Pelageya Fedorovna Shajn, née Sannikova, was a Russian astronomer in the Soviet Union and the first woman to discover a minor planet at the Simeiz Observatory in 1928. Pelageya also discovered numerous variable stars and co-discovered the periodic, Jupiter-family comet 61P/Shajn–Schaldach. She was married to prominent Soviet astronomer Grigory Shajn.
Zinaida Stepanovna Amosova was a former Soviet cross-country skier who competed from 1976 to 1983, training at the Armed Forces sports society in Novosibirsk. She won a gold medal in the 4 x 5 km relay at the 1976 Winter Olympics in Innsbruck.
Yelizaveta "Liza" Fyodorovna Mironova was a Soviet sniper during the Second World War. She has been alternately credited with either 34, or "more than a hundred" kills.
Natalya Fyodorovna Kravtsova née Meklin was a flight commander in the 46th Taman Guards Night Bomber Aviation Regiment, one of the three women's aviation regiments founded by Marina Raskova after the German invasion of the Soviet Union. The regiment later came to be known as the "Night Witches" by German targets. She was presented with the title Hero of the Soviet Union in February 1945 for completing 840 sorties, and gained significant publicity.
Zinaida Voronina, born Zinaida Borisovna Druzhinina, was a Soviet gymnast who competed at the European, World, and Olympic level from the mid-1960s to early 1970s.
Irina Fyodorovna Sebrova was a lieutenant and pilot for the Soviet Air Forces who served in the all-female Night Witches during the Second World War. Sebrova was awarded the title Hero of Soviet Union on 23 February 1945 for her first 825 bombing missions.
Zinaida Semenova is a retired female long-distance runner from Russia. She set her personal best in the women's marathon on October 7, 2001 in Saint Paul, Minnesota, clocking 2:26:51. Semenova is a three-time winner of the annual Twin Cities Marathon.
Zinaida Nikolayevna Reich was a Russian actress and became one of the main stars of the Meyerhold Theatre until it was closed under Joseph Stalin.
Olga Fyodorovna Barysheva-Korostelyova is a Russian former basketball player who competed in the 1976 Summer Olympics and in the 1980 Summer Olympics.
Anna Feodorovna Volkova, was a Russian chemist working predominantly with amides. During the late 1860s, she was educated in chemistry through public lectures at St. Petersburg University. She was the first woman to graduate as a chemist (1870), the first woman member of the Russian Chemical Society, the first Russian woman to publish a chemical work, and regarded as the first woman at all to publish her own chemical research from a modern chemical laboratory.
Yekaterina Fyodorovna Ilyina is a Russian handball player for Rostov-Don and the Russian national team.
Zinaida Venediktovna Vorkul was a Soviet stage and film actress. She is known for playing character roles, usually as a mother or grandmother.
Natalya Fyodorovna Polozkova is a retired Russian speed skater. She competed at the 1992, 1994 and 1998 Winter Olympics in the 500, 1000 and 1500 m events with the best achievement of fourth place in the 1500 m in 1992. In 1991 she won a European title in the 500 m as well as a gold medal at the Universiade in the 1500 m event.
Zinaida Maximovna Sharko was a Russian actress of theatre and film, member of Bolshoi Drama Theatre. People's Artist of the RSFSR (1980).
Nadezhda Fyodorovna Morozova is a Russian ice hockey player for Biryusa Krasnoyarsk and the Russian national team.
Anna Feodorovna Tiutcheva was a Russian courtier, slavophile and memoirist. She was the maid of honour and confidante of empress Maria Alexandrovna from 1853 until 1866, and is known for her memoirs depicting Russian life from 1853 until 1882, which are regarded to be a valuable historic source of the life of Russian aristocracy in mid 19th-century Russia. She was the daughter of Fyodor Tyutchev and married Ivan Aksakov in 1866.
At the Dressing-Table. Self-Portrait is a 1909 painting by Russian-French painter Zinaida Serebriakova. The painting is in the collection of the Tretyakov Gallery. Its size is 75 × 65 cm.
Antonina Fyodorovna Khudyakova was a senior lieutenant and deputy squadron commander in the 46th Taman Guards Night Bomber Aviation Regiment, 325th Night Bomber Aviation Division, 4th Air and Air Defence Forces Army, 2nd Belorussian Front during World War II. For successfully completing 926 sorties she was declared a Hero of the Soviet Union on 15 May 1946.
Aleksandra Akimova was a squadron navigator in the 46th Taman Guards Night Bomber Aviation Regiment during the Second World War. In 1994 she became one of the few women awarded the title Hero of the Russian Federation.
Yelena Kolesova was the commander of a partisan unit of the Soviet special forces during World War II. After dying in battle in a successful attack on a German fortess in Vydritsa, Kolesova was posthumously awarded the title Hero of the Soviet Union on 21 November 1944.
