People of the Revolution and the USSR
Soviet Union (state)
Science, nuclear and space development
The revolutionary generation 1917–1940
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- Alexander Petrovich Karpinsky Александр Петрович Карпинский First elected Academy president who steered science through the Revolution
- Ivan Terentyevich Kleymenov Иван Терентьевич Клеймёнов The organiser who turned rocket research into a state institution
- Lev Ilyich Rusinov Лев Ильич Русинов An experimental physicist who explored fission and nuclear isomerism