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Leader of the Bolshevik party and of the October Revolution
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Vladimir Lenin
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Model and former partner of Cristiano Ronaldo and actor Bradley Cooper
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Irina Shayk
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Poet, who was in a state of depression and committed suicide by hanging
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Sergei Yesenin
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First Tsar of all Russia from 1533 until 1584, nicknames "Grozny"
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Ivan the Terrible
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Pilot and cosmonaut who became the first human to journey into outer space
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Yuri Gagarin
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Author of controversial novel Lolita
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Vladimir Nabokov
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Self-proclaimed mystic who gained considerable influence in the court of Tsar
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Grigori Rasputin
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Empress of All Russia (1762-1796) – the country's longest-ruling female leader
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Catherine the Great
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Female tennis player who won all four Grand Slams
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Maria Sharapova
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Grand Duchess who was killed at age of 17 by a group of Bolsheviks in 1918
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Anastasia Nikolaevna
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Poet who wrote A Cloud in Trousers and Backbone Flute
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Vladimir Mayakovsky
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Nicknamed "Ovi" widely regarded as one of the greatest ice hockey players of all time
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Alexander Ovechkin
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Last Tsarevich of Russia who famously had haemophilia
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Alexei Nikolaevich
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Director who won Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film for movie Burnt by the Sun
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Nikita Mikhalkov
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Novelist and author of Crime and Punishment and The Brothers Karamazov
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Fyodor Dostoevsky
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First Russian laureate who won the 1904 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine
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Ivan Pavlov
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Last Emperor of Russia, who abdicated during Russian Revolution of 1917
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Nicholas II
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Ballerina star who was the central figure in the history of classical dance
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Maya Plisetskaya
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Actor who starred in the films Burnt by the Sun and The Barber of Siberia
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Oleg Menshikov
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Chess player who played the Match of the Century against Bobby Fisher in 1972
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Boris Spassky
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Russian Tsar in the late 17th century, who is known for his extensive reforms
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Peter the Great
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Soviet sniper who played an important role during the Battle of Stalingrad
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Vasily Zaytsev
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Mixed martial artist known for holding the longest active undefeated streak in MMA
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Khabib Nurmagomedov
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Billionaire businessman and politician the owner of Chelsea FC
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Roman Abramovich
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Leader who was a major player in the Cuban Missile Crisis
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Nikita Khrushchev
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Tennis player who is married to Spanish singer Enrique Iglesias
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Anna Kournikova
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Composer of the ballets Swan Lake, The Sleeping Beauty and The Nutcracker
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Pyotr Tchaikovsky
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First President of Russia from 1991 to 1999
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Boris Yeltsin
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Considered by many to be the greatest Russian poet and author of Eugene Onegin
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Alexander Pushkin
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USSR General and Marshal who led the Red Army in some of WWII battles
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Georgy Zhukov
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Writer of science fiction works Foundation and Earth and I, Robot
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Isaac Asimov
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Basketball player who spent 13 years in the NBA playing most games for Utah Jazz
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Andrei Kirilenko
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First woman to have flown in space with a solo mission on the Vostok 6 in 1963
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Valentina Tereshkova
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Last leader of the USSR from 1985 until 1991
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Mikhail Gorbachev
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Regarded by many as the greatest goalkeeper in the history of the sport
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Lev Yashin
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One of the most successful female gymnasts of all time
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Svetlana Khorkina
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Chess grandmaster and World Chess Champion from 1984 until 2005
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Garry Kasparov
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Communist who helped ignite the Russian Revolution of 1917, and built the Red Army
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Leon Trotsky
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Widely considered the greatest female pole-vaulter of all time
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Yelena Isinbayeva
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Chemist who discovered the periodic law and created the periodic table of elements
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Dmitri Mendeleyev
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Racing driver who competed in Formula One between 2014–2017 and 2019–2020
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Daniil Kvyat
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President of Russia from 1999 until 2008 and since 2012
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Vladimir Putin
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Tennis player who reached No. 1 on ATP rankings in 2022
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Daniil Medvedev
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Composer who created The Rite of Spring, Symphony in C and The Rake's Progress
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Igor Stravinsky
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Opposition leader who was poisoned during a flight from Tomsk to Moscow in 2020
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Alexei Navalny
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Novelist and political prisoner who helped raise awareness of the Gulag forced-labor camps
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Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
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Writer of the masterpieces War and Peace and Anna Karenina
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Leo Tolstoy
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Russian-American actor who starred in The Magnificent Seven (1960)
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Yul Brynner
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Playwright and author of Seagull, Uncle Vanya, Three Sisters and Cherry Orchard
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Anton Chekhov
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Russian-American ballet dancer who choreographed several iconic pieces
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Mikhail Baryshnikov
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