Russian Famous Names Starting with Letter L

Is the most successful Olympic speed skater in terms of Olympic gold medals. Representing the USSR O

Is the most successful Olympic speed skater in terms of Olympic gold medals. Representing the USSR Olympic team during the Olympic Winter Games in 1960 and 1964, she won a total of six gold medals, still a record number for a speed skater. She also won 25

Is a Latvian women's basketball player currently playing for Gambrinus Sika Brno and Latvia women's

Is a Latvian women's basketball player currently playing for Gambrinus Sika Brno and Latvia women's national basketball team. Both of her parents were basketball coaches and her younger sister, Liga, is a former basketball player. Jansone started playing

Is a professional tennis player from Latvia who has won sixteen International Tennis Federation doub

Is a professional tennis player from Latvia who has won sixteen International Tennis Federation doubles titles and one Women's Tennis Association doubles title. Dekmeijere has been as high as World Number 54 in the overall women's doubles rankings, a rank

Is an Estonian professional footballer, who plays in Estonian Meistriliiga, for JK Nõmme Kalju. He

Is an Estonian professional footballer, who plays in Estonian Meistriliiga, for JK Nõmme Kalju. He plays the position of midfielder. He won a total of 36 international caps for the Estonia national football team.

Was an Academy Award-winning Russian-born actress in French cinema. Born in Petrograd, Russia, Kedro

Was an Academy Award-winning Russian-born actress in French cinema. Born in Petrograd, Russia, Kedrova spent most of her life in France.

Is a Russian figure skater. She is the 2005-2006 Russian national bronze medalist.

Is a Russian figure skater. She is the 2005-2006 Russian national bronze medalist.

Is a former Soviet cross country skier who competed from 1982 to 1986, training at Trudovye Rezervy

Is a former Soviet cross country skier who competed from 1982 to 1986, training at Trudovye Rezervy in Novosibirsk. She won a gold medal in the 4x5 km at the 1985 FIS Nordic World Ski Championships in Seefeld and finished 8th in the 20 km at those same ch

Was an Estonian writer. During the Soviet occupation of Estonia in the 1960s, she was a member of th

Was an Estonian writer. During the Soviet occupation of Estonia in the 1960s, she was a member of the Communist Party.

Is a Lithuanian swimmer who competed for the Soviet Union, winner of a gold medal in 200 m breaststr

Is a Lithuanian swimmer who competed for the Soviet Union, winner of a gold medal in 200 m breaststroke with the Olympic record time of 2:29:54 at the 1980 Summer Olympics.

Was a notable biochemist, physiologist and humanist whose medical discoveries saved thousands of liv

Was a notable biochemist, physiologist and humanist whose medical discoveries saved thousands of lives at the fronts of World War II. She is best known for her pioneering work on blood-brain barrier, which she described as hemato-encephalic barrier in 192

Is a Lithuanian professional tennis player, who achieved her highest ranking 197 on September 28, 2

Is a Lithuanian professional tennis player, who achieved her highest ranking 197 on September 28, 2009 .

A former Junior World Number 1 (1999) tennis star. In addition to gaining the coveted top spot, Lina

A former Junior World Number 1 (1999) tennis star. In addition to gaining the coveted top spot, Lina won the US Open Junior title. She has however had a career blighted by injury to date.After a hugely successful year in 2001, when she reached the quarter finals at Roland Garros (seventh youngest player ever to do so) and the Wimbledon last 16, as the world number 34 she was badly injured at the 2002 Australian Open. She was not effectively back until February 2003 when she climbed back up the rankings (reached 25) after wins over players of the calibre of Monica Seles, Elena Bovina, Nadia Petrova and then world number 1 Kim Clijsters.

Is a Lithuanian footballer currently playing for FC Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk. Klimavicius signed a four

Is a Lithuanian footballer currently playing for FC Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk. Klimavicius signed a four-year contract with Dnipro in January 2008 after half a season with FK Suduva, his second club in Lithuania following FK Ekranas.

Is a Lithuanian professional footballer currently playing for Gyori ETO FC.Pilibaitis joined Kaunas

Is a Lithuanian professional footballer currently playing for Gyori ETO FC.Pilibaitis joined Kaunas aged 17 in 2002, gradually working his way into the first team as he developed in the following years. This process was aided by a loan spell at Klaipeda s

Was a 19th century chess master, famous primarily for a game he lost against Adolf Anderssen, which

Was a 19th century chess master, famous primarily for a game he lost against Adolf Anderssen, which was so brilliant it was named "The Immortal Game" .

Is a Russian volleyball player. Her maiden name is Lioubov Sokolova. She is also known as Lioubov Ki

Is a Russian volleyball player. Her maiden name is Lioubov Sokolova. She is also known as Lioubov Kiliç. She was a member of the national team that won the gold medals at 2006 Volleyball World Championship in Japan and the silver medals at the 2000 Summer

Was a Russian avant-garde artist (Cubist, Suprematist and Constructivist), painter and designer. Pop

Was a Russian avant-garde artist (Cubist, Suprematist and Constructivist), painter and designer. Popova was born in Ivanovskoe, near Moscow, to the wealthy family of Sergei Maximovich Popov, a successful textile merchant and vigorous patron of the arts.

Is a Russian woman International Correspondence Chess Grandmaster, the fourth ICCF Women's World Cha

Is a Russian woman International Correspondence Chess Grandmaster, the fourth ICCF Women's World Champion in correspondence chess (1984–1992). Moreover she is a Woman International Master in the over the board chess.

Is a Russian team handball player and world champion with the Russian women's national handball team

Is a Russian team handball player and world champion with the Russian women's national handball team. She plays for the club Krim Ljubljana. She is of Kalmyk ethnicity.

Liza spent her childhood in Almaty, Kazakhstan. Her parents had been removed from their native villa

Liza spent her childhood in Almaty, Kazakhstan. Her parents had been removed from their native village of Katyr-Yurt, Chechnya in February 1944 as a result of the forced deportations of most Chechens to Central Asia. In 1982 her father decided to move the

Russian singer, actress, TV and film director, better known under the pseudonym stage Lolita.

Russian singer, actress, TV and film director, better known under the pseudonym stage Lolita.

Is a Russian woman International Correspondence Chess Grandmaster, most famous for being the second

Is a Russian woman International Correspondence Chess Grandmaster, most famous for being the second ICCF Women's World Champion in correspondence chess between 1972 and 1977.

Is a female wrestler from Russia.

Is a female wrestler from Russia.

Also known as Louis Buckhalter or Louis Buchalter, was a Lithuanian Jewish footballer and cricketer

Also known as Louis Buckhalter or Louis Buchalter, was a Lithuanian Jewish footballer and cricketer who represented his adopted country, Ireland, at both sports. The Buchalter family emigrated from Lithuania to Ireland in the 1890s to escape anti-Semitism

Was a Russian-American chess master.He was born in Odessa in 1876. After graduating from Nicholas Co

Was a Russian-American chess master.He was born in Odessa in 1876. After graduating from Nicholas College, he pursued journalism until, in 1902, he journeyed to Monte Carlo to participate in the international masters’ tournament played there under the auspices of the Cercle des Etrangers. He gave quick coverage of this tournament in Odesskiya Novosti.