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Boris Nikolayevich Yeltsin (Russian: Борис Николаевич Ельцин​ (help·info); Russian pronunciation: [bɐˈɾʲis nʲɪkɐˈɫaɪvʲɪtɕ ˈjelʲtsɨn]) (1 February 1931 – 23 April 2007) was the first President of the Russian Federation, serving...

AvtoVAZ (RTS:AVAZ) (Russian: АвтоВАЗ) is a Russian automobile manufacturer, also known as VAZ, Volzhsky Avtomobilny Zavod (ВАЗ, Во́лжский автомоби́льный заво́д), and better known to the world as Lada, was set up in the late 1960s in collaboration with...

Sergei Vasilievich Rachmaninoff (Russian: Сергей Васильевич Рахманинов, Sergej Vasil’evič Rakhmaninov, 1 April 1873 [O.S. 20 March] – 28 March 1943) was a Russian-American composer, pianist, and conductor. He was one of the finest pianists of his day and, as...

Barad can refer to a number of people, places, and things. It occurs as a family name with multiple ethnic sources and meanings (Hebrew: ברד‎, Russian: Барад). It was ranked #88,149 in popularity in the 1990 US census. Variants of...

Valery Ponomarev is a Russian born jazz trumpeter born in 1942. He has lived in the United States since 1973.

Enver İzmaylov (Russian: Энвер Измайлов) (b. 1955 in Fergana, Uzbekistan) is a prominent Crimean Tatar folk and jazz musician (guitarist) resident of Ukraine. Born into a family previously deported from Crimea (Ukraine), İzmaylov returned in 1989.

Igor Grigoriev, born on January 24, 1955 in Moscow , is a composer and improvisational guitarist.

Alexander Ilyich Siloti (also Ziloti, Russian: Алекса́ндр Ильи́ч Зило́ти, Aleksandr Iljič Ziloti) (9 October 1863, near Kharkiv - 8 December 1945, New York) was a Russian pianist, conductor and composer. (Spelling note: A truer transliteration of his surname into English...

Dmitri Dmitriyevich Shostakovich (Russian: Дмитрий Дмитриевич Шостакович​ (help·info); 25 September [O.S. September 12] 1906 – 9 August 1975) was a Russian composer of the Soviet period and one of the most celebrated composers of the 20th century.

Rudolf Serkin (Hebrew: רודולף סרקין‎, Russian: Рудольф Сёркин, March 28, 1903  – May 8, 1991, Guilford, Vermont) was a Bohemian-born pianist.