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Atiyah

Atiyyah (عطية ‘aṭiyyah), which generally implies "something (money or goods given as regarded) received as a gift" or also means "present, gift, benefit, boon, favor, granting, giving".

The name is also spelt Atiyeh, Attiah, Attieh, Atieh, Atié, Atiya, Atiyya, Attiya, Attiyah, Attyé, Ateya, Attua, Ateah, Antuya, or Atia.

It may refer to:

Academics

 * Aziz Suryal Atiya (1898–1988), Coptic historian and scholar and an expert in Islamic and Crusades studies
 * Sir Michael Atiyah (1929–2019), British mathematician, brother of Patrick
 * Patrick Atiyah (1931–2018), English barrister and legal writer, brother of Michael
 * George N. Atiyeh (1923–2008), Lebanese librarian

Authors and journalists

 * Jarir ibn Atiyah (c. 650 – c. 728), Arab poet and satirist
 * Edward Atiyah (1903–1964), Lebanese born writer, father of Michael and Patrick
 * Karen Attiah (born August 12, 1986), writer, journalist and editor

Arts and entertainment

 * Assane Attyé (born 1983), French singer of Lebanese origin known as Ycare
 * Atiye or Atiye Deniz (born 1988), Turkish-German singer
 * Joseph Attieh (born 1986), Lebanese singer
 * (born 1975), Israeli actress
 * Rania Attieh, Lebanese-American filmmaker
 * Rouwaida Attieh (born 1982), Syrian vocalist

Politics and government

 * Abdul Rahman bin Hamad Al Attiyah (born 1950), Qatari diplomat
 * Abdullah bin Hamad Al Attiyah (born 1951), Qatari government minister
 * Atiye Sultan (1824–1850), Ottoman princess
 * Hamad bin Ali Al Attiyah, Qatari State Minister for Defense in 2013
 * Khaled al-Attiyah (born 1949), Iraqi politician, First Deputy Speaker of the Iraqi National Assembly in 2006
 * Khalid bin Mohammad Al Attiyah (born 1967), Qatari government minister
 * Rawya Ateya (1926–1997), Egyptian who became the first female parliamentarian in the Arab world
 * Victor G. Atiyeh (1923–2014), American politician
 * Ziri ibn Atiyya (died 1001), Maghrawa Berber tribal leader

Religion

 * Ezra Attiya (1887–1970), Sephardic teacher of Torah
 * Ignatius III Atiyah (died 1634), Melkite Patriarch of Antioch

Sports

 * Alaa' Attieh (born 1990), Palestinian football (soccer) player
 * Dennis Atiyeh (born 1963), Syrian wrestler
 * Joseph Atiyeh (born 1957), Syrian wrestler
 * Khalil Bani Attiah (born 1991), Jordanian footballer
 * Mohammad Attiah (born 1950), Ghanaian football (soccer) player
 * Mohammed Attiyah (born 1992), Saudi footballer
 * Nasser Al-Attiyah (born 1970), Qatari rally driver and sport shooter
 * Saad Attiya (born 1987), Iraqi football (soccer) player

Given name

 * Atiyya ibn Sa'd (died 729), transmitter of hadith, exegete of the Qur'an
 * Attiya Al-Qahtani (born 1953), Saudi Arabian runner
 * Mullah Attiya al-Jamri (1899–1981), Bahraini khatib and poet
 * Shuhdi Atiya ash-Shafi (died 1960), Egyptian communist theoretician and activist
 * Atiyah Abd al-Rahman (1970–2011), Libyan purported to be a member of al-Qaeda and related militant groups
 * Attiya Dawood (born 1958), Pakistani poet, writer, feminist and activist
 * Ateya El-Belqasy (born 1984), Egyptian footballer
 * Atiyyah Ellison (born 1981), American footballer
 * Atiya Fyzee (1877–1967), Indian author
 * Attiya Inayatullah, Pakistani politician
 * Attiya Waris (born 1974), Kenyan academic and reform advocate

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Homomonument

The Homomonument is a memorial in the centre of Amsterdam, the capital of the Netherlands. It commemorates all gay men and lesbians who have been persecuted because of their sexual orientation. Opened on 5 September 1987, it was the first monument in the world to commemorate gays and lesbians who were killed by the German Nazi regime.

The monument takes the form of three large pink triangles made of granite, set into the ground, which together compose a larger triangle. It is on the bank of the Keizersgracht canal, near the historic Westerkerk church. The Homomonument was designed to "inspire and support lesbians and gays in their struggle against denial, oppression and discrimination."

During the Netherlands' annual Remembrance Day ceremony on 4 May, wreaths are laid on the monument to commemorate LGBT victims of persecution. A day later, on Liberation Day, the monument becomes the site of a street party.

Symbolism
The Homomonument is an abstract composition of three pink triangles made of granite. The symbol has historical roots; the pink triangle was a cloth badge used in Nazi concentration camps to identify men who had been jailed for homosexuality, which also included bisexual men and transgender women. It is estimated that 100,000 men were arrested and half of these spent time imprisoned during Nazi rule. Subsequently, the pink triangle became a symbol of the emancipation of the LGBT community and its struggle for its rights.

However, the Homomonument not only commemorates the victims of World War II, but all homosexual men and women who have been persecuted and murdered. The monument also honours those who have fought for the freedom and human rights of LGBTQ members. The designer of the monument, artist Karin Daan, described the symbolism of the monument as follows: "I think the best part is that the monument integrates itself into the place like an embroidery, and from above it is clearly visible how the triangle is intertwined with the urban and social space, that, for example, when taxi drivers stand in the middle of the monument, they are hardly aware of it. I think that is the most beautiful component of the Homomonument: we are there, proud and strong as granite, the monument binds us together here and now, but we are just as intertwined with the city and society in a larger time and space."

History
The idea of perpetuating the memory of homosexual victims of World War II appeared at the very beginning of the organized Dutch gay movement. In 1961, activist Jef Last suggested a 'monument to the unknown gay': "No one knows how many there were, no statistics indicate how many of them were beaten to death in those camps or starved or otherwise succumbed. No flame burns for unknown homophiles". However, this idea was not further developed until the 1970s, when the visibility and openness of the marginalized and stigmatized gay community became important political goals for many gay rights organizations.

In 1970, a year before the complete decriminalization of homosexuality in the Netherlands, a group of gay activists were arrested for trying to lay a wreath at the National Monument to the Victims of World War II on Dam Square, Amsterdam. The flowers were removed from the memorial by the police and declared insulting to the memory of the dead. This incident angered the LGBT community and catalyzed the struggle for the recognition of victims of repression. Throughout the 1970s, similar wreath-placing demonstrations were executed with varying success, as activists pushed for the inclusion of homosexuals in the public's collective memory of Hitler's "social purification" campaigns.

In the spring of 1979, during a period of rapid growth of the gay rights movement, the initiative to build a monument to persecuted homosexuals entered a qualitatively new stage when the Homomonument Foundation was founded. Its main goal was the implementation of the memorial project. One of the founders of the fund was Pacifist Socialist Party member Bob van Schijndel. Pointing to the fact that a monument to the Romani victims of the Nazi genocide was opened in Amsterdam in 1978, van Schijndel proposed a similar memorial which would be dedicated to the homosexuals who suffered during the Nazi rule. The founders of the fund also included representatives of the Labour Party, the People's Party and the Christian Democratic Party of the Netherlands.

In 1980, artists were invited to submit designs and a jury was assembled consisting of experts in the fields of art and design. The following year, out of 137 designs submitted to the competition, the jury chose the design by Karin Daan. With the triangle on the water as its central point, Daan expanded the design to make her work as monumental as possible without disrupting its surroundings. The government of Amsterdam allocated a place for the erection of the monument, but construction did not begin for another seven years. Many organizations and individuals made donations for the monument, with individual contributions from the Dutch Parliament, the government of Ruud Lubbers, the city of Amsterdam and the province of North Holland.

The idea of creating a monument was pointedly criticized by a number of political and public figures, who either did not recognize the fact of repression, considering the persecution of homosexuals to be legal, or argued that the creation of a monument to a separate small group was unjustifiable. Former Foreign Minister of the Netherlands Joseph Luns compared homosexuals to kleptomaniacs. In opposition to him, supporters of the monument noted that its construction would not make sense if there were no people in society who caused suffering to gays and lesbians, complicating their lives. The Daan design also drew criticism from some gay activists, who wanted the monument to have a more imposing design.

The first stone was laid on 28 April 1987, at Westermarkt. The opening ceremony of the Homomonument took place on 5 September 1987. It became the first gay monument of its kind in the world. Because of this, the Netherlands became known as the most tolerant Western nation, since the act of erecting a monument meant the recognition of the injustice of the past.

Construction
The Homomonument was erected on the Westermarkt square on the banks of the Keizersgracht canal, near the historic Westerkerk church. The memorial is a composition of three equilateral triangles of pink granite with edge lengths of 10 meters, which are interconnected by thin lines of similar material, thus forming one large equilateral triangle with a side length of 36 meters. Karin Daan designed the monument to be as imposing as possible without disturbing the environment, fitting it as closely as possible into the historic urban landscape.

The Homomonument embodies three ideas and three times: the memory of the past, opposition to discrimination and repression in the present, and parting words for the future. The first triangle is located on the embankment of the Keizersgracht canal. Four gradually tapering steps broken in the centre lead down from the pavement to a platform resting on the water. The top of the triangle, projecting into the canal, points to Dam Square, where the National Monument to the Victims of World War II is located. Four pontoons protect the monument from possible damage by passing ships. This triangle symbolizes the present time. Here people can often be seen sitting on the steps, and on the platform resting near the water, flowers are regularly laid and candles are lit.

The second triangle is made in the form of a podium, rising 60 centimetres above the surface of the square. It symbolizes the future. The outward-facing peak points to the headquarters of the LGBT organization "COC" at Rosenstraat 14. The abbreviation "COC" originally stood for "Cultuur en Ontspannings-Centrum" (with nid. – "Centre for culture and recreation") and was conceived as a neutral-sounding front for an LGBT organization. Founded in 1946, it is the oldest LGBT organization in the world. Near the triangle, there is an information kiosk called "Pink Point", which sells literature and souvenirs related to the gay life of the Netherlands. The podium itself is often used as a stage for various events.

The third triangle is located flush with the paving stones of the square. It symbolizes the past. Around the perimeter of the slab is engraved a line from the poem "To the Young Fisherman" by the Dutch Jewish poet Jacob Israël de Haan, who was allegedly homosexual: "Such a boundless craving for friendship" (Naar Vriendschap Zulk een Mateloos Verlangen), which, according to the plan of Karin Daan, describes the driving force in relationships between people. The apex, outside the large triangle, points to the home of Anne Frank, a Jewish girl whose diaries written during the German occupation of the Netherlands combined millions of human tragedies associated with the Nazi genocide in the story of one child.

The three historical sites which the monument points to were chosen to further emphasize the context in which the memorial itself and its symbols exist. The plate, placed on the canal fence on both sides (so that it can be seen both from land and from the water), contains an inscription in three languages (Dutch, English and French): "Homomonument Commemorates all women and men ever oppressed and persecuted because of their homosexuality.

Supports the International Lesbian and Gay Movement in their struggle against contempt, discrimination and oppression. Demonstrates that we are not alone. Calls for permanent vigilance.

Past, present and future are represented by the 3 triangles on this square. Designed by Karin Daan, 1987."

In 1991, the bridge over the Keizersgracht canal, located north of the Homomonument, was renamed in honour of the anti-fascist, resistance fighter, gay activist, and long-term leader of the COC Niek Engelschman.

Current situation
Every year, on the National Day of Remembrance on 4 May, the Homomonument hosts an official ceremony to commemorate the gays and lesbians who were victims of Nazi repression, as well as those who are still being persecuted for their sexual orientation around the world. The event, which brings together hundreds of people, is attended by various officials, representatives of political parties, and public organizations, many of whom make speeches. The ceremony begins at 8 pm and includes the laying of flowers, the lowering of the Dutch flag, and the traditional two minutes of silence followed by the national anthem "Wilhelmus". Previously, the use of official paraphernalia was prohibited, but this position was later changed.

On the King's Day on 27 April and Liberation Day on 5 May, colourful Pink Triangle festivals are held at Westermarkt, which include dances, concerts, performances by artists, drag queens, and so on. These festivities, according to the organizers, should testify to the connection between the past and the present and be a guarantee that history will not be forgotten and will not lose its relevance.

The Homomonument, as the first monument of its kind, has gained worldwide fame and is a popular tourist attraction in Amsterdam. People from all over the world come to it to lay flowers and take pictures.

