Celebrities who died in 2022: remember who left

Mikhail Zelensky (1975–2022) – Russian journalist and TV presenter

Boris Nevzorov (1950–2022) – Soviet and Russian theater and film actor, film director, People’s Artist of the Russian Federation

Sergei Yashin (1962–2022) – Soviet hockey player, Honored Master of Sports of the USSR

Valery Ryumin (1939–2022) – Soviet and Russian cosmonaut, spacecraft flight engineer, twice Hero of the Soviet Union

Sergei Sosnovsky (1955–2022) – Soviet and Russian theater and film actor, People’s Artist of the Russian Federation

Jean-Luc Godard (1930–2022) – Franco-Swiss film director, film critic, actor, screenwriter, editor and film producer

Oleg Poptsov (1934–2022) – Soviet and Russian journalist, writer, politician, figure of Soviet and Russian television

Vladimir Gubarev (1938–2022) – Soviet and Russian science fiction writer, playwright, journalist

Gennady Yukhtin (1932–2022) – Soviet and Russian actor, People’s Artist of the Russian Federation

Leonid Kheifets (1934–2022) – Soviet and Russian director, theater figure, teacher

Gennady Burbulis (1945–2022) – Soviet and Russian statesman and politician. One of the closest associates of Boris Yeltsin at the beginning of his presidency

Georgy Yartsev (1948–2022) – Soviet football player (forward), Soviet and Russian football coach, Honored Coach of Russia

Vladimir Sungorkin (1954–2022) – Soviet and Russian journalist, reporter and media manager, columnist. Chief editor of the newspaper “Komsomolskaya Pravda”

Sergei Kuznetsov (1964–2022) – Soviet and Russian songwriter, musician, composer and poet, founder and first leader of the Laskovy May group

Viktor Merezhko (1937–2022) – Soviet and Russian screenwriter, playwright, film director

Yuz Aleshkovsky (1929–2022) – Russian prose writer, poet and screenwriter, songwriter

Leonid Kravchuk (1934–2022) – Soviet and Ukrainian party, state and political figure. First President of Ukraine

Pierre Narcisse (1977–2022) – Russian singer and actor of Cameroonian origin

Daria Dugina (1992–2022) – journalist, political scientist

Igor Maslennikov (1931–2022) – Soviet and Russian film director, screenwriter, film producer, teacher, People’s Artist of the RSFSR

Alexander Gorshkov (1946–2022) – Soviet figure skater, Olympic champion, six-time world and European champion

Leonid Kuravlev (1936–2022) – Soviet and Russian film actor, People’s Artist of the RSFSR

Madeleine Albright (1937–2022) – American diplomat and politician

Stanislav Shushkevich (1934–2022) – Soviet and Belarusian party, state and political figure. Chairman of the Supreme Council of Belarus

Yuri Shatunov (1973–2022) – Soviet and Russian singer, musician, poet, composer. Former soloist of the group “Tender May”

Mikhail Gorbachev (1931–2022) – Soviet and Russian state, political, party and public figure. The first and last president of the USSR

Sergey Puskepalis (1966–2022) – Soviet and Russian actor and director of theater and cinema. Artistic Director of the Yaroslavl Drama Theater named after F. Volkov, Honored Artist of the Russian Federation

Jiang Zemin (1926–2022) – Chinese party and statesman, General Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China

Evgeniya Brik (1981–2022) – Russian theater and film actress

Alexandra Yakovleva (Alexandra Aasmäe; 1957–2022) – Soviet and Russian actress

Renat Ibragimov (1947–2022) – Soviet and Russian pop singer (bass-baritone), actor, composer, producer, film director, People’s Artist of the RSFSR

Regimantas Adomaitis (1937–2022) – Soviet and Lithuanian theater and film actor, People’s Artist of the USSR

Valery Polyakov (1942–2022) – Soviet and Russian pilot-cosmonaut, Hero of the Soviet Union and Hero of the Russian Federation, holder of the world record for the longest flight into space

Boris Moiseev (1954–2022) – Soviet and Russian artist, pop singer, dancer, Honored Artist of the Russian Federation

Valery Shadrin (1939–2022) – General Director of the International Theater Festival. A.P. Chekhov

Zinaida Kiriyenko (1933–2022) – Soviet and Russian actress, People’s Artist of the RSFSR

Vladimir Zhirinovsky (1946–2022) – Soviet and Russian politician. Founder and Chairman of the Liberal Democratic Party of Russia

Nina Mazaeva (1921–2022) – Soviet and Russian theater and film actress, Honored Artist of the RSFSR

Leonid Shvartsman (1920–2022) – Soviet and Russian director-animator and artist of animated films, People’s Artist of the Russian Federation

Elizabeth II (1926–2022) – Queen of Great Britain and Northern Ireland and the Commonwealth Realms of the Windsor dynasty

Vladimir Krasnopolsky (1933–2022) – Soviet and Russian film director, screenwriter, actor, producer, Honored Art Worker of the RSFSR, People’s Artist of the RSFSR

Alexander Ponomarenko (1967–2022) – musician, guitarist, parodist, participant in the show “Crooked Mirror”