List of personalities of the city of Voronezh

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

Sons and daughters of the city of Voronezh

Ivan Nikitin
(1824–1861)

Nikolai Ge
(1831-1894)

Ivan Bunin
(1870-1953)

Pavel Cherenkov
(1904–1990)

Alexander Borodjuk
(* 1962)

Dmitri Sautin
(* 1974)

Maxim Potapov
(* 1980)

Ivan Sajenko
(* 1983)

Yegor Wjalzew
(* 1985)

Jelena Terechowa
(* 1987)

Viktorija Komowa
(* 1995)

Dmitri Skopinzew
(* 1997)

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

19th century

• Alexei Kolzow (1809–1842), folk poet
• Wassili Sarenko (1814–1881), doctor, composer and guitarist
• Alexei Chowanski (1814–1899), teacher and publisher
• Ivan Nikitin (1824–1861), folk poet
• Nikolai Ge (1831-1894), history and portrait painter
• Andrian Masaraki (1835–1906), officer, pianist and patron
• Ivan Gorozhankin (1848–1904), botanist
• Anastassija Werbizkaja (1861–1928), writer, playwright and memoirist
• Michail Olminski (1863–1933), revolutionary, journalist, historian and literary critic
• Alexei Gutor (1868–1938), Lieutenant General
• Iwan Bunin (1870–1953), writer, poet and translator
• Walerian Albanow (1881–1919), navigator and polar explorer
• Volin (1882–1945), anarchist and revolutionary
• Boris Hambourg (1885-1954), cellist
• Boris Eichenbaum (1886–1959), literary scholar
• Anatoly Durow (1887–1928), one of the most famous and talented animal trainers of the 20th century
• Samuil Marschak (1887–1964), writer
• Eduard Schpolski (1892–1975), physicist
• Semjon Krivoschein (1899–1978), General
• Georgi Krutikow (1899–1958), architect
• Andrei Platonov (1899–1951), writer
• William Dameshek (1900–1969), American hematologist

20th century

1901-1940

• Nikolai Biryukov (1901–1974), Colonel General
• Wladimir Gribkow (1902–1960), theater and film actor, voice actor and Estrada artist
• Pavel Cherenkov (1904–1990), physicist, discoverer of Cherenkov radiation and Nobel Prize winner (1958)
• Andrei Bunin (1905–1977), architect, town planner, architectural historian and university professor
• Jakow Kreiser (1905–1969), Army General
• Leon Nebenzahl (1910–1996), Russian-German translator and journalist
• Georgi Schilenkow (1910–1946), Soviet functionary and propaganda chief of the Vlasov Army
• Juri Basilewski (1912–1983), computer engineer
• Pavel Kasatkin (1915–1987), doctor, poet, local writer
• Alexander Schelepin (1918–1994), chairman of the KGB from 1958 to 1961
• Grigory Baklanov (1923–2009), writer
• Gleb Strischenow (1923–1985), actor
• Wladimir Sagorowski (1925–1994), historian and 4th correspondence chess world champion (1965–1968)
• Konstantin Feoktistow (1926–2009), cosmonaut
• Vitaly Worotnikov (1926–2012), politician, member of the Politburo of the CPSU and Prime Minister of the Russian SFSR (RSFSR)
• Arkadij Davidowitsch (* 1930), writer-aphorist
• Radi Fedorenko (1930–2009), mathematician
• Grigori Sanakojew (* 1935), chess master and 12th correspondence chess world champion (1990–1994)
• Jacob Yuchtman (1935–1985), chess player
• Vyacheslav Ovchinnikov (1936–2019), composer
• Ija Sawwina (1936–2011), actress
• Boris Mitjagin (* 1937), Russian-American mathematician

1941-1970

• Yuri Smoljakow (* 1941), fencer and Olympic silver medalist in 1968
• Galina Bucharina (* 1945), sprinter and Olympic bronze medalist in 1968
• Alexander Maleiev (1947), gymnast and Olympic silver medalist in 1972
• Svetlana Kopystiansky (* 1950), Russian-American artist
• Yuri Korchagin (* 1950), diplomat
• Leonid Dobroskokin (* 1952), swimmer
• Anatoly Fedjukin (1952–2020), handball player and Olympic champion in 1976
• Wladimir Rochlin (* 1952), American mathematician of Russian origin
• Lyubow Burda (* 1953), Soviet gymnast and two-time Olympic champion in 1968 and 1972
• Jelena Dawydowa (* 1961), gymnast and two-time Olympic champion in 1980
• Alexander Borodjuk (* 1962), football player and coach
• Vladimir Yereshchenko (born 1962), boxer
• Alexander Litvinenko (1962–2006), intelligence officer
• Alexander Tschajew (* 1962), swimmer and Olympic silver medalist in 1980
• Yuri Schischkin (* 1963), soccer player and soccer coach
• Yuri Nikolajewitsch Klinskich ("Choi") (1964–2000), singer in the band sector Gasa
• Jelena Rusina (* 1964), track and field athlete
• Valery Schmarow (* 1965), football player and coach
• Konstantin Tschernyschow (* 1967), chess grandmaster
• Vladimir Bobreschow (* 1968), canoeist

