Yuri Andropov
His earliest documented name was Grigory Vladimirovich Andropov-Fyodorov; he changed it to Yuri Andropov only several years later. While his original birth certificate disappeared, it was established that Andropov was in fact born in Moscow where his mother had been working in a women's gymnasium since 1913 throughout 1914 and until 1917.
Yuri Romanov (physicist)
He was born in Moscow into a family with a strong engineering background. He went to school No.64 in Moscow in 1933. In 1941, he was evacuated to the Ural Mountains with his mother and sister. He passed the external examinations for 10th grade in 1942 and began a correspondence course of the Moscow State University in Sverdlovsk Oblast. On his return to Moscow in 1943, he joined the motor faculty of the Moscow Aviation Institute, while continuing his University studies. He moved to the engineering and physical faulty of the Moscow Mechanical Institute of Munitions as a third-year student. In 1947, he graduated with honours from his Moscow State University course. The following year he entered postgraduate study under Igor Tamm.