The Homomonument underwent restoration in 2003. On 24 October 2006, the mayor of Amsterdam, Job Cohen, and the chairman of the LGBT organization COC, Frank van Dalen, inaugurated a model Homomonument in the Madurodam miniature park in The Hague. Another monument in memory of LGBT victims of repression and persecution was dedicated in Barcelona, Spain in 2011, which was modeled after the Homomonument.

Today, the Westermarkt has become one of the centres of life for the Dutch LGBT community. Various events are often held here, including rallies, photo exhibitions, flash mobs, open lectures, weddings, celebrations, and other events. The Homomonument Foundation coordinates and funds these events.

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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Voices

Vanity. RickK 03:33, 6 May 2004 (UTC)
 * The voices in my head say "delete". -- Cyrius|&#9998 03:36, May 6, 2004 (UTC)
 * Delete unless verified. If someone can verify via third party that this debate club is hosting some of the largest debates in the Asian world, I would vote to keep. I spent most of the last hour trying to verify this but couldn't.  A web search turns up lots of hits, most claiming to be the website for Voices.  They are different sites, by different hosts, however.  Are all of these "the" Voices website?  The MMU site doesn't mention Voices.  Searching that site gets zero hits for Voices, debating club, debate, etc.  The MMU Bulletin Board has zero bulletins that mention Voices or a debate club in the bulletin title.  One bulletin shows that Clubs and Societies Registration Week is coming up. Guess which club is conspicuously absent from the list.  If the article text is legit, then... yes, it is vanity, but notable vanity.  If this is a hoax, it is very elaborate and confusing -- why do it?  I would like to say keep, but I can't until it can be verified.  SWAdair | Talk  08:19, 6 May 2004 (UTC)
 * University's club listing http://www.mmu.edu.my/menu_index.php?link=http://club.mmu.edu.my/  On VoicesMMU hosting Worlds 2005 http://bulletin.mmu.edu.my/v3/view/bulletin_main_search.mmu?s=17504   On Worlds website http://www.mmuworlds2005.com   Official Voices website http://www.voicesmmu.org/   Newspaper Articles http://www.nuttynet.com/mw05/featured.htm   http://www.nuttynet.com/mw05/featured2.htm .... These links were provided by 203.115.208.204, who accidentally overwrote the VfD discussion with the links.  I've restored the discussion and included the new information.  SWAdair | Talk  10:09, 6 May 2004 (UTC)
 * If you do a google search for "Voices MMU" you will find within the top 5 links, links to the Award for Best Club in MMU, a newspaper article about the Australasian Intervarsity Debating Championships we organised in 2003 and homepage for the World Championships that we are organising in 2005. A google search for "world universities debate championships 2005" will take you directly to a website hosted on www.debating.net that confirms VoicesMMU is hosting the World Championships in 2005. No hoax, no vanity =]Loganimal 13:17, 6 May 2004 (UTC)
 * Comment: If you make a concerted effort to NPOV the article and put it into Wikipedia Style (articles should not contain FAQS, provide the information in article format0, then people might vote to keep. It needs a lot of work.  Also think title needs to be changed, it is a surefire future ambiguity. Voices (debating society) I guess would be better. --bodnotbod 16:32, May 6, 2004 (UTC)

 * I agree with this point. I'll attempt to ensure that it's written in a more formal manner tonight.

 * I vote for deletion. We cannot risk allowing every club from everywhere to be included in Wikipedia. If we allow this Voices page to continue, it sets an ugly path for Wikipedia. Furthermore, searches done through Google lead to blogs and the club's own website. This certainly means this club is not worth mentioning in Wikipedia. __earth 22:08, May 6, 2004 (UTC)
 * I'm with Earth -- bad precedent. Delete. RadicalSubversiv E 04:00, 7 May 2004 (UTC)
 * Delete: vanity. Agreed w/ Earth. Wile E. Heresiarch 06:08, 8 May 2004 (UTC)
 * Changing my vote to a solid delete. The more I think about it, I could see articles about the international competitions themselves, but not this.  Some of the recent additions to the page are strongly turning it into a vanity page / secondary website, but not an encyclopedia article.  Delete.  SWAdair | Talk  06:24, 8 May 2004 (UTC)
 * Delete. Unencyclopedic. JFW | T@lk  10:16, 11 May 2004 (UTC)

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Whoopee! (comics)

Whoopee! was a British comic book magazine that ran from (issues dates) 9 March 1974 to 30 March 1985, when it merged with Whizzer and Chips. It was published by IPC Magazines Ltd and ran for 572 issues.

The first issue of Whoopee! ran to forty pages, with a free gift in the form of a 'squirter ring'. The strapline exhorted potential readers to "Get happy — get this paper!".

Shiver and Shake merged with Whoopee! shortly after its launch in 1974, followed by Cheeky in 1980 and Wow! in 1983. Whoopee! annuals continued to appear well into the late 1980s, and a Best of Whoopee! monthly reprints comic was published for a few years in the early 1990s.

Strips

 * Ad Lad — a Les Gray lookalike obsessed with getting his face on television
 * Bleep! (from Wow!)
 * Blinketty Blink
 * Blunder Puss (from Shiver and Shake)
 * Bookworm — a bespectacled, book-loving schoolboy
 * Boy Boss (from Wow!)'' — the nominal editor of a children's comic, who annoyed his staff by preferring playground games to official business
 * Calculator Kid — a young boy with a distinctive rollercoaster-shaped hairstyle and a helpful calculator which helped him out of scrapes
 * Cheeky Chudley — (Bets on the 'osses... it's a no brainer!)
 * Cheeky (from Cheeky)
 * Chip
 * Creepy Car (from Shiver and Shake)
 * Creepy Comix (from Wow!)
 * Dads as Lads — two dads reminiscing about their childhood while their sons played pranks on them
 * Daisy Jones' Locket
 * Dick Doobee — 'Back to Front Man', an innovative strip from The Guardian cartoonist Steve Bell
 * Evil Eye — a ghostly disembodied optic organ causes previously well-behaved citizens to indulge in criminal activities
 * Family Trees (from Wow!)
 * Frankie Stein (from Wham! and then Shiver and Shake) — a smiley-faced Boris Karloff lookalike; by Robert Nixon (originally by Ken Reid)
 * Fun Fear
 * Ghoul Getters Ltd (from Shiver and Shake)
 * KBR — Kids Band Radio (from Wow!) — a spoof on the CB radio phenomenon, with similarly outlandish jargon ("the cakes have gonked on my chunker!")
 * Kids Court — a courtroom for adults who do wrong to kids
 * Lolly Pop — a rotund, extremely rich and incredibly miserly man who begrudged his son almost everything
 * Mum's the Word
 * Mustapha Million (from Cheeky) — a stereotypical Arab schoolboy who splashed money around to make his schoolmates' lives more comfortable
 * 'Orrible 'Ole
 * Ossie (from Wow!)
 * Paddywack (from Cheeky) — a buck-toothed, curly-haired Irish labourer who enacted Irish jokes in three-panel strips
 * Scared-Stiff Sam — a hulking giant who was nonetheless scared of everything, including his own teddy bear
 * Scream Inn (from Shiver and Shake)
 * Shake (from Shiver and Shake)
 * Snarky Sharky (He Always Trips Over Fans!)
 * Shipwreck School (from Wow!)
 * Shiver (from Shiver and Shake)
 * Smiler — an eternally happy lad with a fixed grin
 * Snap Happy
 * Spare-Part Kit
 * Spy School
 * Stage School — a grumpy teacher takes a class full of budding comedians, dancers, musicians and novelty performers
 * Supermum
 * Sweeny Toddler (from Shiver and Shake) — an ugly, mischievous, highly anti-social infant created by Leo Baxendale
 * Team Mates (from Wow!)
 * The Bumpkin Billionaires — a family of farm labourers win a fortune on the pools and spend all their time trying to give it away
 * Tom Horror's World — a bespectacled budding inventor tries out his contraptions on his unwilling father, who usually comes off worst
 * Toy Boy — a plaything-obsessed lad, usually seen playing an accordion in the title frame
 * Trevor's Treasure Tracker — boy with a metal detector
 * Willy Worry — a boy who misunderstood simple expressions (e.g. "I can see right through you"), taking them literally and worrying about the consequences.

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User talk:Kahkonen

The First post to me
Hi! The links to the text of the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact is quite useless in the Treaty of Tartu article. First of all the text is in Finnish. Secondly we already have an article on the Molotov-Ribbentrop (with a link to the treaty text, in english). If you want to write about how the Treaty of Tartu affected later treaties with the SU, please do so. I hope you had time to look at the Neutral point of view policy.

Good thing you started Viena expedition, do you know any good books dealing with the subject, in finnish obviously? :) With the exception of the Aunus expedition these "Heimosodat" are grey area to me. -- Jniemenmaa 08:09, 6 May 2004 (UTC)

About Karelians and Finns
Welcome here!

With regard to your comments on Finnish (language), my opinion is stated at User:Tuomas. Very little, if anything at all, is gained from talk page conversations in languages other than English. (Besides, down here in the South, even the University Library has a very small selection on sources in Finnish. I don't care to wait for requisitions, so I'm stuck with English, Swedish and (in few cases) Danish and German works.)

There is plenty of good advice to read at (or rather linked from) Welcome, newcomers. Nobody expects you to read all of it at once, but you might gain a lot from browsing through these pages every now and then. Particularly if you some day fall victim of wikistress. /Tuomas 13:12, 6 May 2004 (UTC)

 * I think I or you have understood something wrong. But imho, Swedesh-speaking Finns are Finns. So are Karelians (Finns living North Karelia and those who lived in ceded territories), Tavastians and others. But Karelians of Republic of Karelia are not Finns.
 * /Kahkonen 6 May 2004

We have to be careful with the difference between Finnic and Finnish; as Finnish in its modern meaning is a term much younger than the concept of Karelians. In the 13th century, and for a long time after that, Finns denoted people from the other side of Tavastia (seen from Viipuri). — But I noted that my usage of all-caps in an edit summary ("KARELIANS") came to seem a lot more aggressive than I intended. — I guess you remember that, seen from Korela, they could as well have spoken of Swedes for what we today call Finns. ;-))

The concept of Karelians, on the other hand, is useful and functional for all of the period we try to cover. Despite some of them allied to the Swedes and some to Novgorod; despite some of them Catholic, later Lutheran, and some of them Orthodox.

By the way, and just for your information, even if I have remote family connections to the isthmus (and also to the northwestern Ladoga shore), I think I am not particularly attached, emotionally, to Karelia. But it is useful and informative to refer to Karelians in certain contexts. /Tuomas 18:52, 6 May 2004 (UTC)

 * But we still don't have to use term Karelians when writing about evacuees who left from ceded Karelia. They were Finns as more as Tavastians (as I'm from Häme), Swedish-speaking Finns and others.

 * And if we try to cover all times, we can't write about Finns before 19th century, because only then most Finns considered themselves as whole nationality. So, should we write Tavastians, Savolaks, Karelians, Proper Finns, ...?

 * The main point I want to say is that Finns living in North Karelia (Joensuu, Lappeenranta, ...) and those evacuees from ceded Karelia (Viipuri, Käkisalmi, Sortavala, ...) are not same nationality with Karelians who inhabitates East Karelia.

 * Also that is fun to mark Finland's borders before year 1920 :-), because there were not such a Finland before it.

