Russians in Ukraine

Total population
In the 2001 Ukrainian census, 8,334,100 identified themselves as ethnic Russians (17.3% of the population of Ukraine).[1]
Regions with significant populations
Donbas Crimea
Donetsk Oblast	1,844,399 (2001)
Crimea (excluding Sevastopol)	1,180,441 (2001)
Luhansk Oblast	991,825 (2001)
Kharkiv Oblast	742,025 (2001)
Dnipropetrovsk Oblast	627,531 (2001)
Odesa Oblast	508,537 (2001)
Zaporizhzhia Oblast	476,748 (2001)
Kyiv	337,323 (2001)
Sevastopol	269,953 (2001)
Other regions of Ukraine	1,355,359 (2001)
Languages
Russian (95.9%, 2001 Ukrainian (54.8%, 2001)
Related ethnic groups
Slavic people (East Slavs, West Slavs, South Slavs)

Russians constitute the country's largest ethnic minority in Ukraine. This community forms the largest single Russian community outside of Russia in the world. In the 2001 Ukrainian census, 8,334,100 identified themselves as ethnic Russians (17.3% of the population of Ukraine); this is the combined figure for persons originating from outside of Ukraine and the Ukrainian-born population declaring Russian ethnicity.^[1]

Ethnic Russians live throughout Ukraine. They form a notable fraction of the overall population in the east and south, a significant minority in the center, and a smaller minority in the west.^[1]

The west and the center of the country feature a higher percentage of Russians in cities and industrial centers and a much smaller percentage in the overwhelmingly Ukrainophone rural areas.^[1] Due to the concentration of the Russians in the cities, as well as for historic reasons, most of the largest cities in the center and the south-east of the country (including Kyiv where Russians amount to 13.1% of the population)^[1] remained largely Russophone as of 2003.^[4] Russians constitute the majority in Crimea (71.7% in Sevastopol and 58.5% in the Autonomous republic of Crimea).^[1]

Outside of Crimea, Russians are the largest ethnic group in Donetsk (48.2%) and Makiivka (50.8%) in Donetsk Oblast, Ternivka (52.9%) in Dnipropetrovsk Oblast, Krasnodon (63.3%) and Sverdlovsk (Dovzhansk) (58.7%) and Krasnodon Raion (51.7%) and Stanytsia-Luhanska Raion (61.1%) in Luhansk Oblast, Izmail (43.7%) in Odesa Oblast, Putyvl Raion (51.6%) in Sumy Oblast.^[5][6]

There are two notable sub-ethnic groups of Russians in Ukraine: the Goryuns around Putyvl, and the Lipovans (a group of Old Believers) around Vylkove.^{[citation needed]}

One of the most prominent Russians in Medieval Ukraine (at that time the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth) was Ivan Fyodorov, who published the Ostrog Bible and called himself a Muscovite.

In 1599, Tsar Boris Godunov ordered the construction of Tsareborisov on the banks of Oskol River, the first city and the first fortress in Eastern Ukraine. To defend the territory from Tatar raids the Russians built the Belgorod defensive line (1635–1658), and Ukrainians started fleeing to be under its defense.

More Russian speakers appeared in northern, central and eastern Ukrainian territories during the late 17th century, following the Cossack Rebellion led by Bohdan Khmelnytsky. The uprising led to a massive movement of Ukrainian settlers to the Sloboda Ukraine region, which converted it from a sparsely inhabited frontier area to one of the major populated regions of the Tsardom of Russia. Following the Treaty of Pereyaslav, Ukrainian Cossacks lands, including the modern northern and eastern parts of Ukraine, became a protectorate of the Tsardom of Russia. This brought the first significant, but still small, wave of Russian settlers into central Ukraine (primarily several thousand soldiers stationed in garrisons,^[7] out of a population of approximately 1.2 million non-Russians).^[8]

At the end of the 18th century, the Russian Empire captured large uninhabited steppe territories from the former Crimean Khanate. The systematic colonization of lands in what became known as Novorossiya (mainly Crimea, Taurida and around Odesa) began. Migrants from many ethnic groups (predominantly Ukrainians and Russians from Russia proper) came to the area.^[9] At the same time, the discovery of coal in the Donets Basin also marked the commencement of a large-scale industrialization and an influx of workers from other parts of the Russian Empire.

Nearly all of the major cities of southern and eastern Ukraine were established or developed in this period: Aleksandrovsk (now Zaporizhzhia; 1770), Yekaterinoslav (now Dnipro; 1776), Kherson and Mariupol (1778), Sevastopol (1783), Simferopol and Novoaleksandrovka (Melitopol) (1784), Nikolayev (Mykolaiv; 1789), Odessa (Odesa; 1794), Lugansk (Luhansk; foundation of Luhansk plant in 1795).

Both Russians and Ukrainians made up the bulk of the migrants – 31.8% and 42.0% respectively.^{[citation needed]} The population of Novorossiya eventually became intermixed, and with Russification being the state policy, the Russian identity dominated in mixed families and communities. The Russian Empire officially regarded Ukrainians, Russians and Belarusians as Little, Great and White Russians, which, according to the theory officially accepted in the Imperial Russia, belonged to a single Russian nation, the descendants of the people of Kievan Rus.^{[citation needed]}

In the beginning of the 20th century, Russians were the largest ethnic group in the following cities: Kiev (54.2%), Kharkov (63.1%), Odessa (49.09%), Nikolayev (66.33%), Mariupol (63.22%), Lugansk (68.16%), Berdyansk (66.05%), Kherson (47.21%), Melitopol (42.8%), Yekaterinoslav (41.78%), Yelizavetgrad (34.64%), Pavlograd (34.36%), Simferopol (45.64%), Feodosiya (46.84%), Yalta (66.17%), Kerch (57.8%), Sevastopol (63.46%), Chuguev (86%).^[6]

The first Russian Empire Census, conducted in 1897, showed extensive usage (and in some cases dominance) of the Little Russian, a contemporary term for the Ukrainian language,^[10] in the nine south-western Governorates and Kuban. Thus, when the Central Rada officials were outlining the future borders of the new Ukrainian state they took the results of the census in regards to the language and religion as determining factors. The ethnographic borders of Ukraine thus turned out to be almost twice as large as the original Bohdan Khmelnytsky State incorporated into the Russian Empire during the 17-18th centuries.^[11]

During World War I, a strong national movement managed to obtain some autonomous rights from the Russian government in Saint Petersburg. However, the October Revolution brought big changes for the new Russian Republic. Ukraine became a battleground between the two main Russian war factions during the Russian Civil War (1918–1922), the Communist Reds (Red Army) and the Anti-Bolshevik Whites (Volunteer Army).

The October Revolution also found its echo amongst the extensive working class, and several Soviet Republics were formed by the Bolsheviks in Ukraine: the Ukrainian People's Republic of Soviets, Soviet Socialist Republic of Taurida, Odessa Soviet Republic and the Donetsk-Krivoy Rog Republic.

The Russian SFSR government supported military intervention against the Ukrainian People's Republic, which at different periods controlled most of the territory of present-day Ukraine with the exception of Crimea and Western Ukraine.^[8] Although there were differences between Ukrainian Bolsheviks initially,^[12] which resulted in the proclamation of several Soviet Republics in 1917, later, due in large part to pressure from Vladimir Lenin and other Bolshevik leaders, one Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic was proclaimed.

The Ukrainian SSR was de jure a separate state until the formation of the USSR in 1922 and survived until the breakup of the Soviet Union in 1991. Lenin insisted that ignoring the national question in Ukraine would endanger the support of the Revolution among the Ukrainian population and thus new borders of Soviet Ukraine were established to the extent that the Ukrainian People's Republic was claiming in 1918.^[8] The new borders completely included Novorossiya (including the short-lived Donetsk-Krivoy Rog Soviet Republic) and other neighboring provinces, which contained a substantial number of ethnic Russians.

In his 1923 speech devoted to the national and ethnic issues in the party and state affairs, Joseph Stalin identified several obstacles in implementing the national program of the party. Those were the "dominant-nation chauvinism", "economic and cultural inequality" of the nationalities and the "survivals of nationalism among a number of nations which have borne the heavy yoke of national oppression".^[13]

In Ukraine's case, both threats came, respectively, from the south and the east: Novorossiya with its historically strong Russian cultural influence, and the traditional Ukrainian center and west. These considerations brought about a policy of Ukrainization, to simultaneously break the remains of the Great Russian attitude and to gain popularity among the Ukrainian population, thus recognizing their dominance of the republic.^[14] The Ukrainian language was mandatory for most jobs, and its teaching became compulsory in all schools.

By the early 1930s attitudes towards the policy of Ukrainization had changed within the Soviet leadership. In 1933 Stalin declared that local nationalism was the main threat to Soviet unity.^[8] Consequently, many changes introduced during the Ukrainization period were reversed: Russian language schools, libraries and newspapers were restored and even increased in number. Changes were brought territorially as well, forcing the Ukrainian SSR to cede some territories to the RSFSR. Thousands of ethnic Ukrainians were deported to the far east of the Soviet Union, numerous villages with Ukrainian majority were eliminated with Holodomor, while remaining Ukrainians were subjected to discrimination.^[15][16] During this period parents in the Ukrainian SSR could choose to send their children whose native language was not Ukrainian to schools with Russian as the primary language of instruction.

The territory of Ukraine was one of the main battlefields during World War II, and its population, including Russians, significantly decreased. The infrastructure was heavily damaged and it required human and capital resources to be rebuilt. This compounded with depopulation caused by two famines of 1931–1932 and a third in 1947 to leave the territory with a greatly reduced population. A large portion of the wave of new migrants to industrialize, integrate and Sovietize the recently acquired western Ukrainian territories were ethnic Russians who mostly settled around industrial centers and military garrisons.^[17] This increased the proportion of the Russian speaking population.

Near the end of the War, the entire population of Crimean Tatars (numbering up to a quarter of a million) was expelled from their homeland in Crimea to Central Asia, under accusations of collaborations with Germans.^[18][19] The Crimea was repopulated by the new wave of Russian and Ukrainian settlers and the Russian proportion of the population of Crimea went up significantly (from 47.7% in 1937 to 61.6% in 1993) and the Ukrainian proportion doubled (12.8% in 1937 and 23.6% in 1993).^[20]

The Ukrainian language remained a mandatory subject of study in all Russian schools, but in many government offices preference was given to the Russian language that gave an additional impetus to the advancement of Russification. The 1979 census showed that only one third of ethnic Russians spoke the Ukrainian language fluently.^[8]

In 1954, the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR issued the decree on the transfer of the Crimean Oblast from the Russian SFSR to the Ukrainian SSR. This action increased the ethnic Russian population of Ukraine by almost a million people. Many Russian politicians considered the transfer to be controversial.^[21] Controversies and legality of the transfer remained a sore point in relations between Ukraine and Russia for a few years, and in particular in the internal politics in Crimea. However, in a 1997 treaty between the Russian Federation and Ukraine, Russia recognized Ukraine's borders and accepted Ukraine's sovereignty over Crimea.^[8]

Following the dissolution of the Soviet Union, Ukraine became an independent state. This independence was supported by the referendum in all regions of Ukrainian SSR, including those with large Russian populations.^[23] A study of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine found that in 1991, 75% of ethnic Russians in Ukraine no longer identified themselves with the Russian nation.^[24] In the December 1991 Ukrainian independence referendum 55% of the ethnic Russians in Ukraine voted for independence.^[25]

The return of Crimean Tatars has resulted in several high-profile clashes over land ownership and employment rights.^[26]

In 1994 a referendum took place in the Donetsk Oblast and the Luhansk Oblast, with around 90% supporting the Russian language gaining status of an official language alongside Ukrainian, and for the Russian language to be an official language on a regional level; however, the referendum was annulled by the Kyiv government.^[27][28]

Much controversy has surrounded the reduction of schools with Russian as their main language of instruction. In 1989, there were 4,633 schools with Russian as the main instruction language, and by 2001 this number fell to 2,001 schools or 11.8% of the total in the country.^[29] A significant number of these Russian schools were converted into schools in with both Russian and Ukrainian language classes. By 2007, 20% of pupils in public schools studied in Russian classes.^[30]

Some regions such as Rivne Oblast have no schools with Russian only instruction left, but only Russian classes provided in the mixed Russian-Ukrainian schools.^[31] As of May 2007, only seven schools with Russian as the main language of instruction are left in Kyiv, with 17 more mixed language schools totaling 8,000 pupils,^[32] with the rest of the pupils attending the schools with Ukrainian being the only language of instruction. Among the latter pupils, 45,700 (or 18% of the total) study the Russian language as a separate subject^[32] in the largely Russophone Ukrainian capital,^[4][33] although an estimated 70 percent of Ukraine's population nationwide consider that Russian should be taught at secondary schools along with Ukrainian.^[34]

The Russian Cultural Center in Lviv has been attacked and vandalized on several occasions. On January 22, 1992, it was raided by UNA-UNSO led by the member of Lviv Oblast Council.^[22] UNA-UNSO members searched the building, partially destroyed archives and pushed people out from the building.^[22] Their attackers declared that everything in Ukraine belonged to the Ukrainians, so the Russians and the Jews were not allowed to reside or have property there.^[22] The building was vandalized during the Papal Visit to Lviv in 2001,^[35] then in 2003 (5 times),^[36][37] 2004 (during the Orange Revolution^[38]), 2005,^[39][40] 2006.^[41]

After the Euromaidan events,^[42] regions with a large ethnic Russian populations became the scene of Anti-Maidan protests and Russian-backed separatist activity. After being seized by Russian unmarked troops, the Supreme Council of Crimea announced the 2014 Crimean referendum, and sent a request to Russia to send military forces into the Crimea to "protect" the local population from Euromaidan protesters, which marked the beginning of the Russian annexation of Crimea. After the elected regional parliament of the Donetsk Oblast refused to comply with the demands of the pro-Russian protesters, the secessionists decided to create their own council consisting of unelected separatist individuals, which in its first session voted to conduct a referendum on deciding the future of the region.^[43]

On 3 March, a number of people, including Russian nationals with "clear Russian accents", who referred to themselves as "tourists", started storming the regional administration building in Donetsk, waving Russian flags and shouting ″Russia!″ and ″Berkut are heroes!″. The police was not able to offer much resistance, and was quickly overrun by the crowd.^[44][45][46] The regional council in Luhansk, in which the party of ousted pro-Russian president Viktor Yanukovich held an absolute majority, voted to demand granting the Russian language the status as second official language, stopping ″the persecution of Berkut fighters″, disarming Maidan self-defense units and banning a number far-right political organizations like Svoboda and UNA-UNSO. If the authorities failed to comply with the demands, the Oblast council reserved itself the ″right to ask for help from the brotherly people of the Russian Federation.″^[47]

The pro-Russian protests in Donetsk and Luhansk oblasts of the 2014 pro-Russian conflict in Ukraine escalated into an armed separatist insurgency, which was backed by Russian special and regular forces.^{[48][49][50][51][52]} This led the Ukrainian government to launch a military counter-offensive against the insurgents in April 2014. During this war, major cities like Luhansk and Donetsk^[53] have seen heavy shelling.^[54][55] According to the United Nations, 730,000 refugees from the Donetsk and Luhansk oblasts have fled to Russia since the beginning of 2014.^[56] Approximately 14,200 people, including 3,404 civilians, have died from 2014-2022 because of the war.

Ruslan Stefanchuk, the Chairman of the Verkhovna Rada, said that there is no "Russian ethnic minority" in Ukraine and that "if these people show aggression rather than respect towards Ukraine, then their rights should be correspondingly suppressed."^[57]

In total, according to a 2007 country-wide survey by the Institute of Sociology, only 0.5% of the respondents describe as belonging to a group that faces discrimination by language.^{[58]: 133–135} Furthermore, in a poll held October 2008, 42.8% of the Ukrainian respondents said they regard Russia as “very good” while 44.9% said their attitude was “good" (87% positive).^[59]

According to the Institute of Sociology surveys conducted yearly between 1995 and 2005, the percentage of respondents who have encountered cases of ethnic-based discrimination against Russians during the preceding year has consistently been low (mostly in single digits), with no noticeable difference when compared with the number of incidents directed against any other nation, including the Ukrainians and the Jews.^[60] According to the 2007 Comparative Survey of Ukraine and Europe only 0.1% of Ukrainian residents consider themselves belonging to a group which is discriminated by nationality.^[58]: 156 However, by April 2017 in a public opinion survey conducted by Rating Group Ukraine, 57 percent of Ukrainians polled expressed a very cold or cold attitude toward Russia, as opposed to only 17 percent who expressed a very warm or warm attitude.^[61]

Some surveys indicate that Russians are not socially distanced in Ukraine. The indicator of the willingness of Ukraine's residents to participate in social contacts of varying degrees of closeness with different ethnic groups (the Bogardus Social Distance Scale) calculated based on the yearly sociological surveys has been consistently showing that Russians are, on the average, least socially distanced within Ukraine except the Ukrainians themselves.^[62] The same survey has shown that, in fact, that Ukrainian people are slightly more comfortable accepting Russians into their families than they are accepting Ukrainians living abroad.^[62] Such social attitude correlates with the political one as the surveys taken yearly between 1997 and 2005 consistently indicated that the attitude to the idea of Ukraine joining the union of Russia and Belarus is more positive (slightly over 50%) than negative (slightly under 30%).^[63]

Since the 2014 Maidan Revolution the Russian government dramatically increased the anti-opposition campaign which resulted in politically motivated cases against the Russian liberal opposition. As a result, many notable Russians moved to Ukraine to avoid political prosecution in Russia.^{[citation needed]} Notable examples are Ilya Ponomaryov (the only member of parliament who voted against the annexation of Crimea), journalists Matvey Ganapolsky, Arkadiy Babchenko, Evgeny Kiselyov, Alexander Nevzorov and others.

According to the statistics presented by the United Nation's Office of the High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), in 2014 approximately 140 Russians applied for political asylum in Ukraine. In the first six months of 2015 this number grew by fifty people more.^[64] Ukrainian migration policies are complicated and limit the number of Russians who can successfully apply for a refugee status.^{[citation needed]}

The ultra-nationalist political party "Svoboda"^[65] has invoked Russophobic and anti-semitic rhetoric.^[66] Svoboda has a sizeable electoral presence in local councils,^[67] as seen in the Ternopil regional council in Western Ukraine.^[68] In 2004 Oleh Tyahnybok, the leader of the "Svoboda" party, urged members of his party to fight "the Moscow-Jewish mafia" ruling Ukraine.^[69] "Svoboda" members held senior positions in Ukraine's government in 2014,^[70] but the party lost 30 seats of the 37 seats (its first seats in the Ukrainian Parliament^[71] it had won in the 2012 parliamentary election) in the late October 2014 Ukrainian parliamentary election^[71] and did not return to Ukraine's government.^[72]

According to 2006 survey by Research & Branding Group (Donetsk) 39% of Ukrainian citizens think that the rights of the Russophones are violated because the Russian language is not official in the country, whereas 38% of the citizens have the opposite position.^[73][74] According to annual surveys by the Institute of Sociology of the National Academy of Sciences 43.9% to 52.0% of the total population of Ukraine supports the idea of granting the status of state language to Russian.^[34] At the same time, this is not viewed as an important issue by most of Ukraine's citizens. On a cross-national survey involving ranking the 30 important political issues, the legal status of the Russian language was ranked 26th, with only 8% of respondents (concentrated primarily in Crimea and Donetsk) feeling that this was an important issue.^[75]

Russian continues to dominate in several regions and in Ukrainian businesses, in leading Ukrainian magazines, and other printed media.^[76] Russian language in Ukraine still dominates the everyday life in some areas of the country.

On February 23, 2014, the Ukrainian parliament adopted a bill to repeal the 2012 law on minority languages, which—if signed by the Ukrainian president—would have established Ukrainian as the sole official state language of all Ukraine, including Crimea which is populated by a Russian-speaking majority.^[77] Repeal of the law was met with great disdain in Southern and Eastern Ukraine.^[78] The Christian Science Monitor reported: "The [adoption of this bill] only served to infuriate Russian-speaking regions, [who] saw the move as more evidence that the antigovernment protests in Kiev that toppled Yanukovich's government were intent on pressing for a nationalistic agenda."^[79] A proposal to repeal the law was vetoed on 28 February 2014 by acting president Oleksandr Turchynov.^[80] On 28 February 2018 the Constitutional Court of Ukraine ruled the 2012 law on minority languages unconstitutional.^[81]

On September 25, 2017, a new law on education was signed by President Petro Poroshenko (draft approved by Rada on September 5, 2017) which says that Ukrainian language is the language of education at all levels except for one or more subjects that are allowed to be taught in two or more languages, namely English or one of the other official languages of the European Union.^[82] The law faced criticism from officials in Russia and Hungary.^[83] According to the New Europe:

The latest row between Kiev and Budapest comes on the heels of a bitter dispute over a decision by Ukraine’s parliament – the Verkhovna Rada – to pass a legislative package on education that bars primary education to all students in any language but Ukrainian. The move has been widely condemned by the international community as needlessly provocative as it forces the historically bilingual population of 45 million people who use Russian and Ukrainian interchangeably as mother tongues to become monolingual.^[84]

The Unian reported that "A ban on the use of cultural products, namely movies, books, songs, etc., in the Russian language in the public has been introduced" in the Lviv Oblast in September 2018.^[85]

Some authors born in Ukraine who write in the Russian language, notably Marina and Sergey Dyachenko and Vera Kamsha, were born in Ukraine, but moved to Russia at some point. Marina and Sergey Dyachenko later moved to California.

