Editing Cossacks (section)

== Notable people ==
* [[Nikolai Gogol]] - Russian novelist, short story writer, and playwright 
* [[Yury Trifonov]] - Russian writer
* [[Sergei Korolev]] - the lead Soviet rocket engineer and spacecraft designer 
* [[Vladimir Borovikovsky]] - Russian artist
* [[Dmitry Bortniansky]] - Russian Imperial composer
* [[Nikolay Shcherbina]] - Russian poet
* [[Leonid Zhabotinsky]] - Ukrainian weightlifter 
* [[Yuri Andropov]] - Soviet politician who was the sixth leader of the Soviet Union
* [[Sergey Shakhray]] - Russian politician
* [[Vasily Safonov]] - Russian pianist, teacher, conductor and composer
* [[Nikolay Samokish]] -  Ukrainian and Soviet painter and illustrator
* [[Vladimir Mayakovsky]] - Russian poet, playwright, artist, and actor
* [[George Kistiakowsky]] - Ukrainian-American physical chemistry professor at Harvard who participated in the [[Manhattan Project]] and later served as [[President Dwight D. Eisenhower]]'s [[Science Advisor to the President|Science Advisor]]
* [[Aleksandr Khanzhonkov]] - pioneering Russian cinema entrepreneur, film director and screenwriter
* [[Vladimir Vernadsky]] - Ukrainian and Soviet mineralogist and geochemist 
* [[Nicholas Miklouho-Maclay]] - Russian explorer
* [[Mykola Markevych]] - Ukrainian historian, ethnographer, musician and poet
* [[Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky]] - Russian composer  
* [[Fyodor Pirotsky]] - Russian engineer, inventor of the world's first railway electrification system and electric tram
* [[Natalia Alexandrovna Pushkina]] - [[Count of Merenberg]]
* [[Petro Prokopovych]] - Ukrainian beekeeper who made revolutionary contributions to the practice 
* [[Semyon Kataev]] - Soviet scientist and inventor in the field of television and radio electronics
* [[Andrei Krasnov]] - Russian botanist
* [[Petro Konashevych-Sahaidachny]] - political and civic leader
* [[Vasily Karazin]] - Russian enlightenment figure, intellectual, inventor, scientific publisher
* [[Zinaida Yermolyeva]] - Soviet microbiologist of Don Cossack origin most notable for producing penicillin for the Soviet military
* [[Alexander Zasyadko (general)]] - Russian general
* [[Sergei Winogradsky]] - Ukrainian and Russian microbiologist, ecologist and soil scientist who pioneered the cycle-of-life concept
* [[:ru:Болдырев, Иван Васильевич|Boldyrev, Ivan Vasilyevich]] - photographer and inventor