Famous people who grew up or lived in and around Moscow
4 notable people grew up or lived in and around Moscow. Each listing explores the home and neighbourhood, and how the place shaped the person they became.
Andrei Sakharov1921–1989
📍 48B Zemlyanoy Val (Chkalov Street), Moscow 109004, Russia
I was born in 1921 in Ulyanovsk and grew up in Moscow, the son of a physicist. I became the Soviet Union's most important nuclear weapons designer — the father of the Soviet hydrogen bomb …
Galina Ulanova1952–1998
📍 Kotelnicheskaya Embankment 1/15, Moscow, Russia
In the early 1950s I moved into apartment 185 in the new tower on Kotelnicheskaya Embankment, one of the seven great Stalin-era skyscrapers of Moscow, standing where the Yauza river meets…
Lev Yashin1929–1949
📍 Bogorodskoye, Moscow, Russia
I was born in Moscow in October 1929 and grew up in Bogorodskoye, a working-class district on the north-eastern edge of the city, near the forests of Sokolniki and the river Yauza. My…
Natalia Osipova1986–2004
📍 Moscow, Russia
Natalia Osipova was born in Moscow in May 1986 and grew up in the city. As a little girl she was a gymnast, starting at small studios at four or five, and she was determined and ambitious…