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- Abram Rabinovich (1878–1943)
- Ilya Rabinovich (1891–1942)
- Viacheslav Ragozin (1908–1962)
- Maurice Raizman (1905–1974)
- Maaja Ranniku (1941–2004)
- Nukhim Rashkovsky (born 1946)
- Vsevolod Rauzer (1908–1941)
- Yuri Razuvayev (born 1945)
- Alexander Riazantsev (born 1985)
- Nikolai Riumin (1908–1942)
- Michael Roiz (born 1983)
- Oleg Romanishin (born 1952)
- Alexander Romanovsky (1880–1943)
- Peter Romanovsky (1892–1964)
- Karl Wilhelm Rosenkrantz (1876–1942)
- Solomon Rosenthal (1890–1955)
- Nicolas Rossolimo (1910–1975)
- Sergei Rublevsky (born 1974)
- Olga Rubtsova (1909–1994)
- Lyudmila Rudenko (1904–1986)
- Nikoly Rudnev (1895–1944)
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