Notable People
- Nikolay Basov, physicist
- Ivan Bunin, writer
- Pavel Cherenkov, physicist
- Kirill Gerstein, musician
- Alexey Khovansky, editor
- Mikhail Tsvet, botanist
- Konstantin Feoktistov, cosmonaut and engineer
- Poets and writers such as Platonov, Koltsov, Nikitin, Marshak, Peskov, Troepolsky;
- Painters Kramskoi, Ge, Kuprin
- Valerian Albanov, navigator and polar explorer
- Grigory Sanakoev, chess player
- Yelena Davydova and Alexander Tkachyov, gymnasts
- Yevgeny Lapinsky, Olympic volleyball player
- Valentina Popova, weightlifter
- Dmitri Sautin, diver
- Volin, anarchist
- Serge Voronoff, surgeon
- Osip Mandelstam, poet
- Vladimir Patkin, Olympic volleyball player
- Andrei Platonov, writer
- Sektor Gaza, punk band
- Mitrofan Pyatnitsky, musician
- Viktoria Komova, Olympic gymnast
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