| |  | Mikhail Ivanovich Meltiukhov is a Russian military historian. Currently he is working at the Russian Institute of Documents and Historical Records... |  | Arkady Petrovich Golikov ((October 26 1941), better known as Arkady Gaidar, was a Soviet writer, whose stories were very popular among Soviet... |  | Andrei Aleksandrovich Zhdanov (Mariupol', -August 31, 1948, Moscow) was a Soviet politician. |  | Yuri Vladimirovich Nikulin (18 December 1921 - 21 August 1997) was a well-known Russian clown and actor who played in many popular films. Nikulin... |  | Vladimir Nevezhin is a Russian historian ("Doctor of History Sciences"), is working as a professor in Moscow, chief scientific collaborator at the... |  | Lev Zalmanovich Kopelev, German spelling Lew Kopelew: April 9, 1912 – June 18, 1997) was a Soviet Russian author and a dissident. Kopelev was bo... |  | Alexander Matveyevich Matrosov was a famous Soviet infantry soldier during World War II. On 23 February 1943, in the battle for the village of... |  | Elem Germanovich Klimov was a Soviet Russian film director. He studied at VGIK, and was married to film director Larisa Shepitko. He is best known... |  | Fedor Vasilievich Tokarev (1871-1968) was a Russian weapons designer and deputy of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR from 1941 to 1950. Outside the... |  | Yakov Fedotovich Pavlov was a Hero of the Soviet Union (June 27, 1945) for his heroism during the Battle of Stalingrad. Born in 1917 in Novgorod,... | |
