This is the list of famous Ukrainians of Russian ethnicity.

List

Actors

• Boryslav Brondukov
• Yuri Sergeevich Lavrov
• Nikolay Olyalin

Architects

• Andrey Kvasov

Artists and sculptors

• Viktor Burduk, an artist, a blacksmith.
• Evgeniy Chuikov
• Ilya Repin
• Victor Palmov
• Yevgeny Vuchetich

Businesspeople

• Kostyantin Zhevago - Ukraine's youngest billionaire
• Vadim Novinsky^[1] - Billionaire

Engineers

• Oleg Antonov - Soviet aircraft designer and painter, the founder of Antonov ASTC.
• Pyotr Gorlov - geologist and engineer who explored many of the mines in the Donbas region of Ukraine. He founded the city of Horlivka.
• Vasiliy Karazin - intellectual, inventor, and scientific publisher in Imperial Russia. He is the founder of Kharkiv University, which now bears his name.^{[citation needed]}
• Sergei Alekseyevich Lebedev - scientist in the fields of electrical engineering and computer science, and designer of the first Soviet computers.
• Alexander Alexandrovich Morozov - engineer and tank designer.
• Igor Sikorsky - Russian-American aviation pioneer in both helicopters and fixed-wing aircraft.

Literature

• Fyodor Berezin, Russian-language science fiction writer and Deputy Minister of Defence of the Donetsk People's Republic.
• Mikhail Bulgakov
• Eduard Limonov
• Yevgeni Petrov
• Vladislav Adolfovitch Rusanov, Russian-language science fiction writer and chairman of the Donetsk People's Republic Writer's Union.
• Olena Teliha
• Vladislav Rusanov

Military

• Oleksander Hrekov - Commander-in-chief of the army of the West Ukrainian National Republic during the Polish-Ukrainian War and architect of the Chortkiv offensive in which the Ukrainian Galician Army advanced 120 km against the Polish army.
• Ivan Konev - Soviet military commander, who led Red Army forces on the Eastern Front during World War II, liberated much of Eastern Europe from occupation by the Axis Powers, and helped in the capture of Germany's capital, Berlin.
• Kliment Voroshilov - Soviet military commander and politician.

Music

• Leff Pouishnoff - pianist
• Anastasia Prikhodko - Ukrainian singer of mixed Ukrainian (by mother) and Russian (by father) ethnicity.
• Sergei Prokofiev - composer
• Vadim Pruzhanov - keyboardist
• Sviatoslav Richter - pianist
• Hanna Syedokova - singer

Politicians

• Mykola Azarov - former Prime Minister and Finance Minister of Ukraine of mixed Russian (by mother) and Estonian (by father) ethnicity.^[2][3][4][5]
• Raisa Bogatyrova - Secretary of National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine, and a deputy of the Ukrainian parliament.
• Leonid Brezhnev - General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (and thus political leader of the USSR) from 1964 to 1982.
• Lyudmyla Denisova - current Minister of Labor and Social Policy of Ukraine.
• Ivan Herasymov - was the oldest member of the Verkhovna Rada until his death.
• Nikita Khrushchev - served as First Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union from 1953 to 1964, following the death of Joseph Stalin, and Chairman of the Council of Ministers from 1958 to 1964.
• Yevhen Kushnaryov - former Mayor of Kharkov, Governor of the Kharkov Oblast, Chief of Staff to the President of Ukraine, and Deputy to the Verkhovna Rada.
• Viktor Yanukovych - former Ukrainian President of mixed Russian (by mother) and Polish-Belarusian (by father) ethnicity.^[6][7][8]
• Anatoly Lunacharsky
• Volodymyr Puzakov
• Fyodor Sergeyev - head of the Donetsk-Krivoy Rog Soviet Republic.
• Andrei Zhdanov

Scientists

• Nikolai Amosov - heart surgeon and inventor.
• Nikolay Bogolyubov - mathematician and theoretical physicist known for his work in statistical field theory and dynamical systems.
• Nikolai Chebotaryov - mathematician.
• Vladimir Filatov - ophthalmologist and surgeon best known for his development of tissue therapy. He introduced the tube flap grafting method, corneal transplantation and preservation of grafts from cadaver eyes. He founded The Filatov Institute of Eye Diseases & Tissue Therapy in Odessa.
• Svyatoslav Fyodorov - ophthalmologist, eye microsurgeon, creator of radial keratotomy, professor, full member of the Russian Academy of Sciences and Russian Academy of Medical Sciences and politician.
• George Gamow - physicist and cosmologist.
• Victor Glushkov - founding father of information technology in the Soviet Union, and one of the founders of Cybernetics.
• Nikolay Mitrofanovich Krylov - mathematician.
• Yuri I. Manin - mathematician.
• Ilya Ilyich Mechnikov - microbiologist.
• Nikolay Ivanovich Pirogov - scientist, doctor, pedagogue, public figure, and corresponding member of the Russian Academy of Sciences (1847). He is considered to be the founder of field surgery, and was one of the first surgeons in Europe to use ether as an anaesthetic. He was the first surgeon to use anaesthesia in a field operation (1847), invented various kinds of surgical operations, and developed his own technique of using plaster casts to treat fractured bones.
• Aleksei Pogorelov - mathematician.
• Vladimir Porfiriev - geologist.
• Nikolai Pylchykov - physicist, inventor, and geologist.
• Sergey Reformatsky - chemist.
• Igor Shafarevich - mathematician.
• Lev Shubnikov - experimental physicist
• Cyril Sinelnikov - nuclear physicist.
• Yurii Dmitrievich Sokolov - mathematician.
• Pyotr Valentinovich Trusov - physicist.

Sportspeople

• Igor Belanov - former football forward, who was named European Footballer of the Year in 1986.
• Oleg Blokhin - Ukrainian football coach of mixed Ukrainian (by mother) and Russian (by father) ethnicity^[9] who was formerly a striker for the USSR national football team. He was named European Footballer of the Year in 1975.
• Yelizaveta Bryzghina - Ukrainian sprint athlete.
• Fedor Emelianenko - MMA and sambo fighter.^[10][11][12]
• Sergey Karjakin - chess player.
• Yana Klochkova - swimmer, who has won five Olympic medals in her career, with four of them being gold.
• Viktor Kolotov - FC Dynamo Kyiv and USSR national football team goalkeeper. UEFA Euro 1972 runner-up.
• Nikita Krylov - UFC fighter.
• Ruslan Ponomariov - chess player, FIDE world champion.
• Yevhen Rudakov - FC Dynamo Kyiv and USSR national football team goalkeeper. UEFA Euro 1972 runner-up.
• Ekaterina Serebrianskaya - rhythmic gymnast, Olympic champion.
• Vyacheslav Shevchuk - Ukrainian football defender.
• Andriy Nesmachnyi - Ukrainian football defender.
• Alexander Volkov - one of the founders of BC Kiev, and a former basketball player.
• Yuriy Voynov - FC Dynamo Kyiv and USSR national football team midfielder. UEFA Euro 1960 winner.
• Andriy Voronin - Ukrainian striker.
• Alexander Vyukhin - ice hockey goaltender who last played for Lokomotiv Yaroslavl. He perished in the tragic 2011 Lokomotiv Yaroslavl air disaster outside of Yaroslavl, Russia.

Other

• Alexey Stakhanov - legendary miner.
• Yaroslav Trofimov - journalist.
• Anastasia Baburova - assassinated journalist.

See also

• Russians in Ukraine

References