Andrei Yakovlevich Sverdlov was a Soviet police officer, notorious for his treatment of political prisoners, who was a victim of the anti-semitic purge during the last years of Joseph Stalin.
Andrei Arsenyevich Tarkovsky was a Russian film director and screenwriter. Widely considered one of the greatest and most influential directors in cinema history, Tarkovsky's films explore spiritual and metaphysical themes, and are noted for their slow pacing and long takes, dreamlike visual imagery, and preoccupation with nature and memory.
Andrei Yuryevich Tolubeyev was a Soviet and Russian stage and film actor. People's Artist of the RSFSR (1991). Chairman of the Board of the Union of Theatrical Figures of Russia (1996). He was born and died of pancreatic cancer in Saint Petersburg.
Andrei Volokitin is a Ukrainian chess grandmaster. He is a two-time Ukrainian champion and has competed in four Chess Olympiads, winning team gold in 2004 along with team bronze in 2012.
Andrei Andreyevich Voznesensky was a Soviet and Russian poet and writer who had been referred to by Robert Lowell as "one of the greatest living poets in any language." He was one of the "Children of the '60s," a new wave of iconic Russian intellectuals led by the Khrushchev Thaw.
Andrei Yefimovich Zarin was a Russian writer of novels, essays and short stories in the late 19th and early 20th century. He was born in St Petersburg in the Russian Empire, graduating from the gymnasium and entering into Vilnius University in modern-day Lithuania in 1879. His first publications were economic articles in the Vilnius Gazette. He started publishing novels and texts in 1881 based in his home city. He was the editor of the journal Stars and Pictorial Review.
Andrei Medardovich Zayonchkovsky commanded the defence of the Romanian-Bulgarian border in Dobruja upon Romania's entry into World War I in August 1916.
