Notable People
- Boris Kustodiev, painter
- Joseph Deniker, naturalist and anthropologist
- Ilya Ulyanov, father of Aleksandr Ulyanov and Vladimir Lenin.
- Vasily Trediakovsky, poet
- Rinat Dasayev, association football player
- Marziyya Davudova, actress
- Velimir Khlebnikov, poet
- Emiliya Turey, handball player
- Andrei Belyanin, science fiction writer
- Dmitri Dyuzhev, actor
- Vasily Trediakovsky, academician, poet, translator
- Valeria Barsova, soprano
- Maria Maksakova, opera singer
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