List of Famous people born in Soviet Union

Saule Omarova

First Name Saule
Born on November 2, 1966 (age 57)

Saule Tarikhovna Omarova is a Kazakh-American attorney, academic, and public policy advisor who has been nominated to serve as comptroller of the currency by President Joe Biden.

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Anna Sorokin

Анна Вадимовна Сорокина
First Name Anna
Last Name Sorokin
Born on January 23, 1991 (age 33)

Anna Vadimovna Sorokina is a Russian-born fraudster. She moved to New York City in 2013 and created the fictitious identity of Anna Delvey, pretending to be a wealthy German heiress. In 2019, she was convicted of multiple counts of attempted grand larceny, theft of services, and larceny in the second degree for defrauding New York hotels and wealthy acquaintances.

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Nikolai Dzhumagaliev

First Name Nikolai
Born on November 15, 1952 (age 71)
Born in Soviet Union

Nikolai Espolovich Dzhumagaliev is a Soviet serial killer, also known as Metal Fang, convicted of the murders of seven people in the Kazakh SSR between 1979 and 1980.

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Agafia Lykova

Agafia Karpovna Lykova is a Russian Old Believer, part of the Lykov family, who has lived alone in the taiga for most of her life. As of 2016, she resides in the Western Sayan mountains, in the Republic of Khakassia. Lykova became a national phenomenon in the early 1980s when Vasily Peskov published articles about her family and their extreme isolation from the rest of society. Lykova is the sole surviving member of the family and has been mostly self-sufficient since 1988, when her father died.

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Marina Granovskaia

First Name Marina
Last Name Granovskaia
Born on January 13, 1975 (age 49)
Born in Russia

Marina Granovskaia is a Russian-Canadian who is currently a director at Chelsea. She is responsible for brokering the team's sponsorship deal with Nike, that will fund £60m per year to the club until 2032. She is described as 'The Iron Lady' and she is considered as one of the best club directors in world football. In 2018, Forbes ranked her Number 5 in their "Most Powerful Women in International Sports" list.

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Ivan Konev

Иван Степанович Конев
First Name Ivan
Last Name Konev
Died on May 21, 1973 (aged 3)

Ivan Stepanovich Konev was a Soviet general and Marshal of the Soviet Union who led Red Army forces on the Eastern Front during World War II, responsible for taking much of Axis-occupied Eastern Europe.

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Emomali Rahmon

Эмомалӣ Шарифович Раҳмонов

Emomali Rahmon is a Tajik politician who has served as President of Tajikistan since 1992. While he has been praised for bringing stability to Tajikistan after the Tajik Civil War, he is regarded as an authoritarian, with groups such as Human Rights Watch citing the jailing of government critics, a campaign to force the return of exiled political dissidents abroad and crackdowns on freedom of expression and freedom of belief. He has also been accused of extensive nepotism.

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Nataliya Dmytruk

First Name Nataliya
Born on November 30, 1956 (age 67)
Born in Soviet Union

Nataliya Dmytruk is a former sign language interpreter on the Ukrainian state-run channel UT1 news broadcasts. Dmytruk became famous for refusing to translate the official script during a live broadcast on November 24, 2004 that announced Viktor Yanukovych as the winner of the presidential election. Instead of signing the official script, Dmytruk instead signed to viewers "Our president is Viktor Yushchenko. Do not trust the results of the central election committee. They are all lies." Dmytruk's act of defiance has been regarded as one of several catalysts for many Ukrainian journalists who subsequently rejected doctored news reports in favour of a more balanced reporting.

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George Metesky

First Name George
Last Name Metesky
Born on November 2, 1903
Died on May 23, 1994 (aged 90)
Born in Soviet Union

George Peter Metesky, better known as the Mad Bomber, was an American electrician and mechanic who terrorized New York City for 16 years in the 1940s and 1950s with explosives that he planted in theaters, terminals, libraries and offices. Bombs were left in phone booths, storage lockers and restrooms in public buildings, including Grand Central Terminal, Pennsylvania Station, Radio City Music Hall, the New York Public Library, the Port Authority Bus Terminal and the RCA Building, and in the New York City Subway. Metesky also bombed movie theaters, where he cut into seat upholstery and slipped his explosive devices inside.

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Aisultan Nazarbayev

First Name Aisultan
Born on August 26, 1990
Died on August 16, 2020 (aged 29)
Born in Soviet Union
Height 183 cm | 6'0

Aisultan Rakhatuly Nazarbayev was a Kazakh football player, businessman, grandson of the former President of Kazakhstan Nursultan Nazarbayev and a son of the Kazakh politician Dariga Nazarbayeva.

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