Rozhdestvensky (; masculine) or Rozhdestvenskaya (feminine) is a

Russian Russian(s) may refer to: *Russians (), an ethnic group of the East Slavic peoples, primarily living in Russia and neighboring countries *A citizen of Russia *Russian language, the most widely spoken of the Slavic languages *''The Russians'', a b ...

last name. It is shared by the following people: *

Anatoly Konstantinovich Rozhdestvensky Anatoly Konstantinovich Rozhdestvensky (, 1920–1983) was a Soviet paleontologist responsible for naming many dinosaurs, including '' Aralosaurus'' and '' Probactrosaurus''. References Soviet paleontologists 1920 births 1983 deaths Russi ...

(1920–1983), Soviet paleontologist *

Gennady Rozhdestvensky Gennady Nikolayevich Rozhdestvensky, CBE (; 4 May 1931 – 16 June 2018) was a Soviet and Russian conductor, pianist, composer, and pedagogue. Biography Gennady Rozhdestvensky was born in Moscow. His parents were the noted conductor and pedagog ...

(1931–2018), Russian musical conductor *

Natalya Rozhdestvenskaya Natalya Petrovna Rozhdestvenskaya (Наталья Петровна Рождественская) (7 May 1900 – 1 September 1997) was a Russian soprano, wife of conductor Nikolai Anosov and mother of Gennady Rozhdestvensky. She performed ...

(1900–1997), Russian soprano * Platon Rozhdestvensky (1866-1934), Russian bishop *

Robert Rozhdestvensky Robert Ivanovich Rozhdestvensky (; 20 June 1932 – 19 August 1994) was a Soviet-Russian poet and songwriter who broke with socialist realism in the 1950s–1960s during the Khrushchev Thaw and, along with such poets as Andrei Voznesensky, ...

(1932–1994), Soviet/Russian poet *

Valery Rozhdestvensky Valery Ilyich Rozhdestvensky (Russian: Валерий Ильич Рождественский; 13 February 1939 – 31 August 2011) was a Soviet cosmonaut. Rozhdestvensky was born in Leningrad and graduated from the Higher Military Engineering ...

(1939–2011), Soviet cosmonaut *

Vsevolod Rozhdestvensky Vsevolod Aleksandrovich Rozhdestvensky (; 10 April 1895, Tsarskoye Selo – 31 August 1977, Leningrad) was a Russian and Soviet poet, journalist and war correspondent. Rozhdestvensky served for four years as a war correspondent during World War II ...

(1895–1977), Russian/Soviet poet *

Yuri Rozhdestvensky Yuri Rozhdestvensky (December 21, 1926 – October 24, 1999) - Russian rhetorician, educator, linguist and philosopher. Rozhdestvensky started his scholarly career from writing on Chinese grammar; his second Ph.D. involved the study and comparis ...

(1926–1999), Soviet linguist * Zoya Rozhdestvenskaya (1906–1953), Soviet singer

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