Russian Famous Baby Names

Is a Tajikistani professional footballer who also holds Russian citizenship. As of 2009, he plays fo

Is a Tajikistani professional footballer who also holds Russian citizenship. As of 2009, he plays for Regar-TadAZ Tursunzoda. He made his professional debut in the Tajik League in 1999 for Varzob Dushanbe.

Is a former Soviet Individual Rhythmic Gymnast. She started gymnastics in 1980 at age 8 and she reti

Is a former Soviet Individual Rhythmic Gymnast. She started gymnastics in 1980 at age 8 and she retired at age 20 in 1992. She was coached by the famous mother/daughter combination of Albina and Irina Deriugina. Alexandra won the All-Around Bronze at the 1988 Seoul Olympics and at the 1992 Barcelona Olympics she won the Gold.

Is a Russian figure skater. She is the 2007 Russian silver medalist and competed at the 2007 Europea

Is a Russian figure skater. She is the 2007 Russian silver medalist and competed at the 2007 European Figure Skating Championships.

Was a Russian-Ukrainian painter (Cubo-Futurist, Suprematist, Constructivist), designer, and one of t

Was a Russian-Ukrainian painter (Cubo-Futurist, Suprematist, Constructivist), designer, and one of the founders of Art Deco. She was born Aleksandra Aleksandrovna Grigorovich in Bialystok, Imperial Russia (now Poland) to a wealthy Belarusian family. Her f

A Russian chess Grandmaster with a FIDE rating of 2510. Her most notable chess achievements include:

A Russian chess Grandmaster with a FIDE rating of 2510. Her most notable chess achievements include: Becoming female European champion in 2004 by winning the tournament in Dresden, Germany. And in August 2006 she became the first Chess960 (Fischer Random) women world champion after beating Germany's top female player Elisabeth Pähtz 5.5-2.5. She defended her title succesful in 2008 by beating Kateryna Lahno 2.5-1.5[1] In November 2004, she achieved the International Grandmaster title, becoming the tenth of the eleven women who have received the highest title awarded by the World Chess Federation (FIDE). She also holds the titles of Woman Grandmaster and International Master

Is a best-selling Russian writer of detective stories. Marinina was born in Lvov, Ukraine to a famil

Is a best-selling Russian writer of detective stories. Marinina was born in Lvov, Ukraine to a family of lawyers. She lived in Leningrad until 1971 and has lived in Moscow since then. She received a degree in law from the Moscow State University in 1979.

Was a Russian Communist revolutionary, first as a member of the Mensheviks, then from 1914 on as a B

Was a Russian Communist revolutionary, first as a member of the Mensheviks, then from 1914 on as a Bolshevik. A Soviet diplomat since 1923, she was appointed USSR Ambassador to Mexico in 1926, becoming one of the earliest female ambassadors.

Is a professional Russian tennis player. Her highest WTA singles ranking is 134, which she reached o

Is a professional Russian tennis player. Her highest WTA singles ranking is 134, which she reached on August 23, 2010. Her career high in doubles is 131, which she reached on April 27, 2009.

The academic coordinator of the Research Centre for Linguistic Typology at La Trobe University, Melb

The academic coordinator of the Research Centre for Linguistic Typology at La Trobe University, Melbourne, Australia. She is Natalia Shvedova's niece and Yuly Aikhenvald's great granddaughter.Aikhenvald is a specialist in Arawak language family (including Tariana), which is spoken in the Brazilian Amazon basin, and has published work on Berber languages, Modern and Classical Hebrew, Ndu languages (Eastern Sepik, Papua-New Guinea), alongside a number of articles and monographs on various aspects of linguistic typology.

Was a Russian mayor-general, brother officer of Russian poet Mikhail Lermontov. Alexandre Remi was b

Was a Russian mayor-general, brother officer of Russian poet Mikhail Lermontov. Alexandre Remi was born in 1807 in the city of Saint Petersburg into a Russian noble family Remi (family) of Swiss descent. The ancestors of Remi came to Russia in 1787, when the officer Jean-Gabriel Remi entered the Engineering Corps in Saint Petersburg.

Is a Russian professional tennis player who has played professionally since 2003. He made his breakt

Is a Russian professional tennis player who has played professionally since 2003. He made his breakthrough in 2008, playing in his first top-level international tournaments on the ATP tour, having spent time playing in "Challenger" and "Futures" events. H

Was a prominent member of the St. Petersburg artistic intellectual Benois family, an influential art

Was a prominent member of the St. Petersburg artistic intellectual Benois family, an influential art critic, artist, preservationist, and founding member of Mir iskusstva. His influence on the modern ballet and stage design is considered seminal.

