1.Galina Ulanova was a great ballet dancer of the 20th century, whose performances were a great success on many stages of the world.
2) Ivan Bunin,a great poet and novelist, was the first Russian Nobel Prize winner in literature.
3) Zhores Alferov is an outstanding physicist,who received the Nobel Prize for physics in 2000.
4) Aleksey Nemov is a famous gymnast,whose gymmnastics achievements brought many gold, silver and bronze medals as well as many fans.
5) Aleksander Solzhenitsyn,a writer and historian, is known for the series of novels about Russian such as August 1914, the red wheel and others.
6) Vladimir Dal was a writer and a disctionary writer, who complited the famous Explanatory Disctionary of the living russian language and some collections of proverbs and fairy tales.
7) Kazimir Malevich was a painter, whose black square made him famous throughout the world.
8) Aleksey Leonov, who travelled into space in 1965, was the first space walker in history then.
