Notable People
Nizhny Tagil has been connected to the following personalities:
- Valeri Brainin, poet, musicologist, President (from 2004) of the Russian branch of the International Society for Music Education - a member of UNESCO
- Yefim Cherepanov, inventor and industrial engineer, constructor of the first Russian locomotive
- Miron Cherepanov (a son of Yefim Cherepanov), inventor and industrial engineer, constructor of the first Russian locomotive
- Felix Lembersky, painter
- Valeri Ogorodnikov, film director, Prize "Silver Leopard" at Locarno International Film Festival and State Price of Russian Federation for the film "Barrack", Price of FIPRESCI for the film "Burglar" at Venice Film Festival
- Dmitry Mamin-Sibiryak, novelist and short story writer
- Bulat Okudzhava, poet and chansonnier
- Igor Radulov, hockey player, winger currently playing for Салават Юлаев (Salavat Yulaev Ufa) of the KHL
- Alexander Radulov, hockey player, winger currently playing for the Nashville Predators, formerly with Салават Юлаев (Salavat Yulaev Ufa) of the KHL (brother with Igor)
- Boris Rauschenbach, physicist and rocket engineer
- Sergei Shepelev, former Soviet national ice hockey team member
- Aron Zinshtein, painter
- Victor Starffin, baseball player
- Dmitry Larionov, champion of rowing slalom
- Konstantin Novoselov, 2010 Nobel Prize winner for his research on Graphene
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