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Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Russian writer, publicist, poet and politician (1918–2008)
Sergei Korolev
Soviet rocket engineer and spacecraft designer (1907-1966)
Varlam Shalamov
Soviet writer, journalist, poet and Gulag survivor
Natan Sharansky
Israeli politician (born 1948)
Eduard Streltsov
Soviet footballer (1937-1990)
Yevgenia Ginzburg
Russian author of Jewish ancestry
Les Kurbas
Ukrainian and Soviet actor, theatre director, film director (1887—1937)
Nikolay Zabolotsky
Russian poet, children's writer and translator (1903-1958)
Alexander Pechersky
Soviet Army captain who led 1943 revolt in Sobibor (1909-1990)
Polina Zhemchuzhina
Soviet politician (1897-1970)
Alexander Gorbatov
Soviet general (1891–1973)
Nikolay Timofeev-Ressovsky
Soviet biologist (1900–1981)
Georgiy Zhzhonov
Soviet and Russian actor and writer (1915—2005)
Yury Dombrovsky
Soviet writer (1909-1978)
Aleksei Kapler
Soviet film director (1903–1979)
Vasily Azhayev
Soviet writer
Mikhail Kalik
Soviet film director (1927-2017)
Yvan Kyrlya
Soviet actor-poet
Spartak Mishulin
Soviet and Russian actor (1926—2005)
Eufrosinia Kersnovskaya
Russian writer (1908–1994)
Vasily Lytkin
Soviet linguist, poet and translator (1895-1981)
Pyotr Velyaminov
Soviet Russian film and theater actor (1926-2009)
Pyotr Baranovsky
Soviet architect, preservationist, building restorator (1892–1984)
Mykhailo Drai-Khmara
Ukrainian poet, writer and university teacher (1889-1939)
Tatiana Okunevskaya
Soviet and Russian actress (1914–2002)
Yaroslav Smelyakov
Russian journalist and poet (1913-1972)
Tojikhon Shodieva
soviet-Uzbek communist activist
Ariadna Efron
painter (1912-1975)
János Rózsás
Hungarian writer (1926–2012)
Pyotr Yakir
Soviet historian (1923–1982)
Karlo Štajner
Yugoslav communist (1902-1992)
Anna Barkova
Soviet writer (1901–1976)
Olga Ivinskaya
Soviet gulag detainee
Jangir Agha
national hero of the Yazidi people (1874–1943)
Wacław Dworzecki
Soviet and Russian actor (1910–1993)
Anton Antonov-Ovseyenko
Russian historian/writer (1920–2013)
Nina Lugovskaya
Russian artist (1918-1993)
Rachel Messerer
Soviet actress (1902-1993)
Yakov Melkumov
Soviet military commander (1885–1962)
Mykola Chaikovskyi
Ukrainian teacher, mathematician and writer
Blagoy Popov
Bulgarian communist (1902-1968)
Heinrich Eiche
Soviet military historian (1893–1968)
Bolesław Przybyszewski
Polish musicologist (1892-1937)
Mikhaïl Nossyrev
Russian composer (1924–1981)
Ekaterina Kalinina
wife of Soviet politician Mikhail Kalinin (1882-1960)
Sergei Sedov
Soviet Great Purge victim (1908–1937)
Julius Margolin
Lithuanian writer (1900–1971)
Michel Heller
Russian historian (1922-1997)
Henryk Czyż
Polish conductor (1923–2003)
Henryk Ehrlich
Polish socialist (1882–1942)
Leonid Varpakhovsky
Soviet theatre director (1908–1976)
Mikhail Dudko
Soviet ballet dancer (1902-1981)
Stepan Kalinin
Soviet general (1890–1975)
Roberta Gropper
German politician (1897-1993)
Konstantin Chkheidze
Czechoslovakian philosopher and writer (1897-1974)
Natalya Semper
Russian egyptologist
Georgy Demidov
Russian writer (1908-1987)
Robert Stillmark
Soviet writer (1909–1985)
Vadim Kozin
Soviet and Russian singer (1903—1994)
Sára Karig
Hungarian writer and poet (1914-1999)