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Patriarch Nikon of Moscow
8th Patriarch of Moscow (1652–1666)
Avvakum
Avvakum Petrov (; 20 November 1620/1621 – 14 April 1682; also spelled Awakum) was a Russian Old Believer and protopope of the Kazan Cathedral on Red Square who led the opposition to Patriarch Nikon's reforms of the Russian Orthodox Church. His autobiography and letters to the tsar and other Old Believers such as Feodosia Morozova are considered masterpieces of 17th-century Russian literature.
Gennady Yanayev
vice president of the Soviet Union from 1990 to 1991
Ivan Silayev
Russian politician (1930–2023)

Vasily Rozanov
Russian philosopher (1856-1919)
Alexander Protopopov
Russian noble (1866-1918)
Alena Arzamasskaia
Russian military rebel
Nikolay Urvantsev
Russian geologist (1893–1985)
Nikolai Patolichev
Soviet politician (1908-1989)
Mikhail Artemyevich Muravyov
Russian general (1880-1918)
Valentina Telichkina
Soviet actress
Sofia Zhukova
Russian serial killer
Arkady Mordvinov
Soviet architect (1896–1964)
Konstantin Katushev
Russian politician (1927-2010)
Valery Taliyev
Russian botanist (1872-1932)
Yakov Tryapitsyn
Soviet general
Tatiana Shadrina
Russian chess player
Nikolay Pankov
Russian politician
Vladimir Averchev
Russian politician
Shaymardan Ibragimov
Turkmenistani politician
Ramil Belyaev