Category
page 1Soviet male writers
Maxim Gorky
Russian and Soviet writer (1868–1936)
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Russian writer, publicist, poet and politician (1918–2008)
Boris Pasternak
Russian writer (1890–1960)

Vladimir Mayakovsky
Russian and Soviet poet (1893–1930)

Mikhail Bulgakov
Russian author (1891–1940)
Garry Kasparov
Russian chess grandmaster and activist
Mikhail Sholokhov
Soviet writer (1905-1984)
Chinghiz Aitmatov
Soviet and Kyrgyz author (1928–2008)

Yanka Kupala
Belarusian writer (1882–1942)
Anatoly Karpov
Russian chess player
Mikhail Botvinnik
Soviet chess player

Zviad Gamsakhurdia
1st President of Georgia (1991–92)
Tigran Petrosian
Soviet Armenian Grandmaster and World Chess Champion

Aleksey Tolstoy
Russian-Soviet writer (1883-1945)
Yevgeny Zamyatin
Russian author (1884–1937)

Mikhail Bakhtin
Russian intellectual and philosopher
Ilya Ehrenburg
Soviet writer, Bolshevik revolutionary, journalist and historian (1891–1967)
Valery Bryusov
Russian poet, prose writer, dramatist, translator, critic and historian (1873–1924)
Andrei Bely
Russian poet, writer and critic (1880–1934)

Rasul Gamzatov
Avar poet (1923-2003)
Anton Makarenko
Ukrainian and Soviet educator and writer

Andrei Platonov
Russian author (1899–1951)

Konstantin Paustovsky
Russian writer (1892–1968)
Daniil Kharms
Russian writer (1905–1942)
Vasily Grossman
Russian Soviet writer and journalist (1905-1964)
Vladimir Propp
Russian folklorist, philologist and linguist

Alexander Grin
Russian writer (1880–1932)
Ilf and Petrov
Soviet writing duo
Eduard Limonov
Russian writer (1943-2020)
Alexander Belyayev
Soviet writer (1884–1942)
David Bronstein
Soviet chess grandmaster
Dmitry Merezhkovsky
Russian novelist, poet, religious thinker, and literary critic (1865–1941)
Arkady and Boris Strugatsky
Russian brothers, writer duo
Vladimir Gelfand
Russian writer (1923–1983)

Mikhail Zoshchenko
Soviet writer (1894–1958)

Juri Lotman
Russian-Estonian semiotician (1922–1993)

Alexander Fadeyev
Soviet writer and politician (1901-1956)

Vladimir Bukovsky
Soviet dissident; prominent in the Soviet dissident movement of the 1960s and 1970s and spent a total of twelve years in psychiatric prison-hospitals, labor camps and prisons within the Soviet Union
Vasily Aksyonov
Soviet-American writer (1932-2009)

Fazil Iskander
Soviet and Russian writer (1929-2016)

Musa Cälil
Soviet poet
Fyodor Sologub
Russian writer (1863–1927)
Vasil Bykaŭ
Belarusian writer (1924–2003)

Leonid Leonov
Russian writer (1899-1994)

Ivan Yefremov
Soviet paleontologist, science fiction author and social thinker (1908–1972)
Vladimir A. Obruchev
Russian and Soviet geologist and writer (1863–1956)
Zelimkhan Yandarbiyev
President of Chechnya (1952-2004)

Yury Olesha
Russian writer (1899-1960)
Avetik Isahakyan
Soviet Armenian poet (1875-1957)
Valentin Rasputin
Soviet and Russian writer (1937-2015)
Mukhtar Auezov
Kazakh writer

Yuri Averbakh
Russian chess grandmaster and author (1922–2022)
Venedikt Yerofeyev
Russian writer (1938–1990)
Efim Geller
Soviet chess player (1925–1998)

Vladimir Voinovich
Soviet Russian writer and dissident (1932–2018)
Ilya Ilf
Soviet writer and journalist (1897–1937)
Mikhail Prishvin
Russian writer (1873–1954)

Arkady Gaidar
Soviet children's writer (1904–1941)
Sadriddin Ayni
Tajik writer (1878-1954)

Hamza Hakimzade Niyazi
Uzbek screenwriter and poet (1889-1929)