List of Prominent Soviet Poles
- Vikenty Veresaev (birth name Smidovich) - writer
- Felix Dzerzhinsky (Feliks Dzierżyński) - communist politician
- Vyacheslav Menzhinsky (Wiaczesław Mienżyński or Mężyński) - communist politician
- Gleb Krzhizhanovsky - communist politician
- Mechislav Kozlovsky - communist diplomat and lawyer
- Kazimir Malevich (Kazimierz Malewicz) - painter
- Yury Olesha - writer
- Tomasz Dąbal - communist politician
- Konstantin Rokossovsky (Konstanty Rokossowski) - Marshal
- Stanislav Kosior (Stanisław Kosior) - communist politician
- Karol Świerczewski - general
- Stanislav Poplavsky (Stanisław Popławski) - general
- Sigizmund Levanevsky (Zygmunt Lewoniewski) - aircraft pilot, explorer of the Arctic
- Andrey Vyshinsky (Andriej or Andrzej Wyszyński) - communist politician
- Dmitri Shostakovich (Szostakowicz) - composer
- Rostislav Plyatt - actor
- Mstislav Rostropovich - cellist and conductor
- Rolan Bykov - actor
- Edvard Radzinsky - playwright, TV personality
- Edita Piekha (Edyta Piecha) - singer, born in France, moved to USSR
- Anatoly Sobchak - mayor of Saint Petersburg
- Sergey Yastrzhembsky (Jastrzębski) - Russian politician
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