Vyacheslav Vulfovich Osnos was a Russian chess player, trainer and author. He was awarded the International Master title in 1965, and was champion of Leningrad in 1971 and 1980.
Vyacheslav Pavlovich Polonsky - the pen name of Vyacheslav Pavlovich Gusin - was a Russian literary critic, journalist and historian who was active in the Soviet Union in the 1920s up to his death in 1932. He was particularly involved in a controversy over competing accounts of the life of Mikhail Bakunin.
Vyacheslav Repin is a French writer of Russian extraction, born 1960 in Tomsk (Siberia). He writes in French and Russian and is the author of novels, short stories and essays.
Vyacheslav Rybakov, is a Russian science fiction author and an orientalist, interested in the medieval bureaucracy of China. He is a frequent collaborator with science fiction director Konstantin Lopushansky. Screenwriting for his films The Ugly Swans, based on the 1972 novel by Arkady and Boris Strugatsky. As well as Dead Man's Letters in 1986, which he would later receive a Governmental Award of the RSFSR for the screenplay in 1987 after its premiere at the Toronto Film Festival.
Vyacheslav Pavlovich Shestakov is a Russian philosopher who holds the title of Honoured Worker of Culture of the Russian Federation. During the period of 2004–2014 he headed the department of art theory at the Russian Institute for Cultural Research.
Vyacheslav Yakovlevich Shishkov was and Russian and Soviet writer known for his descriptions of Siberia. He was awarded the Stalin State Prize posthumously in 1946.
Vyacheslav Anatolyevich Shtyrov is a Russian businessman who ran the diamond mining giant Almazy Rossii – Sakha (Alrosa) from 1996 to 2002. In 2004 it was reported that he owns 0.14% of Alrosa.
Vyacheslav Petrovich Volgin was a Soviet and Russian historian who wrote a number of books on early forms or precursors of communism, and who became vice-president of the Academy of Sciences of the Soviet Union.
