Frequent persons on Russia's street signs

Vladimir Lenin

2495 Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov, better known as Vladimir Lenin, was a Russian revolutionary, Soviet politician, and political theorist who was the founder and first leader of the Russian Soviet Federative...

Yuri Gagarin

1278 Yuri Alekseyevich Gagarin was a Soviet pilot and cosmonaut who, aboard the first successful crewed spaceflight, became the first human to journey into outer space. Travelling on Vostok 1, Gagarin...

Sergei Kirov

1045 Sergei Mironovich Kirov was a Russian and Soviet politician and Bolshevik revolutionary.           

Alexander Pushkin

923 Alexander Sergeyevich Pushkin was a Russian poet, playwright, and novelist of the Romantic era. He is considered by many to be the greatest Russian poet, as well as the founder of modern Russian...

Maxim Gorky

914 Alexei Maximovich Peshkov, popularly known as Maxim Gorky, was a Russian and Soviet writer and socialism proponent. He was nominated five times for the Nobel Prize in Literature. Before his success...

Mikhail Kalinin

879 Mikhail Ivanovich Kalinin was a Soviet politician and Russian Old Bolshevik revolutionary. He served as head of state of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic and later of the Soviet Union...

Vasily Chapayev

707 Vasily Ivanovich Chapayev or Chapaev was a Russian soldier and Red Army commander during the Russian Civil War.

Karl Marx

671 Karl Marx was a German-born philosopher, economist, political theorist, historian, sociologist, journalist, and revolutionary socialist. His best-known works are the 1848 pamphlet The Communist...

Mikhail Lermontov

525 Mikhail Yuryevich Lermontov was a Russian Romantic writer, poet and painter, sometimes called "the poet of the Caucasus", the most important Russian poet after Alexander Pushkin's death in 1837 and...

Felix Dzerzhinsky

517 Felix Edmundovich Dzerzhinsky, nicknamed "Iron Felix", was a Bolshevik revolutionary and politician. From 1917 until his death in 1926, he led the first two Soviet secret police organizations, the...

Valery Chkalov

508 Valery Pavlovich Chkalov was a test pilot awarded the title Hero of the Soviet Union (1936).       

Yakov Sverdlov

490 Yakov Mikhailovich Sverdlov was a Bolshevik Party administrator and chairman of the All-Russian Central Executive Committee from 1917 to 1919. He is sometimes regarded as the first head of state of...

Ivan Michurin (biologist)

483 Ivan Vladimirovich Michurin was a Russian practitioner of selection to produce new types of crop plants, Honorable Member of the Soviet Academy of Sciences, and academician of the Lenin All-Union...

Vladimir Mayakovsky

478 Vladimir Vladimirovich Mayakovsky was a Russian and Soviet poet, playwright, artist, and actor.     

Nikolay Nekrasov

471 Nikolay Alexeyevich Nekrasov was a Russian poet, writer, critic and publisher, whose deeply compassionate poems about the Russian peasantry made him a hero of liberal and radical circles in the...

Nikolai Gogol

456 Nikolai Vasilyevich Gogol was a Russian novelist, short story writer, and playwright of Ukrainian origin.

Mikhail Frunze

451 Mikhail Vasilyevich Frunze was a Soviet revolutionary, politician, army officer and military theorist. Born to a Bessarabian father and a Russian mother in Russian Turkestan, Frunze attended the...

Anton Chekhov

416 Anton Pavlovich Chekhov was a Russian playwright and physician. His career as a playwright produced four classics, and his best short stories are held in high esteem by writers and critics. Along...

Nikolai Podgorny

406 Nikolai Viktorovich Podgorny was a Soviet statesman who served as the Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet, the head of state of the Soviet Union, from 1965 to 1977.

Valerian Kuybyshev

402 Valerian Vladimirovich Kuybyshev was a Russian revolutionary, Red Army officer, and prominent Soviet politician.

Alexander Ostrovsky

384 Alexander Nikolayevich Ostrovsky was a Russian playwright, generally considered the greatest representative of the Russian realistic period. The author of 47 original plays, Ostrovsky "almost...

Leo Tolstoy

374 Count Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy, usually referred to in English as Leo Tolstoy, was a Russian writer. He is regarded as one of the greatest and most influential authors of all time. He received...

Alexander Matrosov

374 Alexander Matveyevich Matrosov was a Soviet infantry soldier during the Second World War, posthumously awarded the title of the Hero of the Soviet Union reportedly for blocking a German machine-gun...

Alexander Suvorov

358 Count Alexander Vasilyevich Suvorov-Rymniksky, Prince of Italy, was a Russian general and military theorist in the service of the Russian Empire.

Nadezhda Krupskaya

344 Nadezhda Konstantinovna Krupskaya was a Russian revolutionary and the wife of Vladimir Lenin.       

Mikhail Lomonosov

334 Mikhail Vasilyevich Lomonosov was a Russian polymath, scientist and writer, who made important contributions to literature, education, and science. Among his discoveries were the atmosphere of Venus...

Friedrich Engels

312 Friedrich Engels was a German philosopher, political theorist, historian, journalist, and revolutionary socialist. He was also a businessman and Karl Marx's closest friend and collaborator.

Vladimir Komarov

305 Vladimir Mikhaylovich Komarov was a Soviet test pilot, aerospace engineer, and cosmonaut. In October 1964, he commanded Voskhod 1, the first spaceflight to carry more than one crew member. He became...

Taras Shevchenko

285 Taras Hryhorovych Shevchenko was a Ukrainian poet, writer, artist, public and political figure, folklorist and ethnographer. He was a fellow of the Imperial Academy of Arts and a member of the...

Moisei Uritsky

267 Moisei Solomonovich Uritsky was a Bolshevik revolutionary leader in Russia. After the October Revolution, he was the chief of the Cheka secret police of the Petrograd Soviet. Uritsky was assassinated...

