Famous people born in Saint Petersburg
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Alexandre Sidorenko
Alexandre Sidorenko is a French tennis player. He has a careerhigh singles ranking of world no. 145, achieved in May 2009. His main achievement is to have won the Boys Singles title at the 2006 Australian Open.....
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Natalya Antyukh
Natalya Nikolayevna Antyukh is a Russian athlete who primarily competes in the 400 metres and 400 metre hurdles. She won the gold medal in 400m hurdles at the 2012 Summer Olympics, after winning a bronze medal in the 400 m dash at the 2004 Olympics. She is the only woman to win an Olympic medal in both the 400 m hurdles and 400 m dash.....
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Gordei Gorshkov
Gordei Olegovich Gorshkov is a Russian figure skater. He is the 2013 Winter Universiade silver medalist, the 2013 Ice Challenge bronze medalist, and a fourtime medalist on the ISU Junior Grand Prix series.....
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Pavel Durov
Pavel Valeryevich Durov is a Russianborn entrepreneur who is best known for being the founder of the social networking site VK, and later the Telegram Messenger. He is the younger brother of Nikolai Durov. Since losing control over VK in a conflict with Russian authorities in 2014, the brothers are travelling the world in selfimposed exile as citizens of Saint Kitts and Nevis.....
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Natalia Vodopyanova
Natalia Andreyevna Vodopyanova is a Russian basketball player. She was part of the Russian teams that won bronze medals at the 2004 and 2008 Olympics and placed fourth in 2012 she also won the European title in 2007 and a silver medal at the 2006 World Championships.....
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Nikolai Fomenko
Nikolai Vladimirovich Fomenko is a Russian musician, comic actor, motor racer, former president of Marussia Motors and former engineering director of Marussia F1. He first started his acting career as a theater actor in the Theater of Youth Creativity.....
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Maksim Sokolov
Maksim Yurevich Sokolov is a Russian economist and politician who is the current Minister for Transportation, since May 21, 2012.....
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Danila Medvedev
Danila Andreyevich Medvedev is a Russian futurologist and politician. Specialising in the science and future of Russia, Medvedev serves as a member of the coordination council of the Russian Transhumanistic Movement.....
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Nikolay Trusov
Nikolay Vasilievich Trusov is a Russian professional racing cyclist for UCI ProTeam Tinkoff. Trusov has been a professional since 2004.....
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Oxana Corso
Oxana Corso is an Italian Paralympic athlete. As of April 2014, she holds the Womens 100 metre and 400 metre world records for the T35 cerebral palsy classification.....
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Nicholas II of Russia
Nicholas II was the last Emperor of Russia, ruling from 1 November 1894 until his forced abdication on 15 March 1917. His reign saw the fall of Imperial Russia from being one of the foremost great powers of the world to economic and military collapse. Due to the Khodynka Tragedy, antiSemitic pogroms, Bloody Sunday, the violent suppression of the 1905 Revolution, the execution of political opponents and his perceived responsibility for the RussoJapanese War, he was given the nickname Nicholas th....
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Daniil Kharms
Daniil Kharms was an early Sovietera surrealist and absurdist poet, writer and dramatist.....
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Galina Ulanova
Galna Sergyevna Ulnova was a Russian ballet dancer. She is frequently cited as being one of the greatest ballerinas of the 20th century.....
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