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Anatoly Alyabyev
Anatoly Alyabyev (Анатолий Николаевич Алябьев, 1951-2022), Soviet biathlete, triple medalist at the 1980 Lake Placid Olympics: gold in the 20 km individual and relay, bronze in the sprint; later coach of the Russian national team.
Anatoly Antonov (Анатолий Иванович Антонов)
Anatoly Ivanovich Antonov (Анатолий Иванович Антонов), born 1955 in Omsk, is a Russian career diplomat and arms-control specialist who was Russia's ambassador to the United States from August 2017 to October 2024, after serving as deputy defense minister and deputy foreign minister.
Anatoly Bashashkin
Anatoly Bashashkin (Анатолий Васильевич Башашкин, 1924–2002), Soviet football defender, CSKA/CDKA captain, led USSR at Helsinki 1952 and won Olympic football gold at Melbourne 1956.
Anatoly Beloglazov
Anatoly Beloglazov (Анатолий Белоглазов), born 1956, Soviet freestyle wrestler, 1980 Olympic 52 kg champion, three-time world champion, twin brother of Sergey Beloglazov, later coach of Canada, Australia, and Russia.
Anatoly Bogdanov
The Soviet rifle shooter Anatoly Bogdanov (Анатолий Иванович Богданов) won two Olympic gold medals in 1952 and 1956, plus ten gold medals at the 1954 Caracas World Championships.
Anatoly Bondarchuk
Anatoly Bondarchuk (Анатолій Бондарчук, 1940–2025) was a Ukrainian hammer thrower who won Olympic gold for the Soviet Union in 1972 and became a renowned coach and author.
Anatoly Bykov
Anatoly Bykov (Анатолий Михайлович Быков, b. 1953), Soviet Greco-Roman wrestler, 74 kg: 1976 Olympic gold, 1980 silver, 1975 world champion; later a Kazakhstan coach who settled in Montreal.
Anatoly Chukanov
Anatoly Chukanov (Анатолий Алексеевич Чуканов), Soviet road cyclist, 1976 Montreal Olympic gold medalist in the 100 km team time trial and 1977 world champion with Chaplygin, Pikkuus, and Kaminsky; later coached Mexico and taught in Luhansk.
Anatoly Derevyanko
Anatoly Derevyanko, born 1943, is a Russian archaeologist and academician who led the Denisova Cave excavations in the Altai that led to the discovery of the Denisovans.
Anatoly Dyatlov (Анатолий Степанович Дятлов)
Anatoly Dyatlov, also known as Anatoly Stepanovich Dyatlov, was a Soviet nuclear engineer and deputy chief engineer at Chernobyl who supervised the 1986 turbine test that destroyed Reactor No. 4.
Anatoly Fedyukin
Anatoly Fedyukin (Анатолий Викторович Федюкин, 1952-2020), Soviet handball player: Olympic gold 1976 Montreal, silver 1980 Moscow, 1982 world champion, 103 USSR caps, later coach of CSKA and Iceland's Fram.
Anatoly Firsov
Anatoly Firsov (Анатолий Фирсов), Soviet ice hockey left winger (1941-2000) with CSKA Moscow; three Olympic golds, eight world titles, 134 goals in 166 USSR games, IIHF Hall of Fame 1998.
Anatoly Fomenko (Анатолий Тимофеевич Фоменко)
Anatoly Timofeevich Fomenko, born 1945 in Donetsk, is a Russian mathematician and Russian Academy of Sciences member known for Hamiltonian topology and the rejected New Chronology theory.
Anatoly Grishin
Anatoly Grishin (Анатолий Кузьмич Гришин, 1939–2016), Soviet sprint canoeist from Moscow; Olympic K-4 1000 m gold at Tokyo 1964 in 3:14.67, 1966 world champion, later coach and referee.
Anatoly I. Frenkel
Anatoly I. Frenkel is an American materials chemist, professor at Stony Brook University and senior chemist at Brookhaven National Laboratory, known for operando synchrotron studies of nanocatalysts.
Anatoly Ilyin
Anatoly Ilyin (Анатолий Михайлович Ильин, 1931–2016), Soviet forward for Spartak Moskva; scored the winning goal in the 1956 Olympic football final, the USSR's first World Cup play-off goal, and the first European Championship qualifying goal.
