Rudolf Nureyev
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Rudolf Nureyev (1938–1993) was a Russian ballet dancer of Tatar ethnicity, who defected to the West in 1961 and became a principal dancer with the Royal Ballet.
He was born on a train on the Trans-Siberian Railway, and brought up in a village in Bashkortostan.
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