List of people on the postage stamps of the Soviet Union
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This article lists people who have been featured on postage stamps of the Soviet Union.
A
- Rudolf Abel, intelligence agent (1990)
- Khachatur Abovian, Armenian writer (1948, 1956)
- Yuldash Akhunbabayev, politician (1965)
- Mirza Fatali Akhundov, Azeri writer and philosopher (1962)
- Sergey Aksakov, Russian writer (1959)
- Vladimir Aksyonov, cosmonaut (1976, 1980)
- Ivan Akulov, first Prosecutor General of the USSR (1988)
- Sholem Aleichem, Yiddish writer (1959)
- Alexander Alexandrov, composer (1983)
- Dante Alighieri, Italian poet (1965)
- Salvador Allende, President of Chile (1973)
- Alexander Alyabyev, Russian composer (1951)
- Roald Amundsen, Norwegian explorer (1972)
- Vladimir Arsenyev, travel writer (1956)
- Lev Artsimovich, physicist (1974)
- Boris Asafyev, composer (1984)
- Oleg Atkov, cosmonaut (1985)
- Hunan Avetisyan, World War II soldier (1963)
- Sadriddin Ayni, Tajik writer (1958)
B
- Ivan Babushkin, revolutionary (1973)
- Johann Sebastian Bach, German composer (1985)
- Pyotr Bagration, Russian general (1962)
- Alexey Bakh, biochemist (1957)
- Mily Balakirev, Russian composer (1956)
- Alexander Andreyevich Baranov, Russian Alaska settler (1991)
- Krišjānis Barons, Latvian writer (1985)
- Gevorg Bashinjaghyan, Armenian painter (1957)
- Nikolay Bauman, revolutionary (1935, 1973)
- Georgy Baydukov, aviator (1937)
- Demyan Bedny, poet (1963)
- Ludwig van Beethoven, German composer (1970)
- Vladimir Bekhterev, neurologist (1952)
- Vissarion Belinsky, Russian literary critic and philosopher (1957, 1961)
- Fabian von Bellingshausen, Russian explorer (1950)
- Aristarkh Belopolsky, Russian astronomer (1954)
- Alexander Belyakov, aviator (1937)
- Pavel Belyayev, cosmonaut (1965)
- Nikolay Benardos, Russian inventor (1981)
- Pierre-Jean de Béranger, French songwriter (1957)
- Georgy Beregovoy, cosmonaut (1968)
- Anatoly Berezovoy, cosmonaut (1983)
- Vitus Bering, Russian explorer (1981)
- Yan Berzin, military leader (1989)
- Abū Rayḥān al-Bīrūnī, Persian scholar (1973)
- Sergey Biryuzov, Marshal of the Soviet Union (1967)
- Ernests Birznieks-Upītis, Latvian writer, translator and librarian (1971)
- Maurice Bishop, Grenadian revolutionary (1984)
- William Blake, English poet (1958)
- Alexander Blok, Russian poet (1956, 1980)
- Veniamin Bogorov, oceanologist (1979)
- Simón Bolívar, Venezuelan revolutionary (1983)
- Andrey Bolotov, Russian agriculturalist (1988)
- Mikhail Aleksandrovich Bonch-Bruevich, radio engineer (1988)
- Alexander Borodin, Russian composer (1951)
- Sergey Botkin, Russian physician (1982)
- Louis Braille, French inventor (1959)
- Fyodor Bredikhin, Russian astronomer (1954, 1956)
- Karl Bryullov, Russian painter (1952)
- Valery Bryusov, writer (1963)
- Tikhon Bumazhkov, World War II partisan (1966)
- Ivan Bunin, Russian writer (1990)
- Robert Burns, Scottish poet (1956)
- Grigory Butakov, Russian admiral (1989)
- Alexander Butlerov, Russian chemist (1951)
- Valery Bykovsky, cosmonaut (1963, 1976)
