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GlossarySoviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks
- 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
- 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
- Igor Vasilyevich Kurchatov Игорь Васильевич Курчатов Scientific head of the Soviet atomic bomb
- Yulii Borisovich Khariton Юлий Борисович Харитон Chief designer who led the Soviet nuclear weapons design bureau for 46 years
- Sergei Vasilyevich Kaftanov Сергей Васильевич Кафтанов The GKO science plenipotentiary who pressed Stalin to restart atomic bomb research
- Isaak Konstantinovich Kikoin Исаак Константинович Кикоин Scientific director of uranium isotope separation for the Soviet atomic bomb
- 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
- Georgy Nikolayevich Flyorov Георгий Николаевич Флёров One letter that woke Stalin, one element that bears his name