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Saratov Saratov (, ; rus, Сара́тов, a=Ru-Saratov.ogg, p=sɐˈratəf) is the largest city and administrative center of Saratov Oblast, Russia, and a major port on the Volga River upstream (north) of Volgograd. Saratov had a population of 901,36 ...

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Born in Saratov

19th century

1801–1850

* Stepan Shevyryov (1806–1864), conservative Russian literary historian and poet *

Konstantin von Kügelgen Konstantin von Kügelgen (also spelled Constantin von Kügelgen; 6 January 1810 — 28 April 1880) was a List of German painters, German Landscape painting, landscape painter, the son of Karl von Kügelgen. Biography His first art lessons were f ...

(1810–1880), German painter * Nikolay Chernyshevsky (1828–1889), Russian revolutionary democrat, materialist philosopher, critic and socialist *

Alexander Pypin Alexander Nikolayevich Pypin (russian: Алекса́ндр Никола́евич Пы́пин; 6 April 1833, in Saratov, Russian Empire – 9 December 1904, in Saint Petersburg, Russian Empire) was a Russian literary historian, ethnographer, jour ...

(1833–1904), Russian literary historian, ethnographer, journalist and editor *

Firs Zhuravlev Firs Sergeyevich Zhuravlev (russian: Фирс Сергеевич Журавлёв; 22 December 1836, — 17 September 1901, ) was a Russian genre painter. Biography He attended the Imperial Academy of Arts, where he studied history painting u ...

(1836–1901), Russian genre painter

1851–1900

Nikolai Grandkovsky Nikolai Karlovich Grandkovsky (Russian: Николай Карлович Грандковский; 23 February 1864, Saratov - 18 May 1907, Penza) was a Russian Realism (arts), Realist painter who specialized in portraits and Genre art, genre sce ...

(1864–1907), Russian Realist painter who specialized in portraits and genre scenes *

Bina Abramowitz Bina Abramowitz (; October 30, 1865 – 1953) was a Yiddish actress. Biography Early life Bina Fuchs was born on October 30, 1865, in Saratov, Russia. Her father was a cartoonist, soldier and tailor. Career At fourteen, Fuchs joined the ...

(1865 - 1953), Yiddish-language actress * Victor Borisov-Musatov (1870–1905), Russian painter * Pavel Kuznetsov (1878–1968), Russian painter and graphic artist * Alexander Matveyev (1878–1960), Russian sculptor *

Alexei Rykov Alexei Ivanovich Rykov (25 February 188115 March 1938) was a Russian Bolshevik revolutionary and a Soviet politician and statesman, most prominent as premier of Russia and the Soviet Union from 1924 to 1929 and 1924 to 1930 respectively. He wa ...

(1881–1938), Russian Bolshevik revolutionary and Soviet politician; Premier of Russia and the Soviet Union * Alexander Savinov (1881–1942), Russian and Soviet painter and art educator * Anna Andreevna Kalmanovich (

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1893–1917), Russian feminist and activist * Georgy Fedotov (1886–1951), Russian religious philosopher, historian, essayist, author of many books on Orthodox culture, regarded by some as a founder of Russian "theological culturology" * Georgy Oppokov (1888–1938), Russian Bolshevik *

Rachel Bluwstein Rachel Bluwstein Sela (20 September (Julian calendar) 1890 – 16 April 1931) was a Hebrew-language poet who immigrated to Palestine, then part of the Ottoman Empire, in 1909. She is known by her first name, Rachel ( he, רחל ), or as Ra ...

(1890–1931), Hebrew-language poet *

Isaak Zelensky Isaak Abramovich Zelensky (russian: Исаа́к Абра́мович Зеле́нский) (22 June 1890 – 15 March 1938) was a Soviet Union, Soviet politician, Communist Party of the Soviet Union, Communist Party official, and a victim of the ...

(1890–1938), Russian politician; Secretary General of the Uzbek Soviet Socialist Republic * Konstantin Fedin (1892–1977), Russian novelist and literary functionary * Nikolay Semyonov (1896–1986), Russian Soviet physicist and chemist; awarded the 1956 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his work on the mechanism of chemical transformation *

Stepan Kayukov Stepan Yakovlevich Kayukov (russian: Степан Яковлевич Каюков; 1 August 1898 – 22 January 1960) was a Soviet and Russian stage and film actor. People's Artist of the RSFSR (1949). Selected filmography * '' Golden Moun ...