 * Good sites
 * http://www.fikas.no/~sprocket/snpa/chapter-IX11.htm

 * /Kahkonen 7 May 2004 (disappointed after lost in Fin-Can 4-5 OT)

 * I don't want to be or sound more than mildly rude or something (yes, that WAS irony!), but for the time, I feel that there are quite a lot of issues where your POV differs not only from my personal POV, but from how most of the English speaking world understands things Finnish. (If they know anything about us at all, that is.)
 * The idea that the Grand Duchy was not "Finland", or that East-Karelians and West-Karelians should have been "different peoples" belongs here. (That their nationality was different is not the same as them being ethnically different.) That is not to say that your ideas are useless or utterly wrong or so, only that I think that you should consider what you write carefully. I believe your input then can result in very important improvements of many articles here. I ask you friendly to read more of the articles that describes the NPOV ideology and also the discussion at Wikipedia talk:What Wikipedia is not/Unencyclopedic. /Tuomas 08:01, 10 May 2004 (UTC)

 * I don't think it is POV. Grand Duchy was Finland, but before it there was not Finlad, only Eastern regions of Sweden. And about Karelians, do You think that other Finns and evacuated Karelians are "different peoples"? I, and official Finland, do not think. So you want to say that Karelians living in East Karelia are Finns? I think _that_ is very POV. Kahkonen 09:07, 10 May 2004 (UTC)

 * Well, I think you should see the emerge of the concept of Finland as a more gradual process. The 50 years of experiment with parliamentarism, and the glory of Saint Petersburg, had effects before 1809. With regard to Karelians, no, I do not think that West- and East-Karelians were "different peoples". There were differences, which as far as I know all could be explained by their different experiences of history. I consider your edits to emphasize these differences more than necessary, and it's in some of your edits I saw them being made into different peoples, which in my opinion is a disadvantage with these of your proposals. I would never agree to unqualified statements like "the East-Karelians are in reality Finns", where did you get that from? However, to call them "Russians" as some Russian texts do, is also a little bit too much for me.
 * -> /Tuomas 09:28, 10 May 2004 (UTC)

 * Here: http://virtual.finland.fi/finfo/english/karjala.html

 * I guess you refer to the following quotation:
 * Under the competing influences of East and West, the people of Karelia began centuries ago to split as it were into two distinct peoples. This bifurcation has been visible across the areas of language, culture and religion — Orthodox in the east and Lutheran in the west.
 * That's a "qualified statement". :-) It explains in what way the author reasons, and it says "began" to split into two distinct peoples which is a somewhat more careful statement than your:
 * The Karelians is a term used for two different types of Finno-Ugric people:
 * Karelians inhabiting the Russian Republic of Karelia (and Tver's Karelia) and Finn tribe Karelians living in eastern Finland.
 * The dialect of Finns called Karelians are often considered a Karelian dialect (Karjalan murre), but right term is Southeastern dialects (kaakkoismurteet).
 * Many of Finn tribe Karelians are Orthodox Christians.

 * Even the Red Book is more careful:
 * However, the Finns from Finnish Karelia have also been called Karelians, although they speak a Finnish dialect.

 * So, what it all boils down to is that you may be understood as wishing Wikipedia to take the Stalinist or Russian POV that "Karelians are different from Finns and the inhabitants west of the 1812-border were not Karelians but Finns" and give it legitimacy while delegitimizing usage inherited from the Fennomans and their belief in Karelia as the well of true Finnishness. But Wikipedia is not to act as a judge between different points of view. Wikipedia is not to prescribe "correct" usage. Wikipedia is to describe usage in English, and possibly in other languages when that's relevant for the usage in English.

 * "Karelians are different from Finns and the inhabitants west of the 1812-border were not Karelians but Finns"
 * "However, the Finns from Finnish Karelia have also been called Karelians, although they speak a Finnish dialect."
 * I have understood that this is also POV of Finns and "West Karelians".
 * /Kahkonen 19:30, 10 May 2004 (UTC)

 * If you now instead had proposed an inclusion of a reference to this difference between points of view, I believe you'd made a much better impression and spared yourself some criticism. Such a proposal could for instance have been worded like:
 * In English works influenced by a Finnish or Swedish understanding, people both west and east of the border are considered Karelians. In text influenced by a Russian understanding, Karelians are distinguished from Finns (or Swedes) so that people west of the border are typically considered Finns and not Karelians.

 * By the way: In my understanding, which may (or may not) be a minority-view in Wikipedia discussions, POV is not a foul word and points of views are not wrong. :-)
 * /Tuomas 15:05, 10 May 2004 (UTC)

(Nowadays article Karelians is corrected by people who can English better than I.) Kahkonen 15:52, 6 November 2005 (UTC)

Others
On the location of Käkisalmi, I'm distressed by having put it in the Republic of Karelia. I knew better, but made a mistake - stupidly. Thank you for correcting it. /Tuomas 07:50, 7 May 2004 (UTC)

Many Karelias
Damn, I had a updated map lying on my harddrive. I've cleaned up the map somewhat. The most drastic move was to remove the pre-WW2 borders alltogether, I think that is the most sensile thing to do. Otherwise there are other historic borders that are interesting, Pähkinäsaari for instance. (That would need a map of its own). See Image talk:Many Karelias.png -- Jniemenmaa 18:54, 21 Jun 2004 (UTC)

Java
Hi. Please disambiguate Java on your user page. For example, Java. Also, C as well. Thanks. RedWolf 16:43, Jul 11, 2004 (UTC)

About Karelia in List of territorial disputes
Hi, I've removed Karelia from the list when I moved it, and here's why I think it doesn't belong on the list.

On the CIA factbook, it says that:

 * various groups in Finland advocate restoration of Karelia and other areas ceded to the Soviet Union, but the Finnish Government asserts no territorial demands.

The key is that the Finnish government does not assert official territorial demands. Unofficial demands are too numerous to count, and every country has a few. Just to give three examples: Japan has Sakhalin and the Kurile Islands, for example. Korea has Gando and Tsushima. China has Outer Manchuria, Mongolia, Tuva, and the Ryukyu Islands. (These aren't rare claims by the way; I encounter them online all the time, including POV language used on the Chinese and Japanese wikipedias.) Are we going to start adding all of them? -- ran (talk) 01:15, 8 December 2005 (UTC)

 * Yes, we could add all of them to that list and then start a new list List of official territorial disputes or something like that. Did you say Kuril Islands dispute is not "official"? Kahkonen 19:37, 8 December 2005 (UTC)

The Southern Kuriles are officially claimed, but what I was referring to was all of the Kurile Islands. That's why I didn't use the word "southern" in my original post.

As for a new article, I would suggest being cautious as I foresee the unofficial list being filled up quite quickly with a lot of fringe / unsubstantiated claims. So it would be better to leave the current pages as is, and start a new List of unofficial territorial disputes. -- ran (talk) 22:44, 8 December 2005 (UTC)

Soviet-Finnish conflict 1921—1922
(When you made last editing in the article, I only was going to write to Talk:)

 * Moved this to the articles talk page. Kahkonen 17:49, 18 June 2007 (UTC)

Unit matrix
Hi there - I noticed that you added a link to fi: for unit matrix, so I thought that maybe you would happen to have a reference for unit matrix? I have always thought that the unit matrix and identity matrix were always synonymous with each other. --HappyCamper 11:33, 21 June 2007 (UTC)

 * There is confusions in Finnish terms too, but for example in this page: matlab function ones (every element one) is explained as unit matrix (ykkösmatriisi) and eye (diagonal elements one) is identity matrix (yksikkömatriisi, identiteettimatriisi). The Finnish article is translated from English one, btw. Any good reference I can not give, unfortunately. Kahkonen 11:57, 21 June 2007 (UTC)

 * Ah, that makes sense. Thanks for your help! --HappyCamper 19:25, 21 June 2007 (UTC)

AfD nomination of Ce'Nedra
Ce'Nedra, an article you created, has been nominated for deletion. We appreciate your contributions. However, an editor does not feel that Ce'Nedra satisfies Wikipedia's criteria for inclusion and has explained why in the nomination space (see also "What Wikipedia is not" and the Wikipedia deletion policy). Your opinions on the matter are welcome; please participate in the discussion by adding your comments at Articles for deletion/Ce'Nedra and please be sure to sign your comments with four tildes ( ~ ). You are free to edit the content of Ce'Nedra during the discussion but should not remove the articles for deletion template from the top of the article; such removal will not end the deletion discussion. Thank you. Skywolf talk/contribs 20:44, 14 September 2007 (UTC)

 * Please review What Wikipedia is not - encyclopedic material is not plot information and speculative analysis of fictional characters. I'm not disputing that this is a major character in the book, what the AfD is disputing is whether or not the content of the article is within WP:NOT guidelines. --Skywolf talk/contribs 01:17, 15 September 2007 (UTC)

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(Query about this article from Eoghan moved from User talk:Topbanana - TB 08:10, 6 May 2004 (UTC))

Hi Topbanana, was it you who redirected Great Glen to Glen Albyn? Either way, how about changing it back? I've never heard this name used for anything other than a whisky (and I'm from Fort William), and I couldn't find it in a list of glens either. Even if it is used, the Great Glen (also An Gleann Mor in Gaelic) is by far the more common name. Eoghan 23:54, 5 May 2004 (UTC)

 * Howdy Eoghan, nice to have someone questioning this stuff. To be perfectly honest I wasn't overly sure about the naming of these three (Albyn, Mor and Great) myself.  I was under the impression that Glen Mor was just the southwestern end of the Great Glen (branching from Glen Nevis at Aonach Mor).  Glen Albyn is obviously roman and seems to refer to the whole valley from Inverness to Fort William - I suspect the only source of clues might by Herodotus.  The Great Glen is definately a modern moniker, I can't find it in use before the 19th century - it could be coincidental with the Caledonian Canal (1822).

 * How is Glen Albyn obviously Roman... it looks like an Anglicised form of something like Scottish Gaelic Gleann Albain, "Glen of Scotland" or "Scotland's Glen", which would be fitting for something so large, eh?

 * Can you describe to me how you understand the three names/glens to relate please? Between us we can hopefully produce something coherent.  -

TB 08:10, 6 May 2004 (UTC)

 * I am just putting together some info for a interpretation board and have noticed that the diagram and article are suggesting that the NW of the Great Glen moved North East. I think that it did make a small movement in this direction but the majority of the movement of the North West Highlands was actually south west.  I have talked to several local geologists and checked other sites and it does seem that this is the case. (daviebeag - 20 June 2006)

Merge?
Surely Great Glen is not sensibly separated from Great Glen Fault in an encyclopedia. How can one receive encyclopedic coverage without t'other? --Wetman 05:34, 25 September 2007 (UTC)

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Kanner

Kanner is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:

 * Alexis Kanner (1942–2003), French-born English actor
 * Ellie Kanner, American film and television director
 * Heinrich Kanner (1864–1930), Austrian author
 * Leo Kanner (1894–1981), Austrian-American psychiatrist
 * Patrick Kanner (born 1957), French politician
 * Stephen Kanner (1955–2010), American architect

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Fixed-point theorems in infinite-dimensional spaces

In mathematics, a number of fixed-point theorems in infinite-dimensional spaces generalise the Brouwer fixed-point theorem. They have applications, for example, to the proof of existence theorems for partial differential equations.

The first result in the field was the Schauder fixed-point theorem, proved in 1930 by Juliusz Schauder (a previous result in a different vein, the Banach fixed-point theorem for contraction mappings in complete metric spaces was proved in 1922). Quite a number of further results followed. One way in which fixed-point theorems of this kind have had a larger influence on mathematics as a whole has been that one approach is to try to carry over methods of algebraic topology, first proved for finite simplicial complexes, to spaces of infinite dimension. For example, the research of Jean Leray who founded sheaf theory came out of efforts to extend Schauder's work.

"Schauder fixed-point theorem: Let C be a nonempty closed convex subset of a Banach space V. If f : C → C is continuous with a compact image, then f has a fixed point."

"Tikhonov (Tychonoff) fixed-point theorem: Let V be a locally convex topological vector space. For any nonempty compact convex set X in V, any continuous function f : X → X has a fixed point."

"f(x)-f(y)\"

Other results include the Markov–Kakutani fixed-point theorem (1936-1938) and the Ryll-Nardzewski fixed-point theorem (1967) for continuous affine self-mappings of compact convex sets, as well as the Earle–Hamilton fixed-point theorem (1968) for holomorphic self-mappings of open domains.

"Kakutani fixed-point theorem: Every correspondence that maps a compact convex subset of a locally convex space into itself with a closed graph and convex nonempty images has a fixed point."


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List of Russian-language writers

This is a list of authors who have written works of prose and poetry in the Russian language.

