# List of people named Pyotr

Pyotr is a Russian given name that is equivalent to the English name, Peter.

## A

* Pyotr Abrasimov (1912–2009), Soviet war hero and politician
* Pyotr Akhlyustin (1896–1941), Red Army major general
* Pyotr Albedinsky (1826–1883), Russian military officer and politician
* Pyotr Alexeyevich Alexeyev (1849–1891), Russian revolutionary
* Pyotr Anjou (1796–1869), Imperial Russian Navy admiral and Arctic explorer
* Pyotr Anokhin (1898–1974), Soviet and Russian biologist and physiologist
* Pyotr Avilov (1910–2004), Soviet sports shooter

## B

* Pyotr Bagration (1765–1812), Russian general and prince of Georgian origin
* Pyotr Romanovich Bagration (1818–1876), Russian-Georgian statesman, general and scientist
* Pyotr Baluyev (1857–1923), Imperial Russian Army general
* Pyotr Baranov (1892–1933), Soviet military commander and politician
* Pyotr Baranovsky (1892–1984), Russian architect, preservationist, and building restorator
* Pyotr Bardovsky (1846–1886), Russian lawyer and a supporter of independence for Poland
* Pyotr Bark (1869–1937), Russian statesman
* Pyotr Bartenev (1829–1912), Russian historian and collector of unpublished memoirs
* Pyotr Basin (1793–1877), Russian painter
* Pyotr Bazanov (1923–2003), Soviet fighter pilot and flying ace
* Pyotr Z. Bazhbeuk-Melikov (1872–after 1939), ethnic Armenian politician and agronomist in Bessarabia
* Pyotr Beketov (c. 1600–c. 1661), Cossack explorer of Siberia
* Pyotr Berestov (1896–1961), Soviet Red Army major general
* Pyotr Bessonov (1828–1898), Russian folklorist
* Pyotr Bestuzhev-Ryumin (1664–1742), Russian statesman
* Pyotr Bezobrazov (1845–1906), Imperial Russian Navy admiral
* Pyotr Ilyich Bilan (1921–1996), Soviet Russian-Ukrainian painter
* Pyotr Bletkin (1903–1988), Soviet and Georgian painter and graphic artist
* Pyotr Blinov (1913–1942), Soviet Udmurt writer and journalist
* Pyotr Boborykin (1836–1921), Russian writer, playwright, and journalist
* Pyotr Bochek (1925–2018), Soviet Army soldier
* Pyotr Bochkaryov (born 1967), Russian pole vaulter
* Pyotr Bogdanov (1882–1939), Soviet statesman, engineer, and economist
* Pyotr Bolotnikov (1930–2013), Soviet track and field athlete
* Pyotr Borel (1829–1898), Russian painter and illustrator
* Pyotr Borovsky (1863–1932), Russian and Soviet surgeon and public health administrator
* Pyotr Braiko (1919–2018), Soviet soldier
* Pyotr Brayko (born 1977), Russian athlete
* Pyotr Breus (1927–2000), Russian water polo player
* Pyotr Bryanskikh (1896–1938), Soviet corps commander
* Pyotr Bulakhov (1822–1885), Russian composer
* Pyotr Bykov (1844–1930), Russian literary historian, editor, poet, and translator
* Pyotr Bystrov (born 1979), Russian footballer

## C

* Pyotr Chaadayev (1794–1856), Russian philosopher
* Pyotr Chardynin (1873–1934), Russian and Soviet film director, screenwriter and actor
* Pyotr Chernyshev (1914–1979), Soviet figure skater and engineer
* Pyotr Aleksandrovich Chicherin (1778–1849), Russian general
* Pyotr Chikhachyov (1808–1890), Russian naturalist and geologist
* Pyotr Yegorovich Chistyakov (1792–1862), Russian explorer and admiral

