Boris Nikolaevich Polevoy was a Soviet writer. He is the author of the book Story of a Real Man about Soviet World War II fighter pilot Aleksey Maresyev.
Boris Fyodorovich Porshnev was a Soviet historian known for his works on popular revolts in Ancien Régime France and a doctor of social sciences working on psychology, prehistory, and neurolinguistics as relating to the origins of man.
Boris Alekseyevich Prozorovsky was a Russian composer and songwriter who specialized in the genre of Russian romance. Many of his best-known songs were originally performed by his protégé and one-time partner Tamara Tsereteli, who recorded some in 1927, the year Prozorovsky's career reached its peak.
Boris Viktorovich Rauschenbach was a preeminent Soviet physicist and rocket engineer, who developed the theory and instruments for interplanetary flight control and navigation in 1955-1960s. He is also notable for his studies in Christian theology and theory of Art.
Boris Reitschuster is a German journalist and author. He is considered an expert on Eastern Europe and became known for his books on contemporary Russia. He was the head of the Moscow bureau of the German weekly FOCUS from 1999 until August 2015.
Boris Aleksandrovich Ruchyev was a Soviet Russian poet, most of whose life and work was related to the city of Magnitogorsk. He is an author of about 30 books of poetry and a recipient of several state awards and decorations.
Boris Alexandrovich Rybakov was a Soviet and Russian historian who personified the anti-Normanist vision of Russian history. He is the father of Indologist Rostislav Rybakov.
Boris Borisovich Ryzhy was a Russian poet and geologist. Some poems by Ryzhy have been translated into English, Italian, German, Dutch and Serbian. He died by suicide on 7 May 2001, at the age of 26. He was born in Chelyabinsk, but had lived in Sverdlovsk since 1980.
Boris Alexandrovich Sadovskoy was a Russian poet, prosaic, literary critic of the Silver Age of Russian poetry. Despite starting as a member of the Russian Symbolist movement and actively contributing to Vesy, Sadovskoy in his own poetry followed the tradition of Afanasy Fet, whom he admired and wrote several books about. His second adopted trend was the patriarchal Russia' stylisations which often took a form of literary parodies and mystifications. After the 1917 Revolution, Sadovsky, a monarchist, refused to emigrate and, becoming a wheelchair-user, lived in isolation, his last book published in 1928.
