The following is the list of Russian film directors.
A
- Vadim Abdrashitov
- Sarik Andreasyan
- André Andrejew
- Oleg Anofriyev
- Semyon Aranovich
- Artur Aristakisyan
B
- Aleksei Balabanov
- Kantemir Balagov
- Boris Barnet
- Yevgeni Bauer
- Timur Bekmambetov
- Lidia Bobrova
- Sergei Bodrov
- Sergei Bodrov, Jr.
- Fedor Bondarchuk
- Alexander Borodyansky
- Vladimir Bortko
- Arcady Boytler
- Konstantin Bronzit
- Dimitri Buchowetzki
- Yuri Bykov
C
- Pyotr Chardynin
- Pavel Chukhray
D
- Grigoriy Dobrygin
- Ivan Dykhovichny
E
- Sergei Eisenstein
- Andrei Andreyevich Eshpai
- Nurbek Egen
F
- Costa Fam
- Aleksey Fedorchenko
- Prince Michael Feodorovich of Russia
- Dmitri Alexeyevich Frolov
G
- Levan Gabriadze
- Vladimir Gardin
- Sergei Gerasimov
- Marion Gering
- Aleksei Alekseivich German
- Aleksei Yuryevich German
- Valeriya Gai Germanika
- Victor Ginzburg
- Georgi Gitis
- Alexander Goldstein
- Vasily Goncharov
- Stanislav Govorukhin
- Alexis Granowsky
- Yuli Gusman
- Ishtar Yasin Gutierrez
- Alexander Gutman
I
- Ikiru
- Viktor Ivanov
- Aleksandr Ivanovsky
K
- Roman Abelevich Kachanov
- Roman Romanovich Kachanov
- Mikheil Kalatozishvili
- Yuri Kara
- Andrey Kavun
- Tigran Keosayan
- Rustam Khamdamov
- Nikolay Khomeriki
- Vladimir Khotinenko
- Aleksandr Khvan
- Andrei Khrzhanovsky
- Ilya Khrzhanovsky
- Viktor Kossakovsky
- Alexander Kott
- Andrei Kravchuk
- Eldar Kuliev
L
- Vasily Livanov
- Konstantin Lopushansky
- Pavel Lungin
- Alexey Lushnikov
- Pavel Lyubimov
M
- Alexei Makarov
- Yuri Mamin
- Vitaly Mansky
- Vladimir Mashkov
- Vladimir Maslov
- Anna Melikian
- Vladimir Menshov
- Dmitriy Meshiev
- Alexandre Michon
- Nikita Mikhalkov
- Nikolay Milovidov
- Alexander Mitta
- Léonide Moguy
N
- Vladimir Naumov
- Leonid Nechayev
- Andrei Nekrasov
- Alexander Nevsky
- Angelina Nikonova
- Sergei Nolbandov
O
- Ivan Okhlobystin
- Sergio Olhovich
- Nikolay Olyalin
- Fedor Ozep
P
- Gleb Panfilov
- Andrei Panin
- Maksim Pezhemsky
- Gennadi Poloka
- Alyona Polunina
- Alexei Popogrebski
- Mikhail Porechenkov
- Aleksandr Porokhovshchikov
- Maxim Pozdorovkin
- Valeriy Priyomykhov
- Aleksandr Proshkin
- Yakov Protazanov
- Vsevolod Pudovkin
R
- Gregory Ratoff
- Diana Ringo
- Aleksandr Rogozhkin
- Pavel Ruminov
- Sergei Ryabov
- Oleg Ryaskov
S
- Aleksei Saltykov
- Samson Samsonov
- Mikhail Segal
- Nikolay Serebryakov
- Aleksandr Seryj
- Andrei Severny
- Karen Shakhnazarov
- Vasily Shukshin
- Vassily Sigarev
- Andrei Smirnov
- Alexander Sokurov
- Yuliya Solntseva
- Stanislav Solovkin
- Sergei Solovyov
- Ladislas Starevich
- Alexander Stefanovich
- Vera Storozheva
- Boris Svetlov
T
- Andrei Tarkovsky
- Alexander Tatarsky
- Marianna Tavrog
- Pyotr Todorovsky
- Valery Todorovsky
- Pyotr Tochilin
- Boris Tokarev
- Victor Trivas
- George Tsisetski
- Slava Tsukerman
- Mikhail Tumanishvili
- Nikita Gennadievich Tyagunov
U
- Alexei Uchitel
- Eldor Magomatovich Urazbayev
- Sergei Ursuliak
V
- Mikhail Vartanov
- Ruslan Vitryanyuk
- Alexandre Volkoff
Y
- Filipp Yankovsky
- Vlad Yudin
- Yevgeny Yufit
Z
- Andrej Andreevich Zolotov
- Andrey Zvyagintsev