- George Gordon Byron, English poet (1988)
C
- Musa Cälil, Tatar poet (1959, 1966)
- Albert Calmette, French physician and microbiologist (1963)
- Miguel Cervantes, Spanish writer (1966)
- Yeghishe Charents, Armenian poet (1958)
- Vasily Chapayev, military leader (1948, 1987)
- Ilya Chavchavadze, Georgian writer (1958)
- Liza Chaykina, World War II partisan (1969)
- Pafnuty Chebyshev, Russian mathematician (1946)
- Alexander Chekalin, World War II partisan (1942)
- Anton Chekhov, Russian writer (1940, 1959, 1960)
- Miron Cherepanov, Russian inventor (1978)
- Yefim Cherepanov, Russian inventor (1978)
- Ivan Chernyakhovsky, military leader (1960)
- Nikolay Chernyshevsky, Russian philosopher (1939, 1957, 1978)
- Georgy Chicherin, revolutionary (1972)
- Mikhail Chigorin, Russian chess player (1958)
- Valery Chkalov, aviator (1937, 1954)
- Frédéric Chopin, Polish composer (1960)
- Korney Chukovsky, writer (1982)
- Mikalojus Čiurlionis, Lithuanian painter and composer (1975)
- Nicolaus Copernicus, Polish astronomer (1973)
- James Fenimore Cooper, American writer (1989)
- Marie Skłodowska Curie, Polish-French physicist and chemist (1987)
- Pierre Curie, French physicist (1956)
D
- Vladimir Dal, Russian lexicographer (1976)
- Georges Danton, French revolutionary (1989)
- Alexander Dargomyzhsky, Russian composer (1963)
- Charles Darwin, English naturalist (1959)
- Charles Dickens, English writer (1962)
- Denis Diderot, French encyclopedist (1963)
- Georgi Dimitrov, Bulgarian politician (1950, 1982)
- Mikhail Dolivo-Dobrovolsky, Russian inventor (1962)
- Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Russian writer (1956, 1971)
- Lev Dovator, military leader (1942)
- Alexander Dovzhenko, screenwriter (1964)
- Jacques Duclaux, French physician (1975)
- Anatoly Durov, circus animal trainer (1989)
- Eleonora Duse, Italian actress (1958)
- Pavel Dybenko, military leader (1989)
- Felix Dzerzhinsky, revolutionary (1961, 1962, 1977)
- Vladimir Dzhanibekov, cosmonaut (1978)
- Prokofy Dzhaparidze, revolutionary (1933)
E
- Albert Einstein, German physicist (1979)
- Heino Eller, Estonian composer (1987)
- Nikolay Emanuel, physical chemist (1985)
- Friedrich Engels, German philosopher
- Leonhard Euler, Swiss mathematician (1957)
F
- Alexander Fadeyev, writer (1971)
- Pavel Fedotov, Russian painter (1976)
- Glikeriya Fedotova, actress (1956)
- Konstantin Feoktistov, cosmonaut (1964)
- Alexander Fersman, geochemist and mineralogist (1966)
- Valentin Filatov, circus animal trainer (1989)
- Henry Fielding, English writer (1957)
- Anatoly Filipchenko, cosmonaut (1969)
- William Z. Foster, General Secretary of the Communist Party USA (1971)
- Benjamin Franklin, American revolutionary (1956)
- Ivan Franko, Ukrainian writer (1956)
- Mikhail Frunze, revolutionary (1950, 1960, 1985)
- Timur Frunze, aviator (1960)
- Dmitry Furmanov, writer (1951)
- Fuzûlî, Azeri poet (1958)
- Ivan Fyodorov, Russian printer (1933, 1983)
G
- Georgy Gabrichevsky, Russian microbiologist (1960)
- Magomet Gadzhiyev, submarine commander (1962)
- Yuri Gagarin, cosmonaut (1961–1991)
