List of people from Taganrog

This is a list of famous people who have lived in Taganrog. Please add new people and also add the dates they lived in Taganrog, if known.

Actors, Performers, Cinema

Art & architecture

Authors

Russian Czars

Governors and Governors-General of Taganrog

Military leaders, statesmen, war heroes, revolutionaries, politicians

Music

Pilots and explorers

Religion

Science, Heroes of Socialist Labor, Business people

  • Sergei Alphéraky, Russian ornithologist and entomologist, in 1850-70s
  • Yevgeni Andreyev, Privy Councilor, founder of the Russian Technical Society, author of the law for the child labor (1882), born in Taganrog in 1829
  • Alexey Astakhov, director of TAGMET, 1921–1984
  • Sergey Dmitrievich Balukhatiy, bibliographer, academic, studied in Taganrog
  • Robert Bartini, designer of amphibious aircraft, 1946–1952
  • Nikolay Apollonovich Belelyubski, engineer, scientist, famous designer of bridges, graduated from Taganrog Boys Gymnasium in 1862
  • Georgy Beriev, designer of amphibious aircraft, 1933-1970s
  • Nikolay Bogoraz – Russian pioneer of phalloplasty and penile implant surgery, born and studied in Taganrog
  • Leonid Gobyato, Russian general, inventor of the first Russian mortar, born and lived in Taganrog until 1887
  • Aleksandr Viktorovich Fyodorov, professor, media educator, non-fiction writer, editor. Lives and works in Taganrog.
  • Hanon Izakson, designer of the first Soviet self-propelled farm machines, 1953–1985
  • Anatoly Kalyaev, scientist, founder of the research institute of multiprocessing computer systems etc., Hero of Socialist Labor, 1954–2004
  • Alexandre Koyré, French philosopher, born in Taganrog in 1892
  • Vladimir Alexandrovich Lebedev, Russian pilot, aircraft builder, recipient of Légion d'honneur, founder of Taganrog Airplane Factory, 1915–1916
  • Victor Litvinov, Soviet aircraft designer, responsible for mass production of military aircraft, Minister of the General Engineering Industry in 1965–1973, born in Taganrog in 1910.
  • Mikhail Nagibin, honorary aircraft builder of the Soviet Union, born in Taganrog in 1930, worked in Taganrog until 1980.
  • Vladimir Petlyakov, Soviet aircraft designer, born in a village near Taganrog, studied in Taganrog in 1899–1910
  • Boris Podolsky, physicist, born in Taganrog in 1896
  • Yuriy Rumer, Soviet physicist, worked in Taganrog in 1946-1948
  • Alexander Samarskiy, mathematician, studied in Taganrog in 1932–1936
  • Georgy Sergeev, Soviet designer of artillery and rocket systems, Hero of Socialist Labor, born in Taganrog in 1911
  • Lazar Shaulov, business person, lived in Taganrog in 1990s.
  • Maria Smith-Falkner, economist, born in Taganrog in 1878.
  • Vladimir Tan-Bogoraz, Russian anthropologist and writer, born and lived in Taganrog until 1886
  • Nicolai Stepanovitch Turczaninow, Russian botanist, 1845-1850s or 1860s
  • Panayis Athanase Vagliano, Greek merchant and shipowner

Sports

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