Russian Academy of Theatre Arts alumni

Eimuntas Nekrošius (born November 21, 1952 in Pažobris village, Raseiniai district municipality) is one of the most renowned theatre directors in Lithuania.

Vladimir Viktorovich Vasiliev (Russian: Влади́мир Ви́кторович Васи́льев; born 18 April 1940 in Moscow, Soviet Union), a Russian ballet dancer, was principal dancer with the Bolshoi Ballet, and was best known for his role of Spartacus and his powerful leaps and turns.

Ekaterina Sergeevna Maximova (Russian: Екатери́на Серге́евна Макси́мова; 1 February 1939 – 28 April 2009) was a Soviet and Russian ballerina of international renown.

Liya Medzhidovna Akhedzhakova (Russian: Ли́я Меджи́довна Ахеджа́кова, Ukrainian: Лі́я Меджи́дівна Ахеджа́кова; born 9 July 1938) is an eminent Soviet and Russian film, stage and voice actress who received the title of People's Artist of Russia in 1994.

Lyudmila Ivanovna Kasatkina (Russian: Людмила Ивановна Касаткина; May 15, 1925 – February 22, 2012) was a Russian actress who starred in a string of war-themed films directed by her husband Sergey Kolosov.

Mark Anatolyevich Zakharov (Russian: Марк Анатольевич Захаров; born 13 October 1933) is a Soviet and Russian theater and film director and playwright, best known for his Soviet-era fantasy parable films and for his productions of plays at Moscow's Lenkom Theatre.

Sun Weishi (1921 – October 15, 1968) was the first female director of modern spoken drama (Huaju) in Chinese history.

Marina Olegovna Zueva (Russian: Марина Олеговна Зуева, also romanized French-style as Zoueva; born April 9, 1956) is a Russian ice dancing coach and choreographer.

Anatoli Dmitrievich Papanov (Russian: Анато́лий Дми́триевич Папа́нов; 31 October 1922 – 7 August 1987) was a popular Soviet film and theatre actor.

Valeri Sergeevich Zolotukhin (Russian: Валерий Серге́евич Золотухин, 21 June 1941 in Altai Krai, USSR – 30 March 2013 in Moscow, Russia) was a Russian theatrical and cinema actor from the Taganka Theatre.

Vitaly Stepanovich Logvinovsky (Russian: Вита́лий Степа́нович Логвино́вский) is a Soviet and Russian theater and film actor, artist Kaluga Regional Drama Theatre.

Nikolai Alekseyevich Slichenko (Russian: Никола́й Алексе́евич Сличе́нко; born 27 December 1934) is a Russian singer and chief director of the Romen Theatre in Moscow.

Nikolai Evgenievich Sorokin (Russian: Николай Евгеньевич Сорокин; February 15, 1952 — March 26, 2013) was a Russian theatre and film actor, theatre director, educator, and People's Artist of Russia (1999).

Aleksandr Konstantinovich Fatyushin (Russian: Александр Константинович Фатюшин; 1951 - 2003) was a Soviet and Russian film and theater actor.

Efim (Nakhim) Zalmanovich Shifrin (Russian: Ефи́м (Нахи́м) Залма́нович Шифри́н; born March 25, 1956) is a Soviet and Russian actor, humorist, singer.

Nadezhda Pavlova (born May 15, 1956) is a Russian Chuvash ballerina of the late 20th century, People's Artist of the USSR, People's Artist of the Chuvashia, professor.

Māris Rūdolfs Liepa (27 July 1936, Riga – 26 March 1989, Moscow) was a Soviet Latvian ballet dancer.

Alexander Vladimirovich Galibin (Russian: Александр Владимирович Галибин, born 27 September 1955 in Leningrad).

Natalya Il'inichna Sats (sometimes spelled Natalia Satz; Russian: Наталия Ильинична Сац; 27 August [O.S. 14 August] 1903 – 18 December 1993) was a Russian stage director who ran theaters for children for many years, including the Moscow Musical Theater for Children, now named after her.

Klara Borisovna Novikova (Russian: Клаpа Бopисoвна Нoвикoва; born Herzer (Russian: Ге́рцер), December 12, 1946, Kiev) is a Soviet and Russian pop artist, humorist.

Yulia Sergeevna Peresild (Russian: Ю́лия Серге́евна Переси́льд; born 5 September 1984) is a Russian stage and film actress.

Lyudmila Alekseyevna Pakhomova (Russian: Людмила Алексеевна Пахомова; 31 December 1946 – 17 May 1986) was an ice dancer who competed for the Soviet Union.