- Arkady Gaidar, writer (1962, 1964)
- Galileo Galilei, Italian astronomer (1964)
- Nikolay Gamaleya, microbiologist (1959)
- Yakov Gamarnik, politician (1964)
- Indira Gandhi, Prime Minister of India (1984, 1987)
- Mahatma Gandhi, President of the Indian National Congress (1969)
- Giuseppe Garibaldi, Italian patriot (1957, 1961, 1982)
- Vsevolod Garshin, Russian writer (1955)
- Aleksandr Gerasimov, painter (1981)
- Gheorghe Gheorghiu-Dej, Prime Minister of the Socialist Republic of Romania (1965)
- Fyodor Gladkov, writer (1963)
- Yury Glazkov, cosmonaut (1977)
- Manolis Glezos, Greek politician (1959)
- Mikhail Glinka, Russian composer (1951, 1957)
- Nikolay Gogol, Russian writer (1952, 1959)
- Carlo Goldoni, Italian playwright (1958)
- Anna Golubkina, Russian sculptor (1964)
- Ivan Goncharov, Russian writer (1962)
- Viktor Gorbatko, cosmonaut (1969, 1977)
- Leonid Govorov, Marshal of the Soviet Union (1977)
- Igor Grabar, painter (1972)
- Georgy Grechko, cosmonaut (1978)
- Edvard Grieg, Norwegian composer (1957)
- Valentina Grizodubova, aviator (1939)
- Ulyana Gromova, anti-Nazi underground activist (1944)
- Otto Grotewohl, Prime Minister of the German Democratic Republic (1965)
- Guan Hanqing, Chinese playwright (1958)
- Dmitry Gulia, Abkhaz writer (1964)
- Davit Guramishvili, Georgian poet (1980)
H
- William Harvey, English physician (1957, 1978)
- Jaroslav Hašek, Czech writer (1963)
- Joseph Haydn, Austrian composer (1959)
- Heinrich Heine, German poet (1956)
- O. Henry, American writer (1962)
- Alexander Herzen, Russian philosopher (1945, 1962)
- Nâzım Hikmet, Turkish writer (1982)
- Hồ Chí Minh (1980, 1990)
- Victor Hugo, French writer (1952)
- Alexander von Humboldt, German naturalist and geographer (1959)
I
- Henrik Ibsen, Norwegian playwright (1956)
- Akmal Ikramov, politician (1968)
- Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres, French painter (1980)
- Abram Ioffe, physicist (1980)
- Sergey Ilyushin, aircraft designer (1984)
- Amangeldy Imanov, revolutionary (1961)
- Avetik Isahakyan, Armenian poet (1975)
- Ivan Isakov, admiral (1974)
- Vladimir Istomin, Russian admiral (1989)
- Alexander Andreyevich Ivanov, Russian painter (1956)
- Vsevolod Ivanov, writer (1965)
J
- Otakar Jaroš, Czech World War II officer on the Eastern Front (1969)
- Frédéric Joliot-Curie, French physicist (1959)
K
- Vasily Kalinnikov, Russian composer (1951)
- Nikolay Karamzin, Russian historian (1991)
- Alexander Karpinsky, geologist (1947)
- Nikolay Kasatkin, Russian painter (1956)
- Sen Katayama, Japanese communist (1967)
- Mstislav Keldysh, mathematician (1981)
- Paul Keres, chess player (1991)
- Aram Khachaturian, composer (1983)
- Mikhail Kharchenko, World War II partisan (1967)
- Kosta Khetagurov, Ossetian poet (1960, 1989)
- Muḥammad ibn Mūsā al-Khwārizmī, Persian astronomer (1983)
- Vasily Kikvidze, revolutionary (1970)
- Viktor Kingissepp, Estonian revolutionary (1950, 1963, 1988)
- Emil Kio, illusionist (1989)
- Orest Kiprensky, Russian painter (1973)
- Vladimir Kistyakovsky, physical chemist (1965)
- Leonid Kizim, cosmonaut (1981, 1985)
