Heroes of Socialist Labour

Joseph Vissarionovich Stalin was a Soviet revolutionary and politician who led the Soviet Union from 1924 until his death in 1953. He held office as general secretary of the Communist Party from 1922 to 1952 and as premier from 1941 until his death. Despite initially governing the country as part of a collective leadership, he eventually consolidated power to become a dictator by the 1930s. Stalin codified the Communist Party's official interpretation of Marxism as Marxism–Leninism, and his version of it is referred to as Stalinism.

leader of the Soviet Union from 1953 to 1964

General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (1906–1982)

Soviet writer (1905-1984)

General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (1914–1984)

Soviet nuclear physicist and human rights activist (1921–1989)

Soviet composer and pianist (1906-1975)

General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (1911-1985)

Georgian politician and diplomat (1928–2014)

Soviet and Kyrgyz author (1928–2008)

Soviet politician, statesman and diplomat (1890–1986)

Soviet and Russian small arms designer (1919–2013)

Soviet theoretical physicist (1908–1968)

Soviet physicist

3rd President of the Republic of Azerbaijan (1923–2003)

Player for U.S.S.R (1929–1990)

Soviet pilot and cosmonaut, first human to conduct a spacewalk (1934-2019)

Soviet politician (1902–1988)

Soviet rocket engineer and spacecraft designer (1907-1966)

Soviet politician and NKVD police chief

Soviet Armenian composer (1903–1978)

Soviet physicist (1895–1971)

Soviet physicist (1904-1990)

Soviet and Russian physicist (1916-2002)

Soviet physicist (1922-2001)

Soviet politician (1875–1946)

Russian mathematician (1903–1987)

Soviet diplomat

Soviet marshal and politician

Soviet revolutionary and statesman (1895–1978)

former General Secretary of the Hungarian Socialist Workers' Party

Soviet Armenian astrophysicist (1908–1996)

Soviet physical chemist (1896-1986)

Russian ballet dancer (1925-2015)

Soviet and Russian actor and clown (1921-1997)

Soviet nuclear physicist (1903-1960)

Soviet politician (1904-1980)

Soviet biochemist (1894-1980)

Soviet and Russian actor (1925-1994)

Soviet and Russian film director, screenwriter, and actor (1920–1994)

Soviet politician (1893–1991)

title of honour of the Soviet Union (1938–1991), source of inspiration for similar titles in other Warsaw Pact countries

Soviet and Russian writer (1913–2009)

Russian and Soviet aerospace engineer (1888-1972)

Soviet politician (1895–1975)

Soviet writer, poet, playwright and wartime correspondent (1915-1979)

Soviet and Russian actor, theatre and film director (1927-2007)

Avar poet (1923-2003)

Soviet military commander and politician (1908-1984)

Soviet pianist (1915-1997)

Soviet agronomist and biologist (1898-1976)

Soviet physicist, physical chemist and cosmologist (1914-1987)

Soviet-era statesman (1902-1982)

Soviet-Russian composer (1904-1986)

Soviet and Russian actor (1928—2009)

Soviet rocket engineer (1908-1989)

Soviet politician (1903-1983)

Soviet aircraft designer (1905–1970)

Soviet aircraft engineer and aeroplanes designer (1894–1977)

Soviet miner, namesake of Stakhanovite movement (1906-1977)