Boris Asafovich Messerer is a Soviet and Russian theater artist, set designer and teacher. President of the association of artists of theater, cinema and television in Moscow.
Boris Mikhailovich Zhitkov was a Russian and Soviet explorer, zoologist, hunter, biogeographer, and writer. He served as a professor at Moscow University and at the Petrovsky Agricultural Academy. He established a biological research station where many founding figures of Soviet zoology were trained. It is now called the B.M. Zhitkov Russian Research Institute of Game Management and Fur Farming.
Boris Milev was a Bulgarian communist who worked in the theater, cinema, journalism, known for his role in the French Resistance as the political director of the FTP-MOI in the Paris region during World War II.
Boris Sergeyevich Mirkin-Getzevich, also known by his pen name, Boris Mirsky, was a Russian jurist. He had been a director of the Paris Institute of Comparative Law and a professor at the Institute of Higher International Studies, Faculty of Law of Paris.
Boris Nikolaevich Mironov is a Soviet and Russian historian, cliometrist, specialist in the field of historical sociology, social, economic and demographic history of Russia, anthropometric history and research methodology.
Boris Andreyevich Mozhayev was a Soviet Russian author, dramatist, script-writer and editor, the USSR State Prize (1989) laureate, best known for his novel Zhivoy and the two-part epic Peasant Men and Women. Supported by Alexander Tvardovsky and admired by Alexander Solzhenitsyn, Mozhayev experienced serious difficulties with publishing his harshly realistic, tinged with bitter humour Village prose, dealing with trials and tribulations of the Soviet peasantry in the years of collectivisation and beyond.
Boris Yefimovich Nemtsov was a Russian physicist, liberal politician, and outspoken critic of Vladimir Putin. Early in his political career, he was involved in the introduction of reforms into the Russian post-Soviet economy. In the 1990s under President Boris Yeltsin, he was the first governor of the Nizhny Novgorod Oblast (1991–1997). Later he worked in the government of Russia as Minister of Fuel and Energy (1997), Vice Premier of Russia and Security Council member from 1997 to 1998. In 1998, he founded the Young Russia movement. In 1998, he co-founded the coalition group Right Cause and in 1999, he co-formed Union of Right Forces, an electoral bloc and subsequently a political party. Nemtsov was also a member of the Congress of People's Deputies (1990), Federation Council (1993–97) and State Duma (1999–2003).
