Vladimir Artykov, painter
Anatoly Karpov, chess player
Boris Khmelnitsky, actor
Dmitri Prigov, poet
Georgiy Daneliya, filmmaker
Elina Bystrítskaya, actress
Vasili Aksiónov, writer
Yevgueni Yevtushenko, poet
Alexander Lazarev, actor
Pavel Borodin, politician
Sergey Dorenko, journalist