Russian Walk of Fame

Alexei Abrikosov

Physicist

Ivan Aivazovsky

1817–1900

Painter — marine artist

Anna Akhmatova

1889–1966

Poet — Silver Age

Grigori Alexandrov

1903–1983

Film director

Zhores Alferov

Physicist

Isaac Babel

1894–1941

Writer — prose

Mily Balakirev

1837–1910

Composer

Nikolay Basov

Physicist

Alexander Blok

1880–1921

Poet — Symbolism, Silver Age

Alexander Borodin

1833–1887

Composer

Iosif Brodsky

Poet

Mikhail Bulgakov

1891–1940

Writer — 'The Master and Margarita'

Ivan Bunin

Writer

Aleksander Butlerov

1828–1876

Chemist

Marc Chagall

1887–1985

Painter

Anton Chekhov

1860–1904

Writer — playwright, master of the short story

Semyon Chelyuskin

1700–1764

Explorer

Pavel Cherenkov

Physicist

Sergei Diaghilev

1872–1929

Impresario

Fyodor Dostoevsky

1821–1881

Writer — classic of world literature

Sergey Eisenstein

1898–1946

Film director

Ilya Frank

Physicist

Yuri Gagarin

1934–1968

Cosmonaut — first human in space

Leonid Gaidai

1923–1993

Film director

Alexander Galich

1918–1977

Poet

Emil Gilels

1916–1985

Pianist

Vitaly Ginzburg

Physicist

Mikhail Glinka

1804–1857

Composer

Nikolai Gogol

1809–1852

Writer

Maxim Gorky

1868–1936

Writer — Socialist Realism

Dmitri Hvorostovsky

1962–2017

Opera singer

Wassily Kandinsky

1866–1944

Painter

Leonid Kantorovich

Economist

Valentin Kargin

1907–1969

Chemist

Andrey Kolmogorov

1903–1987

Mathematician

Sergei Korolev

1907–1966

Engineer — space program

Sofia Kovalevskaya

1850–1891

Mathematician — first female professor

Savely Kramarov

1934–1995

Actor

Ivan Krylov

1769–1844

Fabulist

Igor Kurchatov

1903–1960

Physicist — nuclear science

Mikhail Lermontov

1814–1841

Poet — Romanticism

Isaak Levitan

1860–1900

Painter

Nikolai Lobachevsky

1792–1856

Mathematician — non-Euclidean geometry

Mikhail Lomonosov

1711–1765

Scientist — polymath

Aleksandr Lyapunov

1857–1918

Mathematician

Kazimir Malevich

1879–1935

Painter

Osip Mandelstam

1891–1938

Poet — Acmeism

Andrey Markov

1856–1922

Mathematician

Vladimir Mayakovsky

1893–1930

Poet — Futurism

Ilya Mechnikov

1845–1916

Biologist

Dmitri Mendeleev

1834–1907

Chemist — the periodic table

Vsevolod Meyerhold

1874–1940

Theatre director

Vera Mukhina

1889–1953

Sculptor

Dmitry Muratov

Journalist

Modest Mussorgsky

1839–1881

Composer

Vladimir Nabokov

1899–1977

Writer — world literature

Ernst Neizvestny

1925–2016

Sculptor

Vladimir Nemirovich-Danchenko

1858–1943

Theatre director

Rudolf Nureyev

1938–1993

Dancer

Elena Obraztsova

1939–2015

Opera singer

David Oistrakh

1908–1974

Violinist

Bulat Okudzhava

1924–1997

Poet — bard

Boris Pasternak

1890–1960

Writer

Ivan Pavlov

1849–1936

Physiologist

Anna Pavlova

1881–1931

Ballerina

Nikolai Pirogov

1810–1891

Surgeon — medicine

Maya Plisetskaya

1925–2015

Ballerina

Alexander Prokhorov

Physicist

Sergei Prokofiev

1891–1953

Composer — 20th century

Alexander Pushkin

1799–1837

Poet — founder of Russian literature

Sergei Rachmaninoff

1873–1943

Composer — Romanticism

Sergius of Radonezh

Spiritual leader

Ilya Repin

1844–1930

Painter

Sviatoslav Richter

1915–1997

Pianist

Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov

1844–1908

Composer — Russian classical school

Mstislav Rostropovich

1927–2007

Cellist

Andrei Rublev

Icon painter

Andrei Sakharov

1921–1989

Scientist

Mikhail Saltykov-Shchedrin

1826–1889

Writer — satire

Alexei Savrasov

1830–1897

Painter

Nikolai Semyonov

Chemist

Valentin Serov

1865–1911

Painter

Varlam Shalamov

1907–1982

Writer — Gulag prose

Feodor Shalyapin

1873–1938

Opera singer

Mikhail Sholokhov

Writer

Dmitry Shostakovich

1906–1975

Composer

Leonid Sobinov

1872–1934

Opera singer

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

1918–2008

Writer

Konstantin Stanislavski

1863–1938

Theatre director

Igor Stravinsky

1882–1971

Composer

Arkady Strugatsky

1925–1991

Writer — science fiction

Boris Strugatsky

1933–2012

Writer — science fiction

Vasily Surikov

1848–1916

Painter

Igor Tamm

Physicist

Andrei Tarkovsky

1932–1986

Film director

Pyotr Tchaikovsky

1840–1893

Composer — ballets and symphonies

Aleksey N. Tolstoy

1883–1945

Writer

Leo Tolstoy

1828–1910

Writer — world classic

Konstantin Tsiolkovsky

1857–1935

Scientist — cosmonautics

Marina Tsvetaeva

1892–1941

Poet — Silver Age

Ivan Turgenev

1818–1883

Writer — Realism

Galina Ulanova

1910–1998

Ballerina

Yevgeny Vakhtangov

1883–1922

Theatre director

Victor Vasnetsov

1848–1926

Painter

Nikolai Vavilov

1887–1943

Biologist — genetics

Vladimir Vernadsky

1863–1945

Scientist

Mikhail Vrubel

1856–1910

Painter

Lev Vygotsky

1896–1934

Psychologist

Vladimir Vysotsky

1938–1980

Poet and performer

Sergei Yesenin

1895–1925

Poet — the Russian countryside

Nikolai Zelinsky

1861–1953

Chemist

Mikhail Zhvanetsky

1934–2020

Writer — satirist, author of humorous prose and monologues