In March 2022, during the Siege of Mariupol, Mariupol's deputy mayor Serhiy Orlov said that "Half of those killed by Russian bombing are Russian-origin Ukrainians."^[86]

Census year	Total population of Ukraine	Russians	%
1926	29,018,187	2,677,166	9.2%
1939	30,946,218	4,175,299	13.4%
1959	41,869,046	7,090,813	16.9%
1970	47,126,517	9,126,331	19.3%
1979	49,609,333	10,471,602	21.1%
1989	51,452,034	11,355,582	22.1%
2001	48,457,000	8,334,100	17.2%

In general the population of ethnic Russians in Ukraine increased due to assimilation and in-migration between 1897 and 1939 despite the famine, war and Revolution. Since 1991 it has decreased drastically in all regions, both quantitatively and proportionally. Ukraine in general lost 3 million Russians, or a little over one-quarter of all Russians living there in the 10-year period between 1991 and 2001, dropping from over 22% of the population of Ukraine to just over 17%. In the past 22 years since 2001, a further drop of Russian numbers has continued.^{[citation needed]}

Several factors have affected this – most Russians lived in urban centres in Soviet times and thus were hit the hardest by the economic hardships of the 1990s. Some chose to emigrate from Ukraine to (mostly) Russia or to the West. Finally some of those who were counted as Russians in Soviet times declared themselves Ukrainian during the last census.^[87]

The Russian population is also hit by the factors that affected all the population of Ukraine, such as low birth rate and high death rate.^[88]

2001 census showed that 95.9% of Russians in Ukraine consider the Russian language to be native for them, 3.9% named Ukrainian to be their native language.^[89] The majority, 59.6%^[90] of Ukrainian Russians were born in Ukraine. They constitute 22.4% of all urban population and 6.9% of rural population in the country.^[90]

Women make up 55.1% of Russians, men are 44.9%.^[90] The average age of Russians in Ukraine is 41.9 years.^[90] The imbalance in sexual and age structure intensifies in western and central regions.^[90] In these regions the Russians are concentrated in the industrial centers, particularly the oblast centres.^[90]

Number of Russians by region (Oblast) per the last systematic census in 2001

Oblast	Number in 2001[91]	Percent in 2001
Donetsk Oblast	1,844,400	38.2
Dnipropetrovsk Oblast	627,500	17.6
Kyiv	337,300	13.1
Kharkiv Oblast	742,000	25.6
Lviv Oblast	92,600	3.6
Odesa Oblast	508,500	20.7
Luhansk Oblast	991,800	39.0
Autonomous Republic of Crimea	1,180,400	58.3
Zaporizhzhia Oblast	476,800	24.7
Kyiv Oblast	109,300	6.0
Vinnytsia Oblast	67,500	3.8
Poltava Oblast	117,100	7.2
Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast	24,900	1.8
Khmelnytskyi Oblast	50,700	3.6
Cherkasy Oblast	75,600	5.4
Zhytomyr Oblast	68,900	5.0
Zakarpattia Oblast	31,000	2.5
Mykolaiv Oblast	177,500	14.1
Rivne Oblast	30,100	2.6
Sumy Oblast	121,700	9.4
Chernihiv Oblast	62,200	5.0
Kherson Oblast	165,200	14.1
Ternopil Oblast	14,200	1.2
Volyn Oblast	25,100	2.4
Kirovohrad Oblast	83,900	7.5
Chernivtsi Oblast	37,900	4.1
Sevastopol	270,000	71.6

The majority of the Russians are Christians of the Eastern Orthodox Faith and predominantly belong to the Ukrainian Orthodox Church,^{[citation needed]} a former Ukrainian exarchate of the Russian Orthodox Church, which received an ecclesiastical Autonomy from the latter on October 27, 1990.^[92]

There are small minorities of Old Believers, notably Lipovans, as well as Protestants, indigenous Spiritual Christians, and Catholics among Russians. In addition, there is a sizable portion of those who consider themselves atheists.^{[citation needed]}

Political parties whose electoral platforms are crafted specifically to cater to the Russian voters' sentiments fared exceptionally well. Until the 2014 Ukrainian parliamentary election several of Ukraine's elections,^[94] political parties that call for closer ties with Russia received a higher percentage of votes in the areas where Russian-speaking population predominate.

Parties like the Party of Regions, Communist Party of Ukraine and the Progressive Socialist Party were particularly popular in Crimea, Southern and Southeastern regions of Ukraine. In the 2002 parliamentary election, the mainstream Party of Regions, with a stronghold based on Eastern and Southern Ukraine came first with 32.14%, ahead of its two nationally conscious main rivals, the Yulia Tymoshenko Bloc (22.29%) and Our Ukraine Bloc (13.95%), while also Russophile Communist Party of Ukraine collected 3.66% and the radically pro-Russian Nataliya Vitrenko Bloc 2.93% coming closest of the small parties to overcoming the 3% barrier.^[95][96]

In the 2007 parliamentary election, the Party of Regions came first with 34.37% (losing 130,000 votes), the Yulia Tymoshenko Bloc second with 31.71% (winning 1.5 million votes), the Our Ukraine–People's Self-Defense Bloc third with 14.15% (losing 238,000 votes), the Communist Party of Ukraine fourth with 5.39% (winning 327,000 votes) while the Nataliya Vitrenko Bloc dropped to 1.32%.^[95][96] Although the Yulia Tymoshenko Bloc attracted most of its voters from Western Ukrainian, Ukrainian-speaking provinces (Oblasts), it had in recent years recruited several politicians from Russian-speaking provinces like Crimea (Lyudmyla Denisova^[97]) and Luhansk Oblast (Natalia Korolevska^[98]). In the 2012 parliamentary election Party of Regions again won 30% and the largest number of seats while Fatherland (successor to Yulia Tymoshenko Bloc) came second with 25.54%.^[99][100] The Communist Party of Ukraine raised its percentage of the votes in this election to 13.18%.^[100]

In the 2014 parliamentary election the Party of Regions successor Opposition Bloc was overrun by the non-pro-Russian Petro Poroshenko Bloc in southern regions.^[93] In the election Opposition Bloc scored 9.43%, finishing fourth.^[101] Opposition Bloc gained most votes East Ukraine, but scored second best in former Party of Regions stronghold South Ukraine (trailing behind Petro Poroshenko Bloc).^[102] The Communist Party of Ukraine was eliminated from representation in the election because it failed to overcome the 5% election threshold with its 3.87% of the votes.^[103][104] Because of the war in Donbas and the unilateral annexation of Crimea by Russia elections were not held in Crimea and also not in large parts of Donbas, both were before stronghold of the Party of Regions and the Communist Party of Ukraine.^{[105][106][107][108][109][110][111][99]}

In 2014, there were political parties and movements in Ukraine that advocated a pro-Russian policy, and pro-Russian political organizations.^[112][113] Many of these were opposed to Ukrainian independence and openly advocated for the restoration of the Russian Empire.^[114] Few in number, they generated media coverage and political commentary.^[115][116]

The actions organized by these organizations are most visible in the Ukrainian part of historic Novorossiya (New Russia) in the south of Ukraine and in the Crimea, a region in which in some areas Russians are the largest ethnic group. As ethnic Russians constitute a significant part of the population in these largely Russophone parts of southern Ukraine (and a majority in the Crimea),^[1] these territories maintain particularly strong historic ties with Russia on the human level. Thus, a stronger than elsewhere in the country pro-Russian political sentiment makes the area a more fertile ground for the radical pro-Russian movements that are not as common elsewhere in the country.^{[citation needed]}

As of December 2009 clashes between Ukrainian nationalists and pro-Russian organisations do sometimes take place.^[117]

Among such movements are the youth organizations, the Proryv (literally the Breakthrough) and the Eurasian Youth Movement (ESM).^[118] Both movements' registration and legal status have been challenged in courts; and the leader of Proryv, a Russian citizen, was expelled from Ukraine, declared persona non grata and barred from entering the country again.^{[citation needed]} Alexander Dugin, the Moscow-based leader of the ESM and his associate Pavel Zariffulin have also been barred from travelling to Ukraine because of their involvement in the activities of these organizations, although bans have been later lifted and reinstated again.^[119]

These movements openly state their mission as the disintegration of Ukraine and restoration of Russia within the borders of the former Russian Empire^[114] and, reportedly, have received regular encouragement and monetary support from Russia's politically connected businessmen.^[120] These organizations have been known not only for their pro-Russian activities, but have been also accused of organising massive acts of protest.^[121]

Some observers point out the Russian government and the Russian Orthodox Church's support of these movements and parties in Ukraine, especially in Crimea.^[123] The publications and protest actions of these organizations feature strongly pro-Russian and radically anti-NATO messages, invoking the rhetoric of "Ukrainian-Russian historic unity", "NATO criminality", and other similar claims.^{[citation needed]}

Some observers link the resurgence of radical Russian organizations in Ukraine with Kremlin's fear that the Orange Revolution in Ukraine could be exported to Russia, and addressing that possibility has been at the forefront of these movements' activities.^[124]

As a branch of a similar Russian organization the Eurasian Youth Union (ESM) has been organizing annual Russian Marches. These marches have been described as "neo-Nazi" marches and "far-right marches" by international observers like the BBC and Al Jazeera.^{[125][126][127]} The November 2006 "Russian march" in Kyiv, the capital, gathered 40 participants, but after the participants attacked the riot police, it was forced to interfere and several participants from were arrested.^[128] In Odesa and Crimean cities the November 2006 "Russian marches" drew more participants, with 150–200 participants in Odesa,^[128] and 500 in Simferopol^[128] and went more peacefully. The marchers were calling for the Ukrainian and Russian Orthodox Church unity as well as the national unity between Russia and Ukraine. In Odesa the march of about 200 people carried anti-Western, pro-Russian slogans and religious symbols.^[129][130]

In March 2022, shortly after the start of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, a poll found that 82% of ethnic Russians living in Ukraine said they did not believe that any part of Ukraine was rightfully part of Russia. The poll did not involve respondents from Crimea or the separatist-controlled part of Donbas.^[131] 65% of Ukrainians—including 88% of those of Russian ethnicity—agreed that "despite our differences there is more that unites ethnic Russians living in Ukraine and Ukrainians than divides us".^[131]

• Anna Sedokova
• Boryslav Brondukov (of mixed Polish-Russian ancestry)
• Yuri Sergeevich Lavrov
• Nikolay Olyalin
• Mikhail Svetin
• Oleksiy Gorbunov
• Volodymyr Denshchykov
• Vadim Abramov (television presenter)
• Serhii Babkin
• Nila Kriukova
• Anatoly Balchev
• Andriy Bednyakov
• Yuriy Dubrovin
• Yevhen Synelnykov
• Viktor Zhdanov (actor)
• Konstantin Stepankov
• Oleksandr Piskunov
• Oleksandr Pikalov
• Petro Vesklyarov
• Vyacheslav Voronin (actor)
• Liudmyla Alfimova
• Larisa Bakurova
• Eva Bushmina
• Lidiya Belozyorova
• Oksana Cherkashyna
• Zinaida Dekhtyaryova
• Svitlana Tarabarova
• Vera Filatova
• Alexander Zagarov
• Nina Ilyina
• Rymma Zyubina
• Olesia Vlasova
• Kseniya Mishyna
• Olena Nikolaeva
• Valentina Ivashova
• Larisa Kadochnikova
• Irina Kaptelova
• Olena Khokhlatkina
• Mariya Khomutova
• Nataliya Kozhenova
• Olga Lezhneva
• Tetiana Malkova
• Nadia Meiher (Nadiya Urzhumtseva)
• Ada Rohovtseva
• Valentina Vladimirova
• Oksana Zhdanova
• Anastasia Zyurkalova

• Andrey Kvasov
• Osip Startsev
• Oleh Drozdov
• Pavlo Alyoshin
• Nataliia Chmutina
• Ievgeniia Gubkina
• Tamara Huselnykova

• Ilya Repin
• Evgeniy Chuikov
• Victor Palmov
• Igor Filippov (painter)
• Lydia Grigorieva
• Julia Mayorova
• Kapiton Pavlov
• Kseniya Simonova
• Igor Chekachkov
• Alisa Lozhkina
• Alexander Chekmenev
• Yan Dobronosov
• Dmytro Komarov
• Yuri Kosin
• Igor Kostin
• Kostiantyn Liberov
• Sasha Maslov
• Boris Mikhailov (photographer)
• Anatoly Rasskazov
• Yuri Shcherbinin
• Anna Ivanovna Petrova
• Tetiana Protcheva
• Bohdan Yermakov
• Yuri Gorbachev
• Anatoliy Nasedkin
• Volodymyr Hurin
• Pavlo Makov
• Yuriy N. Yegorov
• Liudmyla Semykina
• Julia Kissina
• Eugene Garin
• Borys Krylov
• Giennadij Jerszow
• Daria Denisova
• Galyna Moskvitina
• Ulyana Nesheva
• Mark Tochilkin
• Olga Rozanova
• Vladimir Beklemishev (sculptor)
• Serhii Brylov
• Valentin Galochkin
• Vasyl Ponikarov
• Sergey Piskunov
• Sergey Poyarkov
• Mykola Barsamov
• Boris Kriukow
• Fyodor Zakharov
• Vasyl Yermylov
• Yevhen Yehorov
• Sergey Lunov
• Yuriy N. Yegorov
• Viktor Zarubin
• Oleksandr Zhyvotkov
• Stanislav Sychov
• Misha Reznikoff
• Victor Palmov
• Ivan Seleznyov
• Svitlana Biedarieva
• Nina Murashkina
• Alina Panova
• Igor Kovalyov
• Serguei Kouchnerov
• Alexander Aksinin
• Emilia Kabakov
• Alexander Milov
• Yuriy Musatov
• Vladimir Strelnikov
• Boris Mikhailov (photographer)

• Vadim Novinsky^[132] - Billionaire, also of Armenian descent
• Boris Lozhkin - businessperson and philanthropist

• Oleg Antonov, Soviet aircraft designer and painter, the founder of Antonov ASTC.
• Pyotr Gorlov, geologist and engineer who explored many of the mines in the Donbas region of Ukraine. He founded the city of Horlivka.
• Vasiliy Karazin, intellectual, inventor, and scientific publisher in Imperial Russia. He is the founder of Kharkiv University, which now bears his name, also of distant Serbian origin.^{[citation needed]}
• Sergei Alekseyevich Lebedev, scientist in the fields of electrical engineering and computer science, and designer of the first Soviet computers.
• Alexander Alexandrovich Morozov, engineer and tank designer.
• Anatoly Agarkov - scientist and spacecraft engineer, one of the key figures in Sea Launch, Antares, and Zenit projects
• Oleksandr Makarov - rocket engineer and General Director of PA Pivdenmash from 1961 to 1986, Laureate of Lenin and State Awards, twice Hero of Socialist Labour, Honored Mechanical Engineer of the Ukrainian SSR, holder of the Order of Prince Yaroslav the Wise, and Honorary Citizen of Dnepropetrovsk
• Oleh Korostelyov - engineer, research and professor who is the Hero of Ukraine and a full Cavalier of Order of Merit
• Zoia Duriagina - scientist, materials engineer, doctor of sciences, professor, full member of the Academy of Sciences of Higher Education of Ukraine, a member of Shevchenko Scientific Society, and the head of the Department of Applied Materials Science and Materials Processing at the Institute of Engineering Mechanics and Transport, which is part of Lviv Polytechnic National University
• Konstantin Kalinin - World War I aviator and Soviet aircraft designer
• Anatoly Dyatlov, Soviet engineer who was the deputy chief engineer for the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant
• Leonid Toptunov, Soviet electrical engineer who was the senior reactor control chief engineer at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant Reactor Unit 4 on the night of the Chernobyl disaster, 26 April 1986
• Aleksandr Akimov, Soviet engineer who was the supervisor of the shift that worked at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant Reactor Unit 4 on the night of the Chernobyl disaster, 26 April 1986
• Nikolai Fomin, chief engineer of the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant from 1981 until the Chernobyl nuclear disaster in 1986
• Viktor Bryukhanov, manager of construction of the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant and the director of the plant from 1970 to 1986
• Igor Gramotkin, General Director of State Specialized Enterprise Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant since 2005

• Fyodor Berezin, Russian-language science fiction writer and Deputy Minister of Defence of the Donetsk People's Republic.
• Mikhail Bulgakov
• Pavlo Kazarin, bilingual journalist and publicist
• Oleksiy Bessarabov - journalist
• Yevgeny Kiselyov - journalist
• Bohdan Kutiepov - journalist
• Daria Meshcheriakova - journalist
• Vitaly Portnikov - journalist
• Konstantin Bakharev - journalist
• Vasyl Klymentyev - journalist
• Ostap Drozdov - journalist
• Maks Levin - photographer
• Yuriy Makarov - journalist, TV presenter, documentarian, writer
• Peter Zalmayev - political commentator and director of the Eurasia Democracy Initiative (EDI), an international non-profit organization dedicated to the promotion of democracy and human rights in post-Communist transitional societies of Eastern and Central Europe, the Caucasus and Central Asia
• Anna Filimonova - journalist, TV-host and the owner of the Miss Universe Ukraine pageant
• Ihor Tolstykh - journalist and TV manager
• Tetyana Terekhova - TV, radio presenter and journalist
• Stanislav Aseyev - writer and journalist, human rights activist, and founder of the Justice Initiative Fund
• Serhii Ivanov - writer
• Arkady Arkanov - writer
• Andriy Valentynov - writer
• Dmytro Kremin - writer
• Svetlana Lavochkina - writer
• Olena Stiazhkina - writer
• Sofia Rusova - writer
• Viktor Petrov - writer
• Kateryna Babkina - poet
• Dmytro Dontsov - nationalist writer, publisher, journalist and ideologist
• Victoria Amelina - novelist
• Oksana Sokolova - journalist, television producer, and television presenter, known for her long-standing contributions to Ukraine's television journalism industry
• Oleksandr Panteleymonov - editor and television producer
• Andrey Kurkov - writer
• Yevgeni Petrov
• Vladislav Adolfovitch Rusanov, Russian-language science fiction writer and chairman of the Donetsk People's Republic Writer's Union.
• Vladislav Rusanov

