Moscow, Russia
LOCATION
Population:
11,273,400 (2004)
SCHOOLS
| School | Founded |
|---|---|
| International Lenin School | 1926 |
| Moscow State University | 1755 |
ORCHESTRA
| Orchestra | Founded |
|---|---|
| Tchaikovsky Symphony Orchestra of Moscow Radio | 1930 |
VENUE
| Venue | Founded |
|---|---|
| Bolshoi Theatre | 1776 |
COMPANY HEADQUARTERS
| Company | Founded |
|---|---|
| Gazprom | 1989 |
BIRTHS
| Name | Occupation | Birth | Death | Known for |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Alexei A. Abrikosov | Physicist | 25-Jun-1928 | Particle physicist, explored superconductivity | |
| Tsar Alexander II | Royalty | 17-Apr-1818 | 13-Mar-1881 | Tsar of Russia, 1855-81 |
| Tsar Alexis | Royalty | 19-Mar-1629 | 8-Feb-1676 | Tsar of Russia, 1645-76 |
| Anna | Royalty | 28-Jan-1693 | 17-Oct-1740 | Tsarina of Russia, 1730-40 |
| Olga Baclanova | Actor | 19-Aug-1896 | 6-Sep-1974 | The Docks of New York |
| Andrei Bely | Author | 26-Oct-1880 | 8-Jan-1934 | Petersburg |
| Boris Berezovsky | Business | 23-Jan-1946 | 23-Mar-2013 | Russian oligarch, Putin critic |
| Max Boot | Columnist | 1969 | Conservative pundit | |
| Sergey Brin | Business | 21-Aug-1973 | Co-Founder of Google | |
| Nikolai Bukharin | Economist | 9-Oct-1888 | 15-Mar-1938 | Soviet theoretical economist |
| Fyodor Dostoevsky | Novelist | 30-Oct-1821 | 28-Jan-1881 | Crime and Punishment |
| André Eglevsky | Dancer | 21-Dec-1917 | 4-Dec-1977 | Preeminent ballet dancer |
| Valery Gergiev | Conductor | 2-May-1953 | Principal Conductor, LSO | |
| Masha Gessen | Author | 13-Jan-1967 | The Man Without a Face | |
| Vitaly L. Ginzburg | Physicist | 4-Oct-1916 | 8-Nov-2009 | Type-II superconductors |
| Leonid Hurwicz | Economist | 21-Aug-1917 | 24-Jun-2008 | Mechanism design theory |
| Tsar Ivan III | Royalty | 22-Jan-1440 | 27-Oct-1505 | Tsar of Russia, 1462-1505 |
| Igor Ivanov | Government | 23-Sep-1945 | Russia Minister of Foreign Affairs | |
| Wilhelm Junker | Explorer | 6-Apr-1840 | 13-Feb-1892 | Reisen in Afrika |
| Wassily Kandinsky | Artist | 16-Dec-1866 | 13-Dec-1944 | Abstractionist and theorist |
| Andrey Karlov | Diplomat | 4-Feb-1954 | 19-Dec-2016 | Russian Ambassador to Turkey, assassinated |
| Paul Karrer | Chemist | 21-Apr-1889 | 18-Jun-1971 | Synthesized vitamins A, B2, E, and K |
| Lena Katina | Musician | 4-Oct-1984 | t.A.T.u.'s redheaded femme | |
| Noor Inayat Khan | Spy | 1-Jan-1914 | 13-Sep-1944 | British spy, children's author, captured by Nazis |
| Mikhail Khodorkovsky | Business | 26-Jun-1963 | Founder of Yukos, now jailed | |
| Alexandre Kojève | Philosopher | 28-Apr-1902 | 4-Jun-1968 | Hegelian philosopher, Europeanist |
| Vladimir Komarov | Astronaut | 16-Mar-1927 | 24-Apr-1967 | Pilot of Soyuz 1 plunged to his death |
| Theodore Kosloff | Dancer | 22-Jan-1882 | 22-Nov-1956 | Why Change Your Wife? |
| Anna Kournikova | Tennis | 7-Jun-1981 | Attractive tennis player, 2 Grand Slam titles | |
| Peter Kropotkin | Anarchist | 21-Dec-1842 | 8-Feb-1921 | Libertarian anarchist revolutionary |
| Alexander Lebedev | Business | 16-Dec-1959 | Russian oligarch, ex-KGB | |
| Eugenie Leontovich | Actor | 21-Mar-1900 | 3-Apr-1993 | Russian-American stage actress |
