Russian Famous Names Starting with Letter V

Is the current Minister of Sport in Russia, chair of the WADA Athletes Committee,[1] and a former ic

Is the current Minister of Sport in Russia, chair of the WADA Athletes Committee,[1] and a former ice hockey defenseman, considered one of the best defensemen of all time, a long-time captain for the Soviet Union national team. He was voted one of six pla

Is a former field hockey player from Tajikistan, who won the bronze medal with the Soviet national t

Is a former field hockey player from Tajikistan, who won the bronze medal with the Soviet national team at the boycotted 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow.[1]

Is a retired professional ice hockey player who played in the Soviet Hockey League. He played for SK

Is a retired professional ice hockey player who played in the Soviet Hockey League. He played for SKA St. Petersburg. He also played for the Soviet team during the 1987 Rendez-vous '87 against the NHL All-Stars.

Is a retired professional ice hockey player who played in the Soviet Hockey League. He played for SK

Is a retired professional ice hockey player who played in the Soviet Hockey League. He played for SKA St. Petersburg. He also played for the Soviet team during the 1972 Summit Series against Canada.

Was a Soviet chess Grandmaster, an International Arbiter of chess, and a World Correspondence Chess

Was a Soviet chess Grandmaster, an International Arbiter of chess, and a World Correspondence Chess Champion. He was also a chess writer and editor.

Is a Russian fencer, who has won bronze Olympic medal in the team foil competition at the 2004 Summe

Is a Russian fencer, who has won bronze Olympic medal in the team foil competition at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens.

Is an Uzbekistani professional football midfielder who currently plays for FC Bunyodkor in the Uzbek

Is an Uzbekistani professional football midfielder who currently plays for FC Bunyodkor in the Uzbek League. Karpenko has appeared in 35 matches and scored 3 goals for the full Uzbekistan national football team since his debut in 2003, including seven qualifying matches for the 2006 FIFA World Cup and seven qualifying matches for the 2010 FIFA World Cup. He made his debut in a friendly against Belarus on April 2, 2003.

Was a Soviet Russian footballer and coach. He was especially notable during his coaching career. He

Was a Soviet Russian footballer and coach. He was especially notable during his coaching career. He won numerous USSR Championships with clubs Torpedo Moscow, Dynamo Kyiv, and one with FC Ararat Yerevan.

Was a Soviet Armenian scientist, one of the founders of the theoretical astrophysics. He worked in t

Was a Soviet Armenian scientist, one of the founders of the theoretical astrophysics. He worked in the field of physics of stars and nebulae, stellar astronomy, dynamics of stellar systems and cosmogony of stars and galaxies, contributed to Mathematical p

Shenderovich graduated from the Moscow State Art and Cultural University, specializing in "direction

Shenderovich graduated from the Moscow State Art and Cultural University, specializing in "direction of volunteer theatrical groups". He is best known as a scriptwriter of popular political puppet show Kukly (Puppets) which was aired on NTV 1994 to 2002.

Is a retired ice hockey player who played in the Soviet Hockey League. He played for HC CSKA Moscow

Is a retired ice hockey player who played in the Soviet Hockey League. He played for HC CSKA Moscow and Krylya Sovetov Moscow.

S a Russian author, the son of a high-ranking Soviet diplomat (who worked closely with Stalin). He s

S a Russian author, the son of a high-ranking Soviet diplomat (who worked closely with Stalin). He spent some of his childhood in Paris, which accounts for why much of his work has been translated from Russian into French, while comparatively little has r

Was a Russian entomologist mainly interested in beetles. Motschulsky was an Imperial Army colonel wh

Was a Russian entomologist mainly interested in beetles. Motschulsky was an Imperial Army colonel who undertook extended trips abroad. He studied and described many new beetles from Siberia ,Alaska, the United States of America, Europe, and Asia.

Was a Russian–French chess master.He was born in Moscow but left Russia in 1912 eventually ending

Was a Russian–French chess master.He was born in Moscow but left Russia in 1912 eventually ending up in France going via Sweden, Denmark and Germany. He won the Copenhagen Championship in 1916. He also played at Hamburg 1916.[1] He tied for 8-9th at Copenhagen 1918.