• Oleksander Hrekov, Commander-in-chief of the army of the West Ukrainian National Republic during the Polish-Ukrainian War and architect of the Chortkiv offensive in which the Ukrainian Galician Army advanced 120 km against the Polish army.
• Ivan Konev, Soviet military commander, who led Red Army forces on the Eastern Front during World War II, liberated much of Eastern Europe from occupation by the Axis powers, and helped in the capture of Germany's capital, Berlin.
• Kliment Voroshilov, Soviet military commander and politician of mixed Ukrainian and Russian ethnicity.
• Vasily Zaitsev, Soviet sniper during World War II
• Ihor Lapin, commander of the Special Forces Battalion of the First Separate Special Forces Brigade, named after Ivan Bohun
• Mykhailo Bolotskykh, military serviceman, Colonel General (Civil Defense Service)
• Eduard Moskaliov, major general of the Ukrainian Ground Forces
• Oleksandr Syrskyi, Soviet and Ukrainian military commander
• Mykhailo Fedorov - the Minister of Defence of Ukraine since 14 January 2026
• Liudmyla Denisova - 3rd Minister of Social Policy of Ukraine (27 February 2014 – 2 December 2014)
• Anatolii Mohyliov - Ukrainian minister of Internal Affairs (11 March 2010 – 7 November 2011)
• Kyrylo Budanov - the chief of the Main Directorate of Intelligence of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine from 5th August 2020 to 2nd January 2026
• Andrii Hnatov - Marine Corps major general who has been the Chief of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine since 2025
• Mariya Dolina - Pe-2 pilot and deputy squadron commander in the women's 125th “Marina M. Raskova” Borisov Guards Bomber Regiment
• Vladimir Shalimov - Soviet pilot who was posthumously awarded the title Hero of the Soviet Union for executing a "fire taran" attack when he intentionally flew his plane into enemy positions on the ground after his aircraft was bombarded by anti-aircraft fire
• Lev Shestakov - Soviet flying ace who participated in Spanish Civil War and later World War II
• Yevgeniya Prokhorova - Soviet aviator who briefly served as the acting commander of the 586th Fighter Regiment before she was killed in action during World War II
• Lyudmila Pavlichenko (Lyudmila Belova), a Soviet sniper in the Red Army during World War II
• Valentina Grizodubova - one of the first female pilots in the Soviet Union awarded the title Hero of the Soviet Union and the only female Hero of the Soviet Union to also be awarded the title Hero of Socialist Labour
• Vladyslav Savieliev - military pilot of the Air Force of the Armed Forces of Ukraine
• Maryna Mirzaieva - historian, researcher of the Ukrainian liberation movement, servicewoman of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, and author of the book Women of Freedom
• Andrii Pilshchykov - fighter pilot with the call sign "Juice" (Джус) and a captain in the 40th Tactical Aviation Brigade of the Ukrainian Air Force
• Mikhail Karpeyev - officer of the Soviet military who held a number of posts in the Soviet Air Forces, reaching the rank of colonel, and being awarded the title of Hero of the Soviet Union
• Serhii Konokhov - military leader, Major General of the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU)
• Vadym Voroshylov - fighter pilot of the Ukrainian Air Force, and a recipient of the Hero of Ukraine award
• Serhiy Litvinov - army officer who served as the commander of the Operational Command West from 2021 to 2024
• Viktor Nazarov (general)
• Valerii Dorokhov - entrepreneur, serviceman, lieutenant of the 68th Jaeger Brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine
• Andrii Sokolov - Major General of the Ukrainian Armed Forces, who served as Deputy Commander of Operational Command South
• Yurii Allerov - Colonel general, and former Commander of the National Guard of Ukraine (from 30 December 2015 to 7 May 2019)
• Mykhailo Bolotskykh - military serviceman, Colonel General (Civil Defense Service)
• Serhii Drozdov - military sniper pilot, commander of the Ukrainian Air Force in 2015-2021, colonel general since 2016
• Hryhoriy Illyashov - former KGB operative
• Ihor Kalinin (official) - 11th Head of the Security Service of Ukraine from 2012 to 2013
• Mykhailo Lopatin - colonel general and scientist who was commander of the Ukrainian Air Defence Forces from 1992 to 1996
• Valeriy Malikov - statesman, and former Head of the Security Service of Ukraine (1994–1995)
• Vasyl Sobkov - Soviet and later Ukrainian Armed Forces, who had served as the Deputy Minister of Defense from 1994 to 1998
• Henadii Vorobiov - Colonel general and Commander of the Ground Forces of Ukraine from November 2009 to January 2014
• Valentyn Boryskin - Soviet and later Ukrainian Army officer who was the commander of the Kyiv Military District in post-independence Ukraine in 1992
• Vladyslav Bukhariev - intelligence officer who served as head of the Foreign Intelligence Service of Ukraine from June to September 2019
• Mykhailo Kutsyn - Lieutenant General, who served as a Chief of the General Staff and Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine
• Yuriy Halushkin - brigadier general and former Commander of the Territorial Defense Forces from 1 January 2022 until May 15 2022
• Sergiy Holubtsov - head of the Ukrainian Air Force as of August 2023
• Hennadii Shapovalov - Ground Forces major general who is the Commander of the Ukrainian Ground Forces from 19 June 2025
• Volodymyr Zhemchuhov - Senior Lieutenant of AFU
• Oleh Shyriaiev - Commander of the 225th Separate Assault Regiment since 2023
• Oleksii Reznikov - Minister of Defence of Ukraine from 4 November 2021 until his dismissal on 5 September 2023
• Vitalii Lazorkin - serviceman, scientist, public figure, colonel of the Armed Forces of Ukraine
• Nadezhda Volkova - courier in an underground Komsomol cell during the Second World War
• Dmitry Petrov (anarchist) - Russian anarchist, volunteered for the Armed Forces of Ukraine, and was killed in the battle of Bakhmut
• Mariia Vetrova - revolutionary
• Yukhym Medvediev - Soviet politician and the first elected chairman of the Soviet parliament
• Foma Kozhyn - revolutionary and the commander of the machine-gun regiment of the Revolutionary Insurgent Army of Ukraine
• Serhiy Kokurin - Ukrainian soldier who was shot dead during an assault on a Ukrainian military base in Simferopol
• Ivan Zubkov - Ukrainian Airmobile Forces senior lieutenant and a posthumous Hero of Ukraine
• Maria Zaitseva - military volunteer in the Second International Legion of Ukraine
• Oleksii Chubashev - military journalist, serviceman, Major (posthumously) of the Main Directorate of Intelligence
• Inna Derusova - military medic who was the first woman to be posthumously awarded the Hero of Ukraine distinction
• Vitalii Huliaiev - commander of the 28th Separate Mechanized Brigade between 2021 and 2022
• Yurii Krasylnikov - military pilot, Major of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, Hero of Ukraine (posthumously, 2023)
• Maksym Kryvtsov - poet, photographer, public figure, volunteer and soldier, Hero of Ukraine (2025, posthumously)
• Oleh Kutsyn - military figure who was head of the "Legion of Freedom" of the Svoboda party
• Oleksandr Makhov - serviceman, sergeant of the Armed Forces of Ukraine
• Serhii Prokazin - Major of the 40th Tactical Aviation Brigade of the Air Force of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, was posthumously awarded the Hero of Ukraine in 2023
• Pavlo Sbytov - army officer, posthumously awarded the title Hero of Ukraine in March 2022 after he was killed in action in the Battle of Volnovakha
• Valerii Hliebov - captain of the Armed Forces of Ukraine , Hero of Ukraine
• Volodymyr Yezhov - video game developer, game designer and later a soldier
• Valeriy Chybineyev - sniper who served as commander of the sniper company of the 79th Air Assault Brigade
• Viacheslav Radionov - military aviator, a senior pilot, and a senior lieutenant of the 40th Tactical Aviation Brigade, posthumously awarded the title of Hero of Ukraine with the Order of the Golden Star
• Dmytro Apukhtin - colonel who served as deputy commander of the 23rd Public Security Protection Brigade "Khortytsia" of the National Guard of Ukraine
• Vladyslav Rykov - military pilot of the 299th Tactical Aviation Brigade of the Ukrainian Air Force
• Pavlo Aldoshyn - theatre and film actor, and a sniper in the Ukrainian Armed Forces
• Serhii Naiev - lieutenant general who served as Commander of the Joint Forces of the Armed Forces of Ukraine from 2016 until 2024
• Serhii Filimonov - public figure, a veteran of the Russo-Ukrainian War, leader of the Honor movement, former leader of the Kyiv branch of the Azov Civil Corps and the Kyiv branch of the far-right National Corps party, organizer and participant of activist initiatives against urban construction, in support of political prisoners and victims of political crimes
• Maria Nikiforova - anarchist partisan leader who led the Black Guards, becoming widely renowned as an atamansha
• Lev Zadov - chief of military intelligence of the Revolutionary Insurgent Army of Ukraine (RIAU) and later an operative of the Joint State Political Directorate (OGPU)
• Dmytro Todorov - senior lieutenant and participant of the Russian-Ukrainian war, Hero of Ukraine
• Oleksandr Alfiorov - historian, radio host, public and political figure, Candidate of Historical Sciences, researcher at the Institute of History of Ukraine of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, Head of the Ukrainian Institute of National Memory, Major of the Armed Forces of Ukraine

• Vitas, singer
• Vladislav Kurasov, singer
• Iryna Blokhina, singer
• Leff Pouishnoff, pianist
• Serhiy Salov, pianist
• Anna Fedorova, pianist
• Nikolai Kapustin, pianist
• Sergei Yuferov, pianist
• Alexey Botvinov, pianist
• Pavlo Gintov, pianist
• Sergei Prokofiev, composer
• Valentyn Silvestrov, composer
• Iryna Kyrylina, composer
• Ludmila Yurina, composer
• Lyudmila Shirina - operatic soprano
• Ekaterina Sannikova - operatic soprano
• Omnia (DJ) (Eugene Smirnov), DJ and music producer and singer from Donetsk
• T-DJ Milana (Julia Rysina), composer, dancer and model, best known for performing in top-less in her sets
• Vadim Pruzhanov, keyboardist
• Mélovin (Kostiantyn Mykolaiovych Bocharov), singer
• Zhanulka (Zhanna Shatalova), singer
• Oleh Serafyn, singer
• Misha Marvin, singer
• Misha Raitzin, singer
• Zi Faámelu (Boris Kruglov), singer
• Viktor Selyavin, singer
• Yaroslav Yevdokimov, singer
• Victor Morozov, singer
• Korolova (DJ) , singer
• Bogdan Volkov, singer
• Boris Sevastyanov, singer
• Yuri Bogatikov, singer
• Vyacheslav Polozov, singer
• Oleksandr Ponomariov, singer
• Ivan Romanoff - violinist
• Alexandra Čvanová, operatic soprano
• Aleksandr Panayotov, singer
• Denis Stoff (Denis Shaforostov), singer
• Dmytro Shurov, pianist
• Evgeny Ukhanov, pianist
• Maxim Rysanov, conductor
• Ihor Blazhkov, conductor
• Anthony Fedorov - musician
• Pyotr Grigorievich Goncharov, composer
• Oleksandr Rodin, composer
• Maxim Shalygin, composer
• Valentyn Borysov, composer
• Oleksandr Krasotov, composer
• Mykhailo Zherbin, composer
• Svyatoslav Lunyov, composer
• Galina Grigorjeva - composer
• Leo Portnoff, composer
• Svitlana Azarova, composer
• Volodymyr Melnykov, poet
• Mykola Mykhailov, bandurist
• Anastasia Chebotareva - violinist
• Viktoria Grigoreva - violinist
• Pavel Vernikov, violinist
• Oleksiy Kuznetsov, winner of the first season (2009–2010) of the Ukrainian X Factor
• Oleksandr Chemerov - rock musician, songwriter, DJ and the frontman of Ukrainian rock band Dymna Sumish and of US rock band The Gitas
• Ivan Dorn (Ivan Eryomin), singer
• Polina Dashkova (singer)
• Alekseev (singer)
• Cheev (Vladyslav Chyzykov), singer, author and performer of his own songs
• Artik (singer) (Artyom Umrikhin), singer, director, producer, and composer
• MamaRika (Anastasia Kochetova), singer
• Valentyna Arkanova, singer
• Pavlo Zibrov, singer
• Olena Muravyova, singer
• Olya Polyakova, singer
• Evgenia Vlasova, singer
• Anna Voronova, singer
• Sofia Tarasova, singer
• Luna (Ukrainian singer) (Krystyna Herasymova)
• Anastasia Kozhevnikova, singer
• Natalie Gioia (Natalia Sibekina)
• NK (singer) (Anastasiia Kamenskykh)
• Lena Belkina, mezzo-soprano
• Dasha Astafieva, model, singer, and actress
• Artem Pyvovarov, new wave singer and composer
• Tryzuby Stas (Stanislav Shcherbatykh), musician and author of Ukrainian anti-communist political satire

