Possible Clues:

• __ Savitskaya, first woman to perform a spacewalk
• Joseph Stalin's daughter
• -- Kuznetsova, Russian tennis player who won the French Open in 2009
• __ Krivonogikh, former cleaner thought to be the mother of one of 5 children
• Only daughter of Joseph Stalin
• Russian ace after old soldier left in sickroom
• 2015 Literature Nobelist Alexievich
• Ballerina Zakharova
• Wife of Russian prime minister Dmitry Medvedev
• Kuznetsova of tennis