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

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

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

Lidia Zhdanova  (1938–1995) – a 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) – a writer, poet, memoirist, executor of Nobel prize laureate Ivan Bunin. >>