People of the Revolution and the USSR
- Nikolai Aleksandrovich Semashko Николай Александрович Семашко Founder of Soviet public health who designed free universal healthcare (the 'Semashko model')
- Nikolai Nilovich Burdenko Николай Нилович Бурденко Founder of Soviet neurosurgery and Chief Surgeon of the Red Army
- Abram Fyodorovich Ioffe Абрам Фёдорович Иоффе The 'Papa Ioffe' who reared all of Soviet physics
- Otto Yulyevich Schmidt Отто Юльевич Шмидт Mathematician who mastered the Arctic through science and built Glavsevmorput
- Boris Mikhailovich Hessen Борис Михайлович Гессен The Marxist historian of science who revealed the socio-economic roots of Newton's mechanics; first dean of MSU physics
- Aksel Ivanovich Berg Аксель Иванович Берг Admiral-engineer who built Soviet radar and revived cybernetics
- Ivan Dmitriyevich Papanin Иван Дмитриевич Папанин The face of Soviet polar exploration who charted the Arctic from a drifting ice floe
- Nikolay Nikolayevich Semyonov Николай Николаевич Семёнов The only Soviet Nobel laureate in Chemistry, founder of chain reaction theory
- Aleksandr Nikolayevich Nesmeyanov Александр Николаевич Несмеянов Academy president who founded organoelement chemistry
- Mikhail Alekseyevich Lavrentiev Михаил Алексеевич Лаврентьев Mathematician who built Akademgorodok and pioneered explosive applications
- Sergei Alekseyevich Lebedev Сергей Алексеевич Лебедев Creator of the MESM and BESM, founder of Soviet computing
- Igor Vasilyevich Kurchatov Игорь Васильевич Курчатов Scientific head of the Soviet atomic bomb
- Anatoly Petrovich Alexandrov Анатолий Петрович Александров Physicist who pioneered the Soviet nuclear navy and nuclear power, brought down by Chernobyl
- Yulii Borisovich Khariton Юлий Борисович Харитон Chief designer who led the Soviet nuclear weapons design bureau for 46 years
- Fyodor Grigorievich Uglov Фёдор Григорьевич Углов The oldest practicing surgeon in history and the key propagandist of Gorbachev's anti-alcohol campaign
- Sergei Vasilyevich Kaftanov Сергей Васильевич Кафтанов The GKO science plenipotentiary who pressed Stalin to restart atomic bomb research
- Jānis Voldemarovich Peive Ян Вольдемарович Пейве From trace elements to federal politics: a Latvian agrochemist who chaired the Soviet of Nationalities
- Andranik Melkonovich Petrosyants Андраник Мелконович Петросьянц Civilian face of the nuclear program who chaired the State Atomic Energy Committee for 24 years
- Sergei Pavlovich Korolev Сергей Павлович Королёв From the Gulag to space. The designer whose name was a state secret
- Nikolai Petrovich Kamanin Николай Петрович Каманин From Chelyuskin ice to Gagarin's flight: the general who built the cosmonaut corps
- Arkhip Mikhailovich Lyulka Архип Михайлович Люлька The designer who opened the Soviet jet age without copying a single German engine
- Isaak Konstantinovich Kikoin Исаак Константинович Кикоин Scientific director of uranium isotope separation for the Soviet atomic bomb
- Valentin Petrovich Glushko Валентин Петрович Глушко Founder of Soviet liquid rocketry: his engines carried Sputnik, Gagarin, and Buran
- Boris Vasilyevich Petrovsky Борис Васильевич Петровский Cardiovascular pioneer who ran Soviet healthcare for 15 years under Brezhnev
- Vladimir Aleksandrovich Kotelnikov Владимир Александрович Котельников The scientist–head of state who discovered the sampling theorem and led the first radar probe of Venus
- Mikhail Sergeyevich Ryazansky Михаил Сергеевич Рязанский The 'radio man' of Soviet rocketry: Chief Designer of guidance and telemetry for every Soviet rocket and spacecraft
- Sergei Vladimirovich Kurashov Сергей Владимирович Курашов Khrushchev-era health minister who presided over the World Health Assembly
- Vasily Stepanovich Fursov Василий Степанович Фурсов A physicist who linked reactor theory to scientific education
- Kirill Ivanovich Shchelkin Кирилл Иванович Щёлкин The physicist who personally armed the first Soviet atomic bomb and built the second nuclear weapons center as its first scientific director
- Mikhail Kuzmich Yangel Михаил Кузьмич Янгель Designer whose storable-propellant rockets became the backbone of the Strategic Rocket Forces
- Mstislav Vsevolodovich Keldysh Мстислав Всеволодович Келдыш Academy president who coordinated space science
- Nikolai D. Dmitriyevich Kuznetsov Николай Дмитриевич Кузнецов From the NK-12 to the NK-33: the chief engine designer who powered Soviet skies and space
- Georgy Nikolayevich Flyorov Георгий Николаевич Флёров One letter that woke Stalin, one element that bears his name
- Vladimir Alekseyevich Kirillin Владимир Алексеевич Кириллин Architect of Soviet civilian R&D policy in the age of the scientific-technical revolution
- Vladimir Nikolayevich Chelomey Владимир Николаевич Челомей The missile designer who overtook Korolev under Khrushchev's patronage, then faded when his patron fell
- Aleksandr Davidovich Nadiradze Александр Давидович Надирадзе The Georgian-born secret father of the Soviet mobile ICBM force
- Boris Viktorovich Rauschenbach Борис Викторович Раушенбах From labor camp to Vostok: pioneer of spaceflight control and guidance
- Grigory Vasilyevich Kisunko Григорий Васильевич Кисунько Soviet military scientist who designed the world's first operational anti-ballistic missile defense system
- Boris Yevgenyevich Paton Борис Евгеньевич Патон Father of electroslag welding who led Ukraine's Academy of Sciences for 58 years
- Viktor Mikhailovich Glushkov Виктор Михайлович Глушков Father of Soviet cybernetics whose OGAS network envisioned real-time socialist planning decades before the internet
- Vladimir Fyodorovich Utkin Владимир Фёдорович Уткин Father of the SS-18 'Satan' and architect of the late Cold War nuclear balance
- Viktor Petrovich Makeyev Виктор Петрович Макеев Founder of Soviet naval strategic rocketry, the man the CIA called 'the Ural Dragon'
- Gury Ivanovich Marchuk Гурий Иванович Марчук Last President of the USSR Academy of Sciences and pioneer of computational mathematics in Siberia
- Vladimir Mikhaylovich Komarov Владимир Михайлович Комаров Voskhod 1 commander and the first human to perish in a spaceflight
- Dzhermen Mikhailovich Gvishiani Джермен Михайлович Гвишиани Philosopher who bridged Soviet planning science and Western systems analysis
- Yevgeny Ivanovich Chazov Евгений Иванович Чазов The father of Soviet cardiology who ran Kremlin medicine for 20 years
- Pavel Romanovich Popovich Павел Романович Попович Cosmonaut No. 4, Vostok 4 pilot of the first simultaneous crewed spaceflight
- Nikolai Pavlovich Laverov Николай Павлович Лавёров The last chairman of Soviet state science policy and a uranium geologist
- Zhores Ivanovich Alferov Жорес Иванович Алфёров Communist physicist whose semiconductor heterostructures opened the IT era
- Yuri Alexeyevich Gagarin Юрий Алексеевич Гагарин The first human smile to leave the Earth