- Klaus Fuchs
Emil Julius Klaus Fuchs (December 29, 1911 - January 28, 1988) was a German-born theoretical physicist and atomic spy who was convicted of surreptitiously supplying information on the British and American atomic bomb research to the USSR during, and shortly after, World War II. Fuchs was an extremely competent scientist, … - Cat Stevens
Yusuf Islam (Arabic: يوسف إسلام, who was known as Cat Stevens from 1966 to 1978, is an English musician, singer-songwriter, educator, philanthropist and prominent convert to Islam. Under the name "Cat Stevens," he has sold over 60 million albums around the world since the late 1960s. - Anne Applebaum
Anne Applebaum (born 25 July 1964) is a journalist and Pulitzer Prize-winning author who has written extensively about communism and the development of civil society in Eastern Europe and the USSR / Russia. As of 2006, she is a columnist and member of the editorial board of the "Washington Post". Born in Washington, DC in 1964, she was a 1982 graduate of the Sidwell Friends School. - Vyacheslav Molotov
Vyacheslav Mikhailovich Molotov, Soviet politician and diplomat, was a leading figure in the Soviet government from the 1920s, when he rose to power as a protégé of Joseph Stalin, to the 1950s, when he was dismissed from office by Nikita Khrushchev. He was the principal Soviet signatory of the Nazi-Soviet non-aggression pact of 1939 (also known as the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact) and the Molotov cocktail was named after him. - Robert Service
Professor Robert John Service (born 29 October 1947) is a British historian of Russia. He is a writer, broadcaster and fellow of St Antony's College, Oxford. He was one of the first historians to gain access to the Soviet archives after the collapse of the USSR. Service spent his undergraduate years at Cambridge, where he studied Russian and classical Greek. He went to Essex and Leningrad universities for his postgraduate work, … - Nick Beams
Nick Beams is an Australian socialist intellectual and the current national secretary of the Socialist Equality Party (formerly the Socialist Labor League). Beams has written extensively on the development of current world events, such as the collapse of the USSR, globalization and the ongoing conflict in Iraq. He is on the editorial board of the World Socialist Web Site, which publishes online articles providing a Marxist analysis on historical, … - Simon Sebag Montefiore
Simon Sebag Montefiore (born 1965) is a British journalist and historian of Jewish origin specializing in Russian History. He wrote "Potemkin", a biography of Catherine the Great's lover and political partner. More recently, in 2004, he published a lengthy biography of one of the twentieth century's most powerful leaders, "Stalin: The Court of the Red Tsar". - Viktor Korchnoi
Viktor Lvovich Korchnoi (Ви́ктор Льво́вич Корчно́й), born March 23, 1931, in Leningrad, USSR, is a professional Swiss chess player and currently the oldest active grandmaster on the world tournament circuit. Korchnoi is best known for playing three matches against Anatoly Karpov for the World Chess Championship. In 1974, he lost the Candidates final to Karpov, who went on to win the World championship by forfeit against Bobby Fischer). - Alla Pugacheva
Alla Borisovna Pugachova(Алла Борисовна Пугачёва), pronounced "Pougachiova", "Pugachova" and commonly anglicized as Pugacheva, born 15 April 1949 in Moscow, USSR, is perhaps the best known musical performer in Russia, her career having started in 1965 and continuing to this day. She is certainly the most successful Soviet and Russian performer in terms of record sales and popularity (* see notes about record sales below). - Olga Korbut
Olga Valentinovna Korbut, also known as the "Sparrow from Minsk", is a Belarusian, Soviet-born gymnast who won four gold medals and two silver medals at the Summer Olympics, where she competed in 1972 and 1976 for the USSR team. - Alexander Ovechkin
