- 31 January – Yulia Nachalova, singer (d. 2019)
- 18 February – Andrei Kirilenko, basketball player
- 19 March – Maksim Arap, footballer
- 26 March – Danis Zaripov, ice hockey player
- 30 March – Sergei Mozyakin, ice hockey player
- 8 April – Nikolay Kruglov Jr., biathlete
- 12 April – Yuriy Borzakovskiy, middle-distance runner
- 17 April – Konstantin Koltsov, ice hockey player (d. 2024)
- 30 April – Peter Nalitch, singer
- 29 May – Andrey Arshavin, footballer[3]
- 2 June – Nikolay Davydenko, tennis player
- 7 June – Anna Kournikova, tennis player
- 26 June – Natalya Antyukh, athlete
- 6 July – Roman Shirokov, footballer
- 8 July – Anastasia Myskina, tennis player
- 30 August – Daniil Vorobyov, film and theatre actor
- 2 September – Aleksey Chadov, film actor
- 3 September – Evgeniya Brik, actress (d. 2022)
- 15 October – Marina Toybina, fashion and costume designer
- 31 October – Irina Denezhkina, writer
- 2 November – Tatiana Totmianina, pair skater
- 5 November – Ksenia Sobchak, political figure
- 30 November – Olga Krasko, actress
- 15 December – Roman Pavlyuchenko, footballer
- 16 December – Olga Medynich, theater and film actress
- 23 December – Anastasiya Makeyeva, actress and model
- 24 December – Dima Bilan, singer, songwriter