Notable Soviet Nonconformist artists from Moscow include: Ilya Kabakov, Oleg Vassiliev, Erik Bulatov, Komar and Melamid, Genia Chef, Leonid Sokov, Viktor Pivovarov, Ülo Sooster, Boris Sveshnikov, Vladimir Yakovlev, Anatoly Zverev, Lydia Masterkova, Vladimir Nemukhin, Ernst Neizvestny, Oscar Rabin, Vladimir Yankilevsky, Eduard Steinberg, Lev Kropivnitsky, Valentina Kropivnitskaia, Alexander Yulikov, Andrei Grositsky, Vasily Sitnikov, Dmitrii Krasnopevtsev, Leonid Lamm, Igor Shelkovsky, Edward Drobitsky, Julia Dolgorukova and others.

Chiang allowed for the " escape " of Soviet agent and advisor Mikhail Borodin and Soviet military officer Vasily Blücher ( Galens ) to safety after the purge.

* 1991 – Vasily Grigoryevich Zaitsev, Soviet sniper ( b. 1915 )

* February 12 – Vasily Chuikov, Marshal of the Soviet Union during WWII.

* March 23 – Vasily Zaitsev, Soviet sniper ( d. 1991 )

* November 19 – Vasily Blyukher, Soviet military commander ( d. 1938 )

* March 24 – Vasily Smyslov, Soviet chess player ( died 2010 )

However, the Soviet delegate Vasily Kuznetsov argued: " ... phrases such as ' secure and recognized boundaries '.

After the Soviet novelist Vasily Aksyonov visited Samara, he remarked: " I am not sure where in the West one can find such a long and beautiful embankment.

Documents released from the Soviet KGB bureau archives by Vasily Mitrokhin in the early 1990s clearly showed that the Afghan government clearly authorized the assault and that the KGB adviser on scene, Sergei Batrukihn, may have recommended the assault, as well as the execution of a kidnapper before U. S. experts could interrogate him.

Soviet General Vasily Zaplatin, a political advisor at that time, claimed that four of President Taraki's ministers were responsible for the destabilization.

However, by 1962, with the publication in the Marshal of the Soviet Union Vasily Sokolovsky's volume, Military Strategy, the Soviets laid out their officially endorsed thoughts on the matter, and their ideas on how to cope with nuclear conflict.

Some writers dared to oppose Soviet ideology, like short story writer Varlam Shalamov and Nobel Prize winning novelist Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, who wrote about life in the gulag camps, or Vasily Grossman, with his description of World War II events countering the Soviet official historiography.

* Vasily Aksyonov's Say Cheese ( 1983 ) recounts in a fictionalized form the story of the Metropol anthology by Soviet writers, the first project of its kind not subject to censorship.

* A Hollywood film called Enemy at the Gates was made about Vasily Zaitsev, a Soviet sniper who fought in the Battle of Stalingrad.

* In David L. Robbins novel War of the Rats, the lead character, Vasily Zaitsev, is a Soviet Sniper in WWII.

At about 04: 00 on 1 May, Krebs talked to General Vasily Chuikov commander of the Soviet 8th Guards Army.

In the Soviet Union, the story was loosely adapted into an animated musical in 1969 by Yuri Entin and Vasily Livanov at the studio Soyuzmultfilm, The Bremen Town Musicians.

Saint Tikhon of Moscow (, – ), born Vasily Ivanovich Bellavin (), was the 11th Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia of the Russian Orthodox Church during the early years of the Soviet Union, 1917 through 1925.

Vasily Vasilyevich Smyslov (; 24 March 1921 – 27 March 2010 ) was a Soviet and Russian chess grandmaster, and was World Chess Champion from 1957 to 1958.

* Vasily Smyslov vs Garry Kasparov, Soviet Olympiad Training tournament (?

Vasily Grigoryevich Zaytsev (; March 23, 1915 – December 15, 1991 ) was a Soviet sniper during World War II, notable particularly for his activities between November 10 and December 17, 1942, during the Battle of Stalingrad.

Presumably for political reasons, he was excluded from the ten-player Soviet team for the 1945 radio match against the U. S. A., and he did not participate in the first great post-war tournament at the 1946 Groningen tournament which was won by Botvinnik, just ahead of Euwe and Vasily Smyslov.

* The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson, a series of television films made by Soviet television, featured Boris Klyuyev as Mycroft Holmes, despite Klyuyev being nine years younger than Vasily Livanov, who played Sherlock Holmes.

* 1848 – Vasily Surikov, Russian painter ( d. 1916 )

* January 24 – Vasily Surikov Russian painter ( d. 1916 )

The painter Vasily Vereshchagin was present at the taking of Khiva by Russian forces.

Vasily Andreevich Tropinin (; – ) was a Russian Romantic painter.

* Vasily Yefanov: painter

* Vasily Perov, painter.

Through these men Shevchenko also met the famous painter and professor Karl Briullov, who donated his portrait of the Russian poet Vasily Zhukovsky as a lottery prize, whose proceeds were used to buy Shevchenko's freedom on May 5, 1838.

* Vasily Surikov ( 1848 – 1916 ), painter

* Vasily Tropinin, ( 1776 – 1857 ), painter

Vasily Ivanovich Surikov ( Васи ́ лий Ива ́ нович Су ́ риков ) ( January 24, 1848 ( Julian calendar: January 12 ) – March 19, 1916 ( Julian calendar: March 6 )) was the foremost Russian painter of large-scale historical subjects.

Nikita's mother, the poetess Natalia Konchalovskaya, was the daughter of the avant-garde artist Pyotr Konchalovsky and granddaughter of another outstanding painter, Vasily Surikov.

His great-grandfather on his mother's side was Russian painter Vasily Surikov.

Vasily Dmitrievich Polenov ( Russian: Васи ́ лий Дми ́ триевич Поле ́ нов ; 1 June 1844 – 18 July 1927 ) was a Russian landscape painter associated with the Peredvizhniki movement of realist artists.

The painter Vasily Vereshchagin accompanied Kaufmann in his campaigns.

Vasily Grigorevich Perov (; real name Vasily Grigorevich Kridener ( Криденер ); 2 January 1834 ( 21 December 1833 Old Style ) – 10 June ( 29 May Old Style ) 1882 ) was a Russian painter and one of the founding members of Peredvizhniki, a group of Russian realist painters.

They mark the graves of the poets Mikhail Kheraskov and Alexander Sumarokov, the philosophers Pyotr Chaadaev and Ivan Ilyin, the historians Mikhail Shcherbatov and Vasily Klyuchevsky, the critic Vladimir Odoyevsky, the architect Osip Bove, the painter Vasily Perov, the courtier Alexander Dmitriev-Mamonov, the actress Faina Ranevskaya, the general Anton Denikin, and the aviator Nikolay Zhukovsky.

The painter Vasily Vereshchagin was present at the taking of Khiva by Russian forces in 1873.