Vasily Lvovich Velichko was a Russian Imperial politician, who served in the Ministry of Justice of the Russian Empire. He was also a poet, playwright and publicist, one of the leaders of Russian Assembly, and editor of the semi-official Kavkaz gazette.
Vasily Vasilyevich Vereshchagin was one of the most famous Russian war artists and one of the first Russian artists to be widely recognised abroad. The graphic nature of his realist scenes led to many of them never being printed or exhibited.
Vasily Sergeyevich Vladimirov was a Soviet and Russian mathematician working in the fields of number theory, mathematical physics, quantum field theory, numerical analysis, generalized functions, several complex variables, p-adic analysis, multidimensional Tauberian theorems.
Vasily Ivanovich Vodovozov was a Saint-Petersburg-born Russian children's writer, poet, pedagogue, educational theorist and translator. Elizaveta Vodovozova (1884–1923), also a children's writer, was his wife.
Vasilii Pavlovich Vorontsov was an influential Russian narodnik economist and sociologist, one of the principal protagonists in the controversy between narodnik and Marxist economists in the 1880s and 1890s.
Vasily Vasilyevich Yakovlev was a Russian Old Bolshevik revolutionary and politician. He participated in the October Revolution of 1917; transferred former Russian Emperor Nicholas II and his family to Yekaterinburg, where they were later killed; rose to become a commander in the Red Army during the Russian Civil War; fled to China after being captured by the White Army, where he became a government advisor; and returned to the Soviet Union in 1928, where he was eventually arrested and executed. Yakovlev was portrayed by the actor Ian Holm in the 1971 film Nicholas and Alexandra.
Vasily Yan was a Ukrainian origin Soviet writer author of famous historic novels. His father came from a family of Volyn priests, after seminary and university he taught Latin and Greek at the gymnasium. Spelled "Vassily Yan" or just "V. Yan", this is the pen name of Vassily Grigoryevich Yanchevetsky.
Vasily Sergeyevich Yefremov was a squadron commander in the 10th Guards Bomber Aviation Regiment of the Soviet Air Force during World War II who was twice awarded the title Hero of the Soviet Union.
Vasily Yemelin is a Russian chess player. He was awarded the title Grandmaster by FIDE in 1994.
Yemelin won the championship of Saint Petersburg three times, in 1993, 2002 and 2011. He participated in two Chess Olympiads, in 1994 and 1996, playing for Russia B team on both occasions. In 1994 he won the team bronze medal.
