List of personalities of the city of Krasnodar

The list of personalities of the city of Krasnodar includes those born and deceased in the Russian city ​​of Krasnodar (1793–1920: Ekaterinodar ) as well as those who worked in Krasnodar but were born elsewhere. The list does not claim to be complete.

Sons and daughters of the city of Krasnodar

Andrei Schkuro
(1887–1947)

Valentin Warennikow
(1923-2009)

Gennadi Padalka
(* 1958)

Igor Manko
(* 1963)

Anna Netrebko
(* 1971)

Dmitri Chochlow
(* 1975)

Eduard Kokscharow
(* 1975)

Alexandra Panowa
(* 1989)

Anna Sen
(* 1990)

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

18th century

• Jakiw Kucharenko (1799 or 1800–1862), Ukrainian ataman of the Azov Cossack Army and the Black Sea Cossack Army, major general of the Imperial Russian Army, poet, writer and anthropologist.

19th century

• Alexander Tamanjan (1878–1936), architect
• Andrei Shkuro (1887–1947), general of the Russian army, who sided with the Whites in the Russian Civil War and led a Cossack association fighting for the Wehrmacht in World War II

20th century

1901-1950

• Stanisław Szpinalski (1901–1957), Polish pianist
• Tadeusz Urbański (1901–1985), Polish chemist
• Ilja Livschakoff (1903–1990), Russian-German violinist and conductor
• Leonid Ilyichov (1906–1990), diplomat and politician
• Pawel Parenago (1906–1960), astronomer and university professor
• Wladimir Korolkow (1907–1987), chess composer; Grand master of chess composition
• Jelena Skuin (1908–1986), painter, graphic artist and art teacher
• Yevgenia Schigulenko (1920–1994), bomber pilot and film director
• Valentin Warennikow (1923–2009), general and politician
• Grigori Mkrtytschan (1925–2003), ice hockey goalkeeper , coach and official
• Sergei Salnikov (1925–1984), football player
• Witold Krejer (1932–2020), track and field athlete and Olympic bronze medalist in 1956 and 1960 in the triple jump
• Eduard Krugljakow (1934–2012), physicist and university professor
• Alexander Isosimov (1939-1997), boxer
• Georgi Dmitrijew (1942–2016), composer
• Vera Dujunova (1945–2012), volleyball player

1951-1975

• Karen Schachnasarow (* 1952), film director, producer and screenwriter
• Lyubov Russanova (* 1954), swimmer and Olympic silver medalist in 1976
• Yevgeny Lipejew (* 1958), pentathlete
• Gennadi Padalka (* 1958), cosmonaut
• Jekaterina Fessenko (* 1958), hurdler
• Sergei Torop (* 1961), founder of the "Church of the Last Testament"
• Pavel Sukosjan (* 1962), handball player
• Andrei Lavrov (* 1962), handball goalkeeper
• Igor Manko (* 1963), choirmaster
• Valentina Ogijenko (* 1965), volleyball player and coach
• Irina Muschailowa (* 1967), athlete
• Igor Oleinikov (* 1968), Russian-German painter
• Tatjana Schikolenko (* 1968), javelin thrower
• Dmitri Filippow (* 1969), handball trainer and former handball player
• Alexei Solodownikow (* 1970), entomologist
• Alexander Karasjow (* 1971), author
• Anna Netrebko (* 1971), Russian-Austrian opera singer
• Pavel Tregubov (* 1971), chess player
• Yevgeny Pechonkin (* 1973), bobsledder and athlete
• Sergey Tiviakov (* 1973), Dutch world-class chess player of Russian origin
• Oleg Chodkov (* 1974), handball player and sports director
• Dmitri Chochlow (* 1975), football player
• Irina Fedotowa (* 1975), rower
• Irina Karawajewa (* 1975), trampoline gymnast
• Eduard Kokscharow (* 1975), handball player

1976-2000

• Andreas Neufeld (* 1976), violinist
• Alexander Tschernoiwanow (* 1979), handball player
• Alexei Sawrasenko (born 1979), basketball player
• Margarita Simonjan (* 1980), TV journalist and editor-in-chief of the Rossiya Sevodnja news agency
• Lazaros Papadopoulos (* 1980), Greek basketball player
• Dmitri Trapesnikow (* 1981), politician
• Jekaterina Kibalo (* 1982), swimmer
• Nikita Chochlow (* 1983), Russian-Kazakh football player
• Oleg Grams (* 1984), handball goalkeeper
• Oleg Skopinzew (* 1984), handball player
• Ina Schukawa (* 1986), gymnast
• Irina Blisnowa (* 1986), handball player
• Boris Savchenko (* 1986), chess player
• Valery Walynin (* 1986), racing cyclist
• Ilya Jeschow (* 1987), ice hockey player
• Wladlena Bobrovnikova (* 1987), handball player
• Tatiana Tschernowa (* 1988), heptathlete
• Daniil Andrijenko (* 1989), rower
• Vitaly Djakov (* 1989), football player
• Alexandra Panowa (* 1989), tennis player
• Olessja Romassenko (* 1990), canoeist
• Anna Sen (* 1990), handball player
• Vyacheslav Krassilnikow (* 1991), beach volleyball player
• Xenija Dyachenko (* 1994), handball player
• Nadeschda Makrogusowa (* 1997), beach volleyball player
• Kirill Klez (* 1998), volleyball player

Honorary citizen of Krasnodar

• Ljudmila Bragina (* 1943), middle and long distance runner and Olympic champion
• Wiktor Gorbatko (1934-2017), cosmonaut
• Iossif Kobson (1937-2018), singer
• Andrei Lavrov (* 1962), handball goalkeeper
• Gennadi Padalka (* 1958), cosmonaut
• Alexander Pokryschkin (1913–1985), pilot, Marshal of Aviators and three-time Hero of the Soviet Union

Personalities who died in Krasnodar

• 1918: Lawr Kornilow (1870–1918), general in the Russian army
• 1920: Konstantin Mamontow (1869–1920), military officer and famous commander of white troops during the Russian Civil War
• 1979: Pyotr Gavrilow (1900–1979), commander of the 44th Rifle Regiment of the 42nd Rifle Division of the Red Army, which was stationed in the Brest fortress in June 1941
• 1997: Alexander Isossimow (1939–1997), boxer
• 2003: Juri Torbek (1954-2003), boxer
• 2010: Georgi Garanjan (1934–2010), jazz alto saxophonist, band leader and composer of Armenian origin
• 2011: Witali Zeschkowski (1944–2011), chess player

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Jekaterina Kibalo in the database of Sports-Reference (English)
2. ↑ ^{a b c d e f} honorary citizen of Krasnodar , krd.ru (Russian)