Alexander Mikhaylovich Ovechkin (born September 17, 1985 in Moscow, USSR) is a Russian professional ice hockey left winger for the Washington Capitals of the National Hockey League. He currently resides in Arlington, Virginia, USA. He was the number one pick in the 2004 NHL Entry Draft, but due to the 2004-05 NHL lockout only started playing in the 2005-06 NHL season. - Kliment Voroshilov
Kliment Yefremovich Voroshilov, popularly known as Klim Voroshilov (December 2, 1969) was a Soviet military commander and politician. Voroshilov was born in Verkhneye, near Yekaterinoslav (now Dnipropetrovsk), Ukraine, under the Russian Empire. He joined the Bolshevik party in 1903. Following the Russian Revolution of 1917 he was a member of the Ukrainian provisional government and Commissar for Internal Affairs. - Jamie Glazov
Jamie Glazov is Frontpage Magazine's managing editor. He holds a Ph.D. in History with a specialty in U.S. and Canadian foreign policy. He edited and wrote the introduction to David Horowitz 's Left Illusions. He is also the co-editor (with David Horowitz ) of The Hate America Left and the author of Canadian Policy Toward Khrushchev's Soviet Union (McGill-Queens University Press, 2002) and 15 Tips on How to be a Good Leftist . - Vladimir Petrov
Vladimir Nikolayevich Petrov (1915, Krasnodar oblast, Russia - 1999) was at various times an academic, philatelist, prisoner, forced laborer, political prisoner, adventurer, factory worker and soldier. He was at various times a Russian, American, and man of no country, though he was brought up in the USSR and died in the United States. Most of the information concerning his life originates from his personal memoirs, … - Dmitri Volkogonov
Dmitri Antonovich Volkogonov was a Russian historian, Doctor of Philosophy, Doctor of History, Colonel General (1986). Volkogonov was the head of the Institute of Military History at the Ministry of Defense of the Soviet Union between 1988 and 1991. He was director of the arm of the Soviet military concerned with "psychological warfare", writing a manual on this subject for Soviet forces ("The Psychological War"). - Paul Henderson
Paul Henderson (born January 28, 1943 in Lucknow, Ontario, Canada) is a retired Canadian hockey left winger who played 13 seasons in the National Hockey League for the Detroit Red Wings, Toronto Maple Leafs and Atlanta Flames. He is best known for scoring the winning goal against the Soviet Union in game eight of the the 1972 Summit Series. - Vladimir Socor
Vladimir Socor (b. August 3, 1945, Bucharest) is an U.S. citizen of Jewish origin, analyst of East European affairs for the Jamestown Foundation and its "Eurasia Daily Monitor". A specialist in former republics of the USSR, CIS affairs and ethnic conflicts, he currently resides in Munich, Germany. He is the son of Matei Socor, who, as head of the "Agerpres" news agency, was involved in the communist regime's propaganda apparatus, … - Moshe Lewin
Moshe Lewin BA, Ph.D, (born in Wilno, Poland in 1921) is a scholar of Russian and Soviet History. In his youth, Lewin worked as a collective farm worker in the USSR and an officer in the Soviet army. Lewin received his B.A. from Tel Aviv University, Israel in 1961, and his Ph.D from Sorbonne, Paris in 1964. He acted as Director of Study at L'Ecole des Hautes Etudes, Paris, from 1965-66, as a senior fellow at Columbia University from 1967-68, … - Kurmanbek Bakiyev
Kurmanbek Saliyevich Bakiyev is the President of Kyrgyzstan. The Legislative Assembly of Kyrgyzstan of the Supreme Council of Kyrgyzstan appointed him acting President on 24 March, 2005 following the ousting, during the Tulip Revolution, of President Askar Akayev. Bakiyev was the leader of the People's Movement of Kyrgyzstan before his ascendance to the presidency. He gets most of his popular support from the south of the country. - Rudolf Barshai
