Faina Melnik
Ukrainian-born Russian discus thrower
Died on Wednesday December 28th 2016
Famous Dead People from Russia
Over 3,000 obituaries for famous people from Russia who died. Additional info, news, and memorial pages.
Aleksander Shlepyanov
Russian film script writer and art expert
Died on Sunday December 25th 2016
Vladimir Stupishin
Russian diplomat
Died on Saturday December 24th 2016
Yevgeny Dzhugashvili
Russian-Georgian activist and politician
Died on Thursday December 22nd 2016
Vyacheslav Shalevich
Russian actor
Died on Wednesday December 21st 2016
Sergei Razaryonov
Russian football coach and player
Died on Wednesday December 21st 2016
Andrei Karlov
Russian diplomat
Died on Monday December 19th 2016
Faina Melnyk
Ukrainian-born Russian discus thrower
Died on Friday December 16th 2016
Gennady Tsygurov
Russian ice hockey player (Traktor Chelyabinsk)
Died on Thursday December 15th 2016
Yevgeny Yufit
Russian filmmaker
Died on Wednesday December 14th 2016
Sergey Mikaelyan
93 Russian film director.
Died on Saturday December 10th 2016
Sergei Lemeshko
Russian footballer
Died on Saturday December 10th 2016
Viktor Danilov
Russian-born Belarusian Greek-Catholic priest and Soviet dissident
Died on Saturday December 10th 2016
Vladimir Semyonov
Russian Olympic water polo player (1960
Died on Wednesday December 7th 2016
Aleksey Salomatin
Russian ice hockey player (Spartak Moscow)
Died on Tuesday December 6th 2016
Geydar Dzhemal
Russian Islamic revolutionist
Died on Monday December 5th 2016
Rustam Asildarov
Russian militant leader (ISIS)
Died on Sunday December 4th 2016
Aleksei Maslennikov
Russian tenor
Died on Thursday December 1st 2016
Viktor Ivannikov
Russian computer scientist
Died on Monday November 28th 2016
Mark Taimanov
Soviet and Russian chess player
Died on Monday November 28th 2016
Yury Yeliseyev
Russian chess grandmaster
Died on Sunday November 27th 2016
Yuri Yeliseyev
Russian chess grandmaster
Died on Sunday November 27th 2016
Daniil Yeliseyev
Russian chess grandmaster
Died on Sunday November 27th 2016
Ivan Mikoyan
Russian aircraft designer (Mikoyan MiG-29)
Died on Friday November 25th 2016
Khairulla Murtazin
Russian mathematician
Died on Saturday November 19th 2016
Vladimir Belov
Soviet/Russian handball player
Died on Tuesday November 15th 2016
Leonid Keldysh
Russian physicist
Died on Saturday November 12th 2016
Misha Brusilovsky
Russian artist
Died on Friday November 4th 2016
Oleg Popov
Russian clown and circus entertainer
Died on Wednesday November 2nd 2016
Vladimir Zeldin
Russian theater and film actor
Died on Monday October 31st 2016
Samuel Zhukhovitsky
Russian chess player
Died on Saturday October 29th 2016
Vladimir Zemlyanikin
Russian film and theater actor (The House I Live In)
Died on Thursday October 27th 2016
Edouard Pliner
Russian figure skating coach
Died on Wednesday October 26th 2016
Sergei Likhachev
Azeri-born Russian tennis player and coach
Died on Wednesday October 19th 2016
Arsen Pavlov
Russian soldier and participant in the War in Donbass
Died on Monday October 17th 2016
Arseny Pavlov
Russian soldier
Died on Sunday October 16th 2016
Viktor Zubkov
Russian Olympic basketball player
Died on Sunday October 16th 2016
Lyudmila Ivanova
Russian actress
Died on Friday October 7th 2016
Marina Sanaya
Russian figure skater
Died on Thursday October 6th 2016
Chamsulvara Chamsulvarayev
Russian-born Azeri freestyle wrestler and ISIS terrorist
Died on Wednesday September 28th 2016
Mark Dvoretsky
Russian chess player and trainer
Died on Monday September 26th 2016
Vladimir Kuzmichyov
Russian footballer
Died on Saturday September 24th 2016
Boris Trakhtenbrot
Russian-Israeli mathematician
Died on Monday September 19th 2016
Yuri Korablin
Russian politician and businessman
Died on Tuesday September 20th 2016
Valeri Alikov
Russian Hill Mari poet
Died on Sunday September 11th 2016
Valeriy Abramov
Russian long-distance runner
Died on Wednesday September 14th 2016
Eduard Gusev
Russian cyclist
