (b. 1976), gymnast
  • Tatyana Chernova (b. 1988), heptathlon athlete
  • Pyotr Gavrilov (1900-1979), Soviet war hero, last defender of the Brest Fortress
  • Irina Karavayeva (b. 1975), trampoline gymnast
  • Eduard Koksharov (b. 1975), handball player
  • Anna Netrebko (b. 1971), opera singer
  • Gennady Padalka (b. 1958), cosmonaut
  • Lazaros Papadopoulos, Greek basketball player
  • Alexander Tamanian (1878–1936), neoclassical architect
  • Sergei Tiviakov (b. 1973), chess Grandmaster
  • Andrei Shkuro, counterrevolutionary
  • Inna Zhukova (b. 1986), rhythmic gymnast

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