•
January 4 –
Pavel Medvedev, literary scholar (d.
1938) •
January 10 –
Vladimir Littauer, Russian equestrian trainer (d.
1989) •
January 12 –
Mikhail Kirponos, general of the Red Army (d.
1941) •
January 17 –
Igor Terentiev, poet, artist, stage director, and a representative of the Russian avant-garde (d.
1937) •
January 24 –
Arkady Shvetsov, aircraft engine designer (d.
1953) •
January 24 –
Pyotr Solodukhin, military figure and
Bolshevik division commander in the
Russian Civil War (d.
1920) •
January 25 –
Kamilla Trever,
historian,
numismatist and
orientalist (d.
1974) •
January 28 –
Fyodor Raskolnikov, politician, writer, journalist, commander of Red fleets and a Soviet diplomat (d.
1939) •
January 28 –
Ivan Tyulenev, military commander (d.
1978) •
February 2 –
Boris Kuftin,
archaeologist and
ethnographer (d.
1953) •
February 5 –
Fyodor Borisov,
cyclist (d.
1964) •
February 6 –
Ivan Loiko,
flying ace (d. unknown) •
February 7 –
Vasily Butusov, football player (d.
1971) •
February 8 –
Fyodor Astakhov,
Marshal of Aviation (d.
1966) •
February 14 –
Maria Vorobyeva-Stebelska, also known as Marie Vorobieff or Marevna, a painter known for her work with
Cubism and
pointillism (d.
1984) •
February 18 –
Alexander Serebrovsky, geneticist, poultry breeder, and eugenicist (d.
1948) •
February 24 –
Konstantin Fedin, Russian writer (d.
1977) •
February 25 –
Alexander Chervyakov, politician and revolutionary (d.
1937) •
February 26 –
Pyotr Baranovsky,
architect,
preservationist and
restorator (d.
1984) •
February 26 –
Nikolai Orlov, pianist (d.
1964) •
March 1 –
Nikolai Nevsky, linguist (d.
1937) •
March 2 –
Georgi Atarbekov, security police official (d.
1925) •
March 4 –
Yevgeni Ivanov-Barkov, film director and screenwriter (d.
1965) •
March 4 –
Nikolai Kondratiev,
economist and proponent of the
New Economic Policy (NEP) (d.
1938) •
March 5 –
Kasyan Goleizovsky,
choreographer and
dancer (d.
1970) •
March 8 –
Gyulboor Davydova, winegrower (d.
1983) •
March 13 –
Yevgeniy Terletskiy, politician, member of the
Russian Constituent Assembly, People Commissar (narkom) of Justice, diplomat (d.
1938) •
March 14 –
Antonina Sofronova, artist and illustrator (d.
1966) •
March 21 –
Aleksandr Malyshkin, writer (d.
1938) •
March 25 –
Helena Antipoff, psychologist (d.
1974) •
March 25 –
Alexander Poniatoff,
electrical engineer (d.
1980) •
March 25 –
Konstantin Zel'in, historian of
classical antiquity (d.
1983) •
April 2 –
Xenia Denikina, writer,
Anton Denikin's wife (d.
1973) •
April 6 –
Nikita Naidenov, speed skater (d.
1961) •
April 18 –
Dmitrii Menshov,
mathematician (d.
1988) •
April 19 –
Georgy Adamovich, poet of the
acmeist school, and a literary critic, translator and memoirist (d.
1972) •
April 22 –
Nikolai Obukhov, composer (d.
1964) •
April 24 –
Mikhail Skorodumov, general (d.
1963) •
May 9 –
Nikolai Khodataev, artist, sculptor and animator, one of the founders of the
Soviet animation industry (d.
1979) •
May 14 –
Arthur Lourié, composer, writer, administrator, and musical agent (d.
1966) •
May 30 –
Konstantin Ostrovityanov,
Marxist economist, academic and public figure (d.
1969) •
May 30 –
Ivan Sokolov-Mikitov, writer and journalist (d.
1975) •
May 31 –
Konstantin Paustovsky, writer nominated for the
Nobel Prize in Literature in 1965 (d.
1968) •
June 6 –
Alexander Kapitokhin,
Lieutenant general (d.
1958) •
June 9 –
Nikolai Polikarpov, aeronautical engineer and aircraft designer (d.