V. Volodarsky

254 V. Volodarsky was a Marxist revolutionary and Soviet politician. He was assassinated in 1918.       

Nikolay Chernyshevsky

238 Nikolay Gavrilovich Chernyshevsky was a Russian literary and social critic, journalist, novelist, democrat, and socialist philosopher, often identified as a utopian socialist and leading theoretician...

Anatoly Lunacharsky

233 Anatoly Vasilyevich Lunacharsky was a Russian Marxist revolutionary and the first Bolshevik Soviet People's Commissar (Narkompros) responsible for the Ministry of Education as well as an active...

Sergo Ordzhonikidze

229 Sergo Konstantinovich Ordzhonikidze, born Grigol Konstantines dze Orjonikidze was a Georgian Bolshevik and Soviet politician.

Ivan Turgenev

221 Ivan Sergeyevich Turgenev was a Russian novelist, short story writer, poet, playwright, translator and popularizer of Russian literature in the West.

Alexander Herzen

216 Alexander Ivanovich Herzen was a Russian writer and thinker known as the precursor of Russian socialism and one of the main precursors of agrarian populism. With his writings, many composed while...

Mikhail Kutuzov

216 Prince Mikhail Illarionovich Golenishchev-Kutuzov-Smolensky was a Field Marshal of the Russian Empire. He served as a military officer and a diplomat under the reign of three Romanov monarchs:...

Stenka Razin

209 Stepan Timofeyevich Razin, known as Stenka Razin, was a Don Cossack leader who led a major uprising against the nobility and tsarist bureaucracy in southern Russia in 1670–1671.

Oleg Koshevoy

200 Oleg Vasilyevich Koshevoy was a Soviet partisan and one of the founders of the clandestine organization Young Guard, which fought the Nazi forces in Krasnodon during World War II between 1941 and...

Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

199 Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky was a Russian composer of the Romantic period. He was the first Russian composer whose music would make a lasting impression internationally. Tchaikovsky wrote some of the...

Rosa Luxemburg

197 Rosa Luxemburg was a Polish and naturalised-German revolutionary socialist, orthodox Marxist, and anti-War activist during the First World War. She became a key figure of the revolutionary socialist...

Yemelyan Pugachev

197 Yemelyan Ivanovich Pugachev was an ataman of the Yaik Cossacks and the leader of the Pugachev's Rebellion, a major popular uprising in the Russian Empire during the reign of Catherine the Great.

Mykola Shchors

197 Mykola Oleksandrovych Shchors was a member of the Russian Communist Party and a participant in the Russian Civil War, serving as Red Army commander. In 1918–1919 he fought against the newly...

Georgy Zhukov

192 Georgy Konstantinovich Zhukov was a Marshal of the Soviet Union. He also served as Chief of the General Staff, Minister of Defence, and was a member of the Presidium of the Communist Party. During...

Sergei Yesenin

191 Sergei Alexandrovich Yesenin, sometimes spelled as Esenin, was a Russian lyric poet. He is one of the most popular and well-known Russian poets of the 20th century. One of his narratives was "lyrical...

Sergey Lazo

189 Sergey Georgiyevich Lazo was a Russian nobleman, officer of the Imperial Russian Army, and Bolshevik leader in the October 1917 Revolution in the Russian Far East.

Vissarion Belinsky

188 Vissarion Grigoryevich Belinsky was a Russian literary critic of Westernizing tendency. Belinsky played one of the key roles in the career of poet and publisher Nikolay Nekrasov and his popular...

Kliment Voroshilov

187 Kliment Yefremovich Voroshilov, popularly known as Klim Voroshilov, was a prominent Soviet military officer and politician during the Stalin-era. He was one of the original five Marshals of the...

Zoya Kosmodemyanskaya

176 Zoya Anatolyevna Kosmodemyanskaya was a Soviet partisan. She was executed after acts of sabotage against the invading armies of Nazi Germany; after stories emerged of her defiance towards her...

Aleksey Krylov

168 Aleksey Nikolaevich Krylov was a Russian naval engineer, applied mathematician and memoirist.       

Karl Liebknecht

166 Karl Paul August Friedrich Liebknecht was a German socialist and anti-militarist. A member of the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD) beginning in 1900, he was one of its deputies in the...

Polina Osipenko

160 Polina Denisovna Osipenko was a Soviet military pilot who, with Valentina Grizodubova and Marina Raskova on 24–25 September 1938, performed a nonstop flight between Moscow and the Sea of Okhotsk,...

Pavlik Morozov

154 Pavel Trofimovich Morozov, better known by the diminutive Pavlik, was a Soviet youth praised by the Soviet press as a martyr. Evidence has emerged since the dissolution of the Soviet Union of the...

Valentina Tereshkova

153 Valentina Vladimirovna Tereshkova is a Russian engineer, member of the State Duma, and former Soviet cosmonaut. She was the first woman in space, having flown a solo mission on Vostok 6 on 16 June...

Arkady Gaidar

149 Arkady Petrovich Gaidar was a Russian Soviet writer, whose stories were very popular among Soviet children, and a Red Army commander.

Vasily Zhukovsky

138 Vasily Andreyevich Zhukovsky was the foremost Russian poet of the 1810s and a leading figure in Russian literature in the first half of the 19th century. He held a high position at the Romanov court...

Pavel Nakhimov

136 Pavel Stepanovich Nakhimov was a Russian Admiral in the Imperial Russian Navy known for his victory in the Battle of Sinop and his leadership in the Siege of Sevastopol (1854–1855) during the Crimean...

Ivan Pavlov

135 Ivan Petrovich Pavlov was a Russian and Soviet experimental neurologist and physiologist known for his discovery of classical conditioning through his experiments with dogs.

Sergei Korolev

135 Sergei Pavlovich Korolev was the lead Soviet rocket engineer and spacecraft designer during the Space Race between the United States and the Soviet Union in the 1950s and 1960s. He invented the R-7...

Aleksandr Popov (physicist)

129 Alexander Stepanovich Popov was a Russian physicist who was one of the first people to invent a radio receiving device.

