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People of the Revolution and the USSR

Activity(set)

Any Political and party leadership 106 Government and administration 20 Legislature and state representation 5 Military command 177 Security, intelligence and policing 102 Diplomacy and international organization 42 Economy, finance and planning 93 Industry and production 81 Agriculture and land policy 16 Ideology and propaganda 52 Social movements and organizing 149 Scholarship and theory 55 Education 8 Science and technology 104 Literature and arts 64 Religion 1 Law and justice 23

Affiliation

Most people

Any Soviet Unionstate 92 Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks 37 United Russia 3 Ukrainian State (Hetmanate)state 1 Mensheviks (RSDLP) 1

All 5 affiliations

Russia

Mensheviks (RSDLP) 1 United Russia 3

Soviet Union

Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks 37 Soviet Unionstate 92

Ukraine

Ukrainian State (Hetmanate)state 1

Position

Any Imperial establishment and White movement 1 Dissident 1 Marxism and communism 94

Citizenship(set)

Any Soviet Union 104 Russia 4

Background(set)

Any Russia 104 Ukraine 10 Armenia 3 Poland 3 Azerbaijan 2 Belarus 2 Georgia 2 Germany 2 Latvia 2 Czechia 1 Finland 1 Lithuania 1

Era

Any

People of the Soviet Union

The old regime and its challengers1905–1917 3 The revolutionary generation1917–1940 6 People of the Stalin era1929–1953 30 People of the thaw and the stagnation1953–1985 56 The last generation1985–1991 9