Rudolf Borisovich Barshai (born on September 28, 1924) is a Soviet/Russian conductor and viola player. Barshai was born in Stanitsa Lobinskaya, Krasnodar region, Russia. He studied in Moscow Conservatory under Tseitlin and Borisovsky. Barshai performed as a soloist as well as together with Sviatoslav Richter and David Oistrakh, and as a member of a trio with Mstislav Rostropovich and Leonid Kogan. He won numerous Soviet and international competitions. - Vladislav Surkov
Vladislav Yuryevich Surkov (b. September 21, 1964, or in 1962, Solntsevo, Lipetsk region, USSR<sup></sup>, or Shali, Checheno-Ingush SSR, USSR<sup></sup><;sup></sup>), is a Russian businessman and politician. Currently he is a Deputy Chief of Staff of the President of the Russian Federation and a top aide to Vladimir Putin. Vladislav Surkov is widely seen as the main ideologist of the Kremlin. Allegedly he contributed greatly to Vladimir Putin electoral victory in 2004. - Ilya Kovalchuk
Ilya Valeryevich Kovalchuk (Russian: Илья Валерьевич Ковальчук, Il'ja Valer'jevič Kovalčuk; born April 15, 1983, in Tver, U.S.S.R.) is a professional ice hockey winger who currently plays for the Atlanta Thrashers of the National Hockey League. - Vladimir Komarov
Vladimir Mikhailovich Komarov (Russian: Владимир Михайлович Комаров; March 16, 1927 – April 24, 1967) was a Soviet cosmonaut. He was the first confirmed human to die during a space mission, on Soyuz 1, and the first Soviet cosmonaut to travel into space more than once. He was born in Moscow, USSR (now Russia). He was selected to become a cosmonaut in 1960 with the first cosmonaut group. - John Demjanjuk
John Demjanjuk (born Ivan Demjanjuk on 3 April, 1920 in Dubovye Makharintsy, Kiev Oblast, USSR), is a retired auto worker who emigrated to the United States from Europe in 1951. He was later accused of, tried for, convicted of, and sentenced to death for war crimes, based on his identification by Israeli Holocaust survivors as "Ivan the Terrible", … - Stanislav Shushkevich
Stanislav Stanislavovich Shushkevich (Stanisłaŭ Stanisłavavič Šuškievič, Belarusian: Станісла́ў Станісла́вавіч Шушке́віч) (b. December 15, 1934) is a Belarusian politician and scientist. From 1991 to 1994 he was first leader and head of state of independent Belarus after dissolution of the USSR (Chairman of the Supreme Soviet - also chairman of Parliament). - André Gide
André Paul Guillaume Gide was a French author and winner of the Nobel Prize in literature in 1947. Gide's career spanned from the symbolist movement to the advent of anticolonialism in between the two World Wars. Known for his fiction as well as his autobiographical works, Gide exposes to public view the conflict and eventual reconciliation between the two sides of his personality, split apart by a straightlaced education and a narrow social moralism. - Joe Dassin
Joseph Ira Dassin was a French-speaking American expatriate musician. Dassin was born in New York City to "film noir" director Jules Dassin and Béatrice Launer. He began his childhood first in New York and Los Angeles, California. However after his father became a victim of the anti-communist policies of Senator Joseph McCarthy, he and his family moved from place to place across Europe. After studying at Institut Le Rosey in Switzerland, … - Pavel Datsyuk
Pavel Datsyuk (born July 20 1978, in Sverdlovsk, USSR (now Yekaterinburg, Russia) is a Russian-born professional ice hockey player currently playing for the Detroit Red Wings. He is known for silent, but humble demeanor. - Viktor Bout
Viktor Anatolyevich Bout (born January 13, 1967 in Dushanbe, USSR. now Tajikistan, according to his official passport. However, Bout stated in a 2002 radio interview that he was born near what is now Ashgabat, Turkmenistan, and a 2001 South African intelligence file listed him as Ukrainian in origin) is a Russian arms dealer. - Arvydas Sabonis
Arvydas Romas Sabonis (born December 19, 1964 in Kaunas, Lithuanian SSR, Soviet Union (present Lithuania) is a retired Lithuanian professional basketball player. The 2.21 m (7 ft 3 in) Sabonis is considered by many to be one of the premier centers in the world from the 1980s through the early 21st century. - Sergei Bodrov