Dmitri Mendeleev

117 Dmitri Ivanovich Mendeleev was a Russian chemist and inventor. He is best known for formulating the Periodic Law and creating a version of the periodic table of elements. He used the Periodic Law not...

Demyan Bedny

106 Yefim Alekseevich Pridvorov, better known by the pen name Demyan Bedny, was a Soviet Russian poet, Bolshevik propagandist and satirist.

Bohdan Khmelnytsky

103 Bohdan Zynoviy Mykhailovych Khmelnytsky was a Ruthenian nobleman and military commander of Ukrainian Cossacks as Hetman of the Zaporozhian Host, which was then under the suzerainty of the...

Nikolay Pirogov

102 Nikolay Ivanovich Pirogov was a Russian scientist, medical doctor, pedagogue, public figure, and corresponding member of the Russian Academy of Sciences (1847), one of the most widely recognized...

Fyodor Ushakov

98 Fyodor Fyodorovich Ushakov was a Russian naval commander and admiral. He is won every engagement he participated in as the admiral of the Russian fleet, and is regarded as one of the greatest naval...

Yelizaveta Chaikina

97 Yelizaveta Ivanovna Chaikina often referred to as Liza Chaikina, was the Secretary of the Kalinin Komsomol Penovsky underground committee, a Soviet partisan detachment organizer and posthumous...

Stepan Khalturin

97 Stepan Nikolayevich Khalturin was a Russian revolutionary, member of Narodnaya Volya, and responsible for an attempted assassination of Alexander II of Russia.

Georgi Dimitrov

93 Georgi Dimitrov Mihaylov also known as Georgiy Mihaylovich Dimitrov, was a Bulgarian communist politician who served as General Secretary of the Bulgarian Communist Party from 1946 to 1949. From 1935...

Imam Shamil

93 Imam Shamil was the political, military, and spiritual leader of North Caucasian resistance to Imperial Russia in the 1800s, the third Imam of the Caucasian Imamate (1840–1859), and a Sunni Muslim...

Nikolai Kuznetsov (spy)

88 Nikolai Ivanovich Kuznetsov was a Soviet intelligence agent and partisan who operated in Nazi-occupied Ukraine during World War II and who personally killed six high-ranking German officials. His...

Alexander Nevsky

87 Alexander Yaroslavich Nevsky was Prince of Novgorod, Grand Prince of Kiev (1246–1263) and Grand Prince of Vladimir (1252–1263).

Musa Cälil

82 Musa Cälil was a Soviet–Tatar poet and resistance fighter. He is the only poet of the Soviet Union awarded simultaneously the Hero of the Soviet Union award for his resistance fighting and the Lenin...

Pyotr Schmidt

78 Pyotr Petrovich Schmidt was one of the leaders of the Sevastopol Uprising during the Russian Revolution of 1905.

Suleyman Stalsky

72 Suleiman Stalsky was a North Caucasian poet of Lezgin descent from Dagestan. Russian writer Maxim Gorky described him as "Homer of 20th century".

Igor Kurchatov

70 Igor Vasilyevich Kurchatov, was a Soviet physicist who played a central role in organizing and directing the former Soviet program of nuclear weapons.

Clara Zetkin

68 Clara Zetkin was a German Marxist theorist, communist activist, and advocate for women's rights.   

Vladimir Vysotsky

66 Vladimir Semyonovich Vysotsky was a Soviet singer-songwriter, poet, and actor who had an immense and enduring effect on Soviet culture. He became widely known for his unique singing style and for his...

Ğabdulla Tuqay

60 Ğabdulla Möxəmmətğarif ulı Tuqay was a Volga Tatar poet, critic, publisher, and towering figure of Tatar literature. Tuqay is often referred to as the founder of modern Tatar literature and the...

Dmitry Karbyshev

59 Dmitry Mikhaylovich Karbyshev was an officer of the Russian Imperial Army, a Red Army general, professor of the Soviet General Staff Academy, and Hero of the Soviet Union (posthumously).

Смирнов, Юрий Николаевич (актёр)

52 Юрий Николаевич Смирнов — советский и российский актёр театра, кино и телевидения.                 

Salawat Yulayev

52 Salawat Yulayev was a Bashkir national hero who helped lead the Pugachev's Rebellion. He was also a poet and singer.

Гаджиев, Магомед Магомедович (лингвист)

51 Магомед Магомедович Гаджиев — филолог-кавказовед, доктор филологических наук, один из первых профессиональных филологов Дагестана стоявший у истоков ИЯЛИ ДНЦ РАН, соавтор первого большого...

Alexei Leonov

50 Alexei Arkhipovich Leonov was a Soviet and Russian cosmonaut, Air Force major general, writer, and artist. On 18 March 1965, he became the first person to conduct a spacewalk, exiting the capsule...

Ivan Gubkin

48 Ivan Mikhailovich Gubkin was a Soviet and Russian geologist and president of the 1937 International Geological Congress in Moscow. He was a petroleum geologist particularly interested the region...

Ulyana Gromova

47 Ulyana Matveyevna Gromova was a Soviet partisan who was a member of the Young Guard resistance movement in Krasnodon, in modern-day eastern Ukraine. She was executed by the Nazis in 1943, along with...

Marina Raskova

46 Marina Mikhaylovna Raskova was the first woman in the Soviet Union to achieve the diploma of professional air navigator. Raskova went from a young woman with aspirations of becoming an opera singer...

Mikhail Saltykov-Shchedrin

42 Mikhail Yevgrafovich Saltykov-Shchedrin, born Mikhail Yevgrafovich Saltykov and known during his lifetime by the pen name Nikolai Shchedrin, was a major Russian writer and satirist of the 19th...

Rasul Gamzatov

41 Rasul Gamzatovich Gamzatov was a popular Russian poet who wrote in Avar. Among his poems was Zhuravli, which became a well-known Soviet song.

