- Dmitri Shostakovich
Dmitri Shostakovich was born in St. Petersburg, Russia on September 25, 1906. Years after his death, he remains one of the most important figures in 20th-century classical music and one of the most controversial. Under pressure from Soviet authorities, he compromised his art. At least that was how it seemed. (09/25/2006) - Andrei Sakharov
Andrei Dmitrievich Sakharov (May 21 1921 – December 14 1989) was an eminent Soviet nuclear physicist, dissident and human rights activist. Sakharov was an advocate of civil liberties and reforms in the Soviet Union. He was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1975. - Pablo Neruda
Pablo Neruda was the penname and, later, legal name of the Chilean writer and communist politician Ricardo Eliecer Neftalí Reyes Basoalto. Having his works translated into dozens of languages, Pablo Neruda is considered one of the greatest and most influential poets of the 20th century. Neruda was accomplished in a wide variety of styles, ranging from erotically charged love poems (such as "White Hills"), surrealist poems, historical epics, … - Nikolai Burdenko
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 (1937-1946), an academician of the USSR Academy of Sciences (from 1939), an academician and the first president of the Academy of Medical Sciences of the USSR, (1944-1946), a Hero of Socialist Labor (from 1943), colonel-general of medicine, Stalin Prize-winner (1941). He was a participant of the Russo-Japanese, First World, … - Uzeyir Hajibeyov
Uzeyir Hajibeyov was an Azerbaijani and Soviet composer, conductor, scientist, publicist, playwright, teacher, translator and social figure. He is recognized as the father of composed music in Azerbaijan. - Kerim Kerimov
Kerim Kerimov (Azerbaijani: Kərim Abbas Əli oğlu Kərimov, Russian: Керим Алиевич Керимов; 1917 – 2003) was a Soviet rocket scientist, one of the founders of the Soviet space industry, and for many years a central figure in the Soviet space program. Despite his prominent role, his identity was kept a secret from the public for most of his career. - Ilya Ehrenburg
Ilya Grigoryevich Ehrenburg, (Kiev, Ukraine) - August 31, 1967 (Moscow, Soviet Union) was a Soviet Russian writer and journalist whose 1954 novel The Thaw gave name to the Khrushchev Thaw. - Aleksandr Tvardovsky
Aleksandr Trifonovich Tvardovsky was a Soviet poet, chief editor of "Novy Mir" literary magazine (1950-1954, 1958-1970). Tvardovsky fought hard to maintain the traditional independence "Novy Mir" had, even against official disapproval. During his editorship the magazine published Ilya Ehrenburg's "Thaw" in 1954, "The Vologda Wedding" by Aleksandr Yashin in 1962, … - Sergei Eisenstein
Sergei Mikhailovich Eisenstein was a revolutionary Soviet film director and film theorist noted in particular for his silent films "Strike", "Battleship Potemkin" and "Oktober". His work vastly influenced early film makers owing to his innovative use of and writings about montage. - Fikret Amirov
Fikret Meshedi Jamil oglu Amirov (Azeri: Fikrət Məşədi Cəmil oğlu Əmirov; November 22 1922, Ganja - February 20 1984, Baku) was a prominent Soviet and Azerbaijani composer. Fikret Amirov grew up in an atmosphere of folk music. Fikret's father, Meshedi Jamil Amirov, was a famous khananda (mugam singer) from Shusha, who composed and played tar. During his childhood and early adolescence, Fikret began composing pieces for the piano. - Igor Kurchatov
Igor Vasilyevich Kurchatov (Russian: И́горь Васи́льевич Курча́тов was a Soviet/Russian physicist. He was the leader of the Soviet atomic bomb project. Kurchatov was born in "Simsky zavod", Ufa Guberniya (now city of "Sim", Chelyabinsk Oblast). After completing Simferopol gymnasium №1 he studied physics at Crimea State University and ship building at the Polytechnical Institute in Petrograd. - Vitaly Ginzburg
Vitaly Lazarevich Ginzburg (born October 4 1916 in Moscow) is a Russian (formerly Soviet) theoretical physicist and astrophysicist, a member of the Russian Academy of Sciences, and the successor to Igor Tamm as head of the Department of Theoretical Physics of Academy's physics institute (FIAN). - Pavel Alekseyevich Cherenkov
Pavel Alekseyevich Cherenkov (1904-1990) was a Russian physicist of great repute and a recipient of the Nobel Prize in physics in 1958 for his scientific contributions. - Alexander Arutiunian
Alexander Grigorevich Arutiunian (b. Yerevan, Armenia, September 23 1920) is an Armenian composer and pianist. In 1949, he was awarded the USSR State Prize for the "Motherland" cantata, a graduation piece he wrote as a student at the Moscow Conservatory. He has continued to win acclaim at home and abroad for his works, many of which are quickened by the folk traditions of Armenian music. - Yevgeny Vuchetich
