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Ekaterina "Katia" Alexandrovna Gordeeva (Russian: Екатерина Александровна Гордеева; born 28 May 1971) is a Russian former figure skater. Together with her husband, the late Sergei Grinkov, she was the ...
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Yuri Alekseyevich Gagarin (9 March 1934 – 27 March 1968) was a Soviet Air Forces pilot and cosmonaut who became the first human to journey into outer space, achieving a major milestone in the Space ...
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Irina Konstantinovna Rodnina (Russian: Ирина Константиновна Роднина, born 12 September 1949) is a Russian politician and figure skater, who is the only pair skater to win 10 successive World Champ ...
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Aleksandr Aleksandrovich Karelin (kah-RE-lin, Russian: Александр Александрович Карелин, born 19 September 1967) is a retired Greco-Roman wrestler for the Soviet Union and Russia. Nicknamed the "Russian ...
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Tatiana Gutsu, rarely Tetiana Hutsu, (Ukrainian: Тетяна Костянтинівна Ґуцу, Romanian: Tatiana Guţu; born September 5, 1976, in Odessa, Ukrainian SSR) is a former artistic gymnast from the Soviet Union ...
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Natalya Klimova (born 31 May 1951) is a Ukrainian former basketball player who competed in the 1976 Summer Olympics. She was born in Mariupol and played for Dynamo Kyiv.
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Aleksandr Vladimirovich Popov (Russian: Алекса́ндр Влади́мирович Попо́в, born 16 November 1971), better known as Alexander Popov, is a former Russian swimmer. Widely considered the greatest sprint swimmer ...
Russian chess grandmaster and former World Chess Champion
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Garry Kimovich Kasparov (born Garik Kimovich Weinstein on 13 April 1963) is a Russian chess grandmaster, former World Chess Champion (1985–2000), political activist and writer. His peak FIDE chess rating ...
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Arvydas Romas Sabonis (born December 19, 1964) is a Lithuanian retired professional basketball player and businessman. Recognized as one of the best European players of all time, he won the Euroscar six ...
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Irina Alexandrovna Viner-Usmanova (Russian: Ирина Александровна Винер-Усманова; born July 30, 1948) is a Russian rhythmic gymnastics coach who is head coach of the Russian national team, president of the ...
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Amina Vasilovna Zaripova (Russian: Амина Василовна Зарипова; Tatar: Әминә Васил кызы Зарипова, born August 10, 1976) is a retired Russian individual rhythmic gymnast who now works as an elite rhythmic ...
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Ondrej Nepela (22 January 1951 – 2 February 1989) was a Slovak figure skater who represented Czechoslovakia. He was the 1972 Olympic champion, a three-time World champion (1971–73), and a five-time European ...
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Valeri Borisovich Kharlamov (Russian: Вале́рий Бори́сович Харла́мов, 14 January 1948 – 27 August 1981) was an ice hockey forward who played for CSKA Moscow in the Soviet League from 1967 until his ...
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Natallia Marataŭna Zvierava (Belarusian: Наталля Маратаўна Зверава; born 16 April 1971) is a former professional tennis player from Belarus. She was the first major athlete in the Soviet Union to demand ...
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Svetlana Leonidovna Boginskaya (Belarusian: Святлана Леанідаўна Багінская; Russian: Светла́на Леони́довна Боги́нская; born February 9, 1973) is a former artistic gymnast for the Soviet Union and Belarus ...
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Teófilo Stevenson Lawrence (29 March 1952 – 11 June 2012) was a Cuban amateur boxer, who competed from 1966 to 1986. He won the Val Barker Trophy (1972) and was honoured with the Olympic Order (1987) ...
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Boris Borisovich Yegorov (Russian: Борис Борисович Егоров; 26 November 1937, Moscow – 12 September 1994, Moscow) was a Soviet physician-cosmonaut who became the first physician to make a space flight.
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Yelena Nikolayevna Shevchenko (Russian: Елена Николаевна Шевченко; born 7 October 1971) is a retired Russian gymnast. She competed at the 1988 Summer Olympics in all artistic gymnastics events and won ...
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Vladislav Aleksandrovich Tretiak, MSM (treet-YAK, Russian: Владислав Александрович Третьяк, born 25 April 1952) is a Russian former goaltender for the Soviet Union national ice hockey team. Considered ...
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Ivan Maximovich Poddubny (Russian: Ива́н Максимович Подду́бный, Ukrainian: Іва́н Максимович Підду́бний; 9 October [O.S. 26 September] 1871 – 8 August 1949) was a professional wrestler from the ...