A Russian pianist.Studied at Tambov Musical College with Solomon Starikov and Alexander Poltoratsky.

A Russian pianist.Studied at Tambov Musical College with Solomon Starikov and Alexander Poltoratsky. Between 1936-1941 he studied at the Moscow Conservatory in the classes of Samuil Feinberg (piano) and Alexander Goedicke (organ), graduating with distinction.He achieved international recognition as a pianist in 1945 when he won the first prize (shared with Sviatoslav Richter) at the Third All-Soviet-Union Piano Competition. In 1949, he was placed tenth at the Chopin Competition in Warsaw. His name is inscribed on the Moscow Conservatory's marble wall along with those of Scriabin and Rachmaninov. Merzhanov became a Moscow Philharmony soloist in 1946.

Was an ice hockey defender who played in the Soviet Hockey League. He played for HC CSKA Moscow. He

Was an ice hockey defender who played in the Soviet Hockey League. He played for HC CSKA Moscow. He was born in Moscow, Soviet Union.

Is a professional hockey player who played for the Los Angeles Kings in the National Hockey League..

Is a professional hockey player who played for the Los Angeles Kings in the National Hockey League..

Is a Russian writer, one of the most acclaimed and successful to emerge in the post-Soviet period[ci

Is a Russian writer, one of the most acclaimed and successful to emerge in the post-Soviet period[citation needed]. His books usually carry the outward conventions of the science fiction genre, but are used to construct involved, multi-layered postmoderni

Is a retired ice hockey player who played in the Soviet Hockey League. He played for Krylya Sovetov

Is a retired ice hockey player who played in the Soviet Hockey League. He played for Krylya Sovetov Moscow.

Is a retired ice hockey player who played in the Soviet Hockey League. He played for HC Spartak Mosc

Is a retired ice hockey player who played in the Soviet Hockey League. He played for HC Spartak Moscow.

Was a Russian-American former dissident Soviet journalist and an Eastern Orthodox priest.After movin

Was a Russian-American former dissident Soviet journalist and an Eastern Orthodox priest.After moving to the United States in 1975, he was stripped of his Soviet citizenship by an ukase of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet on September 7, 1976, for "activities discrediting the rank of a Soviet citizen", becoming only the fifth person around that time to be so penalized, among them Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Was a Soviet Russian chess Grandmaster in both over-the-board and correspondence chess, an Internati

Was a Soviet Russian chess Grandmaster in both over-the-board and correspondence chess, an International Arbiter, a trainer, and an author of chess books. Bondarevsky shared the 1940 Soviet title, and later coached World Champion Boris Spassky.

Is an actress. Also known as Victoria Charalambidou, she studied at the Institute of Cinematography

Is an actress. Also known as Victoria Charalambidou, she studied at the Institute of Cinematography in Moscow and The Greek Drama School in Athens. Her acting credits include: Dear Elena, a contemporary Russian play by Lioudmila Razumovskaya (Best Actress award 2001), The Curse of the Starving Class by Sam Shepard, A Bright Shinning Sun (Best Actress Award - Short Film Festival 2000), Suddenly (TV series for Mega TV Channel Greece) and a feature film Brides (Best Actress Award – Thessaloniki Film Festival 2005) a Martin Scorsese production which was released in Australia by Palace Cinemas in September 2005.

Is a former cross-country skier who represented the USSR and later Lithuania from 1988 to 1994. She

Is a former cross-country skier who represented the USSR and later Lithuania from 1988 to 1994. She won a gold medal over 10 km and a bronze over 5 km at the 1988 Winter Olympics in Calgary for the USSR. Her best finish at the FIS Nordic World Ski Champio

Is a Lithuanian footballer, currently playing for LASK Linz. Vidas is a defender who can play in the

Is a Lithuanian footballer, currently playing for LASK Linz. Vidas is a defender who can play in the centre or on the right side.