- Pyotr Klimuk, cosmonaut (1974)
- Vasily Klyuchevsky, Russian historian (1991)
- Yakub Kolas, Belarusian poet (1957, 1962)
- Alexandra Kollontay, revolutionary (1972)
- Dmitry Komar, 1991 coup d'état attempt victim (1991)
- Vladimir Komarov, cosmonaut (1964)
- Jan Amos Komenský, Czech educationist (1958)
- Komitas, Armenian composer (1969)
- Vera Komissarzhevskaya, Russian actress (1960)
- Maxim Konchalovsky, physician (1975)
- Pyotr Konchalovsky, painter (1976)
- Sergey Konenkov, sculptor (1973)
- Ivan Konev, Marshal of the Soviet Union (1897–1973), issue 1977
- Vladimir Alexeyevich Kornilov, Russian admiral (1989)
- Sergey Korolyov, spacecraft designer (1981, 1982, 1986)
- Oleg Koshevoy, anti-Nazi underground activist (1944)
- Stanislav Kosior, politician (1989)
- Zoya Kosmodemyanskaya, World War II partisan (1942)
- Ivan Kotlyarevsky, Ukrainian writer (1969)
- Sofia Kovalevskaya, Russian mathematician (1951)
- Alexander Kovalevsky, Russian zoologist and embyologist (1951)
- Vladimir Kovalyonok, cosmonaut (1981)
- Sydir Kovpak, World War II partisan (1987)
- Natalya Kovshova, World War II sniper (1944)
- Pyotr Kozlov, Russian explorer (1951)
- Stepan Krasheninnikov, Russian explorer (1951)
- Grigory Kravchenko, aviator (1966)
- Ernst Krenkel, Arctic explorer (1973, 1979)
- Ilya Krichevsky, 1991 coup d'état attempt victim (1991)
- Marko Kropivnitsky, Ukrainian dramatist (1965)
- Nadezhda Krupskaya, revolutionary (1956, 1964)
- Gleb Krzhizhanovsky, revolutionary (1972)
- Ivan Kudrya, intelligence agent (1990)
- Ivan Kulibin, Russian inventor (1955)
- Leonid Kulik, mineralogist (1958)
- Bela Kun, Hungarian revolutionary (1986)
- Yanka Kupala, Belarusian writer (1957, 1962)
- Ivan Kuratov, Komi writer (1989)
- Igor Kurchatov, physicist (1963, 1979)
- Ivan Kuskov, Russian Fort Ross, California settler (1991)
- Boris Kustodiev, painter and stage designer (1978)
- Mikhail Kutuzov, Russian field marshal (1945, 1962)
- Valerian Kuybyshev, politician (1953, 1988)
- Emanuel Kviring, politician (1988)
L
- Selma Lagerlöf, Swedish writer (1959)
- Martin Latsis, revolutionary (1988)
- Mikhail Lavrentyev, mathematician (1981)
- V E Lazarenko, clown acrobat (1989)
- Mikhail Petrovich Lazarev, Russian admiral (1987)
- Sergey Lazo, revolutionary (1948)
- Pyotr Lebedev, Russian physicist (1951)
- Valentin Lebedev, cosmonaut (1974, 1983)
- Vladimir Lebedinsky, physicist (1968)
- Vladimir Lenin, (1924–1991)
- Mikhail Lermontov, Russian writer (1941, 1957)
- Sigizmund Levanevsky, aviator (1935)
- Isaak Levitan, Russian painter (1950)
- Li Dazhao, Chinese communist (1989)
- Carl Linnaeus, Swedish naturalist (1957)
- Franz Liszt, Hungarian composer (1961)
- Fyodor Litke, Russian explorer (1947)
- Alexander Lodygin, Russian inventor (1951)
- Mikhail Lomonosov, Russian polymath (1949, 1956, 1961, 1986)
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, American writer (1958)
- Luigi Longo, Italian politician (1981)
- Patrice Lumumba, Prime Minister of the Republic of the Congo (1961)
- Anatoly Lunacharsky, revolutionary (1975)
- Rosa Luxemburg, German revolutionary (1957)
