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Aleksandr Blinov
Aleksandr Ivanovich Blinov (Александр Иванович Блинов), Soviet equestrian eventing rider from Frunze; 1980 Moscow Olympics team gold and individual silver on Galzun; three-time USSR champion; died 2021.
Aleksandr Boloshev
Aleksandr Boloshev (Александр Александрович Болошев, 1947–2010), Soviet basketball center for Dynamo Moskva; 1972 Munich Olympic gold medalist, 1974 world champion, two-time European champion, later BC Khimki executive.
Aleksandr Borodyuk
Aleksandr Borodyuk (Александр Бородюк), born 1962 in Voronezh, Russian football forward and coach; 1988 Olympic champion, Soviet top scorer 1986 and 1988, Schalke 04 promotion winner, later Russia assistant coach and Torpedo Moscow manager.
Aleksandr Bratchikov
Aleksandr Bratchikov (born 1947) is a Soviet 400m sprinter, European Indoor champion twice, European Championships silver medallist, who broke Ardalion Ignatyev's Soviet 400m record with 45.9 in 1969.
Aleksandr Buinov
Aleksandr Buinov (Александр Буйнов) is a Russian pop singer and People's Artist of Russia, a former Veselye Rebyata keyboardist who went solo in 1989 with his group Chao.
Aleksandr Butko
Aleksandr Butko (Александр Анатольевич Бутько), born 1986 in Hrodna, is a Russian volleyball setter, 198 cm tall, who won Olympic gold at London 2012 with Russia, plus the 2011 World Cup and World League, and played for Lokomotiv Novosibirsk and Zenit Kazan; not the Belarusian footballer born 1997.
Aleksandr Chernykh
Aleksandr Chernykh (Александр Черных), born 1965 in Voskresensk, Soviet ice hockey center, 1988 Calgary Olympic champion and 1989 world champion with the USSR; career ended by a 1989 car accident, later a KHL player agent.
Aleksandr Degtyaryov
Aleksandr Vladimirovich Degtyaryov (Александр Владимирович Дегтярёв), born 1955, Soviet sprint canoeist; Olympic gold in men's K-4 1,000 m at Montreal 1976 (3:08.69) and 1974 world silver; not the Russian sports minister Mikhail Degtyarev.
Aleksandr Dityatin
Aleksandr Dityatin (Александр Николаевич Дитятин), Soviet artistic gymnast (1957-2025); won all eight men's gymnastics medals at Moscow 1980 and the first male Olympic perfect 10, on vault.
Aleksandr Dokturishvili
Aleksandr Dokturishvili (Alexander Dokturashvili, ალექსანდრე დოხტურიშვილი), Georgian-Uzbekistani Greco-Roman wrestler born 1980; 2001 European champion for Georgia, 2004 Asian champion, and 2004 Athens Olympic gold medalist at 74 kg for Uzbekistan.
Aleksandr Dolgushin
Aleksandr Ivanovich Dolgushin (Александр Иванович Долгушин), Soviet water polo defender (1946–2006): Olympic gold 1972, silver 1968, World champion 1975, tenfold USSR champion with CSK VMF Moskva.
Aleksandr Dreval
Aleksandr Konstantinovich Dreval (Александр Константинович Древаль), born 1944 in Moscow, Soviet water polo player; Olympic gold at Munich 1972, 8th at Montreal 1976, world champion 1975.
Aleksandr Dronov
Aleksandr Dronov is a Russian United Russia politician who became Governor of Novgorod Oblast in 2025, appointed acting governor by Putin and elected with 62 percent of the vote.
Aleksandr Drozdenko
Aleksandr Drozdenko is a Russian politician and member of United Russia who has served as Governor of Leningrad Oblast since 2012, re-elected in 2025 with 84.21% of the vote.
Aleksandr Dugin (Александр Гельевич Дугин)
Aleksandr Gelievich Dugin (Александр Гельевич Дугин), born 1962, Russian philosopher and neo-Eurasianist ideologue, author of Foundations of Geopolitics (1997) and the Fourth Political Theory, ex-National Bolshevik Party ideologue, nicknamed "Putin's brain."
