Emil Gilels

Emil Gilels

male, deceased (1985)
Emil Grigoryevich Gilels (Russian: Эми́ль Григо́рьевич Ги́лельс, "Emi'li Grego'rievič Gi'lelis"; October 19 1916 – October 14 1985) was a Soviet...
Nikolai Cherkasov

Nikolai Cherkasov

male, deceased (1966)
Nikolai Konstantinovich Cherkasov (July 27, 1903 - September 14, 1966), was a Soviet actor. From 1919 he was a mime artist in Petrograd's Maryinsky...
Nikolai Burdenko

Nikolai Burdenko

male, deceased (1946)
Nikolai Nilovich Burdenko (11 November 1946) was a Russian surgeon, the founder of the Russian neurosurgery. He was a Head surgeon of the Red Army...
Aleksandr Tvardovsky

Aleksandr Tvardovsky

male, deceased (1971)
Aleksandr Trifonovich Tvardovsky was a Soviet poet, chief editor of "Novy Mir" literary magazine (1950-1954, 1958-1970). Tvardovsky fought hard to...
Andrey Vyshinsky

Andrey Vyshinsky

male, deceased (1954)
Andrey Januaryevich Vyshinskiy (November 22, 1954), also spelt Vishinsky, Vyshinskii, was a Russian and Soviet jurist and later diplomat. He served...
Yevgeny Vuchetich

Yevgeny Vuchetich

male, deceased (1974)
Yevgeny Viktorovich Vuchetich (1974) was a prominent sculptor and artist of the Soviet Union, Hero of Socialist Labor (1967), People's Artist of...
Otar Taktakishvili

Otar Taktakishvili

male, deceased (1989)
Otar Taktakishvili (Tbilisi, 27 July 1924 - 21 February 1989) was a Georgian composer. Otar Taktakishvili graduated from the Tbilisi State...
Jovdat Hajiyev

Jovdat Hajiyev

male, deceased (2002)
Jovdat Ismayil oghlu Hajiyev (June 18, 1917 - January 18, 2002) was one of the major Azerbaijani composers of the Soviet period. He is remembered...
Sulamith Messerer

Sulamith Messerer

female, deceased (2004)
Sulamith Mikhailovna Messerer (August 27, 1908 - June 3, 2004) was a Russian ballerina and choreographer who laid the foundations for the classical...
Sergey Ivanovich Vavilov

Sergey Ivanovich Vavilov

male, deceased (1951)
Sergey Ivanovich Vavilov (January 25, 1951) was a Soviet physicist, the President of the USSR Academy of Sciences from July 1945 until his death....