(1898–1960), Soviet actor * Viktor Bolkhovitinov (1899–1970), Soviet engineer, team-leader of the developers of the Bereznyak-Isayev BI-1 aircraft * Nadezhda Mandelstam (1899–1980), Russian writer and educator

20th century

1901–1930

* Alexander Bek (1903–1972), Soviet novelist and writer *

Jerzy Pichelski Jerzy Pichelski (27 November 1903, Saratov – 5 September 1963, Warsaw) was a Polish film and theatre actor. Selected filmography * ''Ostatnia brygada'' (1938) * ''Florian'' (1938) * ''The Three Hearts'' (1939) * '' Border Street'' (1948) * '' ...

(1903–1963), Polish film and theatre actor *

Boris Babochkin Boris Andreyevich Babochkin (russian: Бори́с Андре́евич Ба́бочкин; 18 January 1904 – 17 July 1975) was a Soviet and Russian film and theater actor and director. Boris Babochkin was one of the first internationally r ...

(1904–1975), Soviet film and theatre actor and director * Viktor Wagner (1908–1981), Russian mathematician * Vladimir Ovchinnikov (1911–1978), Soviet and Russian painter * Sweeney Schriner (1911–1990), Russian-born Canadian professional ice hockey forward * Sergey Filippov (1912–1990), Soviet film and theatre actor * Nikolai Minkh (1912–1982), Soviet composer, conductor and pianist * Boris Andreyev (1915–1982), Soviet actor *

Michel Garder Michel Garder (20 October 1916 – 3 May 1993) was a Russian-born French author and military man known for his writings about the Soviet Union. He notably predicted in his 1965 book ''L'Agonie du Régime en Russie Soviétique'' (''The Death Stru ...

(1916–1993), French author and military man * Alexander Obukhov (1918–1989), Russian physicist and applied mathematician * Raisa Aronova (1920–1982), Russian Po-2 pilot in World War II *

Vladimir Vengerov Vladimir Yakovlevich Vengerov (russian: Владимир Яковлевич Венгеров; 1920–1997) was a Soviet film director. He directed fourteen films between 1951 and 1985. People's Artist of the RSFSR (1978). His 1962 film ''A Trip ...

(1920–1997), Soviet film director * Jan Białostocki (1921–1988), Polish art historian *

Boris Balashov Boris Aleksandrovich Balashov (russian: Бори́с Алекса́ндрович Балашо́в; 7 December 192720 January 1974) was Editor-in-Chief of the Soviet magazine ''"Filateliya SSSR"'' (''" Philately of the USSR"''). Biography Born ...

(1927–1974), Editor-in-Chief of the Soviet magazine "Filateliya SSSR" ("Philately of the USSR") * Nikolai Krogius (born 1930), Russian Chess Grandmaster, International Arbiter, psychologist, chess coach, chess administrator and author

1931–1950

* Joseph G. Hakobyan (born 1931), Russian scientist *

Mikhail Shakhov Mikhail Afanasyevich Shakhov (russian: Михаил Афанасьевич Шахов; 20 November 1931 – 8 August 2018) was a Soviet bantamweight freestyle wrestler. Biography He was born in Saratov in 1931. Shakhov lost his father during ...

(born 1931), Soviet wrestler *

Lev Pitaevskii Lev Petrovich Pitaevskii (russian: Лев Петро́вич Пита́евский ; 18 January 1933 – 23 August 2022) was a Russian theoretical physicist, who made contributions to the theory of quantum mechanics, electrodynamics, low-temper ...

(born 1933), Soviet theoretical physicist * Oleg Tabakov (1935–2018), Soviet and Russian actor and the artistic director of the Moscow Art Theatre *

Irma Raush Irma Yakovlevna Raush (russian: Ирма Яковлевна Рауш; born 21 April 1938) is a Russian actress and the first wife of film director Andrei Tarkovsky. She is best known for her role as Durochka in ''Andrei Rublev'' and as Ivan's moth ...

(born 1938), Russian actress *

Yury Sharov Yury Sharov (russian: Юрий Дмитриевич Шаров; 22 April 1939 – 12 December 2021) was a Soviet fencer. He won a gold medal in the team foil event at the 1964 Summer Olympics and a silver in the same event at the 1968 Summer O ...

