List of people from Saratov

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

Nikolay Chernyshevsky
(1828–1889)

Alexander Pypin
(1833–1904)

Nikolai Grandkovsky
(1864–1907)

Alexei Rykov
(1881–1938)

Boris Babochkin
(1904–1975)

Oleg Tabakov
(born 1935)

Boris Gromov
(born 1943)

Roman Abramovich
(born 1966)

Yevgeny Mironov
(born 1966)

Alexey Ashapatov
(born 1973)

Ksenya Stepanycheva
(born 1978)

Aleksey Ostapenko
(born 1986)

Fyodor Smolov
(born 1990)

Elvira T
(born 1994)

Coat of Arms of Saratov

Born in Saratov

19th century

1801–1850

Stepan Shevyryov (1806–1864), conservative Russian literary historian and poet
Nikolay Chernyshevsky (1828–1889), Russian revolutionary democrat, materialist philosopher, critic and socialist
Alexander Pypin (1833–1904), Russian literary historian, ethnographer, journalist and editor
Firs Zhuravlev (1836–1901), Russian genre painter

1851–1900

Nikolai Grandkovsky (1864–1907), Russian Realist painter who specialized in portraits and genre scenes
Victor Borisov-Musatov (1870–1905), Russian painter
Pavel Kuznetsov (1878–1968), Russian painter and graphic artist
Alexander Matveyev (1878–1960), Russian sculptor
Alexei Rykov (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
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 (1890–1931), Hebrew-language poet
Isaak Zelensky (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 (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 (1903–1963), Polish film and theatre actor
Boris Babochkin (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 (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 (1920–1997), Soviet film director
Jan Białostocki (1921–1988), Polish art historian
Boris Balashov (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 (born 1931), Soviet wrestler
Lev Pitaevskii (born 1933), Soviet theoretical physicist
Oleg Tabakov (1935-2018), Soviet and Russian actor and the artistic director of the Moscow Art Theatre
Irma Raush (born 1938), Russian actress
Yury Sharov (born 1939), Soviet fencer
Yuri Simonov (born 1941), Russian conductor
Boris Gromov (born 1943), prominent Russian military and political figure; Governor of Moscow Oblast from 2000 to 2012
Evgeny Rukhin (1943–1976), Russian Non-Conformist painter
Lydia Mordkovitch (1944–2014), Russian violinist
Vladimir Lantsberg (1948–2005), Russian poet, songwriter, bard and teacher
Alexander Zemlianichenko (born 1950), Russian photojournalist

1951–1970

Vladimir Konkin (born 1951), Soviet and Russian cinema and theatre actor
Alexander Koreshkov (born 1952), Russian professional football coach and player
Alexander Sukhanov (born 1952), Soviet and Russian poet, composer, bard and mathematician
Lyubov Sliska (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 (born 1964), Ukrainian composer of contemporary classical music
Vladimir Lazarev (born 1964), Russian and French chess Grandmaster
Roman Abramovich (born 1966), Russian businessman, investor and politician
Anatoli Fedotov (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
Filipp Yankovsky (born 1968), Russian actor and film director

1971–1980

Kseniya Kachalina (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 (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 (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 (born 1985), Russian professional football player
Andrei Murnin (born 1985), Russian professional football player
Katia Elizarova (born 1986), Russian model and actress
Aleksey Ostapenko (born 1986), Russian volleyball player
Vladimir Romanenko (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 (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 (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

Anastasia Karpova
(born 1984)

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 (1821–1893), Russian portrait painter in the Academic style
Ilya Salov (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 (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 (1891–1940), Russian writer and playwright
Konstantin Paustovsky (1892–1968), Russian Soviet writer nominated for the Nobel Prize for literature in 1965
Lidia Ruslanova (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
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 (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

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