association football player Maxim Fadeev (born 1968), singer-songwriter, composer and producer Yuri Galtsev (born 1961), Honored Artist of the Russian Federation Gavriil Ilizarov (1921–1992), physician, known for inventing the Ilizarov apparatus for lengthening limb bones Vyacheslav Kamoltsev (born 1971), association football player Larisa Korobeynikova (born 1987), fencer Evgeni Krasilnikov (1965–2014), volleyball player Leonid Krasin (1870–1926), politician and diplomat Ivan Kurpishev (born 1969), powerlifter Dmitri Loskov (born 1974), association football player Aleksey Markovsky (born 1957), swimmer Aleksandr Menshchikov (born 1973), wrestler Yana Romanova (born 1983), biathlete Sergei Rublevsky (born 1974), chess grandmaster Yulia Savicheva (born 1987), singer Alexander Solonik (1960–1997), Russian mobster and hitman Elena Temnikova (born 1985), singer Sergei Teryayev (born 1994), professional ice hockey defenceman Alexander Vinogradov (1930–2011), journalist and writer Sergey Vinogradov (1958–2010), journalist, translator, and writer Sergei Yakovlev (1925–1996), actor Mikhail Znamensky (1833–1892), writer, memoirist, painter, caricaturist, archeologist and ethnographer International relations Twin towns and sister cities Kurgan is twinned with: Appleton, United States Rufina, Italy References Notes Sources External links Official website of Kurgan Kurgan news portal Cultural heritage of Kurgan 1662 establishments in Russia Populated places established in 1662 Kurgansky Uyezd Recipients of the Order of the Red Banner of Labour