Sergei Bodrov was born on June 28, 1948 in Khabarovsk, USSR (part of modern day Russia). He is a Russian filmmaker, writer, producer and director. He had a son named Sergei Bodrov Jr. who was killed in an avalanche in the mountains of the North Caucasus on September 20, 2002. He has directed movies such as "Mongol" (2006), "Shiza" (2004), "The Nomad" (2004), "Bear's Kiss" (2002), "The Quickie" (2001), … - Yuri Romanenko
Yuri Victorovitch Romanenko (born August 1, 1944, Koltoubanovski USSR) is a former Soviet cosmonaut, twice Hero of the Soviet Union (March 16, 1978 and September 26, 1980). Had been Commander of: * Soyuz 26 * Soyuz 27 * Soyuz 38 * Soyuz TM-2 * Soyuz TM-3 Yuri Romanenko has spent a total of 430 days 20 hours 21 minutes 30 seconds in space. - John Ball
John Dudley Ball (1911-1988), writing as "John Ball", was an American author best known for novels involving the character Virgil Tibbs, first introduced in 1965 in "In the Heat of the Night". Tibbs was an African-American police detective from Pasadena who in the first book of the series must solve a murder in a racist small town in the American South. - Mathias Rust
Mathias Rust (born 1968) is a German man known for his illegal landing near the Red Square in Moscow in 1987. As an amateur aviator, he flew from Finland to Moscow, eluding the Soviet air defences and landing on Vasilevski Spusk next to the Red Square near the Kremlin in the capital of the former USSR. - Robert Ford
Robert Arthur Douglas Ford CC (January 8, 1915 - April 12, 1998) was a Canadian poet, translator and diplomat. Born in Ottawa, Ontario, the son of former "London Free Press" Editor-in Chief and University of Western Ontario Chancellor Arthur Ford, he received his B.A. in history and English in 1937 from the University of Western Ontario and a M.A. in history in 1940 from Cornell University. - Sergei Krikalev
Sergei Konstantinovich Krikalyov is a Russian cosmonaut and veteran of six space flights. He has been dubbed by many "the last Citizen of the USSR " as in 1991–1992 he spent 311 days, 20 hours and 1 minute aboard the Mir space station whilst back on Earth the Soviet Union collapsed. Krikalyov has spent more time in space than any other human being. On August 16, 2005 at 1:44 a.m. EDT he passed the record of 748 days held by Sergei Avdeyev. - Alexander Popov
Alexandr Vladimirovich Popov (born February 22 1963 in Tobolsk) is a Russian biathlete who competed for the USSR, the Unified Team and Belarus. Since 1999 he is the Head Coach of Belarus National Biathlon Team. - Vladimir Krutov
Vladimir Yevgenyevich Krutov born June 1, 1960 in Moscow, USSR now Russia) is a former Russian hockey forward. Together with Igor Larionov and Sergei Makarov, he was part of the famed "KLM Line". He is considered one of the best hockey players of the 1980s. For the Soviet Union national team, Krutov won the 1981 Canada Cup, two golds (1984, 1988) and one silver (1980) in the Olympics, and six golds (1981, 1982, 1983, 1986, 1989, 1990), one silver (1987), … - Nikolai Khabibulin
Nikolai Ivanovich Khabibulin, "Nikolaj Ivanovič Chabibulin"; born January 13, 1973 in Sverdlovsk, USSR, now Yekaterinburg, Russia), nicknamed "the Bulin Wall", is an NHL goaltender for the Chicago Blackhawks. His abilities have been recognized with four appearances in the NHL All-Star Game. He is the first Russian goalie ever to win the Stanley Cup, and has also won an Olympic gold medal with the CIS in 1992, and a bronze medal with Russia in 2002. - John Hill
John Hill (born January 7, 1950) was a football (soccer) player who represented New Zealand in the early 1980s. John's first professional club was Glentoran in Belfast, Northern Ireland. He then played for Gisborne City from 1980 until 1982. He represented the All Whites in the 1982 FIFA World Cup in Spain, where they lost all 3 Group games to Scotland, USSR and Brazil.
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