Nikolai Andreevich Myagotin
Nikolai Andreevich Myagotin was born on May 9, 1918, into a poor peasant family in the village of Korobeynikovo, Kurgan County, Tobolsk Province, now known as Kolesnikovo, the administrative center of the Kolesnikovsky r…
Semyon Ulyanovich Remezov
Semyon Ulyanovich Remezov, a native of Tobolsk, came from a family of boyar children. His grandfather and father were service people in Tobolsk, and his brother Nikita served there as well. At the time of Semyon's birth,…
Andrei Dmitrievich Kriachkov
Andrei Dmitrievich Kriachkov was born on November 24, 1876, in the village of Vakhrevo, Rostov district, Yaroslavl province, in the family of peasant Dmitry Iosifovich Kriachkov. After his father's death, when Andrei was…
Frolov Pyotr Kozymich
In 1793, he graduated from the St. Petersburg Mining School and, as a shaft master, joined the Kolyvano-Voskresensky Altai factories. There, he engaged in surveying work and managed forests at various mines, including th…
Fyodor Lvovich Sollogub
In the nineteenth century, many outstanding cultural figures emerged, especially among Russian writers, artists, poets, and composers. However, not all of them have retained their fame to this day. One such person was Fy…
Ekaterina Fedorovna Savinova
Ekaterina Fedorovna Savinova, honored artist of the RSFSR and Soviet actress, was born on December 26, 1926, in the village of Yeltsovka, Altai Krai, into a large peasant family.
After finishing school, she moved to Mos…
Permian Stefan
Stefan was born around 1340 in Ustyug to the family of a cleric named Simeon. When his mother Maria was three years old, Saint Procopius predicted the birth of a holy son. Influenced by his pious mother and thanks to his…
Rurik Petrovich Lonin
Rurik Petrovich Lonin was born in the village of Kaskesruchay in a family of Veps. His father chose the name Rurik, believing in the Veps roots of Prince Rurik from Novgorod.
In the late 1930s, Rurik began his studies a…
Andrei Nikolaevich Glebov
Andrei Nikolaevich Glebov, born in 1858 near the village of Verkhne-Nikulskoye in the Yaroslavl province and died on October 21, 1895, in the village of Kipyen in the Saint Petersburg province, was a Russian engineer and…
Afanasy Nikitin
Little is known about the early years of Afanasy Nikitin's life. This is because his biography began to be recorded when he was already an adult and had started his famous travels.
It is known that Afanasy Nikitin was b…