• Ilya Ponomarev - member of the Russian State Duma from 2007 to 2016
• Mykola Azarov, former prime minister and finance minister of Ukraine of mixed Russian (by mother) and Estonian (by father) ethnicity.^{[133][134][135][136]}
• Raisa Bogatyrova, Secretary of National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine, and a deputy of the Ukrainian parliament
• Denys Chernyshov - Deputy Minister of Justice of Ukraine from October 2016 to September 2019
• Leonid Brezhnev, General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (and thus political leader of the USSR) from 1964 to 1982.
• Sergiy Bychkov - leader of the “Strong Ukraine” all-Ukrainian non-governmental organization
• Lyudmyla Denisova, current minister of labor and social policy of Ukraine.
• Mykhailo Rodionov - member of the Communist Party of Ukraine, he served in the Verkhovna Rada from 2002 to 2006
• Dmytro Razumkov, former chairman of the Verkhovna Rada (from August 2019 to 7 October 2021)
• Oleksandr Turchynov, politician, screenwriter, Baptist minister and economist
• Oleg Tsaryov, former people's deputy of Ukraine elected for the Party of Regions in 2002, who was expelled from the party on 7 April 2014
• Oleksandr Sukhov, People's Deputy of Ukraine from Ukraine's 107th electoral district since 29 August 2019
• Ivan Herasymov, the oldest member of the Verkhovna Rada until his death.
• Nikita Khrushchev, First Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union from 1953 to 1964, following the death of Joseph Stalin, and Chairman of the Council of Ministers from 1958 to 1964.
• Pavlo Klimkin, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine (2014-2019)
• Dmytro Lunin, businessman and statesman, who served as the acting governor of Poltava Oblast 24 December 2021 to 10 October 2023
• Serhiy Knyazev - official who served as Chief of Ukraine's National Police from 8 February 2017 until 25 September 2019
• Oleh Hryhorov - politician and former police officer who is currently the Governor of Sumy Oblast since 17 April 2025
• Oleksiy Smyrnov - acting Governor of Luhansk Oblast in 2023
• Serhiy Potimkov - member of the Socialist Party – Peasant Party and Batkivshchyna, he served in the Verkhovna Rada from 1998 to 2002 and from 2006 to 2007
• Vadym Kopylov - Chairman of the Board of Naftogaz Ukraine (July 14, 2000 – February 5, 2002), first deputy minister of Fuel and Energy, Finance, Economic Development and Trade of Ukraine
• Yevhen Yenin - Deputy Minister of Internal Affairs from 2021 until his death in a helicopter crash in 2023
• Hryhoriy Vorsinov - Prosecutor General of Ukraine from October 19, 1995, to July 22, 1997
• Viktor Shokin - Prosecutor General of Ukraine (10 February 2015 – 29 March 2016)
• Yevhen Kushnaryov, former mayor of Kharkov, Governor of the Kharkov Oblast, Chief of Staff to the President of Ukraine, and Deputy to the Verkhovna Rada.
• Serhii Polyakov, engineer and politician, former head of the Donetsk Oblast Administration, Minister of Environmental Protection of Ukraine (2003–2005), Minister of Coal Industry of Ukraine (1995–1996), member of Verkhovna Rada, associated with the political party Hromada
• Oleksandr Novikov, law enforcement officer, former Head of the National Agency on Corruption Prevention (NACP) from 2020 to 2024, former prosecutor since 2004, including at the Office of the Prosecutor General from 2012 to 2020
• Anatoly Lunacharsky
• Volodymyr Puzakov
• Vasyl Hamianin - Ukrainian Ambassador to the Democratic Republic of the Congo, serving in the position since 10 April 2025
• Fyodor Sergeyev, head of the Donetsk-Krivoy Rog Soviet Republic
• Mikhail Artemyevich Muravyov, Army Commander of the Odessa Soviet Republic
• Innokentiy Kozhevnikov, People's Commissariat for Posts and Telegraphs of the Donetsk-Krivoy Rog Soviet Republic
• Andrei Zhdanov
• Volodymyr Horbulin, Secretary of National Security and Defense Council (1994–1999, 2006)
• Andrei Ivanov, member of the Presidium and the secretary of the All-Ukrainian Central Executive Committee and a delegate of the XII and XIII Party Congresses
• Yevhen Kushnaryov, a chief ideologue of the Party of Regions and a key ally of Prime Minister Viktor Yanukovych
• Oleh Shapovalov, member of the Party of Regions, who served as President of the Kharkiv Oblast Council from 2005 to 2006
• Hennadiy Balashov, leader of 5.10 political party
• Volodymyr Petrov, candidate for the 2019 Ukrainian presidential election
• Valeriy Baranov, People's Deputy of Ukraine (2007–2012)
• Ihor Markov, founder and chairman of the Rodina Party and is a former deputy of Ukrainian parliament as a member of the Party of Regions faction
• Serhiy Lyovochkin, formerly a member of the Parliament of Ukraine
• Yuliya Lyovochkina, People's Deputy, served in the Verkhovna Rada from 2007 to 2022
• Serhiy Teryokhin, Minister of Economy of Ukraine from 4 February to 27 September 2005, Batkivshchyna Party member
• Vyacheslav Ovechkin, 1st Deputy Head of the Odesa Regional State Administration
• Andriy Klyuyev, 2nd Head of the Presidential Administration of Ukraine
• Serhiy Sobolev, member of the Verkhovna Rada (parliament) and acting Batkivshchyna faction leader
• Yevheniy Murayev, leader of the now-banned political party Nashi
• Vladimir Maltsev, People's Deputy of Ukraine, member of the Party of Regions (since November 2007), a member of the Committee on Justice (December 2007)
• Volodymyr Malyshev, colonel-general of militia of Ukraine, People's deputy of Ukraine of the V-th, VI-th, VII-th convocations (2006-2014), Doctor of Law (2013), Honored Lawyer of Ukraine (1997)
• Ihor Yeremeyev, People's Deputy of Ukraine of the 4th, 7th and 8th convocation (non-partisan, Chairman of the Deputy Group "People's Will")
• Serhiy Klyuyev, businessman and a former member of the Ukrainian Parliament
• Ivan Fedorov, politician who was appointed Governor of Zaporizhzhia Oblast in February 2024
• Viktor Tikhonov, ambassador to Belarus from 2011 to 2012
• Mariya Ionova, politician of the Petro Poroshenko Bloc
• Spiridon Kilinkarov, pro-Russian politician who served as a People's Deputy of Ukraine from the Communist Party of Ukraine from 2006 to 2014
• Oleksandr Mochkov, People's Deputy of Ukraine of the 7th Ukrainian Verkhovna Rada
• Ihor Prasolov, Minister of Economical Development and Trade of Ukraine from 24 December 2012 to 27 February 2014
• Glib Prygunov, and former chairman of the Dnipropetrovsk Oblast Council
• Volodymyr Polochaninov, former people's deputy
• Oleksandr Ponomaryov, People's Deputy of Ukraine since 12 December 2012 from Ukraine's 78th electoral district, representing south-eastern Zaporizhzhia Oblast
• Ihor Rainin, former governor of Kharkiv Oblast
• Volodymyr Babayev, rector of O. M. Beketov National University of Urban Economy in Kharkiv (2011–2025) and, briefly in 2010, as the acting head of administration of Kharkiv Oblast
• Oleksiy Danilov, politician who was the secretary of the National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine from 2019 to 2024
• Volodymyr Hrynyov, People's Deputy of Ukraine (1990-1994)
• Anton Polyakov, member of the party Servant of the People (until December 2019), he served in the Verkhovna Rada from 2019 to 2021
• Oleh Dyomin, Ambassador of Ukraine to China (2013–2019)
• Andriy Kozhemiakin, politician and a former security service officer
• Kseniya Lyapina, Deputy chairman of the party "For Ukraine!", and head of the Kyiv regional organization (since 2009)
• Vitaliy Shubin, Minister of Energy and Environmental Protection (10 March 2020 – 16 April 2020)
• Serhiy Kunitsyn, member of the Ukrainian parliament as an independent politician for Petro Poroshenko Bloc
• Nina Yuzhanina, People's Deputy of Ukraine since the 2014 Ukrainian parliamentary election
• Serhiy Kaplin, People's Deputy of Ukraine of the VIIth (candidate from UDAR) and VIIIth (candidate from Petro Poroshenko Bloc) convocations, and the leader of the Social Democratic Party
• Ihor Terekhov, mayor of Kharkiv since 11 November 2021
• Oleksiy Azarov, First Deputy Chairman of the Verkhovna Rada Committee on Finance and Banking, People's Deputy of Ukraine, and a member of the Party of Regions faction in the Verkhovna Rada of the VII convocation
• Serhii Kivalov, politician and jurist who served as the head of Central Election Commission during the 2004 Ukrainian presidential election which led to the Orange Revolution
• Iryna Venediktova, Prosecutor General of Ukraine (17 March 2020 – 19 July 2022)
• Iryna Suslova, People's Deputy of Ukraine (27 November 2014 – 29 August 2019)
• Oleksandr Yefremov, former parliamentarian and politician
• Borys Filatov, current mayor of Dnipro
• Oleksandr Volkov, People's Deputy of Ukraine of the 3rd, 4th and 7th convocations
• Oleh Tatarov, Deputy Head of the Office of the President of Ukraine
• Oleh Tarasov, People's Deputy of Ukraine of the 9th convocation
• Maksym Stepanov, Minister of Healthcare (30 March 2020 – 18 May 2021)
• Serhii Shakhov, People's Deputy of Ukraine of since 2016
• Andriy Smyrnov, Deputy Head of the Office of the President of Ukraine from September 2019 until March 2024
• Oleh Nemchinov, 20th Secretary of the Cabinet of Ministers
• Andrii Viktorovych Simonov, mayor of Pyriatyn (since October 25, 2020)
• Andrii Gordieiev, politician, people's deputy of Ukraine of the VIIIth convocation
• Vadym Merikov, former People's Deputy of Ukraine and served as the governor of the Mykolaiv Oblast from July 28, 2014 to June 29, 2016
• Pavlo Lebedyev, Minister of Defense of Ukraine from 2012 to 2014
• Hennadiy Vasilyev, People's Deputy of Ukraine of the 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 6th and 7th convocations
• Yurii Shapovalov, People's Deputy of Ukraine of the 7th, 8th and 9th convocations
• Kostyantyn Morozov, first Minister of Defence of Ukraine following its 1991 declaration of independence
• Valeriy Shmarov, the third Minister of Defence of Ukraine (1994-1996)
• Igor Alekseyev, Member of the Verkhovna Rada (March 31, 2002 – October 26, 2014)
• Boris Kozhin, vice admiral and politician who served as the first commander of the Ukrainian Navy from April 1992 to October 1993
• Georgy Brusilov, naval officer of the Imperial Russian Navy and an Arctic explorer
• Mikhail Sablin, admiral in the Imperial Russian Navy, the first independent Ukrainian Navy and a member of the White Russian Movement
• Stepan Makarov - commander in the Imperial Russian Navy, oceanographer, member of the Russian Academy of Sciences, and author of several books
• Sergei Yeliseyev (admiral) - Vice Admiral, former First Deputy Commander and acting commander-in-chief of the Ukrainian Navy who defected to Russia in 2014
• Yuriy Ilyin, admiral and former commander of the Ukrainian Navy
• Dmytro Salamatin, Minister of Defense of Ukraine from 8 February 2012 to 24 December 2012
• Pavlo Kuznietsov, Member of the Verkhovna Rada (12 May 1998 – 14 May 2002)
• Oleksandr Kubrakov, Minister of Infrastructure of Ukraine (2021-2024)
• Mykola Bahrov - chairman of the Verkhovna Rada of Crimea in 1990–1994 and Governor of Crimea Oblast 1989–1991
• Vitaliy Danilov, former member of Ukrainian parliament (Verkhovna Rada)
• Vitaliy Chuhunnikov, Governor of Rivne Oblast (2014–2016)
• Heorhiy Kryuchkov, member of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union and later the Communist Party of Ukraine, he served in the Verkhovna Rada from 1998 to 2006
• Mykhailo Chechetov, former first deputy head of the Party of Regions parliamentary faction; and de facto its Chief Whip
• Andrii Kholodov, businessman and politician and former People's Deputy of Ukraine (in the 9th Ukrainian Verkhovna Rada)
• Oleksiy Kostusyev, former mayor of Odesa
• Pyotr Leontievich Antonov - revolutionary and terrorist, who survived 20 years imprisonment
• Svitlana Shatalova, political figure and who was the deputy governor of Odesa Oblast
• Vyacheslav Boguslayev, member of the Party of Regions
• Gennadiy Trukhanov, mayor of Odesa
• Pavlo Frolov, member of the Ukrainian Parliament of the 9th convocation from the Servant of the People party
• Sergey Nazarov - political strategist
• Oleksiy Plotnikov - People's Deputy of Ukraine (Member of the Parliament of Ukraine) of the 5th and 6th convocations (2006-2012)
• Yuriy Zbitnyev, candidate in the 2004 Ukrainian presidential election, nominated by the "New Power" Party
• Vitold Fokin, served as the first Prime Minister of Ukraine from the country's independence on 24 August 1991 to 1 October 1992
• Tymofiy Mylovanov - economist and former Minister of Economic Development, Trade and Agriculture of Ukraine
• Oleksandr Prokudin, Head of the Department of the National Police of Ukraine from February 2022 to February 2023
• Serhiy Arbuzov, former banker and politician who briefly served as acting prime minister of Ukraine from 28 January to 22 February 2014
• Alexander Rutskoy, Russian politician and former Soviet military officer who served as the only vice president of Russia from 1991 to 1993
• Vladyslav Bukhariev, politician and intelligence officer who served as head of the Foreign Intelligence Service of Ukraine from June to September 2019
• Serhii Bunin, politician currently serving as a People's Deputy of Ukraine from Ukraine's 98th electoral district in Kyiv Oblast
• Igor Martynov (politician) - politician and collaborator who served as the mayor of Donetsk from 13 October 2014 to 18 October 2016
• Andrey Kurbsky, political opponent of the Russian tsar Ivan the Terrible (1533–1584)
• Vasiliy Averin, Bolshevik revolutionary, a leading member of the Cheka and a member of the Soviet government in Ukraine
• Vasiliy Mantsev, Chairman of the Ukraine Cheka
• Yuriy Sergeyev, diplomat and politician, who has served as Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Ukraine, and Permanent Representative of Ukraine to the United Nations
• Aleksandr Uspensky, People's Commissar for Internal Affairs of the Ukrainian SSR
• Ivan Serov, People's Commissar for Internal Affairs of the Ukrainian SSR
• Aleksei Brovkin, Minister of Interior of UkrSSR
• Yuriy Smirnov, Minister of Internal Affairs of Ukraine in 2001–2003
• Raisa Bohatyriova, politician and former Vice Prime Minister of Ukraine and Minister of Health
• Oleksander Shulhyn, diplomat who played a key role in establishing the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine (1917-1918)
• Georgiy Afanasyev, Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Ukrainian State (1918)
• Aleksandr Kharitonov, Former People's Deputy of Ukraine
• Mykhailo Papiyev, former Minister of Labour and Social Policy, serving from 2002 to 2005 and from 2006 to 2007.
• Ivan Lyakhov, Member of the Verkhovna Rada (1990–1994)
• Mykola Popov, Member of the Verkhovna Rada from 1990 to 1994
• Serhiy Yefremov, the deputy head of the Central Council of Ukraine (1917)
• Iryna Akimova, politician and former First Deputy Head of Presidential Administration of Ukraine
• Hanna Antonieva, People's Deputy of Ukraine of the 3rd and 4th convocationsconvocations
• Volodymyr Ariev, Member of Parliament of Ukraine since 2007, chairman of Ukrainian delegation in Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe in 2015–2019, PACE Vice-President (2015, 2018), President of PACE Committee for Culture, Education, Science and Media (2016–2017)
• Stanislav Arzhevitin, Chairman of the Association of Ukrainian Banks, and People's Deputy of Verkhovna Rada
• Aleksey Baburin, People's Deputy of Ukraine, and member of the 3rd, 4th, 5th and 6th Verkhovna Radas, member of the Communist Party of Ukraine
• Anatolii Brezvin, Member of the Kyiv City Council (1998–2014)
• Valeriy Kartavtsev - politician, in 1993 and 1994, he served as a secretary of the Council of National Security of Ukraine
• Iryna Yefremova - People's Deputy of Ukraine of the 8th convocation
• Nataliia Romanova - politician who served as the acting Governor of Chernihiv Oblast in 2019
• Nina Karpachova, Verkhovna Rada Commissioner for Human Rights from 1998 until 2012
• Borys Kolesnikov, leader of the political party Ukraine is Our Home
• Vitaliy Kononov, environmental activist who served as a People's Deputy of Ukraine from the Party of Greens of Ukraine from 1998 to 2002, heading the party's electoral list
• Vyacheslav Boguslayev, engineer, businessman, and politician, former member of the Party of Regions, People's Deputy of Ukraine from 2006 to 2019
• Pavlo Burlakov, Member of the Liberal Party of Ukraine (1995–2005)
• Ivan Gerasymov, former deputy in the Verkhovna Rada, was a member of the Communist Party of Ukraine
• Yurii Karmazin, politician and judge, served four terms as a People's Deputy of Ukraine
• Leonid Klimov, member of the Party of Regions in Verkhovna Rada (from November 2007) and a member of the Committee on National Security and Defense (from December 2007)
• Serhiy Larin, member of the Ukrainian parliament since 1998 for the People's Democratic Party, For United Ukraine! (2002), Party of Regions (2006, 2007), Opposition Bloc (2014), and Opposition Platform — For Life (2019)
• Mykhailo Pozhyvanov, politician who served as the Deputy Minister of Economy from 2008 to 2010
• Andriy Portnov, Member of Parliament (25 May 2006 – 16 April 2010)
• Ihor Mityukov - Minister of Finance of Ukraine (1997-2001)
• Oksana Markarova - former Ambassador of Ukraine to the United States serving February 2021 through August 2025
• Ihor Sorkin - Chairman of the National Bank of Ukraine between 2013 and 2014
• Viktor Topolov, 6th Minister of Coal Industry of Ukraine (18 August 2005 – 4 August 2006)
• Yuriy Chertkov, people's deputy of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine V (2006–2007), VI (2007–2012), and VII (2012–2014) convocations, Member of the Committee on Foreign Affairs (since 12.2007)
• Oleksandr Tretiakov, People's Deputy of Ukraine of the 4th, 5th, 6th, and 8th convocations
• Maksym Polyakov, politician, economist and public figure, served on Uman City Council as Deputy Mayor for Economic Activities from 2011 to 2012
• Borys Petrov - politician who served as the Governor of Zaporizhzhia Oblast from 2010 to 2011
• Artur Herasymov, the leader of the then-Petro Poroshenko Bloc parliamentary faction from 2017 to 2019
• Olga Bielkova, former Member of the Ukrainian Parliament (Verkhovna Rada) from 2012 until June 2020
• Olha Chervakova, People's Deputy of Ukraine in the eighth convocation
• Yehor Soboliev, elected to the Verkhovna Rada in the October 2014 Ukrainian parliamentary election, appearing 13th on the party list of Self Reliance
• Tetiana Ostrikova, member of parliament of Ukraine of the 8th convocation, Member of the parliamentary faction Samopomich Union
• Anna Romanova, former Member of the Ukrainian Parliament, member of the parliamentary faction Samopomich Union, former deputy mayor of Chernihiv
• Oleksiy Ryabchyn, People's Deputy of Ukraine (27 November 2014 – 24 July 2019), Deputy Minister for Energy and Environmental Protection of Ukraine (12 October 2019 – 27 May 2020)
• Ihor Zhdanov, politician who served as the Minister of Youth and Sports in both the Yatsenyuk Government and in the Groysman Government
• Tetiana Rychkova, People's Deputy of Ukraine from Ukraine's 27th electoral district from 2016 to 2019
• Oleh Kryshyn, People's Deputy of Ukraine of the 8th convocation
• Maxim Efimov, former People's Deputy of Ukraine from Ukraine's 48th electoral district from 2014 to December 2023
• Volodymyr Areshonkov, People's Deputy of Ukraine and Honored Worker of Education of Ukraine (2017)
• Anastasiya Radina, politician who is a who is currently a member of the Verkhovna Rada since 29 August 2019 from the Servant of the People party
• Yehor Cherniev, People's Deputy of Ukraine from the Servant of the People party in the Verkhovna Rada, number 26 on the party's list
• Maryna Bardina, People's Deputy of Ukraine of the 9th convocation
• Yulia Ovchynnykova, People's Deputy of Ukraine from the "Servant of the People" party
• Denys Maslov, judge, lawyer, politician and Chairman of the Verkhovna Rada Committee on Legal Policy (since July 2022)
• Oleh Voloshyn, political pundit on 112 Ukraine, politician, and former government official under Ukrainian prime ministers Mykola Azarov and Viktor Yanukovych
• Tetiana Plachkova, People's Deputy elected to the Verkhovna Rada in 2019
• Kostyantyn Bondaryev, People's Deputy of Verkhovna Rada
• Vladimir Konstantinov (politician)
• Oleksandra Ustinova, public activist serving as a People's Deputy of Ukraine from the proportional list of the Holos party since 2019
• Serhiy Rakhmanin, journalist and politician currently serving as a People's Deputy of Ukraine on the proportional list of the Holos party since 2019
• Andriy Sharaskin, People's Deputy of Ukraine from the proportional list of the Holos party since 2020
• Iryna Borzova, People's Deputy of Ukraine of the IX convocation
• Viacheslav Rublyov, People's Deputy of Ukraine from Ukraine's 20th electoral district since 29 August 2019 as a member of Servant of the People
• Andriy Aksyonov, member of the Verkhovna Rada, the national parliament of Ukraine
• Oleksandr Kovalov, People's Deputy of Ukraine from Ukraine's 51st electoral district since 29 August 2019
• Serhiy Kuzminykh, People's Deputy of Ukraine from Ukraine's 67th electoral district since 29 August 2019
• Maryna Nikitina, People's Deputy of Ukraine representing Ukraine's 82nd electoral district as a member of Servant of the People since 2019
• Oleksiy Kuznyetsov, politician and businessman, who is currently a member of the Verkhovna Rada of the 9th convocation
• Oleksandr Lukashev, People's Deputy of Ukraine from Ukraine's 113th electoral district since 29 August 2019
• Ihor Kopytin, People's Deputy of Ukraine representing Ukraine's 129th electoral district as a member of Servant of the People since 2019
• Artem Chornomorov, People's Deputy of Ukraine representing Ukraine's 131st electoral district as a member of Servant of the People since 2019
• Maksym Dyrdin, People's Deputy of Ukraine representing Ukraine's 132nd electoral district, as a member of Servant of the People since 2019
• Oleh Koliev, People's Deputy of Ukraine representing Ukraine's 134th electoral district from Servant of the People since 2019
• Oleksiy Leonov, People's Deputy of Ukraine representing Ukraine's 162nd electoral district from Servant of the People since 29 August 2019
• Serhiy Koleboshyn, People's Deputy of Ukraine, representing Ukraine's 140th electoral district as a member of Servant of the People since 29 August 2019
• Dmytro Nalotov, People's Deputy of Ukraine representing Ukraine's 144th electoral district from Servant of the People since 2019
• Maksym Berezin, People's Deputy of Ukraine from Ukraine's 151st electoral district in northern Poltava Oblast since 2019
• Roman Ivanisov, politician and convicted child rapist currently serving as a People's Deputy of Ukraine from Ukraine's 153rd electoral district since 29 August 2019, at first as a member of Servant of the People and currently as an independent since 2019
• Ihor Serhiyovych Vasylyev, politician, in 2019 elected for the Servant of the People in the 9th Ukrainian Verkhovna Rada
• Maria Mezentseva, politician, was elected to Verkhovna Rada, the Ukrainian parliament, in 2019
• Oleksandr Bakumov, Ukrainian soldier, professor, and politician currently serving as a People's Deputy of Ukraine from Ukraine's 173rd electoral district since 29 August 2019
• Yevhen Pyvovarov, professor and politician currently serving as a People's Deputy of Ukraine from Ukraine's 175th electoral district since 29 August 2019
• Oleksiy Krasov, People's Deputy of Ukraine from Ukraine's 180th electoral district since 29 August 2019
• Volodymyr Ivanov, People's Deputy of Ukraine from Ukraine's 185th electoral district since 29 August 2019
• Mykhailo Fedorov, politician and businessman, served as a Deputy Prime Minister and Minister Digital Transformation from 2019 to March 2023
• Ihor Kolykhaiev, former People's Deputy of Ukraine, elected in the 2019 Ukrainian parliamentary election
• Serhiy Nykyforov - press secretary in the administration of Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskyy
• Sergey Kozlov (politician), military officer and politician
• Gennadiy Tsypkalov, political and military figure
• Aleksandr Bednov, former Soviet and Ukrainian militsiya officer
• Alexander Khodakovsky - politician
• Aleksey Mozgovoy - military commander
• Andriy Kostin, People's Deputy of Ukraine elected in 2019
• Valeriy Yevdokimov, ambassador to Tajikistan since 24 June 2022
• Yulia Laputina , Minister of Veterans Affairs of Ukraine in the Shmyhal Government since December 2020

• Sergei Korolev - lead Soviet rocket engineer and spacecraft designer during the Space Race between the United States and the Soviet Union in the 1950s and 1960s
• Nikolai Vavilov - Soviet agronomist, botanist and geneticist who identified the centers of origin of cultivated plants
• Nikolai Amosov, heart surgeon and inventor.
• Nikolay Bogolyubov, mathematician and theoretical physicist known for his work in statistical field theory and dynamical systems
• Sergey Paramonov (entomologist)
• Nikolai Chebotaryov, mathematician
• Tanja Eisner (Tatiana Lobova), mathemacian
• Olena Vaneeva - mathemacian
• Alexander Goncharov - mathemacian
• Aleksandr Lyapunov - mathemacian
• Lyudmyla Nazarova - mathemacian
• Vadim Dmitrij Vladykov - ichthyologist
• Konstantin Efetov - biologist
• Sergei Navashin - biologist
• Volodymyr Nykyforov - botanist
• Mikhail Nikolaevich Smirnov - botanist
• Nikolai Turczaninow - botanist
• Aleksandr Palladin - biochemist
• Marina Zerova - entomologist
• Mariya Zerova - biologist
• Nicholas S. Obraztsov - entomologist
• Pyotr Shirshov - Soviet oceanographer, hydrobiologist, polar explorer, statesman, academician (1939), the first minister of Ministry of Maritime Fleet of the USSR and Hero of the Soviet Union (1938)
• Oleg Lavrentiev - physicist who worked on the Soviet atomic bomb project and whose research contributions were fundamental to the understanding of thermonuclear fusion
• Vladimir Filatov, ophthalmologist and surgeon best known for his development of tissue therapy. He introduced the tube flap grafting method, corneal transplantation and preservation of grafts from cadaver eyes. He founded The Filatov Institute of Eye Diseases & Tissue Therapy in Odessa.
• Svyatoslav Fyodorov, ophthalmologist, eye microsurgeon, creator of radial keratotomy, professor, full member of the Russian Academy of Sciences and Russian Academy of Medical Sciences and politician.
• George Gamow, physicist and cosmologist.
• Victor Glushkov, founding father of information technology in the Soviet Union, and one of the founders of Cybernetics.
• Alexander Davydov (physicist)
• Yuriy G. Shkuratov - astronomer
• Tamara Smirnova - astronomer
• Lyudmila Karachkina - astronomer
• Nikolai Barabashov - astronomer
• Gennadiy Borisov - astronomer
• Lyudmila Chernykh - astronomer
• Nikolay Sobolev - mineralogist, petrologist, and geochemist who studied processes in the lithospheric mantle and was a member of Russian (USSR), European, US National, and Italian Academies of Sciences
• Kyrylo Synelnykov - physicist who participated in the Soviet atomic bomb project
• Petr Shatilov - physician, professor of Kharkiv University
• Nikolay Dobrokhotov - Soviet scientist and metallurgist, Honored Worker of Science and Technology of the Ukrainian SSR, Academician of the Ukrainian SSR Academy of Sciences
• Dariya Nikitichna Dobroczajeva - botanist
• Sergei Mosyakin - botanist
• Georgy Kurdyumov - Soviet metallurgist and physicist
• Ivan Korshikov - plant physiologist and population geneticist, Doctor of Biological Sciences (1994) and Professor (2002)
• Serhiy Ryzhkov - ecologist
• Vyacheslav Voloshyn - scientist, Doktor nauk, Professor, head of the Department of Labor Protection and Environmental of the Priazovsky State Technical University, rector of the Pryazovskyi State Technical University since 2003
• Anatoly Shekhovtsov - scientist in the area of internal combustion engines
• Nikolay Mitrofanovich Krylov, mathematician
• Yuri I. Manin, mathematician
• Alexey Stakhov, mathemacian
• Volodymyr Rvachov, mathemacian
• Mikhail Lavrentyev, mathemacian
• Yuri Petunin, mathemacian
• Sergei Chernikov, mathemacian
• Klavdiya Latysheva, mathemacian
• Igor Chueshov, mathemacian
• Yurii Sokolov, mathemacian
• Boris Bukreev, mathemacian
• Dmitrii Sintsov, mathemacian
• Aleksandr Kotelnikov, mathemacian
• Vladimir Potapov, mathemacian
• Nataliya Kalashnykova, mathemacian
• Aleksandr Orlov (astronomer)
• Lev Streltsov - Dr. Jur. Science, Professor, Head of Department of State and Administrative Law of I.I. Mechnikov Odessa State (now -National) University
• Mykola Polyakov, scientist and rector of Dnipropetrovsk National University
• Vladimir Steklov (mathematician)
• Nikolay Krylov (mathematician, born 1879)
• Anatoly Morozov (scientist) - scientist in the field of cybernetics
• Klim Churyumov, astronomer
• Fedir Abramov - geologist
• Andrey Korsakov - linguist and language philosopher
• Nicolai Ivanovich Andrusov - geologist
• Iryna Melnykova - historian
• Vladimir Ikonnikov - historian
• Boris Grekov - historian
• Yuri Sklyarov, historian
• Konstantin Nevolin, historian
• Vladimir Moskovkin - geographer
• Vladimir Obruchev - geologist
• Pelaheia Lytvynova - ethnographer
• Boris Kotlyarov - Soviet ethnomusicologist, violinist and pedagogue
• Oleg Maltsev (psychologist)
• Vladimir Asnin - Soviet developmental psychologist, a representative of Kharkov School of Psychology, and the head of the Department of Psychology at the Kharkov State pedagogical institute in 1944–1950
• Oleksandr Tikhonov - pharmacist, Doctor of Pharmacy, Distinguished Professor at the National University of Pharmacy, and President of the Ukrainian Association of Apitherapists
• Volodymyr Karavayev - Imperial Russian surgeon and ophthalmologist
• Olga Avilova - surgeon, medical researcher in the area of cardiothoracic surgery and pulmonology, pedagogue, Doctor of Medical Sciences (1974), professor (1975), and the head of the department of cardiothoracic surgery and pulmonology at the Kiev Institute of Advanced Training for Physicians (1975–1988)
• Viktor Protopopov - psychiatrist and academician of the Academy of Sciences of the Ukrainian SSR
• Alexander Voevodin - biomedical scientist and educator
• Igor P. Kaidashev - immunologist and allergist, MD, and Professor. Igor Kaidashev is President of the Ukrainian Society of Immunology, Allergy and Immunorehabilitation, Professor of the Department of Internal Medicine No. 3 with Phthisiology, and Vice-Rector for Research & Development at Poltava State Medical University (PSMU) since 2010
• Ivan Ivanovich Mavrov - physician
• Anastasia Afanasieva - physician
• Alexander M. Feskov - physician, reproductive scientist, and ultrasonographer who specialises in reproductive technology and fertility treatment
• Tetyana Pertseva - pulmonologist, physician-scientist, and academic administrator
• Borys Todurov - cardiac surgeon, professor, honoured doctor of Ukraine, director of The Heart Institute, public figure, and blogger
• Tatyana Bakhteeva, Doctor of Medical Sciences (since 2008), CEO of Donetsk Oblast Clinical Territorial Medical Association, former People's Deputy of Ukraine from 2019 to 2022
• Svetlana Uvarova, psychoanalyst who is founder and rector of the International Institute of Depth Psychology (Kyiv, Ukraine)
• Ilya Ilyich Mechnikov, microbiologist of Jewish, Moldovan, and Russian descent.
• Nikolay Ivanovich Pirogov, scientist, doctor, pedagogue, public figure, and corresponding member of the Russian Academy of Sciences (1847). He is considered to be the founder of field surgery, and was one of the first surgeons in Europe to use ether as an anaesthetic. He was the first surgeon to use anaesthesia in a field operation (1847), invented various kinds of surgical operations, and developed his own technique of using plaster casts to treat fractured bones.
• Aleksei Pogorelov, mathematician
• Serhii Yermakov, Doctor of Pedagogy, full professor, academician of the Academy of Sciences of Ukraine
• Vladimir Porfiriev, geologist
• Nikolai Pylchykov, physicist, inventor, and geologist
• Sergey Reformatsky, chemist
• Lev Shubnikov, experimental physicist
• Volodymyr Kozyavkin, physician and scientist, Hero of Ukraine (2001)
• Cyril Sinelnikov, nuclear physicist
• Igor Yegorov - economist
• Yuri Poluneev - economist
• Alla O. Starostina - economist
• Olexander Chyrkov - head of the department of Germanic Philology and Foreign Literature, the head of Scientific and Artistic Complex "Dramaturgy" of the Institute of Foreign Languages Zhytomyr Ivan Franko State University, member of the Academy of Sciences of Higher Education of Ukraine, Doctor of Philology, Professor
• Yurii Dmitrievich Sokolov, mathematician
• Pyotr Valentinovich Trusov, physicist
• Oleksiy Kartunov - Doctor of Political Science
• Valentyna Astakhova, historian, doctor of historical sciences (1981), professor (1983), academician of the Academy of Sciences of the Higher School of Ukraine (2004), advisor to the rector, former rector of Kharkiv Humanitarian University People's Ukrainian Academy
• Vladimir Varyukhin, Professor, Doctor of Technical Sciences, Honored Scientist of the Ukrainian SSR, Major-General, founder of the theory of multichannel analysis, and creator of the scientific school on digital antenna arrays (DAAs)