Died on Wednesday September 14th 2016
Artyom Bezrodny
Ukrainian-born Russian international footballer
Died on Tuesday September 13th 2016
Eduard Nazarov
Russian and Soviet cartoonist (Once Upon a Dog)
Died on Sunday September 11th 2016
Roman Romanchuk
Ukrainian-born Russian boxer and kickboxer
Died on Thursday September 8th 2016
Novella Matveyeva
Russian bard (singer-songwriter)
Died on Sunday September 4th 2016
Antonina Seredina
Soviet-Russian sprint canoeist
Died on Friday September 2nd 2016
Stepan Borozenets
Russian military officer
Died on Friday August 26th 2016
Nina Yeryomina
Russian basketball player
Died on Wednesday August 24th 2016
Sergey Marchuk
Russian speed skater
Died on Thursday August 25th 2016
Nina Ponomaryova
Russian discus thrower and the first Soviet Olympic champion
Died on Friday August 19th 2016
Yuri Bregel
Russian historian
Died on Sunday August 7th 2016
Mikhail Bariban
Russian Olympic triple jumper (1972)
Died on Monday August 8th 2016
Zinaida Sharko
Russian stage actress
Died on Thursday August 4th 2016
Vladimir Troyepolsky
Russian television executive
Died on Friday July 8th 2016
Galina Chesnokova
Russian Soviet-era volleyball player (national team)
Died on Tuesday July 12th 2016
Alexander Margelov
Russian Airborne Troops officer
Died on Tuesday July 19th 2016
Anatoli Isayev
Russian football player and manager
Died on Sunday July 10th 2016
Goldie Michelson
Russian-born American supercentenarian
Died on Friday July 8th 2016
Yevgeny Agureev
Russian field hockey player and administrator
Died on Friday June 3rd 2016
Yuri Shipitsyn
Russian ice hockey player
Died on Monday June 27th 2016
Vasily Bochkaryov
Russian politician
Died on Wednesday June 22nd 2016
Alexander Gorlov
Russian mechanical engineer
Died on Friday June 10th 2016
Oleg Karavaychuk
Soviet/Russian composer
Died on Monday June 13th 2016
Anatoli Grishin
Russian sprint canoeist
Died on Tuesday June 14th 2016
Anatol Kovarsky
Russian-born American cartoonist (The New Yorker)
Died on Wednesday June 1st 2016
Vladimir Dolgopolov
Soviet and Russian football player (FC Zenit Saint Petersburg)
Died on Sunday June 12th 2016
Nikolai Pavlenko
Russian historian
Died on Thursday June 9th 2016
Aleksei Zharkov
Russian actor
Died on Sunday June 5th 2016
Vladislav Yankovsky
Russian musician (Novosibirsk Youth Symphony Orchestra
Died on Wednesday June 8th 2016
Gumer Telyashev
Russian oilman
Died on Thursday June 2nd 2016
Alexander Glezer
Russian poet
Died on Saturday June 4th 2016
Aleksey Zharkov
Russian actor
Died on Sunday June 5th 2016
Khamidbi M. Beshtoev
Russian physicist
Died on Friday May 13th 2016
Viktor Korchnoi
Russian chess player
Died on Monday June 6th 2016
Farid Seiful-Mulyukov
Uzbek-born Russian journalist and writer
Died on Saturday June 4th 2016
Yuri Volkov
Russian ice hockey player
Died on Tuesday May 17th 2016
Svyatoslav Lyuter
Russian conductor
Died on Monday May 16th 2016
Sviatoslav Luther
Russian conductor
Died on Monday May 16th 2016
Adlan Varayev
Russian wrestler
Died on Wednesday May 4th 2016
Rostislav Shilo
Russian public figure
Died on Wednesday April 27th 2016
Valery Zubov
Russian politician
Died on Wednesday April 27th 2016
Igor Fesunenko
Soviet and Russian journalist - foreign affairs writer
Died on Thursday April 28th 2016
Valentin Zorin
Soviet and Russian journalist and TV presenter
Died on Wednesday April 27th 2016
Vladimir Yulygin
Russian football player and coach
Died on Tuesday April 26th 2016
Vjatšeslav Kobrin
Russian guitarist and songwriter
Died on Monday April 11th 2016
Nina Arkhipova
Soviet and Russian film and stage actress
Died on Sunday April 24th 2016
Sergey Malyutin
Russian footballer FC Kaluga)
Died on Sunday April 17th 2016
Yuri Bychkov
Russian art historian
Died on Monday April 18th 2016
Vladimir Nemukhin
Russian painter
Died on Monday April 18th 2016
Albert Filozov
Soviet and Russian actor
Died on Monday April 11th 2016
Yelena Donskaya
Soviet and Russian sports shooter
Died on Tuesday March 29th 2016