(born 1939), Soviet fencer * Yuri Simonov (born 1941), Russian conductor * Boris Gromov (born 1943), prominent Russian military and political figure; Governor of

Moscow Oblast Moscow Oblast ( rus, Моско́вская о́бласть, r=Moskovskaya oblast', p=mɐˈskofskəjə ˈobləsʲtʲ), or Podmoskovye ( rus, Подмоско́вье, p=pədmɐˈskovʲjə, literally "under Moscow"), is a federal subject of Rus ...

from 2000 to 2012 *

Evgeny Rukhin Evgeny Rukhin (russian: Евгений Рухин; July 2, 1943 - May 24, 1976) was a Russian Non-Conformist painter and one of the organizers of the Bulldozer Exhibition in 1974. He died in 1976 after his studio in Leningrad caught fire. Li ...

(1943–1976), Russian Non-Conformist painter *

Lydia Mordkovitch Lydia Mordkovitch (née Shtimerman; 30 April 1944 – 9 December 2014) was a Russian violinist. Lydia was born in Saratov, Russia, on 30 April 1944. She returned with her parents to Kishinev after the war. In 1960, she moved to Odessa, where ...

(1944–2014), Russian violinist *

Vladimir Lantsberg Vladimir Isaakovich Lantsberg () (1948–2005) was a Russian poet, songwriter, bard, and teacher. Vladimir Lantsberg was born on June 22, 1948, in the city of Saratov. In 1971, he graduated from Saratov Polytechnical Institute. He worked as a ...

(1948–2005), Russian poet, songwriter, bard and teacher * Alexander Zemlianichenko (born 1950), Russian photojournalist

1951–1970

Vladimir Konkin Vladimir Alekseyevich Konkin (russian: Влади́мир Алексе́евич Ко́нкин, born 19 August 1951, Saratov, USSR) is a Soviet/ Russian cinema and theatre actor, who appeared in 45 films.

(born 1951), Soviet and Russian cinema and theatre actor *

Sergei Shuvalov Sergei Alekseyevich Shuvalov ( rus, Сергей Алексеевич Шувалов; 24 June 1951 – 25 September 2021) was a Russian politician. He served as chairman of the Saratov Oblast Duma from 2002 to 2005, and as the Member of the Fed ...

(1951–2021), Soviet and Russian politician * Alexander Koreshkov (born 1952), Russian professional football coach and player *

Alexander Sukhanov Alexander Alekseevich Sukhanov (russian: Алекса́ндр Алексе́евич Суха́нов, 25 May 1952) is a Soviet and Russian poet, composer, bard and mathematician who created more than two hundred songs. Biography Alexander Su ...

(born 1952), Soviet and Russian poet, composer, bard and mathematician *

Lyubov Sliska Lyubov Konstantinovna Sliska (russian: Любовь Константиновна Слиска, born October 15, 1953, in Saratov, Soviet Union, as Lyubov Timoshina, russian: Любовь Тимошина) is a Russian politician. Career Since J ...

(born 1953), Russian politician * Marina Shimanskaya (born 1955), Russian actress * Sergei Konyagin (born 1957), Russian mathematician * Andrei Shevtsov (born 1961), Russian professional footballer * Yuri Klyuchnikov (born 1963), Russian professional football referee and player *

Julia Gomelskaya Julia Gomelskaya (russian: Юлия Александровна Гомельская, uk, Юлія Олександрівна Гомельська; 11 March 19644 December 2016) was a Ukrainian composer of contemporary classical music. Biog ...

(born 1964), Ukrainian composer of contemporary classical music *

Vladimir Lazarev Vladimir Lazarev (russian: link=no, Владимир Лазарев; born 5 June 1964 in Saratov, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union) is a chess Grandmaster, now living in France. Biography After learning to play chess at fifteen, Vladimir Lazarev j ...

(born 1964), Russian and French chess Grandmaster * Roman Abramovich (born 1966), Russian businessman, investor and politician *

Anatoli Fedotov Anatoli Vladimirovich Fedotov (russian: Анатолий Владимирович Федотов; born May 11, 1966) is a Russian former professional ice hockey player who played four games in the National Hockey League. Career He began his care ...

(born 1966), Russian professional ice hockey player * Yevgeny Mironov (born 1966), Russian film and stage actor * Dmitry Chernyshenko (born 1968), Russian businessman and the President of the Sochi 2014 Olympic Organizing Committee for the

2014 Winter Olympics , ''Zharkie. Zimnie. Tvoi'') , nations = 88 , events = 98 in 7 sports (15 disciplines) , athletes = 2,873 , opening = 7 February 2014 , closing = 23 February 2014 , opened_by = President Vladimir Putin , cauldron = , stadium = Fisht Olympic ...