Anatoly Ionov
Anatoly Ionov (Анатолий Семёнович Ионов), Soviet ice hockey forward (1939-2019), Olympic gold medalist 1968 and three-time world and European champion with CSKA Moskva; later coach and president of Kristall Elektrostal.
Anatoly Isayev
Anatoly Isayev (Анатолий Константинович Исаев, 1932–2016), Soviet football forward and coach; Spartak Moscow 1953–62, four-time Soviet champion, and Olympic gold medalist at Melbourne 1956, scoring the only goal in the final against Yugoslavia.
Anatoly Karatsuba
Anatoly Karatsuba (Анатолий Карацуба) was a Soviet and Russian mathematician at the Steklov Institute who discovered the first fast multiplication algorithm, disproving a conjecture of Kolmogorov.
Anatoly Karpov (Анатолий Евгеньевич Карпов)
Anatoly Karpov (Анатолий Евгеньевич Карпов), born 1951 in Zlatoust, is a Russian grandmaster, 12th World Chess Champion 1975-1985, defender against Korchnoi, rival of Kasparov, and three-time FIDE champion in the 1990s.
Anatoly Khrapaty
Anatoly Khrapaty (Анатолий Михайлович Храпатый), Soviet and Kazakh weightlifter, 1988 Seoul Olympic champion at 90 kg and 1996 Atlanta silver medalist at 99 kg, five-time world and European champion, died 2008 in a traffic accident.
Anatoly Kolesov
Anatoly Kolesov (1938–2012) was a Soviet Greco-Roman wrestler who won the welterweight gold medal at the 1964 Tokyo Olympics and three world titles, then became a coach and sports administrator.
Anatoly Koni
Anatoly Koni, or Anatoly Fyodorovich Koni (Анатолий Фёдорович Кони), was a Russian jurist, judge, and court orator who presided over the 1878 trial that acquitted Vera Zasulich.
Anatoly Kuznetsov
Anatoly Kuznetsov (1929–1979), a Soviet Russian-language writer, wrote Babi Yar, testimony of the Nazi massacre at the Babyn Yar ravine in Kyiv, and defected to Britain in 1969.
Anatoly Lunacharsky
Anatoly Lunacharsky (Анатолий Луначарский) was a Russian revolutionary, writer, and Soviet statesman who served as the first People's Commissar of Enlightenment from 1917 to 1929, building secular schooling and the literacy campaign.
Anatoly Maltsev
Anatoly Maltsev, fully Anatoly Ivanovich Maltsev (Анатолий Иванович Мальцев; 1909–1967), was a Soviet mathematician counted among the creators of mathematical logic, model theory, and universal algebra, and organizer of the Siberian mathematical school in Novosibirsk.
Anatoly Mariengof
Anatoly Mariengof (Анатолий Борисович Мариенгоф, 1897–1962) was a Russian imaginist poet, prose writer, and memoirist who co-founded Imaginism with Sergei Yesenin; his novel The Cynics was praised by Joseph Brodsky.
Anatoly Maslyonkin
Anatoly Maslyonkin (Анатолий Евстигнеевич Маслёнкин), Soviet footballer, 1930–1988; Spartak Moscow defender 1954–63, USSR champion 1956/1958/1962, Olympic gold 1956 and Euro 1960 winner, 33 USSR caps; later Spartak youth coach of Fyodor Cherenkov.
Anatoly Moskvin (Анатолий Юрьевич Москвин)
Anatoly Yuryevich Moskvin (Анатолий Юрьевич Москвин), born 1966 in Gorky, is a Russian Celticist, philologist, and cemetery researcher found in 2011 with 26 to 29 mummified bodies from graves in his Nizhny Novgorod flat; judged insane, he has been in compulsory psychiatric treatment since 2012.
Anatoly Onoprienko (Анатолій Юрійович Онопрієнко)
Anatoly Onoprienko (Анатолій Онопрієнко), the Beast of Ukraine or Terminator, Ukrainian serial killer convicted of 52 murders in 1989 and 1995–1996; death sentence commuted to life, died in Zhytomyr prison in 2013.