List of people from Yekaterinburg

Coat of Arms of Yekaterinburg
Coat of Arms of Yekaterinburg

This is a list of notable people who were born or have lived in Yekaterinburg (1924–1991: Sverdlovsk), Russia.

Juvenaly of Alaska
(1761–1796)
Fyodor Reshetnikov
(1841–1871)
Nina Ponomaryova
(1929–2016)
Alexander Maslyakov
(1941–2024)
Vladimir Ilyin
(born 1947)
Alexander Misharin
(born 1959)
Aleksandr Podshivalov
(born 1964)
Vladimir Malakhov
(born 1968)
Vladimir Presnyakov Jr.
(born 1968)
Natasha Stefanenko
(born 1969)
Oleg Bogayev
(born 1970)
Lena Herzog
(born 1970)
Alexander Popov
(born 1971)
Alina Bronsky
(born 1978)
Pavel Datsyuk
(born 1978)
Sergey Kofanov
(born 1978)
Yuta (singer)
Yekaterina Smolentseva
(born 1981)
Nikolay Pankratov
(born 1982)
Elena Melnik
(born 1986)
Vera Sessina
(born 1986)
Alena Kaufman
(born 1987)
Yuliya Pidluzhnaya
(born 1988)
Irina Antonenko
(born 1991)
Valeria Savinykh
(born 1991)
Polina Popova
(born 1995)
Yulia Lipnitskaya
(born 1998)
Daria Ustinova
(born 1998)

Born in Yekaterinburg

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18th and 19th century

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1701–1900

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  • Ivan Polzunov (1728–1766), Russian inventor. He created the first steam engine in Russia and the first two-cylinder engine in the world.
  • Juvenaly of Alaska (1761–1796), Protomartyr of America, was a hieromartyr and member of the first group of Orthodox missionaries who came from the monastery of Valaam to evangelize the native inhabitants of Alaska
  • Fyodor Reshetnikov (1841–1871), Russian author
  • Leonard Turzhansky (1875–1945), Russian impressionist painter
  • Peter Ermakov (1884–1952), Russian Bolshevik, notable as having been among those responsible for the execution of the deposed Tsar Nicholas II, his wife, their children, and their retinue
  • Pyotr Tayozhny (1887–1952), Russian sculptor
  • Julian Shchutsky (1897–1938), Russian sinologist

20th century

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1901–1930

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1931–1940

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  • Alexander Avdonin (born 1932), Russian mineralogist, archeologist
  • Vitaliy Konovalov (1932–2013), Soviet politician
  • Roman Tkachuk (1932–1994), Soviet theatre and film actor
  • Erik Bulatov (born 1933), Russian artist
  • Vladimir Krasnopolsky (1933–2022), Russian film director, producer, and screenwriter
  • Valeri Urin (1934–2023), Soviet football player
  • Eduard Lazarev (1935–2008), Moldovan composer of Russian descent
  • Georgy Koshlakov (1936–2017), deputy Prime Minister of Tajikistan
  • Edouard Pliner (born 1936), Soviet and Russian figure skating coach
  • Aleksandr Demyanenko (1937–1999), Russian film and theater actor
  • Albert Filozov (1937–2016), Soviet and Russian actor
  • Aleksei Zasukhin (1937–1996), Soviet boxer
  • Old Man Bukashkin (1938–2005), Russian artist and poet
  • Oleg Dementiev (1938–1991), Russian chess master who won the Russian Chess Championship in 1971
  • Viktor Dolnik (1938–2013), Russian ornithologist
  • Alexander Dolsky (born 1938), Soviet and Russian poet, writer, artist and most famously known for being a bard
  • Valery Kichin (born 1938), Russian journalist, film and theater critic, radio host
  • Igor Bakalov (1939–1992), Soviet sports shooter
  • Igor Ksenofontov (1939–1999), Soviet and Russian figure skating coach, founder of the Yekaterinburg figure skating school, president of the Sverdlovsk Figure Skating Federation
  • Dmitri Z. Garbuzov (1940–2006), Russian-American physicist; one of the pioneers and inventors of room temperature continuous-wave-operating diode lasers and high-power diode lasers
  • Alexei Khvostenko (1940–2004), Russian avant-garde poet, singer-songwriter, artist and sculptor

1941–1950

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1951–1960

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1961–1965

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1966–1970

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1971–1975

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1976–1980

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1981–1985

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1986–1990

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1991–2000

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21st century

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Lived in Yekaterinburg

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  • Onésime Clerc (1845-1920), Russian naturalist of Swiss origin
  • Pavel Bazhov (1879–1950), Russian writer; between 1889 and 1893 he studied in a religious school in Yekaterinburg
  • Dmitry Kharitonov (1896–1970), the first native Russian arachnologist
  • Sergei Vonsovsky (1910–1998), Soviet and Russian physicist; Honorary citizen of Yekaterinburg. One of the streets of Yekaterinburg is called after academician Vonsovsky.
  • Chiang Fang-liang (1916–2004), wife of President Chiang Ching-kuo and served as First Lady of the Republic of China on Taiwan from 1978 to 1988; moved to Yekaterinburg during World War I
  • Gennady Mesyats (born 1936), Russian physicist, founder of several scientific schools; Honorary citizen of Yekaterinburg
  • Eduard Rossel (born 1937), Russian politician of German origin, governor (1995–2009) of Sverdlovsk Oblast; Honorary citizen of Yekaterinburg
  • Nikolay Karpol (born 1938), national women volleyball team coach (VC Uralochka-NTMK Yekaterinburg); Honorary Citizen of the Sverdlovsk Oblast
  • Vladislav Krapivin (born 1938), Russian children's books writer; Honorary citizen of Yekaterinburg
  • Arkady Chernetsky (born 1950), Russian politician; Mayor of Yekaterinburg (1992–2010)
  • Evgeny Fateev (born 1958), Russian physicist and astrophysicist
  • Vassily Sigarev (born 1977), Russian playwright, screenwriter and film director; graduated from the Yekaterinburg Theatre Institute
  • Louis J. Marinelli (born 1986), American activist, self-subscribed Californian nationalist activist, migrated from the United States due to Anti-Russian hysteria.[1][2]
  • Sofia Nikitchuk (born 1993), Russian actress, model and beauty pageant titleholder who was crowned Miss Russia 2015

See also

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References

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  1. ^ Sheffield, Matthew (18 April 2017). "CalExit in trouble: Leader of California secession movement resigns, applies for Russian citizenship". Salon. Retrieved 2017-04-18.
  2. ^ Marinelii, Louis. "Louis Marinelli's Farewell Statement". Yes Calforina. Retrieved 2017-05-22.