Fyodor Tolbukhin

41 Fyodor Ivanovich Tolbukhin was a Soviet military commander and Marshal of the Soviet Union. He is regarded as one of the finest Soviet generals of World War II.

Dmitry Mamin-Sibiryak

40 Dmitry Narkisovich Mamin-Sibiryak was a Russian writer. He is most well known for his novels and short stories about life in the Ural Mountains.

Буйнакский, Уллубий Даниялович

40 Уллубий Даниялович Буйнакский — революционный деятель Дагестана начала XX века.                     

Ivan Petrov (army general)

39 Ivan Yefimovich Petrov was a Soviet Army General from 1941.                                         

Тюленин, Сергей Гаврилович

39 Серге́й Гаври́лович Тюле́нин (1925—1943) — один из основателей штаба организации «Молодая гвардия», Герой Советского Союза.

Dmitry Ilyich Ulyanov

38 Dmitri Ilyich Ulyanov was a Russian and Soviet physician and revolutionary, the younger brother of Aleksandr Ulyanov and Vladimir Lenin.

Sophia Perovskaya

37 Sophia Lvovna Perovskaya was a Russian revolutionary and a member of the revolutionary organization Narodnaya Volya. She helped orchestrate the assassination of Alexander II of Russia, for which she...

Richard Sorge

37 Richard Sorge was a German journalist and Soviet military intelligence officer who was active before and during World War II and worked undercover as a German journalist in both Nazi Germany and the...

Vasily Dokuchaev

37 Vasily Vasilyevich Dokuchaev was a Russian geologist and geographer who is credited with laying the foundations of soil science. The Ukrainian city of Dokuchaievsk is named after him.

Konstantin Ivanov (conductor)

36 Konstantin Konstantinovich Ivanov was a Soviet conductor and composer.                             

Sheikh Muhammad Kurawi

35 Sheikh Muhammad (1771–1838) was a Lezgin sheikh, founder of Muridism in the Caucasus and teacher of all imams of Dagestan and Chechnya. Legendary Imam Shamil was his the most famous student.

Konstantin Rokossovsky

33 Konstantin Konstantinovich Rokossovsky was a Soviet and Polish officer who became a Marshal of the Soviet Union, a Marshal of Poland, and served as Poland's Defence Minister from 1949 until his...

Sacco and Vanzetti

32 Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti were Italian immigrants and anarchists who were controversially convicted of murdering Alessandro Berardelli and Frederick Parmenter, a guard and a paymaster,...

Sergey Biryuzov

31 Sergey Semyonovich Biryuzov was a Marshal of the Soviet Union and Chief of the General Staff.       

Lyubov Shevtsova

29 Lyubov Shevtsova was a Soviet partisan and a member of the Young Guard, an underground anti-Nazi organization in Krasnodon during World War II.

Gamzat Tsadasa

28 Gamzat Tsadasa was a Avar poet from Dagestan. He is the father of famous Russian writer Rasul Gamzatov.

Andrei Sakharov

28 Andrei Dmitrievich Sakharov was a Soviet physicist and a Nobel Peace Prize laureate, which he was awarded in 1975 for emphasizing human rights around the world.

Mikhail Lazarev

27 Admiral Mikhail Petrovich Lazarev was a Russian fleet commander and an explorer.                   

Konstantin Zaslonov

27 Konstantin Sergeyevich Zaslonov, was a notable Belarusian partisan commander during World War II who was awarded the title of Hero of the Soviet Union for his command of partisan forces around Orsha.

Marina Tsvetaeva

26 Marina Ivanovna Tsvetaeva was a Russian poet. Her work is some of the most well known in twentieth century Russian literature. She lived through and wrote of the Russian Revolution of 1917 and the...

Majit Gafuri

24 Majit Gafuri was a Bashkir and Tatar poet, writer, and playwright. He was one of the leaders of the democratic trend in Tatar literature and one of the founders of national children's literature.

Alexander Novikov

23 Alexander Alexandrovich Novikov was the chief marshal of aviation for the Soviet Air Forces during the Soviet Union's involvement in the Second World War. Lauded as "the man who has piloted the Red...

Ирчи Казак

22 Ирчи́ Каза́к — классик дагестанской литературы, кумыкский поэт, зачинатель кумыкской литературы. Написанные им стихи с призывом к мухаджирству получили широкое распространение на Кавказе.

Sofya Kovalevskaya

22 Sofya Vasilyevna Kovalevskaya, born Korvin-Krukovskaya, was a Russian mathematician who made noteworthy contributions to analysis, partial differential equations and mechanics. She was a pioneer for...

Vsevolod Vishnevsky

22 Vsevolod Vitalyevich Vishnevsky was a Soviet and Russian writer, screenwriter, playwright and journalist.

Етим Эмин

22 Етим Эмин, — лезгинский поэт. Основоположник лезгинской письменной литературы. Стихи писал на лезгинском, азербайджанском и арабском языках.

Dmitry Donskoy

21 Dmitry Ivanovich Donskoy was Prince of Moscow from 1359 and Grand Prince of Vladimir from 1363 until his death. He was the heir of Ivan II.

Павел Корчагин (персонаж)

21 Па́вел Андреевич Корча́гин — главный герой романа Николая Островского «Как закалялась сталь» (1932) и снятых по этому произведению фильмов. Сразу после публикации романа Павел Корчагин, чья юность в...

Nikolai Ostrovsky

20 Nikolai Alekseyevich Ostrovsky was a Soviet socialist realist writer. He is best known for his novel How the Steel Was Tempered.

Leonid Govorov

20 Leonid Aleksandrovich Govorov was a Soviet military commander. Trained as an artillery officer, he joined the Red Army in 1920. He graduated from several Soviet military academies, including the...

Aleksandr Vasilevsky

20 Aleksandr Mikhaylovich Vasilevsky was a Soviet career-officer in the Red Army who attained the rank of Marshal of the Soviet Union in 1943. He served as the Chief of the General Staff of the Soviet...

