List of people from Novosibirsk

This is a list of notable people who were born or have lived in Novosibirsk (1893–1926: Novonikolayevsk), Russia.

Born in Novosibirsk[edit]

1901–1930[edit]

Arseny Sokolov (1910–1986), theoretical physicist
Alexander Pokryshkin (1913–1985), Soviet flying ace and a Marshal of the Soviet Air Force; Hero of the Soviet Union
Veniamin Nechayev (1915-1987), Soviet musician (guitarist) and film actor, the member of the estrada duet of Nechayev & Rudakov, which was popular in the 1950s, Merited Artist of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic (1961)
Vsevolod Blinkov (1918–1987), football player and a bandy player
Nikolai Kopilov (1919–1995), chess player
Oleg Tolmachev (1919–2008), Soviet ice hockey player and coach
Yury Karandin (born 1923), IIHF Hall of Fame inductee
Yevgeni Andreyev (1926–2000), colonel in the Soviet Air Force
Valentin Kuzin (1926–1994), ice hockey player
Vladimir Yakubovich (1926–2012), control theorist
Aleksandr Zatsepin (born 1926), composer
Arkady Vaksberg (1927–2011), lawyer, writer, film maker and playwright

1931–1950[edit]

Eduard Artemyev (born 1937), composer of electronic music and film scores
Yuriy Nazarov (born 1937), actor
Gainan Saidkhuzhin (1937–2015), Russian Tatar cyclist and ten-time cycling champion of the Soviet Union
Yury Yershov (born 1940), mathematician
Yevgeny Kharitonov (1941–1981), writer, poet, playwright and theater director
Thomas Sanderling (born 1942), German conductor
Alexander Gavrilov (born 1943), pair skater
Anatoly Koteshev (born 1944), fencer
Yury Komarov (born 1945), businessman
Valery Ilyinykh (1947–1982), gymnast
Israel Shamir (born 1947), writer and journalist
Vladimir Zubkov (born 1948), wrestler
Vladimir Paznikov (1949–2008), Soviet international speedway rider

1951–1960[edit]

Irina Alfyorova (born 1951), actress
Vladimir Antyufeyev (born 1951), Soviet OMON police officer, Minister of State Security of Transnistria (1992–2011)
Sergei Kourdakov (1951–1973), KGB agent and naval officer
Alexander Akimov (1953–1986), shift supervisor of the night crew that worked at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant Unit #4 on the night of the accident, on April 26, 1986
Nina Mikhailovna Sadur (born 1950), playwright and prose writer
Viktor Tolokonsky (born 1953), politician
Tatyana Zolotnitskaya (born 1955), freestyle swimmer
Anatoly Lokot (born 1959), mayor of Novosibirsk
Irina Strakhova (born 1959), race walker
Marina Gershenovich (born 1960), poet and translator

1961–1970[edit]

Andrey Perlov (born 1961), race walker
Olga Voshchakina (born 1961), fencer
Aleksei Maklakov (born 1962), actor and singer
Andrei Panin (1962–2013), actor and director
Oleg Postnov (born 1962), author, university professor, philologist and a literary critic
Oleg Sudakov (born 1962), musician, poet, artist and publicist
Liliya Vasilchenko (1962–2011), cross-country skier
Natalia Fileva (1963–2019), aviation executive and millionaire
Irina Laricheva (born 1963), swimmer
Alexander Goldin (born 1964), chess grandmaster
Vadim Kuzmin (1964–2012), musician
Alena Ledeneva (born 1964), Professor of Politics and Society at the School of Slavonic and East European Studies, University College London
Dmitry Selivanov (1964–1989), rock singer
Vladimir Strelchenko (born 1964), mayor of Khimki
Andrey Zvyagintsev (born 1964), film director and actor
Aleksander Barkov (born 1965), professional ice hockey coach
Grigory Kiriyenko (born 1965), fencer
Eugene Nalimov (born 1965), chess programmer
Sergey Surovikin (born 1966), Commander of the Russian Aerospace Forces
Yanka Dyagileva (1966–1991), poet and singer-songwriter
Aleksandr Karelin (born 1967), Greco-Roman wrestler and a Hero of the Russian Federation
Ivan Kulakov (born 1967), geophysicist and artist
Igor Polyansky (born 1967), backstroke swimmer
Roman Stolyar (born 1967), composer, piano improviser and educator
Vyacheslav Shalygin (born 1968), science fiction writer
Andrei Tarasenko (born 1968), ice hockey player
Evgeni Kisurin (born 1969), basketball player