- Anatoly Lyadov, Russian composer (1955)
- Anatoly Lyapidevsky, aviator (1935)
- Vladimir Lyakhov, cosmonaut (1979)
M
- Samora Moisés Machel, President of Mozambique (1986)
- John Maclean, Scottish socialist (1979)
- Anton Makarenko, educationist (1988)
- Oleg Makarov, cosmonaut (1978, 1981)
- Stepan Makarov, Russian admiral (1949, 1989)
- Rodion Malinovsky, Marshal of the Soviet Union (1973)
- Yury Malyshev, cosmonaut (1980)
- Dmitry Mamin-Sibiryak, Russian writer (1952)
- Jalil Mammadguluzadeh, Azeri writer (1966)
- Nelson Mandela, South African politician (1988)
- Jean-Paul Marat, French revolutionary (1989)
- Samuil Marshak, writer (1987)
- Karl Marx
- Mesrop Mashtots, Armenian alphabet inventor (1962)
- Alexander Matrosov, World War II soldier (1944, 1963)
- Jan Matejko, Polish painter (1955)
- Ilya Ilyich Mechnikov, microbiologist (1991)
- Dmitry Medvedev, World War II partisan (1970)
- Vyacheslav Menzhinsky, revolutionary (1974)
- Kirill Meretskov, Marshal of the Soviet Union (1977)
- Sergey Merkurov, sculptor (1981)
- Michelangelo, Italian painter (1964)
- Vincas Mickevičius-Kapsukas, Lithuanian revolutionary (1957)
- Adam Mickiewicz, Polish poet (1955)
- Kārlis Miesnieks, painter (1987)
- Mikhail Millionshchikov, physicist and politician (1974)
- John Milton, English poet (1958)
- Grigory Minkh, Russian physician (1960)
- Viktor Miroshnichenko, World War II soldier (1961)
- Togolok Moldo, Kyrgyz songwriter (1962)
- Konon Molody, intelligence agent alias Gordon Lonsdale (1990)
- Vasily Molokov, aviator (1935)
- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Austrian composer (1956)
- Vera Mukhina, sculptor (1989)
- Mihály Munkácsy, Hungarian painter (1969)
- Modest Mussorgsky, Russian composer (1951, 1989)
N
- Pavel Nakhimov, Russian admiral (1987)
- Sergey Namyotkin, chemist (1976)
- Fridtjof Nansen, Norwegian explorer (1961)
- Eduard Nápravník, Czech-Russian composer (1989)
- Nariman Narimanov, revolutionary (1973)
- Imadaddin Nasimi, Azeri poet (1973)
- Kayum Nasyri, Tatar scholar (1952)
- Alisher Navoi, Uzbek poet (1942)
- Jawaharlal Nehru, Prime Minister of India (1964, 1989)
- Alexander Nesmeyanov, chemist (1980)
- Mikhail Nesterov, painter (1962)
- Nestor the Chronicler, Kievan Rus writer (1956)
- Gennady Nevelskoy, Russian admiral (1989)
- Isaac Newton, English mathematician and physicist (1987)
- Ivan Savvich Nikitin, Russian poet (1974)
- Andriyan Nikolayev, cosmonaut (1962, 1970)
- Hamza Hakimzade Niyazi, Uzbek poet (1964, 1989)
- Kwame Nkrumah, President of Ghana (1989)
- Viktor Nogin, revolutionary (1934)
- Anatoly Novikov, composer (1986)
- Mstislav Novinsky, Russian oncologist (1976)
- Khanpasha Nuradilov, World War II soldier (1944)
O
- Vladimir Obruchev, geologist and writer (1963)
- Alexander Odoyevsky, Russian poet (1952)
- Georgy Oppokov, politician (1988)
- Sulkhan-Saba Orbeliani, Georgian writer (1959)
- Mammed Said Ordubadi, Azeri writer (1972)
- Grigory Ordzhonikidze, politician (1952, 1958, 1966, 1986)
- Kirill Orlovsky, World War II partisan (1970)
- Polina Osipenko, aviator (1939)
