Category
page 1Soviet engineers

Leonid Brezhnev
General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (1906–1982)
Mikhail Kalashnikov
Soviet and Russian small arms designer (1919–2013)

Igor Kurchatov
Soviet nuclear physicist (1903-1960)

Alexei Kosygin
Soviet politician (1904-1980)
Vladimir Komarov
Soviet cosmonaut (1927–1967)

Dmitriy Ustinov
Soviet military commander and politician (1908-1984)
Stanisław Šuškievič
Belarusian nuclear physicist and politician (1934—2022)
Nikolai Patrushev
Aide to the President of the Russian Federation since 2024 and former secretary of the Security Council of Russia (2008–2024)

Valentin Glushko
Soviet rocket engineer (1908-1989)
Mykola Pidhornyi
Soviet politician (1903-1983)
Nikolai Ryzhkov
Soviet-Russian politician (1929–2024)

Nikolay Aleksandrovich Tikhonov
Soviet prime minister 1980-1985, metallurgist
Ivan Silayev
Russian politician (1930–2023)
Valeri Kubasov
Soviet Cosmonaut (1935-2014)

Konstantin Feoktistov
Soviet cosmonaut
Yuri Kondratyuk
Ukrainian Soviet scientist (1897–1942)

Georgy Grechko
Soviet cosmonaut (1931–2017)

Vladimir Shukhov
Russian engineer-polymath, scientist and architect (1853-1939)
Friedrich Zander
Russian and Soviet engineer, rocket designer (1887-1933)

Leon Theremin
Russian inventor, physicist, and musician (1896-1993)

Vladislav Volkov
Soviet cosmonaut (1935–1971)
Vagit Alekperov
Russian businessman
Viačasław Kiebič
Belarusian politician (1936–2020)

Vitaly Sevastyanov
Soviet cosmonaut (1935-2010)

Mark Taimanov
Soviet chess player (1926–2016)
Anatoly Dyatlov
deputy chief-engineer of the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant at the time of the disaster (1931-1995)
Valery Ryumin
Soviet and Russian cosmonaut (1939–2022)

Oleg Grigoryevich Makarov
Soviet cosmonaut (1933–2003)

Valeri Rozhdestvenski
Soviet cosmonaut (1939–2011)

Vladimir Chelomey
Soviey scientist and engineer (1914-1984)
Aleksei Yeliseyev
Soviet cosmonaut
Aleksey Krylov
Russian naval engineer and mathematician (1863-1945)
Gennadi Strekalov
Soviet and Russian cosmonaut and Ashoka Chakra recipient (1940–2004)
Mikhail Yangel
Soviet engineer and missile designer
Vasily Degtyaryov
Russian and Soviet weapons designer (1880-1949)
Qahhor Mahkamov
Soviet politician, then president of Tajikistan (1990–1991)
Valentin Lebedev
Soviet cosmonaut
Genrich Altshuller
Soviet inventor and writer (1926–1998)
Aleksandr Ivanchenkov
Soviet cosmonaut
Alexander Akimov
Soviet engineer and shift supervisor during the events of the Chernobyl disaster (1953–1986)
Fedor Tokarev
Russian and Soviet weapons designer (1871-1968)
Yevgeny Dragunov
Soviet inventor (1920–1991)
Hovannes Adamian
Armenian inventor and engineer (1879–1932)
Boris Rosing
Russian television pioneer (1869–1933)
Boris Chertok
Soviet rocket designer (1912-2011)
Karen Demirchyan
Soviet politician (1932-1999)
Georgy Shpagin
Soviet weapons designer (1897-1952)
Vladimir Grigoryevich Fyodorov
Russian and Soviet weapons designer (1874-1966)
Nikolai Baibakov
Soviet economist (1911-2008)
Gevorg Emin
Armenian poet, essayist, and translator (1919-1998)
Georgy Babakin
Soviet aerospace engineer
Aleksei Sudaev
Soviet weapon designer (1912-1946)
Viktor Bryukhanov
soviet and uzbek engineer (1935–2021)
Vadim Bakatin
last chairman of the KGB (1937–2022)
Utkir Tukhtamurodovich Sultonov
Prime Minister of Uzbekistan (1995–2003)
Vladimir Sukachev
Soviet scientist (1880-1967)
Irina Solovyova
Russian cosmonaut
Nikolay Makarov
Soviet firearms designer (1914–1988)
Viktor Chebrikov
KGB officer (1923-1999)
Oleg Baklanov
Soviet politician, scientist and businessman