## D

* Pyotr Dementyev (multiple people)
* Pyotr Demichev (1918–2010), Soviet and Russian politician
* Pyotr Grigoryevich Demidov (1807–1862), Russian nobleman and general
* Pyotr Devyatkin (1977–2016), Kazakhstani ice hockey forward
* Pyotr Deynekin (1937–2017), Russian military general
* Pyotr Dolgorukov (multiple people)
* Pyotr Dmitriyevich Dolgorukov (1866–1951), Russian liberal politician
* Pyotr Vladimirovich Dolgorukov (1816–1868), Russian historian and journalist
* Pyotr Dolgov (1920–1962), Hero of the Soviet Union
* Pyotr Dranga (born 1984), Russian musician
* Pyotr Drozhdin (1745–1805), Russian painter
* Pyotr Dubrov (born 1978), Russian engineer and cosmonaut
* Pyotr Nikolayevich Durnovo (1845–1915), Imperial Russian lawyer, politician, and member of Russian nobility

## F

* Pyotr Fedoseev (1908–1990), Soviet philosopher, sociologist, and politician
* Pyotr Fedotov (1900–1963), Soviet security and intelligence officer
* Pyotr Filatov (1893–1941), Soviet Red Army lieutenant general
* Pyotr Filippov (1893–1965), Russian Soviet football player and coach
* Pyotr Fomenko (1932–2012), Soviet and Russian film and theater director
* Pyotr Frolov (1775–1839), Russian mining engineer and inventor
* Pyotr Fyodorov (born 1982), Russian actor

## G

* Pyotr Gannushkin (1875–1933), Russian psychiatrist
* Pyotr Gassiev (born 1972), South Ossetian politician
* Pyotr Gavrilov (1900–1979), Soviet officer
* Pyotr Gayevsky (born 1888), Russian Empire sprinter
* Pyotr Gitselov (born 1983), Russian-Swedish football player and manager
* Pyotr Glebov (1915–2000), Russian film actor
* Pyotr Gnedich (1855–1925), Russian writer, poet, dramatist, translator, theatre entrepreneur, and art history scholar
* Pyotr Gnido (1919–2006), Soviet fighter pilot
* Pyotr Alexeyevich Golitsyn (1792–1842), Russian prince
* Pyotr Grigorievich Goncharov (1888–1970), Russian and Soviet composer, conductor, and choirmaster
* Pyotr Gora (1922–2002), Soviet colonel of the Ministry of Internal Affairs
* Pyotr Gorchakov (1790–1868), Imperial Russian Army general
* Pyotr Gorelikov (1931–2017), Russian sailor
* Pyotr Gorlov (1839–1915), Russian geologist and engineer
* Pyotr Gornushko (born 1953), Russian equestrian
* Pyotr Grigoryev (1899–1942), Soviet footballer
* Pyotr Grushin (1906–1993), Soviet rocket scientist
* Pyotr Nikolayevich Gruzinsky (1837–1892), Georgian royal prince
* Pyotr Gusev (1904–1987), Russian ballet dancer and choreographer

## I

* Pyotr Ilyichev (born 1966), Russian diplomat
* Pyotr Isaev (1890–1919), Russian and Soviet military commander
* Pyotr Ivanovich Isakov (1886–1958), Russian classical guitarist
* Pyotr Isakov (1900–1957), Soviet football player and manager
* Pyotr Ivashutin (1909–2004), Soviet Army General

