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Soviet athlete (1939-2004)
Meir Dagan
Israeli general and spy (1945–2016)
Ivan Maisky
Soviet diplomat (1884-1975)
Solomon Mikhoels
Soviet actor, Yiddish theatre performer (1890–1948)
Yakov Perelman
Russian science writer (1882–1942)
Yury Tynyanov
Russian writer (1894–1943)
Isaac Boleslavsky
Soviet chess player (1919–1977)
Boris Yefimov
Soviet and Russian political and propaganda artist (1900-2008)
Alexander Kazhdan
Soviet historian and Byzantine Empire specialist (1922-1997)
Savely Kramarov
Soviet actor (1934-1995)
July Edelstein
Israeli politician
Ernst Neizvestny
Soviet sculptor (1925–2016)
Alexander Gomelsky
Soviet basketball coach (1928–2005)
Maria Gorokhovskaya
Soviet-Israeli artistic gymnast (1921–2001)
Larisa Dolina
Russian singer and actor
Gavriil Ilizarov
Soviet physician and inventor (1921-1992)
Genrich Altshuller
Soviet inventor and writer (1926–1998)
Dina Rubina
Russian-Israeli writer
Alexander Galich
Soviet musician and writer (1918–1977)
Mikhail Borodin
Comintern agent (1884-1951)
Sofya Yanovskaya
Russian mathematician (1896–1966)
Semyon Lavochkin
Jewish Soviet aerospace engineer (1900-1960)
Alexander Tairov
Russian theatre director (1885–1950)
Lev Alburt
Ukrainian-American chess grandmaster
Valentin Mankin
Soviet sailor (1938–2014)
Arkady Rotenberg
Russian businessman and oligarch
Rudolf Barshai
Russian conductor (1924–2010)
Mikhail Svetlov
Russian poet (1903–1964)
Zahava Gal-On
Israeli politician
Fridrikh Ermler
Soviet film director (1898–1967)
Eugene Mirman
Russian-American actor, comedian, and writer
Semyon Farada
Soviet and Russian actor (1933-2009)
Polina Zhemchuzhina
Soviet politician (1897-1970)
Zhanna Pintusevych-Block
Athletics competitor, sprinter
Hennadiy Kernes
Ukrainian politician (1959—2020)
Maria Itkina
Soviet sprinter (1932–2020)
Ilya Piatetski-Shapiro
Russian mathematician (1929–2009)
Len Blavatnik
British-American business magnate
Igor Oistrakh
Ukrainian musician (1931–2021)
Leonid Radvinsky
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Boris Eikhenbaum
Russian historian (1886–1959)
Tatiana Lysenko
Soviet-Ukrainian artistic gymnast (born 1975)
Mieczysław Weinberg
Polish Soviet composer (1919–1996)
Mark Donskoy
Soviet film director and screenwriter (1901–1981)
Lev Kopelev
Soviet writer (1912–1997)
Roman Karmen
Soviet cameraman and film director (1906-1978)
Lev Rubinstein
Russian writer and philologist (1947–2024)
Alexander Drankov
Russian photographer (1886-1949)
Lev Kassil
Soviet writer (1905–1970)
Maya Kristalinskaya
Soviet singer (1932-1985)
Abram Deborin
Russian philosopher (1881–1963)
Lev Arnshtam
Film director, screenwriter (1905–1979)
Aleksandr Averbukh
Soviet Russian-born Israeli pole vaulter; also competed for Russia
Yuli Raizman
Soviet film director, screenwriter (1903-1994)
Lev Kerbel
Russian sculptor (1917-2003)
Yemelyan Yaroslavsky
Soviet politician (1878-1943)
Volodymyr Kaplychnyi
Ukrainian footballer (1944-2004)
Leonid Shvartsman
Russian artist
Evsei Liberman
Soviet economist (1897-1981)
David Bergelson
Russian playwright and writer (1884-1952)