Is a former Kazakh cyclist. He was a professional racer from 1993 to 2003. Shefer has been a cycling

Is a former Kazakh cyclist. He was a professional racer from 1993 to 2003. Shefer has been a cycling coach from 2007 to 2009 of the Astana team of Alexander Vinokourov, alongside team director Belgian Johan Bruyneel, who had been with the Discovery Channe

Is a Russian pair skater.

Is a Russian pair skater.

Was a Russian painter. He was born close to Saratov on the Volga River, and enrolled at the Academy

Was a Russian painter. He was born close to Saratov on the Volga River, and enrolled at the Academy of Fine Arts in Saint Petersburg at the age of 14.

A Russian theoretical physicist whose main contributions are in the field of condensed matter physic

A Russian theoretical physicist whose main contributions are in the field of condensed matter physics. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in 2003.

Is an Uzbekistani chess Grandmaster.Barsov, lawyer by education, has been a professional chess playe

Is an Uzbekistani chess Grandmaster.Barsov, lawyer by education, has been a professional chess player since the early 1990's, and is one of the premier players in Uzbekistan. For some years he was the coach of the world chess champion Rustam Kasimdzhanov. He won the Vlissingen chess tournament in 1995. Barsov's victories in Oxford (1998) and York (1999, together with Tiger Hillarp Persson and Julian Hodgson) rate among his most prominent successes in international chess tournaments. In 2001 he won the Hastings International Chess Congress together with Harikrishna and Sasikiran.

A Russian-born Finnish footballer who currently plays for FC Saturn in the Russian Premier League. H

A Russian-born Finnish footballer who currently plays for FC Saturn in the Russian Premier League. He is an attacking player who is able to operate in many roles, and is also known as a set piece specialist.Eremenko spent some time with Tromsø IL in Norway (his father played for the senior team, he himself played for the under-fifteens team) and with the youth academy of FC Metz in France, before returning to Finland to make his Veikkausliiga debut with FC Jokerit in 2001. A trial with Aston Villa followed, but in the next season he moved to HJK, and eventually became the league's top player. He won two Finnish championships and one Finnish Cup with HJK. In the summer of 2004 Eremenko moved back abroad,

Is a Russian fencer who won a gold medal in the team sabre competition at the 2000 Summer Olympics i

Is a Russian fencer who won a gold medal in the team sabre competition at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney together with Alexei Diatchenko, Stanislav Pozdniakov, and Sergey Sharikov. He won the bronze medal in the individual and team sabre (together wit

Was a Russian Marxist revolutionary and Soviet politician. Rykov was born in Saratov in 1881 to a pe

Was a Russian Marxist revolutionary and Soviet politician. Rykov was born in Saratov in 1881 to a peasant family.

Was a Russian landscape painter and creator of the lyrical landscape style. Savrasov was born into t

Was a Russian landscape painter and creator of the lyrical landscape style. Savrasov was born into the family of a merchant. He began to draw early and in 1838 he enrolled as a student of professor Rabus at the Moscow School of Painting, Sculpture and Arc

Is a Russian figure skater. Born in Leningrad (now Saint Petersburg), Yagudin was the 2002 Olympic c

Is a Russian figure skater. Born in Leningrad (now Saint Petersburg), Yagudin was the 2002 Olympic champion as well as a four-time World Champion, a two-time World Professional Figure Skating Champion, a three-time European Champion, and three-time Grand

Is a Russian professional ice hockey right winger currently playing with the Montreal Canadiens of t

Is a Russian professional ice hockey right winger currently playing with the Montreal Canadiens of the National Hockey League. He has also been a licensed aircraft pilot for several years.

Is an Estonian figure skater. He is the 1997 Ondrej Nepela Memorial silver medalist. His highest pl

Is an Estonian figure skater. He is the 1997 Ondrej Nepela Memorial silver medalist. His highest placement at an ISU Championship was 14th at the 1998 World Junior Figure Skating Championships and his highest placement at a senior ISU Championship was 18

Is a professional ice hockey player who played 25 games in the National Hockey League. He played for

Is a professional ice hockey player who played 25 games in the National Hockey League. He played for the Toronto Maple Leafs.