| Mikhail Lermontov | Poet | 15-Oct-1814 | 27-Jul-1841 | A Hero of Our Time |
| Nastia Liukin | Gymnastics | 30-Oct-1989 | Five medals in 2008 Beijing Olympics | |
| Yuri Luzhkov | Politician | 21-Sep-1936 | Mayor of Moscow, 1992-2010 | |
| Nikita Mikhalkov | Film Director | 21-Oct-1945 | Burnt by the Sun | |
| Sergei V. Mikhalkov | Songwriter | 13-Mar-1913 | 27-Aug-2009 | Lyricist, Russian National Anthem |
| Peter D. Ouspensky | Philosopher | 5-Mar-1878 | 2-Oct-1947 | Esoteric philosopher, Tertium Organum |
| Alexander Ovechkin | Hockey | 17-Sep-1985 | Washington Capitals | |
| Boris Pasternak | Author | 10-Feb-1890 | 30-May-1960 | Doctor Zhivago |
| Peter the Great | Royalty | 9-Jun-1672 | 8-Feb-1725 | Tsar of Russia, 1689-1725 |
| Nadia Petrova | Tennis | 8-Jun-1982 | Hard-hitting Russian seed | |
| Maya Plisetskaya | Dancer | 20-Nov-1925 | 2-May-2015 | Iconic star of the Bolshoi Ballet |
| Ilya Prigogine | Chemist | 25-Jan-1917 | 28-May-2003 | Theory of dissipative structures |
| Aleksandr Pushkin | Poet | 26-May-1799 | 10-Feb-1837 | Russia's greatest poet |
| Gennady Rozhdestvensky | Conductor | 4-May-1931 | Bolshoi, Vienna Symphony, Stockholm | |
| Olesya Rulin | Actor | 17-Mar-1986 | High School Musical | |
| Marat Safin | Tennis | 27-Jan-1980 | Winner of 2 Grand Slam titles | |
| Dinara Safina | Tennis | 27-Apr-1986 | Champion, 2008 US Open Series | |
| Andrei Sakharov | Physicist | 21-May-1921 | 14-Dec-1989 | Developed the Soviet hydrogen bomb |
| Aleksandr Scriabin | Composer | 25-Dec-1871 | 14-Apr-1915 | Prometheus: The Poem of Fire |
| Dimitri K. Simes | Government | ? | Nixon Center | |
| Vladimir Sokoloff | Actor | 26-Dec-1889 | 15-Feb-1962 | For Whom the Bell Tolls |
| Vladimir Sorokin | Author | 7-Aug-1955 | Wrote Goluboe Salo (Blue Lard) | |
| Regina Spektor | Singer/Songwriter | 18-Feb-1980 | Anti-folk singer | |
| Konstantin Stanislavsky | Actor | 5-Jan-1863 | 7-Aug-1938 | Inventor of "method" acting |
| Alexander Suvorov | Military | 24-Nov-1729 | 18-May-1800 | Russian general, fought Turks, French |
| Yevgeny Svetlanov | Conductor | 6-Sep-1928 | 3-May-2002 | Director, USSR State Symphony, 1965-2002 |
| Andrey Ternovskiy | Computer Programmer | c. 1992 | Chatroulette | |
| Tsar Ivan V | Royalty | 27-Aug-1666 | 29-Jan-1696 | Nominal Tsar of Russia, 1682-96 |
| Julia Volkova | Musician | 20-Feb-1985 | t.A.T.u.'s butchy brunette | |
| Lev Yashin | Soccer | 22-Oct-1929 | 20-Mar-1990 | Soviet soccer star |
DEATHS
| Name | Occupation | Birth | Death | Known for |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tsar Alexis | Royalty | 19-Mar-1629 | 8-Feb-1676 | Tsar of Russia, 1645-76 |
| Yuri Andropov | Head of State | 14-Jun-1914 | 9-Feb-1984 | Soviet General Secretary, 1982-84 |
| Nikolay G. Basov | Physicist | 14-Dec-1922 | 1-Jul-2001 | Invention of the maser and laser |
| Warren A. Bechtel | Business | 12-Sep-1872 | 28-Aug-1933 | Founder of Bechtel Corporation |
| Andrei Bely | Author | 26-Oct-1880 | 8-Jan-1934 | Petersburg |
| Lavrenty Beria | Government | 29-Mar-1899 | 23-Dec-1953 | Chief of the NKVD, 1940-46 |