## K

* Pyotr Kachura (born 1972), Belarusian footballer
* Pyotr Kakhovsky (1799–1826), Russian Empire officer
* Pyotr Kapitsa (1894–1984), Soviet physicist, engineer, and Nobel laureate
* Pyotr Kapnist (1839–1904), Russian diplomat and ambassador
* Pyotr Karamushko (colonel) (1908–1998), Soviet Red Army colonel
* Pyotr Karatygin (1805–1879), Russian dramatist and actor
* Pyotr Karyshkovsky (1921–1988), Ukrainian Soviet historian, numismatist, scholar, and lexicographer
* Pyotr Kashchenko (1858–1920), Russian psychiatrist, social and agrarian activist, and author
* Pyotr Khanykov (1743–1813), Imperial Russian Navy admiral
* Pyotr Khrustovsky (1979–2003), Russian footballer
* Pyotr Kikin (1775–1834), Russian general and Secretary of State
* Pyotr Kireevsky (1808–1856), Russian folklorist and philologist
* Pyotr Kirillov (1895–1942), Soviet actor, film director, screenwriter
* Pyotr Pavlovich Kitkin (1877–1954), Russian military commander
* Pyotr Kleinmichel (1789–1869), Imperial Russian Minister of Transport
* Pyotr Klimuk (born 1942), former Soviet cosmonaut and the first Belarusian to perform space travel
* Pyotr Kobozev (1878–1941), Russian revolutionary, and Soviet statesman and professor
* Pyotr Kochetkov (born 1999), Russian professional ice hockey goaltender
* Pyotr Kolbasin (born 1942), Russian actor, director, producer, screenwriter
* Pyotr Kolodin (1930–2021), Soviet cosmonaut
* Pyotr Konchalovsky (1876–1956), Russian painter
* Pyotr Koshel (born 1946), Russian writer, historian, and translator
* Pyotr Koshevoy (1904–1976), Soviet military commander
* Pyotr Kotlyarevsky (1782–1852), Russian military hero
* Pyotr Kovalenko (1942–1993), Soviet ski jumper
* Pyotr Kozhevnikov (born 1927), Soviet athlete
* Pyotr Kozlov (1863–1935), Russian and Soviet traveler and explorer
* Pyotr Kozlovsky (1783–1840), Russian diplomat
* Pyotr Krasikov (1870–1939), Russian revolutionary and Communist Party functionary
* Pyotr Krasilov (born 1977), Russian film and theater actor
* Pyotr Krasnov (1869–1947), Russian historian and officer
* Pyotr Krechetnikov (1727–c. 1800), Russian major-general
* Pyotr Krenitsyn (1728–1770), Russian explorer and Imperial Russian Navy officer
* Pyotr Nikolayevich Kropotkin (1910–1996), Soviet Russian geologist, tectonician, and geophysicist
* Pyotr Kryuchkov (1889–1938), Soviet lawyer
* Pyotr Kudryavtsev (1816–1858), Russian writer and historian
* Pyotr Kuryshko (1894–1921), Soviet Russian military commander
* Pyotr Kuznetsov (born 1964), leader and founder of the True Russian Orthodox Church
* Pyotr Kuznetsov (junior sergeant) (1925–1981), Soviet Red Army junior sergeant during World War II and a Hero of the Soviet Union

## L

* Pyotr Latyshev (1948–2008), Russian politician
* Pyotr Lavrov (1823–1900), Russian philosopher, revolutionary, and sociologist
* Pyotr Lebedev (1866–1912), Russian physicist
* Pyotr Leshchenko (1898–1954), singer in the Russian Empire, Romania and later the Soviet Union
* Pyotr Lomako (1904–1990), Soviet politician and economist
* Pyotr Lomnovsky (1871–1956), Russian military commander
* Pyotr Lopukhin (1753–1827), Russian politician
* Pyotr Lushev (1923–1997), Soviet Army general
* Pyotr Lyapin (1894–1954), Soviet Army general
* Pyotr Lyashchenko (1876–1955), Russian economist

## M

* Pyotr Makarchuk (born 1972), Russian bobsledder
* Pyotr Malyshev (1898–1972), Soviet Army lieutenant general
* Pyotr Mamonov (1951–2021), Russian rock musician
* Pyotr Manteifel (1882–1960), Soviet zoologist and naturalist
* Pyotr Marchenko (born 1948), Russian politician
* Pyotr Marshinskiy (born 1986), Russian footballer
* Pyotr Marta (born 1952), Soviet freestyle wrestler
* Pyotr Masherov (1919–1980), Soviet partisan, statesman, and World War II Belarusian resistance leader
* Pyotr Melissino (c. 1726–c. 1797), Imperial Russian Army general
* Pyotr Meshchaninov (1944–2006), Russian pianist and conductor
* Pyotr Miklashevich (born 1954), Belrusian politician
* Pyotr Moskatov (1894–1969), Soviet union leader and statesman
* Pyotr Mozharov (1888–1934), Soviet engineer
* Pyotr Mstislavets (fl. 1560s–1570s), Belarusian printer

