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Boris Pasternak
Russian writer (1890–1960)
Joseph Brodsky
Russian-American poet (1940-1996)
Osip Mandelstam
Russian poet and essayist (1891-1938)
Isaak Babel
Russian language journalist, playwright, literary translator, and short story writer (1894–1940)
Vladimir Arnold
Russian mathematician who studied integrable systems and differential equations (1937–2010)
Vasily Grossman
Russian Soviet writer and journalist (1905-1964)
Lyudmila Ulitskaya
Russian writer
Viktor Shklovsky
Soviet Jewish writer
Arkady and Boris Strugatsky
Russian brothers, writer duo
Vasily Aksyonov
Soviet-American writer (1932-2009)
Vladimir Kara-Murza
Russian politician and journalist (born 1981)
Nadezhda Mandelstam
Russian writer and educator
Genndy Tartakovsky
Russian-American cinema and television animator, director and producer
Hayim Nahman Bialik
Hebrew poet, author, and editor (1873–1934)
Agniya Barto
Russian Soviet writer and poet (1901–1981)
Yevgenia Ginzburg
Russian author of Jewish ancestry
Itzhak Peretz
Yiddish language author and playwright (1852–1915)
Veniamin Kaverin
Russian-Soviet writer and memoirist (1902-1989)
M. Gessen
Russian-American journalist and activist
Yakov Perelman
Russian science writer (1882–1942)
Volin
Vsevolod Mikhailovich Eikhenbaum (18 September 1945), commonly known by his pseudonym Volin, was a Russian anarchist intellectual. He became involved in revolutionary socialist politics during the 1905 Russian Revolution, for which he was forced into exile, where he gravitated towards anarcho-syndicalism.
Vera Inber
Soviet writer
Yuli Daniel
Soviet writer and poet (1925-1988)
Mikhail Svetlov
Russian poet (1903–1964)
Boris Eikhenbaum
Russian historian (1886–1959)
Sophia Parnok
Russian writer
Lev Kopelev
Soviet writer (1912–1997)
Lev Kassil
Soviet writer (1905–1970)
Osip Brik
Russian lawyer, literary critic and chekist (1888–1945)
Bella Rosenfeld
American writer and artist model (1889-1944)
Sergey Karaganov
Russian geopolitician
Vladimir Bogomolov
Russian-Soviet writer
Aleksandr Volodin
Russian screenwriter and author (1919–2001)
Viktor Zhirmunsky
Russian literary historian, linguist (1891-1971)
M. Ageyev
Russian writer (1898–1973)
Yevgeniy Dolmatovsky
Russian writer
Boris Zakhoder
Soviet and Russian writer, poet, translator, screenwriter (1918–2000)
Yevgenia Albats
Russian political journalist, political scientist, social activist and writer
Arkady Arkanov
Russian writer, playwright and stand-up comedian
David Samoilov
Russian poet (1920–1990)
Lev Sedov
son of Leon Trotsky, communist oppositionist and writer (1906–1938)
Grigory Oster
Russian children's writer (born 1947)
Grigory Baklanov
Soviet Russian novelist and short story writer (1923–2009)
Alexander Ginzburg
Russian journalist, poet, human rights activist and dissident (1936-2002)
Yunna Morits
Russian writer (born 1937)
Lazar Lagin
Soviet Jewish writer (1903–1979)
Yevgeny Rein
Russian poet
Nora Gal
Soviet translator, literary critic, and translation theorist (1912–1991)
Ilya Reznik
Russian poet and songwriter
Sonya Levien
screenwriter (1888-1960)
Jacob Mikhailovich Gordin
Yiddish playwright (1853–1909)
Emil Braginsky
Soviet and Russian screenwriter (1921–1998)
Yuz Aleshkovsky
Soviet and Russian writer, poet, and playwright (1929—2022)
Peretz Smolenskin
Jewish writer and publicist (1842-1885)
Jakob Dinesohn
Russian Jewish novelist (1851–1919)
Leonid Yuzefovich
Russian writer
Mikhail Veller
Russian-Estonian writer (born 1948)
Yuly Aykhenvald
Russian literary critic (1872–1928)
David Edelstadt
American writer (1866–1892)
Gennady Gor
writer (1907–1981)