List of people from Rostov-on-Don

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Coat of Arms of Rostov-on-Don

This is a list of notable people who were born or have lived in Rostov-on-Don, Russia.

Savielly Tartakower
(1887–1956)
Zinaida Reich
(1894–1939)
Victor Glushkov
(1923–1982)
Lev Anninsky
(born 1934)
Irina Allegrova
(born 1952)
Yuri Bashmet
(born 1953)
Sergey Zhigunov
(born 1963)
Anatoly Morozov
(born 1973)
Angelina Nikonova
(born 1976)
Sergei Davydov
(born 1979)
Alexei Eremenko
(born 1983)
Oksana Pochepa
(born 1984)
Tatiana Kotova
(born 1985)
Antonina Krivoshapka
(born 1987)
Eva Rivas
(born 1987)
Nikita Nagornyy
(born 1997)
Alisa Fedichkina
(born 2002)

Born in Rostov-on-Don[]

19th century[]

1801–1890[]

  • George VI of Armenia (1868–1954), Catholicos of the Armenian Apostolic Church from 1945 to 1954
  • Mikhail Bernshtein (1875–1960), Russian and Soviet painter and art educator
  • Martiros Saryan (1880–1972), Soviet Armenian painter
  • Mikhail Gnessin (1883–1957), Russian composer and teacher
  • Raïssa Maritain (1883–1960), Russian-born French poet and philosopher
  • Alexander Schapiro (1883–1946), Russian Jewish anarcho-syndicalist militant active in the international anarchist movement
  • Sophie Liebknecht (1884–1964), Russian-born German socialist and feminist
  • Sabina Spielrein (1885–1942), Russian physician and one of the first female psychoanalysts
  • Jerzy Żurawlew (1886–1980), Polish pianist, conductor, teacher
  • Savielly Tartakower (1887–1956), Polish and French chess grandmaster
  • Efrem Zimbalist (1889–1985), concert violinist, composer, teacher, conductor and director of the Curtis Institute of Music

1891–1900[]

20th century[]

1901–1910[]

  • Marion Gering (1901–1977), Russian-born American stage producer and director
  • Boris Shpitalniy (1902–1972), Soviet designer of aircraft guns and cannons
  • Yevgeny Brusilovsky (1905–1981), Soviet Russian composer
  • Vera Panova (1905–1973), Soviet novelist, playwright and journalist
  • Leonid Sedov (1907–1999), leading physicist of the Soviet Union
  • Rostislav Plyatt (1908–1989), Russian-born Soviet film and television actor
  • John Travlos (1908–1985), Greek architect, architectural historian and archaeologist
  • Caesar Kunikov (1909–1943), officer in the Soviet Naval Infantry; Hero of the Soviet Union
  • Aleksandr Laktionov (1910–1972), Socialist realism painter in the post-war Soviet Union
  • David Lichine (1910–1972), Russian-American ballet dancer and choreographer
  • Yakov Henkin (1903-1941), notable Russian street photographer, active in Leningrad in the 1930s

1911–1920[]

  • Emmanuil Evzerikhin (1911–1984), Russian photographer
  • Vitali Gubarev (1912–1981), Soviet Russian writer of children's literature
  • Ray Lev (1912–1968), American classical pianist
  • Nikolai Timkov (1912–1993), Soviet Russian painter
  • Igor Bondarevsky (1913–1979), Soviet Russian chess Grandmaster
  • Georgy Flyorov (1913–1990), Soviet nuclear physicist
  • Gayane Chebotaryan (1918–1998), Soviet and Armenian composer and musicologist
  • Boris Lavrenko (1920–2001), Russian Soviet realist painter
  • Ghazaros (Lazar) Saryan (1920–1998), Armenian composer and educator

1921–1930[]

  • Isabella Bashmakova (1921–2005), Russian historian of mathematics
  • Mark Stolberg (1922–1942), Russian chess master
  • Daniil Khrabrovitsky (1923–1980), Soviet scriptwriter and film director
  • Victor Glushkov (1923–1982), the founding father of information technology in the Soviet Union
  • Leonid Shamkovich (1923–2005), Russian chess Grandmaster and chess writer
  • Gevork Vartanian (1924–2012), Soviet intelligence agent
  • Zinaida Sharko (born 1929), Soviet and Russian actress of theatre and film
  • Mikhail Simonov (1929–2011), Russian aircraft designer famed for creating the Sukhoi Su-27 fighter-bomber
  • Ashot Melkonian (1930–2009), Armenian artist

1931–1940[]

1941–1950[]

1951–1960[]

1961–1970[]

1971–1975[]

1976–1980[]

1981–1985[]

1986–1990[]

1991–1995[]

1996–2000[]

21st century[]

2001–2010[]

  • Alisa Fedichkina (born 2002), Russian competitive figure skater
  • Motorama (formed in 2005), Russian post-punk band
  • (born 2002), hockey goalie

Lived in Rostov-on-Don[]

See also[]

Retrieved from ""