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People of the Revolution and the USSR

Activity(set)

Any Political and party leadership 16 Government and administration 39 Legislature and state representation 15 Military command 215 Security, intelligence and policing 168 Diplomacy and international organization 54 Economy, finance and planning 103 Industry and production 101 Agriculture and land policy 22 Ideology and propaganda 59 Social movements and organizing 5 Scholarship and theory 6 Education 9 Science and technology 123 Literature and arts 12 Law and justice 27

Affiliation(set)

Soviet institution line

Any Science, nuclear and space development 118

Most people

Any Soviet Unionstate 123 Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks 55 United Russia 2 Ukrainian State (Hetmanate)state 1 Mensheviks (RSDLP) 1

All 5 affiliations

Russia

Mensheviks (RSDLP) 1 United Russia 2

Soviet Union

Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks 55 Soviet Unionstate 123

Ukraine

Ukrainian State (Hetmanate)state 1

Position(set)

Any Socialist-bloc reform leader 1 Dissident 1 Marxism and communism 123

Citizenship

Any Soviet Union 118 Russia 3 Germany 1 United States 1

Background

Any Russia 94 Ukraine 8 Armenia 3 Germany 3 Poland 3 Azerbaijan 2 Belarus 2 Georgia 2 Latvia 2 Czechia 1 Finland 1 Lithuania 1 United States 1

Era

Any

People of the Soviet Union

The old regime and its challengers1905–1917 1 The revolutionary generation1917–1940 4 People of the Stalin era1929–1953 36 People of the thaw and the stagnation1953–1985 69 The last generation1985–1991 12

People of the wider world

The revolutionary wave and the world war1917–1945 1

Science and technology Soviet Union (state) Marxism and communism Clear all

123 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
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
Hugh Lincoln Cooper Hugh Lincoln Cooper The American colonel who brought General Electric turbines and dam-building expertise to the Soviet Union's showcase construction site Science and technology · Soviet Union 1865–1937
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
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
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
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
Otto Yulyevich Schmidt Отто Юльевич Шмидт Mathematician who mastered the Arctic through science and built Glavsevmorput Science and technology · Soviet Union 1891–1956
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
Aksel Ivanovich Berg Аксель Иванович Берг Admiral-engineer who built Soviet radar and revived cybernetics Science and technology · Soviet Union 1893–1979
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
Trofim Denisovich Lysenko Трофим Денисович Лысенко The agronomist whose Michurinist agrobiology dominated Soviet biology for three decades Science and technology · Soviet Union 1898–1976
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
Nikolai Antonovich Dollezhal Николай Антонович Доллежаль Chief designer of Soviet nuclear reactors Science and technology · Soviet Union 1899–2000
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
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
Abram Isaakovich Alikhanov Абрам Исаакович Алиханов From heavy-water reactors to the world's largest accelerator: 23-year director of ITEP Science and technology · Soviet Union 1904–1970
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
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
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
Jānis Voldemarovich Peive Ян Вольдемарович Пейве From trace elements to federal politics: a Latvian agrochemist who chaired the Soviet of Nationalities Science and technology · Soviet Union 1906–1976
Andranik Melkonovich Petrosyants Андраник Мелконович Петросьянц Civilian face of the nuclear program who chaired the State Atomic Energy Committee for 24 years Science and technology · Soviet Union 1906–2005
Lev Ilyich Rusinov Лев Ильич Русинов An experimental physicist who explored fission and nuclear isomerism Science and technology · Soviet Union 1907–1960
Sergei Pavlovich Korolev Сергей Павлович Королёв From the Gulag to space. The designer whose name was a state secret Science and technology · Soviet Union 1907–1966
Konstantin Antonovich Petrzhak Константин Антонович Петржак Co-discoverer of spontaneous fission, a pillar of the Soviet atomic project Science and technology · Soviet Union 1907–1998
Lev Davidovich Landau Лев Давидович Ландау Soviet theoretical physics titan who founded the 'Landau school' and pioneered quantum fluid dynamics Science and technology · Soviet Union 1908–1968
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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