WMaxim Albertovich Amelin is a Russian poet, critic, essayist, editor, and translator. He was born in Kursk, Russia, where he graduated from the Kursk Commercial College and did his military service in the Soviet Army. He studied in the Maxim Gorky Literature Institute in Moscow from 1991 to 1994, where he worked with Olesya Nikolayeva. He was commercial director and director of the St. Petersburg publishing house Symposium from 1995 to 2007 and has been the Editor-in-Chief of the Moscow publishing house OGI since 2008. He is married to the poet Anna Zolotaryova and lives in Moscow.
WViktor Petrovich Astafyev also spelled Astafiev or Astaf'ev, was a prominent Soviet and Russian writer.
WLeonid Ivanovich Borodin was a Russian novelist and journalist.
WVladimir Vladimirovich Bortko PAR, is a Russian film director, screenwriter, producer and politician. Member of the State Duma since 2011.
WYury Mikhaylovich Kublanovsky is a Russian poet, essayist, critic and art historian, known for his dissident past, started in the informal literary union SMOG. The author of dozens of lyrical books appearing in America, France, and Russia.
WInna Lisnyanskaya or Inna Lisnianskaya was a Jewish-Russian poet from USSR, later Russia, her most creative period of writing occurred in the village for poets and writers of Peredelkino near Moscow, where she lived with her husband and co-worker, Semyon Lipkin.
WYevgeny Vitalevich Mironov is a Soviet and Russian film and stage actor. Merited Artist of the Russian Federation (1996), People's Artist of Russia (2004), State Prize of the Russian Federation laureate - 1995, 2010. Yevgeny Mironov lives and works in Moscow, Russia.
WYevgeny Ivanovich Nosov was a Soviet Russian writer, part of the village prose movement, who since 1958 contributed regularly to Nash Sovremennik and Novy Mir magazines. Nosov, who fought in World War II and was severely injured in February 1945, received two Orders of Lenin and the Hero of the Socialist Labour (1990) title. In 2001 he was awarded the Solzhenitsyn Prize for having created works that "...highlighted the tragedy of the War and the immense consequences it had for the Russian village, revealed to the full extent the belated bitterness of forgotten and neglected war veterans."
WOleg Pavlov was a prominent Russian writer and winner of the Russian Booker Prize.
WValentin Grigoriyevich Rasputin was a Russian writer. He was born and lived much of his life in the Irkutsk Oblast in Eastern Siberia. Rasputin's works depict rootless urban characters and the fight for survival of centuries-old traditional rural ways of life, addressing complex questions of ethics and spiritual revival.
WOlga Alexandrovna Sedakova is a Russian poet and translator. She has been described as "one of the best confessional Christian poets writing in Russian today".
WKonstantin Dmitrievich Vorobyov was a Russian Soviet writer, a War hero and a major exponent of the lieutenant prose movement in the Soviet war literature. Vorobyov, who was born in the Kursk region, Soviet Russia but spent most of his life in Vilnius, Lithuania, wrote 10 short novels and 30 short stories, many of which were either unpublished in his lifetime or suffered greatly from massive censorial cuts. According to the poet, critic and literature historian Dmitry Bykov, Vorobyov was "the most American of all Russian writers, a strange mix of Hemingway and Capote".
WAndrey Anatolyevich Zaliznyak was a Russian linguist, an expert in historical linguistics, dialectology and grammar. In his later years he paid much attention to popularization of linguistics and the struggle against pseudoscience.