## N

* Pyotr Nechayev (1842–1905), Russian religious writer, journalist, editor, and pedagogue
* Pyotr Nemov (born 1983), Russian footballer
* Pyotr Nesterov (1887–1914), Russian pilot, aircraft designer, and aerobatics pioneer
* Pyotr Nevezhin (1841–1919), Russian dramatist and short story writer
* Pyotr Nikiforov ((1882–1974), Russian revolutionary and Soviet politician
* Pyotr Nikolayev (1924–2000), Soviet sports shooter
* Pyotr Nikolsky (1858–1940), Russian dermatologist
* Pyotr Nilus (1869–1943), Russian and Ukrainian impressionist painter and writer
* Pyotr Novikov (1901–1975), Soviet mathematician
* Pyotr Georgyevich Novikov (1907–1944), Soviet Red Army general

## O-P

* Pyotr Oganovsky (1851–c. 1917), Russian general of the infantry
* Pyotr Orlov (1912–1989), Soviet figure skater and pair skating coach
* Pyotr Otsup (1883–1963), Soviet photojournalist
* Pyotr Pakhtusov (1800–1835), Russian surveyor and Arctic explorer
* Pyotr Papkov (1772–1853), Russian Generalmajor and statesman
* Pyotr Patrushev (1942–2016), Russian author
* Pyotr Pavlenko (1899–1951), Soviet writer, screenwriter, and war correspondent
* Pyotr Pavlovich Pelehin (1789–1871), Russian physician and teacher
* Pyotr Pertsov (1868–1947), Russian poet, publisher, editor, literary critic, journalist, and memoirist
* Pyotr Petrinich (born 1957), Belarusian rowing cox
* Pyotr Mikhailovich Petrov (1910–1941), Soviet Air Force major, flying ace, and a Hero of the Soviet Union
* Pyotr Petrov (1827–1891), Russian writer, arts historian and critic
* Pyotr Petrovich (multiple people)
* Pyotr Pimashkov (1894–1921), Soviet Russian military commander
* Pyotr Pletnyov (1792–1865), Russian minor poet
* Pyotr Pochynchuk (1954–1991), Soviet athlete
* Pyotr Podgorodetsky (born 1957), Russian musician and showman
* Pyotr Pokryshev (1914–1967), Soviet fighter pilot and squadron commander
* Pyotr Ivanovich Poletika (1778–1849), second Russian ambassador to the United States
* Pyotr Polevoy (1839–1902), Russian writer, playwright, translator, critic, editor, and literary historian
* Pyotr Semyonovich Popov (1923–1960), Soviet military intelligence officer
* Pyotr Popov (born 1985), Russian luger
* Pyotr Pospelov (1898–1979), Soviet Communist Party functionary
* Pyotr Postnikov (1666–1703), Russian diplomat
* Pyotr Potemkin (1617–1700), Russian courtier and diplomat
* Pyotr Prakapovich (born 1942), Belarusian construction engineer, politician, statesman, and bank chairman
* Pyotr Prokopovich (multiple people)
* Pyotr Pshennikov (1895–1941), Soviet general
* Pyotr Pumpur (1900–1942), Latvian-born Soviet Air Forces fighter pilot, Hero of the Soviet Union, and general

