Soviet non-fiction writers

Russian and Soviet writer (1868–1936)

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

Soviet and Russian film director, screenwriter, film editor, film theorist, theatre and opera director (1932–1986)

Estonian chess player and sportsperson (1916–1975)

Russian Soviet writer and journalist (1905-1964)

human rights activist in the former Soviet Union; wife of dissident Andrei Sakharov

Soviet dissident; prominent in the Soviet dissident movement of the 1960s and 1970s and spent a total of twelve years in psychiatric prison-hospitals, labor camps and prisons within the Soviet Union

Soviet mathematician and physicist (1911-1978)

Soviet diplomat (1884-1975)

Soviet cosmonaut (1939-2008)

Soviet and Russian writer, screenwriter (1924–2020)

Russian writer and dissident (1938-1980)

Soviet dissident (1938–1986)

Soviet-Russian legal scholar (1891-1937)

Soviet general (1892-1978)

Russian architect, Soviet writer (1892–1946)

Soviet Air Force officer, Hero of the Soviet Union

Soviet general (1897-1982)

Soviet writer and screenwriter (1899–1951)

Soviet Naval officer and explorer (1910-1984)

Soviet film director (1910–1999)

Belarusian writer and politician (1921-2004)

Russian journalist

Soviet writer (1901–1976)

Soviet partisan and hero (1898–1954)

Soviet mathematician, astronomer (1920–1988)

Soviet admiral (1897–1981)

journalist

Soviet dissident (1928–1989)

Soviet lieutenant general (1895–1984)

American photographer (born 1935)

Soviet-Russian historian, writer (1930—1989)

Soviet general and politician (1921–1989)

editor

Russian mathematician (1907–1999)

Soviet dissident

Soviet writer, poet and screenwriter (1899-1973)

Soviet partisan

Soviet philatelist (1918–1982)