HONOR

Established 6 April 1930 by the Soviet Union.

Name	Occupation	Birth	Death	Known 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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