• Oleg Blokhin, Ukrainian football coach of mixed Ukrainian (by mother) and Russian (by father) ethnicity^[137] who was formerly a striker for the USSR national football team. He was named European Footballer of the Year in 1975.
• Vitaliy Starukhin, professional footballer who played as a forward
• Yelizaveta Bryzghina, Ukrainian sprint athlete.
• Yana Klochkova, swimmer, who has won five Olympic medals in her career, with four of them being gold.
• Viktor Kolotov, FC Dynamo Kyiv and USSR national football team goalkeeper. UEFA Euro 1972 runner-up.
• Oleksandr Zavarov, former footballer and the former head coach of FC Arsenal Kyiv
• Volodymyr Bezsonov, footballer
• Serhiy Davydov, amateur football striker who plays for Skif Shulhynka
• Yuriy Kalitvintsev, footballer
• Nikita Krylov, UFC fighter.
• Yevhen Rudakov, FC Dynamo Kyiv and USSR national football team goalkeeper. UEFA Euro 1972 runner-up.
• Serhiy Kuznetsov, football coach
• Serhiy Kuznetsov, former professional footballer who played as a defender
• Oleg Oshenkov, head coach of the Ukraine national team at the Summer Spartakiad of the Peoples of the USSR
• Denys Filimonov, former football forward
• Vladimir Dobrikov, Master Sports of the USSR, Honored coach of the RSFSR.
• Artem Favorov, football striker
• Denys Favorov, football defender
• Serhiy Makarov - sports functionary and was a president of the Professional Football League of Ukraine (PFL)
• Serhiy Shevtsov - professional football manager and former player
• Vladyslav Korobkin - football striker who plays for FC Lyubotyn in the Kharkiv Oblast Football Championship
• Vadym Shavrin - professional footballer who plays as a forward for Podillya Khmelnytskyi
• Mykhaylo Shestakov - professional footballer who plays as a striker
• Maksym Ahapov - fooballer
• Mykola Ahapov - fooballer
• Oleksandr Aharin - fooballer
• Vyacheslav Akimov - fooballer
• Leonid Akulinin - fooballer
• Oleksandr Aksyonov - fooballer
• Denys Aleksandrov - fooballer
• Serhiy Aleksanov - fooballer
• Vladyslav Alyeksyeyev - fooballer
• Sergey Andreyev - fooballer
• Serhiy Andryeyev - fooballer
• Denys Anelikov - fooballer
• Andriy Annenkov - fooballer
• Vadym Antipov - fooballer
• Dmytro Antonov - fooballer
• Oleksiy Antonov - fooballer
• Yevhen Arbuzov - fooballer
• Viktor Arefyev - fooballer
• Andriy Bohdanov - footballer
• Sergei Argudyayev - fooballer
• Ernest Astakhov - fooballer
• Maksym Averyanov - fooballer
• Aleksei Bakharev - fooballer
• Kostyantyn Balabanov - fooballer
• Vitaliy Balashov - fooballer
• Viktor Bannikov - fooballer
• Ivan Baranov - fooballer
• Oleksandr Baranov - fooballer
• Vasyl Baranov - fooballer
• Yevhen Baryshnikov - fooballer
• Oleksii Bashakov - fooballer
• Serhiy Bashkyrov - fooballer
• Serhiy Basov - fooballer
• Arseniy Batahov - fooballer
• Dmytro Brovkin - fooballer
• Illya Bryukhov - fooballer
• Andriy Bubentsov - fooballer
• Volodymyr Bulhakov - fooballer
• Mykhailo Bulkin - fooballer
• Denys Bunchukov - fooballer
• Anatoliy Burlin - fooballer
• Bohdan Bychkov - fooballer
• Denys Byelousov - fooballer
• Oleksandr Byelyayev - fooballer
• Mykhailo Byelykh - fooballer
• Oleksiy Bykov - fooballer
• Vyacheslav Chanov - fooballer
• Serhii Chebotaiev - fooballer
• Serhiy Chebotaryov - fooballer
• Vitaliy Chebotaryov - fooballer
• Artem Chelyadin - fooballer
• Oleksiy Cheremysin - fooballer
• Oleksandr Chernov - fooballer
• Veniamin Chernyshev - fooballer
• Aleksandr Chertoganov - fooballer
• Ruslan Chervyakov - fooballer
• Volodymyr Chesnakov - fooballer
• Volodymyr Chulanov - fooballer
• Oleksandr Churilov - fooballer
• Oleh Chuvayev - fooballer
• Bohdan Chuyev - fooballer
• Oleksiy Chychykov - fooballer
• Yuriy Chyrkov - fooballer
• Anatoliy Chystov - fooballer
• Oleksiy Chystyakov - fooballer
• Oleksandr Chyzhov - fooballer
• Andriy Danayev - fooballer
• Dmitry Davydov (footballer, born 1978) - fooballer
• Kyrylo Davydov - fooballer
• Oleh Davydov - fooballer
• Maksym Dehtyaryov - fooballer
• Mykhaylo Denysov - fooballer
• Danylo Dmytriyev - fooballer
• Serhiy Dmytriyev - fooballer
• Yuriy Dmytrulin - fooballer
• Yaroslav Dobrokhotov - fooballer
• Dumitru Dolgov - fooballer
• Petro Dolhov - fooballer
• Yevhen Drahunov - fooballer
• Volodymyr Doronin - fooballer
• Kostyantyn Derevlyov - fooballer
• Oleksiy Dytyatyev - fooballer
• Dmytro Fastov - fooballer
• Dmytro Fatyeyev - fooballer
• Artem Fedorov - fooballer
• Yevhen Shyryayev - footballer
• Serhiy Fedorov - footballer
• Pavlo Fedosov, footballer
• Vitaliy Fedotov, footballer
• Yuriy Fenin, footballer
• Oleksandr Filiayev, footballer
• Artem Filimonov, footballer
• Aleksandr Filin, footballer
• Oleksandr Filippov, footballer
• Oleh Filonov, footballer
• Kostyantyn Fomin, footballer
• Mykola Fomin - fooballer
• Ruslan Fomin - fooballer
• Viktor Fomin - fooballer
• Volodymyr Fomin - footballer
• Kostyantyn Frolov, footballer
• Dmytro Bohachov, footballer
• Dmitry Gorbushin, footballer
• Matvey Guyganov, footballer
• Denys Halenkov, footballer
• Hennadiy Hanyev, footballer
• Volodymyr Havrylov, footballer
• Andriy Havryushov, footballer
• Vladyslav Helzin, footballer
• Anton Holenkov, footballer
• Oleksandr Holikov, footballer
• Oleksandr Holokolosov (football manager), footballer
• Oleksandr Holokolosov (footballer, born 1976), footballer
• Dmytro Hololobov, footballer
• Vladyslav Holopyorov, footballer
• Ivan Holovkin, footballer
• Vitaliy Holubyev, footballer
• Serhiy Horbunov, footballer
• Valeriy Horbunov, footballer
• Oleh Horin, footballer
• Oleksiy Horodov, footballer
• Valeriy Horodov, footballer
• Oleksandr Horshkov, footballer
• Oleksandr Horyainov, footballer
• Vadym Hostyev, footballer
• Hlib Hrachov, footballer
• Viktor Hrachov, footballer
• Volodymyr Hrachov, footballer
• Artem Hromov, footballer
• Viktor Hromov, footballer
• Yuriy Hroshev, footballer
• Serhiy Hrybanov, footballer
• Artem Hryshyn, footballer
• Valeriy Hryshyn, footballer
• Yuriy Hritsyna, footballer
• Yehor Hunichev, footballer
• Oleksandr Hushchyn, footballer
• Andriy Husin, footballer
• Oleksandr Huskov, footballer
• Serhiy Husyev, footballer
• Oleksandr Ihnatyev, footballer
• Vladyslav Ihnatyev, footballer
• Andriy Ilyashov, footballer
• Oleh Ilyin, footballer
• Dmytro Ivanov, footballer
• Oleksandr Ivanov, footballer
• Oleksiy Ivanov, footballer
• Pavlo Ivanov, footballer
• Vyacheslav Ivanov (footballer), footballer
• Yehor Ivanov, footballer
• Taras Kabanov, footballer
• Vladyslav Kabayev, footballer
• Igor Kalinin, footballer
• Oleksandr Kalitov, footballer
• Vladyslav Kalitvintsev, footballer
• Mykhaylo Kaluhin, footballer
• Danylo Kanevtsev, footballer
• Yaroslav Karabin, footballer
• Vadym Karatayev, footballer
• Oleksandr Karavayev, footballer
• Serhii Karpov, footballer
• Yehor Kartushov, footballer
• Artur Kaskov, footballer
• Artem Kasyanov, footballer
• Vitaliy Kaverin, footballer
• Danylo Kaydalov, footballer
• Maksym Kazakov, footballer
• Oleksiy Kazakov, footballer
• Oleksandr Kemkin, footballer
• Oleksiy Khakhlyov, footballer
• Eduard Khavrov, footballer
• Denys Khomutov - football manager and former footballer
• Vladyslav Khomutov, retired footballer and current manager
• Andriy Khomyn (footballer, born 1968), footballer
• Andriy Khomyn (footballer, born 1982), footballer
• Oleksiy Khramtsov, footballer
• Artur Kaskov, footballer
• Anton Khromykh, footballer
• Vyacheslav Khruslov, footballer
• Taras Kiktyov, footballer
• Andrii Kireiev, footballer
• Igor Kislov, footballer
• Roman Kislyakov, footballer
• Heorhiy Klimov, footballer
• Vasyl Kobin, footballer
• Vladyslav Kocherhin - football manager and former footballer
• Denys Kolchin, retired footballer and current manager
• Vitaliy Kolyesnikov, footballer
• Oleh Kolesov, footballer
• Dmytro Kolodin, footballer
• Ruslan Kolokolov, footballer
• Mykola Koltsov, footballer
• Vitaliy Koltsov, footballer
• Yuriy Komyahin, footballer
• Danylo Kondrakov, footballer
• Anatoliy Konkov, footballer
• Mykyta Kononov, footballer
• Serhiy Konovalov, footballer
• Volodymyr Konovalov, footballer
• Dmytro Kopytov, footballer
• Maksym Kovalyov (footballer, born 2000)
• Serhiy Kovalyov, footballer
• Artem Kovernikov - footballer
• Oleksandr Kozhevnikov, footballer
• Artem Kozlov (footballer, born 1992), footballer
• Artem Kozlov (footballer, born 1997), footballer
• Serhiy Kozlov, footballer
• Vladyslav Krapyvtsov, footballer
• Oleh Krasnopyorov, footballer
• Pavlo Kravtsov, footballer
• Vladyslav Krayev
• Anatoliy Kretov, footballer
• Mykola Krotov - footballer
• Stanislav Krystin, footballer
• Vladyslav Krystin, footballer
• Mykyta Kryukov, footballer
• Valeriy Kryventsov, footballer
• Serhiy Kryvtsov, footballer
• Anatoliy Kuksov, footballer
• Andriy Kulakov - footballer
• Denys Kulakov, footballer
• Volodymyr Kulayev, footballer
• Artem Kultyshev, footballer
• Roman Kunyev, footballer
• Andriy Kuptsov, footballer
• Andriy Kurayev, footballer
• Oleksiy Kurilov, footballer
• Artur Kuznetsov (Ukrainian footballer)
• Oleh Kuznetsov, footballer
• Serhiy Kuznetsov (footballer, born 1950) - footballer
• Serhiy Kuznetsov (footballer, born 1963), footballer
• Serhiy Kuznetsov (footballer, born 1982), footballer
• Viktor Kuznetsov (footballer), footballer
• Oleksandr Kvachov, footballer
• Yaroslav Kvasov, footballer
• Ihor Kyryukhantsev, footballer
• Oleksandr Kyryukhin, footballer
• Serhiy Laktionov, footballer
• Oleksiy Larin, footballer
• Mike Laschev, footballer
• Oleksandr Lavrentsov, footballer
• Oleh Leonidov, footballer
• Vladyslav Leonidov, footballer
• Dmytro Leonov, footballer
• Ihor Leonov - footballer
• Vladyslav Levanidov, footballer
• Volodimir Levin, footballer
• Serhiy Lezhentsev, footballer
• Oleksandr Litvinov, footballer
• Oleksiy Lobov, footballer
• Pavlo Lobtsov, footballer
• Oleksandr Lohinov, footballer
• Serhiy Lohinov, footballer
• Roman Loktionov (footballer, born 1986), footballer
• Yehor Luhachov, footballer
• Dmytro Lukanov, footballer
• Dmytro Lukanov, footballer
• Andriy Lunin, footballer
• Maksym Lunyov, footballer
• Oleh Lutkov - footballer
• Ivan Lvov, footballer
• Bohdan Lyednyev, footballer
• Mykola Lykhovydov, footballer
• Dmytro Makhnyev, footballer
• Oleksandr Maksymov, footballer
• Yuriy Maksymov, footballer
• Aleksandr Malygin, footballer
• Volodymyr Malyhin, footballer
• Yuriy Malyhin, footballer
• Maksym Malyshev, footballer
• Vladimir Martynov (footballer), footballer
• Yuriy Martynov, footballer
• Anatoliy Masalov, footballer
• Oleksandr Masalov, footballer
• Viktor Maslov (footballer, born 1949) - footballer
• Kyrylo Matvyeyev, footballer
• Oleh Matvyeyev, footballer
• Oleksandr Matvyeyev, footballer
• Dmytro Makhnyev, footballer
• Mykola Medin, footballer
• Hennadiy Medvedyev, footballer
• Oleksandr Medvedyev, footballer
• Vadym Merdyeyev, footballer
• Artem Merkushov, footballer
• Maksym Malyshev, footballer
• Ilya Mikhalyov, footballer
• Bohdan Milovanov, footballer
• Oleksiy Milyutin, footballer
• Oleksandr Mitrofanov, footballer
• Serhiy Mizin - footballer
• Ihor Moiseyev, footballer
• Anton Monakhov, footballer
• Roman Monaryov, footballer
• Serhiy Morozov (footballer, born 1950), footballer
• Serhiy Morozov (footballer, born 1961), footballer
• Valentyn Moskvin, footballer
• Anton Mukhovykov, footballer
• Yevhen Murashov, footballer
• Leonid Musin, footballer
• Mykola Musolitin, footballer
• Volodymyr Musolitin, footballer
• Pavlo Myahkov, footballer
• Mykhaylo Mykhaylov, footballer
• Volodymyr Mykytin, footballer
• Dmytro Myshnyov - footballer
• Oleksandr Nasonov, footballer
• Dmytro Nazarov, footballer
• Volodymyr Nechayev, footballer
• Oleksandr Nefedov, footballer
• Yevhen Nemtinov, footballer
• Ruslan Nepeypiyev, footballer
• Dmytro Nepohodov, footballer
• Andriy Nesterov, footballer
• Oleksandr Nikiforov, footballer
• Yuriy Nikiforov, footballer
• Andriy Nikitin, footballer
• Yevheniy Nikolashyn, footballer
• Andriy Novikov, footballer
• Artur Novotryasov, footballer
• Dmytro Nyemchaninov - footballer
• Vladyslav Obraztsov, footballer
• Artem Odyntsov, footballer
• Yevhen Odyntsov, footballer
• Petro Oparin, footballer
• Oleh Orekhov (footballer, born 1990), footballer
• Oleksiy Osipov, footballer
• Vyacheslav Panfilov, footballer
• Kostyantyn Panin, footballer
• Vadym Paramonov, footballer
• Dmytro Parfyonov, footballer
• Maksym Pashayev, footballer
• Pavel Pashayev, footballer
• Mykola Pavlov, footballer
• Vitaliy Pavlov (footballer, born 1965), footballer
• Vitaliy Pavlov (footballer, born 1988) - footballer
• Yevhen Pavlov, footballer
• Herman Penkov, footballer
• Artem Perevozchikov, footballer
• Oleh Pestryakov, footballer
• Ihor Petrov, footballer
• Kyrylo Petrov, footballer
• Serhiy Petrov, footballer
• Vadym Petrov, footballer
• Valeriy Petrov, footballer
• Oleksandr Pindyeyev, footballer
• Valentyn Platonov, footballer
• Yuriy Pleshakov, footballer
• Volodymyr Ploskina, footballer
• Vadym Plotnykov, footballer
• Valeriu Pogorelov - footballer
• Serhiy Pohodin, footballer
• Rollan Pohoreltsev, footballer
• Oleksandr Pohoryelov, footballer
• Ihor Pokarynin, footballer
• Yevhen Pokhlebayev, footballer
• Oleksandr Polovkov, footballer
• Andriy Poltavtsev, footballer
• Bohdan Polyakhov, footballer
• Aleksandr Ponomarev (footballer, born 1918), footballer
• Vitaliy Ponomaryov, footballer
• Bohdan Popov, footballer
• Denys Popov, footballer
• Kiril Popov (footballer), footballer
• Oleksiy Popov, footballer
• Roman Popov (footballer) - footballer
• Ruslan Popov, footballer
• Serhiy Popov, footballer
• Andriy Poroshyn, footballer
• Artem Pospyelov, footballer
• Dmytro Pospyelov, footballer
• Oleksiy Pospyelov, footballer
• Volodymyr Postolatyev, footballer
• Radion Posyevkin, footballer
• Bohdan Potalov, footballer
• Yuriy Potimkov, footballer
• Oleksandr Pozdeyev, footballer
• Ivan Privalov (footballer), footballer
• Oleh Protasov, footballer
• Yevhen Protasov, footballer
• Volodymyr Pryyomov, footballer
• Serhiy Pshenychnyk, footballer
• Sergei Puchkov - footballer
• Serhiy Puchkov, footballer
• Artem Putivtsev, footballer
• Oleksandr Pyatov, footballer
• Artem Radionov, footballer
• Viktor Raskov, footballer
• Andriy Raspopov, footballer
• Borys Rassykhin, footballer
• Denys Rezepov, footballer
• Serhiy Romanov, footballer
• Valeriy Rudakov, footballer
• Vyacheslav Ruzhentsev, footballer
• Artur Ryabov, footballer
• Vyacheslav Ryabov, footballer
• Yevheniy Ryazantsev, footballer
• Oleksandr Safonov, footballer
• Oleksandr Safronov, footballer
• Danylo Sahutkin - footballer
• Vitaliy Samoylov, footballer
• Serhiy Sapronov, footballer
• Oleksandr Saputin, footballer
• Anton Savin, footballer
• Artem Savin, footballer
• Daniil Savin, footballer
• Vadym Shchastlyvtsev, footballer
• Vadym Shchastlyvtsev, footballer
• Pavlo Shchedrakov, footballer
• Serhiy Shcherbakov, footballer
• Serhiy Seleznyov, footballer
• Yevhen Seleznyov, footballer
• Yuriy Seleznyov, footballer
• Yevhen Selin, footballer
• Oleksandr Selivanov, footballer
• Dmytro Semenov - footballer
• Sergey Semenov (footballer), footballer
• Viacheslav Semenov, footballer
• Serhiy Serebrennikov, footballer
• Viktor Serebryanikov, footballer
• Serhiy Serheyev, footballer
• Anatoliy Seryohin, footballer
• Oleksandr Sevidov, footballer
• Artem Shabanov, footballer
• Albert Shakhov, footballer
• Yevhen Shakhov (footballer, born 1990)
• Yevhen Shakhov (footballer, born 1962)
• Yehor Shalfyeyev, footballer
• Ivan Shanhin, footballer
• Valeriy Shapovalov, footballer
• Yuriy Shatalov, footballer
• Oleksandr Shchanov, footballer
• Sergei Shcheglov, footballer
• Hennadiy Shchekotylin, footballer
• Oleksandr Shcherbakov, footballer
• Vladyslav Shchetinin, footballer
• Volodymyr Shekhovtsov, footballer
• Denys Shelikhov, footballer
• Volodymyr Shepelyev, footballer
• Serhiy Shestakov, footballer
• Oleksandr Shevelyukhin, footballer
• Illya Shevtsov, footballer
• Yukhym Shkolnykov, footballer
• Oleksii Shliakotin, footballer
• Yevhen Shmakov, footballer
• Ihor Sholin, footballer
• Ihor Shopin, footballer
• Volodymyr Shopin, footballer
• Andriy Shtohrin, footballer
• Oleksiy Shubin, footballer
• Serhiy Shubin, footballer
• Ihor Shukhovtsev, footballer
• Dmytro Shutkov, footballer
• Oleg Shutov, footballer
• Oleksandr Shutov, footballer
• Ivan Shyshkin, footballer
• Serhiy Sibiryakov, footballer
• Andriy Sidelnikov, footballer
• Kyrylo Siheyev, footballer
• Serhiy Siminin, footballer
• Pavel Sirotin, footballer
• Dmytro Skoblov, footballer
• Anatoli Skvortsov, footballer
• Yuriy Slabyshev, footballer
• Aleh Slautin, footballer
• Miro Slavov, footballer
• Andriy Slinkin, footballer
• Denys Smirnov, footballer
• Yevhen Smirnov, footballer
• Artem Smolyakov, footballer
• Oleh Smolyaninov, footballer
• Ihor Snurnitsyn, footballer
• Sergei Soldatov (footballer, born 1970), footballer
• Andriy Solovyov, footballer
• Maksym Solovyov, footballer
• Oleg Solovyov, footballer
• Serhiy Solovyov, footballer
• Yevhen Sonin, footballer
• Andriy Sorokin, footballer
• Stanislav Sorokin (footballer), footballer
• Vadym Sosnykhin, footballer
• Andriy Spivakov, footballer
• Maksym Startsev, footballer
• Roman Stepankov, footballer
• Artem Stepanov, footballer
• Oleksandr Stepanov, footballer
• Oleksandr Stepanov (football manager), footballer
• Roman Stepanov, footballer
• Heorhiy Sudakov, footballer
• Serhiy Sukhanov, footballer
• Yuri Susloparov, footballer
• Oleh Suslov, footballer
• Platon Svyrydov, footballer
• Oleksandr Svystunov, footballer
• Oleksiy Sydorov, footballer
• Ihor Sylantyev, footballer
• Valeriy Syrov, footballer
• Anton Sytnykov, footballer
• Mykyta Sytnykov, footballer
• Serhiy Syzykhin, footballer
• Vadym Taloverov, footballer
• Maksym Talovierov, footballer
• Yuri Tarasov, footballer
• Mykyta Tatarkov, footballer
• Mykyta Teplyakov, footballer