Yevgeny Viktorovich Vuchetich (1974) was a prominent sculptor and artist of the Soviet Union, Hero of Socialist Labor (1967), People's Artist of the USSR (1959), known for his heroic monuments, often of allegoric style. Vuchetich was of Montenegrin descent, born in Yekaterinoslav (now Dnipropetrovsk, Ukraine). He was a prominent representative of the Socialist Realism style and was awarded with the Lenin Prize (1970) and Stalin Prize (1946, 1947, 1948, 1949, 1950), … - Otar Taktakishvili
Otar Taktakishvili (Tbilisi, 27 July 1924 - 21 February 1989) was a Georgian composer. Otar Taktakishvili graduated from the Tbilisi State Conservatory, while still been a student he composed the official anthem of the Georgian Republic. By 1949 he became a Professor of the Tbilisi Conservatory and the conductor and the artistic director of the Georgian State chorus. In 1951 he received his first Stalin Prize (USSR State Prize) for his First Symphony. - Aram Khachaturian
Aram Khachaturian was an Armenian composer whose works were often influenced by Armenian folk music. - Anatoly Rybakov
Anatoly Naumovich Rybakov was a Russian writer, the author of the anti-Stalinist "Children of the Arbat trilogy", novel "Heavy Sand", and many popular children books including "Adventures of Krosh", "Dirk", "Bronze Bird", etc. - Igor Tamm
Igor Yevgenyevich Tamm was a Russian physicist. - Sergei Prokofiev
Sergei Sergeyevich Prokofiev born in Sontsovka, Ukraine of the Russian Empire on April 27 (April 15<small><sup>1<;/sup></small> O.S.), 1891-March 5, 1953 was a Russian and Soviet composer who mastered numerous musical genres and came to be admired as one of the greatest composers of the 20th century. (Alternative transliterations of his name include Sergey or Serge, and Prokofief, Prokofieff, … - Gara Garayev
Gara Abulfaz oglu Garayev was a prominent Soviet Azerbaijani composer. His name is also spelled Qara Qarayev, or the Russified form, Kara [Abulfazovich] Karayev ("Кара Абульфазович Караев"). Gara Garayev wrote nearly 110 pieces, including ballets, operas, symphonic and chamber pieces, piano solos, cantatas, songs and marches. His imprint on Azerbaijan's music is profound. - Mstislav Rostropovich
Mstislav Leopoldovich Rostropovich KBE, (March 27 1927 - April 27 2007), known to close friends as “Slava”, was a cellist and conductor. He was married to the soprano Galina Vishnevskaya. He was one of the greatest cellists of the twentieth century. - Emil Gilels
Emil Grigoryevich Gilels (Russian: Эми́ль Григо́рьевич Ги́лельс, "Emi'li Grego'rievič Gi'lelis"; October 19 1916 – October 14 1985) was a Soviet pianist. - Tikhon Khrennikov
Tikhon Nikolayevich Khrennikov (born in Yelets, Orlov District) is a Russian and Soviet composer, but is better known for his political activities. He wrote three symphonies, four piano concertos, two violin concertos, two cello concertos, operas, operettas, ballets, chamber music, incidental music and film music. Khrennikov started learning to play piano as a child. - Alexander Alexandrovich Fadeyev
Alexander Alexandrovich Fadeyev (May 13, 1956) was a Soviet writer, one of the co-founders of the Union of Soviet Writers and its chairman from 1946 to 1954. Fadeyev was brought up in Chuguyevka, Primorsky Krai and took part in the guerrilla movement against the Japanese interventionists and the White Army during the Russian Civil War. In 1927, he published the novel "The Rout" (also known as "The Nineteen"), in which he described youthful guerrilla fighters. - Yakov Borisovich Zel'Dovich
Yakov Borisovich Zel'dovich was a prolific Soviet physicist. He played an important role in the development of Soviet nuclear and thermonuclear weapons, and made important contributions to the fields of adsorption and catalysis, shock waves, nuclear physics, particle physics, astrophysics, physical cosmology, and general relativity. He was born in Minsk (now Belarus). Four months later his family moved to Saint Petersburg (Leningrad from 1924-1991). - Artem Mikoyan
Artem Ivanovich Mikoyan (December 9, 1970) was a Soviet aircraft designer of Armenian descent. In partnership with Mikhail Iosifovich Gurevich he designed many of the famous MiG military aircraft. - Lina Stern
Lina Solomonovna Stern was a notable biochemist, physiologist and humanist whose medical discoveries saved thousands of lives at the fronts of World War II. She is best known for her pioneering work on blood-brain barrier, which she described as "hemato-encephalic barrier" in 1921. - Nikolai Nikolaevich Polikarpov
Nikolai Nikolaevich Polikarpov (July 8 1892 - July 30 1944) was a Soviet aircraft designer, known as "King of Fighters". He designed the I-15 series of fighters, and the I-16 Ishak (phonetically close to its designation) "Little Donkey" fighter. In October 1929 Polikarpov was arrested and sentenced to death. - Ivan Knunyants