1944) •
June 13 –
Valeria Barsova,
operatic
soprano (d.
1967) •
June 21 –
Nikolai Gorbunov, politician, chemist, engineer and academic (d.
1970) •
July 8 –
Pavel Korin, painter and
art restorer (d.
1967) •
July 8 –
Aleksandr Porokhovschikov, military engineer, tank and aircraft inventor (d.
1941) •
July 12 –
Léon Zack, painter and sculptor (d.
1980) •
July 13 –
Mirsaid Sultan-Galiev, Bolshevik revolutionary (d.
1940) •
July 29 –
Pyotr Romanovsky, chess player and author (d.
1964) •
August 6 –
Sergei Bessonov, state, public and party activist and diplomat (d.
1941) •
August 12 –
Boris Lavrentiev,
histologist (d.
1944) •
August 13 –
Yuri Jobbers (Georgiy Maklakov), teacher and a Catholic convert from Russian Orthodoxy (d.
1969) •
August 15 –
Ivan Boldin, a senior Red Army general (d.
1965) •
August 15 –
Stepan Oborin, Red Army major general (d.
1941) •
August 19 –
Elizabeth Kozlova,
ornithologist (d.
1975) •
August 27 –
Alexander Chuhaldin,
violinist,
conductor,
composer, and
music educator (d.
1951) •
September 19 –
Nina Niss-Goldman, painter, sculptor and a teacher (d.
1990) •
September 22 –
Pyotr Baranov, a military commander and politician, one of the main creators and organisers of the
Air Force and the aircraft industry of the Soviet Union (d.
1933) •
September 30 –
Andrey Khrulyov, military commander (d.
1962) •
October 1 –
Mikhail Pronin, major general (d.
1978) •
October 5 –
Pyotr Suvchinsky, artistic patron and writer on music (d.
1985) •
October 8 –
Marina Tsvetaeva, poet of the
Silver Age, prose writer, translator (d.
1941) •
October 12 –
Yevgeny Korovin,
jurist specializing in
international law (d.
1964) •
October 20 –
Sergei Tomkeieff, geologist and
petrologist who won the
Geological Society's
Lyell Medal (d.
1968) •
October 21 –
Lydia Lopokova,
ballerina (d.
1981) •
October 21 –
Yuri Terapiano, poet, writer, translator, literary critic and a prominent figure in
White émigré cultural life (d.
1980) •
October 24 –
Jaan Lukas, military personnel (d.
1953) •
October 26 –
Andrey Chekharin,
Red Army colonel (d.
1941) •
October 31 –
Alexander Alekhine, chess player and the fourth
World Chess Champion (d.
1946) •
November 10 –
Diodor Kolpinskiy,
Eastern Catholic priest (d.
1932) •
November 14 –
Ernest Drezen,
Esperantist and engineer (d.
1937) •
November 17 –
Nikandr Chibisov,
Soviet Army colonel general (d.
1959) •
November 20 –
Mikhail Rusakov,
geologist (d.
1963) •
November 23 –
Rudolf Sivers, revolutionary and military leader (d.
1918) •
November 24 –
Dmitri Skobeltsyn, physicist (d.
1990) •
November 27 –
Prince Oleg Konstantinovich of Russia, the son of
Grand Duke Constantine Constantinovich (d.
1914) •
November 28 –
Tarlan Aliyarbayov, military officer (d.
1956) •
December 2 –
Boris Shimeliovich, revolutionary and the medical director of Moscow's Botkin Hospital (d.
1952) •
December 5 –
Mykola Barsamov,
architect,
preservationist and
restorator (d.
1976) •
December 9 –
Vsevolod Balitsky, a Soviet official, Commissar of State Security 1st Class of the
NKVD (d.
1937) •
December 16 –
Boris Gusman, author, screenplay writer, theater director, and columnist for
Pravda (d.
1944) •
December 18 –
Mykola Kulish, prose writer, playwright, pedagogue, veteran of
World War I (d.
1937) •
December 18 –
Michael Visaroff, actor (d.
1951) •
December 23 –
Sarra Lebedeva,
sculptor (d.
1967) •
December 26 –
Konstantin Tretiakoff,
neuropathologist (d.
1958) •
December 29 –
Aleksandr Arkhangelsky, aircraft designer (d.
1978) ==Deaths==