Vasily Illarionovich Selyunin was a Soviet and Russian opinion journalist, writer and public figure, influential during the perestroika period in the Soviet Union, member of the 1st Russian State Duma. He described his views a liberal. He was a signatory of the Letter of Forty-Two. He died of cancer.
Vasily Seseman was a Russian and Lithuanian philosopher, a representative of Marburg school of neo-Kantianism. He is mostly remembered for his role in fostering philosophy in newly independent Lithuania and developing Lithuanian philosophical vocabulary. A close associate of Viktor Zhirmunsky and Lev Karsavin, as a prisoner of Gulag he was also an informal philosophy tutor and supporter of Buddhist writer Bidia Dandaron.
Vasily Mikhailovich Severgin was a Russian academician, chemist, mineralogist, and geologist. For three decades, he was the only academician elected to the Geological Society of London. He has been described as being among the most influential pioneers of geology in Russia.
Vasily Mitrofanovich Shatilov was a Soviet Army colonel general who commanded the 150th Rifle Division, credited with the capture of the Reichstag during the Battle of Berlin.
Vasily Makarovich Shukshin was a Soviet Russian writer, actor, screenwriter and film director from the Altai region who specialized in rural themes. A prominent member of the Village Prose movement, he began writing short stories in his early teenage years and later transition to acting by his late 20s.
Vassily Vladimirovich Sigarev is a Russian playwright, screenwriter and film director. His plays Plasticine, Black Milk and Ladybird were first produced in the West by the Royal Court Theatre, in 2002, 2003 and 2004, respectively. In 2002, Sigarev was named the winner of the Charles Wintour Award for Most Promising Playwright given out by the Evening Standard for Plasticine.
Vasily Dmitriyevich Sipovsky was a Russian historian, journalist, editor, and pedagogue, personal history tutor for Grand Duchess Xenia Alexandrovna and Grand Duke Michael Alexandrovich.
