List of people from Voronezh
# List of people from Voronezh

This is a list of notable people who were born or have lived in Voronezh, Russia.

## Born in Voronezh

### 18th century

* Yevgeny Bolkhovitinov (1767–1837), Orthodox Metropolitan of Kiev and Galicia
* Mikhail Pavlov (1792–1840), Russian academic and professor at Moscow University

### 19th century

**1801–1850**

* Aleksey Koltsov (1809–1842), Russian poet
* Ivan Nikitin (1824–1861), Russian poet
* Nikolai Ge (1831–1894), Russian realist painter famous for his works on historical and religious motifs
* Vasily Sleptsov (1836–1878), Russian writer and social reformer
* Nikolay Kashkin (1839–1920), Russian music critic

**1851–1900**

* Valentin Zhukovski (1858–1918), Russian orientalist
* Vasily Goncharov (1861–1915), Russian film director and screenwriter, one of the pioneers of the film industry in the Russian Empire
* Anastasiya Verbitskaya (1861–1928), Russian novelist, playwright, screenplay writer, publisher and feminist
* Mikhail Olminsky (1863–1933), Russian Communist
* Serge Voronoff (1866–1951), French surgeon of Russian extraction
* Andrei Shingarev (1869–1918), Russian doctor, publicist and politician
* Ivan Bunin (1870–1953), the first Russian writer to win the Nobel Prize for Literature
* Alexander Ostuzhev (1874–1953), Russian and Soviet drama actor
* Valerian Albanov (1881–1919), Russian navigator and polar explorer
* Jan Hambourg (1882–1947), Russian violinist, a member of a famous musical family
* Volin (1882–1945), anarchist
* Boris Hambourg (1885–1954), Russian cellist who made his career in the USA, Canada, England and Europe
* Boris Eikhenbaum (1886–1959), Russian and Soviet literary scholar, and historian of Russian literature
* Anatoly Durov (1887–1928), Russian animal trainer
* Samuil Marshak (1887–1964), Russian and Soviet writer, translator and children's poet
* Eduard Shpolsky (1892–1975), Russian and Soviet physicist and educator
* George of Syracuse (1893–1981), Eastern Orthodox archbishop of the Ecumenical Patriarchate
* Yevgeny Gabrilovich (1899–1993), Soviet screenwriter
* Semyon Krivoshein (1899–1978), Soviet tank commander; Lieutenant General
* Andrei Platonov (1899–1951), Soviet Russian writer, playwright and poet
* Ivan Pravov (1899–1971), Russian and Soviet film director and screenwriter
* William Dameshek (1900–1969), American hematologist

### 20th century

**1901–1930**

* Ivan Nikolaev (1901–1979), Soviet architect and educator
* Galina Shubina (1902–1980), Russian poster and graphics artist
* Pavel Cherenkov (1904–1990), Soviet physicist who shared the Nobel Prize in physics in 1958 with Ilya Frank and Igor Tamm for the discovery of Cherenkov radiation, made in 1934
* Yakov Kreizer (1905–1969), Soviet field commander, General of the army and Hero of the Soviet Union
* Iosif Rudakovsky (1914–1947), Soviet chess master
* Pawel Kassatkin (1915–1987), Russian writer
* Alexander Shelepin (1918–1994), Soviet state security officer and party statesman
* Grigory Baklanov (1923–2009), Russian writer
* Gleb Strizhenov (1923–1985), Soviet actor
* Vladimir Zagorovsky (1925–1994), Russian chess grandmaster of correspondence chess and the fourth ICCF World Champion between 1962 and 1965
* Konstantin Feoktistov (1926–2009), cosmonaut and engineer
* Vitaly Vorotnikov (1926–2012), Soviet statesman
* Arkady Davidowitz (1930), writer and aphorist

**1931–1950**

* Grigory Sanakoev (1935), Russian International Correspondence Chess Grandmaster, most famous for being the twelfth ICCF World Champion (1984–1991)
* Yuri Zhuravlyov (1935), Russian mathematician
* Mykola Koltsov (1936–2011), Soviet footballer and Ukrainian football children and youth trainer
* Vyacheslav Ovchinnikov (1936), Russian composer
* Iya Savvina (1936–2011), Soviet film actress
* Tamara Zamotaylova (1939), Soviet gymnast, who won four Olympic medals at the 1960 and 1964 Summer Olympics
* Yury Smolyakov (1941), Soviet Olympic fencer
* Yevgeny Lapinsky (1942–1999), Soviet Olympic volleyball player
* Galina Bukharina (1945), Soviet athlete
* Vladimir Patkin (1945), Soviet Olympic volleyball player
* Vladimir Proskurin (1945), Soviet Russian football player and coach
* Aleksandr Maleyev (1947), Soviet artistic gymnast
* Valeri Nenenko (1950), Russian professional football coach and player

