This is a list of people who were born in, residents of, or otherwise closely associated with the city of Astana,

Kazakhstan Kazakhstan, officially the Republic of Kazakhstan, is a transcontinental country located mainly in Central Asia and partly in Eastern Europe. It borders Russia to the north and west, China to the east, Kyrgyzstan to the southeast, Uzbeki ...

and its surrounding

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Larisa Bergen Larisa Abramovna Bergen (russian: Лари́са Абра́мовна Бе́рген; 22 September 1949 — 7 April 2023) was a volleyball player for the USSR. She was Jewish, and was born in Akmolinsk, Kazakh SSR. Bergen played for ADK Alma-A ...

, Olympic volleyball medalist *

Alexander Kazantsev Alexander Petrovich Kazantsev (russian: Алекса́ндр Петро́вич Каза́нцев; 2 September 1906 – 13 September 2002) was a popular Soviet and Russian science fiction writer, ufologist and chess composer. Biography He was b ...

, science fiction writer * Yaroslava Shvedova, tennis player * Galina Voskoboeva, tennis player * Daneliya Tuleshova, singer

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