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Yevgeny Mayorov
Yevgeny Mayorov (Евгений Александрович Майоров, 1938–1997), Soviet ice hockey forward, twin brother of Boris Mayorov; Spartak Moskva left wing, 1964 Olympic champion, 1963–64 world champion, later TV commentator.
Yevgeny Minayev
Yevgeny Minayev (Евгений Гаврилович Минаев), Soviet featherweight weightlifter (1933–1993) from Klin; 1960 Olympic gold and 1956 silver behind Ike Berger, world champion 1957 and 1962, retired 1966 after disputes with officials.
Yevgeny Pervyshov
Yevgeny Pervyshov is a Russian politician and United Russia member serving as Head of Tambov Oblast, where he has overseen the response to drone attacks and industrial development.
Yevgeny Petrov
Yevgeny Petrov (Евгений Александрович Петров, 1938–2025), Soviet skeet shooter; Olympic gold 1968 Mexico City and silver 1972 Munich; World champion 1970; later coached at 1976 and 1992 Olympics. Not the cyclist or sprinter of the same name.
Yevgeny Platov
Yevgeny Platov (Евгений Аркадьевич Платов), Russian ice dancer born 1967 in Odesa; with Pasha Grishchuk won Olympic gold 1994 and 1998 and four straight World titles 1994-97; later coached in the United States.
Yevgeny Podgorny
Yevgeny Podgorny (Евгений Подгорный), Russian artistic gymnast born 1977 in Novosibirsk; 1996 Olympic team gold and 2000 team bronze; later a Novosibirsk Oblast legislator and gymnastics center namesake.
Yevgeny Preobrazhensky
Yevgeny Preobrazhensky (Евгений Преображенский, 1886–1937) was a Bolshevik economist and party official who co-wrote The ABC of Communism with Bukharin, originated "primitive socialist accumulation," and was executed in 1937.
Yevgeny Prigozhin (Евгений Викторович Пригожин)
Yevgeny Prigozhin (Евгений Викторович Пригожин), Russian businessman and founder of the Wagner Group, once "Putin's chef"; led the June 2023 mutiny against Russia's military leadership and died in a plane crash on 23 August 2023.
Yevgeny Rylov
Yevgeny Rylov (Евгений Рылов), Russian backstroke swimmer born 1996, double Olympic champion at Tokyo 2020 (100m and 200m backstroke), 2017 and 2019 world champion, suspended nine months by FINA in 2022.
Yevgeny Sadovy
Yevgeny Sadovy (Евгений Викторович Садовый, born 1973), Russian swimmer for the Unified Team; three 1992 Barcelona golds (200, 400, 4×200 free), world records 3:45.00 and 7:11.95; later a coach.
Yevgeny Sharonov
Yevgeny Sharonov (Евгений Константинович Шаронов), Soviet water polo goalkeeper born 1958 in Dzerzhinsk; 1980 Olympic gold, 1988 and 1992 bronze, 1982 world champion and best player, later Russian water polo federation president.
Yevgeny Solntsev
Yevgeny Solntsev (Евгений Солнцев) is a Russian politician and United Russia member who serves as Governor of Orenburg Oblast, presenting a development strategy to 2036.
Yevgeny Tarle
Yevgeny Tarle (Евгений Викторович Тарле, 1874 to 1955) was a Soviet historian of France, Napoleon, and Russian diplomacy, exiled under Stalin, then honored with three Stalin Prizes.
Yevgeny Tishchenko
Yevgeny Tishchenko (Евгений Тищенко), Russian heavyweight boxer born 1991, 2016 Olympic gold medalist at 91 kg; also 2015 world amateur champion; later professional with RCC, suspended after a December 2023 doping test.
Yevgeny Yarovenko
Yevgeny Yarovenko (Евгений Викторович Яровенко), Kazakhstani footballer born 1962 in Karatau; Kairat Almaty defender and USSR Olympic gold medalist at Seoul 1988, the first Kazakhstani football Olympic champion.
Yevgeny Yevtushenko
Yevgeny Yevtushenko (Евгений Евтушенко) was a Soviet and Russian poet of the Thaw generation, famous for civic poems like "Babii Yar" and mass public readings.
Yevgeny Zamyatin
Yevgeny Ivanovich Zamyatin (Евгений Замятин, 1884–1937), Russian writer and naval engineer, author of the dystopian novel We (Мы, 1920–21), which influenced Orwell's 1984 and Huxley's Brave New World; censored, expelled from Soviet literary life in 1929, died in Parisian exile.
Yevgeny Zavoisky
Yevgeny Zavoisky (Евгений Константинович Завойский) was a Soviet physicist who discovered electron paramagnetic resonance in Kazan in 1944 and later worked on the Soviet atomic bomb.
Yevgeny Zimin
Yevgeny Zimin (Евгений Зимин), Soviet ice hockey forward for Spartak Moscow, two-time Olympic champion (1968, 1972), three-time world champion, and scorer of the first goal of the 1972 Summit Series; later coach, commentator, and Flyers scout.
Yevgraf Fyodorov
Yevgraf Fyodorov, born Yevgraf Stepanovich Fyodorov (Евграф Степанович Фёдоров), was a Russian mathematician and crystallographer who first deduced the 230 symmetry space groups in 1891.
Yevhen Braslavets
Yevhen Braslavets (Євген Анатолійович Браславець), born 1972 in Dnipro, Ukrainian 470-class sailor; Olympic gold at Atlanta 1996 with Ihor Matviyenko, world and European champion 2001, 2000 flagbearer.
Yevhen Hrebinka
Yevhen Hrebinka (Євген Гребінка; 1812–1848) was a Ukrainian Romantic writer who wrote fables, poetry, and prose in Ukrainian and Russian, and helped publish Shevchenko's Kobzar in 1840.
Yevhen Konoplyanka (Євген Олегович Коноплянка)
Yevhen Konoplyanka (Євген Олегович Коноплянка), born 1989 in Kirovohrad, is a retired Ukrainian left winger; Dnipro, Sevilla (2016 Europa League winner), Schalke 04, Shakhtar; 87 caps, 21 goals for Ukraine.
Yevhen Malaniuk
Yevhen Malaniuk (Євген Маланюк) was a Ukrainian émigré poet of the Prague school and a former UNR army officer, banned in Soviet Ukraine for about seventy years.
Yevhen Paton
Yevhen Paton (Євген Патон, 1870–1953) was a Ukrainian and Soviet engineer who designed over 35 bridges and is considered the father of electric welding in the USSR.
Yevhen Petrushevych
Yevhen Petrushevych (Євген Петрушевич, 1863–1940) was a Ukrainian lawyer and political leader who headed the Western Ukrainian National Republic, becoming its authorized dictator in 1919.
Yevhen Pluzhnyk
Yevhen Pluzhnyk (Євген Плужник) was a Ukrainian poet and dramatist of the Executed Renaissance, arrested in the Stalinist terror of 1934 and dying in prison on Solovki.
Yevhen Sverstiuk
Yevhen Sverstiuk (Євген Сверстюк) was a Ukrainian literary scholar, essayist, and dissident, a leading figure of the Sixtiers generation who spent 7 years in Soviet camps.
Yevhenii Khmara
Yevhenii Khmara is a Ukrainian major general and politician who became Minister of Defence in August 2026, having commanded the SBU's Center for Special Operations "A".
Yevno Azef (Евно Фишелевич Азеф)
Yevno Azef (1869–1918) was a Russian revolutionary who organized terrorist attacks for the Socialist-Revolutionary Party while simultaneously serving as a paid informer for the Okhrana.