Russian Media

5 Following

A list for media originating in Russia. Includes culturally Russian media made in the Soviet Union.

Actors & Filmmakers

• Oksana Akinshina
• Tatiana Aksyuta
• Djouliet Amara^note Born in Russia, emigrated to Canada and works in the US.
• Anastasia Baranova^note Born in Moscow, emigrated to and works in the US.
• Nikita Bogolyubov^note Born in Leningrad, USSR and works in the US.
• Sergei Bondarchuk
• Yul Brynner^note Born in Russia, made his career in the USA.
• Nikolay Cherkasov
• Georgi Danelia^note Georgian-born
• Gérard Depardieu^note  Dual French-Russian citizenship since 2013, played in a few local productions
• Svetlana Efremova
• Sergei Eisenstein
• Alexei Fomkin
• Olga Fonda^note  Also holds United States citizenship.
• Olga Golovanova
• Mikhail Gorevoy
• Natalia Guseva
• Dmitry "Sienduk" Karpov
• Miroslava Karpovich
• Konstantin Khabensky
• Fyodor Khitruk
• Michael Khmurov
• Svetlana Khodchenkova
• Andrei Konchalovsky
• Mikhail Kononov
• Eugenia Kuzmina^note  Born in Moscow and later moved to the US.
• Margarita Levieva^note  Born in Leningrad, she moved to America at the age of 11
• Val Lewton^note  Born in Yalta when Ukraine was part of the Russian Empire, emigrated to the US at age 9
• Max Mann
• Richard Marner
• Oleg Menshikov
• Vladimir Menshov
• Nikita Mikhalkov
• Lewis Milestone^note  Born in Bessarabia (Moldova) when it was part of the Russian Empire; moved to the US at age 18
• Eugene Mirman^note  Born in Moscow, Soviet Union before moving to the US at the age of 4
• Kira Muratova^note  Worked in Odessa, Ukraine both in the Soviet time when it was a republic within USSR and following its independence
• Vyacheslav Nevinny
• Yuri Norstein
• Eldar Ryazanov
• Irina Shayk
• Olga Shorokhova
• Elena Shulman ^note Born in Odessa, Ukraine and later moved to Russia.
• Maryana Spivak
• Katya Starshova
• Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa^note Holds Russian citizenship
• Akim Tamiroff ^note Georgian-born, of Armenian ethnicity. Trained in Moscow before emigrating to America in 1927.
• Andrei Tarkovsky
• Vyacheslav Tikhonov
• Anton Yelchin ^note Born in Leningrad, he moved to America as an infant.
• Andrey Zvyagintsev

Advertising

• Can't Buy a Brain

Animated Shows

• 38 Parrots
• Adventures of Mowgli
• Adventures Of The Piglet Foontic
• Atomic Forest
• Booba
• Captain Pronin
• Champions (2024)
• Fantasy Patrol
• The Fixies
• The Happy Merry-Go-Round
• Heroes of Envell
• Investigation Held by Kolobki
• Kid-E-Cats
• KikoRiki
• A Kitten Named Woof
• Leo The Truck
• Leopold the Cat
• Masha and the Bear
• Nu, Pogodi!
• Nu, Pogodi! Kanikuly
• Parovozik Tishka
• PinCode
• Qumi-Qumi
• Squared Zebra
• Yoko (2015) (co-produced with Spain)

Animators

• Aleksandr Petrov
• Genndy Tartakovsky^note Born in Moscow, moved to America in 1977.

Art

• The Last Day of Pompeii
• Worker and Kolkhoz Woman

Artists

• Marc Chagall
• Wassily Kandinsky
• Ilya Repin
• Andrei Rublev
• Andrei Ryabushkin

Authors

• Alexander Afanasyev
• Mikhail Akhmanov
• Anna Akhmatova
• Arkady Averchenko
• Mikhail Bakunin
• Andrei Belyanin
• Kir Bulychev
• Lidia Charskaya
• Anton Chekhov
• Svetlana Chmakova^note born in Russia, moved to Canada at age 16
• Oleg Divov
• Fyodor Dostoevsky
• Nikolai Gogol^note born in Ukraine, part of the Russian Empire at the time
• Pyotr Kropotkin
• Yulia Latynina
• Sergey Lukyanenko
• Samuil Marshak
• Vladimir Nabokov
• Victor Pelevin
• Nick Perumov
• Sofia Prokofieva
• Dmitry Puchkov
• Alexander Pushkin
• Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
• Vladimir Solovyov
• Strugatsky Brothers
• Leo Tolstoy
• Ivan Turgenev
• Vladimir Vasilyev
• Ivan Yefremov

