List of people from Voronezh

This is a list of notable people who were born or have lived in Voronezh, Russia.

Born in Voronezh[]

18th century[]

• Yevgeny Bolkhovitinov (1767–1837), Orthodox Metropolitan of Kiev and Galicia
• Mikhail Pavlov (1792–1840), Russian academic and professor at Moscow University

19th century[]

1801–1850[]

• Aleksey Koltsov (1809–1842), Russian poet
• Ivan Nikitin (1824–1861), Russian poet
• Nikolai Ge (1831–1894), Russian realist painter famous for his works on historical and religious motifs
• Vasily Sleptsov (1836–1878), Russian writer and social reformer
• Nikolay Kashkin (1839–1920), Russian music critic

1851–1900[]

• Valentin Zhukovski (1858–1918), Russian orientalist
• Vasily Goncharov (1861–1915), Russian film director and screenwriter, one of the pioneers of the film industry in the Russian Empire
• Anastasiya Verbitskaya (1861–1928), Russian novelist, playwright, screenplay writer, publisher and feminist
• Mikhail Olminsky (1863–1933), Russian Communist
• Serge Voronoff (1866–1951), French surgeon of Russian extraction
• Andrei Shingarev (1869–1918), Russian doctor, publicist and politician
• Ivan Bunin (1870–1953), the first Russian writer to win the Nobel Prize for Literature
• Alexander Ostuzhev (1874–1953), Russian and Soviet drama actor
• Valerian Albanov (1881–1919), Russian navigator and polar explorer
• Jan Hambourg (1882–1947), Russian violinist, a member of a famous musical family
• Volin (1882–1945), anarchist
• Boris Hambourg (1885–1954), Russian cellist who made his career in the USA, Canada, England and Europe
• Boris Eikhenbaum (1886–1959), Russian and Soviet literary scholar, and historian of Russian literature
• Anatoly Durov (1887–1928), Russian animal trainer
• Samuil Marshak (1887–1964), Russian and Soviet writer, translator and children's poet
• Eduard Shpolsky (1892–1975), Russian and Soviet physicist and educator
• George of Syracuse (1893–1981), Eastern Orthodox archbishop of the Ecumenical Patriarchate
• Yevgeny Gabrilovich (1899–1993), Soviet screenwriter
• Semyon Krivoshein (1899–1978), Soviet tank commander; Lieutenant General
• Andrei Platonov (1899–1951), Soviet Russian writer, playwright and poet
• Ivan Pravov (1899–1971), Russian and Soviet film director and screenwriter
• William Dameshek (1900–1969), American hematologist

20th century[]

1901–1930[]

• Ivan Nikolaev (1901–1979), Soviet architect and educator
• Galina Shubina (1902–1980), Russian poster and graphics artist
• Pavel Cherenkov (1904–1990), Soviet physicist who shared the Nobel Prize in physics in 1958 with Ilya Frank and Igor Tamm for the discovery of Cherenkov radiation, made in 1934
• Yakov Kreizer (1905–1969), Soviet field commander, General of the army and Hero of the Soviet Union
• Iosif Rudakovsky (1914–1947), Soviet chess master
• Pawel Kassatkin (1915–1987), Russian writer
• Alexander Shelepin (1918–1994), Soviet state security officer and party statesman
• Grigory Baklanov (1923–2009), Russian writer
• Gleb Strizhenov (1923–1985), Soviet actor
• Vladimir Zagorovsky (1925–1994), Russian chess grandmaster of correspondence chess and the fourth ICCF World Champion between 1962 and 1965
• Konstantin Feoktistov (1926–2009), cosmonaut and engineer
• Vitaly Vorotnikov (1926–2012), Soviet statesman
• Arkady Davidowitz (1930), writer and aphorist

1931–1950[]

• Grigory Sanakoev (1935), Russian International Correspondence Chess Grandmaster, most famous for being the twelfth ICCF World Champion (1984–1991)
• Yuri Zhuravlyov (1935), Russian mathematician
• Mykola Koltsov (1936–2011), Soviet footballer and Ukrainian football children and youth trainer
• Vyacheslav Ovchinnikov (1936), Russian composer
• Iya Savvina (1936–2011), Soviet film actress
• Tamara Zamotaylova (1939), Soviet gymnast, who won four Olympic medals at the 1960 and 1964 Summer Olympics
• Yury Smolyakov (1941), Soviet Olympic fencer
• Yevgeny Lapinsky (1942–1999), Soviet Olympic volleyball player
• Galina Bukharina (1945), Soviet athlete
• Vladimir Patkin (1945), Soviet Olympic volleyball player
• Vladimir Proskurin (1945), Soviet Russian football player and coach
• Aleksandr Maleyev (1947), Soviet artistic gymnast
• Valeri Nenenko (1950), Russian professional football coach and player

1951–1970[]

