Notable People
- Yuri Nikolaevich Denisyuk, physicist
- Andre Geim, physicist, inventor of graphene, and 2010 Nobel Prize winner
- Yevgeny Kafelnikov, tennis player
- Daria Kondakova, rhythmic gymnast
- Grigory Leps, singer, songwriter, musician
- Slava Metreveli, Soviet association football player
- Vladimir Nemshilov, Olympic swimmer
- Boris Nemtsov, politician
- Mordechai Spiegler, Russian-Israeli association football player and manager
- Vladimir Tkachenko, basketball player
- Elena Vesnina, tennis player
- Alexey Voyevoda, bobsledder and professional armwrestler
- Kharis Yunichev, the first Soviet male swimmer to win an Olympic medal
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