HONOR

Name	Occupation	Birth	Death	Known for
Nikolay G. Basov	Physicist	14-Dec-1922	1-Jul-2001	Invention of the maser and laser
Leonid Brezhnev	Head of State	19-Dec-1906	10-Nov-1982	Leader of the Soviet Union 1964-82
Pavel A. Cherenkov	Physicist	15-Jul-1904	6-Jan-1990	Cherenkov radiation
Pyotr Kapitsa	Physicist	8-Jul-1894	8-Apr-1984	Discovered superfluidity
Nikita Khrushchev	Head of State	5-Apr-1894	11-Sep-1971	Deposed leader of the Soviet Union
Nikolai Podgorny	Head of State	18-Feb-1903	11-Jan-1983	President of the USSR 1965-77
Andrei Sakharov	Physicist	21-May-1921	14-Dec-1989	Developed the Soviet hydrogen bomb
Mikhail Sholokhov	Author	24-May-1905	21-Feb-1984	The Silent Don
Stalin	Head of State	18-Dec-1878	5-Mar-1953	Brutal dictator, Soviet Union
Igor Y. Tamm	Physicist	8-Jul-1895	12-Apr-1971	Cherenkov radiation
Lev Yashin	Soccer	22-Oct-1929	20-Mar-1990	Soviet soccer star

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