For separate lists by literary field:
 * List of Russian-language novelists
 * List of Russian-language playwrights
 * List of Russian-language poets

A

 * Bavasan Abiduev (1909–1940), poet and one of the founders of Buryat children's literature
 * Alexander Ablesimov (1742–1783), opera librettist, poet, dramatist, satirist and journalist
 * Fyodor Abramov (1920–1983), novelist and short story writer, Two Winters and Three Summers
 * Grigory Adamov (1886–1945) science fiction writer, The Mystery of the Two Oceans
 * Georgy Adamovich (1892–1972), poet, critic, memoirist, translator
 * Anastasia Afanasieva (born 1982), physician, poet, writer & translator
 * Alexander Afanasyev (1826–1871), folklorist who recorded and published over 600 Russian folktales and fairytales, Russian Fairy Tales
 * Alexander Afanasyev-Chuzhbinsky (1816–1875), poet, writer, ethnographer and translator
 * Alexander Afinogenov (1904–1941), playwright, A Far Place
 * M. Ageyev (1898–1973), pseudonymous writer, Novel with Cocaine
 * Chinghiz Aitmatov (1928–2008), Kyrgyz novelist and short story writer, Jamilya, The Day Lasts More Than a Hundred Years
 * David Aizman (1869–1922), Russian-Jewish writer and playwright
 * Bella Akhmadulina (1937–2010), poet, short story writer, and translator, The String
 * Anna Akhmatova (1889–1966), acmeist poet, Requiem, Poem Without a Hero
 * Ivan Aksakov (1823–1886), journalist, slavophile
 * Konstantin Aksakov (1817–1860), playwright, critic and writer, slavophile
 * Sergey Aksakov (1791–1859), novelist and miscellaneous writer, The Scarlet Flower
 * Vasily Aksyonov (1932–2009), novelist and short story writer, Generations of Winter
 * Boris Akunin (born 1956), author, essayist, translator and literary critic, Erast Fandorin series, Sister Pelagia series
 * Mikhail Albov, (1851–1911), novelist and short story writer
 * Mark Aldanov (died 1957), historical novelist
 * Andrey Aldan-Semenov (1908–1985), Gulag memoirist
 * Mikhail Alekseyev (1918–2007) writer and editor, My Stalingrad
 * Sholem Aleichem (1859–1916), Russian Jewish writer, Wandering Stars
 * Margarita Aliger (1915–1992), poet, translator, and journalist, Zoya
 * Yuz Aleshkovsky (1929–2022), writer, poet, playwright and performer of his own songs, Kangaroo
 * Boris Almazov (1827–1876), poet, translator and literary critic
 * Alexander Amfiteatrov (1862–1938), writer and historian, Napoleonder
 * Daniil Andreyev (1906–1959), writer, poet, and Christian mystic, Roza Mira
 * Leonid Andreyev (1871–1919), novelist, playwright and short story writer, The Seven Who Were Hanged, The Life of Man
 * Sergey Andreyevsky (1847–1918), writer, poet, literary critic, The Book on Death
 * Irakly Andronikov (1908–1990), writer, historian, philologist and media personality
 * Anna Mitrofanovna Aníchkova (1868/1869 – 1935), writer and translator who wrote under the pseudonym Ivan Strannik
 * Pavel Annenkov (1813–1887), critic and memoirist, The Extraordinary Decade
 * Yury Annenkov (1889–1974), artist and writer, A Tale of Trivia
 * Innokenty Annensky (1855–1909), poet, critic and translator, representative of the first wave of Russian Symbolism
 * Lev Anninsky (1934–2019) writer, literary historian and critic
 * Pavel Antokolsky (1896–1978), poet, All We Who in His Name
 * Maxim Antonovich (1835–1918), critic, essayist, memoirist, translator and philosopher
 * Elena Apreleva (1846–1923), writer, memoirist, playwright, Guilty without Guilt
 * Aleksey Apukhtin (1840–1893), poet and writer, From Death to Life
 * Maria Arbatova (born 1957), novelist, short story writer, playwright, poet and journalist
 * Aleksei Arbuzov (1908–1986), playwright, A Long Road
 * Vladimir Arnoldi (1871–1924), children's author and professor of biology
 * Mikhail Artsybashev (1878–1927), naturalist writer and playwright, Sanin
 * Nikolai Aseev (1889–1963), futurist poet, Night Flute
 * Viktor Astafyev (1924–2001), novelist and short story writer, Sad Detective
 * Lera Auerbach (Averbakh) (born 1973), poet, writer and composer
 * Mikhail Avdeev (1821–1876), novelist and playwright, Tamarin trilogy
 * Arkady Averchenko (1881–1925), satirical writer and playwright, Ninochka
 * Vasily Avseenko (1842–1913), writer, journalist and literary critic
 * Hizgil Avshalumov (1913–2001), Soviet novelist, poet and playwright
 * Gennadiy Aygi (1934–2006), Chuvash poet and translator
 * Vasily Azhayev (1915–1968), novelist, Far from Moscow

B

 * Semyon Babayevsky (1909–2000), novelist and short story writer, Golden Star Chavalier
 * Isaak Babel (1894–1940), short story writer, The Odessa Tales, Red Cavalry
 * Eduard Bagritsky (1895–1934), constructivist poet, February
 * Grigory Baklanov (1923–2009), novelist and magazine editor, Forever Nineteen
 * Ivan Bakhtin (1756–1818), poet, satirist and politician
 * Mikhail Bakhtin (1895–1975), philosopher, literary critic, semiotician and scholar, "Epic and Novel"
 * Mikhail Bakunin (1814–1876), revolutionary and theorist of collectivist anarchism, God and the State, Statism and Anarchy
 * Konstantin Balmont (1867–1942), symbolist poet and translator, Burning Buildings, Let Us Be Like the Sun
 * Jurgis Baltrušaitis (1873–1944), poet and translator, The Pendulum
 * Kazimir Barantsevich (1851–1927), writer and poet, Family Hearth
 * Yevgeny Baratynsky (1800–1844), poet, The Gipsy
 * Natalya Baranskaya (1908–2004), novelist and short story writer, A Week Like Any Other
 * Ivan Barkov (1732–1768), comic and erotic poet, Luka Mudischev
 * Anna Barkova (1901–1976), poet and writer, Gulag survivor
 * Elpidifor Barsov (1836–1917), literary historian, ethnographer, folklorist, philologist
 * Agniya Barto (1906–1981), Russian-Jewish poet and children's writer
 * Alexander Bashlachev (1960–1988), poet, musician, guitarist, and singer-songwriter
 * Fyodor Batyushkov (1857–1920), philologist, essayist, literary and theatre historian
 * Konstantin Batyushkov (1787–1855), poet, essayist and translator
 * Nikolai Bazhin (1843–1908), writer, journalist and critic, The History of One People's Partnership
 * Pavel Bazhov (1879–1950), fairy tale author, The Malachite Casket
 * Demyan Bedny (1883–1945), poet and satirist, New Testament Without Defects
 * Dmitry Begichev (1786–1855), writer and politician
 * Alexander Bek (1903–1972), novelist, And Not to Die
 * Ekaterina Beketova (1855–1892), poet, writer, and translator
 * Vissarion Belinsky (1811–1848), writer, literary critic and philosopher
 * Vasily Belov (1932–2012), writer, poet and dramatist, Eves, The Year of a Major Breakdown
 * Andrei Bely (1880–1934), symbolist poet, writer and essayist, The Silver Dove, Petersburg
 * Alexander Belyayev (1884–1942), science fiction author, Amphibian Man
 * Vladimir Benediktov (1807–1873); poet and translator
 * Nina Berberova (1901–1993), novelist and short story writer, The Book of Happiness
 * Nikolai Berg (1823–1884), poet, journalist, translator and historian
 * Olga Bergholz (1910–1975), poet, playwright and memoirist
 * Alexander Bestuzhev (1797–1837), novelist, short story writer and Decembrist, An Evening on Bivouac
 * Vitaly Bianki (1894–1959), nature and children's writer
 * Aleksei Bibik (1878–1976), working-class novelist and short story writer
 * Andrei Bitov (1937–2018), novelist and short story writer, Pushkin House
 * Nikolai Blagoveshchensky (1837–1889), writer, journalist and biographer
 * Helena Blavatsky (1831–1891), a founder of Theosophy and the Theosophical Society, The Secret Doctrine, Isis Unveiled
 * Pyotr Blinov (1913–1942), Udmurt writer and journalist
 * Alexander Blok (1880–1921), poet, "The Twelve"
 * Pyotr Boborykin (1836–1921), writer, playwright and journalist, China Town
 * Oleg Bogayev (born 1970), playwright, The Russian National Postal Service
 * Andrei Bogdanov (1692–1766), bibliographer and ethnographer
 * Alexander Bogdanov (1873–1928), novelist, physician, economist and philosopher, Red Star
 * Vladimir Bogomolov (1926–2003), novelist and short story writer, Ivan
 * Vladimir Bogoraz (1865–1936), revolutionary, writer and anthropologist
 * Yuri Bondarev (1924–2020), novelist and short story writer, The Shore
 * Leonid Borodin (1938–2011), novelist and journalist, The Story of a Strange Time
 * Genrikh Borovik (born 1929), publicist, writer, playwright and filmmaker
 * Vasily Botkin (1812–1869), critic, essayist and translator
 * Valeri Brainin-Passek (born 1948), Russian/German musicologist, music manager, composer and poet
 * Osip Brik (1888–1945), avant garde writer and literary critic
 * Joseph Brodsky (1940–1996), poet and essayist, Nobel Prize Winner
 * Valery Bryusov (1873–1924), poet, novelist and short story writer, The Fiery Angel
 * Yury Buida (born 1954), novelist and short story writer, The Zero Train
 * Vladimir Bukovsky (1942–2019), writer and dissident
 * Mikhail Bulgakov (1891–1940), novelist, short story writer and playwright, Heart of a Dog, The White Guard, The Master and Margarita
 * Faddey Bulgarin (1789–1859), Polish-born writer and journalist
 * Kir Bulychev (1934–2003), science fiction author, Half a Life
 * Ivan Bunin (1870–1953), first Russian winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature, The Village, The Life of Arseniev, Dark Avenues
 * Anna Bunina (1774–1829), poet, Though Poverty's No Stain
 * Viktor Burenin (1841–1926), writer, critic, playwright, librettist and satirical poet
 * David Burliuk (1882–1967), illustrator, publicist and author associated with Russian Futurism
 * Dmitry Bykov (born 1967)
 * Pyotr Bykov (1844–1930) literary historian, poet and translator
 * Vasil Bykov (1924–2003)

C

 * Dimitrie Cantemir (1673–1723), philosopher, historian, composer, musicologist, linguist, ethnographer and geographer
 * Catherine the Great, (1729–1796), patroness of the arts, music and theatre, and opera librettist, Fevey
 * Pyotr Chaadayev (1794–1856), philosopher, Philosophical Letters
 * Aleksey Chapygin (1870–1937), novelist and short story writer, Stepan Razin
 * Lidia Charskaya (1875–1938), novelist and actress
 * Nikolai Chayev (1824–1914), writer, poet and playwright, Svat Faddeyich
 * Alexander Chekhov (1855–1913), writer and journalist
 * Anton Chekhov (1860–1904), short story writer and playwright, The Seagull, The Cherry Orchard, "Ward No. 6", The Lady with the Dog"
 * Nikolay Chernyshevsky (1828–1889), writer, journalist and politician, What Is to Be Done?
 * Evgeny Chirikov (1864–1932), novelist, short story writer and playwright, The Magician
 * Sasha Chorny (1880–1932), poet, satirist and children's writer
 * Korney Chukovsky (1882–1969), children's poet, Wash'em'clean
 * Lydia Chukovskaya (1907–1996), writer and poet, Sofia Petrovna
 * Georgy Chulkov (1879–1939), poet, editor, writer and critic

D

 * Denis Davydov (1784–1839), soldier-poet of the Napoleonic Wars
 * Vladimir Dal (1801–1872), writer and lexicographer, Explanatory Dictionary
 * Yuli Daniel (1925–1988), dissident writer, poet and translator, This is Moscow Speaking
 * Grigory Danilevsky (1829–1890), historical and ethnographical novelist, Moscow in Flames
 * Anton Delvig (1798–1831), poet, journalist and magazine editor
 * Grigoriy Demidovtsev (born 1960), writer and playwright
 * Andrey Dementyev (1928–2018), poet and writer
 * Boris Derevensky (born 1962), writer and historian
 * Regina Derieva (1949–2013), poet, writer and essayist
 * Gavrila Derzhavin (1743–1816), poet and statesman, Let the Thunder of Victory Sound!
 * Nikolai Devitte (1811–1844), poet, harpist and songwriter, Not for Me.
 * Andrei Dmitriev (born 1956), novelist and short story writer, winner of the 2012 Russian Booker Prize
 * Ivan Dmitriev (1760–1837), sentimentalist poet and Russian Minister of Justice
 * Valentina Dmitryeva (1859–1947), writer, doctor and teacher, Hveska, the Doctor's Watchman
 * Nikolay Dobrolyubov (1836–1861), literary critic, journalist, poet and essayist
 * Leonid Dobychin (1894–1936), novelist and short story writer, The Town of N
 * Yevgeniy Dolmatovsky (1915–1994) poet and songwriter
 * Yury Dombrovsky (1909–1978), poet, writer and Gulag survivor, The Faculty of Useless Knowledge
 * Vlas Doroshevich (1864–1922), journalist, writer and drama critic, The Way of the Cross
 * Lyubov Dostoyevskaya (1869–1926), novelist and biographer, The Emigrant
 * Fyodor Dostoyevsky (1821–1881), writer, essayist, journalist and editor, Notes from Underground, Crime and Punishment, The Idiot, Demons, The Brothers Karamazov, The House of the Dead, The Gambler, "White Nights", "A Gentle Creature", "The Dream of a Ridiculous Man"
 * Mikhail Dostoyevsky (1820–1864), writer, critic and editor, Vremya
 * Sergei Dovlatov (1941–1990), novelist, short story writer and journalist, Affiliate
 * Spiridon Drozhzhin (1848–1930), poet, At the Village Assembly
 * Yulia Drunina (1924–1991), poet and politician
 * Alexander Druzhinin (1824–1864), writer and magazine editor, Polinka Saks
 * Vladimir Dudintsev (1918–1998), novelist, Not by Bread Alone
 * Sergey Durov (1816–1869), poet, translator, writer, and political activist
 * Nadezhda Durova (1783–1866), soldier and writer, The Cavalry Maiden

