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List of people from Saratov

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Coat of Arms of Saratov
Coat of Arms of Saratov

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

Nikolay Chernyshevsky
(1828–1889)
Alexander Pypin
(1833–1904)
Nikolai Grandkovsky
(1864–1907)
Alexei Rykov
(1881–1938)
Boris Babochkin
(1904–1975)
Oleg Tabakov
(1935–2018)
Boris Gromov
(born 1943)
Roman Abramovich
(born 1966)
Yevgeny Mironov
(born 1966)
Alexey Ashapatov
(born 1973)
Ksenya Stepanycheva
(born 1978)
Aleksey Ostapenko
(born 1986)
Fyodor Smolov
(born 1990)
Elvira T
(born 1994)

Born in Saratov

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19th century

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1801–1850

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1851–1900

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20th century

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1901–1930

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1931–1950

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1951–1970

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1971–1980

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1981–1990

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1991–2000

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Lived in Saratov

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Anastasia Karpova
(born 1984)
  • Herwarth Walden (1879–1941), German Expressionist artist, critic, and courageous promoter of early 20th century avant-garde art. Killed in Saratov in a Soviet camp during Stalin's "Purges."
  • Gavrila Derzhavin (1743–1816), one of the most highly esteemed Russian poets before Alexander Pushkin
  • Alexander Radishchev (1749–1802), Russian author and social critic
  • Jean-Victor Poncelet (1788–1867), French engineer and mathematician (prisoner of war)
  • Nikolay Zinin (1812–1880), Russian organic chemist
  • Alexey Bogolyubov (1824–1896), Russian landscape painter
  • Lev Igorev (1821–1893), Russian portrait painter in the Academic style
  • Ilya Salov (1834–1902), Russian writer, playwright and translator
  • Mikhail Vrubel (1856–1910), Russian painter
  • Fyodor Schechtel (1859–1926), Russian architect, graphic artist and stage designer, the most influential and prolific master of Russian Art Nouveau and late Russian Revival
  • Pyotr Stolypin (1862–1911), 3rd Chairman of Council of Ministers of the Russian Empire, served as Prime Minister and Minister of Internal Affairs from 1906 to 1911
  • Leonid Sobinov (1872–1934), Imperial Russian operatic tenor
  • Kuzma Petrov-Vodkin (1878–1939), Russian and Soviet painter and writer
  • Nikolai Vavilov (1887–1943), Russian and Soviet botanist and geneticist, died in a Saratov jail
  • Mikhail Bulgakov (1891–1940), Russian writer and playwright
  • Konstantin Paustovsky (1892–1968), Russian Soviet writer nominated for the Nobel Prize for literature in 1965
  • Lidia Ruslanova (1900–1973), Russian folk singer
  • Lev Kassil (1905–1970), Soviet writer of juvenile and young adult literature, depicting Soviet life, teenagers and their world, school, sports, cultural life and war
  • Oleg Antonov (1906–1984), Soviet aircraft designer
  • Alfred Schnittke (1934–1998), Soviet and Russian composer
  • Boris M. Schein (1938–2023), Russian-American mathematician
  • Eduard Limonov (born 1943), Russian writer, poet, publicist and political dissident
  • Oleg Yankovsky (1944–2009), Soviet Russian actor
  • Valeriya (born 1968), Russian pop singer
  • Anastasia Karpova (born 1984), Russian pop singer
  • Natalia Pogonina (born 1985), Russian chess player who holds the FIDE title of Woman Grandmaster
  • Polina Gagarina (born 1987), Russian pop singer
  • Konstantin Lokhanov (born 1998), Russian junior world champion and Olympic sabre fencer living in the United States

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