List of people from Tambov

An A-Z list of famous people from Tambov Oblast, Russia.

A

Valentin Avrorin (1907-1977) - Member of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR

Vasily Agapkin (1884-1964) - a military orchestra conductor , composer

Nickolai Annenkov (Kokin) (1899-1999) - patriarch of the Moscow Maly Theatre.

Alexander Antonov (1888-1922) - A leader of the Tambov peasant revolt (1920-1921)

Vladimir Arnoldi (1871-1924) - botanist

Yury Artyukhin (1930-1998) - an astronaut.

Nickolai Arkharov (1742-1814) - Russian statesman.

B

Nickolai Basov (1922-2001) - physicist

Alexander Bezobrazov (1783-1871) - Russian statesman

Roman Boborykin - Russian statesman

Vsevolod Bobrov (1922-1979) - sportsman

Vladimir Bolotin (Born in 1926) - Mechanical engineer

Yevgeny Boratynsky (1800-1844) - Russian poet

Nickolai Bochkov (Born in 1931) - Russian scientist

Sergei Bryukhanenko (1890-1960) - Russian physician,

David Burlyuk (1882-1967) - Russian poet and painter

C

Yury Chernavsky (17 марта 1947) — Russian composer, producer.

D

Lev Diomin (1926-1998) - Russian cosmonaut

Leonid Diomin (1897-1973) - Doctor of Geographical Sciences, professor.

Gavrila Derzhavin (1743-1816) - Russian poet

Maksim Dmitriev (1858-1948) - Russian photographer

Fiodor Dubovitsky (1907-1999) - Doctor of Chemical Sciences, professor

E

*Lyudmila Enquist (Narozhilenko) 1964- - champion sprinter

F

*Konstantin Fedin (1892-1977) - Russian writer

*Nikolai Fyodorov (1828-1903) - philosopher, a leading proponent of Russian cosmism.

*Feofan, Vyshensky hermit (Georgy Govorov) (1815-1894) - Tambov bishop )

*Feofil (Rayev) (1738-1811) - Tambov bishop.

*Sergei Filatov (1926-1997) Olympic equestrian champion

*Flavian Flavitsky (1848-1917) - Russian chemist

G

*Zoya Gaidai (1902-1965) - Ukrainian singer (soprano).

*Nikita Galakhov (1864-1912) - the inventor of the elliptical springs for the railroad carriages.

*Nickolai Gamalei (1795-1859) - Russian statesman, Vitebsk governor, served in the Ministry of Internal Affairs.

*Alexander Gerasimov (1881-1963) - Soviet painter

*Natalia Goncharova (1812-1863) - A.S.Pushkin's wife. She was born in the village Karian-Zagryazhskoye of the Tambov province.

*Maksim Gorky (Alexei Peshkov) (1868-1936) - Russian and Soviet writer and public figure, a founder of socialist realism literature.

*Afanasy Grigoriev (1782-1868) - architect, took part in the reconstruction of Moscow after the War 1812.

I

*Konstantin Igumnov (1873-1948) - a pianist-virtuoso, professor of Moscow Conservatory,
*Lev Ilyin (1880-1942) - an architect, in 1925-1938 the main architect of Leningrad.

K

*Paisy Kaisarov (1783-1844) - major-general

*Ivan Kalita (born in 1927) - the equestrian sport Olympic Champion (1972).

*Andrei Karelin (1837-1906) - artist, photographer of the Academy of Arts,

* Andrey Kolmogorov (1903-1987) - mathematician

*Zoya Kosmodemyanskaya (1923-1941) - a partisan

*Yevgeny Krinov (1906-1984) - the investigator of meteorites.

*Lev Kuleshov (1899-1970) - Soviet film producer and film critic

L

*Yevgeny Lanceray (1848-1886) - the well-known Russian sculptor.

*Igor Levkoev (1909-1978) - a chemist-photographer

*Alexander Levshin (1899-1982) - a producer.

*Mikhail Lermontov (1814-1841) - the well-known Russian poet.

*Alexander Lodygin (1847-1923) - one of the founders of the electrothermy, author of almost 400 inventions including a tungsten filament lamp. He was born in the village of Stenshino of the Tambov province.

*Luka (Valentin Voino-Yasenetsky) (1877-1961) - Doctor of Medicine and surgeon

*Mikhail Lunin (1787-1845) - the Decembrist

*Maria Spiridonova (1884-1941) - revolutionary

*Ruslan Sviridov (Born in 1973) - classical pianist, pedagogue

P

*Denis Plutalov (1976-...) - pianist

*Alexandr Potapov (1985-...) - most popular designer and producer