| Aleksander Bovin | Diplomat | 9-Aug-1930 | 29-Apr-2004 | Russian Ambassador to Israel, 1991-7 |
| Leonid Brezhnev | Head of State | 19-Dec-1906 | 10-Nov-1982 | Leader of the Soviet Union, 1964-82 |
| Nikolai Bukharin | Economist | 9-Oct-1888 | 15-Mar-1938 | Soviet theoretical economist |
| Mikhail Bulgakov | Author | 3-May-1891 | 10-Mar-1940 | The Master and Margarita |
| Pavel A. Cherenkov | Physicist | 15-Jul-1904 | 6-Jan-1990 | Cherenkov radiation |
| Nikolai Cherkasov | Actor | 27-Jul-1903 | 14-Sep-1966 | Aleksandr Nevsky |
| Konstantin Chernenko | Head of State | 24-Sep-1911 | 10-Mar-1985 | Soviet General Secretary, 1984-85 |
| Anatoly Dobrynin | Diplomat | 19-Nov-1919 | 6-Apr-2010 | Soviet Ambassador to the US, 1962-86 |
| Felix Dzerzhinsky | Government | 11-Sep-1877 | 20-Jul-1926 | The Black Pope of Bolshevism |
| Sergei Eisenstein | Film Director | 23-Jan-1898 | 11-Feb-1948 | Alexander Nevsky |
| John Field | Composer | 26-Jul-1782 | 23-Jan-1837 | Irish composer of Nocturnes |
| Ilya M. Frank | Physicist | 23-Oct-1908 | 22-Jun-1990 | Cherenkov radiation |
| Yuri Gagarin | Astronaut | 9-Mar-1934 | 27-Mar-1968 | First person to orbit earth |
| Vitaly L. Ginzburg | Physicist | 4-Oct-1916 | 8-Nov-2009 | Type-II superconductors |
| Boris Godunov | Royalty | c. 1551 | 13-Apr-1605 | Tsar of Russia, 1598-1605 |
| Nikolai Gogol | Author | 19-Mar-1809 | 21-Feb-1852 | Dead Souls, The Overcoat |
| Maxim Gorky | Playwright | 28-Mar-1868 | 17-Jun-1936 | The Lower Depths |
| Andrei Gromyko | Politician | 5-Jul-1909 | 2-Jul-1989 | Cold War Foreign Minister of the USSR |
| Big Bill Haywood | Labor Leader | 4-Feb-1869 | 18-May-1928 | Industrial Workers of the World |
| Tsar Ivan III | Royalty | 22-Jan-1440 | 27-Oct-1505 | Tsar of Russia, 1462-1505 |
| Ivan the Terrible | Royalty | 25-Aug-1530 | 18-Mar-1584 | Russian Tsar, 1533-84 |
| Leonid Vitalyevich Kantorovich | Mathematician | 19-Jan-1912 | 7-Apr-1986 | Linear programming |
| Pyotr Kapitsa | Physicist | 8-Jul-1894 | 8-Apr-1984 | Discovered superfluidity |
| Babrak Karmal | Head of State | 6-Jan-1929 | 3-Dec-1996 | President of Afghanistan, 1979-86 |
| Aram Khachaturian | Composer | 24-May-1903 | 1-May-1978 | Gayane |
| Nikita Khrushchev | Head of State | 5-Apr-1894 | 11-Sep-1971 | Deposed leader of the Soviet Union |
| Paul Klebnikov | Journalist | 3-Jun-1963 | 9-Jul-2004 | Forbes journalist, killed in Moscow |
| Alexei Kosygin | Head of State | 20-Feb-1904 | 18-Dec-1980 | Premier of the Soviet Union, 1964-80 |
| Nikolai Krylenko | Government | 2-May-1885 | 29-Jul-1938 | Soviet prosecutor executed during the Great Purge |
| Vardan Kushnir | Criminal | 22-Nov-1969 | 24-Jul-2005 | Russian spammer, murdered |
| Lev Landau | Physicist | 22-Jan-1908 | 1-Apr-1968 | Superfluidity of helium |
| Jakob Michael Reinhold Lenz | Poet | 12-Jan-1751 | 24-May-1792 | Sturm und Drang movement |
| Maxim Litvinov | Government | 17-Jul-1876 | 31-Dec-1951 | Soviet foreign minister, ousted in nod to Hitler |
| Alexander Luria | Psychologist | 16-Jul-1902 | 14-Aug-1977 | Pioneer of neuropsychology |
| Donald Maclean | Spy | 25-May-1913 | 6-Mar-1983 | Spy for Moscow, Cambridge Five |
