People of the Revolution and the USSR
Science and technology
Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks
The last generation 1985–1991
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GlossarySoviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks
- Fyodor Grigorievich Uglov Фёдор Григорьевич Углов The oldest practicing surgeon in history and the key propagandist of Gorbachev's anti-alcohol campaign
- Gury Ivanovich Marchuk Гурий Иванович Марчук Last President of the USSR Academy of Sciences and pioneer of computational mathematics in Siberia
- Yevgeny Ivanovich Chazov Евгений Иванович Чазов The father of Soviet cardiology who ran Kremlin medicine for 20 years
- 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
- Viktor Petrovich Bryukhanov Виктор Петрович Брюханов The first director of Chernobyl who built the plant and was held responsible for its catastrophe
- Evgeny Pavlovich Velikhov Евгений Павлович Велихов Soviet physicist who linked fusion science, Chernobyl, and nuclear disarmament
- Nikolai Maximovich Fomin Николай Максимович Фомин The chief engineer who refused to believe the reactor was destroyed and kept pumping water into its ruins