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Ivan Vladimirovich Michurin Иван Владимирович Мичурин Self-taught plant breeder whose name was hijacked by Lysenko Scholarship and theory 1855–1935
Konstantin Eduardovich Tsiolkovsky Константин Эдуардович Циолковский From a deaf provincial teacher to the father of cosmonautics. The self-taught visionary whose rocket equation opened the space age Scholarship and theory 1857–1935
David Borisovich Riazanov Давид Борисович Рязанов Founder of the Marx-Engels Institute and independent Marxist who never stopped disagreeing Scholarship and theory · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks 1870–1938
Yuri Mikhailovich Steklov Юрий Михайлович Стеклов First Soviet editor of Izvestia, architect of the Soviet constitution Scholarship and theory · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks 1873–1941
Vladimir Ivanovich Nevsky Владимир Иванович Невский The revolutionary-historian who seized the railways in October and wrote the party's history Scholarship and theory · Soviet Union state institutions 1876–1937
Platon Mikhailovich Kerzhentsev Платон Михайлович Керженцев Proletkult theorist who became architect of Stalin-era arts censorship Scholarship and theory · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks 1881–1940
Pavel Alexandrovich Florensky Павел Александрович Флоренский Russian Orthodox priest-theologian who worked on Soviet electrification while wearing his cassock Religion · Russian Orthodox Church 1882–1937
Aleksei Kapitonovich Gastev Алексей Капитонович Гастев From proletarian poetry to the science of labour: founder of Soviet social engineering who trained half a million workers Scholarship and theory · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks 1882–1939
Nikolai Nikolaevich Sukhanov Николай Николаевич Суханов Author of 'Notes on the Revolution' and agrarian economist in whose apartment the Bolshevik CC voted for armed uprising Scholarship and theory · Mensheviks (RSDLP) 1882–1940
Nikolai Kakurin Николай Какурин Red Army commander who was chief of staff of the Tambov suppression and became a historian of the Civil War Military command · Soviet Union state institutions 1883–1936
Yevgeni Alexeyevich Preobrazhensky Евгений Алексеевич Преображенский The theorist of primitive socialist accumulation Scholarship and theory · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks 1886–1937