
Roza Eidus was a Russian pianist.

Khadija Osman bey qizi Gayibova was an Azerbaijani pianist. From Georgia in the then USSR, Gayibova died in Stalin's Great Purge of the 1930s.

Anatoli Vasilyevich Ivanov was a russian solo-timpanist, percussionist with the Saint Petersburg Philharmonic Orchestra, book author and People's Artist of Russia (1997). President of the Russian Association of Percussion Performers, member of the Percussive Arts Society, conductor, member of the Russian Authors Society. He taught at the Leningrad Conservatory. A tribute concert was held on at Mariinsky Theatre on 12 April 2016.

Igor Vasilyevich Ivanov was a Russian-born Canadian grandmaster of chess and a concert pianist.

Oleg Nikolayevich Karavaichuk was a Soviet and Russian composer, author of music for many films and theater performances.

Vadim Alekseyevich Kozin was a Russian tenor, songwriter, and an openly homosexual man until 1934 when male homosexuality became a crime in USSR.

Sergey Aleksandrovich Musaelyan is a Russian pianist.

Vagif Mustafazadeh, also known as Vaqif Mustafa-Zadeh, was an Azerbaijani jazz pianist and composer, acclaimed for fusing jazz and the traditional Azerbaijani folk music known as mugham. According to many world famous jazz musicians, Mustafazadeh is one of the pioneers and "the architect of jazz in Azerbaijan".

Alexander Nikolayevich Serov is a Ukrainian-born Russian popular singer who is best known for early success in the Russian language with the songs of Igor Krutoy. He is no known relation to Alexander Nikolayevich Serov the 19th Century classical composer.