## R-S

* Pyotr Rachkovsky (1853–1910), Imperial Russian secret service officer
* Pyotr Ivanovich Ricord (1776–1855), Russian admiral, scientist, diplomat, writer, and shipbuilder
* Pyotr Rumyantsev (1725–1796), Russian general
* Pyotr Ryazanov (1899–1942), Russian composer, teacher, and musicologist
* Pyotr Saltykov (c. 1698–1772), Russian statesman and a military officer
* Pyotr Schmidt (1867–1906), Sevastopol Uprising leader
* Pyotr Sedunov (born 1977), Russian footballer
* Pyotr Semyonov-Tyan-Shansky (1827–1914), Russian geographer and statistician
* Pyotr Shabelsky-Bork (1893–1952), Russian officer and writer active in far-right and anti-Semitic politics
* Pyotr Shafranov (1901–1972), Soviet Army general
* Pyotr Shamshin (1811–1895), Russian painter of historical and religious scenes
* Pyotr Shchebalsky (1810–1886), Russian literary critic, historian, and author
* Pyotr Shcherbakov (1929–1992), Soviet film and theater actor
* Pyotr Shchetinkin (1884–1927), leader of the Soviet partisan movement in Siberia during the Russian Civil War
* Pyotr Shchukin (1853–1912), Russian art collector
* Pyotr Shelepov (1920–1983), Soviet Red Army soldier and Hero of the Soviet Union
* Pyotr Sheremetev (1713–1788), Russian nobleman and courtier
* Pyotr Shilovsky (1872–1955), Russian count, jurist, statesman, and governor
* Pyotr Shirshov (1905–1953), Soviet oceanographer, hydrobiologist, polar explorer, statesman, and academician
* Pyotr Ivanovich Sholokhov (1898−1988), Russian realist artist
* Pyotr Shubin (born 1944), Russian professional footballer and coach
* Pyotr Andreyevich Shuvalov (1827–1889), Russian statesman
* Pyotr Skripchenkov (1926–2010), Russian swimmer
* Pyotr Slovtsov (1886–1934), Russian tenor
* Pyotr Smidovich (1874–1935), Russian revolutionary and Soviet politician
* Pyotr Arsenievich Smirnov (1831–1898), Russian businessman, founder of the Smirnov vodka company
* Pyotr Smirnov (1897–1939), Soviet Commissar, Deputy Minister of Defence and Commander of the Soviet Navy
* Pyotr Smorodin (1897–1939), Soviet politician
* Pyotr Sobennikov (1894–1960), Soviet general
* Pyotr Sobolevsky (1904–1977), Soviet actor
* Pyotr Sokolov (multiple people)
* Pyotr Solodukhin (1892–1920), Russian Bolshevik division commander in the Russian Civil War
* Pyotr Sorokin (1889–1942), Russian footballer
* Pyotr Starkovsky (1884–1964), Russian actor
* Pyotr Stefanovsky (1903–1976), Soviet test pilot
* Pyotr Stepanov (born 1959), Transnistrian politician
* Pyotr Stepanov (actor) (1800–1869), Russian stage actor
* Pyotr Stolyarsky (1871–1944), Soviet violinist
* Pyotr Stolypin (1862–1911), Russian politician and statesman
* Pyotr Subbotin-Permyak (1886–1923), Russian avant-garde painter
* Pyotr Sumin (1946–2011), governor of Chelyabinsk Oblast of Russia
* Pyotr Suvchinsky (1892–1985), Russian artistic patron and writer on music
* Pyotr Sviatopolk-Mirsky (1857–1914), Russian general, politician, and police official

