Yuri Gagarin

Yuri Gagarin

male, deceased (1968)
cosmonaut, Russian, Soviet cosmonaut, space, first man in space, first on orbit…first man to orbit the earth, Soviet Air Force officer, soviet, HerooftheSovietUnion, soviet union
Yuri Alekseyevich Gagarin, Hero of the Soviet Union, was a Soviet cosmonaut. On 12 April 1961, he became the first man in space and the first to...
Joseph Stalin

Joseph Stalin

male, deceased (1953) (Russia)
Political repression, mass murderer, World War II political leader, Great Purge, atheist, josef stalin…graduate of communist, Industrialization in the USSR, Collectivisation in the USSR, Hero of Socialist Labor, Communist Party of the Soviet Union
Josef Vissarionovich Dzhugashvili ("Ioseb Besarionis Dze Jughashvili";, "Iosif Vissarionovich Dzhugashvili") (March 5 1953), better known by his...
Valentina Tereshkova

Valentina Tereshkova

female, 72 years old
astronaut, cosmonaut, Hero of Socialist Labor, Soviet Air Force general, Aeroclub, Bolshoye Maslennikovo…Communist Party of the Soviet Union, Soviet cosmonaut, Heroes of Socialist Labor, Soviet politician, soviet
Valentina Vladimirovna Tereshkova (born 6 March 1937), is a retired Soviet cosmonaut and was the first woman to fly in space, aboard Vostok 6 on 16...
Leonid Brezhnev

Leonid Brezhnev

male, deceased (1982)
de facto, Hero of Socialist Labor, ukrainian, ussr, crazy eyebrows, HerooftheSovietUnion…Marshal of the Soviet Union, Party leader of the Soviet Union, Heroes of Socialist Labor, Supreme Soviet, Heads of State of the Soviet Union
Leonid Ilyich Brezhnev - November 10, 1982) was General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (and thus de facto ruler of the USSR)...
Georgy Zhukov

Georgy Zhukov

male, deceased (1974)
Russian, Axis powers, Nazi Germany, World War II, Marshal of the Soviet Union, HerooftheSovietUnion…soviet, Soviet politician, Recipient of Virtuti Militari, Knights Grand Cross of the Order of the Bath, Recipient of the Order of Victory
Georgy Konstantinovich Zhukov, GCB (June 18, 1974) was a Soviet military commander who, in the course of World War II, led the Red Army to liberate...
Marina Raskova

Marina Raskova

female, deceased (1943)
Soviet World War II people killed in action, Women in the Russian and Soviet military, aviator, Russian, HerooftheSovietUnion, bomber…Soviet World War II killed in action, Soviet Air Force
Marina Mikhailovna Raskova (March 28, 1912-January 4, 1943) was a famous Russian navigator, often referred to as the "Russian Amelia Earhart". She...
Andrian Nikolayev

Andrian Nikolayev

male, deceased (2004)
Chuvashs, death by myocardial infarction, Hero of Socialist Labor, star city, Star City, Russia, Soyuz 8…Heroes of Socialist Labor, Order of the Red Star, Order of Lenin, Soviet cosmonaut, Hero of Socialist Labor of Bulgaria
Andrian Grigoryevich Nikolayev,. On both, he set new endurance records for the longest time a human being had remained in orbit. He also served as...
Zoya Kosmodemyanskaya

Zoya Kosmodemyanskaya

female, deceased (1941)
Posthumous recognition, Osino-Gay, Gavrilovsky District, Zoya Anatolyevna Kosmodemyanskaya, Russian and Soviet resistance member, resistance member of World War II…Soviet partisans, soviet, HerooftheSovietUnion
Zoya Anatolyevna Kosmodemyanskaya (September 13, 1923 in the village of Osino-Gay, Gavrilovsky District, Tambov Oblast - November 29, 1941) was a...
Arnold Meri

Arnold Meri

male
communist party, Estonian Army, Estonian military personnel, Communist Party of the Soviet Union, Order of Lenin, Great Patriotic War…President of Estonia, HerooftheSovietUnion
Arnold Meri (b. 1919) is an Estonian veteran of the Great Patriotic War and a Hero of the Soviet Union. He is the cousin of former President of...