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List of people from Perm

This is a list of notable people who were born or have lived in Perm (1940–1957: Molotov), Russia.

Born in Perm

18th century

1701–1800

  • Feodor Pryanishnikov (1793–1867), Russian actual privy councillor and postal administrator

19th century

1801–1900

  • Dmitry Smyshlyayev (1828–1893), Russian historian, ethnographer and politician
  • Ivan Larionov (1830–1889), Russian composer, writer and folklorist
  • Dmitry Maksutov (1832–1889), Imperial Russian Navy rear-admiral
  • Pyotr Vereshchagin (1834–1886), Russian landscape and cityscape painter
  • Vasily Vereshchagin (1835–1909), Russian portraitist, history painter and illustrator
  • Peter Struve (1870–1944), Russian political economist, philosopher and editor
  • Olga Lepeshinskaya (1871–1963), Soviet biologist
  • Mikhail Osorgin (1878–1942), Russian writer, journalist, and essayist
  • Vasily Kamensky (1884–1961), Russian Futurist poet, playwright and artist
  • Ariy Pazovsky (1887–1953), Russian Jewish conductor

20th century

1901–1950

  • Nikolay Moiseyev (1902–1955), Soviet astronomer and expert in celestial mechanics
  • Viktor Oreshnikov (1904–1987), Soviet Russian painter
  • Vladimir Yemelyanov (1911–1975), Soviet actor and producer
  • Vladislav Zanadvorov (1914–1942), Soviet writer
  • Mikhail Schweitzer (1920–2000), Soviet film director
  • Lev Voronin (1928–2006), Soviet Russian official
  • Lora Yakovleva (1932–2022), Russian woman International Correspondence Chess Grandmaster, the second ICCF Women's World Champion in correspondence chess between 1972 and 1977
  • Alexander Bolonkin (1933–2020), Russian-American scientist and academic
  • Georgi Burkov (1933–1990), Soviet film actor
  • Tamara Erofeyeva (born 1937), Soviet and Russian linguist
  • Aleksandr Nossov (born 1942), Soviet Nordic combined skier
  • Pavel Sadyrin (1942–2001), Soviet and Russian footballer and manager
  • Igor Volgin (born 1942), Soviet and Russian writer and historian, poet, specialist in literature

1951–1960

1961–1970

1971–1980

1981–1985

1986–1990

1991–2000

Lived in Perm

  • Vasily Tatishchev (1686–1750), Russian statesman and ethnographer; founded the cities of Perm and Yekaterinburg
  • Andrey Voronikhin (1759–1814), Russian architect and painter
  • Alexander von Humboldt (1769–1859), Prussian geographer, naturalist and explorer
  • Mikhail Speransky (1772–1839), Russian reformist during the reign of Alexander I of Russia
  • Alexander Herzen (1812–1870), Russian writer and thinker
  • Dmitry Mamin-Sibiryak (1852–1912), Russian author
  • Vladimir Korolenko (1853–1921), Russian short story writer, journalist, human rights activist and humanitarian
  • Nikolay Slavyanov (1854–1897), Russian inventor
  • Alexander Popov (1859–1906), Russian physicist who is acclaimed in his homeland and eastern European countries as the inventor of radio
  • Andronik (Nikolsky) (1870–1918), bishop in the Russian Orthodox Church and a saint
  • Sergei Diaghilev (1872–1929), Russian art critic, patron, ballet impresario and founder of the Ballets Russes
  • Mikhail Shuisky (1883–1953), Russian (people) opera and concert singer
  • Boris Pasternak (1890–1960), Soviet and Russian poet, novelist and literary translator; lived in Perm for a time, and it figures in his novel Doctor Zhivago under the fictional name "Yuriatin" where Yuri sees Lara again in the public library
  • Arkadiy Shvetsov (1892–1953), Soviet aircraft engine designer
  • Margarita Kozhina (1925–2012), Soviet and Russian linguist
  • Sergei Toropov (1928–1990), Russian historian and regional ethnographer
  • Sergei Belov (1944–2013), Soviet professional basketball player
  • Gennady Troshev (1947–2008), Russian Colonel General in the Russian military
  • Pyotr Latyshev (1948–2008), Russian politician
  • Nikolai Zarubin (1948–1998), Russian artist
  • Alexei Ivanov (born 1969), Russian writer

See also