• Mykyta Tkachov, footballer
• Vitaliy Tolmachov, footballer
• Dmytro Topalov, footballer
• Dmytro Topchiyev, footballer
• Maksym Tretyakov, footballer
• Volodymyr Troshkin, footballer
• Anatoliy Trubin, footballer
• Ivan Trubochkin, footballer
• Kostiantyn Trukhanov, footballer
• Dmytro Trukhin, footballer
• Yuriy Tselykh, footballer
• Viktor Tsukanov, footballer
• Andriy Tsurikov, footballer
• Artem Tsurupin, footballer
• Volodymyr Tsytkin, footballer
• Vyacheslav Turchanov, footballer
• Maksym Tyapkin, footballer
• Dmytro Tyapushkin, footballer
• Artem Tyeryekhov, footballer
• Anatoliy Tymofeyev, footballer
• Anatoliy Ulyanov, footballer
• Dmytro Ulyanov, footballer
• Serhiy Valyayev, footballer
• Volodymyr Vanin, footballer
• Ivan Varfolomeyev, footballer
• Oleksandr Varvanin, footballer
• Denys Vasilyev, footballer
• Denys Vasin, footballer
• Oleksandr Vasylyev, footballer
• Oleksandr Vechtomov, footballer
• Volodymyr Veremeyev, footballer
• Dmytro Vladov, footballer
• Mykola Vlaev, footballer
• Oleksandr Volchkov, footballer
• Ihor Volkov, footballer
• Oleksandr Volkov (footballer, born 1961)
• Oleksandr Volkov (footballer, born 1989)
• Valeriy Vorobyov, footballer
• Serhiy Voronin, footballer
• Ihor Voronkov, footballer
• Maksym Voronov, footballer
• Andriy Vychizhanin, footballer
• Andriy Vyskrebentsev, footballer
• Andriy Yakovlyev, footballer
• Denis Yanakov, footballer
• Ivan Yanakov (footballer), footballer
• Artem Yashkin, footballer
• Anton Yashkov, footballer
• Yuriy Yaskov, footballer
• Ruslan Yefanov, footballer
• Andriy Yefremov, footballer
• Dmitry Yefremov (footballer, born 1974), footballer
• Yevhen Yefremov, footballer
• Yevhen Yeliseyev, footballer
• Yuriy Yeliseyev, footballer
• Yevhen Yemayev, footballer
• Dmytro Yesin (footballer, born 1980), footballer
• Serhiy Yesin, footballer
• Artem Yevlyanov, footballer
• Vasyl Yevseyev, footballer
• Yevhen Yevseyev, footballer
• Yevhen Yevseyev (footballer, born May 1987), footballer
• Dmytro Yevstafiyev, footballer
• Andriy Yudin, footballer
• Dmytro Yusov, footballer
• Andriy Zakharov (footballer), footballer
• Artem Zakharov (footballer), footballer
• Oleksandr Zakharov, footballer
• Ruslan Zarubin, footballer
• Ihor Zaytsev (footballer), footballer
• Konstantin Zaytsev, footballer
• Serhiy Zaytsev, footballer
• Serhiy Zharkov, footballer
• Dmytro Zhdankov, footballer
• Dmytro Zhdanov, footballer
• Oleksandr Zhdanov, footballer
• Maksym Zhychykov, footballer
• Valeria Aleshicheva, footballer
• Nadiya Baranova, footballer
• Yulia Emelyanova, footballer
• Marina Fedorova (footballer)
• Olena Khodyreva, footballer
• Tetyana Kitayeva, footballer
• Anastasia Klimova, footballer
• Nicole Kozlova, footballer
• Nadiia Kunina, footballer
• Valentyna Tarakanova, footballer
• Ludmila Tsukanova, footballer
• Inessa Tytova, footballer
• Tetyana Verezubova, footballer
• Yuri Lishaev, mountain climber
• Valentyn Sypavin, mountain climber
• Danyil Boldyrev, rock climber
• Yuri Lishaev, rock climber
• Fedir Samoilov, rock climber
• Pavlo Chabanov, motorsport athlete, IT entrepreneur, developer, startupper, investor, and philanthropist
• Pavlo Cherepin, rally co-driver
• Oleksandr Bondarev, racing driver
• Sergey Chukanov, racing driver
• Aleksey Chuklin, racing driver
• Aleksandr Loktaev, racing driver
• Ivan Peklin, racing driver
• Yuriy Protasov, racing driver
• Andriy Karpov, speedway rider
• Aleksandr Loktaev, speedway rider
• Vladimir Sokolov (speedway rider)
• Viktor Trofimov Jr., speedway rider
• Vladimir Trofimov, speedway rider
• Vladimir Ivanov (motorcyclist)
• Volodymyr Ivanov (skier)
• Mykola Skriabin, skier
• Anastasiia Gorbunova, skier
• Tetiana Lebedeva, skier
• Olha Lohinova, skier
• Anastasiya Skryabina, skier
• Mykhailo Artiukhov, skier
• Iurii Utkin, skier
• Maryna Pestryakova, skier
• Olena Rodina, skier
• Darya Rublova, skier
• Yuliya Kliukova, skier
• Tetiana Petrova, skier
• Nataliya Sherstneva, skier
• Olha Volkova, skier
• Ivan Kozlov (ski jumper)
• Oleksiy Khomin, skier
• Dmytro Prosvirnin, skier
• Anton Kazakov, snooker player
• Mykhailo Larkov, snooker player
• Ruslan Glebov, orienteer
• Oleksandr Kratov, orienteer
• Denys Shcherbakov, orienteer
• Aliona Afanasieva, pool player
• Anton Kriukov, powerlifter
• Anna Kurkurina, powerlifter
• Lidiia Soloviova, powerlifter
• Vadym Ivanov, futsal player
• Vitaliy Kiselyov, futsal player
• Valeriy Legchanov, futsal player
• Denys Ovsyannikov, futsal player
• Oleksiy Popov, futsal player
• Artem Radionov, futsal player
• Yevgen Rogachov, futsal player
• Aleh Slautin, futsal player
• Dmytro Sorokin, futsal player
• Sergey Sytin, futsal player
• Valeriy Zamyatin, futsal player
• Aleh Slautin, futsal player
• Dmytro Sorokin, futsal player
• Daria Subotina, gymnast
• Albina Deriugina, gymnast
• Zlata Zaitseva, gymnast
• Diana Baieva, gymnast
• Anna Bessonova, gymnast
• Krystyna Cherepenina, gymnast
• Yulia Chernova, gymnast
• Irina Deriugina, gymnast
• Valeriya Khanina, gymnast
• Polina Kondaurova, gymnast
• Inga Kozhokhina, gymnast
• Daria Kushnerova, gymnast
• Anastasiia Mulmina, gymnast
• Vladyslav Bobryshev, gymnast
• Eleonora Romanova, gymnast
• Oleksandra Nikol Samoukina, gymnast
• Ludmila Savinkova, gymnast
• Kira Shyrykina, gymnast
• Oksana Skaldina, gymnast
• Nadya Vasina, gymnast
• Tamara Yerofeeva, gymnast
• Nadiia Yurina, gymnast
• Natalia Zhadanova, gymnast
• Ella Bohdanova, gymnast
• Irina Nazimova, gymnast
• Kateryna Sytnikova, gymnast
• Nina Bocharova, gymnast
• Irina Bulakhova, gymnast
• Yelyzaveta Hubareva, gymnast
• Natalia Kalinina, gymnast
• Mariya Livchikova, gymnast
• Olha Rozshchupkina, gymnast
• Lilia Podkopayeva, gymnast
• Maryna Proskurina, gymnast
• Angelina Radivilova, gymnast
• Krystyna Sankova, gymnast
• Olga Strazheva, gymnast
• Stella Zakharova, gymnast
• Svitlana Zelepukina, gymnast
• Viktor Chukarin, gymnast
• Valeriy Honcharov, gymnast
• Vadym Kuvakin, gymnast
• Ruslan Mezentsev, gymnast
• Hrihoriy Misyutin, gymnast
• Volodymyr Okachev, gymnast
• Ruslan Panteleymonov, gymnast
• Igor Radivilov, gymnast
• Boris Shakhlin, gymnast
• Andriy Sienichkin, gymnast
• Oleg Verniaiev, gymnast
• Oleksandr Vorobiov, gymnast
• Yuriy Yermakov, gymnast
• Svitlana Malkova, trampolinist
• Nataliia Moskvina, trampolinist
• Oxana Tsyhuleva, trampolinist
• Yuri Nikitin (gymnast)
• Mykola Prostorov, trampolinist
• Yuri Gavrilov (handballer)
• Anton Terekhov (handballer)
• Zakhar Denysov, handball player
• Oleksandr Rezanov, handball player
• Olexandr Shevelev, handball player
• Mykola Tomyn, handball player
• Andrei Xepkin, handball player
• Stanislav Zhukov, handball player
• Hanna Burmystrova, handball player
• Larysa Karlova, handball player
• Tatiana Kyriushyna, handball player
• Nina Lobova, handball player
• Yulia Managarova, handball player
• Anastasiia Pidpalova (born Anastasiia Borodina, 5 January 1982), handball player
• Vladimir Tkachyov (ice hockey, born 1993)
• Igor Chibirev, ice hockey player
• Denis Bayev, ice hockey player
• Serhiy Klymentiev, ice hockey player
• Alex Mukhanov, ice hockey player
• Gennady Razin, ice hockey player
• Andrei Sergeyev, ice hockey player
• Valery Shiryaev, ice hockey player
• Dmytro Tolkunov, ice hockey player
• Dmytro Yakushyn, ice hockey player
• Evgeny Belukhin, ice hockey player
• Roman Salnikov, ice hockey player
• Egor Shastin, ice hockey player
• Vasyl Bobrovnikov, ice hockey player
• Alexei Mikhnov, ice hockey player
• Andriy Mikhnov, ice hockey player
• Dmytro Timashov, ice hockey player
• Serhiy Varlamov, ice hockey player
• Oleksandr Materukhin, ice hockey player
• Pavel Padakin, ice hockey player
• Vladislav Sierov, ice hockey player
• Anatoli Stepanishev, ice hockey player
• Alexei Strakhov, ice hockey player
• Artyom Vaszjunyin, ice hockey player
• Nikolai Zherdev, ice hockey player
• Oleksandr Fedorov, ice hockey player
• Yuri Shundrov, ice hockey player
• Alexander Vyukhin, ice hockey player
• Vladislav Sierov, ice hockey player
• Anatoli Stepanishev, ice hockey player
• Alexei Strakhov, ice hockey player
• Artyom Vaszjunyin, ice hockey player
• Nikolai Zherdev, ice hockey player
• Oleksandr Fedorov, ice hockey player
• Oleh Avdieiev, luger
• Andriy Mukhin, luger
• Olena Shkhumova, luger
• Alexander Gurov (boxer)
• Georgiy Chygayev, boxer
• Vyacheslav Glazkov, boxer
• Serhiy Horodnichov, boxer
• Petro Ivanov, boxer
• Viktor Ivanov (boxer)
• Rychard Karpov, boxer
• Stanyslav Kashtanov, boxer
• Evhen Khytrov, boxer
• Anatoliy Klimanov, boxer
• Daniel Lapin (boxer)
• Oleg Mashkin, boxer
• Oleksiy Mazikin, boxer
• Vladimir Musalimov, boxer
• Dmytro Mytrofanov, boxer
• Viktor Petrov (boxer)
• Oleg Platov, boxer
• Viktor Polyakov, boxer
• Yaroslav Samofalov, boxer
• Yevheniy Shestakov, boxer
• Pavel Zhuravlev (kickboxer)
• Vyacheslav Uzelkov, boxer
• Alexander Yagubkin, boxer
• Yurii Zakharieiev, boxer
• Oleksandr Zubrihin, boxer
• Anastasiia Novikova, sambist
• Valeriy Dvoynikov, judoka
• Valentyn Grekov, judoka
• Bogdan Iadov, judoka
• Olexandr Kosinov, judoka
• Vladimir Kozlov, judoka
• Anatoliy Novikov, judoka
• Oleksandr Pominov, judoka
• Dmytro Raskin, judoka
• Yevgen Sotnikov, judoka
• Tetiana Beliaieva, judoka
• Sofia Bordinskikh, judoka
• Iryna Husieva, judoka
• Yelyzaveta Kalanina, judoka
• Lyudmyla Lusnikova, judoka
• Anastasiia Matrosova, judoka
• Maryna Prokofyeva, judoka
• Galyna Tarasova, judoka
• Anita Serogina, karateka
• Mykyta Filipov, karateka
• Oleksandr Grevtsov, karateka
• Valerii Sonnykh, karateka
• Pavel Zhuravlev (kickboxer)
• Lena Ovchynnikova, kickboxer
• Oleksii Yanin, kickboxer
• Oleg Pryimachov, kickboxer
• Yaroslav Amosov, martial artist
• Vitaly Merinov, martial artist
• Yevhen Orlov, martial artist
• Vladyslav Rudnev, martial artist
• Ekaterina Shakalova, martial artist
• Alyona Rassohyna, martial artist
• Valeriy Andriytsev, wrestler
• Vladimir Dubov, wrestler
• Yaroslav Filchakov, wrestler
• Denis Forov, wrestler
• Oleksandr Hrushyn, wrestler
• Andriy Kalashnikov, wrestler
• Valentin Nikolayev (wrestler)
• Anastasiya Alpyeyeva, wrestler
• Volodymyr Kochanov, wrestler
• Kyrylo Mieshkov, wrestler
• Vasyl Mykhailov, wrestler
• Semen Novikov, wrestler
• Yevhen Orlov, wrestler
• Dmytro Pyshkov, wrestler
• Mikhail Shakhov, wrestler
• Volodymyr Shatskykh, wrestler
• Vasyl Mykhailov, wrestler
• Semen Novikov, wrestler
• Yevhen Orlov, wrestler
• Dmytro Pyshkov, wrestler
• Kateryna Burmistrova, wrestler
• Alla Cherkasova, wrestler
• Alina Hrushyna, wrestler
• Tetyana Lazareva, wrestler
• Karyna Stankova, wrestler
• Kateryna Zelenykh, wrestler
• Volodymyr Bystrov, taekwondo practitioner
• Kyrylo Hurnov, taekwondo practioner
• Hryhorii Husarov, taekwondo practioner
• Maryna Konieva, taekwondo practioner
• Iryna Romoldanova, taekwondo practioner
• Lyudmila Arzhannikova, archer
• Tetyana Dorokhova, archer
• Viktoriya Dyakova, arhcer
• Anastasia Pavlova, archer
• Polina Rodionova, archer
• Lidiia Sichenikova, archer
• Serhiy Antonov, archer
• Dmytro Hrachov, archer
• Oleksii Hunbin, archer
• Darya Mykhaylova, cross country runner
• Yevheniya Prokofyeva, cross country runner
• Nataliya Strebkova, cross country runner
• Olena Antonova, discus thrower
• Iana Lebiedieva, discus thrower
• Natalia Semenova, discus thrower
• Iryna Novozhylova, hammer thrower
• Iryna Sekachova, hammer thrower
• Alyona Shamotina, hammer thrower
• Nataliya Zolotukhina, hammer thrower
• Alina Fyodorova, heptathlete
• Ivan Makarov (strongman)
• Varya Akulova, strength athlete
• Kostyantyn Ilin, strength athlete
• Oleksandr Lashyn, strength athlete
• Vitaliy Mikheyev, strong athlete
• Oleksii Novikov, strength athlete
• Oleksandr Pekanov, strength athlete
• Mykhailo Starov, strength athlete
• Inha Babakova, high jumper
• Olena Demydova, high jumper
• Yaroslava Mahuchikh, high jumper
• Oksana Okunyeva, high jumper
• Vita Palamar, high jumper
• Nina Serbina, high jumper
• Vita Styopina, high jumper
• Hanna Demydova, triple jumper
• Nadiya Bodrova, hurdler
• Nataliya Grygoryeva (hurdler)
• Liudmila Ievleva, hurdler
• Olha Ivankova, jawelin thrower
• Iana Lebiedieva, jawelin thrower
• Tetyana Lyakhovych, jawelin thrower
• Nina Marakina, jawelin thrower
• Lidiya Alfeyeva, long jumper
• Galina Chistyakova, long jumper
• Olena Hovorova, long jumper
• Olena Khlopotnova, long jumper
• Anna Lunyova, long jumper
• Viktoriya Molchanova, long jumper
• Yelena Pershina, long jumper
• Olena Shekhovtsova, long jumper
• Viktoriya Vershynina, long jumper
• Maryna Dubrova, long jumper
• Darya Mykhaylova, long jumper
• Elena Plastinina, long jumper
• Tatyana Pozdnyakova, long distance runner
• Maryna Dubrova, long distance runner
• Yevheniya Prokofyeva, long distance runner
• Lyudmyla Pushkina, long distance runner
• Nataliya Lehonkova, marathon runner
• Darya Mykhaylova, marathon runner
• Elena Plastinina, marathon runner
• Liudmyla Danylina, middle distance runner
• Tetyana Dorovskikh, middle distance runner
• Liliya Lobanova, middle distance runner
• Olha Lyakhova, middle distance runner
• Nina Morgunova, middle distance runner
• Giana Romanova, middle distance runner
• Mariya Shatalova, middle distance runner
• Natalya Yevdokimova, middle distance runner
• Inna Yevseyeva, middle distance runner
• Ivan Strebkov (runner)
• Oleksandr Apaychev, decathlete
• Mykola Avilov, decathlete
• Oleksiy Kasyanov, decathlete
• Vitaliy Kolpakov, decathlete
• Fedir Laukhin, decathlete
• Lev Lobodin, decathlete
• Oleksandr Yurkov, decathlete
• Mykhailo Brudin, discus thrower
• Kyrylo Chuprynin, discus thrower
• Oleksii Pashkov, discus thrower
• Oleksiy Semenov, discus thrower
• Anzhela Balakhonova, pole vaulter
• Yuriy Aharkov, cyclist
• Maksym Averin, cyclist
• Bogdan Bondariew, cyclist
• Yehor Dementyev, cyclist
• Artem Frolov, cyclist
• Oleg Galkin, cyclist
• Volodymir Gustov, cyclist
• Mikhaylo Khalilov, cyclist
• Vitaly Popkov (cyclist)
• Sergey Kravtsov (cyclist)
• Viktor Klimov, cyclist
• Dmytro Krivtsov, cyclist
• Yuriy Krivtsov, cyclist
• Serhiy Matvyeyev, cyclist
• Serguei Outschakov, cyclist
• Anatoliy Pakhtusov, cyclist
• Kyrylo Pospyeyev, cyclist
• Vladimir Poulnikov, cyclist
• Mikhail Radionov, cyclist
• Volodymyr Rybin, cyclist
• Vladyslav Sapozhnikov, cyclist
• Vitaliy Shchedov, cyclist
• Anatoly Starkov, cyclist
• Maksym Vasylyev, cyclist
• Andriy Vynokurov, cyclist
• Vasyl Yakovlev, cyclist
• Lyubov Basova, cyclist
• Yana Belomoyna, cyclist
• Yuliia Biriukova, cyclist
• Yelyzaveta Bochkaryova, cyclist
• Olena Demidova, cyclist
• Oksana Kliachina, cyclist
• Kateryna Krasova, cyclist
• Inna Metalnikova, cyclist
• Elena Novikova, cyclist
• Elizaveta Oshurkova, cyclist
• Olena Pavlukhina, cyclist
• Tamara Polyakova, cyclist
• Iryna Popova, cyclist
• Igor Tselovalnikov, cyclist
• Oksana Saprykina, cyclist
• Olena Starikova, cyclist
• Tetyana Styazhkina, cyclist
• Oleksandr Lobov, cyclist
• Nataliia Zharkova, freediver
• Kyrylo Azarov, diver
• Maksym Dolhov, diver
• Oleksandr Horshkovozov, diver
• Danylo Konovalov, diver
• Maksym Lapyn, diver
• Kostyantyn Milyayev, diver
• Oleksiy Pryhorov, diver
• Eduard Safonov, diver
• Oleh Serbin, diver
• Yuriy Shlyakhov, diver
• Roman Volod'kov, diver
• Anton Zakharov, diver
• Anna Arnautova, diver
• Marharyta Dzhusova, diver
• Olena Fedorova, diver
• Alevtina Korolyova, diver
• Olha Leonova, diver
• Iryna Pissareva, diver
• Viktoriya Potyekhina, diver
• Svitlana Serbina, diver
• Ganna Sorokina, diver
• Antonina Vyshyvanova, diver
• Olena Zhupina, diver
• Inna Loseva, race walker
• Tatyana Ragozina, race walker
• Olena Shumkina, race walker
• Khrystyna Yudkina, race walker
• Valentina Fedyushina, shot putter
• Iana Lebiedieva, shot putter
• Lyudmila Aksyonova, sprinter
• Anastasiia Bryzhina, sprinter
• Olha Bryzghina, sprinter
• Yelyzaveta Bryzghina, sprinter
• Lyudmyla Dzhyhalova, sprinter
• Olena Gliebova, sprinter
• Oksana Ilyushkina, sprinter
• Alina Kalistratova, sprinter
• Iryna Kozhemyakina, sprinter
• Polina Lazareva, sprinter
• Yana Manuylova, sprinter
• Valentyna Bolshova, sprinter
• Maryna Maydanova, sprinter
• Oleksandra Ryzhkova, sprinter
• Anna Ryzhykova, sprinter
• Nataliya Strohova, sprinter
• Antonina Yefremova, sprinter
• Nina Zyuskova, sprinter
• Valentyna Zhudin, steeplechase runner
• Maksym Kovalyov, football goalkeeper
• Andriy Pyatov, formerprofessional footballer who played as a goalkeeper.
• Viktor Arefyev, football forward
• Mykola Fominykh, chief of the Football Department of the Sports Committee of Ukrainian SSR
• Oleksandr Kosyrin, former football forward
• Oleksiy Antyukhin, professional footballer
• Viktor Zhylin, football defender
• Volodymyr Zhylin, retired Soviet football player
• Oleksandr Deriberin, retired Soviet footballer
• Adolf Poskotin, football player and coach
• Ihor Nadein, Merited Coach of Ukraine
• Valentin Tugarin, Soviet football manager
• Yukhym Shkolnykov, football coach
• Yuriy Hruznov, Soviet football goalkeeper
• Oleksandr Shchanov, football defender, forward, and manager
• Boris Streltsov, football forward
• Oleksandr Ivanov, professional football coach and a former player
• Oleksiy Ivanov, former football midfielder
• Pavlo Parshyn, football forward
• Hlib Piskunov, hammer thrower
• Mykola Redkin, hammer throwerl forward
• Yevhen Vynohradov, hammer thrower
• Oleksandr Nartov, high jumper
• Dmytro Nikitin, high jumper
• Rudolf Povarnitsyn, high jumper
• Serhiy Senyukov, high jumper
• Volodymyr Sitkin, high jumper
• Valeriy Skvortsov, high jumper
• Vasyl Anisimov, hurdler
• Stanislav Melnykov, hurdler
• Artem Shamatryn, hurdler
• Vasiliy Yershov, jawelin thrower
• Viktor Yevsyukov, jawelin thrower
• Andriy Danylov, long jumper
• Ruslan Katyshev, long jumper
• Viktor Kuznyetsov, long jumper
• Andriy Makarchev, long jumper
• Serhiy Nykyforov, long jumper
• Dmytro Prudnikov, long jumper