E

 * Yevgeny Edelson (1824–1868), literary critic, essayist and translator
 * Ilya Ehrenburg (1891–1967), novelist and WWII war correspondent, The Black Book, The Thaw
 * Natan Eidelman (1930–1989), author, biographer and historian
 * Grigory Eliseev (1821–1891) essayist, historian, editor, and publisher.
 * Sergey Elpatyevsky (1854–1933), novelist and short story writer, Pity Me!
 * Nikolai Engelhardt (1867–1942), writer, critic, poet, journalist and memoirist
 * Asar Eppel (1935–2012), writer and translator, Red Caviar Sandwiches
 * Nikolai Erdman (1900–1970), playwright, The Suicide
 * Victor Erofeyev (born 1947), writer, literary critic and magazine editor, Russian Beauty
 * Alexander Ertel (1855–1908), novelist and short story writer, A Greedy Peasant
 * Mikhail Evstafiev (born 1963), artist, photographer and writer, Two Steps from Heaven
 * Nikolai Evreinov (1879–1953), director, dramatist and theatre practitioner, The Storming of the Winter Palace

F

 * Alexander Fadeyev (1901–1956), novelist, known for his war fiction, The Rout, The Young Guard
 * Konstantin Fedin (1892–1977), novelist, Cities and Years
 * Georgy Fedotov (1886–1951), religious philosopher, historian and essayist
 * Afanasy Fet (1820–1892), poet and translator
 * Vera Figner (1852–1942), revolutionary and writer, member of Narodnaya Volya
 * Terty Filippov (1825–1899) folklorist, essayist, editor and pedagogue
 * Dmitry Filosofov (1872–1940) essayist, critic, religious thinker, editor and political activist
 * Konstantin Fofanov (1862–1911), poet, considered to be a precursor of the symbolists, Shadows and Mystery
 * Denis Fonvizin (1744–1792), dramatist, The Minor
 * Olga Forsh (1873–1961), writer, dramatist, memoirist and scenarist, Palace and Prison
 * Ruvim Frayerman (1891–1972) writer, poet, essayist and journalist, Wild Dog Dingo
 * Dmitry Furmanov (1891–1926), writer, known for his Russian Civil War novel Chapayev

G

 * Cherubina de Gabriak (1887–1928), pseudonymous poet
 * Arkady Gaidar (1904–1941), children's writer, Timur and His Squad
 * Alexey Galakhov (1807–1892), writer, memoirist and literary historian, The History of Russian Literature
 * Alexander Galich (1918–1977), poet, screenwriter, playwright and singer-songwriter
 * Alisa Ganieva (pseudonym Gulla Khirachev) (born 1985), writer and essayist
 * Nikolai Garin-Mikhailovsky (1852–1906), writer, essayist and engineer, Practical Training
 * Vsevolod Garshin (1855–1888), short story writer, "Four Days", "The Red Flower"
 * Aleksei Gastev (1882–1939), avant garde poet
 * Gaito Gazdanov (1903–1971), novelist and short story writer, An Evening with Claire, The Spectre of Alexander Wolf
 * Mikhail Gerasimov (1889–1939), working-class poet
 * Yuri German (1910–1967), writer, playwright, screenwriter and journalist, The Cause You Serve
 * Vladimir Gilyarovsky (1853–1935), writer and journalist, The Stories of the Slums
 * Lidiya Ginzburg (1902–1990), literary critic and a survivor of the Siege of Leningrad, Blockade Diary
 * Yevgenia Ginzburg (1904–1977), Gulag memoirist, Journey into the Whirlwind, Within the Whirlwind
 * Zinaida Gippius (1869–1945), essayist, memoirist, writer, poet and playwright, The Green Ring
 * Anatoly Gladilin (1935–2018), novelist, Moscow Racetrack
 * Fyodor Gladkov (1883–1958), novelist and short story writer, Cement
 * Nikolay Glazkov (1919–1979), poet, creator of the term "Samizdat"
 * Fyodor Glinka (1786–1880), poet and playwright, Karelia
 * Boris Glinsky (1860–1917) writer, publicist, publisher, editor and politician
 * Dmitry Glukhovsky (born 1979), writer and journalist, Metro 2033
 * Nikolay Gnedich (1784–1833), poet and translator, The Fishers
 * Pyotr Gnedich (1855–1925), novelist, poet, playwright, translator, theatre entrepreneur and art historian
 * Nikolai Gogol (1809–1852), writer and dramatist, Evenings on a Farm Near Dikanka, The Government Inspector, Dead Souls
 * Arseny Golenishchev-Kutuzov (1848–1913), poet, Songs and Dances of Death
 * Boris Golovin (born 1955), singer-songwriter, musician, poet and novelist
 * Ivan Goncharov (1812–1891), novelist, Oblomov
 * Natalya Gorbanevskaya (1936–2013), poet, translator and civil rights activist
 * Ivan Gorbunov (1831–1896), writer and stage actor, The Scenes from People's Life
 * Dmitry Gorchakov (1758–1824), poet, playwright and satirist
 * Grigori Gorin (1940–2000), writer, playwright and screenwriter, The Very Same Munchhausen
 * Maxim Gorky (1868–1936), novelist, short story writer and playwright, The Lower Depths, Mother, My Childhood. In the World. My Universities, The Life of Klim Samgin
 * Nina Gorlanova (born 1947), novelist and short story writer
 * Sergey Gorodetsky (1884–1967), poet, one of the founders of the acmeist school
 * Daniil Granin (1919–2017), novelist, Those Who Seek
 * Nikolay Gretsch (1787–1867), journalist, writer and magazine editor, Northern Bee
 * Aleksander Griboyedov (1795–1828), dramatist and statesman, Woe from Wit
 * Dmitry Grigorovich (1822–1900), novelist, The Fishermen
 * Oleg Grigoriev (1943–1992), poet and artist
 * Apollon Grigoryev (1822–1864), poet, literary and theatrical critic, translator and memoirist
 * Alexander Grin (1880–1932), author of novels and stories set in Grinlandia, Scarlet Sails
 * Isabella Grinevskaya (1864–1944), poet, writer and playwright
 * Vasily Grossman (1905–1964), writer and war correspondent, Life and Fate
 * Vitali Gubarev (1912–1981), journalist and writer
 * Igor Guberman (born 1936), writer and satirical poet
 * Semyon Gudzenko (1922–1953), poet of the World War II generation
 * Lev Gumilev (1912–1992), historian, ethnologist and anthropologist
 * Nikolay Gumilev (1886–1921), poet, founder of the acmeist movement
 * Elena Guro (1877–1913), futurist writer and painter, The Hurdy-Gurdy
 * Andrei Gusev (born 1952), writer and journalist, The World According to Novikoff
 * Sergey Gusev-Orenburgsky (1867–1963), novelist, The Land of the Fathers

H

 * Yelena Hahn, writer for Biblioteka Dlya Chteniya and Otechestvennye Zapiski, mother of Helena Blavatsky
 * Alexander Herzen (1812–1870), essayist, novelist, philosopher and magazine editor, Who is to Blame?

I

 * Ilf and Petrov (Ilf 1897–1937) (Petrov 1903–1942), satirical writers, The Twelve Chairs, The Little Golden Calf
 * Vera Inber (1890–1972), poet and writer, Lalla's Interests
 * Mikhail Isakovsky (1900–1973), poet and songwriter, Katyusha
 * Fazil Iskander, (1929–2016), Abkhaz writer, Sandro of Chegem
 * Alexei Ivanov (born 1969), novelist and screenwriter
 * Georgy Ivanov (1894–1958), poet and essayist, Disintegration of the Atom
 * Vsevolod Ivanov (1895–1963), writer and plawright, Armoured Train 14-69
 * Vyacheslav Ivanov (1866–1949), poet, playwright, philosopher, translator and literary critic
 * Yuri Ivask (1907–1986), poet, essayist, literary critic and historian
 * Ryurik Ivnev (1891–1981), poet, novelist and translator
 * Sergey Izgiyayev (1922–1972), poet, playwright and translator
 * Alexander Izmaylov (1779–1831), fabulist, poet and novelist