• Vladimir Rokhlin, Jr. (1952), Russian-American mathematician and professor of computer science and mathematics at the Yale University
• Lyubov Burda (1953), Russian artistic gymnast
• Mikhail Khryukin (1955), Russian swimmer
• Aleksandr Tkachyov (1957), Russian gymnast and two times Olympic Champion
• Nikolai Vasilyev (1957), Russian professional football coach and player
• Aleksandr Babanov (1958), Russian professional football coach and player
• Sergey Koliukh (1960), Russian political figure; 4th Mayor of Voronezh
• Yelena Davydova (1961), Soviet gymnast
• Aleksandr Borodyuk (1962), Russian football manager and former international player for USSR and Russia
• Aleksandr Chayev (1962), Russian swimmer
• Elena Fanailova (1962), Russian poet
• Alexander Litvinenko (1962–2006), officer of the Russian FSB and political dissident
• Yuri Shishkin (1963), Russian professional football coach and player
• Yuri Klinskikh (1964–2000), Russian musician, singer, songwriter, arranger, founder rock band Sektor Gaza
• Yelena Ruzina (1964), athlete
• Igor Bragin (1965), footballer
• Gennadi Remezov (1965), Russian professional footballer
• Valeri Shmarov (1965), Russian football player and coach
• Konstantin Chernyshov (1967), Russian chess grandmaster
• Igor Pyvin (1967), Russian professional football coach and player
• Vladimir Bobrezhov (1968), Soviet sprint canoer

1971–1980[]

• Oleg Gorobiy (1971), Russian sprint canoer
• Anatoli Kanishchev (1971), Russian professional association footballer
• Ruslan Mashchenko (1971), Russian hurdler
• Aleksandr Ovsyannikov (1974), Russian professional footballer
• Dmitri Sautin (1974), Russian diver who has won more medals than any other Olympic diver
• Sergey Verlin (1974), Russian sprint canoer
• Maxim Narozhnyy (1975–2011), Paralympian athlete
• Aleksandr Cherkes (1976), Russian football coach and player
• Andrei Durov (1977), Russian professional footballer
• Nikolai Kryukov (1978), Russian artistic gymnast
• Kirill Gerstein (1979), Jewish American and Russian pianist
• Evgeny Ignatov (1979), Russian sprint canoeist
• Aleksey Nikolaev (1979), Russian-Uzbekistan footballer
• Aleksandr Palchikov (1979), former Russian professional football player
• Konstantin Skrylnikov (1979), Russian professional footballer
• Aleksandr Varlamov (1979), Russian diver
• Angelina Yushkova (1979), Russian gymnast
• Maksim Potapov (1980), professional ice hockey player

1981–1990[]

• Alexander Krysanov (1981), Russian professional ice hockey forward
• Yulia Nachalova (1981–2019), Soviet and Russian singer, actress and television presenter
• Andrei Ryabykh (1982), Russian football player
• Maxim Shchyogolev (1982), Russian theatre and film actor
• Eduard Vorganov (1982), Russian professional road bicycle racer
• Anton Buslov (1983–2014), Russian astrophysicist, blogger, columnist at The New Times magazine and expert on transportation systems
• Dmitri Grachyov (1983), Russian footballer
• Aleksandr Kokorev (1984), Russian professional football player
• Dmitry Kozonchuk (1984), Russian professional road bicycle racer for Team Katusha
• Alexander Khatuntsev (1985), Russian professional road bicycle racer
• Egor Vyaltsev (1985), Russian professional basketball player
• Samvel Aslanyan (1986), Russian handball player
• Maksim Chistyakov (1986), Russian football player
• Yevgeniy Dorokhin (1986), Russian sprint canoer
• Daniil Gridnev (1986), Russian professional footballer
• Vladimir Moskalyov (1986), Russian football referee
• Elena Danilova (1987), Russian football forward
• Sektor Gaza (1987–2000), punk band
• Regina Moroz (1987), Russian female volleyball player
• Roman Shishkin (1987), Russian footballer
• Viktor Stroyev (1987), Russian footballer
• Elena Terekhova (1987), Russian international footballer
• Natalia Goncharova (1988), Russian diver
• Yelena Yudina (1988), Russian skeleton racer
• Dmitry Abakumov (1989), Russian professional association football player
• Igor Boev (1989), Russian professional racing cyclist
• Ivan Dobronravov (1989), Russian actor
• Anna Bogomazova (1990), Russian kickboxer, martial artist, professional wrestler and valet
• Yuriy Kunakov (1990), Russian diver
• Vitaly Melnikov (1990), Russian backstroke swimmer
• (1990), Russian female artistic gymnast
• Vladislav Ryzhkov (1990), Russian footballer

1991–2000[]

• Darya Stukalova (1994), Russian Paralympic swimmer
• Viktoria Komova (1995), Russian Olympic gymnast
• Vitali Lystsov (1995), Russian professional footballer
• Marina Nekrasova (1995), Russian-born Azerbaijani artistic gymnast
• Vladislav Parshikov (1996), Russian football player
• Dmitri Skopintsev (1997), Russian footballer
• Alexander Eickholtz (1998) American sportsman
• Angelina Melnikova (2000), Russian Olympic gymnast

Lived in Voronezh[]

• Aleksey Khovansky (1814–1899), editor
• Ivan Kramskoi (1837–1887), Russian painter and art critic
• Mitrofan Pyatnitsky (1864–1927), Russian musician
• Mikhail Tsvet (1872–1919), Russian botanist
• Alexander Kuprin (1880–1960), Russian painter, a member of the Jack of Diamonds group
• Osip Mandelstam (1891–1938), Russian poet
• Gavriil Troyepolsky (1905–1995), Soviet writer
• Nikolay Basov (1922–2001), Soviet physicist and educator
• Vasily Peskov (1930–2013), Russian writer, journalist, photographer, traveller and ecologist
• Valentina Popova (1972), Russian weightlifter
• Igor Samsonov, painter
• Tatyana Zrazhevskaya, Russian boxer

See also[]

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• List of Russians
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