Ural Residents Disclose Unrequited Childhood Crushes on Celebrities

In a social media poll, people from the Urals region recounted their unrequited crushes on stars from their youth, revealing both local and international favorites.
Feb 12, 2026
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Stars frequently get heartfelt admissions from admirers at their live shows.
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Dmitry Emelyanov / E1.RU

Many people had idols in childhood. Many even experienced genuine feelings for artists. And Ural residents are no exception in this regard.

In our Telegram channel we asked E1.RU readers who they had unrequited crushes on in childhood and adolescence. And you know… some answers turned out to be quite unexpected.

Of course, many mentioned foreign stars: Leonardo DiCaprio, Johnny Depp, George Clooney, Tom Hardy, Orlando Bloom, and Keanu Reeves. But what about our compatriots?

Many Ural women noted Yura Shatunov, Roma Zver, Dima Bilan, and Sergey Lazarev. Among their “crushes” were Sergey Bezrukov, Kosmos from “Brigada” (Dmitry Dyuzhev), Leonid Agutin, and Viktor Tsoi. But that«s not all:

“Vlad Stashevsky, oh my god, I married him every night,” confessed our reader.

“Well, naturally, it«s Boyarsky, my d»Artagnan!”

“I was in love with Boyarsky. ‘D«Artagnan and the Three Musketeers’ I watched a hundred times, wrote kilometers of letters to him, but my mother never sent a single one. I was 28 when she finally gave them to me.”

“Andrey Gubin, I cried because I was little and he wouldn«t marry me.”

“I still like Valery Kipelov! And at 6 years old, I liked Muslim Magomayev!”

“A Yekaterinburg deputy, Vikharev. That was the love of my childhood!”

By the way, Alexey Vikharev also made it into the selection of the main handsome men in power, compiled by the female half of E1.RU. Follow the link to see who else was added to the list of “political crushes.”

Almost all our male readers decided not to share their childhood crushes. Among 200 comments, only a few were gathered: about singer MakSim, Pamela Anderson, and… Sasha Grey.

Earlier, we published a selection of the most enviable bachelors and bachelorettes from Yekaterinburg.

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