K

 * Gavril Kamenev (1772–1803), poet, writer and translator
 * Vasily Kamensky (1884–1961), poet, playwright and artist, one of the first Russian aviators
 * Antiochus Kantemir (1708–1744), writer and poet, On the Envy and Pride of Evil-Minded Courtiers
 * Nikolay Karamzin (1766–1826), poet, writer and historian, Poor Liza
 * Alexander Karasyov (born 1971), writer, Russian War Prose
 * Pyotr Karatygin (1805–1879), playwright, actor and memoirist
 * Nikolay Karazin (1842–1908), painter and writer, The Two-Legged Wolf
 * Nikolay Karonin-Petropavlovsky (1853–1892), narodnik writer, First Storm
 * Evtikhy Pavlovich Karpov (1857–1926), playwright and theatre director
 * Vladimir Karpov (1922–2010), novelist and magazine editor, The Commander
 * Vasily Kapnist (1758–1823), poet and playwright, Chicane
 * Lev Kassil (1905–1970), writer of juvenile and young adult literature
 * Ivan Kataev (1902–1937), novelist and short story writer, Immortality
 * Valentin Kataev (1897–1986), writer and playwright, Time, Forward!
 * Pavel Katenin (1792–1853), classicist poet, dramatist and literary critic
 * Mikhail Katkov (1818–1887), journalist and publicist, Moscow News
 * Veniamin Kaverin (1902–1989), novelist, The Two Captains
 * Emmanuil Kazakevich (1913–1962), writer, poet and playwright, The Blue Notebook
 * Yury Kazakov (1927–1982), short story writer, Going To Town
 * Rimma Kazakova (1932–2008), poet, Let's Meet in the East
 * Dmitri Kedrin (1907–1945), poet, Confession
 * Yuri Khanon (born 1965), novelist and eccentric, Skryabin As a Face
 * Mark Kharitonov (born 1937), writer, poet, and translator, Lines of Fate
 * Yevgeny Kharitonov (1941–1981), writer, poet, playwright and theater director
 * Daniil Kharms (1905–1942), novelist, short story writer and playwright, The Old Woman, Incidences, Elizaveta Bam
 * Ivan Khemnitser (1745–1784), satirical poet, The Rich Man and the Poor Man
 * Mikhail Kheraskov (1733–1807), poet, writer and playwright, Vladimir Reborn
 * Velimir Khlebnikov (1885–1922), futurist poet and author, Incantation by Laughter
 * Nikolai Khmelnitsky (1789–1845), playwright, literary critic and translator, Chatterbox
 * Vladislav Khodasevich (1886–1939), poet and literary critic
 * Aleksey Khomyakov (1804–1860), poet, co-founder of the slavophile movement
 * Nadezhda Khvoshchinskaya (1824–1889), writer, critic and translator, The Boarding-School Girl
 * Ivan Kireyevsky (1806–1856), writer, co-founder of the slavophile movement
 * Dmitry Khvostov (1757–1835), poet and fabulist
 * Vladimir Kirshon (1902–1938), playwright, The Miraculous Alloy
 * Marusya Klimova (born 1961), writer and translator
 * Daniel Kluger (born 1951), author and songwriter
 * Nikolai Klyuev (1884–1937), peasant poet, A Northern Poem
 * Viktor Klyushnikov (1841–1892), writer, editor and journalist, The Haze
 * Yakov Knyazhnin (1740/42–1791), playwright, poet and translator, The Braggart
 * Vsevolod Kochetov (1912–1973), novelist and journalist, The Zhurbin Family
 * Pavel Kogan (1918–1942), poet and military interpreter
 * Ivan Kokorev (1825–1853), short story writer and essayist
 * Alexandra Kollontai (1872–1952), writer, feminist and important political figure, Love of Worker Bees
 * Aleksey Koltsov (1809–1842), poet, An Old Man's Song
 * Mikhail Koltsov (1898–1940/42), journalist and satirist
 * Fyodor Koni (1809–1889), dramatist, theatre critic, literary historian, editor and memoirist
 * Evgenia Konradi (1838–1898), essayist, journalist, writer, and women's education advocate
 * Lev Kopelev (1912–1997), writer, journalist and dissident
 * Apollon Korinfsky (1868–1937), writer, poet, essayist, translator and memoirist
 * Oleksandr Korniychuk (1905–1972), playwright, literary critic and state official, In the Steppes of Ukraine
 * Vladimir Korolenko (1853–1921), writer and memoirist, The Blind Musician
 * Nestor Kotlyarevsky (1863–1925), writer, publicist, literary critic and historian, The Nineteenth Century
 * Arkady Kots (1872–1943), poet and translator, Proletarian Songs
 * Yury Koval (1938–1995), writer and artist
 * Sofia Kovalevskaya (1859–1891), writer and mathematician, Nihilist Girl
 * Vadim Kozhevnikov (1909–1984), novelist and short story writer, Shield and Sword
 * Nadezhda Kozhevnikova (born 1949), writer and journalist, Attorney Alexandra Tikhonovna
 * Ivan Kozlov (1779–1840), poet and translator, The Monk
 * Eugene Kozlovsky (born 1946), writer, journalist, theatre director and film director
 * Vasili Krasovsky (1782–1824), poet, Scrolls of the Muse
 * Andrey Krayevsky (1810–1889), journalist, publicist, publisher and editor, Otechestvennye Zapiski
 * Vsevolod Krestovsky (1840–1895), writer, Knights of Industry
 * Peter Kropotkin (1842–1921), writer and anarchist theorist, In Russian and French Prisons
 * Aleksei Kruchenykh (1886–1968), futurist poet, co-creator of the literary concept "Zaum"
 * Vladimir Krupin (born 1941), writer, editor and religious author, Aqua Vitae
 * Ivan Krylov (1769–1844), major fabulist and dramatist
 * Gleb Krzhizhanovsky (1872–1959), poet, author of the Russian version of the Warszawianka
 * Sigizmund Krzhizhanovsky (1887–1950), short story writer, Quadraturin
 * Anatoly Kudryavitsky (born 1954), poet and novelist
 * Pyotr Kudryavtsev (1816–1858), writer, historian, literary critic, philologist and journalist
 * Nestor Kukolnik (1809–1868), playwright, poet and librettist, A Life for the Tsar
 * Aleksandr Kuprin (1870–1938), novelist and short story writer, The Duel
 * Wilhelm Küchelbecker (1797–1846), poet and magazine editor, Mnemozina
 * Nikolai Kurochkin (1830–1884), poet, editor, translator and essayist
 * Vasily Kurochkin (1831–1875), satirical poet, journalist and translator
 * Vladimir Kurochkin (1829–1885), dramatist, translator, editor and publisher
 * Ivan Kushchevsky (1847–1876), novelist and short story writer, Nikolai Negorev
 * Alexander Kushner (born 1936), poet and essayist, The First Impression
 * Dmitry Kuzmin (born 1968), poet, critic and publisher
 * Mikhail Kuzmin (1872–1936), poet and novelist, Wings
 * Anatoly Kuznetsov (1929–1979), novelist, Babi Yar: A Document in the Form of a Novel

L

 * Lazar Lagin (1903–1979), satirist and children's writer, Old Khottabych
 * Yuri Laptev (1903–1984), writer and journalist, Zarya
 * Yulia Latynina (born 1966), writer and journalist, The Insider
 * Boris Lavrenyov (1891–1959), writer and playwright, Such a Simple Thing
 * Pyotr Lavrov (1823–1900), prominent theorist of narodism, philosopher, publicist and sociologist.
 * Ivan Lazhechnikov (1792–1869), historical novelist, The Heretic
 * Vasily Lebedev-Kumach (1898–1949), poet and lyricist, Serdtse
 * Anatoly Leman (1859–1913), writer and editor, The Gentry's Tale
 * Vladimir Lenin (1870–1924), revolutionary and Marxist theoretician and publicist
 * Leonid Leonov (1899–1994), major novelist and short story writer, The Thief
 * Konstantin Leontiev (1831–1891), philosopher and essayist
 * Mikhail Lermontov (1814–1841), major poet, playwright and novelist, A Hero of Our Time
 * Nikolai Leskov (1831–1895), novelist, short story writer and journalist, Lady Macbeth of the Mtensk District, The Cathedral Clergy, The Enchanted Wanderer
 * Alexander Levitov (1835–1877), short story writer, Leatherhide the Cobbler
 * Nikolay Leykin (1841–1906), writer and publisher, Fragments Magazine
 * Vladimir Lichutin (born 1940), writer and essayist
 * Mikhail Lifshitz (1905–1983), Marxian literary critic and philosopher of art
 * Viktor Likhonosov (1936–2021), writer and editor, Unwritten Memoirs. Our Little Paris.
 * Eduard Limonov (1943–2020), writer and dissident, It's Me, Eddie
 * Dmitri Lipskerov (born 1964), writer and playwright, The Forty Years of Changzhoeh
 * Mirra Lokhvitskaya (1869–1905), poet and playwright
 * Mikhail Lomonosov (1711–1765), polymath, scientist, writer and linguistic reformer
 * Vladimir Lugovskoy (1901–1957), constructivist poet
 * Sergey Lukyanenko (born 1968), popular science-fiction and fantasy author, The Stars Are Cold Toys
 * Anatoly Lunacharsky (1875–1933), journalist and publicist
 * Lev Lunts (1901–1924), writer, playwright, essayist and critic, member of the Serapion Brothers

M

 * Grigori Machtet (1852–1901), novelist, short story writer and poet
 * Vladimir Makanin (1937–2017), novelist and short story writer, Antileader
 * Sergey Malitsky (born 1962), fantasy fiction writer
 * Aleksandr Malyshkin (1892–1938), novelist and prose writer
 * Dmitry Mamin-Sibiryak (1852–1912), novelist, The Privalov Fortune
 * Nadezhda Mandelstam (1899–1980), writer and memoirist, Hope Against Hope, Hope Abandoned
 * Osip Mandelstam (1891–1938), poet and writer, member of the acmeist school, The Stone
 * Anatoly Marienhof (1897–1962), novelist, poet and playwright, A Novel Without Lies
 * Alexandra Marinina (born 1957), writer of detective stories
 * Evgeny Markov (1835–1903), writer, critic and ethnographer, Black Earth Field
 * Georgi Markov (1911–1991), novelist, screenwriter, playwright
 * Maria Markova (born 1982), poet
 * Boleslav Markevich (1822–1884), writer, essayist, journalist, literary critic and translator
 * Samuil Marshak (1887–1964), writer, translator and children's poet, The Twelve Months
 * Vladilen Mashkovtsev (1929–1997), poet, writer and journalist
 * Mikhail Matinsky (1750–1820), scientist, dramatist, librettist and opera composer.
 * Vladimir Mayakovsky (1893–1930), futurist poet, writer and playwright, Mystery-Bouffe
 * Apollon Maykov (1821–1897), poet and translator
 * Valerian Maykov (1823–1847), literary critic, brother of Apollon Maykov
 * Vasily Maykov (1728–1778), poet, fabulist, playwright and translator
 * Lev Mei (1822–1862), poet and playwright, The Tsar's Bride
 * Pavel Melnikov (1818–1883), ethnographical novelist, In the Forests
 * Dmitry Merezhkovsky (1866–1941), poet and novelist, Christ and Antichrist
 * Aleksey Merzlyakov (1778–1830), poet, critic, translator and professor
 * Arvo Mets (1937–1997), poet and translator, Resemblance
 * Alexander Mezhirov (1923–2009), poet, translator and critic
 * Sergey Mikhalkov (1913–2009), children's writer, satirist and songwriter, author of the National Anthem of the Soviet Union
 * Nikolay Mikhaylovsky (1842–1904), publicist, literary critic, sociologist and narodnik theoretician
 * Dmitry Minayev (1835–1889), satirical poet, journalist, translator and literary critic
 * Nikolai Minsky (1855–1937), poet, writer and translator, From the Gloom to the Light
 * Boris Mozhayev (1923–1996), writer, playwright, script-writer and editor, Alive
 * Daniil Mordovtsev (1830–1905), writer and historian of Ukrainian descent
 * Yunna Morits (born 1937), poet and artist, The Vine
 * Sergey Mstislavsky (1876–1943), writer, dramatist, publicist, anthropologist, editor and political activist
 * Viktor Muyzhel (1880–1924), writer and painter
 * Viktor Muravin (born 1929), novelist, The Diary of Vikenty Angarov

N

 * Vladimir Nabokov (1899–1977), poet and novelist, wrote first in Russian, then in English, author of Lolita
 * Nikolai Nadezhdin (1804–1856), literary critic and ethnographer
 * Semyon Nadson (1862–1887), poet, Pity the Stately Cypress Trees
 * Yuri Nagibin (1920–1994), novelist, short story writer and screenwriter
 * Vladimir Narbut (1888–1938), acmeist poet and magazine editor
 * Vasily Narezhny (1780–1825), novelist, A Russian Gil Blas
 * Sergey Narovchatov (1919–1981), writer and magazine editor, Novy Mir
 * Nikolai Naumov, (1838–1901), essayist and short story writer, Cobweb
 * Filipp Nefyodov (1838–1902), writer, journalist, editor, ethnographer and archeologist, Among People
 * Nikolay Nekrasov (1821–1878), major poet and magazine editor, Who Can be Happy and Free in Russia?
 * Viktor Nekrasov (1911–1987), novelist, Front-line Stalingrad
 * Viktor Nekipelov (1928–1989), poet, writer and dissident
 * Miroslav Nemirov (1961–2016), poet and songwriter
 * Vasily Nemirovich-Danchenko (1845–1936), novelist, essayist and war correspondent
 * Vladimir Nemirovich-Danchenko (1858–1943), theatre director, writer and playwright, co-founder of the Moscow Art Theatre
 * Löb Nevakhovich (1776/78–1831), Russia-Jewish writer and playwright
 * Alexander Neverov (1886–1923), writer and playwright, City of Bread
 * Friedrich Neznansky (1932–2013), crime novelist, Red Square
 * Ivan Nikitin (1824–1861), poet and writer, Kulak
 * Nikolai Nikolev (1758–1815), poet and playwright
 * Pavel Nilin (1908–1981), writer, journalist and playwright, Man Goes Uphill
 * Nikolay Nosov (1908–1976), children's writer, Neznaika
 * Yevgeny Nosov (1925–2002), writer, Usvyat Warriors
 * Osip Notovich (1849–1914), publisher, playwright and essayist
 * Alexey Novikov-Priboy (1877–1944), novelist and short story writer, The Captain

O

 * Vladimir Obruchev (1863–1956), science fiction writer, Sannikov Land
 * Alexander Odoevsky (1802–1839), poet and playwright, activist of the Decembrist Revolt
 * Vladimir Odoevsky (1803–1869), philosopher, writer, music critic, philanthropist and pedagogue, The Living Corpse
 * Irina Odoyevtseva (1895–1990), poet, novelist and memoirist
 * Nikolay Ogarev (1813–1877), poet, historian and political activist
 * Bulat Okudzhava (1924–1997), poet, writer and singer-songwriter, The Art of Needles and Sins
 * Yury Olesha (1899–1960), novelist and short story writer, Envy
 * Nikolay Oleynikov (1898–1937), editor, avant-garde poet and playwright
 * Vladimir Orlov (author) (1936–2014), novelist
 * Mikhail Osorgin (1878–1942), journalist, novelist, short story writer and essayist
 * Sergey Ostrovoy (1911–2005), poet, author of lyrics to many popular Soviet songs
 * Alexander Ostrovsky (1823–1886), major playwright, The Storm
 * Nikolai Ostrovsky (1904–1936), socialist realist writer, How the Steel Was Tempered
 * Valentin Ovechkin (1904–1968), writer, playwright, journalist and war correspondent, Greetings from the Front
 * Vladislav Ozerov (1769–1816), playwright, Dmitry Donskoy

