In 1947, Bardot was accepted to the Conservatoire de Paris, and for three years she attended the ballet classes of Russian choreographer Boris Knyazev.

* 1904 – George Balanchine, Russian choreographer ( d. 1983 )

* 1891 – Bronislava Nijinska, Russian choreographer ( d. 1972 )

* 1938 – Rudolf Nureyev, Russian dancer and choreographer ( d. 1993 )

* August 22 – Michel Fokine, Russian choreographer and dancer ( b. 1880 )

** Alexander Sakharoff, Russian dancer and choreographer ( b. 1886 )

* January 21 – Igor Moiseyev, Russian choreographer ( d. 2007 )

** Leonide Massine, Russian ballet dancer and choreographer ( d. 1979 )

* March 15 – Léonide Massine, Russian dancer and choreographer ( b. 1896 )

* December 15 – Serge Lifar, Russian dancer and choreographer ( b. 1905 )

Vaslav ( or Vatslav ) Nijinsky (; ; ; ; March 12, 1889 / 1890April 8, 1950 ) was a Russian danseur and choreographer of Polish descent, cited as the greatest male dancer of the early 20th century.

He also opined that famed Russian choreographer George Balanchine should watch Brigadoon to learn how a musical should be choreographed.

The impresario Sergei Diaghilev, another Russian exile, asked Balanchine to join his newly formed Ballets Russes as a choreographer.

In the late 19th century, Marius Petipa, Russian ballet choreographer and dance, worked with composers such as Cesare Pugni to create ballet masterpieces that boasted both complex dance and complex music.

Mikhail Nikolaevich Baryshnikov (; born January 27, 1948 ), nicknamed " Misha ", is a Russian American dancer, choreographer, and actor, often cited alongside Vaslav Nijinsky and Rudolf Nureyev as one of the greatest ballet dancers in history.

Michel Fokine ( a French transliteration ; English transliteration Mikhail Fokin ;, Mikhaíl Mikháylovich Fokín ) ( – 22 August 1942 ) was a groundbreaking Russian choreographer and dancer.

Bronislava Nijinska (;, Bronislava Fominichna Nizhinskaya ; ( old style ) – )) was a Russian dancer, choreographer, and teacher of Polish descent.

By the summer of 1939, Pleasant and Chase developed big ideas to turn the company into a fully-fledged ballet company, and to base it on " a gallery of dance rather than the vision of a single choreographer " and a " living museum of dance " with Russian, American and British " wings ", and units for black and Hispanic dances.

Benois collaborated with the choreographer Michel Fokine, drawing from several books of Russian fairy tales including the collection of Alexander Afanasyev, to concoct a story involving the Firebird and the evil magician Kashchei.

* Vaslav Nijinsky, Polish-born Russian ballet dancer and choreographer

Leonid Fyodorovich Myasin (), better known in the West by the French transliteration as Léonide Massine ( 15 March 1979 ), was a Russian choreographer and ballet dancer.

Konstantin Mikhailovich Sergeyev ( b. March 5, 1910 ( February 20, Old Style )-April 1, 1992 ) was a Russian danseur, artistic director and choreographer for the Kirov Theatre.

Yury Nikolayevich Grigorovich ( born January 2, 1927 in Leningrad ) is a Soviet and Russian dancer and choreographer who dominated the Russian ballet for 30 years.

* 1958 – Sergei Krikalev, Russian astronaut

* 1969 – Sergei Fedorov, Russian ice hockey player

A deeply modernized version of the R-7 is still used as the launch vehicle for the Soviet / Russian Soyuz spacecraft, marking more than 50 years of operational history of the original Sergei Korolyov's rocket design.

* 1954 – Sergei Storchak, Russian deputy finance minister

* 1970 – Sergei Zubov, Russian ice hockey player

* 1974 – Sergei Brylin, Russian ice hockey player

At about this time, Russian Nostraticists, notably Sergei Starostin, constructed a revised version of Nostratic.

* 1859 – Sergei Aksakov, Russian writer ( b. 1791 )

In 1913 — the year of Edmund Husserl's Ideas, Niels Bohr's quantized atom, Ezra Pound's founding of imagism, the Armory Show in New York, and, in Saint Petersburg, the " first futurist opera ," Victory Over the Sun — another Russian composer Igor Stravinsky, working in Paris for Sergei Diaghilev and the Ballets Russes, composed The Rite of Spring for a ballet, choreographed by Vaslav Nijinsky, that depicted human sacrifice.

* 1872 – Sergei Diaghilev, Russian ballet impresario, founder of the Ballets Russes ( d. 1929 )

Translated from Russian by Sergei Syrovatkin.

At about this time Russian Nostraticists, notably Sergei Starostin, constructed a revised version of Nostratic which was slightly broader than Greenberg's grouping but which similarly left out Afroasiatic.

In the 20th century the traditions of Russian opera were developed by many composers including Sergei Rachmaninoff in his works The Miserly Knight and Francesca da Rimini, Igor Stravinsky in Le Rossignol, Mavra, Oedipus rex, and The Rake's Progress, Sergei Prokofiev in The Gambler, The Love for Three Oranges, The Fiery Angel, Betrothal in a Monastery, and War and Peace ; as well as Dmitri Shostakovich in The Nose and Lady Macbeth of the Mtsensk District, Edison Denisov in L ' écume des jours, and Alfred Schnittke in Life with an Idiot and Historia von D. Johann Fausten.

* 1978 – Sergei Samsonov, Russian ice hockey player

* 1908 – Sergei Lvovich Sobolev, Russian mathematician ( d. 1989 )

The development of Russian cinema in the 1920s by such filmmakers as Dziga Vertov and Sergei Eisenstein saw considerable progress in the use of the motion picture as a propaganda tool, yet it also served to develop the art of moviemaking.

Russian photographer Sergei Mikhailovich Prokudin-Gorskii made extensive use of this color separation technique, employing a special camera which successively exposed the three color-filtered images on different parts of an oblong plate.

* 1895 – Sergei Yesenin, Russian poet ( d. 1925 )

Sergei Sergeyevich Prokofiev (; ; 23 April 1891 – 5 March 1953 ) was a Russian composer, pianist and conductor who mastered numerous musical genres and is regarded as one of the major composers of the 20th century.

Arriving in San Francisco after having been released from questioning by immigration officials on Angel Island on 11 August 1918, Prokofiev was soon compared to other famous Russian exiles ( such as Sergei Rachmaninoff ), and he started out successfully with a solo concert in New York, leading to several further engagements.

Sergei Mikhailovich Eisenstein ( 23 January 1898 – 11 February 1948 ), né Eizenshtein, was a pioneering Soviet Russian film director and film theorist, often considered to be the " Father of Montage ".

Julia left Riga the same year as the Russian Revolution ( 1905 ), bringing Sergei with her to St. Petersburg.

Sergei Pavlovich Diaghilev (;, Sergei Pavlovich Dyagilev, ; 19 August 1929 ), usually referred to outside of Russia as Serge, was a Russian art critic, patron, ballet impresario and founder of the Ballets Russes, from which many famous dancers and choreographers would arise.