Denis Davydov

20 Denis Vasilyevich Davydov was a Russian soldier-poet of the Napoleonic Wars who invented the genre of hussar poetry, characterised by hedonism and bravado. He used events from his own life to...

Amet-khan Sultan

19 Amet-khan Sultan was a highly decorated Crimean Tatar flying ace in the Soviet Air Force with 30 personal and 19 shared kills who was twice awarded the title Hero of the Soviet Union. Despite having...

Volodia Dubinin

19 Volodia Dubinin was a Pioneer Hero of the Soviet Union.                                             

Виноградов, Павлин Фёдорович

18 Павлин Фёдорович Виногра́дов — российский революционер.                                             

Pavel Belov

17 Pavel Alexeyevich Belov was a Soviet Army colonel general and a Hero of the Soviet Union. He was nicknamed the "Fox" by the Germans and personally led the longest successful war raid, lasting five...

Patrice Lumumba

17 Patrice Émery Lumumba, born Isaïe Tasumbu Tawosa, was a Congolese politician and independence leader who served as the first prime minister of the Democratic Republic of the Congo from June until...

Nikolay Raevsky

17 Nikolay Nikolayevich Raevsky was a Russian general and statesman who achieved fame for his feats of arms during the Napoleonic Wars. His family left a lasting legacy in Russian society and culture.

Fyodor Sergeyev

17 Fyodor Andreyevich Sergeyev, better known as Comrade Artyom, was a Russian Bolshevik revolutionary, Soviet politician, agitator, and journalist. He was a close friend of Sergei Kirov and Joseph...

Fyodor Abramov

17 Fyodor Aleksandrovich Abramov was a Russian novelist and literary critic. His work focused on the difficult lives of the Russian peasant class. He was frequently reprimanded for deviations from...

Shota Rustaveli

17 Shota Rustaveli, mononymously known simply as Rustaveli, was a medieval Georgian poet. He is considered to be the pre-eminent poet of the Georgian Golden Age and one of the greatest contributors to...

Leonid Golikov

15 Leonid Aleksandrovich Golikov ; was a Soviet partisan during World War II who was posthumously recognized as a pioneer hero and received the Hero of the Soviet Union.

Gleb Uspensky

15 Gleb Ivanovich Uspensky was a Russian writer and a prominent figure of the Narodnik movement.       

Nikolay Rubtsov

15 Nikolay Mikhaylovich Rubtsov was a Russian poet.                                                   

Ivan Franko

15 Ivan Yakovych Franko was a Ukrainian poet, writer, social and literary critic, journalist, translator, economist, political activist, doctor of philosophy, ethnographer, and the author of the first...

Vladimir Voronin (captain)

14 Vladimir Ivanovich Voronin was a Soviet Navy captain, born in Sumsky Posad, in the present Republic of Karelia, Russia. In 1932 he commanded the expedition of the Soviet icebreaker A. Sibiryakov...

Konstantin Simonov

14 Konstantin Mikhailovich Simonov, born Kirill Mikhailovich Simonov, was a Soviet author, war poet, playwright and wartime correspondent, arguably most famous for his 1941 poem "Wait for Me".

Alexander Chekalin (partisan)

14 Alexander (Shura) Pavlovich Chekalin was a Russian teenager, Soviet partisan, and Hero of the Soviet Union.

Ivan Susanin

13 Ivan Susanin was a Russian national hero and martyr of the early-17th-century Time of Troubles. According to the popular legend, Polish troops seeking to kill Tsar Mikhail hired Susanin as a guide....

Anna Akhmatova

13 Anna Andreyevna Gorenko, better known by the pen name Anna Akhmatova, was a Russian poet, one of the most significant of the 20th century. She reappeared as a voice of Russian poetry during World War...

Vyacheslav Shishkov

13 Vyacheslav Yakovlevich Shishkov was and Russian and Soviet writer known for his descriptions of Siberia. He was awarded the Stalin State Prize posthumously in 1946.

Aleksa Dundić

13 Aleksa Dundić or Oleko Dundich was a Croatian participant in Russia's October Revolution. A popular character in Russian literature, Dundić was honoured with the Order of the Red Banner.

Kadi Abakarov

13 Kadi Abakarovich Abakarov was an Avar Red Army sergeant who fought during World War II. Abakarov was awarded the title Hero of the Soviet Union for actions in the Battle of the Seelow Heights.

Akhmad Kadyrov

12 Akhmat-Khadzhi Abdulkhamidovich Kadyrov was a Russian politician and revolutionary who served as Chief Mufti of the Chechen Republic of Ichkeria in the 1990s during and after the First Chechen War....

Vladimir Kornilov

12 Vladimir Kornilov may refer to:Vladimir Alexeyevich Kornilov (1806–1854), Russian naval officer Vladimir Grigoryevich Kornilov (1923–2002), Russian Soviet writer, publicist and public figure Vladimir...

Aleksey Yermolov

12 Aleksey Petrovich Yermolov was a Russian general of the 19th century who commanded Russian troops in the Caucasian War. He served in all the Russian campaigns against the French, except for the 1799...

Aleksey Novikov-Priboy

11 Aleksey Silych Novikov-Priboy was a Russian and Soviet writer and marine artist, noted for his stories with a nautical theme.

Zainab Biisheva

11 Zainab Biisheva (Bashkir: Зәйнәб Биишева, real name Zainab Abdullovna Biisheva, 15 January 1908, village of Tuembetovo, was a Bashkir poet, writer and playwright.

Vitus Bering

10 Vitus Jonassen Bering, also known as Ivan Ivanovich Bering, was a Danish cartographer and explorer in Russian service, and an officer in the Russian Navy. He is known as a leader of two Russian...

Galina Kulakova

10 Galina Alexeyevna Kulakova is a Soviet-Russian former cross-country skier, arguably the best skier on distances shorter than 10 km in the early 1970s. She won four Olympic golds, two individual in...

