List of Ukrainians of Russian ethnicity

This is the list of famous Ukrainians of Russian ethnicity.

Contents 1 List 1.1 Architects 1.2 Artists 1.3 Businesspeople 1.4 Cinema 1.5 Engineers 1.6 Literature 1.7 Military 1.8 Music 1.9 Politicians 1.10 Scientists 1.11 Sportspeople 1.12 Other 2 See also 3 References

List

Architects

• Andrey Kvasov

Artists

• Evgeniy Chuikov
• Ilya Repin
• Victor Palmov

Businesspeople

• Kostyantin Zhevago - Ukraine's youngest billionaire

Cinema

• Sergei Bondarchuk - Soviet film director, screenwriter, and actor.
• Milla Jovovich - American model, actress, singer.

Engineers

• Oleg Antonov - Soviet aircraft designer and painter, the founder of Antonov ASTC.
• Pyotr Gorlov - A geologist and engineer who explored many of the mines in the Donbas region of Ukraine. He founded the city of Horlivka.
• Vasiliy Karazin - Intellectual, inventor, and scientific publisher in Imperial Russia. He is the founder of Kharkiv University, which now bears his name.
• Sergey Korolyov - Head Soviet rocket engineer and designer during the Space Race between the United States and the Soviet Union in the 1950s and 1960s.
• Sergei Alekseyevich Lebedev - Scientist in the fields of electrical engineering and computer science, and designer of the first Soviet computers.
• Alexander Alexandrovich Morozov - Engineer and tank designer.
• Igor Sikorsky - Inventor. He flew the world's first multi-engine fixed-wing aircraft, developed the first of Pan American Airways' ocean-conquering flying boats in the 1930s, and developed the first successful helicopter.

Literature

• Mikhail Bulgakov
• Eduard Limonov
• Yevgeni Petrov
• Olena Teliha

Military

• Mariya Dolina - A Soviet dive bomber pilot, active primarily on the 1st Baltic Front during World War II. On August 18, 1945 Dolina was awarded the title of the Hero of the Soviet Union.
• Oleksander Hrekov - Commander-in-chief of the army of the West Ukrainian National Republic during the Polish-Ukrainian War and architect of the Chortkiv offensive in which the Ukrainian Galician Army advanced 120 km against the Polish army.
• Ivan Konev - Soviet military commander, who led Red Army forces on the Eastern Front during World War II, liberated much of Eastern Europe from occupation by the Axis Powers, and helped in the capture of Germany's capital, Berlin.
• Kliment Voroshilov - Soviet military commander and politician.

Music

• Leff Pouishnoff - Pianist.
• Sergei Prokofiev - Composer.
• Vadim Pruzhanov - Keyboardist.
• Sviatoslav Richter - Pianist.

Politicians

• Mykola Azarov - Former First Vice Prime Minister and Finance Minister of Ukraine.
• Raisa Bogatyrova - Secretary of National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine, and a deputy of the Ukrainian parliament.
• Leonid Brezhnev - General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (and thus political leader of the USSR) from 1964 to 1982.
• Lyudmyla Denisova - current Minister of Labor and Social Policy of Ukraine.
• Ivan Herasymov - Was the oldest member of the Verkhovna Rada until his death.
• Nikita Khrushchev - Served as First Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union from 1953 to 1964, following the death of Joseph Stalin, and Chairman of the Council of Ministers from 1958 to 1964.
• Yevhen Kushnaryov - Former Mayor of Kharkov, Governor of the Kharkov Oblast, Chief of Staff to the President of Ukraine, and Deputy to the Verkhovna Rada.
• Anatoly Lunacharsky
• Volodymyr Puzakov
• Fyodor Sergeyev - head of the Donetsk-Krivoy Rog Soviet Republic.
• Andrei Zhdanov

Scientists

• Nikolai Amosov - Heart surgeon and inventor.
• Nikolay Bogolyubov - Mathematician and theoretical physicist known for his work in statistical field theory and dynamical systems.
• Nikolai Chebotaryov - Mathematician.
• Vladimir Filatov - An ophthalmologist and surgeon best known for his development of tissue therapy. He introduced the tube flap grafting method, corneal transplantation and preservation of grafts from cadaver eyes. He founded The Filatov Institute of Eye Diseases & Tissue Therapy in Odessa.
• Svyatoslav Fyodorov - ophthalmologist, eye microsurgeon, creator of radial keratotomy, professor, full member of the Russian Academy of Sciences and Russian Academy of Medical Sciences and politician.
• George Gamow - Physicist and cosmologist.
• Victor Glushkov - The founding father of information technology in the Soviet Union, and one of the founders of Cybernetics.
• Nikolay Mitrofanovich Krylov - Mathematician.
• Yuri I. Manin - Mathematician.
• Ilya Ilyich Mechnikov - Microbiologist.
• Nikolay Ivanovich Pirogov - Scientist, doctor, pedagogue, public figure, and corresponding member of the Russian Academy of Sciences (1847). He is considered to be the founder of field surgery, and was one of the first surgeons in Europe to use ether as an anaesthetic. He was the first surgeon to use anaesthesia in a field operation (1847), invented various kinds of surgical operations, and developed his own technique of using plaster casts to treat fractured bones.
• Aleksei Pogorelov - Mathematician.
• Vladimir Porfiriev Geologist.
• Nikolai Pylchykov - Physicist, inventor, and geologist.
• Sergey Reformatsky - Chemist.
• Igor Shafarevich - Mathematician.
• Lev Shubnikov - Experimental physicist
• Cyril Sinelnikov - Nuclear physicist.
• Yurii Dmitrievich Sokolov - Mathematician.
• Pyotr Valentinovich Trusov - Physicist.

Sportspeople

• Igor Belanov - A former football forward, who was named European Footballer of the Year in 1986.
• Oleg Blokhin - A Ukrainian football coach of mixed Ukrainian (by mother) and Russian (by father) ethnicity^[1] who was formerly a striker for the USSR national football team. He was named European Footballer of the Year in 1975.
• Yana Klochkova - Swimmer, who has won five Olympic medals in her career, with four of them being gold.
• Ruslan Ponomariov - Chess player, FIDE world champion.
• Ekaterina Serebrianskaya - Rhythmic Gymnast, Olympic champion.

Other

• Alexey Stakhanov - Legendary miner.
• Yaroslav Trofimov - Journalist.
• Anastasia Baburova - Assassinated journalist.

See also

• Russians in Ukraine

References