List of people from Tambov

An A-Z list of famous people from Tambov Oblast, Russia.

Contents 1 A 2 B 3 C 4 D 5 E 6 F 7 G 8 I 9 K 10 L 11 M 12 S 13 P 14 Z

A

Valentin Avrorin (1907–1977) - Member of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR

Vasily Agapkin (1884–1964) - a military orchestra conductor , composer

Nickolai Annenkov (Kokin) (1899–1999) - patriarch of the Moscow Maly Theatre.

Aleksandr Antonov (1888–1922) - A leader of the Tambov peasant revolt (1920-1921)

Vladimir Arnoldi (1871–1924) - botanist

Yury Artyukhin (1930–1998) - an astronaut.

Nickolai Arkharov (1742–1814) - Russian statesman.

B

Nickolai Basov (1922–2001) - physicist

Alexander Bezobrazov (1783–1871) - Russian statesman

Roman Boborykin - Russian statesman

Vsevolod Bobrov (1922–1979) - sportsman

Vladimir Bolotin (Born in 1926) - Mechanical engineer

Yevgeny Boratynsky (1800–1844) - Russian poet

Nickolai Bochkov (Born in 1931) - Russian scientist

Sergei Bryukhanenko (1890–1960) - Russian physician,

David Burlyuk (1882–1967) - Russian poet and painter

C

Yury Chernavsky (17 марта 1947) — Russian composer, record producer.

D

Lev Diomin (1926–1998) - Russian cosmonaut

Leonid Diomin (1897–1973) - Doctor of Geographical Sciences, professor.

Gavrila Derzhavin (1743–1816) - Russian poet

Maksim Dmitriev (1858–1948) - Russian photographer

Fiodor Dubovitsky (1907–1999) - Doctor of Chemical Sciences, professor

E

• Lyudmila Enquist (Narozhilenko) 1964- - champion sprinter

F

• Konstantin Fedin (1892–1977) - Russian writer

• Nikolai Fyodorov (1828–1903) - philosopher, a leading proponent of Russian cosmism.

• Feofan, Vyshensky hermit (Georgy Govorov) (1815–1894) - Tambov bishop )

• Feofil (Rayev) (1738–1811) - Tambov bishop.

• Sergei Filatov (1926–1997) Olympic equestrian champion

• Flavian Flavitsky (1848–1917) - Russian chemist

G

• Zoya Gaidai (1902–1965) - Ukrainian singer (soprano).

• Nikita Galakhov (1864–1912) - the inventor of the elliptical springs for the railroad carriages.

• Nickolai Gamalei (1795–1859) - Russian statesman, Vitebsk governor, served in the Ministry of Internal Affairs.

• Alexander Gerasimov (1881–1963) - Soviet painter

• Natalia Goncharova (1812–1863) - A.S.Pushkin's wife. She was born in the village Karian-Zagryazhskoye of the Tambov province.

• Maksim Gorky (Alexei Peshkov) (1868–1936) - Russian and Soviet writer and public figure, a founder of socialist realism literature.

• Afanasy Grigoriev (1782–1868) - architect, took part in the reconstruction of Moscow after the War 1812.

I

• Konstantin Igumnov (1873–1948) - a pianist-virtuoso, professor of Moscow Conservatory,
• Lev Ilyin (1880–1942) - an architect, in 1925-1938 the main architect of Leningrad.

K

• Paisy Kaisarov (1783–1844) - major-general

• Ivan Kalita (born 1927) - the equestrian sport Olympic Champion (1972).

• Andrei Karelin (1837–1906) - artist, photographer of the Academy of Arts,

• Andrey Kolmogorov (1903–1987) - mathematician

• Zoya Kosmodemyanskaya (1923–1941) - a partisan

• Yevgeny Krinov (1906–1984) - the investigator of meteorites.

• Lev Kuleshov (1899–1970) - Soviet film producer and film critic

L

• Yevgeny Lanceray (1848–1886) - the well-known Russian sculptor.

• Igor Levkoev (1909–1978) - a chemist-photographer

• Alexander Levshin (1899–1982) - a producer.

• Mikhail Lermontov (1814–1841) - the well-known Russian poet.

• Alexander Lodygin (1847–1923) - one of the founders of the electrothermy, author of almost 400 inventions including a tungsten filament lamp. He was born in the village of Stenshino of the Tambov province.

• Luka (Valentin Voino-Yasenetsky) (1877–1961) - Doctor of Medicine and surgeon

• Mikhail Lunin (1787–1845) - the Decembrist

M

• Victor Merzhanov (born 1919) - pianist

S

• Alexei T. Sergeev (b.1919) - bass singer; one of the Alexandrov Ensemble soloists. People's Artist of the USSR, State Prize of the USSR.
• Maria Spiridonova (1884–1941) - revolutionary

• Ruslan Sviridov (Born in 1973) - classical pianist, pedagogue

P

• Denis Plutalov (1976-...) - pianist

• Alexandr Potapov (1985-...) - most popular designer and producer

Z

• Yuri Zhirkov (1983-...) - Russian football player