• Anton Skachkov, long jumper
• Valeriy Vasylyev, long jumper
• Volodymyr Zyuskov, long jumper
• Volodymyr Inozemtsev, triple jumper
• Vladyslav Shepeliev, triple jumper
• Viktor Yastrebov, triple jumper
• Mykyta Barabanov, sprinter
• Leonid Bartenyev, sprinter
• Ihor Bodrov, sprinter
• Viktor Bryzghin, sprinter
• Viktor Burakov, sprinter
• Volodymyr Burakov, sprinter
• Andriy Danylov, sprinter
• Vladyslav Dolohodin, sprinter
• Oleksandr Ivaniukhin, sprinter
• Oleksiy Khlopotnov, sprinter
• Roman Kravtsov, sprinter
• Oleksiy Pozdnyakov, sprinter
• Nikolay Razgonov, sprinter
• Aleksandr Streltsov, sprinter
• Hryhoriy Sverbetov, sprinter
• Kostyantyn Vasyukov, sprinter
• Andriy Zhyltsov, sprinter
• Yevhen Zyukov, sprinter
• Vladimir Kiselyov, shot putter
• Andriy Semenov, shot putter
• Vitaliy Sidorov (discus thrower)
• Serhiy Chykanov, rower
• Viktor Hrebennikov, rower
• Oleksandr Kapustin, rower
• Anton Kholyaznykov, rower
• Viktor Kokoshyn, rower
• Mykola Komarov, rower
• Stanislav Kovalov, rower
• Oleh Lykov, rower
• Artem Morozov, rower
• Leonid Shaposhnikov, rower
• Yevhen Sharonin, rower
• Heorhiy Zhylin, rower
• Yevheniya Andrieieva, rower
• Yana Dementyeva, rower
• Inna Frolova, rower
• Tetiana Kolesnikova, rower
• Olha Kolkova, rower
• Olena Reutova, rower
• Olena Ronzhyna, rower
• Nelli Tarakanova, rower
• Tetiana Ustiuzhanina, rower
• Vitaly Orlov (rugby union)
• Aleksandr Androshkin, sport shooter
• Viktor Bankin, sport shooter
• Pavlo Korostylov, sport shooter
• Denys Kushnirov, sport shooter
• Oleksandr Lazeykin, sport shooter
• Viktor Makarov, sport shooter
• Mykola Milchev, sport shooter
• Dmitry Monakov, sport shooter
• Oleg Mykhaylov, sport shooter
• Valentyna Honcharova, sport shooter
• Anna Ilina, sport shooter
• Yuliya Korostylova, sport shooter
• Tetyana Nesterova, sport shooter
• Anna Ilina, sport shooter
• Yuliya Korostylova, sport shooter
• Tetyana Nesterova, sport shooter
• Viktoriya Rybovalova, sport shooter
• Kateryna Samohina, sport shooter
• Daria Tykhova, sport shooter
• Grigori Panteleimonov, sport shooter
• Vladislav Prianishnikov, sport shooter
• Ivan Rybovalov, sport shooter
• Jury Sukhorukov, sport shooter
• Oleh Tkachov, sport shooter
• Oleh Tsarkov, sport shooter
• Oleksiy Borysov, sailor
• Pavlo Kalynchev, sailor
• Volodymyr Korotkov, sailor
• Valeriy Kudryashov, sailor
• Pavlo Matsuyev, sailor
• Yuriy Orlov, sailor
• Serhiy Pichuhin, sailor
• Serhiy Timokhov, sailor
• Oleksandr Tugaryev, sailor
• Sofiia Larycheva, sailor
• Svitlana Matevusheva, sailor
• Anatoliy Gorshkov, race walker
• Oleksiy Kazanin, race walker
• Anatoliy Solomin, race walker
• Hennadiy Bleznitsov, pole vaulter
• Andriy Yurin, race walker
• Borys Yakovlev, race walker
• Vladyslav Malykhin, pole vaulter
• Oleksandr Onufriyev, pole vaulter
• Viktor Spasov, pole vaulter
• Yevhen Arzhanov, runner
• Leonid Masunov, runner
• Danylo Seredin, runner
• Ivan Strebkov (runner)
• Ihor Porozov, runner
• Andriy Naumov, runner
• Andriy Petukhov, bobsledder
• Aleksandr Streltsov, bobsledder
• Oleksiy Zhukov, bobsledder
• Ivan Maksymov, biathlete
• Vitalii Mandzyn, biathlete
• Dmytro Rusinov, biathlete
• Serhiy Sednev, biathlete
• Vladimir Semakov, biathelete
• Serhiy Semenov, biathlete
• Roman Zvonkov, biathlete
• Nadiia Bielkina, biathlete
• Nadiya Billova, biathlete
• Anastasiya Merkushyna, biathlete
• Iryna Merkushyna, biathlete
• Oleksandra Merkushyna, biathlete
• Mariya Panfilova, biathlete
• Olena Petrova, biathlete
• Lilia Vaygina-Efremova, biathlete
• Tetyana Vodopyanova, biathlete
• Oksana Yakovlieva, biathlete
• Olena Zubrilova, biathlete
• Volodymyr Ivanov (skier)
• Oleksandra Kononova, biathlete
• Oksana Shyshkova, biathlete
• Iurii Utkin, biathlete
• Oleksii Denin, beach volleyball player
• Sergiy Popov (beach volleyball)
• Diana Lunina, beach volleyball player
• Anzhelika Churkina, sitting volleyball player
• Larysa Klochkova, sitting volleyball player
• Olena Manankova, sitting volleyball player
• Margaryta Pryvalykhina, sitting volleyball player
• Ilona Yudina, sitting volleyball player
• Volodymyr Ivanov (volleyball)
• Volodymyr Byelyayev, volleyball player
• Andriy Diachkov, volleyball player
• Denys Fomin, volleyball player
• Nikolay Pavlov (volleyball), volleyball player
• Igor Popov, volleyball player
• Yuriy Poyarkov, volleyball player
• Oleksandr Shadchyn, volleyball player
• Yurii Tomyn, volleyball player
• Michailas Anisimovas, basketball player
• Vyacheslav Bobrov, basketball player
• Igor Boyarkin, basketball player
• Valery Goborov, basketball player
• Vladyslav Kondratyev, basketball player
• Volodymyr Koniev, basketball player
• Roman Kozlov (basketball)
• Viacheslav Kravtsov, basketball player
• Denys Lukashov, basketball player
• Dmytro Lypovtsev, basketball player
• Serhii Pavlov, basketball player
• Oleksiy Pecherov, basketball player
• Viacheslav Petrov, basketball player
• Aleksandr Salnikov, basketball player
• Andrii Shapovalov, basketball player
• Anton Shoutvin, basketball player
• Oleksandr Sizov, basketball player
• Dmytro Skapintsev, basketball player
• Alexander Volkov (basketball)
• Ihor Zaytsev (basketball)
• Vitaliy Zotov, basketball player
• Maksym Zvonov, basketball player
• Kateryna Dorogobuzova, basketball player
• Alina Iagupova, basketball player
• Natalya Klimova, basketball player
• Oksana Mollova, basketball player
• Lyudmila Rogozhina, basketball player
• Hanna Rulyova, basketball player
• Diana Sadovnykova, basketball player
• Olha Shliakhova, basketball player
• Nataliya Silianova, basketball player
• Pavlo Altukhov, canoeist
• Andrey Balabanov, canoeist
• Nikolay Baranov, canoeist
• Andriy Borzukov, canoeist
• Yuri Filatov, canoeist
• Yuriy Gurin, canoeist
• Aleski Igraev, canoeist
• Denys Kamerylov, canoeist
• Oleg Kharytonov, canoeist
• Yuriy Kichayev, canoeist
• Sergey Kirsanov, canoeist
• Sergey Kislev, canoeist
• Boris Markin, canoeist
• Vladimir Ivanovich Morozov (born 1940), canoeist
• Andrey Petrov (canoeist)
• Sergei Postrekhin, canoeist
• Dmitry Sabin, canoeist
• Ivan Semykin, canoeist
• Oleksandr Sivkov, canoeist
• Ivan Sotnikov, canoeist
• Oleksandr Syromiatnykov, canoeist
• Ihor Trunov, canoeist
• Serhii Yemelianov, canoeist
• Vladyslav Yepifanov, canoeist
• Aleksandr Yermilov, canoeist
• Hanna Balabanova, canoeist
• Olena Cherevatova, canoeist
• Nataliya Feklisova, canoeist
• Anastasiya Horlova, canoeist
• Mariya Ralcheva, canoeist
• Tetyana Semykina, canoeist
• Anastasiia Todorova, canoeist
• Olena Tsyhankova, canoeist
• Serhii Yemelianov, canoeist
• Vladyslav Yepifanov, canoeist
• Aleksandr Yermilov, canoeist
• Hanna Balabanova, canoeist
• Olena Cherevatova, canoeist
• Nataliya Feklisova, canoeist
• Anastasiya Horlova, canoeist
• Oleksandr Chyrkov, badminton player
• Vitaly Konov, badminton player
• Gennadiy Natarov, badminton player
• Artem Pochtarov, badminton player
• Polina Buhrova, badminton player
• Yuliya Kazarinova, badminton player
• Anna Kobceva, badminton player
• Oksana Kozyna, badminton player
• Marija Ulitina, badminton player
• Yevgen Murzin, basketball player
• Yehor Ivanov, football striker who plays for FC Poltava in the Ukrainian First League
• Artem Ivanov, player in the International draughts and draughts-64
• Artem Ivanov, weightlifter
• Oleksiy Kolokoltsev, weightlifter
• Hennadiy Krasylnykov, weightlifter
• Kostyantyn Piliyev, weightlifter
• Sergii Putsov, weightlifter
• Ihor Razoronov, weightlifter
• Artem Udachyn, weightlifter
• Hanna Davydova, weightlifter
• Nataliya Davydova, weightlifter
• Iulia Paratova, weightlifter
• Vitaliy Sidorov, retired discus thrower, who represented Ukraine (1996) at the Summer Olympics
• Andriy Lunin, professional footballer who plays as a goalkeeper for La Liga club Real Madrid and the Ukraine national team
• Elina Svitolina, tennis player
• Anhelina Kalinina, tennis player
• Yuliia Starodubtseva, tennis player
• Serhiy Rebrov - professional football manager and former player who played as a striker
• Viktor Tsyhankov, footballer
• Andrei Medvedev (tennis)
• Alexandr Dolgopolov, tennis player
• Oleksandr Dolgopolov Sr., tennis player
• Vladyslav Manafov, tennis player
• Nikita Mashtakov, tennis player
• Anatoli Strokatov, table tennis player
• Dmitrij Prokopcov, table tennis player
• Denys Molchanov, tennis player
• Aleksandr Nedovyesov, tennis player
• Vladyslav Orlov, tennis player
• Dimitri Poliakov, tennis player
• Olena Antypina, tennis player
• Tetyana Arefyeva, tennis player
• Galina Baksheeva, table tennis player
• Maryna Chernyshova, table tennis player
• Anhelina Kalinina, tennis player
• Mariya Koryttseva, tennis player
• Viktoriya Kutuzova, tennis player
• Oxana Lyubtsova, tennis player
• Natalia Medvedeva (tennis), tennis player
• Natalia Nemchinova, tennis player
• Oleksandra Oliynykova, tennis player
• Anastasiya Shoshyna, table tennis player
• Anastasiia Sobolieva, table tennis player
• Alyona Sotnikova, tennis player
• Yuliia Starodubtseva, tennis player
• Valeriya Strakhova, tennis player
• [[]Anastasiya Vasylyeva], tennis player
• Ivan Sergeyev (tennis), table tennis player
• Artem Smirnov (tennis), table tennis player
• Hanna Haponova, table tennis player
• Natalia Kosmina, table tennis player
• Viktoriia Safonova (table tennis)
• Iryna Shynkarova, table tennis player
• Polina Trifonova, table tennis player
• Dasha Kovalova, ten-pin bowling player
• Ekaterina Serebrianskaya, rhythmic gymnast, Olympic champion.
• Andriy Nesmachnyi, Ukrainian football defender.
• Alexander Volkov, one of the founders of BC Kiev, former basketball player
• Oleh Makarov (footballer), Ukrainian and Soviet football player, coach, and sports writer
• Viktor Serebryanikov, Soviet association football player from Ukrainian SSR
• Yuriy Voynov, FC Dynamo Kyiv and USSR national football team midfielder. UEFA Euro 1960 winner.
• Andriy Voronin, Ukrainian striker of mixed Ukrainian Jewish and Russian ancestry.
• Alexander Vyukhin, ice hockey goaltender who last played for Lokomotiv Yaroslavl. He perished in the 2011 Lokomotiv Yaroslavl air disaster outside of Yaroslavl, Russia.
• Denys Sylantyev, swimmer
• Vladyslav Bukhov, swimmer
• Konstantin Dubrovin, swimmer
• Andriy Khloptsov, swimmer
• Pavlo Khnykin, swimmer
• Mykyta Koptielov, swimmer
• Mariya Ohurtsova, swimmer
• Svyatoslav Semenov, swimmer
• Maksym Shemberev, swimmer
• Sergii Shevtsov, swimmer
• Natalya Shibayeva, swimmer
• Vyacheslav Shyrshov, swimmer
• Dmytro Vereitinov, swimmer
• Yuriy Vlasov, swimmer
• Maryna Verbova, swimmer
• Yuriy Yegoshin, swimmer
• Oleksandr Zheltyakov, swimmer
• Kateryna Tkachova, swimmer
• Yuriy Andryushin, swimmer
• Danylo Chufarov, swimmer
• Illya Chuyev, swimmer
• Denys Dubrov, swimmer
• Vladimir Dolgov, swimmer
• Andriy Govorov, swimmer
• Andriy Serdinov, swimmer
• Viktor Smyrnov, swimmer
• Dmytro Aleksyeyev, swimmer
• Gennady Androsov, swimmer
• Olga Beresnyeva, swimmer
• Albina Bordunova, swimmer
• Nataliya Khudyakova, swimmer
• Svitlana Kopchykova, swimmer
• Veronika Korzhova, swimmer
• Yelena Kruglova, swimmer
• Olena Lapunova, swimmer
• Iryna Amshennikova, swimmer
• Nataliya Zolotukhina (swimmer)
• Daryna Zevina, swimmer
• Anna Voloshyna, swimmer
• Olha Zolotarova, swimmer
• Anhelina Ovchynnikova, swimmer
• Klavdiya Studennikova, swimmer
• Anastasiia Shmonina, swimmer
• Kateryna Zubkova, swimmer
• Valentina Yakovleva, swimmer
• Anastasiya Malyavina, swimmer
• Nataliya Samorodina, swimmer
• Anna Yesipova (swimmer)
• Oksana Serikova, swimmer
• Iryna Balashova, swimmer
• Ruslan Burlakov, swimmer
• Yuliya Bohachova, swimmer
• Lolita Ananasova, swimmer
• Marta Fiedina, swimmer
• Ganna Khlistunova, swimmer
• Mariia Lafina, swimmer
• Yuliya Volkova (swimmer)
• Inna Nikitina, swimmer
• Kateryna Istomina, swimmer
• Nataliia Prologaieva, swimmer
• Viktoriia Savtsova, swimmer
• Oleksandr Komarov (swimmer)
• Sergiy Bilov, swimmer
• Vladyslav Bukhov, swimmer
• Danylo Chufarov, swimmer
• Dmytro Kuzmin, swimmer
• Volodymyr Raskatov, swimmer
• Mykhailo Serbin, swimmer
• Vyacheslav Shyrshov, swimmer
• Andrii Trusov, swimmer
• Oleksiy Yehorov, swimmer
• Nikolai Smirnov (water polo)
• Oleh Volodymyrov, water polo player
• Vadym Skuratov, water polo player
• Dmytro Andriyev, water polo player
• Aleksei Barkalov, water polo player
• Andrey Belofastov, water polo player
• Vadym Rozhdestvenskiy, water polo player
• Oleksandr Litvinov, professional footballer who plays as a right-back for FC Dinaz Vyshhorod
• Kim Fomin, Soviet Ukrainian football player and coach.
• Oleh Shelayev, former footballer
• Oleh Husiev - retired footballer who played as a midfielder for FC Dynamo Kyiv
• Oleksandr Aliyev - former professional footballer who played as a midfielder
• Maksim Kovshov, equestrian
• Yuri Kovshov, equestrian
• Oksana Gusarova, equestrian
• Svetlana Kiseliova, equestrian
• Maksym Aharushev, pentathlete
• Ivan Deriuhin, pentathlete
• Pavel Lednyov, pentathlete
• Iryna Khokhlova, pentathlete
• Valeriya Permykina, pentathlete
• Ivan Ivanov (triathlete)
• Rostyslav Pevtsov, triathlete
• Danylo Sapunov, triathlete
• Inna Ryzhykh, triathlete
• Yuliya Yelistratova, triathlete
• Vitaly Medvedev (fencer)
• Vladimir Smirnov (fencer)
• Oleksii Bryzghalov, fencer
• Viktor Putyatin, fencer
• Sergey Mindirgasov, fencer
• Heorhiy Pohosov, fencer
• Oleh Shturbabin, fencer
• Vlada Kharkova, fencer
• Bohdan Nikishyn, fencer
• Vitaliy Osharov, fencer
• Ihor Reizlin, fencer
• Anfisa Pochkalova, fencer
• Yana Shemyakina, fencer
• Viktoriya Titova, fencer
• Darya Varfolomeyeva, fencer
• Yeva Vybornova, fencer
• Yuliya Bakastova, fencer
• Olena Khomrova, fencer
• Olena Voronina, fencer
• Olena Koltsova, fencer
• Valentina Rastvorova, fencer
• Liudmyla Vasylieva, fencer
• Vladislav Bykanov, speed skater
• Vladimir Grigoryev, speed skater
• Yevhen Yakovlev, speed skater
• Andriy Fomin, speed skater
• Oleh Kostromitin, speed skater
• Mariya Dolgopolova, speed skater
• Uliana Dubrova, speed skater
• Nataliya Sverchikova, speed skater
• Sofiya Vlasova, speed skater
• Svitlana Konstantynova, speed skater
• Olena Myahkikh, speed skater
• Tatyana Shelekhova, speed skater
• Tetiana Tarasova, speed skater
• Ivan Pavlov (figure skater)
• Sergei Baranov (figure skater)
• Vitaliy Baranov (figure skater)
• Kyryl Bielobrov, ice skater
• Volodymyr Byelikov, ice skater
• Ruslan Honcharov, ice skater
• Maksym Nikitin, ice skater
• Mykyta Pogorielov, ice skater
• Alexander Shakalov, ice skater
• Stanislav Morozov, ice skater
• Maksym Spodyriev, ice skater
• Sergei Sõtšov, ice skater
• Yehor Yehorov, ice skater
• Serhiy Potalov, ice skater
• Denys Strekalin, ice skater
• Vitali Egorov, ice skater
• Yevgeny Martynov, ice skater
• Stanislav Pertsov, ice skater
• Denys Strekalin, ice skater
• Konstantin Tupikov, ice skater
• Svitlana Chernikova, ice skater
• Julia Golovina, ice skater
• Elena Grushina, ice skater
• Natalia Gudina, ice skater
• Mariia Holubtsova, ice skater
• Mariana Kozlova, ice skater
• Oleksandra Nazarova, ice skater
• Darya Popova, ice skater
• Irina Romanova (figure skater)
• Anastasia Vykhodtseva, ice skater
• Anastasiia Smirnova (figure skater)
• Julia Beloglazova, ice skater
• Tatiana Chuvaeva, ice skater
• Julia Lavrentieva, ice skater
• Sofiia Nesterova, ice skater
• Violetta Sierova, ice skater
• Anastasiia Arkhypova, ice skater
• Lyudmyla Ivanova, ice skater
• Olga Mikutina, ice skater
• Olha Orlova, ice skater
• Natalia Popova, ice skater
• Anastasiia Shabotova, ice skater
• Vladimir Zuev (figure skater)
• S1mple (Oleksandr Kostyliev), professional Counter-Strike 2 player
• Dendi (gamer)(Danil Ishutin), professional Dota 2 player
• Yuri Anikeev, draughts player
• Sergey Belosheev, draughts player
• Artem Ivanov (draughts player)
• Olga Levina (draughts player)
• Anna Zatonskih, chess player who holds the titles International Master (IM) and Woman Grandmaster (WGM)
• Ruslan Ponomariov, chess grandmaster
• Artur Frolov, chess International Master (1991)
• Vladimir Tukmakov, chess grandmaster
• Igor Novikov (chess player), chess grandmaster
• Anton Korobov, chess grandmaster
• Olga Alexandrova, chess player
• Eduard Andreev, chess player
• Valeriy Aveskulov, chess player
• Egor Bogdanov, chess player
• Vladislav Borovikov, chess player
• Irina Chelushkina, chess player
• Tykhon Cherniaiev, chess player
• Alexander Chernin, chess player
• Kateryna Dolzhykova, chess player
• Olga Dolzhykova, chess player
• Pavel Eljanov, chess player
• Vladimir Eljanov, chess player
• Artur Frolov, chess player
• Alexander Goloshchapov, chess player
• Mikhail Golubev, chess player
• Alexander Ipatov, chess player
• Vladislava Kalinina, chess player
• Boris Khanukov, chess player
• Evgeni Kobylkin, chess player
• Dimitri Komarov, chess player
• Anton Korobov, chess player
• Liubov Kostiukova, chess player
• Gennady Kuzmin, chess player
• Yuriy Kuzubov, chess player
• Olena Martynkova, chess player
• Elizaveta Malakhova(Elizaveta Soloviova), chess player
• Igor Novikov (chess player)
• Sergey Pavlov (chess player)
• Igor Platonov, chess player
• Olga Prudnykova, chess player
• Alexander Reprintsev, chess player
• Spartak Vysochin, chess player
• Anna Zatonskih, chess player
• Natalia Zhukova, chess player
• Alexander Zubarev, chess player
• Oleksandr Zubov, chess player
• Vladlen Zurakhov, chess player
• Kira Zvorykina, chess player
• Valeriy Neverov, chess grandmaster (1991) and four-time Ukrainian Chess Champion (1983, 1985, 1988, 1996)
• Andrei Volokitin, chess grandmaster
• Natalia Zhukova, chess grandmaster and two-time European women's champion
• Lidia Semenova, chess player, who holds the title of woman grandmaster
• Anna Ushenina, chess grandmaster who was Women's World Chess Champion from November 2012 to September 2013
• Sergey Karjakin, chess grandmaster

