Notable People
- Ivan Krylov (1769–1844), writer
- Vasily Alekseevich Perovsky (1794—1857), statesman
- Vladimir Dal (1801–1872), lexicographer
- Yevgraf Fyodorov (1853–1919), mathematician, crystallographer, and mineralogist
- Paul Nazaroff (1890–1942), geologist and writer
- Joseph Kessel (1898–1979), journalist and novelist
- Musa Cälil (1906–1944), poet
- Alexander Schmorell (1917–1943), a member of the anti-Nazi group White Rose
- Aleksander Burba (1918-1984), industry leader and educator
- Mstislav Rostropovich 1927–2007), cellist
- Yuri Gagarin (1934–1968), cosmonaut
- Denis Istomin (born 1986), tennis player
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