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
Mikhail Timofeyevich Kalashnikov	Inventor	10-Nov-1919		Inventor of Kalashnikov rifle
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
Sergei V. Mikhalkov	Songwriter	13-Mar-1913	27-Aug-2009	Lyricist, Russian National Anthem
Nikolai Podgorny	Head of State	18-Feb-1903	11-Jan-1983	President of the USSR, 1965-77
Aleksandr M. Prokhorov	Physicist	11-Jul-1916	8-Jan-2002	Invention of the maser and laser
Andrei Sakharov	Physicist	21-May-1921	14-Dec-1989	Developed the Soviet hydrogen bomb
Nikolay Semyonov	Chemist	15-Apr-1896	25-Sep-1986	Combustion, explosions, and chemical kinetics
Mikhail Sholokhov	Author	24-May-1905	21-Feb-1984	The Silent Don
Josef 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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