Soviet writers

Isaac Yefremovich Boleslavsky (Ukrainian: Ісаак Єфремович Болеславський, Исаак Ефремович Болеславский; June 9, 1919 in Zolotonosha, Ukraine – February 15, 1977 in Minsk) was a Soviet chess Grandmaster.

Ivan "Dzhonrid" Alexandrovich Svanidze (Russian: Иван "Джонрид" Александрович Свани́дзе; Georgian: ივანე ალექსანდრეს ძე სვანიძე; Ivane Aleksandres dze Svanidze; 1927 – 1990), was a Soviet academic who specialized in agriculture and African Studies.

Xudoyberdi To'xtaboyev is an Uzbek writer of children's stories.

Larisa Mikhailovna Reisner (Russian: Лариса Михайловна Рейснер; 1 (13) May 1895 – 9 February 1926) was a Russian writer.

Vladimir Ivanovich Nemirovich-Danchenko (Russian: Владимир Иванович Немирович-Данченко; 23 December [O.S. 11 December] 1858 – 25 April 1943, Moscow) was a Russian and Soviet theatre director, writer, pedagogue, playwright, producer and theatre administrator, who founded the Moscow Art Theatre with his colleague, Konstantin Stanislavski, in 1898.

Shira Gorshman (April 10, 1906 – April 4, 2001) was a Yiddish language short story writer and memoirist.

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.

Vladimir Nikolaevich Osipov (Russian: Влади́мир Никола́евич О́сипов; born 1938) was the founder of the Soviet samizdat journal Veche (Assembly).

Zvi-Gersh Preigerzon (October 26, 1900 – March 15, 1969) was a Ukrainian Jewish author who specialized in historical prose of a historically fictional nature.

Nikolay Pavlovich Akimov (April 16, 1901 – September 6, 1968) was an experimental theatre director and scenic designer noted for his work with the Leningrad Comedy Theatre.

Alla Yefremovna Gerber (Russian: А́лла Ефре́мовна Ге́рбер, born 3 January 1932 in Moscow) is a Russian politician, journalist and film critic.

Alexander Markovich Konstantinopolsky (Russian: Александр Маркович Константинопольский; 19 February 1910, Zhytomir, Russian Empire, now Ukraine – 21 September 1990, Moscow, USSR) was a Soviet International Master (IM) of chess, chess coach and trainer, and a chess author.

Der Nister (Yiddish: דער נסתּר ֹor דער ניסטער‎, "the hidden one"; 1 November 1884 – 4 June 1950 the Soviet Gulag) was the pseudonym of Pinchus Kahanovich (פּנחס קאַהאַנאָוויטש), a Yiddish author, philosopher, translator, and critic.

Arkady Nikitich Vorobyov (Russian: Аркадий Никитич Воробьёв; 3 October 1924 – 22 December 2012) was a Russian weightlifter, weightlifting coach, scientist and writer.

Viktor Petrov (Ukrainian: Віктор Петров 1894 – 1969) was a prominent Soviet Ukrainian existentialist writer.

Turab Tula, pseudonym of Turab Tulakhozhaev (Russian: Тула Тураб, Тулаходжаев; 1918—1990) was a Soviet Uzbek writer, People's Writer of the Uzbek SSR.

Alaviyya Babayeva Hanifa Kizi (12 August 1921 – 23 September 2014) was a prose-writer, translator of contemporary Russian literature, and publicist.

Marianna Yablonskaya (Russian: Марианна Викторовна Яблонская) (1938–1980) is a Soviet writer, playwright, Soviet theater actress and theater director.

Vahram Alazan (Armenian: Վահրամ Ալազան), (Vahram Gabuzian) (Armenian: ահրամ Մարտիրոսի Գաբուզյան, 19 May (May 6 O.S.) 1903 in Van – 17 May 1966 in Yerevan) was an Armenian poet, writer and public activist, the First Secretary of the Writers Union of Armenia from 1933 to 1936.

Lev Navrozov (Russian: Лев Наврозов; born 1928 in Moscow) is a Russian author, historian and polemicist and father of poet Andrei Navrozov.

Hrachya Qochar (Gabrielyan) (1910–1965) is an Armenian writer, publicist, first national prizewinner of Armenian SSR (1967, for "The Nahabed" novel), member of writers' union of USSR (since 1934)։

Aleksandr Vladimirovich Ivanitsky (Russian: Александр Владимирович Иваницкий ; born 8 October 1937) is a former Soviet wrestler and Olympic champion in Freestyle wrestling.

Raisa Noevna Blokh (Russian: Раиса Ноевна Блох) (1899 – 1943) was a Russian poet.

Maria Belakhova (Russian: Мария Андреевна Белахова, 1903–1969) was a Russian writer and educator known for her work in children's literature and education in the Soviet Union, mentorship of many of the country's prominent children's writers, and her own works.