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List of people from Chelyabinsk

This is a list of notable people who were born or have lived in Chelyabinsk, Russia.

Born in Chelyabinsk

19th century

1801–1900

  • Vladimir Szmurlo (1865–1931), Russian Esperantist and railway engineer

20th century

1901–1940

  • Esphyr Slobodkina (1908–2002), popular artist, author and illustrator
  • Sidney Gordin (1918–1996), Russian-born American artist and educator
  • Makhmut Gareev (1923–2019), Russian General of the Army, historian and military scientist
  • Evgeni Rogov (1929–1996), Russian and Soviet football player and football manager
  • Yuri Klepikov (1935–2021), Russian screenwriter and actor
  • Tatyana Sidorova (born 1936), Russian speed skater
  • Nelli Abramova (born 1940), Soviet competitive volleyball player and Olympic silver medalist in 1964

1941–1950

  • Aleksey Kuznetsov (born 1941), Russian guitarist, composer and guitar pedagogue
  • Eduard Sibiryakov (1941–2014), Soviet volleyball player
  • Svyatoslav Belza (1942–2014), Soviet Russian literary and musical scholar, critic and essayist
  • Gennady Tsygurov (1942–2016), Russian professional ice hockey coach and former player
  • Vera Popkova (1943–2011), Soviet track and field athlete
  • Pyotr Shubin (born 1944), Russian professional football coach and former player
  • Yuri Aizenshpis (1945–2005), Russian music manager and producer
  • Boris Kopeykin (born 1945), Soviet football player and Russian coach
  • Anna Sablina (born 1945), Russian speed skater
  • Galina Starovoytova (1946–1998), Soviet dissident, Russian politician and ethnographer
  • Anatoli Kartayev (born 1947), Russian and Soviet professional ice hockey player and coach
  • Sergey Mikhalyov (1947–2015), Russian ice hockey coach
  • Nikolay Makarov (born 1948), Russian ice hockey player
  • Yevgeny Kotlov (1949–2016), Soviet hockey player
  • Evgeny Sveshnikov (1950–2021), Russian, former Soviet and Latvian Grandmaster of chess and a chess writer

1951–1960

1961–1970

  • Irina Kostyuchenkova (1961–2023), Soviet and Ukrainian female javelin thrower
  • Yelena Skrynnik (born 1961), the first female minister of agriculture of the Russian Federation between 2009 and 2012
  • Oleg Gusev (born 1964), Russian entrepreneur and politician
  • Andrei Zuev (born 1964), Russian ice hockey goaltender
  • Marat Romanov (born 1966), Russian wheelchair curler
  • Evgeny Davydov (born 1967), Russian professional ice hockey player
  • Yelena Sayko (born 1967), Russian race walker
  • Leonid Novitskiy (born 1968), Russian cross-country rally driver
  • Vadim Brovtsev (1969–2024), Russian businessman who was Prime Minister of the Republic of South Ossetia from 2009 to 2012
  • Svetlana Goundarenko (born 1969), Russian mixed martial artist and judoka
  • Mikhail Yurevich (born 1969), Russian politician; former governor of Chelyabinsk Oblast (2010–2014)
  • Ariel (formed 1970), Soviet "VIA" (pop/rock) band
  • Sergey Gomolyako (born 1970), Russian ice hockey player
  • Yuriy Konovalov (born 1970), Russian professional footballer
  • Rishat Shafikov (born 1970), Russian race walker
  • Yelena Yelesina (born 1970), Russian female high jumper; won the gold medal at the 2000 Summer Olympics with 2,01 m

1971–1975

1976–1980

1981–1985

1986–1990

1991–2000

Lived in Chelyabinsk

  • Stanislav Hazheev (born 1941), the Minister of Defence in Transnistria
  • Sergey Kovalev (born 1983), current WBO Light Heavyweight Boxing Champion; former IBF, WBA, the Ring Champion
  • Vladimir Stepanov (born 1958), Russian armwrestler
  • Oleg Znarok (born 1963), former Soviet and Latvian ice hockey player, with German citizenship since 2001; coach of the Russian national hockey team

See also