• Mykola Kostomarov - one of the most distinguished Russian–Ukrainian historians, one of the first anti-Normanists, and the father of modern Ukrainian historiography
• Vladlen Tatarsky - blogger
• Valery Bolotov - militant
• Alexey Stakhanov, legendary miner
• Valentina (fashion designer)
• Sonya Monina, fashion designer
• Yaroslav Trofimov, journalist
• Volodymyr Zolkin, journalist
• Victoria Roshchyna, journalist
• Oleksandr Tolokonnikov, photojournalist, journalist, media and social activist,
• Anastasia Baburova, assassinated journalist
• Olha Ilyina, theatre director
• Oleh Sentsov, filmmaker, writer and activist
• Mstyslav Chernov, filmmaker
• Serhii Alioshechkin, filmmaker
• Elena Andreicheva, filmmaker
• Felix Sobolev - filmmaker
• Oleksandr Borodin - filmmaker
• Oksana Dmitriieva, filmmaker
• Ihor Kobryn, filmmaker
• Alina Gorlova, filmmaker
• Natella Krapivina, filmmaker
• Denys Kushnarov, filmmaker
• Larysa Artiugina, filmmaker
• Roman Turyn, filmmaker
• Oles Sanin, filmmaker
• Boris Yefimov, cartoonist
• Viktor Ivanov (film director)
• Ivan Buravlyov - lawyer
• Leonid Telyatnikov - fire brigade commander notable for his role in directing the early stages initial response to the Chernobyl disaster
• Vitaly Ganchev - police officer and lieutenant colonel
• Mariya Markina - model
• Valeria Lukyanova - model
• Viktoriya Sasonkin - fashion model
• Vladimir Malakhov (dancer)
• Klara Novikova - pop artist and humorist
• Inna Dorofeieva - ballet dancer
• Natalya Panina - ballroom dancer
• Nadiya Bychkova - ballroom dancer
• Anastasia Kuzmina - dancer
• Nikita Kuzmin - dancer
• Vadym Pysarev - dancer
• Ivan Putrov - dancer
• Leonid Sarafanov - dancer
• Oleh Kuznietsov - dancer
• Igor Chepusov - producer
• Dorofeeva - blogger
• Snizhana Babkina - blogger
• Taras Kulakov - blogger
• Viktoriya Yermolyeva - blogger
• Yanina Sokolova - blogger
• Roman Skrypin - blogger
• Anastasiia Masiutkina - blogger
• Denys Davydov - blogger and pilot
• Yevgeny Streltsov - scholar of law
• Vladimir Nikolaevich Platonov - sports scientist and academic
• Tetiana Pushnova - reporter, editor and producer
• Inna Bulkina - literary critic, writer and editor
• Slava Frolova - Ukrainian TV Presenter, and is one of three judges for Ukraine's Got Talent
• Alla Kostromichova - model and TV presenter
• Olena Sibiriakova - expert in public relations (PR), communication program development, business, and political project management
• Kyrylo Myzgin - archaeologist and numismatist
• Svitlana Bilyayeva - archaeologist
• Masha Efrosynina - Television host and media personality
• Vira Ageyeva - literary critic and philologist
• Mykhailo Drahomanov - intellectual and public figure
• Yuriy Maslov - economist
• Mykola Ovcharov - orator, lecturer and researcher of oratorical art as well as a Latin translator, film director and media artist
• Nikolai Petrov (academician) - theologian and philologist, who for several years worked in the Imperial Russian Southwestern Krai, one of founding members of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine
• Mykola Sumtsov - ethnographer, folklorist, art historian, literary scholar, educator and museum expert, who flourished in the Russian Empire, Ukrainian People's Republic, and Soviet Ukraine
• Yuriy Kralov - economist and co-owner and chairman of the Ukrainian MTB BANK
• Rostyslav Shchokin - legal scholar and higher education administrator
• Dmitry Khorkin - television and radio host and media manager, general producer of Ukrainian Radio
• Elena Kosmina - model and beauty pageant titleholder who won the title of Top Model of the World 2015
• Anastasia Chernova - teacher, model and beauty pageant titleholder who was crowned Miss Ukraine Universe 2012 in October 2012 and represented Ukraine in the 2012 Miss Universe pageant
• Tetyana Baranova - head of the State Archive Service of Ukraine from 2014 to 2019
• Pyotr Bessonov - folklorist who collected and published many East Slavic and South Slavic folk songs
• Tetiana Andrianova - businesswoman and lawyer, specializing in corporate governance, mergers and acquisitions, state enterprises privatization and restructuring
• Garin Artem - Memory champion
• Mary Teissier(Maria Perevostchikova), socialite, heiress, interior designer, and art collector
• George Shevelov - linguist
• Volodymyr Selivanov - jurist
• Adrian Prakhov, art critic
• Yuri Komelkov - publisher, gallerist, art collector, and art patron
• Oleksandr Kardakov - cybersecurity and military-tech developer working for the Armed Forces of Ukraine technology advancement
• Igor Voronov - businessman
• Vladimir Kosterin - businessman
• Oleksandr Svishchov - sports executive and entrepreneur
• Yana Zhdanova - feminist and social activist who since the 2000s has been a leading member of the radical feminist protest group FEMEN
• Leonid Kryuchkov - entrepreneur and the owner of one of the largest privately held tug fleet operations in Ukraine
• Oleksii Kulahin - entrepreneur and managing owner of the development company OMOX
• Daria Zarivna - social activist, and entrepreneur
• Yaroslav Minkin - human right activist
• Yevgen Zakharov - human right activist
• Vitaliy Shabunin - human right activist
• Olga Rudnieva - co-founder and CEO of the Superhumans Center in Ukraine which has treated over 1,000 wounded amputees from the Russia-Ukraine conflict in its first two years
• Oksana Potapova - feminist, peacebuilding researcher and activist
• Dmytro Pylchykov, pan-slavist, civic and cultural activist, teacher, and a member of the Ukrainian National Revival society known as the Brotherhood of Saints Cyril and Methodius
• Tamara Hundorova - literary critic
• Borys Babin - ad hoc expert for OSCE, the Council of Europe, and Minority Rights Group International, as well as a Doctor of Laws and professor
• Ivan Uzlov - metallurgist
• Lev Venediktov - choral conductor and pedagogue. People's Artist of the USSR (1979) and Hero of Ukraine (2004)
• Oleksandr Ksenofontov - record producer and lyricist
• Igor Kraev - producer, music promoter, entrepreneur, founder and CEO of TopHit project (founded in 2003), a music promotion platform and music chart authority for thousands of music artists and labels, 1200+ radio stations worldwide, mostly in Europe, Ukraine, Russia and the CIS
• Oleksandr Kuziakin - music producer and film director known for his work across rock music, independent cinema, mostly by working with The Sixsters band
• Eleonora Vinogradova - choir director, educator, professor, Honored Artist of Ukraine (since 1978)
• Tetiana Barantsova - disability rights activist and the founder of Ami-Skhid organisation
• Volodymyr Bugrov - philosopher
• Mikhail Minakov - philosopher, political scholar and historian (researcher of the history of modernity and post-Soviet ideologies), Doctor of Philosophy
• Oleg Serbin - librarian and academic specialising in library classification and systematization
• Yurii Biriuliov - art historian
• Valeria Hontareva - investment banker and millionaire
• Tymofii Soloviov - entrepreneur, volunteer
• Oleksandr Komarov (businessman)
• Natalya Sharina - librarian
• Viktoria Suchantseva - philosopher, aesthetician, culturologist, poet and writer, founder of Ukrainian philosophy of music school of thought
• Savva Libkin - founder and owner of the "Savva Libkin's Restaurants" chain
• Vira Naydyonova - industrialist and manager who directed the middle-class state research farm Askaniyske from 1985 to 2016 and oversaw its development
• Nikitina Nadezhda Mikhailovna - cultural figure and activist, entrepreneur, and philanthropist
• Dina Popova - financier and businesswoman
• Anastasia Volkova - agricultural innovator using satellite and autonomous drone technology to give an early indication of disease in crops
• Porfiry Ivanov - mystic whose beliefs have attained a cult status, with followers estimated in the tens of thousands
• Anatolii Kasianov, technology entrepreneur and software developer, known as the co-founder and co-chief executive officer (Co-CEO) of HOLYWATER, a global technology company specializing in AI-first entertainment products
• Andriy Kobolyev - politician and businessman, and the former chief executive officer of Ukrainian largest company, the state-owned oil and gas company Naftogaz
• Irina Zherebkina - feminist academic
• Culai Neniu (Nikolai Nenev), folklorist, dramatist, and schoolteacher
• Nicholas Afanasiev - Eastern Orthodox theologian
• Daniel of Erie (Dmitry Alexandrov) - Orthodox bishop
• Pavel Kopnin - Soviet philosopher, epistemologist, corresponding member of the Academy of Sciences of the Soviet Union and Academician of the Academy of Sciences of the Ukrainian SSR
• Zoia Chehusova, art historian, art critic, candidate of art history, president of the Ukrainian section of the International Association of Art Critics under the auspices of UNESCO (2005–2021)
• Slava Leontyev, co-director of Porcelain War, winner of the 2024 Sundance Film Festival Grand Jury Prize: U.S. Documentary
• Antonina Isaeva - milkmaid and politician who worked at the S.M. Kirov Collective Farm in Zolochiv
• Vladimir Lyakhov, Soviet cosmonaut
• Vladimir Vasyutin, Soviet cosmonaut
• Denis Ivanov, producer, film distributor, cultural manager, TV presenter, head of the Arthouse Traffic film company, member of the European Film Academy and National Union of Cinematographers of Ukraine, founder of the Odesa International Film Festival and «Children Kinofest» – International Film Festival for children and teenagers (Ukraine)
• Leonid Bykov, Soviet actor, film director, and script writer
• Vitaly Zholobov, retired Soviet cosmonaut who flew on Soyuz 21 space flight as the flight engineer

• List of Ukrainians of Russian ethnicity
• Russian language in Ukraine
• Russification of Ukraine
• Chronology of Ukrainian language suppression
• Internationalism or Russification?
• Derussification in Ukraine
• Ukrainianization
• Demographics of Ukraine
• Demographic history of Crimea
• Russian Cultural Center in Lviv
• Anti-Russian sentiment in Ukraine
• Ukrainians in Russia
• Polish minority in Ukraine

• Russian community in Ukraine Archived 2007-08-04 at the Wayback Machine (in Russian)
• Russian movement in Ukraine Archived 2008-05-01 at the Wayback Machine (in Russian)
• Russian Donbas Archived 2020-03-01 at the Wayback Machine (in Russian)
• VasinList.com – Russian Community and Classifieds in Kyiv, Odesa & Lviv