Volgograd - Notable People

Notable People

  • Kurt Adler, conductor
  • Ilya Borodin, association football player
  • Zakhar Dubensky, association football player
  • Sasha Filippov, spy
  • Oleg Grebnev, handball player
  • Larisa Ilchenko, long distance swimmer
  • Yelena Isinbayeva, pole vaulter
  • Lev Ivanov (football manager), association football manager
  • Yuriy Kalitvintsev, association football manager
  • Elem Klimov, film director
  • Vladimir Kryuchkov, statesman
  • Tatyana Lebedeva, jumper
  • Maxim Marinin, figure skater
  • Maxim Opalev, sprint canoer
  • Denis Pankratov, Olympic swimmer
  • Yevgeny Sadovyi, Olympic swimmer
  • Aleksandra Pakhmutova, composer
  • Anton Sakharov, association football player
  • Oleg Sergeyev, association football player
  • Natalia Shipilova, handball player
  • Yelena Slesarenko, high jumper
  • Igor Vasilev, handball player
  • Oleg Veretennikov, association football player
  • Evgeni Plushenko, Olympic figure skater
  • Nikolay Davydenko, tennis player

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