- Mikhail Ostrogradsky, Russian mathematician (1951)
- Alexander Ostrovsky, Russian playwright (1948, 1949, 1959, 1973)
- Georg Ots, Estonian singer (1980)
P
- Olof Palme, Prime Minister of Sweden (1986)
- Ivan Panfilov, military leader (1963)
- Boris Pasternak, writer (1990)
- Louis Pasteur, French chemist and microbiologist (1962, 1963)
- Lyudmila Pavlichenko, World War II sniper (1976)
- Ivan Pavlov, physiologist (1963, 1969, 1991)
- Vasily Perov, Russian painter (1956)
- Peter I of Russia, Czar of Russia (1989)
- Sándor Petőfi, Hungarian poet (1959)
- Mikas Petrauskas, Lithuanian composer (1963)
- Kuzma Petrov-Vodkin, painter (1978)
- Ivan Petrovsky, mathematician (1973)
- Kim Philby, intelligence agent (1990)
- Pablo Picasso, Spanish painter (1973, 1981)
- Wilhelm Pieck, President of the German Democratic Republic (1966, 1976)
- Nikolay Pirogov, Russian physician (1960)
- Vadim Podbelsky, revolutionary (1958, 1962, 1987)
- Ivan Polbin, military leader (1965)
- Vasily Polenov, painter (1952)
- Maria Polivanova, World War II sniper (1944)
- Harry Pollitt, General Secretary of the Communist Party of Great Britain (1970)
- Alexander Stepanovich Popov, Russian inventor (1945, 1949, 1989)
- Andrei Alexandrovich Popov, Russian admiral (1989)
- Leonid Popov, cosmonaut (1981, 1983)
- Pavel Popovich, cosmonaut (1962)
- Nikolay Popudrenko, World War II partisan (1968)
- Pavel Postyshev, politician (1968)
- Nicolas Poussin, French painter (1965)
- Karolis Požėla, Lithuanian revolutionary (1986)
- Mikhail Prishvin, writer (1973)
- Sergei Prokofiev, composer (1981, 1991)
- Yemelyan Pugachyov, Russian cossack rebel (1973)
- Andrejs Pumpurs, Latvian poet (1961)
- Alexander Pushkin, Russian poet (1937, 1947, 1955, 1956)
Q
- Qi Baishi, Chinese painter (1957)
- Abay Qunanbayuli, Kazakh poet (1965)
R
- Jean Racine, French dramatist (1989)
- Alexander Radishchev, Russian writer (1949, 1952)
- Jānis Rainis, Latvian writer (1965)
- Marina Raskova, aviator (1939)
- Luis Emilio Recabarren, Chilean politician (1976)
- John Reed, American journalist (1987)
- Ilya Repin, Russian painter (1944, 1969)
- Rembrandt van Rijn, Dutch painter (1956)
- Nikolay Rimsky-Korsakov, Russian composer (1944, 1951)
- Maximilien Robespierre, French revolutionary (1989)
- Konstantin Konstantinovich Rokossovsky, Marshal of the Soviet Union (1896–1968), issue 1976
- Romain Rolland, French writer (1966)
- Yury Romanenko, cosmonaut (1978)
- Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Swiss philosopher (1962)
- Valery Rozhdestvensky, cosmonaut (1977)
- Anton Rubinstein, Russian composer (1954)
- Rudaki, Tajik writer (1958)
- Vsevolod Rudnev, Russian naval officer (1958)
- Mikhail Rumyantsev, clown (1989)
- Shota Rustaveli, Georgian poet (1956, 1966)
- Ernest Rutherford, British physicist (1971)
- Valery Ryumin, cosmonaut (1979, 1981)
S
- Saʿdī, Persian poet (1959)
- Boris Safonov, aviator (1944)
- Andrei Sakharov, scientist and Nobel peace prize winner (1991)
- M. V. Sakharov, Marshal of the Soviet Union (1898–1972), issue 1978
- Toktogul Satylganov, Kyrgyz poet (1964)
