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Sergey Bulygin
Sergey Bulygin (Сергей Иванович Булыгин), Soviet biathlete born 1963 in Novosibirsk Oblast; 1984 Sarajevo Olympic relay gold, four world titles (relay 1983, 1985, 1986; team 1989), later Belarus coach and presidential advisor.
Sergey Chaplygin
Sergey Chaplygin (1869–1942) was a Russian applied mathematician and mechanician who co-founded aerodynamics, first quantified wing lift with Zhukovsky in 1910, and led TsAGI as chairman and director.
Sergey Chepikov
Sergey Chepikov (Сергей Чепиков, 1967–2026), Soviet and Russian biathlete and cross-country skier; two-time Olympic champion (1988 relay, 1994 sprint), six Olympic medals, two World Cup titles, later State Duma deputy.
Sergey Fedorovtsev
Sergey Fedorovtsev (Сергей Федоровцев), Russian rower born 1980 in Rostov-na-Donu; 2004 Athens Olympic champion in men's quadruple sculls, also competed 2008 and 2012; banned in 2016 for trimetazidine.
Sergey Fesenko
Sergey Fesenko (Сергей Леонидович Фесенко), born 1959 in Kryvyi Rih, is a Ukrainian swimmer who won 1980 Olympic gold in the 200 m butterfly and silver in the 400 m IM for the Soviet Union, later coaching Ukraine's national team.
Sergey Filatov
Sergey Filatov (Сергей Иванович Филатов), Soviet dressage rider (1926–1997) who won individual dressage gold at the 1960 Rome Olympics on the Akhal-Teke stallion Absent, the first Soviet equestrian Olympic gold, plus two bronzes at Tokyo 1964.
Sergey Filimonov
Sergey Filimonov (Сергей Юрьевич Филимонов), born 1975 in Ushtobe, is a Kazakh weightlifter who won 77 kg silver at Athens 2004, placed 7th (1996, RUS) and 4th (2000, KAZ) at earlier Olympics, and set two snatch world records.
Sergey Fokichev
Sergey Fokichev (Сергей Ростиславович Фокичев), Soviet speed skater born 1963 in Cherepovets, won the 1984 Sarajevo Olympic 500 m gold in 38.19 and was fourth at Calgary 1988.
Sergey Fokin
Sergey Aleksandrovich Fokin (Сергей Александрович Фокин), born 1961 in Ulyanovsk, is a Russian former defender who won 1988 Olympic football gold with the USSR and the 1991 Soviet double with CSKA Moscow.
Sergey Fomin
Sergey Fomin, born 1958 in Leningrad, is a Russian American mathematician at the University of Michigan who created cluster algebras with Andrei Zelevinsky, winning the 2018 Steele Prize.
Sergey Geybel
Sergey Geybel (Гейбель Сергей), Russian breaststroke swimmer born 1981; 2009 world record 4x100m medley relay (3:19.16), 2009 European short course relay gold, and masters world record 50m breaststroke (28.24, Kazan 2015).
Sergey Gorodetsky
Sergey Mitrofanovich Gorodetsky was a Russian and Soviet poet, translator, playwright, and critic who co-founded the acmeist movement with Nikolai Gumilev, active from 1907 to 1967.
Sergey Grankin
Sergey Grankin (Сергей Юрьевич Гранкин), Russian volleyball setter born 1985 in Yessentuki; Olympic gold 2012 and bronze 2008, 265 national team caps, 11 years at Dynamo Moscow, later Berlin, Fakel, and Sporting CP.
Sergey I. Bozhevolnyi
Sergey I. Bozhevolnyi (born 1955) is a Russian-born Danish physicist working in plasmonics, professor at the University of Southern Denmark and head of its Centre for Nano Optics.
Sergey Ivanov
Sergey Ivanov (Сергей Иванов) names several athletes: Russian 10,000 m runner Sergey Nikolayevich Ivanov (born 1979, 30th at 2008 Olympics), Youth Olympic ice hockey gold medallist Sergey Vladimirovich Ivanov (born 2004), plus swimmer, freestyle skier, and Kazakh footballer namesakes.