1971–1975[edit]

Vladislav Bobrik (born 1971), road bicycle racer
Larisa Merk (born 1971), rower
Vadim Repin (born 1971), Belgian-Russian violinist
Dmitry Shorin (born 1971), artist and sculptor
Dmitry Zatonsky (born 1971), ice hockey forward
Olga Nikolaeva (born 1972), volleyball player
Ruben Aganbegyan (born 1972), economist
Anton Mordasov (born 1972), pianist
Tatiana Malinina (born 1973), figure skater
Tatiana Moskvina (born 1973), Russian-born Belarusian judoka
Stanislav Pozdnyakov (born 1973), fencer and president of the Russian Olympic Commission
Sergey Tatevosyan (born 1973), professional boxer
Mitya Fomin (born 1974), singer, dancer and producer
Sergei Klimovich (born 1974), professional ice hockey center
Maxim Vengerov (born 1974), Israeli violinist, violist and conductor
Alexander Medvedev (born 1975), Russian singer known by his stage name Shura
Evgeny Shaldybin (born 1975), professional ice hockey player
Sergei Zhukov (born 1975), professional ice hockey player

1976–1980[edit]

Anton Chermashentsev (born 1976), Olympic rower
Yan Golubovsky (born 1976), professional ice hockey player
Vladimir Komarov (born 1976), musician, singer, songwriter, sound producer, DJ and journalist
Ivan Roudyk (born 1976), house DJ
Alexander Ustinov (born 1976), Belarusian professional boxer, kickboxer and mixed martial artist
Konstantin Gorovikov (born 1977), ice hockey forward
Denis Laktionov (born 1977), football player
Dmitri Nabokov (born 1977), professional ice hockey forward
Yevgeni Podgorny (born 1977), Olympic gymnast
Ekaterina Vinogradova (born 1977), biathlete and cross-country skier
Denis Inkin (born 1978), professional boxer
Anna Tsygankova (born 1979), ballet dancer
Tatiana Burina (born 1980), ice hockey forward
Irina Dzyuba (born 1980), Russian rhythmic gymnast
Aleksandr Nikolaenko (born 1980), badminton player

1981–1985[edit]

Maria Guerassimenko (born 1981), pair skater
Dmitry Bocharov (born 1982), chess grandmaster
Vladimir Gusev (born 1982), professional ice hockey defenceman
Artyom Kryukov (born 1982), professional ice hockey forward
Lyubov Shutova (born 1983), fencer, world champion in 2009 and team world champion in 2013 and 2014
Olesya Syreva (born 1983), middle/long-distance runner
Anna Kikina (born 1984), engineer and test cosmonaut
Anton Tokarev (born 1984), pair skater
Pavel Podkolzin (born 1985), professional basketball player
Konstantin Shamray (born 1985), pianist
Irina Ufimtseva (born 1985), Olympics freestyle swimmer

1986–1990[edit]

Konstantin Alexeyev (born 1988), professional ice hockey defenceman
Valentina Artemyeva (born 1986), breaststroke swimmer
Ilia Chernousov (born 1986), cross-country skier
Grigori Chirkin (born 1986), professional footballer
Youlia Fedossova (born 1988), French female tennis player
Igor Gorokhov (born 1990), ice hockey defenceman
Maxim Gratchev (born 1988), ice hockey player
Yuliya Gavrilova (born 1989), sabre fencer
Yekaterina Ilyukhina (born 1987), snowboarder
Maksim Ishkeldin (1990–2021), bandy player
Max Jenkins (born 1986), American professional racing cyclist
Dmitriy Koshkin (born 1986), alpine skier
Yuri Larionov (born 1986), pair skater
Artyom Loskutov (born 1986), performance artist and an activist
Aleksandr Makarenko (born 1986), professional footballer
Vladimir Markelov (born 1987), professional ice hockey forward
Egor Milovzorov (born 1987), professional ice hockey forward
Pelageya (born 1986), singer
Veniamin Reshetnikov (born 1986), sabre fencer, European champion in 2009, world champion in 2013, three-time team world champion (2010, 2011 and 2013) and three-time team European champion (2007, 2009 and 2012)
Vladimir Rykov (born 1987), professional football player
Vitaliy Sidorov (born 1990), professional football player
Daniil Simkin (born 1987), ballet dancer and principal dancer with American Ballet Theatre
Mikhail Simonyan (born 1986), violinist
Michail Tsarev (born 1986), mixed martial artist
Roman Vlasov (born 1990), Greco-Roman wrestler
Irina Zaryazhko (born 1989), volleyball player
Alena Zavarzina (born 1989), snowboarder
Georgi Zotov (born 1990), professional football player