Abdulkhakim Ismailov

10 Abdulkhakim Isakovich Ismailov was a soldier in Red Army during World War II. He was photographed by Yevgeny Khaldei raising the flag of the Soviet Union over the Reichstag in Berlin on 2 May 1945,...

Palmiro Togliatti

10 Palmiro Michele Nicola Togliatti was an Italian politician and leader of Italy's Communist party for nearly forty years, from 1927 until his death. Born into a middle-class family, Togliatti received...

Исрафилов, Абас Исламович

10 Исрафи́лов Аба́с Исла́мович — Герой Советского Союза, заместитель командира инженерно-сапёрного взвода 357-го гвардейского парашютно-десантного полка 103-й гвардейской воздушно-десантной дивизии в...

Vasily Chuikov

9 Vasily Ivanovich Chuikov was a Soviet military commander and Marshal of the Soviet Union. He is best known for commanding the 62nd Army which saw heavy combat during the Battle of Stalingrad in the...

Акаев, Юсуп Абдулабекович

9 Юсу́п Абдулабе́кович Ака́ев — советский лётчик-штурмовик авиации Военно-морского флота СССР в годы Великой Отечественной войны, Герой Советского Союза (19.08.1944), майор (24.04.1948).

Мяготин, Николай Андреевич

9 Никола́й Андре́евич Мяго́тин — советский школьник, в советское время получивший известность как пионер-герой, символ борца с кулачеством, наравне с Павликом Морозовым.

Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov

9 Nikolai Andreyevich Rimsky-Korsakov was a Russian composer, a member of the group of composers known as The Five. He was a master of orchestration. His best-known orchestral compositions—Capriccio...

Hadi Taqtaş

9 Möxämmäthadi Xäyrulla ulı Taqtaşev better known as Hadi Taqtaş was a Soviet–Tatar poet, writer and publicist.

Salix Säydäş

9 Säydäşev Salix Camaletdin ulı (pronounced aka Salix Säydäş, also spelled Salikh Saydash(ev) (Tatar Cyrillic: Сәйдәш(ев) Салих Җамалетдин улы; Russian: Сайда́шев Сали́х Замалетди́нович, Saydashev...

Hamzat Bek

9 Hamzat Bek was the imam of Dagestan between 1832 and 1834. He was the second leader of the movement begun by his predecessor Ghazi Muhammad for the implementation of sharia in Dagestan. He fought...

Gotfrid Hasanov

9 Gottfried (Dzhabrail) Alievich Gasanov was a North Caucasian composer, Honored Artist of the RSFSR (1960), and a laureate of two Stalin Prizes.

Капиев, Эффенди Мансурович

9 Эффенди Мансурович Капиев — дагестанский советский прозаик, литературовед, публицист, поэт, переводчик, писавший на русском, лакском и кумыкском языках.

Салихов, Эсед Бабастанович

9 Эсед Бабастанович Салихов — командир батальона 247-го стрелкового полка 37-й стрелковой дивизии 22-й армии 2-го Прибалтийского фронта. Герой Советского Союза (посмертно).

Said Afandi al-Chirkawi

9 Said Afandi al-Chirkawi was a prominent scholar in Shafii mazhab and a spiritual master, or murshid. He was killed by a female suicide bomber on 28 August 2012.

Ivan Bagramyan

8 Ivan Khristoforovich Bagramyan, also known as Hovhannes Khachaturi Baghramyan, was a Soviet military commander and Marshal of the Soviet Union of Armenian origin.

Afanasy Beloborodov

8 Afanasy Pavlantyevich Beloborodov was a general in the Red Army during the Second World War who was twice awarded the title Hero of the Soviet Union. Between 1963 and 1968, he commanded the Moscow...

Kosta Khetagurov

8 Konstantin (Kosta) Khetagkaty was a national poet of the Ossetian people who is generally regarded as the founder of Ossetian literature. He was also a talented painter and a notable public...

Jānis Fabriciuss

7 Jānis Fabriciuss was a Latvian Soviet commander and commissar of the Red Army.                     

Мубаряков, Арслан Котлыахметович

7 Арслан Котлыахметович Мубаря́ков — башкирский советский актёр, театральный режиссёр, драматург. Народный артист СССР (1955).

Mitrofan Nedelin

7 Mitrofan Ivanovich Nedelin was a Soviet military commander who served as Chief Marshal of the Artillery in the Soviet Armed Forces.

Damdin Sükhbaatar

7 Damdin Sükhbaatar was a Mongolian communist revolutionary, founding member of the Mongolian People's Party, and leader of the Mongolian partisan army that took Khüree during the Outer Mongolian...

Mustai Karim

7 Mustai Karim was a Bashkir Soviet poet, writer and playwright. He was named People's Poet of the Bashkir ASSR (1963), Hero of Socialist Labour (1979), and winner of the Lenin Prize (1984) and the...

Vladimir Nemirovich-Danchenko

6 Vladimir Ivanovich Nemirovich-Danchenko was a Soviet and Russian theatre director, writer, pedagogue, playwright, producer and theatre administrator, who founded the Moscow Art Theatre with his...

Nikolai Kashirin

6 Nikolai Dmitrievich Kashirin was a Soviet Komandarm 2nd rank. He fought for the Imperial Russian Army in World War I, receiving the Order of Saint Vladimir and the Order of Saint Anna. He was a...

Peter the Great

6 Peter I, commonly known as Peter the Great, was Tsar of all Russia from 1682, and the first Emperor of all Russia from 1721 until his death in 1725. He reigned jointly with his half-brother Ivan V...

Mariya Tsukanova

6 Mariya Nikitichna Tsukanova was a medical orderly in the 355th Independent Guards Naval Infantry Battalion of the Pacific Fleet during World War II. After she was killed in action in August 1945 she...

Maria Ilyinichna Ulyanova

6 Maria Ilyinichna Ulyanova was a Russian Bolshevik revolutionary, politician, and the younger sister of Vladimir Lenin and Anna Ulyanova.