* Filipp Yankovsky (born 1968), Russian actor and film director * Igor Meglinski (born 1968), British scientist

1971–1980

Kseniya Kachalina Kseniya Mikhailovna Kachalina (russian: Ксения Михайловна Качалина, born May 3, 1971) is a Russian actress. Biography Kseniya Mikhailovna Kachalina was born May 3, 1971. She studied two years at the acting department at t ...

(born 1971), Russian actress * Inessa Korkmaz (born 1972), Russian female volleyball player * Sergei Nikolayev (born 1972), Russian professional ice hockey goaltender * Yulia Timofeeva (born 1972), Russian former track and field sprinter and bobsledder * Alexey Ashapatov (born 1973), Russian paralympian athlete competing mainly in category F57-58 throwing events *

Yuliya Levina Yuliya Aleksandrovna Levina (russian: Юлия Александровна Левина; born 2 January 1973, in Saratov) is a Russian rower who competed for Russia Russia (, , ), or the Russian Federation, is a transcontinental ...

(born 1973), Russian rower * Alexei Yegorov (born 1976), Russian professional ice hockey goaltender * Zanna Proniadu (born 1978), Greek female volleyball player * Ksenya Stepanycheva (born 1978), Russian playwright * Vadim Garin (born 1979), Russian professional football player

1981–1990

* Aleksei Ivanov (born 1981), Russian professional football player *

Denis Platonov Denis Platonov (born November 6, 1981) is a Russian former professional ice hockey centre who most notably played for Metallurg Magnitogorsk of the Kontinental Hockey League (KHL). He was selected by the Nashville Predators in the 3rd round (75th ...

(born 1981), Russian professional ice hockey centre * Maxim Velikov (born 1982), Russian professional ice hockey defenceman * Sergei Monia (born 1983), Russian professional basketball player * Anton Grebnev (born 1984), Russian professional football player * Maxim Krivonozhkin (born 1984), Russian professional ice hockey forward *

Sergei Barsukov Sergei Aleksandrovich Barsukov (russian: Серге́й Александрович Барсуков; born 28 January 1985) is a Russian former professional football Football is a family of team sports that involve, to varying degrees, kick ...

(born 1985), Russian professional football player *

Nikolai Bondarenko Nikolai Nikolayevich Bondarenko (russian: Николай Николаевич Бондаренко; born 3 June 1985) is a Russian opposition politician and blogger, who served as Member of the Saratov Oblast Duma from 2017 until his expulsion ...

(born 1985), Russian politician and blogger * Andrei Murnin (born 1985), Russian professional football player *

Jurgita Dronina Jurgita Dronina (born 27 March 1986) is a Russian-Lithuanian ballet dancer. She is a principal dancer with the National Ballet of Canada, having previously danced with Royal Swedish Ballet, Dutch National Ballet and English National Ballet. Earl ...

(born 1986), Russian-Lithuanian ballet dancer *

Katia Elizarova Ekaterina Igorevna "Katia" Elizarova (russian: Екатерина Игоревна "Катя" Елизарова, link=no; born 17 August 1986) is a Russian model and actress. Early life Elizarova was born in Saratov, Soviet Union. Her great-gr ...

(born 1986), Russian model and actress *

Aleksey Ostapenko Aleksey Aleksandrovich Ostapenko (russian: Алексей Александрович Остапенко, born 26 May 1986) is a volleyball player from Russia. He was born in Saratov. Ostapenko competed at the 2008 Summer Olympics The 2008 ...

(born 1986), Russian volleyball player *

Vladimir Romanenko Vladimir Aleksandrovich Romanenko (russian: Владимир Александрович Романенко; born 30 September 1987) is a Russian former professional football Football is a family of team sports that involve, to varying deg ...

(born 1987), Russian professional football player * Stanislav Romanov (born 1987), Russian professional ice hockey defenceman * Evgeny Tomashevsky (born 1987), Russian chess Grandmaster and former World number 15 *

Kombinaciya Kombinaciya (Russian: Комбинация) is a Russian female pop band. The name means "combination," but the Russian word is a double entendre which also refers to a woman's frilly slip, and at the group's 1988 performance in Moscow they wer ...

(founded 1988), Russian female pop band * Zedd (born 1989), Russian-German Grammy Award-winning musician, music producer and DJ * Artyom Molodtsov (born 1990), Russian professional football player *

Fyodor Smolov Fyodor Mikhaylovich Smolov ( rus, link=yes, Фёдор Миха́йлович Смо́лов, p=ˈfʲɵdər mʲɪˈxajləvʲɪtɕ ˈsmoləf; born 9 February 1990) is a Russian professional footballer who plays as a striker for Dynamo Moscow and ...

