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Order of Lenin

HONOR

Established 6 April 1930 by the Soviet Union.

NameOccupationBirthDeathKnown for
Zhores I. Alferov
Scientist
15-Mar-1930   Developed solar cells for the Sputnik program
Nikolay G. Basov
Physicist
14-Dec-1922 1-Jul-2001 Invention of the maser and laser
Lavrenty Beria
Government
29-Mar-1899 23-Dec-1953 Chief of the NKVD, 1940-46
Leonid Brezhnev
Head of State
19-Dec-1906 10-Nov-1982 Leader of the Soviet Union, 1964-82
Fidel Castro
Head of State
13-Aug-1926   Dictator of Cuba for almost fifty years
Nikolai Cherkasov
Actor
27-Jul-1903 14-Sep-1966 Aleksandr Nevsky
Sergei Eisenstein
Film Director
23-Jan-1898 11-Feb-1948 Alexander Nevsky
Yuri Gagarin
Astronaut
9-Mar-1934 27-Mar-1968 First person to orbit earth
Maxim Gorky
Playwright
28-Mar-1868 17-Jun-1936 The Lower Depths
Mikhail Timofeyevich Kalashnikov
Inventor
10-Nov-1919   Inventor of Kalashnikov rifle
Leonid Vitalyevich Kantorovich
Mathematician
19-Jan-1912 7-Apr-1986 Linear programming
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
Vladimir Komarov
Astronaut
16-Mar-1927 24-Apr-1967 Pilot of Soyuz 1 plunged to his death
Nikolai Krylenko
Government
2-May-1885 29-Jul-1938 Soviet prosecutor executed during the Great Purge
Sergei V. Mikhalkov
Songwriter
13-Mar-1913 27-Aug-2009 Lyricist, Russian National Anthem
Anastas Mikoyan
Politician
25-Nov-1895 21-Oct-1978 Knew where the shrimps stay in winter
Kim Philby
Spy
1-Jan-1912 11-May-1988 One of the Cambridge Five in MI6
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
Willi Stoph
Head of State
9-Jul-1914 13-Apr-1999 East German leader, 1973-76
Lev Yashin
Soccer
22-Oct-1929 20-Mar-1990 Soviet soccer star
Georgi Zhukov
Military
1-Dec-1896 18-Jun-1974 Soviet commander during WWII


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