Science and technology Citizenship: Soviet Union Background: Russia Clear all

104 people

By birth A–Z List Cards

Alexander Petrovich Karpinsky Александр Петрович Карпинский First elected Academy president who steered science through the Revolution Science and technology · Soviet Union 1847–1936
Ivan Petrovich Pavlov Иван Петрович Павлов Nobel Prize-winning physiologist who discovered the conditioned reflex and wrote to Stalin he was 'ashamed to be called a Russian' Science and technology 1849–1936
Vladimir Mikhailovich Bekhterev Владимир Михайлович Бехтерев The brain pioneer who diagnosed Stalin Science and technology 1857–1927
Alexei Nikolayevich Krylov Алексей Николаевич Крылов Father of Soviet shipbuilding science who translated Newton's Principia into Russian Science and technology · Soviet Union 1863–1945
Vladimir Ivanovich Vernadsky Владимир Иванович Вернадский Founder of biogeochemistry who reconceived the Earth through the biosphere and noosphere Science and technology · Soviet Union 1863–1945
Vladimir Leontyevich Komarov Владимир Леонтьевич Комаров The botanist who led the Soviet Academy of Sciences through the Stalin years Science and technology · Soviet Union 1869–1945
Nikolai Aleksandrovich Semashko Николай Александрович Семашко Founder of Soviet public health who designed free universal healthcare (the 'Semashko model') Science and technology · Soviet Union 1874–1949
Pyotr Ioakimovich Palchinsky Пётр Иоакимович Пальчинский The Provisional Government's last technocrat who directed the defense of the Winter Palace Science and technology 1875–1929
Ivan Gavrilovich Alexandrov Иван Гаврилович Александров A technical planner who linked electrification to regional development Science and technology 1875–1936
Nikolai Nilovich Burdenko Николай Нилович Бурденко Founder of Soviet neurosurgery and Chief Surgeon of the Red Army Science and technology · Soviet Union 1876–1946
Abram Fyodorovich Ioffe Абрам Фёдорович Иоффе The 'Papa Ioffe' who reared all of Soviet physics Science and technology · Soviet Union 1880–1960
Ivan Pavlovich Bardin Иван Павлович Бардин Father of Soviet ferrous metallurgy who built Kuznetsk Science and technology 1883–1960
Friedrich Arturovich Zander Фридрих Артурович Цандер Mars-dreaming GIRD co-founder and designer of the Soviet Union's first liquid-fueled rocket Science and technology 1887–1933
Nikolai Ivanovich Vavilov Николай Иванович Вавилов The geneticist who built the world's largest seed bank and stood against Lysenko Science and technology · Soviet Union 1887–1943
Yakov Gilyarievich Etinger Яков Гиляриевич Этингер Kremlin cardiologist who became the first victim of Stalin's Doctors' Plot Science and technology 1887–1951
Vitaly Grigorievich Khlopin Виталий Григорьевич Хлопин The radiochemist who led the Radium Institute and laid the institutional foundations of Soviet nuclear physics Science and technology · Soviet Union 1890–1950
Sergei Ivanovich Vavilov Сергей Иванович Вавилов The physicist-administrator who led the Academy of Sciences through the early atomic age Science and technology · Soviet Union 1891–1951
Viktor Valentinovich Novozhilov Виктор Валентинович Новожилов Co-founder of the Soviet economic-mathematical school who bridged Marx's value theory with mathematical optimization Science and technology · Soviet Union 1892–1970
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 Science and technology · Soviet Union 1893–1936
Vasily Sergeyevich Nemchinov Василий Сергеевич Немчинов The academic organizer who tried to make central planning a mathematical science Science and technology · Soviet Union 1894–1964
Alexander Ivanovich Oparin Александр Иванович Опарин Soviet biochemist who traced life's origin to a primordial soup Science and technology · Soviet Union 1894–1980
Pyotr Leonidovich Kapitsa Пётр Леонидович Капица Nobel laureate who discovered superfluidity and refused to work under Beria Science and technology · Soviet Union 1894–1984
Ivan Dmitriyevich Papanin Иван Дмитриевич Папанин The face of Soviet polar exploration who charted the Arctic from a drifting ice floe Science and technology · Soviet Union 1894–1986
Igor Yevgenyevich Tamm Игорь Евгеньевич Тамм From the H-bomb to the tokamak: theoretical physicist of two nuclear ages Science and technology · Soviet Union 1895–1971
Nikolay Nikolayevich Semyonov Николай Николаевич Семёнов The only Soviet Nobel laureate in Chemistry, founder of chain reaction theory Science and technology · Soviet Union 1896–1986
Lydia Feodosyevna Timashuk Лидия Феодосьевна Тимашук The Kremlin cardiologist whose letter about Zhdanov's ECG became the seed of the Doctors' Plot Science and technology · Soviet Union 1898–1983
Ivan Terentyevich Kleymenov Иван Терентьевич Клеймёнов The organiser who turned rocket research into a state institution Science and technology · Soviet Union 1899–1938
Aleksandr Nikolayevich Nesmeyanov Александр Николаевич Несмеянов Academy president who founded organoelement chemistry Science and technology · Soviet Union 1899–1980
Mikhail Klavdievich Tikhonravov Михаил Клавдиевич Тихонравов The theoretical pioneer who opened the path to space with packet rockets Science and technology · Soviet Union 1900–1974
Mikhail Alekseyevich Lavrentiev Михаил Алексеевич Лаврентьев Mathematician who built Akademgorodok and pioneered explosive applications Science and technology · Soviet Union 1900–1980
Vasily Sergeyevich Yemelyanov Василий Сергеевич Емельянов Nuclear administrator who spanned wartime tank armor to peaceful atomic diplomacy Science and technology · Soviet Union 1901–1988
Sergei Alekseyevich Lebedev Сергей Алексеевич Лебедев Creator of the MESM and BESM, founder of Soviet computing Science and technology · Soviet Union 1902–1974
Alexander Romanovich Luria Александр Романович Лурия Founder of neuropsychology, practitioner of 'romantic science' who bridged Vygotsky's theory with clinical neuroscience Science and technology 1902–1977
Igor Vasilyevich Kurchatov Игорь Васильевич Курчатов Scientific head of the Soviet atomic bomb Science and technology · Soviet Union 1903–1960
Semyon Ariyevich Kosberg Семён Ариевич Косберг The OKB-154 Chief Designer whose third-stage engines pushed Luna and Gagarin into space Science and technology · Soviet Union 1903–1965
Andrey Nikolayevich Kolmogorov Андрей Николаевич Колмогоров The mathematician who axiomatized modern probability theory Science and technology · Soviet Union 1903–1987
Anatoly Petrovich Alexandrov Анатолий Петрович Александров Physicist who pioneered the Soviet nuclear navy and nuclear power, brought down by Chernobyl Science and technology · Soviet Union 1903–1994
Zinaida Vasilyevna Yershova Зинаида Васильевна Ершова A radiochemist who helped build the Soviet atomic project Science and technology · Soviet Union 1903–1995
Vasily Alekseevich Makhnev Василий Алексеевич Махнёв An organiser of the secret atomic administration Science and technology · Soviet Union 1904–1965
Stepan Afanasyevich Balezin Степан Афанасьевич Балезин Kaftanov's senior assistant who did the day-to-day organizational work that launched the Soviet atomic project Science and technology · Soviet Union 1904–1982
Pavel Alekseyevich Cherenkov Павел Алексеевич Черенков The Soviet Nobel physicist who discovered the Cherenkov effect Science and technology · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks 1904–1990
Yulii Borisovich Khariton Юлий Борисович Харитон Chief designer who led the Soviet nuclear weapons design bureau for 46 years Science and technology · Soviet Union 1904–1996
Fyodor Grigorievich Uglov Фёдор Григорьевич Углов The oldest practicing surgeon in history and the key propagandist of Gorbachev's anti-alcohol campaign Science and technology · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks 1904–2008
Sergei Vasilyevich Kaftanov Сергей Васильевич Кафтанов The GKO science plenipotentiary who pressed Stalin to restart atomic bomb research Science and technology · Soviet Union 1905–1978
Leonid Mikhailovich Nemenov Леонид Михайлович Неменов The physicist who built an atomic accelerator amid wartime siege Science and technology · Soviet Union 1905–1980
Lev Ilyich Rusinov Лев Ильич Русинов An experimental physicist who explored fission and nuclear isomerism Science and technology · Soviet Union 1907–1960
Vyacheslav Petrovich Yelyutin Вячеслав Петрович Елютин Longest-serving Soviet minister, shaped higher education for 31 years Education · Soviet Union 1907–1993
Aleksei Mikhailovich Isaev Алексей Михайлович Исаев The engine designer who powered Soviet spacecraft: inventor of the closed-cycle rocket engine Science and technology · Soviet Union 1908–1971
Nikolai Alekseyevich Pilyugin Николай Алексеевич Пилюгин From Sputnik to Buran: the Chief Designer who built the brains of the Soviet space age Science and technology · Soviet Union 1908–1982
Nikolai Petrovich Kamanin Николай Петрович Каманин From Chelyuskin ice to Gagarin's flight: the general who built the cosmonaut corps Science and technology · Soviet Union 1908–1982

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