Russian Famous Names Starting with Letter Y

Is a Russian professional football player. As of September 2009, he plays in the Russian Second Divi

Is a Russian professional football player. As of September 2009, he plays in the Russian Second Division for FC Krasnodar-2000.

Was a Soviet diplomat. Malik was the Soviet ambassador to the United Nations from 1948 to 1952, and

Was a Soviet diplomat. Malik was the Soviet ambassador to the United Nations from 1948 to 1952, and from 1968 to 1972.At the time of the United Nations Security Council Resolution 82 on 25 June 1950, Malik was boycotting the presence of a Nationalist Chin

Was, together with Aleksandr Khanzhonkov and Vladimir Gardin, one of the founding fathers of cinema

Was, together with Aleksandr Khanzhonkov and Vladimir Gardin, one of the founding fathers of cinema of Russia. In the period from 1911 to 1918 he directed some 80 features, including The Queen of Spades (1916) and Father Sergius (1917), which have been ac

Is a Russian professional footballer. As of 2009, he plays for FC Dniester Ovidiopol.

Is a Russian professional footballer. As of 2009, he plays for FC Dniester Ovidiopol.

Was a Jewish sabre fencer of the Soviet Union. He competed in three Olympiads, and won two medals fo

Was a Jewish sabre fencer of the Soviet Union. He competed in three Olympiads, and won two medals for the Soviet Union's fencing team.

Was a Russian chess Grandmaster, theoretician, and writer.After a brief foray into "over-the-board"

Was a Russian chess Grandmaster, theoretician, and writer.After a brief foray into "over-the-board" play, he turned to correspondence chess in the early 1960s with immediate success (joint first place in the U.S.S.R. Correspondence Championship in 1962.) He became an ICCGM (International Correspondence Chess Grandmaster) in 1966, and would go on to compete in the final of the World Correspondence Championship five times.

Was a prolific Soviet physicist. He played an important role in the development of Soviet nuclear an

Was a prolific Soviet physicist. He played an important role in the development of Soviet nuclear and thermonuclear weapons, and made important contributions to the fields of adsorption and catalysis, shock waves, nuclear physics, particle physics, astrop

A Russian professional football (soccer) player currently contracted to FC Rostov in Russia. Being o

A Russian professional football (soccer) player currently contracted to FC Rostov in Russia. Being of Jewish ethnicity, he is set to join Hapoel Petah Tikva in Israel on trial. There, he would not count as a foreign player.[1]

Was a Soviet wrestler who competed in the 1952 Summer Olympics.

Was a Soviet wrestler who competed in the 1952 Summer Olympics.

Was a Russian author of many popular science books. Works include Physics Can Be Fun and Mathematics

Was a Russian author of many popular science books. Works include Physics Can Be Fun and Mathematics Can Be Fun (both translated from Russian into English).

A Russian classical pianist Professor of Piano and Artist-in-Residence at the University of Alabama

A Russian classical pianist Professor of Piano and Artist-in-Residence at the University of Alabama at Birmingham.Since his American debut as the silver medalist at the Tenth Van Cliburn International Piano Competition in 1997, Yakov Kasman has performed concerts in the United States, Russia, and Asia, and appeared as soloist with more than forty orchestras.He has performed piano concertos and recitals at numerous summer festivals including Brevard, the Peninsula, Las Vegas, Lake Placid, Sewanee and the Grand Teton winter festival. Active as a chamber musician, he has collaborated with the Manhattan, Parissi, Charleston, Shanghai, Tokyo and Talich String Quartets. He regularly gives master classes and serves as competition juror.

Was a U.S. (Russian-born) Romance etymologist and philologist. His specialty was the development of

Was a U.S. (Russian-born) Romance etymologist and philologist. His specialty was the development of Latin words, roots, prefixes, and suffixes in modern Romance languages, particularly Spanish. He was the founder of the journal Romance Philology.Malkiel was born in Kiev to a Russian-Jewish family, and was brought up and educated in Berlin, after the Russian Civil War. Despite an early interest in literature, he ended up studying linguistics at the Humboldt University of Berlin, then known as the Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität. Being a Jew a 1930s Germany was an obstacle to his education but one he was able to overcome; his family finally emigrated to the United States in 1940.[1]

Was a leading Pushkinist poet who tried to uphold the waning traditions of Russian Romantic poetry d

Was a leading Pushkinist poet who tried to uphold the waning traditions of Russian Romantic poetry during the heyday of realistic prose.

Is a Russian professional football player. As of August 2009, he plays in the Russian Second Divisio

Is a Russian professional football player. As of August 2009, he plays in the Russian Second Division for FC Saturn-2 Moscow Oblast.

Is a retired ice hockey player who played in the Soviet Hockey League and National Hockey League. He

Is a retired ice hockey player who played in the Soviet Hockey League and National Hockey League. He played for HC Dynamo Moscow, Winnipeg Jets, and New York Islanders.

Is a Russian professional football player. As of August 2009, he plays in the Russian Second Divisio

Is a Russian professional football player. As of August 2009, he plays in the Russian Second Division for FC FSA Voronezh.

Is a Russian professional football player. As of August 2009, he plays in the Russian Second Divisio

Is a Russian professional football player. As of August 2009, he plays in the Russian Second Division for FC Volga Tver.

Is a Russian professional football player. In 2009, he played in the Russian Second Division for FC

Is a Russian professional football player. In 2009, he played in the Russian Second Division for FC SKA Rostov-on-Don.

Is a junior Russian tennis player playing in the ITF Women's Circuit. Her highest WTA singles rankin

Is a junior Russian tennis player playing in the ITF Women's Circuit. Her highest WTA singles ranking is 823, which she reached on September 20, 2010. In 2009 she played the in the third round of 2009 Australian Open girls' singles event, and the first ro

Is a Russian Saber fencer. At the Inaugural 2010 Youth Olympics in Singapore she won two Olympic bra

Is a Russian Saber fencer. At the Inaugural 2010 Youth Olympics in Singapore she won two Olympic branded Gold Medals becoming the only Russian fencer ever achieving this feat.

Songwriter and singer. one of the brightest figures of Russian underground punk-rock music. She play

Songwriter and singer. one of the brightest figures of Russian underground punk-rock music. She played solo and with several artists, such as Egor Letov and Velikie Oktyabri (Great Octobers) rock band. She was greatly influenced by Alexander Bashlachev, w

Is a Russian team handball player, playing on the Russian women's national handball team.[1] She won

Is a Russian team handball player, playing on the Russian women's national handball team.[1] She won gold medal with the Russian winning team in the 2007 World Women's Handball Championship, and was also voted into the championship's All-Star Team.

Is a Russian professional football player. As of September 2009, he plays in the Russian Second Divi

Is a Russian professional football player. As of September 2009, he plays in the Russian Second Division for FC Khimik Dzerzhinsk.

A Russian professional footballer of Ukrainian descent, who plays in Estonian Meistriliiga, for FC L

A Russian professional footballer of Ukrainian descent, who plays in Estonian Meistriliiga, for FC Levadia Tallinn. He plays the position of striker and is 1.88 m tall and weighs 75 kg.

Is a Russian professional football player. As of August 2009, he plays for FC Dynamo St. Petersburg.

Is a Russian professional football player. As of August 2009, he plays for FC Dynamo St. Petersburg.