* 1968 – Lev Davidovich Landau, Russian physicist, Nobel Prize laureate ( b. 1908 )

* 1948 – Lev Zeleny, Russian physicist

* 1839 – Aleksandr Stoletov, Russian physicist ( d. 1896 )

* 1987 – Yakov Borisovich Zel ' dovich, Russian physicist ( b. 1914 )

The Soviet ( later, Russian ) team proposed the name nielsbohrium ( Ns ) in honor of the Danish nuclear physicist Niels Bohr.

* 1994 – Dmitri Ivanenko, Russian physicist ( b. 1904 )

* 2009 – Vladimir Teplyakov, Russian physicist ( b. 1925 )

* 1898 – Vladimir Aleksandrovich Fock, Russian physicist ( d. 1974 )

* 1866 – Pyotr Nikolaevich Lebedev, Russian physicist ( d. 1912 )

* 1904 – Yulii Borisovich Khariton, Russian physicist ( d. 1996 )

* 1935 – Evgeny Velikhov, Russian physicist

Russian physicist Zhores I. Alfyorov, ( Nobel laureate in 2000 ) praised it, saying he was very pleased with Pólya's famous book.

In 1938, Russian physicist Pyotr Leonidovich Kapitsa discovered that helium-4 has almost no viscosity at temperatures near absolute zero, a phenomenon now called superfluidity.

* 1977 – Gersh Budker, Russian physicist ( b. 1918 )

* 1916 – Alexander Prokhorov, Russian physicist, Nobel Prize laureate ( d. 2002 )

* 1895 – Igor Tamm, Russian physicist, Nobel Prize laureate ( d. 1971 )

* 1894 – Pyotr Kapitsa, Russian physicist, Nobel Prize laureate ( d. 1984 )

* 1889 – Vladimir K. Zworykin, Russian physicist ( d. 1982 )

* 1888 – Alexander Friedmann, Russian physicist and mathematician ( d. 1925 )

* 1711 – Georg Wilhelm Richmann, Russian physicist ( d. 1753 )

* 1890 – Grigory Landsberg, Russian physicist ( d. 1957 )

* 1943 – Rashid Sunyaev, Russian physicist

* 1862 – Boris Borisovich Galitzine, Russian physicist ( d. 1916 )

* 1896 – Aleksandr Grigorievich Stoletov, Russian physicist ( b. 1839 )

Conversely, in more recent times, Russian existentialist philosopher Lev Shestov viewed Job as the embodiment of the battle between reason ( which offers general and seemingly comforting explanations for complex events ) and faith in a personal god, and one man's desperate cry for him.

Sometime around 1918, Russian director Lev Kuleshov did an experiment that proves this point.

Early Russian filmmakers such as Lev Kuleshov further explored and theorized about editing and its ideological nature.

* 1866 – Lev Shestov, Russian philosopher ( d. 1938 )

As far as posterior individualist anarchists, Jason McQuinn for some time used the pseudonym Lev Chernyi in honor of the Russian individualist anarchist of the same name while Feral Faun has quoted Italian individualist anarchist Renzo Novatore and has translated both Novatore.

* 1905 – Lev Schnirelmann, Russian mathematician ( d. 1938 )

* Lev Kornilov ( b. 1984 ), Russian professional footballer

Leon Trotsky (, ; – 21 August 1940 ), born Lev Davidovich Bronshtein, was a Russian Marxist revolutionary and theorist, Soviet politician, and the founder and first leader of the Red Army.

Leon Trotsky was born Lev Davidovich Bronshtein () on 7 November 1879, in Yanovka () or Yanivka (), in the Kherson guberniya of the Russian Empire ( today's Bereslavka (; ) in the Bobrynets Raion, Kirovohrad Oblast, Ukraine ), a small village from the nearest post office.

Lev Sergeyevich Termen ; ) ( – 3 November 1993 ( Léon Theremin in America ) was a Russian and Soviet inventor.

Léon Theremin was born Lev Sergeyevich Termen in Saint Petersburg, Russian Empire in 1896 into a family of French and German ancestry.

After Lenin ’ s death ( 21 January 1924 ), Trotsky ideologically battled the influence of Stalin, who formed ruling blocs within the Russian Communist Party ( with Grigory Zinoviev and Lev Kamenev, then with Nikolai Bukharin, and then by himself ) and so determined soviet government policy from 1924 onwards.

* 1938 – Lev Shestov, Russian philosopher ( b. 1866 )

* 1896 – Lev Vygotsky, Russian psychologist ( d. 1934 )

Russian Psychologist Lev Vygotsky read Sapir's work and experimentally studied the ways in which the development of concepts in children was influenced by structures given in language.

* 1907 – Lev Oborin, Russian pianist ( d. 1974 )

* 1908 – Lev Semenovich Pontryagin, Russian mathematician ( d. 1988 )

The instrument was invented by a young Russian physicist named Lev Sergeevich Termen ( known in the West as Léon Theremin ) in October 1920 after the outbreak of the Russian civil war.

* January 22 – Lev Davidovich Landau, Russian physicist, Nobel Prize laureate ( d. 1968 )

* September 3 – Lev Semenovich Pontryagin, Russian mathematician ( d. 1988 )

* August 23 – Lev Zeleny, Soviet and Russian physicist