Curated category
Russian people of Ukrainian descent
- Mikhail GorbachevMikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev was born on the 2nd of March 1931 in Privolnoye, a small village in the North Caucasus region of what is now Russia.
- Leonid BrezhnevLeonid Ilyich Brezhnev was born on the 19th of December 1906 in Kamenskoye, Ukraine. His father worked as a metalworker and his mother came from Yenakiieve.
- Konstantin ChernenkoKonstantin Chernenko was born to a poor family in the Siberian village of Bolshaya Tes on the 24th of September 1911. He joined the Komsomol Communist Youth…
- Aleksandr SolzhenitsynAleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn was born on the 11th of December 1918 in Kislovodsk. His father Isaakiy Semyonovich Solzhenitsyn died in a hunting accident…
- Vladimir MayakovskyVladimir Vladimirovich Mayakovsky was born in 1893 in Baghdati, Kutais Governorate, Georgia. His father worked as a local forester while his mother managed…
- Alexei NavalnyAlexei Anatolyevich Navalny was born on the 4th of June 1976 in Butyn, a rural locality within the Odintsovsky District of the Moscow Oblast.
- Dmitry MedvedevDmitry Anatolyevich Medvedev was born on the 14th of September 1965 in Leningrad, then part of the Soviet Union. His parents lived in a small apartment…
- Leonid AndreyevLeonid Nikolaievich Andreyev was born in Oryol, Russia, to a middle-class family. His mother came from an old Polish aristocratic family that had fallen on…
- Vladimir VernadskyVladimir Vernadsky was born in Saint Petersburg, Russian Empire, on the 12th of March 1863. His father Ivan Vernadsky served as a professor of political…
- Ukrainians in RussiaIn 1654, the Treaty of Pereiaslav transformed Ukraine into a protectorate of the Tsardom of Russia. This political shift triggered a massive movement of…
- Oleg SalenkoOleg Anatolyevich Salenko entered the world on the 25th of October 1969 in Leningrad, Russian SFSR. His father was Ukrainian and his mother was Russian.
- Leonid GaidaiOn the 30th of January 1923, Leonid Iovich Gaidai was born in Svobodny, a town in the Amur Oblast. His father had been sentenced to hard labor for…
- Vladimir Solovyov (philosopher)Vladimir Sergeyevich Solovyov was born in Moscow during the year 1853. He entered the Imperial Moscow University to study from 1869 until 1873.