List of personalities of the city of Yaroslavl

The list of personalities of the city of Yaroslavl includes those born and deceased in the Russian city ​​of Yaroslavl as well as those who worked in Yaroslavl but were born elsewhere. The list does not claim to be complete.

Peter of Oldenburg
(1812–1881)

Alexander Lyapunov
(1857-1918)

Mikhail Viktorov
(1892–1938)

Yuri Lyubimov
(1917-2014)

Juwenali Pojarkow
(* 1935)

Yevgeny Dratzew
(* 1983)

Denis Grebeschkow
(* 1983)

Alexander Wassjunow
(1988-2011)

Sons and daughters of the city of Yaroslavl

The following personalities were born in Yaroslavl. They are listed chronologically according to the year of birth.

18th century

1701-1800

• Semjon Bobrow (* between 1763 and 1765; † 1810), poet and civil servant

19th century

1801-1900

• Karolina Pavlova (1807-1893), poet
• Peter von Oldenburg (1812–1881), Prince of the House of Oldenburg
• Ismail Sresnewski (1812–1880), philologist, palaeographer, Slavist and ethnographer
• Alexander Lyapunow (1857–1918), mathematician and physicist
• Liweri Darkschewitsch (1858-1925), neurologist
• Sergei Lyapunov (1859–1924), composer and pianist
• Konstantin Satunin (1863-1915), zoologist
• Michail Kusmin (1872–1936), writer and composer
• Leonid Sobinow (1872–1934), opera singer
• Boris Ostroumow (1887–1979), physicist and university professor
• Mikhail Viktorov (1892–1938), commander in chief of the Soviet naval fleet

20th century

1901-1950

• Bonifati Kedrow (1903–1985), philosopher and historian of science
• Tichon Rabotnow (1904-2000), geobotanist
• Alexander Dodonow (1907–1994), pilot and hero of the Soviet Union
• Wiktor Rosow (1913-2004), playwright
• Yuri Lyubimow (1917-2014), actor, theater founder and director
• Weniamin Basner (1925–1996), composer and violinist
• Sergei Kalinin (* 1926), marksman
• Pawel Kolchin (1930–2010), cross-country skier
• Wadim Chervov (1930-2000), cellist
• Juwenali Pojarkow (* 1935), Russian Orthodox Archbishop
• Valery Tarakanov (* 1941), cross-country skier
• Valentin Kornew (1942-2016), marksman
• Valery Volkov (* 1947), show jumper

1951-1980

• Andrei Chomutow (* 1961), ice hockey coach
• Oleg Kisseljow (* 1967), handball player and coach
• Alex Sipiagin (* 1967), jazz trumpeter
• Maxim Tarassow (* 1970), pole vaulter
• Alexei Kostygow (* 1973), handball player
• Ilya Gorokhov (* 1977), ice hockey player
• Alexei Wassiljew (* 1977), ice hockey player
• Vyacheslav Posdnyakov (* 1978), foil fencer
• Alexei Sagorny (* 1978), hammer thrower
• Tatiana Andrianowa (* 1979), middle-distance runner
• Jelena Groschewa (* 1979), artistic gymnast
• Ivan Tkachenko (1979–2011), ice hockey player

1981-1990

• Igor Jemeleev (born 1981), ice hockey player
• Sergei Mosjakin (* 1981), ice hockey player
• Ivan Neprjajew (* 1982), ice hockey player
• Jewgeni Dratzew (* 1983), long-distance swimmer
• Denis Grebeschkow (* 1983), ice hockey player
• Lyudmila Postnowa (* 1984), handball player
• Mikhail Biryukov (* 1985), ice hockey goalkeeper
• Alexander Galimow (1985-2011), ice hockey player
• Oleg Piganowitsch (* 1985), ice hockey player
• Andrei Kirjuchin (1987-2011), ice hockey player
• Sergei Lesnuchin (* 1987), ice hockey player
• Artyom Anissimov (* 1988), ice hockey player
• Alexander Lasuschin (* 1988), ice hockey goalkeeper
• Maksim Maljuzin (* 1988), Belarusian ice hockey goalkeeper
• Alexander Vasyunov (1988-2011), ice hockey player
• Ilya Davydov (* 1989), ice hockey player
• Albert Polinin (* 1989), ice hockey player
• Lyubov Polyanskaya (* 1989), professional triathlete
• Artyom Yarchuk (1990-2011), ice hockey player
• Yevgeny Yeryomenko (born 1990), ice hockey player
• Alexander Schibajew (* 1990), table tennis player

1991-2000

• Ilja Burow (* 1991), freestyle skier
• Wladimir Tarassenko (* 1991), ice hockey player
• Yuri Urychew (1991-2011), ice hockey player
• Pawel Krotow (* 1992), freestyle skier
• Pavel Snurnitsyn (1992-2011), ice hockey player
• Vladislav Gavrikov (1995), ice hockey player
• Stanislaw Nikitin (* 1995), freestyle skier
• Pawel Kraskowski (* 1996), ice hockey player
• Ivan Provorov (born 1997), ice hockey player
• Maxim Burow (* 1998), freestyle skier
• Lyubov Nikitina (* 1999), freestyle skier

21st century

• Sofja Alexejewa (* 2003), freestyle skier

Persons with a relationship with Yaroslavl

• Zygmunt Szczęsny Feliński (1822–1895), Archbishop of Warsaw; was exiled to Yaroslavl for 20 years in 1863, where he built up the Roman Catholic parish

Honorary citizen of Yaroslavl

Valentina Tereschkowa
(* 1937)

• Valentina Tereschkowa (* 1937), cosmonaut, first woman in space; went to school in Yaroslavl and worked in the Yaroslavl tire factory and in the Krasny Perekop textile factory in the 1950s
• Tikhon (1865–1925), Patriarch of Moscow from 1917; was Archbishop of Yaroslavl from 1907 to 1913

Personalities who died in Yaroslavl

• Nikon (Patriarch) (1605–1681), Patriarch of the Russian Orthodox Church
• Vsevolod Holubovych (1885–1939), Ukrainian politician
• Pavel Trachanov (1978-2011), ice hockey player

Web links

Commons : People of Yaroslavl  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Известные ярославцы (Russian)
• Самые известные ярославцы (Russian)
• Знаменитые ярославцы (Russian)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Sergey Kalinin in the database of Sports-Reference (English)
2. ↑ Valentin Kornev in the database of Sports-Reference (English)
3. ↑ Valery Volkov in the database of Sports-Reference (English)
4. ↑ Yelena Grosheva in the database of Sports-Reference (English)
5. ^ Official website of the city administration: Current honorary citizens of the city ; Reviewed on July 27, 2016
6. ↑ biography on hrono.ru ; Reviewed on July 27, 2016