Aleksandr Dyachenko
Aleksandr Igorevich Dyachenko (Александр Игоревич Дьяченко), Russian canoe sprint kayaker born 1990 in Rudny, Kazakhstan; Olympic K2 200 m gold with Yury Postrigay at London 2012, world champion 2013 and 2019, banned four years from 2022 for LIMS data analysis.
Aleksandr Gallyamov
Aleksandr Gallyamov (Александр Романович Галлямов), Russian pair skater born 1999 in Berezniki; with Anastasia Mishina, 2022 Olympic pairs and team bronze, 2021 world champion, 2022 European champion, 2019 world junior champion.
Aleksandr Gazov
Aleksandr Gazov (Александр Васильевич Газов, born 1946) is a Soviet-Belarusian sport shooter, 1976 Olympic gold medalist in 50 m running target with a world-record 579, and 1980 Olympic bronze medalist.
Aleksandr Gerasimov
Aleksandr Gerasimov (Александр Герасимов) names two Russian Olympic medalists: a Soviet ice hockey forward (1959–2020), 1984 Sarajevo gold with CSKA Moscow, and a volleyball player (b. 1975), 2000 Sydney silver.
Aleksandr Golovin (Александр Сергеевич Головин) (footballer)
Aleksandr Sergeevich Golovin (Александр Головин), born 1996 in Kaltan, Siberia, is a Russian attacking midfielder for AS Monaco since 2018 and Russia; CSKA-trained, 2018 World Cup quarter-finalist.
Aleksandr Golubev
Aleksandr Golubev (Александр Голубев), born 1972 in Karavayevo, Kostroma, is a Russian speed skater who won the 1994 Lillehammer Olympic 500 m in 36.33, giving Russia its first Olympic speed skating medal; retired 1998.
Aleksandr Gorshkov
Aleksandr Gorshkov (Александр Георгиевич Горшков), Soviet ice dancer born 1946 in Moscow; with wife Liudmila Pakhomova won the first Olympic ice dance gold at Innsbruck 1976, six world and six European titles; later ISU official and Russian federation president; died 2022.
Aleksandr Gusev
Aleksandr Vladimirovich Gusev (Александр Владимирович Гусев, 1947-2020), Soviet ice hockey defenceman with CSKA Moscow; 1976 Olympic champion, 1973 and 1974 world champion; distinct from field hockey player Aleksandr Petrovich Gusev and Voronezh governor Aleksandr Viktorovich Gusev.
Aleksandr Ivanitsky
Aleksandr Ivanitsky (Александр Иваницкий) was a Soviet freestyle wrestler who won the 1964 Tokyo Olympic heavyweight gold medal and four world championship titles, then became a leading Soviet sports broadcaster.
Aleksandr Kabanov
Aleksandr Sergeyevich Kabanov (Александр Сергеевич Кабанов), Soviet and Russian water polo center forward, double Olympic champion 1972 and 1980, world champion 1975 and 1982, later head coach of Russia's men's and women's national teams; died 30 June 2020.
Aleksandr Karelin (Александр Александрович Карелин)
Aleksandr Karelin (Александр Александрович Карелин), the Russian Bear, born 1967, Greco-Roman super-heavyweight wrestler: three Olympic golds 1988-1996, nine world titles, 13 years unbeaten, lost 1-0 to Rulon Gardner at Sydney 2000.
Aleksandr Karshakevich
Aleksandr Karshakevich (Александр Каршакевич), Belarusian handball left wing born 1959 in Minsk; Olympic silver 1980 and gold 1988 with the USSR, SKA Minsk club star, later Belarus head coach.
Aleksandr Khinchin
Aleksandr Khinchin (Хинчин Александр Яковлевич) was a Soviet mathematician who led the Moscow school of probability theory and created the metric theory of Diophantine approximation.
Aleksandr Kirichenko
Aleksandr Kirichenko (Александр Александрович Кириченко, born 1967), Ukrainian-born Soviet and Russian track cyclist; 1988 Seoul Olympic champion in the 1 km time trial (1:04.499), 1990 world champion, 500 m flying-start world record holder.
Aleksandr Klepikov
Aleksandr Grigoryevich Klepikov (Александр Григорьевич Клепиков), Soviet rower (1950–2021) of Trud Leningrad; 1976 Montréal Olympic gold and 1975 world champion in the men's coxed four.