* 1920 – Fyodor Abramov, Russian novelist ( d. 1983 )

* 1899 – Yury Olesha, Russian novelist ( d. 1960 )

* 1881 – Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Russian novelist ( b. 1821 )

* 1977 – Alexander M. Volkov, Russian novelist and mathematician ( b. 1891 )

* 1932 – Alexander Grin, Russian novelist ( b. 1880 )

* 1859 – Sholom Aleichem, Russian novelist ( d. 1916 )

* 1938 – Lyudmila Petrushevskaya, Russian playwright and novelist

* 1947 – Victor Serge, Russian anarchist, novelist, and historian ( b. 1890 )

Julian Semyonov was an influential spy novelist, writing in the Eastern Bloc, whose range of novels and novel series featured a White Russian spy in the USSR ; Max Otto von Stierlitz, a Soviet mole in the Nazi High Command, and Felix Dzerzhinsky, founder of the Cheka.

Witold Marian Gombrowicz ( August 4, 1904 in Małoszyce, Świętokrzyskie Voivodeship, Congress Poland, Russian Empire – July 24, 1969 in Vence, near Nice, France ) was a Polish novelist and dramatist.

* September 3 – Sergei Dovlatov, Russian short-story writer and novelist ( d. 1990 )

* February 9 – Fyodor Dostoevsky, Russian novelist ( b. 1821 )

* Mikhail Bulgakov, Russian novelist and playwright

* December 9 – Evan Kalikow, Russian poet and novelist ( d. 1754 )

" His labyrinthine city provided a literary model used later by English novelist Charles Dickens and Russian author Fyodor Dostoevsky.

Since the passages call for total nonresistance to the point of facilitating aggression against oneself, and since human governments defend themselves by military force, this has led some into Christian anarchism, including the notable Russian novelist Leo Tolstoy, author of the nonfiction book The Kingdom of God Is Within You.

Some scholars have described one or the other as the greatest novelist ever .< ref >" Russian literature.

* Mikhail Lermontov, Russian novelist, and source of the character's name

Important precursors of Expressionism were: the German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche ( 1844-1900 ), especially his philosophical novel Thus Spoke Zarathustra ( 1883-92 ); the later plays of the Swedish dramatist August Strindberg ( 1849-1912 ), including the trilogy To Damascus 1898-1901, A Dream Play ( 1902 ), The Ghost Sonata ( 1907 ); Frank Wedekind ( 1864-1918 ), especially the " Lulu " plays Erdgeist ( Earth Spirit ) ( 1895 ) and Die Büchse der Pandora ( Pandora's Box ) ( 1904 ); the American poet Walt Whitman ( 1819-92 ): Leaves of Grass ( 1855-91 ); the Russian novelist Fyodor Dostoevsky ( 1821-81 ); Norwegian painter Edvard Munch ( 1863-1944 ); Dutch painter Vincent van Gogh ( 1853-90 ); Belgian painter James Ensor ( 1860-1949 ); Sigmund Freud ( 1856-1939 ).

The first great Russian novelist was Nikolai Gogol.

* Leonid Borodin ( born 1938 ), Russian novelist

Among the major writers of the period were Guo Moruo ( 郭沫若 ) ( 1892 – 1978 ), a poet, historian, essayist, and critic ; Mao Dun ( 茅盾 ) ( 1896 – 1981 ), the first of the novelists to emerge from the " League of Left-Wing Writers " and one whose work reflected the revolutionary struggle and disillusionment of the late 1920s ; satirist and novelist Lao She ( 老舍 ) ( 1899 – 1966 ); and Ba Jin ( 巴金 ) ( 1904 – 2005 ), a novelist whose work was influenced by Ivan Turgenev and other Russian writers.

Among the admirers of Verlaine's work was the Russian language poet and novelist Boris Pasternak.

* May 24-Mikhail Sholokhov, Soviet / Russian novelist ( died 1984 )

* 1974 – Yevgeny Kafelnikov, Russian tennis player

Fewer than a third of all Russians regarded Stalin as a " murderous tyrant "; however, a Russian court in 2009, ruling on a suit by Stalin's grandson, Yevgeny Dzhugashvili, against the newspaper, Novaya Gazeta, ruled that referring to Stalin as a " bloodthirsty cannibal " was not libel.

Yakov had a son Yevgeny, who is recently noted for defending his grandfather's legacy in Russian courts.

* 1938 – Yevgeny Nesterenko, Russian bass-baritone

* 1973 – Yevgeny Sadovyi, Russian swimmer

* 1933 – Yevgeny Yevtushenko, Russian poet

* Yevgeny Alexeyevich Kornilov ( b. 1940 ), Russian historian and media researcher

* 1922 – Yevgeny Matveyev, Russian actor and film director ( d. 2003 )

* 1929 – Yevgeny Primakov, Russian politician

Saddam had close relationship with Russian intelligence agent Yevgeny Primakov and apparently Primakov helped Saddam to stay in power in 1991.

Yevgeny Ivanovich Zamyatin (; January 20 ( Julian ) / February 1 ( Gregorian ), 1884 – March 10, 1937 ) was a Russian author of science fiction and political satire.

* August 4 – Yevgeny Dragunov, Russian weapons designer ( b. 1920 )

** Yevgeny Sadovyi, Russian swimmer

* September 10 – Yevgeny Khrunov, Russian cosmonaut ( d. 2000 )

** Yevgeny Matveyev, Russian actor and film director ( d. 2003 )

In 1992, Russian Professor of Chemistry, Yevgeny Podkletnov, and Nieminen, Tampere University of Technology, Tampere, Finland, discovered weight fluctuations in objects above an electromagnetically levitated, massive, composite superconducting disk.

The NKVD also served as the Soviet government's arm for the lethal persecution of Judaism, the Russian Orthodox Church, the Greek Catholics, the Latin Catholics, Islam and other religious organizations, an operation headed by Yevgeny Tuchkov.

* Yevgeny Onegin The full text of the poem in Russian

Yevgeny Olegovich Adamov (, born April 28, 1939 ) was the head of the Russian atomic energy ministry, MinAtom.

* Yevgeny Adamov ( born 1939 ), former head of the Russian atomic energy ministry

Gozzi's Princess Turandot, 1922 performance by the Russian theater director Yevgeny Vakhtangov

Yevgeny Fyodorovich Svetlanov (; 6 September 19283 May 2002 ) was a Russian conductor, composer, and though less well-known, a pianist.

His Russian team included Yevgeny Kafelnikov, Mikhail Youzhny, Andrei Stoliarov, and team captain

On 27 May 1997, after 5 months of negotiations with Russian foreign minister Yevgeny Primakov, an agreement was reached resulting in the Paris NATO-Russia Founding Act.