Qul Ghali

6 Qul Ghali was a famous Muslim Volga Bulgarian poet. His most famous poem is Qissa-i Yusuf, written in the Old Tatar language, which is not mutually intelligible with the modern Tatar, Bashkir and...

Vasily Lebedev-Kumach

6 Vasily Ivanovich Lebedev-Kumach ; 5 August [O.S. 24 July] 1898 — 20 February 1949) was a Soviet poet and lyricist.

Henri Barbusse

5 Henri Barbusse was a French novelist, short story writer, journalist, poet and political activist. He began his literary career in the 1890s as a Symbolist poet and continued as a neo-Naturalist...

Nicholas Miklouho-Maclay

5 Nicholai Nikolaevich Miklouho-Maclay was a Russian explorer of Ukrainian origin. He worked as an ethnologist, anthropologist and biologist who became famous as one of the earliest scientists to...

Boris Polevoy

5 Boris Nikolayevich Polevoy was a Soviet and Russian writer, screenwriter, journalist and war correspondent. He is the author of the book Story of a Real Man about Soviet World War II fighter pilot...

Jaroslav Hašek

5 Jaroslav Hašek was a Czech writer, humorist, satirist, journalist, bohemian, first anarchist and then communist, and commissar of the Red Army against the Czechoslovak Legion. He is best known for...

Назукин, Иван Андреевич

5 Иван Андреевич Назукин (1892—1920) — советский и партийный деятель, один из руководителей большевистского подполья в годы Гражданской войны (1917—1922) в Крыму. Участник VI Всероссийского съезда...

Andrey Voronikhin

5 Andrey (Andrei) Nikiforovich Voronikhin was a Russian architect and painter. As a representative of classicism he was also one of the founders of the monumental Russian Empire style. Born a serf of...

Макаев, Цахай Макашарипович

5 Цахай Макашарипович Макаев — участник Великой Отечественной войны, командир орудия 37-го отдельного гвардейского истребительно-противотанкового дивизиона, 35-й гвардейской Лозовской стрелковой...

Aleksey Nikolayevich Tolstoy

5 Aleksey Nikolayevich Tolstoy was a Russian writer whose works span across many genres, but mainly belonged to science fiction and historical fiction.

Boris Pasternak

5 Boris Leonidovich Pasternak was a Russian poet, novelist, composer, and literary translator.       

Alexander Galich (writer)

5 Alexander Arkadievich Galich was a Soviet poet, screenwriter, playwright, singer-songwriter, and dissident.

Stepan Erzya

5 Stepan Dmitrievich Erzia (Nefyodov) (Russian: Степа́н Дми́триевич Э́рьзя (Нефёдов); November 8 [O.S. October 27] 1876 – 24 November 1959), also known as Stefan Erzia, was an Erzya Mordvin sculptor...

Heydar Aliyev

5 Heydar Alirza oghlu Aliyev was an Azerbaijani politician who was a Soviet party boss in the Azerbaijan Soviet Socialist Republic from 1969 to 1982, and the third president of Azerbaijan from October...

Gara Garayev

5 Gara Abulfaz oghlu Garayev, also spelled as Qara Qarayev or Kara Karayev, was a prominent Soviet Azerbaijani composer. Garayev wrote nearly 110 musical pieces, including ballets, operas, symphonic...

Sheikh Mansur

5 Sheikh Mansur was a Chechen military commander and Islamic leader who led an anti-Russian North Caucasian resistance, known as the Sheikh Mansur Movement. He was influential in the resistance against...

Rainis

4 Jānis Pliekšāns, known by his pseudonym Rainis, was a Latvian poet, playwright, translator, and politician. Rainis' works include the classic plays Uguns un nakts and Indulis un Ārija, and a highly...

Pavel Rybalko

4 Pavel Semyonovich Rybalko was a commander of armoured troops in the Red Army during and following World War II.

Игнатов, Геннадий Петрович

4 Геннадий Петрович Игнатов, другой вариант имени — Гений — Герой Советского Союза, партизан-разведчик.

Vera Voloshina

4 Vera Danilovna Voloshina was a Russian partisan who after joining the Red Army took part in subversive activities against the Nazis in World War II. After being ambushed by the Germans in November...

Двужильный, Юрий Михайлович

4 Юрий Михайлович Двужильный — Герой Советского Союза, командир батальона, капитан.                   

Roza Shanina

4 Roza Georgiyevna Shanina was a Soviet sniper during World War II who was credited with over 50 kills. Shanina volunteered for the military after the death of her brother in 1941 and chose to be a...

Магомедов, Ахмед Мусабекович

4 Ахмед Мусабекович Магомедов — российский борец вольного стиля, грепплер.                           

Nizami Ganjavi

4 Nizami Ganjavi, Nizami Ganje'i, Nizami, or Nezāmi, whose formal name was Jamal ad-Dīn Abū Muḥammad Ilyās ibn-Yūsuf ibn-Zakkī, was a 12th-century Muslim poet. Nizami is considered the greatest...

Alexander Gorbatov

3 Alexander Vasilyevich Gorbatov was a Russian and Soviet officer who served as an officer in the Imperial Russian Army during the First World War and as a colonel-general in the Red Army during the...

Gaidar Gadzhiyev

3 Gaidar Malikovich Gadzhiyev was a Russian major general of the Strategic Missile Troops.           

Котик, Валентин Александрович

3 Валенти́н Алекса́ндрович Ко́тик ; 11 февраля 1930 — 17 февраля 1944) — советский пионер-герой, участник Великой отечественной войны, партизан-разведчик. Один из самых молодых Героев Советского...

Усманов, Шамиль Хайруллович

3 Шамиль Хайруллович Усманов — татарский советский писатель, драматург и политический деятель.       

Мирсай Амир

3 Мирсай Амир — татарский прозаик и драматург, переводчик, журналист, государственный и общественный деятель, заслуженный деятель искусств Татарской АССР (1945).