Boris Alexandrovich Pokrovsky (Russian: Борис Александрович Покровский; 23 January 1912 – 5 June 2009) was a Russian opera director, best known as the stage director of the Bolshoi Theatre between 1943 and 1982.

Yury Nikolayevich Grigorovich (Russian: Ю́рий Никола́евич Григоро́вич; born 2 January 1927 in Leningrad) is a Soviet and Russian dancer and choreographer who dominated the Russian ballet for 30 years.

Yuri Alexeyevich Ardashev (Russian: Юрий Алексеевич Ардашев; born 22 January 1965) is a Russian theatre director, actor, and professional drummer.

Olga Algertovna Volozhinskaya (Estonian: Olga Voložinskaja; Russian: Ольга Альгертовна Воложинская, born 18 May 1962) is a former ice dancer who competed for the Soviet Union.

Andrey Alexandrovich Goncharov (Russian: Андре́й Алекса́ндрович Гончаро́в, January 2, 1918, Ryazan Governorate, Soviet Russia, - September 7, 2001, Moscow, Russian Federation) was a Soviet theatre director, drama pedagogue and author.

Tankho Selimovich Israelov (Russian: Танхо Селимович Израилов; Hebrew: ;תנקהו ישראלוב‎‎ born December 2, 1917 — November 30, 1981) was a Soviet Dagestan ballet dancer, a ballet master, a choreographer, and of Mountain Jewish origin descent.

Dmitri Tcherniakov (Russian: Дмитрий Черняков) (born May 11, 1970) is a Russian theatre director, and winner of numerous national Golden Mask theatre awards, who works with many European opera houses.

Dmitry Alexandrovitch Bertman (Russian: Дмитрий Александрович Бертман, born 31 October 1967) is a Russian theatre and opera director and the founder and artistic director of Helikon Opera in Moscow.

Roman Grigoryevich Viktyuk (Russian: Роман Григорьевич Виктюк, Ukrainian: Роман Григорович Віктюк; born October 28, 1936 in Lwów, Poland, now Lviv, Ukraine) is a Russian and Ukrainian theater director, actor, screenwriter.

Svetlana Adyrkhaeva (born May 12, 1938) (Russian: Светлана Дзантемировна Адырхаева) is an Ossetian and Soviet ballerina who was awarded People's Artist of the USSR in 1984.

Maya-Gozel Aimedova (born 28 May 1941) is a Turkmen actress.

Georgy Alexandrovich Tovstonogov (Russian: Георгий Александрович Товстоногов, 28 September [O.S. 15 September] 1915 – May 23, 1989) was a Russian theatre director, the leader of Saint Petersburg Bolshoi Academic Theatre of Drama (formerly Gorky Theater), which now bears his name.

Boris Yulyevich Kagarlitsky (Russian: Бори́с Ю́льевич Кагарли́цкий; born 29 August 1958 in Moscow) is a Russian Marxist theoretician and sociologist who has been a political dissident in the Soviet Union and in post-Soviet Russia.

Anatoly Vasilievich Efros (Russian: Анато́лий Васи́льевич Э́фрос; June 3, 1925, Kharkiv—January 13, 1987, Moscow) was a Russian and Soviet theatre director.

Nadezhda Yuryevna Karataeva (Russian: Наде́жда Ю́рьевна Карата́ева) is a participant of the Great Patriotic War, Honored artist of the RSFSR (1981), the widow of Anatoli Papanov.

Eugene Lavrenchuk (Russian: Лавренчук Евгений Викторович; Ukrainian: Лавренчук Євген Вікторович; Polish: Eugeniusz Ławreńczuk)) (born June 24, 1982) is a Ukrainian, Polish and Russian theater director, actor and teacher.

Aleksei Vasil'evich Loktev (Russian: Алексей Васильевич Локтев; 30 December 1939 – 17 September 2006) was a Russian and Soviet actor.

Askold Anatolievich Makarov (Russian: Аскольд Анатольевич Макаров, 1925-2000) was a Russian ballet dancer and ballet professor, leading soloist at the Kirov Ballet during the 1960s and early 1970s.

Elena Anatolyevna Tchaikovskaia, also spelled as Chaykovskaya or Chaikovskaia (Russian: , née Osipova (Russian: О́сипова); born December 30, 1939) is a Russian figure skating coach and choreographer.

Sam Kogan (22 October 1946 – 11 November 2004) was a Russian actor, director, and acting teacher.

Leush Lubich (Russian: Леуш Любич; Belarusian: Леуш Любіч) is a popular Belarusian and Russian pop singer.

Ekaterina Vladimirovna Nosik (Russian: Екатерина Владимировна Ноиск; December 27, 1984) is a Russian stage and film actress.