- Mikhail Saltykov-Shchedrin, Russian writer (1956, 1976)
- William Saroyan, Armenian-American writer (1991)
- Viktor Savinykh, cosmonaut (1981)
- Svetlana Savitskaya, cosmonaut (1983)
- Konstantin Savitsky, Russian painter (1955)
- Sayat-Nova, Armenian musician and poet (1962)
- Friedrich Schiller, German poet (1955)
- Pavel Schilling, Russian inventor (1982)
- Otto Schmidt, astronomer and Arctic explorer (1966, 1980)
- Robert Schumann, German composer (1960)
- Ivan Sechenov, Russian physiologist (1956)
- Georgy Sedov, Russian Arctic explorer (1952, 1977)
- Valentin Serov, Russian painter (1965)
- Pyotr Semyonov-Tyan-Shansky, Russian geographer (1952)
- Dmitry Senyavin, Russian admiral (1987)
- Fyodor Sergeyev, revolutionary (1963)
- Saken Seyfullin, Kazakh writer (1964)
- Ivan Shadr, sculptor (1962)
- Stepan Shahumyan, revolutionary (1933, 1968, 1978)
- Marietta Shaginyan, writer (1988)
- William Shakespeare, English playwright (1964)
- Boris Shaposhnikov, Marshal of the Soviet Union (1982)
- Mikhail Shatelen, electrical engineer (1966)
- Mikhail Shchepkin, Russian actor (1963)
- Nikolay Shchors, revolutionary (1948)
- Boris Shchukin, actor (1971)
- Grigory Shelikhov, Russian Alaska settler (1991)
- Taras Shevchenko, Ukrainian poet and painter (1939, 1957, 1961, 1964, 1967, 1989)
- Lyubov Shevtsova, anti-Nazi underground activist (1944)
- Minay Shmyryov, World War II partisan (1967)
- Yuly Shokalsky, oceanologist and geographer (1956)
- Mikhail Sholokhov, writer (1985, 1990)
- Pavel Shternberg, astronomer and revolutionary (1965)
- Fedot Shubin, Russian sculptor (1955)
- Vladimir Shukhov, structural engineer (1963)
- Nikolay Shvernik, politician (1988)
- Stasys Šimkus, Lithuanian composer (1987)
- Ruben Simonov, actor (1971)
- Francysk Skaryna, Belarusian printer (1988)
- Nikolay Sklifosovsky, Russian physician (1961)
- Leonid Sobinov, opera singer (1972)
- Vasily Sokolovsky, Marshal of the Soviet Union (1977)
- Alexander Solovyov, Russian historian (1991)
- Vladimir Solovyov, cosmonaut (1985)
- Mikhail Somov, oceanologist (1980)
- Richard Sorge, intelligence agent (1965)
- Grigory Spiridov, Russian admiral (1987)
- Gennady Strekalov, cosmonaut (1981)
- Joseph Stalin, (1943–1954)
- Suleyman Stalsky, Lezgin poet (1969)
- Yelena Stasova, revolutionary (1973)
- Filipp Strelets, World War II partisan (1966)
- Vasily Struve, Russian astronomer (1954, 1964)
- Damdin Sükhbaatar, Mongolian revolutionary (1983)
- Sun Yat-sen, Chinese revolutionary (1966, 1986)
- Gabriel Sundukyan, Armenian playwright (1950)
- Vasily Surikov, Russian painter (1941, 1948)
- Alexander Suvorov, Russian generalissimus (1941, 1950, 1962, 1980)
- Yakov Sverdlov, revolutionary (1934, 1960, 1965, 1975, 1985)
- Fedot Sychkov, painter (1970)
T
- Rabindranath Tagore, Bengali polymath (1961)
- Viktor Talalikhin, aviator (1942–1944)
- Piotr Tchaikovsky, Russian composer (1940–1990)
- Valentina Tereshkova, cosmonaut (1963, 1983)
- Ernst Thälmann, German revolutionary (1966, 1986)
- Maurice Thorez, French politician (1964, 1965)
- Kliment Timiryazev, Russian biologist (1951)
