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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...

Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev (Russian: Михаил Сергеевич Горбачёв (help·info), IPA [mʲɪxɐˈil sʲɪrˈɡʲeɪvʲɪtɕ ɡərbɐˈtɕof]; born 2 March 1931) was the second-to-last General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, serving from 1985...

Nikita Sergeyevich Mikhalkov (Russian: Ники́та Серге́евич Михалко́в; born October 21, 1945, Moscow) is an Academy Award winning Soviet and Russian filmmaker and actor.

Garry Kasparov (Russian: Га́рри Ки́мович Каспа́ров, Russian pronunciation: [ˈɡarʲɪ ˈkʲiməvʲɪtɕ kɐˈsparəf]; born Garry Kimovich Weinstein, 13 April 1963) is a former World Chess Champion, writer, and political activist, whom many consider the...

Kalpana Kartik is an actress in Hindi movies. Mona aka Kalpana was elected to be beauty queen in her college days in Shimla.In 1954 film actor Dev Anand met Mona, whose screen name is Kalpana Kartik, and married her in...

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...

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.

Youri Aleksandrovich Egorov (Russian: Юрий Александрович Егоров; May 28, 1954 – April 15, 1988) was a Soviet classical pianist.

Anton Grigorevich Rubinstein (Russian: Антóн Григóрьевич Рубинштéйн) (November 28, 1829 – November 20, 1894) was a Russian-Jewish pianist, composer and conductor. As a pianist he was regarded as a rival of Franz Liszt, and he ranks amongst the great keyboard...