## T-V

* Pyotr Tayozhny (1887–1952), Russian sculptor
* Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (1840–1893), Russian composer
* Pyotr Telezhnikov (born 1863), Imperial Russian division, corps and army commander
* Pyotr Ten (born 1992), Russian footballer
* Pyotr Genrikhovich Tiedemann (1872–1941), Russian nobleman and diplomat
* Pyotr Tkachev (1844–1886), Russian writer, critic, and revolutionary theorist
* Pyotr Nikolayevich Toburokov (1917–2001), Russian poet and writer
* Pyotr Tochilin (born 1974), Russian film director and screenwriter
* Pyotr Todorovsky (1925–2013), Russian film director, screenwriter, and cinematographer
* Pyotr Tolstikhin (1927–2002), Russian sailor
* Pyotr Tolstoy (multiple people)
* Pyotr Aleksandrovich Tolstoy (1769–1844), Russian general and statesman
* Pyotr Andreyevich Tolstoy (1645–1729), Russian statesman and diplomat
* Pyotr Olegovich Tolstoy (born 1969), Russian journalist, producer, presenter, and politician
* Pyotr Trusov (born 1948), Russian physicist
* Pyotr Ufimtsev (born 1931), Soviet/Russian physicist and mathematician
* Pyotr Lavrentyevich Ulyanov (1928–2006), Russian mathematician
* Pyotr Ustinov (born 1987), Russian footballer
* Pyotr Vail (1949–2009), Russian author, journalist, and essayist
* Pyotr Valuyev (1815–1890), Russian statesman and writer
* Pyotr Vannovsky (1822−1904), Russian general and politician
* Pyotr Vasilevsky (1956–2012), Belarusian footballer and manager
* Pyotr Veinberg (1831–1908), Russian poet, translator, journalist, and literary historian
* Pyotr Velyaminov (1926–2009), Soviet Russian film and theater actor
* Pyotr Vereshchagin (1834/36–1886), Russian landscape and cityscape painter
* Pyotr Vershigora (1905–1963), leader Soviet partisan movement in Ukraine, Belarus and Poland, and later a writer
* Pyotr Verzilov (born 1987), Russian-Canadian artist and activist
* Pyotr Vlasov (fl. 1900s), Russian ambassador to Persia
* Pyotr Mikhailovich Volkonsky (1776–1852), Imperial Russian military commander
* Pyotr Volodkin (born 1999), Russian footballer
* Pyotr Vologodsky (1863–1925), Russian statesman, public figure, and mason
* Pyotr Vorobyov (born 1949), Russian ice hockey player and coach
* Pyotr Voykov (1888–1927), Ukrainian Bolshevik revolutionary and Soviet diplomat
* Pyotr Vtorov (1938–1979), Soviet scientist biogeographer, ecologist, zoologist, and nature conservation activist
* Pyotr Vyazemsky (1792–1878), Russian Imperial poet

## W-Z

* Pyotr Wrangel (1878–1928), Russian officer of Baltic German origin in the Imperial Russian Army
* Pyotr Yakir (1923–1982), Soviet historian
* Pyotr Yakubovich (1860–1911), Russian revolutionary, poet, and politician
* Pyotr Yefremov (1830–1908), Russian literary historian, publisher, editor and essayist
* Pyotr Yeropkin (c. 1698–1740), Russian architect
* Pyotr Yershov (multiple people)
* Pyotr Mikhaylovich Yershov (1910–1994), Soviet theater director and art theoretician
* Pyotr Pavlovich Yershov (1815–1869), Russian poet
* Pyotr Yeryomin (born 1992), Russian professional ice hockey goaltender
* Pyotr Yezhov (1900–1975), Soviet footballer and manager
* Pyotr Zakharov (born 1979), Russian professional bandy player
* Pyotr Zakharov-Chechenets (1816–1846), Chechen-Russian painter
* Pyotr Zalutsky (1887–1937), Russian Bolshevik revolutionary and Communist Party organiser
* Pyotr Zavadovsky (1739–1812), Russian statesman
* Pyotr Zaychenko (1943–2019), Soviet-born Russian film and theater actor
* Pyotr Zayev (1953−2014), Russian heavyweight boxer
* Pyotr Zgursky (born 2001), Belarusian professional footballer
* Pyotr Zinchenko (1903–1969), Soviet developmental psychologist
* Pyotr Zubrov (1822–1873), Russian stage actor
* Pyotr Zykov (1890–1960), Soviet Red Army major general