(born 1990), Russian professional football player

1991–2000

* Alexandr Loginov (born 1992), Russian biathlete * Valeria Solovyeva (born 1992), Russian tennis player * Elvira T (born 1994), Russian singer and songwriter * Artyom Timofeyev (born 1994), Russian professional football player

Lived in Saratov

* Herwarth Walden (1879–1941), German Expressionist artist, critic, and courageous promoter of early 20th century avant-garde art. Killed in Saratov in a Soviet camp during Stalin's "Purges." * Gavrila Derzhavin (1743–1816), one of the most highly esteemed Russian poets before Alexander Pushkin * Alexander Radishchev (1749–1802), Russian author and social critic * Jean-Victor Poncelet (1788–1867), French engineer and mathematician ( prisoner of war) * Nikolay Zinin (1812–1880), Russian organic chemist * Alexey Bogolyubov (1824–1896), Russian landscape painter *

Lev Igorev Lev Stepanovich Igorev (Russian: Лев Степанович Игорев; 10 February 1821, in Komarovka, Saratov Governorate – 29 December 1893, in Saratov) was a Russian portrait painter in the Academicism, Academic style. Biography His f ...

(1821–1893), Russian portrait painter in the Academic style *

Ilya Salov Ilya Alexandrovich Salov (Илья Александрович Салов, 6 April 1834, Penza, Russian Empire, — 24 December 1902, Saratov, Russian Empire, was a Russian writer, playwright and translator. Having started in mid-1850s (in ''Russky ...

(1834–1902), Russian writer, playwright and translator * Mikhail Vrubel (1856–1910), Russian painter * Fyodor Schechtel (1859–1926), Russian architect, graphic artist and stage designer, the most influential and prolific master of Russian Art Nouveau and late Russian Revival *

Pyotr Stolypin Pyotr Arkadyevich Stolypin ( rus, Пётр Арка́дьевич Столы́пин, p=pʲɵtr ɐrˈkadʲjɪvʲɪtɕ stɐˈlɨpʲɪn; – ) was a Russian politician and statesman. He served as the third prime minister and the interior minist ...

(1862–1911), 3rd Chairman of Council of Ministers of the Russian Empire, served as Prime Minister and Minister of Internal Affairs from 1906 to 1911 * Leonid Sobinov (1872–1934), Imperial Russian operatic tenor * Kuzma Petrov-Vodkin (1878–1939), Russian and Soviet painter and writer * Nikolai Vavilov (1887–1943), Russian and Soviet botanist and geneticist, died in a Saratov jail *

Mikhail Bulgakov Mikhail Afanasyevich Bulgakov ( rus, links=no, Михаил Афанасьевич Булгаков, p=mʲɪxɐˈil ɐfɐˈnasʲjɪvʲɪtɕ bʊlˈɡakəf; – 10 March 1940) was a Soviet writer, medical doctor, and playwright active in the fir ...

(1891–1940), Russian writer and playwright * Konstantin Paustovsky (1892–1968), Russian Soviet writer nominated for the Nobel Prize for literature in 1965 *

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(1900–1973), Russian folk singer * Lev Kassil (1905–1970), Soviet writer of juvenile and young adult literature, depicting Soviet life, teenagers and their world, school, sports, cultural life and war * Oleg Antonov (1906–1984), Soviet aircraft designer * Alfred Schnittke (1934–1998), Soviet and Russian composer *

Boris M. Schein Boris Moiseyevich Schein (born June 22, 1938) is a Russian-American mathematician, an expert in semigroups, and a Distinguished Professor in the Department of Mathematical Sciences at the University of Arkansas.. Schein was born in Moscow on Jun ...

(born 1938), Russian-American mathematician * Eduard Limonov (born 1943), Russian writer, poet, publicist and political dissident * Oleg Yankovsky (1944–2009), Soviet Russian actor * Valeriya (born 1968), Russian pop singer *

Anastasia Karpova Anastasia (from el, Ἀναστασία, translit=Anastasía) is a feminine given name of Greek origin, derived from the Greek word (), meaning "resurrection". It is a popular name in Eastern Europe, particularly in Russia, where it was the most ...

(born 1984), Russian pop singer * Natalia Pogonina (born 1985), Russian chess player who holds the FIDE title of Woman Grandmaster * Polina Gagarina (born 1987), Russian pop singer