Vladimir Galaktionovich Korolenko was a Ukrainian-born Russian writer, journalist, human rights activist and humanitarian of Ukrainian and Polish origin. His best-known work include the short novel The Blind Musician (1886), as well as numerous short stories based upon his experience of exile in Siberia. Korolenko was a strong critic of the Tsarist regime and in his final years of the Bolsheviks.
Vladimir Andreyevich Kostrov was a Soviet and Russian poet, translator and playwright. He was also a professor at the Gorky Institute of Literature in Moscow. He had been awarded the State Award of Russia (1985) and the Government Cultural Award (2006).
Vladimir Aleksandrovich Kotelnikov was an information theory and radar astronomy pioneer from the Soviet Union. He was elected a member of the Russian Academy of Sciences in the Department of Technical Science in 1953. From 30 July 1973 to 25 March 1980 Kotelnikov served as Chairman of the RSFSR Supreme Council.
Vladimir Fyodorovich Krinsky was a Russian artist and architect active with the ASNOVA architectural organisation and linked with the Cologne Progressives.
Vladimir Nikolayevich Krupin is a Soviet Russian writer, editor, religious author and tutor. The major proponent of the Village prose movement, noted for his quirky, folklore-rooted style of writing, Krupin is best known for his 1980 Novy Mir-published satirical novel Zhivaya Voda.
Vladimir Vladimirovich Kunin was a Russian writer, playwright and screenwriter. Kunin was a member of the Union of Cinematographers of the Russian Federation, the Russian Union of Writers as well as an honorary member of the International association of writers and publicists.
Vladimir Stepanovich Kurochkin was a Russian dramatist, translator, editor and publisher. Among the plays he authored were The Green Island, Who Is to Blame? (1873), Two by Two is Five (1875) and A Modiste's Diary (1875). Vladimir Kurochkin compiled and published Nevsky Sbornik. He edited Iskra magazine (1864–1867) and the Tatar-language Fayde (Virtue) newspaper (1866–1870). Poets Nikolai and Vasily Kurochkins were his brothers.