Ivan Lyudvigovich Knunyants ((Shusha, currently Nagorno-Karabakh) - December 21 1990 (Moscow), was a Soviet chemist. He is the inventor of poly-caprolactam (capron, nylon-6, polyamide-6), founder of Soviet school of fluorocarbon's chemistry, one of major developers of Soviet chemical weapons program, also an author of a few drugs for chemotherapy of cancer. Graduated from Moscow Bauman Highest Technical School (MVTU) 1928, student of Aleksei Chichibabin. - Sergei Bondarchuk
Sergei Fedorovich Bondarchuk (Russian: Серге́й Фё́дорович Бондарчу́к; Ukrainian: Сергі́й Фе́дорович Бондарчу́к September 25, 1920 - October 20, 1994) was a Soviet film director, screenwriter, and actor. Born in Bilozerka, near Kherson city, Sergei Bondarchuk spent his childhood in the cities of Yeisk and Taganrog, graduated from the "Taganrog School Num.4" in 1938. - Dmitri Kabalevsky
Dmitri Borisovich Kabalevsky (December 30, 1904 - February 18, 1987) was a Russian Soviet composer. Kabalevsky is regarded as one of the great modern composers. He helped to set up the Union of Soviet Composers in Moscow and remained one of its leading figures. - Veniamin Kaverin
Veniamin Alexandrovich Kaverin was a Soviet writer associated with the early 1920s movement of the Serapion Brothers. The immunologist Lev Zilber was his older brother, and the critic Yury Tynyanov was his brother-in-law. During the WWII evacuation in Yaroslavl, Kaverin completed his best-known novel, "The Two Captains" (1938-44), which colourfully recounts the adventures of Russian polar explorers before and after the Revolution. - Aleksei Pogorelov
Aleksei Vasil'evich Pogorelov (March 2, 1919 - December 17, 2002), was a Soviet/Ukrainian mathematician. He was most famous for his contributions to convex and differential geometry. He was also the author of a number of influential research monographs as well as popular high school and college textbooks. Pogorelov was born in Korocha (now Belgorod Oblast, Russia) and died in Moscow. Much of his life he worked in Kharkov (now Ukraine), … - Mark Reizen
Mark Osipovich Reizen, also Reisen or Reyzen (born Zaitsevo village, near Lugansk, Ukraine - died November 25, 1992 Moscow) was a Russian and Ukrainian opera singer, lyrical bass. - Sulamith Messerer
Sulamith Mikhailovna Messerer (August 27, 1908 - June 3, 2004) was a Russian ballerina and choreographer who laid the foundations for the classical ballet in Japan. Sulamith studied in the Moscow Ballet School under Vasily Tikhomirov and Elisabeth Gerdt and danced in the Bolshoi Theatre from 1926 until 1950. In 1933, she and her brother Asaf Messerer became the first Soviet dancers to tour Western Europe. - Mikhail Gurevich
Mikhail Iosifovich Gurevich (November 12, 1976) was a Soviet aircraft designer, a partner (with Artem Mikoyan) of the famous MiG military aviation bureau. Born to a family of Jewish winery mechanic in a small township of Rubanshchina (Kursk region), in 1910 he graduated from gymnasium in Akhtyrka (Kharkov region) with the silver medal and entered the Mathematical department of Kharkov University. After a year, for participation in revolutionary activities, … - Antanas Venclova
Antanas Venclova was a Lithuanian-Soviet Political figure, poet, journalist and translator. He studied Lithuanian, Russian and French at the Vytautas Magnus University, in Kaunas. In 1936, Venclova visited the USSR, and became fascinated with the Soviet system and its culture. Before the outbreak of the Second World War, he worked as a teacher, and was the editor of the procommunist journals, "Trečias frontas" (Third Front), and "Prošvaistė". - Andrey Vyshinsky
Andrey Januaryevich Vyshinskiy (November 22, 1954), also spelt Vishinsky, Vyshinskii, was a Russian and Soviet jurist and later diplomat. He served as the Soviet Foreign Minister from 1949 to 1953. Vyshinsky was of Polish descent and spoke some English and excellent French. He became a Menshevik in 1903 and in 1917 he undersigned an order to arrest Lenin according the decision of the Russian Provisional Government. - Vano Muradeli
Vano Muradeli (in Gori - 14 August 1970 in Tomsk) was a Soviet Georgian composer. Born in Gori, Georgia, then part of Imperial Russia, he graduated from Tbilisi State Conservatory in 1931. From 1934 to 1938, he worked at the Moscow Conservatory. From 1942 to 1944, he served as a principal and artistic director of the Central Ensemble of the Soviet Navy. In 1948, his opera "The Great Friendship" was censured by the resolution of the Communist Party Central Committee.
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