Sergey Izbash
Sergey Vladimirovich Izbash (Сергей Владимирович Избаш), born 1904, was a Soviet hydraulic engineer whose Izbash formula for stone stability in flowing water still guides riprap design.
Sergey Kalinin
Sergey Kalinin (Сергей Калинин) names several Russian athletes: ice hockey forward Sergey Pavlovich Kalinin (born 1991, Omsk), 2018 Olympic gold medalist and ex-NHL Devil, and Soviet trap shooter Sergey Alekseyevich Kalinin (1926–1997), 1960 Olympic bronze medalist.
Sergey Kapustin
Sergey Kapustin (Сергей Алексеевич Капустин), Soviet ice hockey left wing born 1953 in Ukhta; Olympic champion 1976, seven-time World Champion with Krylya Sovetov, CSKA, and Spartak Moscow; died 1995.
Sergey Karjakin
Sergey Karjakin, Russian grandmaster born 1990 in Simferopol, youngest GM ever at 12 years 7 months, 2016 world championship challenger who led Carlsen before losing rapid tiebreaks; 2022 FIDE ban.
Sergey Kharkov
Sergey Kharkov (Сергей Владимирович Харков), Soviet and Russian artistic gymnast born 1970 in Moscow; three Olympic golds (team and floor 1988, team 1996) and 1993 world horizontal bar champion; later an eight-time German champion.
Sergey Kislyak (Сергей Иванович Кисляк)
Sergey Kislyak (Сергей Иванович Кисляк), born 1950 in Moscow, is a Russian career diplomat, arms-control specialist, and ambassador to the United States from July 2008 to August 2017, later deputy foreign minister.
Sergey Klyugin
Sergey Petrovich Klyugin (Сергей Петрович Клюгин), Russian high jumper born 1974 in Kineshma; Olympic gold at Sydney 2000 with 2.35 m in rain; personal best 2.36 m (1998 Zürich).
Sergey Koplyakov
Sergey Koplyakov (Сергей Викторович Копляков), Belarusian-born Soviet swimmer born 1959 in Orsha; 1980 Olympic 200 m freestyle champion in 1:49.81 and first man under 1:50 (world record 1:49.83, 1979); four Olympic medals; later Dynamo Minsk coach.
Sergey Kotenko
Sergey Kotenko (Сергей Владимирович Котенко, born 1956, Almaty) is a Kazakhstani water polo player, not the Ukrainian colonel of the same name; Olympic gold 1980 and bronze 1988 with the USSR, world champion 1982, Dynamo Almaty captain.
Sergey Kovalenko
Sergey Kovalenko (Сергей Коваленко) names several athletes: a Soviet basketball center (1947-2004, 1972 Olympic gold), a Russian rifle shooter at five Olympics 1996-2012, a 2008 Greco-Roman wrestler, and powerlifters.
Sergey Kravtsov (Russian education minister)
Sergey Kravtsov is a Russian politician serving as Minister of Education since 2020, after heading the Federal Service for Supervision in Education and Science from 2013 to 2020.
Sergey Kushniryuk
Sergey Georgiyevich Kushniryuk (Сергей Георгиевич Кушнирюк), born 1956, is a Ukrainian former handball player who won Olympic gold for the Soviet Union in 1976 and silver in 1980, later a coach and professor in Ukraine.
Sergey Lagodinsky
Sergey Lagodinsky, born 1975 in Astrakhan, is a German politician of Alliance 90/The Greens who has been a Member of the European Parliament since 2019 and serves as Vice-Chair of the Greens/EFA group.
Sergey Lavrov (Сергей Викторович Лавров)
Sergey Viktorovich Lavrov (Сергей Викторович Лавров), born 1950, Russia's foreign minister since 2004 and formerly UN ambassador 1994–2004; MGIMO-trained, Sinhala-speaking, sanctioned after the 2022 Ukraine invasion, later sidelined from peace talks.
Sergey Lazarev (Сергей Вячеславович Лазарев)
Sergey Lazarev (Сергей Вячеславович Лазарев), born 1983 in Moscow, Russian pop singer, actor, and TV presenter; ex-Smash!! duo member, two-time Eurovision third-place finisher (2016, 2019), distinct from psychologist Sergey Nikolaevich Lazarev.