Notable Residents
- Nurken Abdirov, Soviet World War II pilot and Hero of the Soviet Union
- Anjelika Akbar, pianist
- Toktar Aubakirov, former cosmonaut (Soyuz TM-13) and member of Kazakhstan parliament
- Boris Avrukh, chess grandmaster
- Sahan Dosova, super-centenarian, reputed to have lived to age 130 (though disputed)
- Konstantin Engel, professional football player
- Akhmad Kadyrov, former President of the Chechen Republic
- Dimitri Kotschnew, professional ice hockey player
- Andrei Krukov, Olympic figure skater (1998 Winter Olympics)
- Juri Litvinov, Olympic figure skater (1998 Winter Olympics) and national champion
- Aslan Maskhadov, third President, Chechen Republic of Ichkeria
- Valery Oisteanu, writer, photographer, and performance artist
- Aleksandr Shustov, gold medal-winning high jumper
- Pavel Vorobiev, professional ice hockey player
- Joseph Werth, Bishop of Transfiguration, Novosibirsk, Russia
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