P

 * Marina Palei (born 1955), scriptwriter, publicist, novelist and translator, Rendezvous
 * Alexander Palm (1822–1885), poet, novelist and playwright, Petrashevsky Circle member, Alexey Slobodin
 * Liodor Palmin (1841–1891), poet, translator and journalist
 * Ivan Panaev (1812–1862), writer, critic and publisher/editor of Sovremennik magazine
 * Avdotya Panaeva (1820–1893), novelist, short story writer and memoirist
 * Vera Panova (1905–1973), novelist, short story writer, journalist and playwright, Seryozha
 * Valentin Parnakh (1891–1951), poet, translator, choreographer and musician, founder of Russian jazz music
 * Sophia Parnok (1885–1933), poet, playwright and translator
 * Andrei Parshev (born 1955), political writer
 * Boris Pasternak (1890–1960), poet and novelist, not permitted by the Soviet Union to accept the Nobel Prize, Doctor Zhivago
 * Pyotr Patrushev (1942–2016), writer and dissident
 * Konstantin Paustovsky (1892–1968), writer, Nobel Prize nominee, Story of a Life
 * Pyotr Pavlenko (1899–1951), writer, Happiness
 * Oleg Pavlov (1970–2018), novelist and short story writer
 * Karolina Pavlova (1807–1893), poet and novelist, A Double Life
 * Vladimir Pecherin (1807–1885), poet and writer, Notes from Beyond the Tomb
 * Victor Pelevin (born 1962), modern writer, Omon Ra
 * Yakov Perelman (1882–1942), science writer, Physics for Entertainment
 * Pyotr Pertsov (1868–1947), publisher, editor, literary critic, journalist and memoirist
 * Nick Perumov (born 1963), fantasy and science fiction writer
 * Pyotr Petrov (1827–1891), writer, arts historian, genealogist and bibliographer, The Tsar's Judgement
 * Mariya Petrovykh (1908–1979), poet and translator
 * Lyudmila Petrushevskaya (born 1938), modern writer and playwright, The Time: Night
 * Valentin Pikul (1928–1990), novelist, At the Last Frontier
 * Boris Pilnyak (1894–1938), novelist, The Naked Year
 * Dmitry Pisarev (1840–1868), critic and publicist
 * Aleksey Pisemsky (1821–1881), novelist and dramatist, A Bitter Fate
 * Andrei Platonov (1899–1951), novelist, short story writer and playwright, Chevengur, The Foundation Pit
 * Georgi Plekhanov (1857–1918), writer, revolutionary and Marxist theoretician
 * Aleksey Pleshcheyev (1825–1893), radical poet, Step Forward! Without Fear or Doubt
 * Pyotr Pletnyov (1792–1866), poet, dedicatee of Pushkin's Eugene Onegin
 * Mikhail Pogodin (1800–1875), historian and journalist
 * Nikolai Pogodin (1900–1962), playwright, journalist and magazine editor
 * Antony Pogorelsky (1787–1837), fantasy fiction writer, Dvoinik
 * Evgeny Pogozhev (1870–1931), religious writer, essayist and journalist (pen name E. Poselyanin)
 * Konstantin Podrevsky (1888–1930), poet, translator, lyricist, Dorogoi dlinnoyu
 * Boris Polevoy (1908–1981), writer and journalist, The Story of a Real Man
 * Ksenofont Polevoy (1801–1867), writer, literary critic, journalist, publisher and translator
 * Nikolai Polevoy (1796–1846), writer, historian and magazine editor, The Moscow Telegraph
 * Pyotr Polevoy (1839–1902), writer, playwright, translator, critic and literary historian
 * Alexander Polezhayev (1804–1838), satirical poet, Sashka
 * Elizaveta Polonskaya (1890–1969), poet, translator, and journalist, the only female member of the Serapion Brothers
 * Leonid Polonsky (1833–1913), writer, journalist, editor and publisher, Mad Musician
 * Yakov Polonsky (1819–1898), poet, Georgian Night
 * Nikolay Pomyalovsky (1835–1863), novelist and short story writer, Seminary Sketches
 * Mikhail Popov (1742–1790), writer, poet, dramatist and opera librettist, Anyuta
 * Nikolay Popovsky (1730–1760), poet and translator
 * Vasili Popugaev (1778/79–1816), poet, novelist and translator
 * Oleg Postnov (born 1962), novelist and translator
 * Ignaty Potapenko (1856–1929), writer and playwright, A Russian Priest
 * Michael Prawdin (1894–1970), historical writer
 * Alexander Preys (1905–1942), playwright and librettist, The Nose
 * Dmitri Prigov (1940–2007), writer and artist, Live in Moscow
 * Zakhar Prilepin (born 1975), writer and dissident, member of the National Bolshevik Party
 * Maria Prilezhayeva (1903–1989), children's writer, The Life of Lenin
 * Mikhail Prishvin (1873–1954), journalist and writer
 * Valentyn Prodaievych (born 1960), journalist and writer, lives in Florida
 * Alexander Prokhanov (born 1938), writer and newspaper editor, Empire's Last Soldier
 * Alexander Prokofyev (1900–1971), poet and war correspondent
 * Iosif Prut (1900–1996), playwright and screenwriter
 * Kozma Prutkov (1803–1863), satirist, pseudonym of Aleksey Konstantinovich Tolstoy and his cousins
 * Alexander Pushkin (1799–1837), poet, novelist and dramatist, Eugene Onegin
 * Vasily Pushkin (1766–1830), poet, uncle of Alexander Pushkin
 * Konstantin Pyatnitsky (1864–1938), journalist, publisher and memoirist

R

 * Alexander Radishchev (1749–1802), radical writer and social critic, Journey from St. Petersburg to Moscow
 * Edvard Radzinsky (born 1936), writer, playwright, TV personality, screenwriter and historian
 * Vladimir Rayevsky (1795–1872), poet and Decembrist
 * Valentin Rasputin (1937–2015), novelist, Farewell to Matyora
 * Irina Ratushinskaya (1954–2017) dissident poet and writer, Grey is the Color of Hope
 * Razumnik Ivanov-Razumnik (1878–1946), writer, philosopher and literary critic
 * Yevgeny Rein (born 1935), poet and writer, The Names of Bridges
 * Vera Reznik (born 1944), writer, translator and literary scholar
 * Aleksey Remizov (1877–1957), modernist writer, calligrapher and folklore enthusiast, The Clock, Sisters of the Cross
 * Fyodor Reshetnikov (1841–1871), novelist, The Podlipnayans
 * Mikhail Rosenheim (1820–1887), poet, editor, publicist and translator
 * Robert Rozhdestvensky (1932–1994), poet, Flags of Spring
 * Helena Roerich (1879–1949), philosopher, writer and public figure
 * Nicholas Roerich (1874–1947), painter, philosopher, scientist, writer, traveler and public figure
 * Konstantin Romanov (1858–1915), poet and playwright, The King of the Jews
 * Panteleimon Romanov (1884–1938), writer, Without Bird-Cherry Blossoms
 * Mikhail Roshchin (1933–2010), playwright, screenwriter and short story writer
 * Yevdokiya Rostopchina (1811–1858), poet and writer, Forced Marriage
 * Vasily Rozanov (1856–1919), writer and philosopher
 * Robert Rozhdestvensky (1932–1994), poet, Flags of Spring
 * Dina Rubina (born 1953), novelist and short story writer, The Blackthorn
 * Anatoly Rybakov (1911–1998), novelist, Children of the Arbat
 * Vladimir Rybakov (1947–2018), novelist and journalist, The Afghans: A Novella of Soviet Soldiers in Afghanistan
 * Vyacheslav Rybakov (born 1954), science fiction author and orientalist, The Trial Sphere
 * Maria Rybakova (born 1973), novelist and short story writer
 * Pavel Rybnikov (1831–1885), ethnographer, folklorist and literary historian
 * Kondraty Ryleyev (1795–1826), poet, publisher and a leader of the Decembrist Revolt
 * Yuri Rytkheu (1930–2008), Chukchi writer, A Dream in Polar Fog

S

 * Irina Saburova (1907–1979), writer, poet, translator, and magazine editor
 * Dmitry Sadovnikov (1847–1883), poet, folklorist and ethnographer, "Iz-za ostrova na strezhen"
 * Boris Sadovskoy (1881–1952), poet, writer and literary critic
 * German Sadulaev (born 1973), Chechen writer, I am a Chechen!
 * Evgeny Salias De Tournemire (1840–1908), writer, The Krutoyar Princess
 * Ilya Salov (1834–1902), writer, playwright and translator, Butuzka
 * Yuri Samarin (1819–1876), publicist and critic
 * Vladimir Sanin (1928–1989), writer of travel fiction
 * Genrikh Sapgir (1928–1999), poet and novelist
 * Mikhail Saltykov-Shchedrin (1826–1889), novelist, short story writer, playwright and essayist, The History of a Town, The Golovlyov Family
 * Boris Savinkov (1879–1925), writer and revolutionary terrorist, What Never Happened
 * Feodosy Savinov (1865–1915), poet, Rodnoye
 * Ilya Selvinsky (1899–1968), poet, leader of the constructivist school
 * Sergey Semyonov (1868–1922), peasant writer, Gluttons
 * Yulian Semyonov (1931–1993), writer of spy fiction and crime fiction, Seventeen Instants of Spring
 * Osip Senkovsky (1800–1858), Polish-Russian orientalist, journalist, writer and entertainer.
 * Alexander Serafimovich (1863–1949), writer, The Iron Flood
 * Andrey Sergeev (1933–1998), poet, translator and writer
 * Sergei Sergeyev-Tsensky (1875–1958), writer and academician, Brusilov's Breakthrough
 * Efraim Sevela (1928–2010), writer, screenwriter, director and producer
 * Igor Severyanin (1887–1941), ego futurist poet, The Cup of Thunder
 * Marietta Shaginyan (1888–1982), writer of Armenian descent, Mess-Mend
 * Alexander Shakhovskoy (1777–1846) playwright, writer, poet, librettist and critic, The New Stern
 * Varlam Shalamov (1907–1982), short story writer and poet, Kolyma Tales
 * Olga Shapir (1850–1916), writer and feminist, The Settlement
 * Pyotr Shchebalsky (1810–1886), critic, editor and literary historian
 * Tatiana Shchepkina-Kupernik (1874–1952), poet, writer, playwright and translator, Deborah
 * Vladimir Shchiglev (1840–1903), satirical poet and playwright
 * Stepan Shchipachev (1889–1980), poet, Lines of Love
 * Vadim Shefner (1915–2002), poet and writer
 * Alexander Sheller (1838–1900), writer, poet and essayist, Putrid Moors
 * Nikolay Sherbina (1821–1869), poet, To the Sea
 * Vadim Shershenevich (1893–1942), futurist poet, writer and screenwriter, A Kiss From Mary Pickford
 * Stepan Shevyryov (1806–1864), poet, writer, critic and philologist
 * Mikhail Shishkin (born 1961), modern writer, The Taking of Izmail
 * Vyacheslav Shishkov (1873–1945), writer, known for his descriptions of Siberia
 * Maria Shkapskaya (1891–1952), poet and journalist
 * Ivan Shmelyov (1873–1950), novelist, The Sun of the Dead
 * Mikhail Sholokhov (1905–1984), Nobel Prize–winning writer, And Quiet Flows the Don
 * Gennady Shpalikov (1937–1974), poet and screenwriter, I Step Through Moscow
 * Nikolai Shpanov (1896–1961), author
 * Vasily Shukshin (1929–1974), actor, writer, screenwriter and movie director, Roubles in Words, Kopeks in Figures
 * Pavel Shumil (born 1957), science fiction author
 * Evgeny Shvarts (1896–1958), writer, playwright and screenwriter, The Dragon
 * Konstantin Simonov (1915–1979), novelist and poet, "Wait for Me"
 * Andrei Sinyavsky (1925–1997), writer, publisher and dissident, Fantastic Stories
 * Alexander Skabichevsky (1838–1911), writer and literary critic
 * Stepan Skitalets (1869–1941), poet and writer, The Love of a Scene Painter
 * Tim Skorenko (born 1983), writer, poet, singer-songwriter, and journalist.
 * Victor Skumin (born 1948), writer and magazine editor
 * Olga Slavnikova (born 1957), novelist and literary critic
 * Vasily Sleptsov (1836–1878), novelist, short story writer and playwright, Hard Times, "The Ward"
 * Konstantin Sluchevsky (1837–1904), poet and magazine editor
 * Boris Slutsky (1919–1986), representative of the War generation of Russian poets
 * Nikolai Snessarev (1856–1928), publicist, writer, literary critic and politician
 * Sofia Soboleva (1840–1884), writer and journalist, Pros and Cons
 * Anatoly Sofronov (1911–1990), writer, poet, playwright, scriptwriter, editor and literary administrator, The Cookie
 * Sasha Sokolov (born 1943), novelist, A School for Fools
 * Ivan Sokolov-Mikitov (1882–1975), author, journalist and short-story writer, Childhood
 * Vladimir Sollogub (1813–1882), writer and poet, The Snowstorm
 * Fyodor Sologub (1863–1927), symbolist poet, playwright and novelist, The Petty Demon
 * Vladimir Soloukhin (1924–1997), writer, journalist and poet, Verdict
 * Leonid Solovyov (1906–1962), writer and playwright, Tale of Hodja Nasreddin
 * Vladimir Solovyov (1853–1900), philosopher, poet, pamphleteer and literary critic
 * Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn (1918–2008), Nobel Prize–winning writer, One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich, The Gulag Archipelago
 * Orest Somov (1793–1833), writer, journalist, literary critic and translator, Mommy and Sonny
 * Vladimir Sorokin (born 1955), popular postmodern writer and dramatist
 * Konstantin Staniukovich (1843–1903), sea stories writer, Maximka
 * Mikhail Stasyulevich (1826–1911), writer, literary historian, editor and publisher
 * Vladimir Stavsky (1900–1943), writer, editor and literary administrator, Fighting for Motherland
 * Alexander Stein (1906–1993), writer, playwright, scriptwriter and memoirist
 * Ksenya Stepanycheva (born 1978), playwright, Pink Bow
 * Sergey Stepnyak-Kravchinsky (1851–1895), writer, publicist and revolutionary, King Stork and King Log
 * Fyodor Stepun (1884–1965), Russian-German writer, philosopher, historian and sociologist
 * Dmitry Strelnikov (born 1969), poet, essayist and novelist
 * Arkady and Boris Strugatsky (Arkady 1925–1991) (Boris 1933–2012), science fiction writers, Hard to Be a God
 * Aleksandr Sukhovo-Kobylin (1817–1903), playwright, Scenes from the Past
 * Alexander Sumarokov (1717–1777), early poet and playwright
 * Ivan Surikov (1841–1880), peasant poet
 * Alexey Surkov (1899–1983), poet, editor, literary critic, "Zemlyanka"
 * Mikhail Sushkov (1775–1792), writer, The Russian Werther
 * Alexei Suvorin (1834–1912), publisher and journalist
 * Viktor Suvorov (born 1947), writer and historian
 * Fyodor Svarovsky (born 1971), poet
 * Mikhail Svetlov (1903–1964), poet and journalist, Song of Kakhovka