Companies

• Aeroplane Productions
• Animaccord Animation Studio
• BUBBLE Studios
• Melnitsa Animation Studio
• Mosfilm
• Parovoz Animation Studio
• Petersburg Animation Studio
• Romen Theatre
• Russia Today
• Soyuzmultfilm
• Studio Metrafilms

Fan Works

• Bastard (Harry Potter)
• Phoenix's Secret

Live-Action TV

• Better Than Us
• Death in the Lens
• The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes and Doctor Watson
• Ekaterina (Catherine the Great)
• Happy Together (the Russian Remake of Married...With Children)
• The Interns
• Intervision
• The Keepers (1991) (2-part adaptation of The Fellowship of the Ring)
• KVN
• Life and Fate (12-part miniseries)
• Liquidation
• The Meeting Place Cannot Be Changed
• The Method
• Moimi Glazami
• The Optimists
• Queen Margot
• Secrets of Investigation
• Seventeen Moments of Spring (12-part miniseries)
• Soviet Storm: World War II in the East (18-part documentary series)
• The Tower (2010)
• Trace
• Trotsky
• Yeralash
• Brigada
• Kitchen
• Cybervillage

Music

• 4PoziciiBruno
• 23:45
• 5sta Family
• Abominable Putridity
• Ai Mori/MONADA/Neonuar
• Ariya
• Eduard Artemyev
• Bi-2
• Dima Bilan
• Vyacheslav Butusov
• The Chalkeaters
• Dropgun
• Elvira T
• Epidemia
• Ergyron
• FRENDZONA
• Dmitri Hvorostovsky
• Glukoza (Gluk'oZa)
• IC3PEAK
• In-Yan (Yin-Yang)
• Yulianna Karaulova
• Katalepsy
• Eduard Khil
• Kino
• Kis-Kis
• Konstantin Kodyaev
• Korol I Shut
• Yegor Kreed
• Yevgeny Krylatov
• Sergey Lazarev
• Leningrad
• Lida
• Little Big
• LOVIMOMENT
• Lyube
  • 1992 - "Don't Play the Fool, America!"
• Mirèle (Eva Krauze/Eva Gurari)
• Monetochka
• Modest Mussorgsky
  • Night on Bald Mountain
  • Pictures at an Exhibition
• Namgar
• neksusha (etoneksushenka)
• Anna Netrebko
• Nautilus Pompilius
• Natalia O Shea
• Nyusha
• Kristina Orbakaite
• Otava Yo
• Serebro
• Sergei Prokofiev
  • Peter and the Wolf
• Alla Pugacheva
• Sergei Rachmaninoff
• Ranetki
• Radio Tapok
• Stenka Razin
• Alexei Rybnikov
  • 1980 - Juno and Avos
• Dmitri Shostakovich
• Alyona Shvets
• Slaughter to Prevail
• Regina Spektor (born in Moscow, moved to the USA when she was 9)
  • Soviet Kitsch (2004)
• Igor Stravinsky
• t.A.T.u.
• Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
  • Romeo And Juliet
• Tequilajazzz
• Viktor Tsoi
• Vintazh
• Vitas
• Vladimir Vysotsky
• XS Project
• Zedd
• Zemfira

Mythology

• Ainu Mythology
• Russian Mythology and Tales
• Slavic Mythology

Sports

• Volk Han
• Andrei Kopylov
• Alena Kostornaia
• Yulia Lipnitskaya
• Evgenia Medvedeva
• Anna Pogorilaya
• Elena Radionova
• Anna Shcherbakova
• Alexandra Trusova
• Elizaveta Tuktamysheva
• Eteri Tutberidze
• Kamila Valieva
• Alina Zagitova

Tabletop Game

• Age of Aquarius
• Battles Fantasy
• Berserk (CCG)

Theatre

• Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves
• Boris Godunov
• The Cherry Orchard
• Eugene Onegin
• The Firebird
• Khovanshchina
• The Last Trial
• Lay of Leithian
• The Legend of the Invisible City of Kitezh and the Maiden Fevroniya
• The Mannequins' Ball
• The Nutcracker
• The Rite of Spring
• The Scarlet Sails
• The Seagull
• The Snow Maiden
• Swan Lake
• Three Sisters
• Uncle Vanya
• Without A Dowry

Web Animation

• 13 Cards
• Batmetal
• Bird Rage
• Contest for Millions of Thousands
• Eltorro64Rus
• Five Nights at Freddy's: The Dark Fate (Russian knockoff of Five Nights at Freddy's: The Stories)
• Masyanya
• Metal Family
• Mr Freeman
• My Student Spirit
• "SpinoGryzi"
• Spy's Creed
• THLMR

Web Video

• Kinamania
• Birchpunk
• Within Lapenko
• The Brian Maps