Andrey Zadonsky (1893-1941) – writer, belle-letters writer, lyric. >>

Mikhail Zadornov (1948-2017) – a satirist, journalist, TV presenter. >>

Nikolay Zadornov (1909-1992) – author of popular historical novels, devoted mainly to the Russian Far East. From 1946 lived and worked in Riga. >>

Lydia Zhdanova  (1938-1995) – poet, prose writer, translator, author of several books for children. >>

Sergey Zhuravlyov (1954) – a poet, prose writer,  script writer, journalist, translator, historian and teacher. >>

Leonid  Zuroff (1902-1971) – writer, poet, memoirist, executor of Nobel prize laureate Ivan Bunin. >>