| Tsar Michael | Royalty | 22-Jul-1596 | 12-Jul-1645 | Tsar of Russia, 1613-45 |
| Sergei V. Mikhalkov | Songwriter | 13-Mar-1913 | 27-Aug-2009 | Lyricist, Russian National Anthem |
| Anastas Mikoyan | Politician | 25-Nov-1895 | 21-Oct-1978 | Knew where the shrimps stay in winter |
| Vyacheslav Molotov | Government | 9-Mar-1890 | 8-Nov-1986 | Stalin's right-hand-man |
| Tsar Peter II | Royalty | 23-Oct-1715 | 29-Jan-1730 | Tsar of Russia, 1727-30 |
| Philaret | Royalty | 1553 | 12-Oct-1633 | Patriarch of Moscow |
| Kim Philby | Spy | 1-Jan-1912 | 11-May-1988 | One of the Cambridge Five in MI6 |
| Nikolai Podgorny | Head of State | 18-Feb-1903 | 11-Jan-1983 | President of the USSR, 1965-77 |
| Yevgeny Primakov | Head of State | 29-Oct-1929 | 26-Jun-2015 | Prime Minister of Russia, 1998-99 |
| Aleksandr M. Prokhorov | Physicist | 11-Jul-1916 | 8-Jan-2002 | Invention of the maser and laser |
| Sergei Prokofiev | Composer | 23-Apr-1891 | 5-Mar-1953 | Peter and the Wolf |
| Emelian Pugachev | Anarchist | 1740 | 10-Jan-1775 | Bloody insurrectionist in southern Russia, 1773-74 |
| Jack Reed | Activist | 22-Oct-1887 | 19-Oct-1920 | Ten Days That Shook the World |
| Mstislav Rostropovich | Cellist | 27-Mar-1927 | 27-Apr-2007 | Cellist and conductor |
| Andrei Sakharov | Physicist | 21-May-1921 | 14-Dec-1989 | Developed the Soviet hydrogen bomb |
| Aleksandr Scriabin | Composer | 25-Dec-1871 | 14-Apr-1915 | Prometheus: The Poem of Fire |
| Nikolay Semyonov | Chemist | 15-Apr-1896 | 25-Sep-1986 | Combustion, explosions, and chemical kinetics |
| Iosif S. Shklovskii | Astronomer | 1-Jul-1916 | 3-Mar-1985 | Synchrotron radiation of the Crab Nebula |
| Dmitri Shostakovich | Composer | 25-Sep-1906 | 9-Aug-1975 | Symphony No. 7 |
| Alexander Solzhenitsyn | Author | 11-Dec-1918 | 3-Aug-2008 | The Gulag Archipelago |
| Josef Stalin | Head of State | 18-Dec-1878 | 5-Mar-1953 | Brutal dictator, Soviet Union |
| Konstantin Stanislavsky | Actor | 5-Jan-1863 | 7-Aug-1938 | Inventor of "method" acting |
| Aleksandr Sumarokov | Playwright | 14-Nov-1717 | 12-Oct-1777 | Founder of Russian classical drama |
| Yevgeny Svetlanov | Conductor | 6-Sep-1928 | 3-May-2002 | Director, USSR State Symphony, 1965-2002 |
| Igor Y. Tamm | Physicist | 8-Jul-1895 | 12-Apr-1971 | Cherenkov radiation |
| Vladimir Tatlin | Sculptor | 16-Dec-1885 | 31-May-1953 | Monument to the Third International |
| Nikolai Tikhonov | Politician | 14-May-1905 | 1-Jun-1997 | Premier of the Soviet Union, 1980-85 |
| Tsar Ivan V | Royalty | 27-Aug-1666 | 29-Jan-1696 | Nominal Tsar of Russia, 1682-96 |
| Raoul Wallenberg | Activist | 4-Aug-1912 | 17-Jul-1947 | Worked to save Hungarian Jews |
| Henryk Wieniawski | Violinist | 10-Jul-1835 | 31-Mar-1880 | Polish violinist and composer |
| Lev Yashin | Soccer | 22-Oct-1929 | 20-Mar-1990 | Soviet soccer star |
| Boris Yeltsin | Head of State | 1-Feb-1931 | 23-Apr-2007 | First president of post-Soviet Russia |
| Georgi Zhukov | Military | 1-Dec-1896 | 18-Jun-1974 | Soviet commander during WWII |
| Grigory Zinoviev | Government | 23-Sep-1883 | 25-Aug-1936 | Old Bolshevik executed during the Great Purge |
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