- Semyon Timoshenko, Marshal of the Soviet Union (1980)
- Josip Broz Tito, Prime Minister and President of the Federal Socialist Republic of Yugoslavia (1982)
- Palmiro Togliatti, Italian politician (1893–1964)
- Barclay de Tolly, Russian field marshal (1962)
- Fyodor Petrovich Tolstoy, Russian painter and sculptor (1983)
- Leo Tolstoy, Russian writer (1935–1978)
- Evangelista Torricelli, Italian physicist and mathematician (1959)
- Konstantin Trenyov, playwright (1976)
- Pavel Tretyakov, Russian philanthropist (1956)
- Vasily Tropinin, Russian painter (1976)
- Konstantin Tsiolkovsky, rocketry pioneer (1964, 1986)
- Alexander Tsyurupa, revolutionary (1970)
- Mikhail Tukhachevsky, Marshal of the Soviet Union (1963)
- Hovhannes Tumanyan, Armenian poet (1969)
- Andrei Tupolev, aircraft designer (1988)
- Ivan Turgenev, Russian writer (1943, 1968)
- Mark Twain, American writer (1960)
- Sergey Tyulenin, anti-Nazi underground activist (1944)
U
- Lesya Ukrainka, Ukrainian writer (1956)
- Ulugh Beg, Uzbek astronomer and mathematician (1987)
- Dmitry Ulyanov, revolutionary (1974)
- Valerian Uryvayev, hydrologist (1980)
- Fyodor Ushakov, Russian admiral (1987)
- Konstantin Ushinsky, Russian educationist (1974)
- Vladimir Usov, 1991 coup d'état attempt victim (1991)
- Dmitriy Ustinov, Defence Minister and Marshal of the Soviet Union (1988)
- Ilya Usyskin, physicist (1934, 1944)
V
- Chokan Valikhanov, Kazakh scholar (1965)
- Alexander Vasilevsky, Marshal of the Soviet Union (1980)
- Apollinary Vasnetsov, Russian painter (1956)
- Viktor Vasnetsov, Russian painter (1951)
- Alexey Venetsianov, Russian painter (1955)
- Stanislav Vaupshasov, intelligence agent (1990)
- Vazha-Pshavela, Georgian poet (1961)
- Giuseppe Verdi, Italian composer (1963)
- Pyotr Vershigora, World War II partisan (1968)
- Eduard Vilde, Estonian author (1965)
- Jalmari Virtanen, Karelian poet (1989)
- Mikhail Vodopyanov, aviator (1935)
- Fyodor Volkov, Russian actor (1956)
- Vladislav Volkov, cosmonaut (1969, 1971, 1979)
- Boris Volynov, cosmonaut (1976)
- Kliment Voroshilov, Marshal of the Soviet Union (1976)
- Andrey Voronikhin, Russian architect (1960)
- Vatslav Vorovsky, revolutionary (1933, 1971)
- Pyotr Voykov, diplomat (1988)
- Samed Vurgun, Azeri poet (1976)
- Vladimir Vysotsky, singer (1988)
W
- Richard Wagner, German composer (1963)
Y
- Pavel Yablochkov, Russian inventor (1951)
- Iona Yakir, military leader (1966)
- Alexander Ilyich Yegorov, Marshal of the Soviet Union (1983)
- Boris Yegorov, cosmonaut (1964)
- Anna Yelizarova-Ulyanova, revolutionary (1964)
- Salawat Yulayev, Bashkir rebel (1952)
Z
- L. L. Zamenhof, philologist, inventor of Esperanto (1927)
- Nikolay Zelinsky, chemist (1961)
- Žemaitė, Lithuanian writer (1956)
- Ivan Zemnukhov, anti-Nazi underground activist (1944)
- Clara Zetkin, German politician (1957)
- Nikolay Zinin, Russian chemist (1962)
- Vitaly Zholobov, cosmonaut (1976)
- Georgy Zhukov, Marshal of the Soviet Union (1976) [1]
- Vasily Zhukovsky, Russian poet (1952, 1954)
- Vyacheslav Zudov, cosmonaut (1977)
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