**1951–1970**

* Vladimir Rokhlin, Jr. (1952), Russian-American mathematician and professor of computer science and mathematics at the Yale University
* Lyubov Burda (1953), Russian artistic gymnast
* Mikhail Khryukin (1955), Russian swimmer
* Aleksandr Tkachyov (1957), Russian gymnast and two times Olympic Champion
* Nikolai Vasilyev (1957), Russian professional football coach and player
* Aleksandr Babanov (1958), Russian professional football coach and player
* Sergey Koliukh (1960), Russian political figure; 4th Mayor of Voronezh
* Yelena Davydova (1961), Soviet gymnast
* Aleksandr Borodyuk (1962), Russian football manager and former international player for USSR and Russia
* Aleksandr Chayev (1962), Russian swimmer
* Elena Fanailova (1962), Russian poet
* Alexander Litvinenko (1962–2006), officer of the Russian FSB and political dissident
* Yuri Shishkin (1963), Russian professional football coach and player
* Yuri Klinskikh (1964–2000), Russian musician, singer, songwriter, arranger, founder rock band Sektor Gaza
* Yelena Ruzina (1964), athlete
* Igor Bragin (1965), footballer
* Gennadi Remezov (1965), Russian professional footballer
* Valeri Shmarov (1965), Russian football player and coach
* Konstantin Chernyshov (1967), Russian chess grandmaster
* Igor Pyvin (1967), Russian professional football coach and player
* Vladimir Bobrezhov (1968), Soviet sprint canoer

**1971–1980**

* Oleg Gorobiy (1971), Russian sprint canoer
* Anatoli Kanishchev (1971), Russian professional association footballer
* Ruslan Mashchenko (1971), Russian hurdler
* Aleksandr Ovsyannikov (1974), Russian professional footballer
* Dmitri Sautin (1974), Russian diver who has won more medals than any other Olympic diver
* Sergey Verlin (1974), Russian sprint canoer
* Maxim Narozhnyy (1975–2011), Paralympian athlete
* Aleksandr Cherkes (1976), Russian football coach and player
* Andrei Durov (1977), Russian professional footballer
* Nikolai Kryukov (1978), Russian artistic gymnast
* Kirill Gerstein (1979), Jewish American and Russian pianist
* Evgeny Ignatov (1979), Russian sprint canoeist
* Aleksey Nikolaev (1979), Russian-Uzbekistan footballer
* Aleksandr Palchikov (1979), former Russian professional football player
* Konstantin Skrylnikov (1979), Russian professional footballer
* Aleksandr Varlamov (1979), Russian diver
* Angelina Yushkova (1979), Russian gymnast
* Maksim Potapov (1980), professional ice hockey player

**1981–1990**

* Alexander Krysanov (1981), Russian professional ice hockey forward
* Yulia Nachalova (1981–2019), Soviet and Russian singer, actress and television presenter
* Andrei Ryabykh (1982), Russian football player
* Maxim Shchyogolev (1982), Russian theatre and film actor
* Eduard Vorganov (1982), Russian professional road bicycle racer
* Anton Buslov (1983–2014), Russian astrophysicist, blogger, columnist at The New Times magazine and expert on transportation systems
* Dmitri Grachyov (1983), Russian footballer
* Aleksandr Kokorev (1984), Russian professional football player
* Dmitry Kozonchuk (1984), Russian professional road bicycle racer for Team Katusha
* Alexander Khatuntsev (1985), Russian professional road bicycle racer
* Egor Vyaltsev (1985), Russian professional basketball player
* Samvel Aslanyan (1986), Russian handball player
* Maksim Chistyakov (1986), Russian football player
* Yevgeniy Dorokhin (1986), Russian sprint canoer
* Daniil Gridnev (1986), Russian professional footballer
* Vladimir Moskalyov (1986), Russian football referee
* Elena Danilova (1987), Russian football forward
* Sektor Gaza (1987–2000), punk band
* Regina Moroz (1987), Russian female volleyball player
* Roman Shishkin (1987), Russian footballer
* Viktor Stroyev (1987), Russian footballer
* Elena Terekhova (1987), Russian international footballer
* Natalia Goncharova (1988), Russian diver
* Yelena Yudina (1988), Russian skeleton racer
* Dmitry Abakumov (1989), Russian professional association football player
* Igor Boev (1989), Russian professional racing cyclist
* Ivan Dobronravov (1989), Russian actor
* Anna Bogomazova (1990), Russian kickboxer, martial artist, professional wrestler and valet
* Yuriy Kunakov (1990), Russian diver
* Vitaly Melnikov (1990), Russian backstroke swimmer
* Kristina Pravdina (1990), Russian female artistic gymnast
* Vladislav Ryzhkov (1990), Russian footballer

**1991–2000**

* Danila Poperechny (1994), Russian stand-up comedian, actor, youtuber, podcaster
* Darya Stukalova (1994), Russian Paralympic swimmer
* Viktoria Komova (1995), Russian Olympic gymnast
* Vitali Lystsov (1995), Russian professional footballer
* Marina Nekrasova (1995), Russian-born Azerbaijani artistic gymnast
* Vladislav Parshikov (1996), Russian football player
* Dmitri Skopintsev (1997), Russian footballer
* Alexander Eickholtz (1998) American sportsman
* Angelina Melnikova (2000), Russian Olympic gymnast

## Lived in Voronezh

* Aleksey Khovansky (1814–1899), editor
* Ivan Kramskoi (1837–1887), Russian painter and art critic
* Mitrofan Pyatnitsky (1864–1927), Russian musician
* Mikhail Tsvet (1872–1919), Russian botanist
* Alexander Kuprin (1880–1960), Russian painter, a member of the Jack of Diamonds group
* Yevgeny Zamyatin (1884-1937), Russian writer, went to school in Voronezh
* Osip Mandelstam (1891–1938), Russian poet
* Nadezhda Mandelstam (1899-1980), Russian writer
* Gavriil Troyepolsky (1905–1995), Soviet writer
* Nikolay Basov (1922–2001), Soviet physicist and educator
* Vasily Peskov (1930–2013), Russian writer, journalist, photographer, traveller and ecologist
* Valentina Popova (1972), Russian weightlifter
* Igor Samsonov, painter
* Tatyana Zrazhevskaya, Russian boxer
