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People of the Revolution and the USSR

Activity(set)

Any Political and party leadership 628 Government and administration 304 Legislature and state representation 70 Monarchs and royalty 24 Military command 520 Security, intelligence and policing 232 Diplomacy and international organization 163 Economy, finance and planning 147 Industry and production 110 Agriculture and land policy 36 Ideology and propaganda 103 Social movements and organizing 374 Scholarship and theory 278 Education 17 Science and technology 146 Literature and arts 141 Religion 20 Law and justice 55

Affiliation

Most people

Any Soviet Unionstate 125 Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks 56 United Russia 3 Estonia state institutionsstate 1 Netherlands state institutionsstate 1 Ukrainian State (Hetmanate)state 1 Communist Party of China 1 Mensheviks (RSDLP) 1

All 10 affiliations

China

Communist Party of China 1

East Germany

East Germanystate 1

Estonia

Estonia state institutionsstate 1

Germany

Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD) 1

Netherlands

Netherlands state institutionsstate 1

Russia

Mensheviks (RSDLP) 1 United Russia 3

Soviet Union

Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks 56 Soviet Unionstate 125

Ukraine

Ukrainian State (Hetmanate)state 1

Position

Any Imperial establishment and White movement 1 Left critics of Bolshevism 2 Socialist-bloc reform leader 2 Dissident 3 Western Marxist theorists 1 Marxism and communism 126

Citizenship

Any Soviet Union 133 Russia 4 United States 3 China 1 East Germany 1 Estonia 1 Germany 1 Netherlands 1 United Kingdom 1

Background

Any Russia 108 Ukraine 10 Germany 4 Armenia 3 Poland 3 United States 3 Azerbaijan 2 Belarus 2 Georgia 2 Latvia 2 China 1 Czechia 1 Estonia 1 Finland 1 Lithuania 1 Netherlands 1 United Kingdom 1

Era

Any

People of the Soviet Union

The old regime and its challengers1905–1917 3 The revolutionary generation1917–1940 7 People of the Stalin era1929–1953 40 People of the thaw and the stagnation1953–1985 74 The last generation1985–1991 14

People of the Chinese revolution and the People’s Republic

The reform generation1976–현재 1

People of the wider world

The revolutionary wave and the world war1917–1945 5 The Cold War and decolonization1945–현재 1 Scholars of this history1892–현재 1

Science and technology

146 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
Ivan Petrovich Pavlov Иван Петрович Павлов Nobel Prize-winning physiologist who discovered the conditioned reflex and wrote to Stalin he was 'ashamed to be called a Russian' Science and technology 1849–1936
Vladimir Mikhailovich Bekhterev Владимир Михайлович Бехтерев The brain pioneer who diagnosed Stalin Science and technology 1857–1927
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
Vernon Kellogg Vernon Lyman Kellogg An entomologist who carried scientific expertise into international relief Science and technology 1867–1937
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
Anton Pannekoek Anton Pannekoek The astrophysicist who mapped the Milky Way, and the council communist Lenin attacked in 'Left-Wing Communism' Science and technology · Netherlands state institutions 1873–1960
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
Pyotr Ioakimovich Palchinsky Пётр Иоакимович Пальчинский The Provisional Government's last technocrat who directed the defense of the Winter Palace Science and technology 1875–1929
Ivan Gavrilovich Alexandrov Иван Гаврилович Александров A technical planner who linked electrification to regional development Science and technology 1875–1936
Boris Mikhailovich Eltsin Борис Михайлович Эльцин A physician of the Left Opposition who shares a name with the first president of Russia Science and technology · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks 1876–1937
Nikolai Nilovich Burdenko Николай Нилович Бурденко Founder of Soviet neurosurgery and Chief Surgeon of the Red Army Science and technology · Soviet Union 1876–1946
Henry Beeuwkes Henry Beeuwkes The physician who organized medical relief amid famine Science and technology 1880–1959
Abram Fyodorovich Ioffe Абрам Фёдорович Иоффе The 'Papa Ioffe' who reared all of Soviet physics Science and technology · Soviet Union 1880–1960
Ivan Pavlovich Bardin Иван Павлович Бардин Father of Soviet ferrous metallurgy who built Kuznetsk Science and technology 1883–1960
Frederick Lindemann Frederick Lindemann The physicist who pushed wartime science into grand strategy Science and technology 1886–1957
Friedrich Arturovich Zander Фридрих Артурович Цандер Mars-dreaming GIRD co-founder and designer of the Soviet Union's first liquid-fueled rocket Science and technology 1887–1933
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
Yakov Gilyarievich Etinger Яков Гиляриевич Этингер Kremlin cardiologist who became the first victim of Stalin's Doctors' Plot Science and technology 1887–1951
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
Alexander Romanovich Luria Александр Романович Лурия Founder of neuropsychology, practitioner of 'romantic science' who bridged Vygotsky's theory with clinical neuroscience Science and technology 1902–1977
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

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