Gary Powers

Gary Powers

male, deceased (1977)
U-2 spy plane, u-2, shot-down aviator, spy, Badaber Air Base, peshawar…sverdlovsk
Francis "Frank" Gary Powers (August 17, 1929 - August 1, 1977) Capt. USAF; was an American pilot whose U-2 spy plane was shot down while over the...
Pavel Datsyuk

Pavel Datsyuk

male, 31 years old (Detroit, Michigan, United States)
From Russia, Ice hockey player at the 2006 Winter Olympics, National Hockey League All-Star, Ice hockey player at the 2002 Winter Olympics, Detroit Red Wings, Russian…sverdlovsk, Born in Sverdlovsk, USSR
Pavel Datsyuk (born July 20 1978, in Sverdlovsk, USSR (now Yekaterinburg, Russia) is a Russian-born professional ice hockey player currently...
Nikolai Ryzhkov

Nikolai Ryzhkov

male, 80 years old
Russian, Uralmash Plant, Uralmash, technocracy, Gosplan, Central Committee of the CPSU…sverdlovsk
Nikolai Ivanovich Ryzhkov was a Soviet official and, after the breakup of the Soviet Union, a Russian politician. He served as Chairman of the...
Ernst Neizvestny

Ernst Neizvestny

male, 84 years old
Jewish, Soviet sculptor, concrete, lotus flower, Moscow State University, red army…sverdlovsk
Ernst Iosifovich Neizvestny is a famous Russian sculptor of the second half of the 20th century. Ironically, his surname (often taken for a...
Olga Kotlyarova

Olga Kotlyarova

female, 33 years old
From Russia, Olympic bronze medalist, Athlete at the 1996 Summer Olympics, World Athletics Final, Relay race, Olympic competitor for Russia…sverdlovsk
Olga Kotlyarova (born April 12, 1976 in Sverdlovsk) is a Russian runner. She used to compete mainly in 400 metres, and has an Olympic bronze medal...
Naina Yeltsina

Naina Yeltsina

female, 77 years old
President of the Russian Federation, Naina Iosifovna Yeltsina, Ural Polytechnic Institute, Ural State Technical University, Orenburg Oblast, Tatyana…sverdlovsk
Naina Iosifovna Yeltsina (maiden name "Girina", born March 14 1932) is the widow of the first President of the Russian Federation, Boris Yeltsin....
Erik Bulatov

Erik Bulatov

male, 76 years old
painter, sverdlovsk, pskov, russian revolution, Russian artist, Russian
Erik Bulatov is a Russian artist born in Sverdlovsk in 1933 and raised in Moscow. His father was a communist party official who died in World War...
Vladimir Motyl

Vladimir Motyl

male, 82 years old
belarusian, Katyusha, Honorary title, White Sun of the Desert, Urals, Young Spectator's Theatre…sverdlovsk
Vladimir Yakovlevich Motyl is a Soviet and Russian film director and scenarist. Vladimir Motyl was born in Lepel, Belarus. His father was a Polish...
Andrei Kirilenko

Andrei Kirilenko

male, deceased (1990)
Hero of Socialist Labor, politician, Soviet politician, secretariat, dnepropetrovsk, sverdlovsk
Andrei Pavlovich Kirilenko (September 8, 1906 - May 12, 1990) was a leading official of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, in the 1970s and...
Alexander Avdonin

Alexander Avdonin

male, 79 years old
Archaeologist, Russian, sverdlovsk, Romanovs
Alexander Avdonin was the first known person, in 1979, to begin to exhume the purported grave of the seven murdered Romanovs and four members of...