1971-1980

• Oleg Gorobi (1971), canoeist
• Ruslan Mashchenko (* 1971), hurdler and sprinter
• Dmitri Sautin (* 1974), water diver and eight-time Olympic champion
• Sergei Werlin (* 1974), canoeist
• Dmitri Stjopuschkin (* 1975), bobsleigh pilot
• Nikolai Krjukow (* 1978), gymnast and Olympic champion 1996
• Kirill Gerstein (* 1979), American pianist
• Jewgeni Ignatow (* 1979), canoeist
• Angelina Juschkowa (* 1979), rhythmic gymnast and Olympic bronze medalist in 1996
• Alexander Varlamow (* 1979), water diver
• Maxim Potapov (* 1980), ice hockey player

1981-2000

• Alexander Kryssanov (* 1981), ice hockey player
• Margarita Mkrtytschan (* 1981), Taekwondoin
• Eduard Worganow (* 1982), racing cyclist
• Ivan Sajenko (born 1983), football player
• Roman Filipov (1984-2018), military pilot
• Dmitri Kosontschuk (* 1984), racing cyclist
• Valery Sarychev (* 1984), rower
• Alexander Chatunzew (* 1985), racing cyclist
• Yegor Wjalzew (* 1985), basketball player
• Samwel Aslanjan (* 1986), handball player
• Dmitri Kosyakov (* 1986), cyclist
• Antonina Wessenina (* 1986), opera singer
• Sector Gasa (1987-2000), punk band
• Alexandra Ordina (* 1987), boxer
• Roman Schischkin (* 1987), football player
• Jelena Terechowa (* 1987), soccer player
• Natalja Goncharova (* 1988), water diver
• Jelena Judina (* 1988), skeleton pilot
• Dmitri Abakumow (* 1989), football goalkeeper
• Ivan Dobronrawov (born 1989), actor
• Anna Bogomasowa (* 1990), kickboxer, martial arts fighter and wrestler
• Yuri Kunakow (* 1990), water diver
• Witali Melnikow (* 1990), swimmer
• Wiktorija Komowa (* 1995), artistic gymnast and world champion on uneven bars in 2011 and 2015
• Marija Marfutina (* 1997), tennis player
• Dmitri Skopinzew (* 1997), football player
• Lyubov Dolgaja (* 1999), billiard player
• Angelina Melnikowa (* 2000), artistic gymnast

Honorary citizen of Voronezh

• 1993: Gawriil Trojepolski (1905–1995), writer
• 1996: Vitaly Worotnikov (1926–2012), politician
• 2001: Konstantin Feoktistow (1926–2009), cosmonaut
• 2001: Dmitri Sautin (* 1974), water diver and eight-time Olympic champion
• 2002: Mstislaw Rostropowitsch (1927–2007), cellist, conductor, pianist, composer and humanist

Persons related to Voronezh

• Peter the Great (1672–1725), from 1682 to 1721 Tsar and Grand Duke of Russia and from 1721 to 1725 the first Emperor of the Russian Empire ; visited Voronezh 13 times from 1696 to 1722
• Sergei Mossin (1849–1902), weapons designer and officer in the Russian army; entered the Voronezh Mikhailov Cadet Institute at the age of twelve
• Serge Voronoff (1866–1951), French surgeon of Russian origin and a pioneer in the field of xenotransplantation
• Nikolai Burdenko (1876–1946), surgeon and founder of Russian neurosurgery; from 1918 to 1923 professor at the newly founded University of Voronezh
• Leonid Assur (1878–1920), mechanical engineer
• Ossip Mandelstam (1891–1938), poet; was exiled to Voronezh, where he spent three years
• Nikolai Bassow (1922–2001), physicist, one of the founders of quantum electronics and Nobel Prize in Physics (1964); grew up in Voronezh

Personalities who died in Voronezh

• 1842: Alexei Kolzow (1809–1842), folk poet
• 1861: Iwan Nikitin (1824–1861), poet and folk poet
• 1899: Alexei Chowanski (1814–1899), publisher
• 1919: Michail Zwet (1872–1919), botanist and the inventor of chromatography
• 1938: Konstantin Kalinin (1889–1938), aircraft designer
• 1942: Herbert Birtner (1900–1942), German musicologist
• 1942: Bernhard Rehm (1909–1942), German classical philologist
• 1943: Henner Henkel (1915–1943), German tennis player and 1937 winner of the French championships (now the French Open)
• 1981: Michail Nossyrew (1924–1981), composer
• 1994: Wladimir Sagorowski (1925–1994), historian and 4th correspondence chess world champion (1965–1968)
• 1995: Gawriil Trojepolski (1905–1995), writer

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Бирюков Николай Иванович , tankfront.ru (Russian)
2. ↑ Alexander Malejew in the database of Sports-Reference (English)
3. ↑ Leonid Dobroskokin in the database of Sports-Reference (English)
4. ↑ Anatoly Fedjukin in the database of Sports-Reference (English)
5. ↑ Vladimir Yereshchenko in the database of Sports-Reference (English)
6. ↑ Alexander Tschajew in the database of Sports-Reference (English)
7. ↑ Vladimir Bobreschow in the database of Sports-Reference (English)
8. ↑ Oleg Gorobi in the database of Sports-Reference (English)
9. ↑ Sergei Werlin in the database of Sports-Reference (English)
10. ↑ Dmitri Stjopuschkin in the database of Sports-Reference (English)
11. ↑ Nikolai Krjukow in the database of Sports-Reference (English)
12. ↑ Margarita Mkrtytschan in the database of Sports-Reference (English)
13. ↑ Valery Sarychev in the database of Sports-Reference (English)
14. ↑ ^{a b c d e} honorary citizen of Voronezh , voronezh-city.ru (Russian)