he USSR: 1984, 1985
� Zalman Aran (Aharonovich) - Israeli social-democratic politician, minister of education (1955�1960) and (1963�1969)
� Nikita Khrushchev - General Secretary of the CPSU and Premier of the Soviet Union 1953�1964 (born in Kalinovka, Kursk Oblast, Russia but grew up in Yuzovka)
� Vasyl Stus � Ukrainian poet and publicist, one of the most active members of Ukrainian dissident movement
� Polina Astakhova � Ukrainian gymnast
� Pavel Gililov � Russian pianist
� Anatoly Timofeevich Fomenko � Russian Mathematician and lecturer at the Moscow University
� Yaroslav Kargin - internationally renowned violist
� Oleksandr Koliaskyn � tennis player
� Marina Kroshyna � tennis player
� Ilya Mate - Olympic champion in 1980
� Oleksiy Pecherov � a Ukrainian basketball player
� Aleksandr Pervy - Weightlifter
� Lilia Podkopayeva � a Ukrainian gymnast, and the 1996 Olympics winner
� Sergiy Rebrov � Footballer
� Vladislav Shabalin- Russian artist-Soviet dissident, painter, graphic, sculptor.
� Natan Sharansky � former Soviet dissident, anticommunist, Zionist, Israeli politician and writer
� Oleg Tverdovsky � ice hockey player
� Viktor Sidyak � fencing, first Soviet individual sabre olympic gold medal in Munich 1972, multiple times winner of World Championships and Olympic medalist (1968, 1972, 1976 and 1980).
� Olexander Yakhubin � boxer
� Serhiy Salov - Ukrainian pianist
