Joseph Stalin

Joseph Stalin

male, deceased (1953) (Russia)
Josef Vissarionovich Dzhugashvili ("Ioseb Besarionis Dze Jughashvili";, "Iosif Vissarionovich Dzhugashvili") (March 5 1953), better known by his...
Leonid Brezhnev

Leonid Brezhnev

male, deceased (1982)
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)...
Lazar Kaganovich

Lazar Kaganovich

male, deceased (1991)
Lazar Moiseyevich Kaganovich (November 22, 1893-July 25, 1991) was a Soviet politician and administrator and a close associate of Joseph Stalin.
Igor Kurchatov

Igor Kurchatov

male, deceased (1960)
Igor Vasilyevich Kurchatov (Russian: И́горь Васи́льевич Курча́тов was a Soviet/Russian physicist. He was the leader of the Soviet atomic bomb pro...
Sergey Korolyov

Sergey Korolyov

male, deceased (1966)
Sergey Pavlovich Korolyov, (Zhytomyr – January 14, 1966, Moscow), was the head Soviet rocket engineer and designer during the Space Race between th...
Valentina Tereshkova

Valentina Tereshkova

female, 72 years old
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...
Petro Shelest

Petro Shelest

male, deceased (1996)
Petro Shelest was the First Secretary of the Communist party in the Ukrainian SSR, a member of the Politburo of the Communist Party of the Soviet...
Nikolay Basov

Nikolay Basov

male, deceased (2001)
Nikolay Gennadiyevich Basov was a Russian physicist and educator. He was born in the town Usman, now in Lipetsk Oblast. For his fundamental work in...