Lyudmila Vladimirovna Rudenko was a Soviet chess player and the second women's world chess champion, from 1950 until 1953.
Yuliya Vladimirovna Sotnikova is a Russian world indoor champion and Olympic bronze medallist in the 4 x 400 metres relay. She specializes in the 400 metres and has a personal best time of 50.73s. She competed for Russia in the 2000 Summer Olympics held in Sydney, Australia in the 4 x 400 metres where she won the bronze medal with her team mates Svetlana Gontcharenko, Olga Kotlyarova and Irina Privalova.
Yelena Vladimirovna Prokhorova is a Russian heptathlete who won a silver medal at the 2000 Summer Olympics. She is also the 2001 world champion in this event. She was born at Kemerovo, in Siberia.
Olimpiada Vladimirovna Ivanova is a Russian race walker. She has 4 medals from the major events.
Yevgeniya Vladimirovna Medvedeva is a Russian cross-country skier who has competed since 1996. Competing in two Winter Olympics, she won two medals at Turin in 2006 with a gold in the 4 x 5 km and a bronze in the 7.5 km + 7.5 km double pursuit.
Lyubov Vladimirovna Kozyreva, Lyubov Baranova from 1960 onwards, was a Soviet cross-country skier who competed in the 1950s and 1960s for VSS Burevestnik. She was born in the settlement of Bugry, Vsevolozhsky District, Leningrad Oblast and died in Moscow.
Lyudmila Ivanovna Bragina is a retired Russian middle distance runner. She competed for the Soviet Union in the 1500 m at the 1972 and 1976 Olympics; she won the event in 1972 and finished fifth in 1976. In July 1972 she set a new 1500 m world record of 4:06.9, at the Soviet championships, and then progressively improved it in round 1 (4:06.47), the semi-finals (4:05.07}, and the final, of the 1972 Olympics. The same year she was awarded the Order of the Red Banner of Labour. She also set three world records in the 3000 m: 8:53.0 in 1972, 8:52.74 in 1974 and 8:27.12 in 1976. At the European Championships, Bragina won four silver medals: in the 3,000 m outdoors, and in the 800 m and 1,500 m indoors.
Svetlana Vladimirovna Petcherskaia ;, born November 14, 1968 in Sverdlovsk, is a former Soviet Union biathlete. The first time women's biathlon was contested at the Winter Olympics in Albertville in 1992, Petcherskia won a silver medal in the women's 15 km individual for the Unified Team. In the 1990/91 season she won the overall world cup. In 1990 she became world champion in the 15 km. During her career she won a total of 7 gold medals at World Championships, together with 3 silver medals and 1 bronze.
Olga Vladimirovna Romasko is a former Russian biathlete. She began with biathlon in 1993. Both in 1996 and 1997, she became world champion in the 7.5 km sprint event. Romasko also won a bronze medal both in the pursuit and on the relay in 1997. At the 1998 Winter Olympics in Nagano, she won a silver medal with the Russian relay team. Over the course of her career she had four individual world cup victories.
Lyudmila Grigoryevna Postnova is a Russian handball player for HC Astrakhanochka and the Russian women's national handball team.
Liudmila Vauchok is Belarusian Paralympian.
Anastasiya Vladimirovna Kuzmina is a retired Russian-born Slovak biathlete.
Lyudmila Vladimirovna Gnilova is a Russian and Soviet actress and voice actress. She was awarded as an Meritorious Artist.
Anastasia Vladimirovna Russkikh is an international badminton player from Gatchina, Russia. She entered her first tournament at age 9 in Sweden and finished in third place. She began playing professionally with her local Gatchina Badminton Club as well as a larger Danish club in Skaelskor, Denmark. In 2010, she played for the Vendsyssel Elite Badminton club. Russkikh is one of Russia's top badminton players, and is a high-ranking competitor in women's and mixed-doubles competitions. Together with her partner in women's doubles, Petya Nedelcheva from Bulgaria, she won the silver medal at the 2010 European Badminton Championships.
Lyudmila Pavlovna Gromova is a retired artistic gymnast from Russia. She competed at the 1964 Summer Olympics in all artistic gymnastics events and won a gold medal in the team allround competition. Individually her best result was 16th place in the floor exercise.
Natalia Vladimirovna Pereverzeva is a Russian model. Pereverzeva won the 2010 Miss Moscow and 2011 Krasa Rossii contests. She also participated in the 2012 Miss Earth and 2009 Miss Russia contests. Pereverzeva participated in the photo shoots for Playboy, Cosmopolitan and Harper's Bazaar. She is also engaged in environmentalism, being a member of the Russian WWF.
Anna Vladimirovna Blinkova is a Russian tennis player who speaks Russian, English and French.
Lyudmila Vladimirovna Sapova is a Russian basketball small forward. She was part of the Russian team that won the 2011 European Championships. At the club level her team Dynamo Kursk placed third at the 2014–15 EuroLeague.
Lyudmila Erarskaya, was a Russian actress who performed from the pre-revolutionary period until her death in Moscow. She was an associate and friend of some of the most noted intellectuals of her era and was most known for her relationship with and inspiration of poems by Sophia Parnok.
Lyudmila Vladimirovna Mayakovskaya was a Russian and Soviet textile designer and teacher. She was given the title of Merited Cultural Worker of the RSFSR. She was the elder sister of the poet Vladimir Mayakovsky.