T

 * Yelizaveta Tarakhovskaya (1891–1968), poet, playwright, translator and children's writer
 * Alexander Tarasov-Rodionov (1885–1938), writer, Chocolate
 * Arseny Tarkovsky (1907–1989), poet and translator
 * Valery Tarsis (1906–1983), novelist and dissident, Ward 7
 * Nadezhda Teffi (1872–1952), humorist writer, All About Love
 * Nikolay Teleshov (1867–1957), writer and memoirist, organizer of the Moscow Sreda
 * Vladimir Tendryakov (1923–1984), novelist and short story writer, Three, Seven, Ace
 * Yuri Terapiano (1892–1980), poet, writer, translator, literary critic and historian
 * Sergey Terpigorev (1841–1895), writer and essayist
 * Nikolai Tikhonov (1896–1979), writer and poet, member of the Serapion Brothers
 * Vladislav Titov (1934–1987), novelist who lost both arms in a coal mine accident, Defying Death
 * Pyotr Tkachev (1844–1886), publicist, writer and critic
 * Viktoriya Tokareva (born 1937), screenwriter and short story writer
 * Aleksey Konstantinovich Tolstoy (1817–1875), poet, dramatist and novelist, The Death of Ivan the Terrible
 * Aleksey Nikolayevich Tolstoy (1882–1945), novelist and science fiction writer, The Garin Death Ray
 * Ilya Tolstoy (1866–1933), author of a memoir about his father Leo Tolstoy
 * Leo Tolstoy (1828–1910) novelist, short story writer, playwright, essayist and public figure, War and Peace, Anna Karenina, The Death of Ivan Ilyich, Resurrection, Hadji Murat
 * Tatyana Tolstaya (born 1951), writer, TV host, publicist, novelist and essayist
 * Edward Topol (born 1938), novelist and journalist, Red Square
 * Sergey Trakhimenok (born 1950), novelist, playwrights, screenwriter and short story writer, detective story writer
 * Vasily Trediakovsky (1703–1768), poet, essayist and playwright
 * Konstantin Trenyov (1876–1945), playwright and short story writer, Lyubov Yarovaya
 * Sergei Tretyakov (1892–1937), playwright, I Want a Baby
 * Yury Trifonov (1925–1981), novelist and short story writer, The House on the Embankment
 * Gavriil Troyepolsky (1905–1995), novelist, White Bim Black Ear
 * Mikhail Tsetlin (1882–1945), poet, playwright, novelist, memoirist and translator
 * Marina Tsvetaeva (1892–1941), poet and essayist, The Rat-Catcher
 * Alexei Tsvetkov (born 1947), poet, novelist and journalist
 * Nikolai Tsyganov (1797–1832), poet, folklorist, singer and actor, Russian Songs
 * Evgenia Tur (1815–1892), writer, critic, journalist and publisher, Antonina
 * Sergey Turbin (1821–1884), playwright and journalist
 * Ivan Turgenev (1818–1883), novelist and playwright, A Sportsman's Sketches, Home of the Gentry, Fathers and Sons
 * Veronika Tushnova (1911–1965), poet and translator, Memory of the Heart
 * Aleksandr Tvardovsky (1910–1971), poet, war correspondent and editor of Novy Mir, Vasily Tyorkin
 * Yury Tynyanov (1894–1943), writer, literary critic, translator, scholar and screenwriter
 * Fyodor Tyutchev (1803–1873), poet, The Last Love

U

 * Vladimir Uflyand (1937–2007), poet, The Working Week Comes To An End
 * Pavel Ulitin (1918–1986), writer
 * Lyudmila Ulitskaya (born 1943), novelist and short-story writer, Medea and Her Children
 * Alexander Urusov (1843–1900), literary critic, translator, lawyer and philanthropist
 * Eduard Uspensky (1937–2018), children's writer, Cheburashka series
 * Gleb Uspensky (1843–1902), novelist, short story writer and essayist, The Power of the Land
 * Nikolay Uspensky (1837–1889), short story writer, A Good Existence
 * Iosif Utkin (1903–1944), poet and journalist, Dear Childhood

V

 * Konstantin Vaginov (1899–1934), poet and novelist, Goat Song, The Works and Days of Svistonov
 * Pyotr Valuyev (1815–1890), statesman, novelist, poet and essayist
 * Alexander Vampilov (1937–1972), playwright, Elder Son
 * Mikhail Veller (born 1948), writer and journalist, The Guru
 * Alexander Veltman (1800–1870), writer, one of the pioneers of Russian science fiction
 * Dmitry Venevitinov (1805–1827), philosophical poet
 * Anastasiya Verbitskaya (1861–1928), novelist, playwright, screenplay writer, publisher and feminist, The Keys to Happiness
 * Vikenty Veresaev (1867–1945), writer and medical doctor, Memoirs of a Physician
 * Lidia Veselitskaya (1857–1936), writer, translator and memoirist, Mimi's Marriage
 * Sergey Vikulov (1922–2006), poet, essayist, memoirist and editor, Nash Sovremennik
 * Tony Vilgotsky (born 1980), horror and fantasy writer, columnist
 * Nikolai Virta (1906–1976), writer and playwright, Alone
 * Vsevolod Vishnevsky (1900–1951), playwright, Optimistic Tragedy
 * Igor Vishnevetsky (born 1964), poet and music historian
 * Georgi Vladimov (1931–2003), dissident writer, Faithful Ruslan
 * Dmitry Vodennikov (born 1968), poet and essayist
 * Vladimir Voinovich (1932–2018), satirical novelist, The Life and Extraordinary Adventures of Private Ivan Chonkin
 * Zinaida Volkonskaya (1792–1862), writer, poet, singer, composer, salonist and lady in waiting
 * Alexander Volkov (1891–1977), novelist and mathematician, The Wizard of the Emerald City
 * Anri Volokhonsky (1936–2017), poet and translator
 * Maximilian Voloshin (1877–1932), poet, translator, art and literary critic
 * Konstantin Vorobyov (1919–1975), writer, Slain Near Moscow
 * Vatslav Vorovsky (1871–1923), Marxist revolutionary, literary critic, diplomat and publicist
 * Julia Voznesenskaya (1940–2015), novelist, The Women's Decameron
 * Zoya Voskresenskaya (1907–1992), children's writer, diplomat, NKVD foreign office secret agent, Mother's Heart
 * Andrei Voznesensky (1933–2010), poet and writer, First Frost
 * Alexander Vvedensky (1904–1941), poet, co-founder of OBERIU
 * Arseny Vvedensky (1844–1909), writer, journalist, literary critic and historian
 * Pyotr Vyazemsky (1792–1878), poet, representative of the Golden Age of Russian poetry
 * Vladimir Vysotsky (1938–1980), singer, songwriter, poet and actor

Y

 * Alexander Yakovlev (1886–1953), writer and essayist, The Peasant
 * Pyotr Yakubovich (1860–1911), poet and writer, member of Narodnaya Volya
 * Pavel Yakushkin (1822–1872), writer, ethnographer and folklorist
 * Alexander Yashin (1913–1968), writer associated with the Village Prose movement
 * Ieronim Yasinsky (1850–1931), novelist, poet, essayist and memoirist
 * Nikolay Yazykov (1803–1846), poet and slavophile
 * Ivan Yefremov (1908–1972), paleontologist, science fiction author and social thinker, Andromeda
 * Dmitri Yemets (born 1974), author of fantasy literature for children and young adults, Tanya Grotter
 * Venedikt Yerofeyev (1938–1990), writer and playwright, Moscow-Petushki
 * Pyotr Yershov (1815–1869), fairy tale writer, poet and playwright, The Humpbacked Horse
 * Sergei Yesenin (1895–1925), poet, Land of Scoundrels
 * Tatyana Yesenina (1918–1992), writer and daughter of Sergei Yesenin, Zhenya, the Wonder of the Twentieth Century
 * Yevgeny Yevtushenko (1933–2017), poet, novelist, essayist, dramatist, screenwriter, actor, editor, and film director
 * Semyon Yushkevich (1868–1927), writer and playwright

Z

 * Nikolay Zabolotsky (1903–1958), poet, children's writer and translator, one of the founders of the absurdist group OBERIU
 * Boris Zakhoder (1918–2000), poet, children's writer and translator
 * Mikhail Zagoskin (1789–1852), historical novelist, Tales of Three Centuries
 * Boris Zaitsev (1881–1972), writer and playwright, Anna
 * Mark Zakharov (1933–2019), theatrical director, playwright and actor
 * Sergey Zalygin (1913–2000), novelist and magazine editor, The South American Variant
 * Yevgeny Zamyatin (1884–1937), novelist, short story writer and playwright, We
 * Vsevolod Zelchenko (born 1972), poet
 * Mikhail Zenkevich (1886–1973), poet and translator, Wild Porphyry
 * Yulia Zhadovskaya (1824–1883), poet and writer, Apart from the Great World
 * Vera Zhelikhovsky (1835–1896), novelist and children's writer, The General's Will
 * Aleksey Zhemchuzhnikov (1821–1908), poet and dramatist, co-creator of Kozma Prutkov
 * Boris Zhitkov (1882–1938), novelist, short story writer, playwright and children's writer, Viktor Vavich
 * Maria Zhukova (1804–1855), writer, Evenings on the Karpovka
 * Vasily Zhukovsky (1783–1852), poet, translator and magazine editor
 * Zinovy Zinik (born 1945), novelist and broadcaster, The Mushroom-Picker
 * Lydia Zinovieva-Annibal (1866–1907), writer and playwright, The Tragic Menagerie
 * Nikolai Zlatovratsky (1845–1911), novelist and short story writer, Old Shadows
 * Mikhail Znamensky (1833–1892), writer, memoirist, caricaturist, archeologist and ethnographer, The Vanished Men
 * Mikhail Zoshchenko (1895–1958), satirical short story writer and novelist, The Galosh
 * Rafail Zotov (1795–1871), playwright, novelist, journalist, translator and theatre critic, Jealous Wife

title: List of Russian-language writers