1991–2000[edit]

Alexei Antsiferov (born 1991), professional ice hockey forward
Yevgeni Gapon (born 1991), professional footballer
Maxim Ignatovich (born 1991), professional ice hockey player
Alexey Sobolev (born 1991), snowboarder
Nikita Ignatyev (born 1992), artistic gymnast
Vladimir Morozov (born 1992), swimmer
Roman Tatalin (born 1992), professional ice hockey defenceman
Denis Bachurin (born 1993), professional ice hockey defenceman
Yegor Korshkov (born 1996), ice hockey player
Elizaveta Kulichkova (born 1996), tennis player
Vladimir Pashkevich (born 1996), football player
Ivan Stretovich (born 1996), artistic gymnast
Grigori Denisenko (born 2000), ice hockey player
unki (born 2005), internet rapper

Lived in Novosibirsk[edit]

Mikhail Lavrentyev (1900–1980), mathematician and hydrodynamicist; professor at Novosibirsk State University (1959–1966)
Ilia Vekua (1907–1977), Soviet-Georgian mathematician; first rector of Novosibirsk State University (1959–1964)
Alexey Okladnikov (1908–1981), archaeologist, historian and ethnographer; Professor and Head, Department of History, of Novosibirsk State University (1962–1981)
Aleksandr Aleksandrov (1912–1999), mathematician, physicist, philosopher and mountaineer; lived from 1964 to 1986 in Novosibirsk, heading the Laboratory of Geometry of the Institute of Mathematics of the Siberian Division of the USSR Academy of Sciences, teaching at Novosibirsk State University
Samson Kutateladze (1914-1986), physicist; professor at Novosibirsk State University
Dmitry Belyayev (1917–1985), geneticist and academician; his decades-long effort to breed domesticated foxes was described by The New York Times as “arguably the most extraordinary breeding experiment ever conducted”
Gersh Budker (1918–1977), physicist; became one of the founders of Faculty of Physics of Novosibirsk State University in 1961
Yegor Ligachyov (1920–2021), politician; First Secretary of the Novosibirsk Komsomol, before becoming Deputy Chairman of the Novosibirsk Soviet, and then Secretary of the Novosibirsk Obkom between 1959 and 1961
Valentin Koptyug (1931–1997), scientist; chancellor of Novosibirsk State University (1978–1980)
Rostislav Shilo (1940-2016), director of the Novosibirsk Zoo (1969-2016), honorary citizen of Novosibirsk
Semën Kutateladze (born 1945), mathematician; professor at Novosibirsk State University
Anatoly Kvashnin (1946-2022), Hero of the Russian Federation (1999), military and civilian official, the Chief of the General Staff of Russian Armed Forces (1997-2004), Army general (1997), the Plenipotentiary Representative of the President of Russia in the Siberian Federal District (2004-2010), 1st class Active State Councillor of the Russian Federation (2004)
Vladimir Gorodetsky (born 1948), mayor of Novosibirsk (2000–2014); Governor of Novosibirsk Oblast (2014-2017); senator of Russian Federation Council since 2018
Zinaida Amosova (born 1950), cross-country skier, training at the Armed Forces sports society in Novosibirsk
Joseph Werth (born 1952), Bishop of Transfiguration in Novosibirsk
Tatyana Snezhina (1972-1995), poet and singer-songwriter
Aleksandr Butko (born 1986), setter, plays for Lokomotiv Novosibirsk; also in the Russian Olympic men's volleyball team
Vladimir Tarasenko (born 1991), professional ice hockey right winger, played in the system of Sibir Novosibirsk organization