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Yuli Raizman
Soviet film director, screenwriter (1903-1994)
Moisei Ginzburg
Russian architect, Soviet writer (1892–1946)
David Bergelson
Russian playwright and writer (1884-1952)
Semyon Bychkov
Soviet and American conductor
Leonid Alfonsovich Ostrovski
Soviet footballer (1936-2001)
Vladimir Shainsky
Soviet and Russian composer (1925—2017)
Mark Rakita
Soviet fencer
Semen Hluzman
Ukrainian psychiatrist (1946–2026)
Nathan Altman
Russian artist of Jewish origin (1889–1970)
Olga Kameneva
Russian revolutionary
Milana Vayntrub
Soviet Uzbekistan-born American actress
Abram Room
Soviet film director (1894–1976)
Davyd Cherkaskyi
Soviet and Ukrainian animation director, screenwriter, animator (1931–2018)

refusenik
thumb|January 10, 1973. Soviet Jewish refusenik demonstration in front of the Ministry of Internal Affairs for the right to emigrate to Israel, before being broken up by Soviet authorities.
thumb|A rare type 2 USSR exit visa. This type of visa was issued to those who received permission to leave the USSR permanently and lost their Soviet citizenship. Many people who wanted to emigrate were unable to receive this kind of exit visa.
thumb|Letter from the Soviet Ministry of Internal Affairs|MVD to a 76-year-old man from Sverdlovsk refusing him permission to move to Israel due to "knowledge of sta
Lev Leviev
Israeli-Russian businessman, philanthropist and investor

Bella Davidovich
American musician
Viktor Kanevskyi
Soviet footballer (1936-2018)
Boris Razinsky
Soviet footballer and manager (1933-2012)
Itzhak Shum
Israeli footballer
Hanna Rovina
Israeli actress (1892-1980)
Aron Gurevich
Russian historian (1924-2006)
Masha Bruskina
Soviet Belarusian partisan
Georgy Adelson-Velsky
Russian mathematician (1922–2014)
Viktor Zhirmunsky
Russian literary historian, linguist (1891-1971)
Aleksandr Alov
film director (1923–1983)
Leo Klejn
Russian archaeologist (1927-2019)
Georgy Mondzolevski
Soviet volleyball player (1934–2024)
Ivan Dykhovichny
Soviet and Russian actor, film director, screenwriter and film producer (1947–2009)
Joel Razvozov
Israeli politician and former judoka
Aleksandr Volodin
Russian screenwriter and author (1919–2001)
Svetlana Krachevskaya
Soviet shot putter
Yakov Agranov
NKVD officer (1893–1938)
Natalya Sats
Russian theatre director (1903–1993)
Andrei Shleifer
American economist

Isaac Schwartz
Soviet and Russian composer (1923–2009)
Shamil Sabirov
boxer
Yefim Bronfman
Israeli-American pianist
Boris Sagal
American director, television producer (1923–1981)
Ze'ev Elkin
Israeli politician
Boris Zakhoder
Soviet and Russian writer, poet, translator, screenwriter (1918–2000)
Mykhailo Dobkin
Ukrainian politician
Isaak Zelensky
politician (1890-1938)
Leib Kvitko
Soviet Yiddish poet (1890-1952)
Ārons Bogoļubovs
Latvian judoka
Viktor Zinger
Soviet ice hockey player (1941–2013)
Mikhail Svetin
Soviet and Russian actor (1929—2015)
Yevgeniy Dolmatovsky
Russian writer
Veniamin Smekhov
Soviet and Russian theater and film actor, director, screenwriter, writer
Leonid Shamkovich
American chess player of Russian origin (1923–2005)
Leonid Tsypkin
Soviet writer (1926–1982)
Mikhail Kalik
Soviet film director (1927-2017)
Yevgeny Rein
Russian poet
Nora Gal
Soviet translator, literary critic, and translation theorist (1912–1991)
Isaak Pomeranchuk
Soviet physicist (1913-1966)

Boris Gurevich
Soviet wrestler (1931-1995)
Der Nister
Soviet writer and translator (1884-1950)
Garri Bardin
Russian artist
Yunna Morits
Russian writer (born 1937)
Arcadi Gaydamak
Israeli businessman
Valery Belenky
Soviet-Azerbaijani-German artistic gymnast and coach (born 1969)