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Vladimir Putin
2nd and 4th President of Russia (2000–2008 | 2012–present) | 7th and 11th Prime Minister of Russia (1999–2000 | 2008–2012) | Director of the Federal Security Service (1998–1999) and Deputy Mayor of Saint Petersburg (1994–1996)
Top 500 #167
Initials VP #1
Mr. Nobody Against Putin#2

Vladimir Lenin
founding leader of the Soviet Union from 1922 to 1924 (1870–1924)
Initials VL #1
What Is to Be Done?#4

Vladimir Nabokov
Russian-American novelist | lepidopterist | professor (1899–1977)
Initials VN #2
Lolita#12

Vladimir Tenev
Bulgarian-American entrepreneur and co-founder of Robinhood | a US-based financial services company
Initials VT #13#18
Vladimir Mayakovsky
Russian and Soviet poet | playwright | artist and stage and film actor
Initials VM #51#51
Vladimir Bukovsky
Soviet dissident; prominent in the Soviet dissident movement of the 1960s and 1970s and spent a total of twelve years in psychiatric prison-hospitals | labor camps and prisons within the Soviet Union
Initials VB #99#60
Vladimir Ivanovich Vernadsky
Ukrainian | Russian and Soviet mineralogist and geochemist | one of the founders of geochemistry | biogeochemistry | and of radiogeology
Initials VV #143#77

Vladimír Mečiar
Czechoslovak Minister of the Interior of Slovakia | member of Slovak National Council | member of Czechoslovak parliament | prime minister of Slovakia | politician | lawyer and Slovak politician
Initials VM #150#104
Vladimir Yakushev
Soviet and russian economist | Minister of Construction | Housing and Communal Services of Russia
Initials VY #16#105
Vladimir Arutyunian
Attempted to assassinate George W. Bush and Mikheil Saakashvili
Initials VA #107

















