List of people from Ufa

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Coat of Arms of Ufa
Coat of Arms of Ufa

This is a list of notable people who were born or have lived in Ufa, Russia.

Sergey Aksakov
(1791–1859)
Ilya Bondarenko
(1870–1947)
Rudolf Nureyev
(1938–1993)
Vladimir Spivakov
(born 1944)
Anatoly Kvashnin
(born 1946)
Viatcheslav Nazarov
(1952–1996)
Natalia Molchanova
(1962–2015)
Elvira Nabiullina
(born 1963)
Zemfira
(born 1976)
Dimitry Vassiliev

(born 1979)
Yelizaveta Grechishnikova
(born 1983)
Sophie Milman
(born 1984)
Semion Elistratov
(born 1990)
Daniil Kvyat
(born 1994)

Born in Ufa

18th century

1701–1800

  • Sergey Aksakov (1791–1859), Russian literary figure remembered for his semi-autobiographical tales of family life, as well as his books on hunting and fishing

19th century

1801–1900

  • Nikolay Zhukovsky
    (1833–1895), Russian revolutionary and narodnik
  • Georgiy Afanasyev (1848–1925), Russian and Ukrainian historian, politician and diplomat
  • Vera Timanova (1855–1942), Russian pianist
  • Mikhail Nesterov (1862–1942), major representative of religious symbolism in Russian art
  • Yekaterina Kuskova (1869–1958), Russian economist, journalist and politician
  • Ilya Bondarenko (1870–1947), Russian-Soviet architect, historian and preservationist
  • Ivan Meshchaninov (1883–1967), Soviet linguist and ethnographer
  • Alexander Serebrovsky (1884–1938), Russian revolutionary and Soviet petroleum and mining engineer nicknamed the "Soviet Rockefeller"
  • Yuri Rall (1890-1948), Soviet naval officer, vice-admiral
  • Mirsaid Sultan-Galiev (1892–1940), Tatar Bolshevik

20th century

1901–1920

1921–1940

  • Liya Shakirova (1921–2015), Soviet and Russian linguist
  • Grigory Svirsky (born 1921), Russian-Canadian writer
  • Lena Mukhina (1924–1991), Russian woman, who wrote her experiences as teenage schoolgirl during the Siege of Leningrad in her diary, pouring out her hopes and fears
  • Georgi Mosolov
    (born 1926), Soviet test pilot and Hero of the Soviet Union
  • Igor Plechanov
    (1933–2007), Soviet speedway rider
  • Renart Suleymanov (born 1937), Russian sport shooter

1941–1950

1951–1960

1961–1970

1971–1975

1976–1980

1981–1985

1986–1990

1991–2000

Lived in Ufa

Murtaza Rakhimov
(born 1934)
  • Dmitry Shuvayev (1854–1937), Russian military leader, Infantry General
  • Valerian Albanov (1881–1919), Russian navigator; born in Voronezh and was raised by his uncle in the city of Ufa
  • Murtaza Rakhimov (born 1934), Russian politician of Bashkir ethnicity who served as the first President of Bashkortostan, a republic within Russia, from 1993 to 2010
  • Rudolf Nureyev (1938–1993), Soviet dancer of ballet and modern dance
  • Yuri Shevchuk (born 1957), Soviet and Russian singer/songwriter

Died in Ufa

  • Joseph Le Brix (1899–1931), French aviator and a capitain de corvette (lieutenant commander) in the French Navy

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