20th-century Russian male writers

Russian author (1828–1910)

Russian and Soviet writer (1868–1936)

Russian writer, publicist, poet and politician (1918–2008)

Russian writer (1890–1960)

Russian and Soviet poet (1893–1930)

Russian writer and poet (1870–1953)

Russian author (1891–1940)

Russian revolutionary socialist and philosopher (1842–1921)

Russian poet (1895–1925)

Russian poet (1880–1921)

Soviet and Russian film director, screenwriter, film editor, film theorist, theatre and opera director (1932–1986)

Russian chess player

Soviet chess player

Soviet and Russian poet (1933–2017)

Russian political activist and philosopher (born 1962)

Russian playwright, author and poet (1871–1919)

Soviet writer, Bolshevik revolutionary, journalist and historian (1891–1967)

Polish-Russian ballet dancer and choreographer

Soviet and Russian film director, screenwriter, and actor (1920–1994)

Russian poet, prose writer, dramatist, translator, critic and historian (1873–1924)

Russian poet, writer and critic (1880–1934)

Russian writer (1885–1922)

Soviet and Russian writer (1913–2009)

Russian author (born 1962)

Soviet writer, poet, playwright and wartime correspondent (1915-1979)

Avar poet (1923-2003)

Russian poet (1867–1942)

Soviet and Russian writer and singer (1924-1997)

Soviet film director and screenwriter (1930–2019)

Soviet actor, writer, screenwriter and film director (1929-1974)

Russian author (1899–1951)

Soviet poet (1933-2010)

Russian writer (1905–1942)

Russian writer (1892–1968)

Russian Soviet writer and journalist (1905-1964)

Soviet writer (1941–1990)

Russian folklorist, philologist and linguist

Soviet and Russian film director (1927–2015)

Russian writer (1937–2018)

Soviet writing duo

Soviet chess grandmaster

Soviet Jewish writer

Soviet writer (1884–1942)

Russian writer (1943-2020)

Soviet and Russian film director and actor (1939–2021)

Soviet film director, screenwriter and actor (1893–1953)

Russian film director (born 1951)

Soviet writer (1894–1958)

Russian writer (born 1955)

Soviet dissident; prominent in the Soviet dissident movement of the 1960s and 1970s and spent a total of twelve years in psychiatric prison-hospitals, labor camps and prisons within the Soviet Union

Soviet-American writer (1932-2009)

Soviet and Russian writer (1929-2016)

Russian and Soviet poet, playwright, translator, literary critic, screenwriter, author of popular children's books (1887–1964)

Soviet writer, playwright, screenwriter, poet (1897–1986)

Russian writer (1899-1994)

Soviet film director, screenwriter, actor (1906-1985)

Russian writer and journalist

Soviet paleontologist, science fiction author and social thinker (1908–1972)

Soviet poet (1910–1971)

Russian and Soviet geologist and writer (1863–1956)