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Anton Chekhov
Russian dramatist and author (1860–1904)
Mikhail Gorbachev
leader of the Soviet Union from 1985 to 1991 (1931–2022)
Nikita Khrushchev
leader of the Soviet Union from 1953 to 1964
Boris Yeltsin
Soviet and Russian politician, 1st President of Russia (1931–2007)
Nikolai Gogol
Russian writer of Ukrainian origin (1809–1852)
Sergei Eisenstein
Soviet filmmaker (1898–1948)
Vladimir Mayakovsky
Russian and Soviet poet (1893–1930)
Mikhail Bulgakov
Russian author (1891–1940)
Peter Kropotkin
Russian revolutionary socialist and philosopher (1842–1921)
Dmitri Shostakovich
Soviet composer and pianist (1906-1975)
Vyacheslav Molotov
Soviet politician, statesman and diplomat (1890–1986)
Lev Landau
Soviet theoretical physicist (1908–1968)
Sergei Prokofiev
Russian and Soviet pianist, composer and conductor (1891–1953)
Vitaly Ginzburg
Russian physicist (1916–2009)
Alexandra Kollontai
Soviet diplomat (1872-1952)
Constantine Stanislavsky
Russian actor and theatre director (1863–1938)
Mikhail Botvinnik
Soviet chess player
Nâzım Hikmet
Turkish communist poet, playwright and novelist (1902–1963)
Pavel Cherenkov
Soviet physicist (1904-1990)
Alexander Prokhorov
Soviet and Russian physicist (1916-2002)
Andrey Kolmogorov
Russian mathematician (1903–1987)
Nikolay Basov
Soviet physicist (1922-2001)
Vladimir Zhirinovsky
Russian politician (1946–2022)
Aleksey Tolstoy
Russian-Soviet writer (1883-1945)
Andrei Gromyko
Soviet diplomat
Victor Chernomyrdin
Russian diplomat and politician (1938-2010)
Vladimir Vernadsky
Russian and Soviet mineralogist and geochemist, one of the founders of geochemistry, biogeochemistry, and of radiogeology
Anastas Mikoyan
Soviet revolutionary and statesman (1895–1978)
Nikolai Ostrovsky
Ukrainian-Russian writer (1904-1936)
Leonid Kantorovich
Russian mathematician (1912-1986)
Nikolay Semyonov
Soviet physical chemist (1896-1986)
Ilya Ehrenburg
Soviet writer, Bolshevik revolutionary, journalist and historian (1891–1967)
Mstislav Rostropovich
Soviet and Russian cellist and conductor (1927-2007)
Yury Luzhkov
Russian politician (1936–2019)
Alexander Oparin
Soviet biochemist (1894-1980)
Yuri Nikulin
Soviet and Russian actor and clown (1921-1997)
Vladimir Solovyov
Russian philosopher (1853-1900)
Innokenty Smoktunovsky
Soviet and Russian actor (1925-1994)
Bella Akhmadulina
Soviet and Russian poet, short story writer, and translator (1937–2010)
Lyudmila Pavlichenko
Soviet sniper (1916–1974)
Gherman Titov
Soviet cosmonaut (1935-2000)
Egor Gajdar
Russian economist (1956-2009)
Yevgeny Leonov
Soviet and Russian actor (1926-1994)
Valery Bryusov
Russian poet, prose writer, dramatist, translator, critic and historian (1873–1924)
Sergei Bondarchuk
Soviet and Russian film director, screenwriter, and actor (1920–1994)
Feodor Chaliapin
Russian opera singer and actor (1873-1938)
Dziga Vertov
Russian-Soviet documentary/avantgarde filmmaker (1896-1954)
Andrei Bely
Russian poet, writer and critic (1880–1934)
Lazar Kaganovich
Soviet politician (1893–1991)
Velimir Khlebnikov
Russian writer (1885–1922)
Raisa Gorbacheva
wife of Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev (1932-1999)
Sergey Mikhalkov
Soviet and Russian writer (1913–2009)
Aleksey Brusilov
Russian and Soviet military commander
Evgeny Primakov
4th Russian Prime Minister (1929–2015)
Oleksandr Dovzhenko
Soviet Ukrainian screenwriter, film producer and director (1894–1956)
Nikolai Bulganin
Soviet politician (1895–1975)
Andrei Tupolev
Russian and Soviet aerospace engineer (1888-1972)
Mikhail Ulyanov
Soviet and Russian actor, theatre and film director (1927-2007)
Vera Mukhina
Soviet sculptor (1889-1953)
Valentin Serov
Russian painter (1865–1911)