Ахунов, Гарифзян Ахунзянович

3 Гарифзян Ахунзянович Ахунов — заслуженный деятель искусств РСФСР, народный писатель Татарстана, видный государственный и общественный деятель, лауреат премии Татарской АССР им. Габдуллы Тукая.

Каюм Насыри

3 Габделькаюм Габденнасырович Насыров — татарский учёный-этнограф, литератор и просветитель XIX века, автор более 40 научных работ.

Sergey Preminin

3 Sergey Anatolievich Preminin was a Soviet Russian sailor who, after an explosion aboard nuclear submarine K-219, prevented an impending nuclear meltdown by manually forcing damaged control rods into...

Valery Gavrilin

3 Valery Aleksandrovich Gavrilin (Russian: Валерий Александрович Гаврилин, was a Soviet and Russian composer. People's Artist of the RSFSR.

Vladimir Leontyevich Komarov

3 Vladimir Leontyevich Komarov was a Russian and Soviet botanist.                                     

Timur Frunze

3 Timur Mikhailovich Frunze was a Soviet fighter pilot and posthumous recipient of the title Hero of the Soviet Union. He was the son of Red Army commander and People's Commissar for Military Affairs...

Olga Bergholz

3 Olga Fyodorovna Bergholz was a Soviet and Russian poet, writer, playwright and journalist. She is most famous for her work on the Leningrad radio during the city's blockade, when she became the...

Петрова, Галина Леонидовна

3 Гали́на Леони́довна Петро́ва — советская и российская актриса театра и кино. Заслуженная артистка Российской Федерации (1997).

Valeriya Gnarovskaya

3 Valeriya Osipovna Gnarovskaya was a medic in the 907th Rifle Regiment who fought on the Stalingrad Front in World War II. On 23 September 1943, when a German tank broke through the Soviet line of...

Ижорский батальон (фильм)

3 «Ижо́рский батальо́н» — советский чёрно-белый художественный фильм, поставленный на Киностудии «Ленфильм» в 1972 году режиссёром Геннадием Казанским. Героическая киноповесть.

Vasily Margelov

3 Vasily Filippovich Margelov was a Red Army General who was the commander of the Soviet Airborne Forces (VDV) from 1954 to 1959 and from 1961 to 1979. Margelov modernized the VDV and was a Hero of the...

Магомедов, Расул Магомедович (историк)

3 Расу́л Магоме́дович Магоме́дов — советский и российский учёный: историк-кавказовед, этнограф, этнолог, археолог, государственный и общественный деятель, просветитель. Основоположник исторической...

Ivan Golubets

3 Ivan Karpovich Golubets was a Soviet sailor with the Black Sea Fleet. He was posthumously made a Hero of the Soviet Union.

Nikolay Krylov (marshal)

3 Nikolai Ivanovich Krylov was a Russian Marshal of the Soviet Union. He was commander of the Strategic Missile Troops from 1963 to 1972.

Mariya Polivanova

3 Mariya Semyonovna Polivanova was a Soviet sniper during World War II. She was killed in action together with Natalya Kovshova on 14 August 1942, and was posthumously awarded the title of Hero of the...

Камал, Шариф Камалетдинович

3 Шариф Камал — советский татарский писатель, драматург, публицист и переводчик, общественный деятель, один из крупнейших представителей татарской литературы начала XX века и основоположников...

Räşit Wahapov

3 Räşit Wahap ulı Wahapov was a Tatar singer (tenor), awarded with People's Artist of TASSR (1957). Wahapov was "one of the most actively and successfully performing Tatar singers in 1940s and enjoyed...

Котков, Сергей Иванович

3 Серге́й Ива́нович Котко́в — советский лингвист, диалектолог.                                       

Inessa Armand

3 Inessa Fyodorovna Armand was a French-Russian communist politician, member of the Bolsheviks and a feminist who spent most of her life in Russia. Armand, being an important figure in the...

Гасанов, Генрих Алиевич

3 Генрих Алиевич Гаса́нов — советский судостроитель, доктор технических наук, специалист в области кораблестроения и проектирования корабельных паровых котлов и парогенераторов, генеральный конструктор...

Улица Фатыха Карима (Казань)

3 Улица Фатыха Карима — улица в Вахитовском районе Казани. Названа в честь поэта Фатыха Карима.       

Abdulla Aliş

3 Alişev Ğabdullacan Ğäbdelbari ulı, best known as Abdulla Aliş, was a Soviet Tatar poet, playwright, writer and resistance fighter.

Арухов, Загир Сабирович

3 Заги́р Саби́рович А́рухов — российский государственный деятель, Министр по национальной политике, делам религий и внешним связям Республики Дагестан (2003—2005).

Maksim Passar

3 Maksim Aleksandrovich Passar was a Soviet sniper in the Red Army during World War II credited with killing 237 enemy soldiers. Decades after he was killed in action during the war he was posthumously...

Попова, Александра Васильевна

3 Александра Васильевна Попова — советская актриса театра и кино, в 1930-х годах в титрах фильмов указана как Алла Гардер, в 1940-х — как Алла Попова.

Osman Kasaev

3 Osman Musayevich Kasayev was a Karachay Major in the Soviet Army during World War II who commanded a partisan detachment after his artillery division was defeated by the Germans during Operation...

Mirza Hasan Alkadari

3 Mirza Hasan Alkadari was a North Caucasian Islamic jurist (faqih), historian, poet, educator in pre-revolutionary Dagestan.

Нажмудин Гоцинский

3 Нажмуди́н Гоци́нский или Нажмуди́н Доного́, Нажм-ад-Дин ал-Хуци — северокавказский религиозный, военный и политический деятель. Учёный-арабист, алим и поэт. Муфтий Союза объединённых горцев Северного...

Махачев, Гаджи Нухиевич

3 Гаджи́ Нухи́евич Маха́чев — российский общественный и государственный деятель, доктор юридических наук, профессор. Назначался на должность заместителя Председателя Правительства Республики Дагестан,...