Soviet defectors

Soviet ballet dancer and choreographer (1938–1993)

Russian-American theoretical physicist and cosmologist (1904–1968)

Latvian-American dancer, choreographer and actor

Soviet-Swiss chess grandmaster

American choreographer, dancer and ballet master (1904–1983)

Russian lieutenant general (1901–1946)

Russian chess player (1889–1952)

Icelandic pianist and conductor from Russia (born 1937)

Russian-American ballet dancer and film actor (1949-1995)

Soviet and American ballet dancer

Soviet-Russian figure skater (1935–2017)

Soviet figure skater (1932–2023)

Russian conductor (1914–1981)

Soviet/American actor (1943-2017)

Russian journalist and whistleblower

Soviet, American and Russian conductor and pianist

Russian historian (1867–1953)

Soviet and American conductor

Ukrainian nationalist activist (1927-1968)

Georgian writer (1882-1962)

defected secretary of the Soviet Union's Politburo (1900-1982)

Lithuanian canoe racer (1940–2023)

KGB agent

Russian revolutionary (1900-1945)

Soviet pianist (1954-1988)

Red Army officer defector and Nazi collaborator (1902–1946)

Azerbaijani collaborator with Nazi Germany (1908–1954)

Russian chess grandmaster (1947-2005)

Russian-born Pakistani architect and civil engineer

French musician

Soviet military personnel (1896–1946)

Soviet collaborator with Nazi Germany (1894-1946)

Russian ballet dancer (1904-1975)

Ukrainian war criminal

Soviet flying ace (1918–1946)

Turkish weightlifter (born 1967)

Soviet intellectual (1891-1953)

Red Army officer and Nazi collaborator (1901–1945)

Russian Axis collaborationist journalist

Russian mathematician (1892-1979)

KGB agent, writer (1951–1973)

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Soviet spy

Soviet, Canadian, and Israeli oceanographer (1936–1998)