When was Sergey Mikhaylovich Prokudin-Gorsky born?
Sergey Prokudin-Gorsky
Sergey Mikhaylovich Prokudin-Gorsky (, ;  – September 27, 1944) was a Russian chemist and photographer. He is best known for his pioneering work in colour photography and his effort to document early 20th-century Russia.
Sergey Gorshkov
Sergey Georgyevich Gorshkov (; 26 February 1910 – 13 May 1988) was an admiral of the fleet of the Soviet Union. Twice awarded the title Hero of the Soviet Union, he oversaw the expansion of the Soviet Navy into a global force during the Cold War.
Sergey Prokudin-Gorsky
It has been estimated from Prokudin-Gorsky's personal inventory that before leaving Russia, he had about 3500 negatives. Upon leaving the country and exporting all his photographic material, about half of the photos were confiscated by Russian authorities for containing material they deemed strategically sensitive for war-time Russia. According to Prokudin-Gorsky's notes, the photos left behind were not of interest to the general public. Some of Prokudin-Gorsky's negatives were given away, and some he hid on his departure. Outside the Library of Congress collection, none has yet been found.
Mikhail Vaschenko-Zakharchenko
Mikhail Yegorovich Vaschenko-Zakharchenko (, ) (October 31 (old style) (November 12) 1825 in Malievka, Zolotonosha uyezd, Poltava Governorate, Russian Empire – August 14 (old style) (August 27) 1912 in Kiev, Russian Empire) was a Russian mathematician, member of Moscow Mathematical Society from 1866 and Privy Councillor of Russia from 1908. His major areas of research included the history of geometry in antiquity and Lobachevskian geometry.
Sergey Mikhailovich Bragin
Sergey Mikhailovich Bragin was born in 1894. He graduated from Leningrad Electrotechnical Institute (now St. Petersburg State Electrotechnical University). Since 1922 he worked at "Sevkabel" plant in Leningrad and at the same time was as a lecturer at Leningrad Electrotechnical Institute. In 1932 he was appointed chief engineer of "Soyuzkabel Trust" in Moscow. From 1933 to 1938 he was Deputy director for technical part at "Moskabel" plant, and then — Chief of the Cable department of the "Glavtsvetmetobrabotka Trust".
Alexander Borodin
Alexander Porfiryevich Borodin (; 12 November 183327 February 1887) was a Russian Romantic composer of Georgian origin. He was one of the prominent 19th-century composers known as The Mighty Handful, a group dedicated to producing a uniquely Russian kind of classical music, rather than imitating earlier Western European models. Borodin is best known for his symphonies, his two string quartets, the tone poem "In the Steppes of Central Asia" and his opera "Prince Igor". Music from "Prince Igor" and his string quartets was later adapted for the US musical "Kismet".
Sergey Prokudin-Gorsky
Prokudin-Gorsky was born in Murom in the ancestral estate of Funikova Gora, in what is now Kirzhachsky District, Vladimir Oblast. His parents were of the Russian nobility, and the family had a long military history. They moved to Saint Petersburg, where Prokudin-Gorsky enrolled in Saint Petersburg State Institute of Technology to study chemistry under Dmitri Mendeleev. He also studied music and painting at the Imperial Academy of Arts.
Sergei Prokhanov
Sergei Borisovich Prokhanov (; born December 29, 1952, Moscow) is a Soviet and Russian theater and film actor, theater director, artistic director of . People's Artist of the Russian Federation (2005). The most famous for him was the role Kesha Chetvergov in the Vladimir Grammatikov's comedy Mustached Nanny (1977).
Sergey Dorenko
Sergey Leonidovich Dorenko (; born October 18, 1959, in Kerch, Crimea, Soviet Union) is a Russian TV and radio journalist, famous for hosting a controversial weekly news commentary program in 1999-2000.
Sergey Nepobedimy
Sergey Pavlovich Nepobedimy (; 13 September 1921 – 11 April 2014) was a Soviet designer of rocket weaponry. He was the Head and Chief Designer of the Kolomna Mechanical Engineering Design Bureau (1965-1989). Born in Ryazan, USSR, he graduated from Bauman Moscow State Technical University in 1945 and was directed to the work at "SKB-101" ("KBM", currently FSUE «KB Mashinostroyeniya») of Boris Ivanovich Shavirin.
Sergey Migitsko
Sergey Grigorievich Migitsko (; born April 23, 1953) is a Soviet and Russian film and theater actor, TV presenter, Honored Artist of the RSFSR (1991), People's Artist of Russia (1998).
Sergey Fedorchenko
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Georgy Prokofiev
Georgy (Yegor) Alekseyevich Prokofiev (born August 17, 1902 in Teleshovo, Vyazma District – died April 23, 1939 in Moscow) was a Soviet Air Forces balloonist who coordinated military stratospheric balloon program in 1931–1939. September 30, 1933, "USSR-1" under Prokofiev's command set an unofficial world altitude record of .
Nikolai Sorokin
Nikolai Sorokin was born on February 15, 1952 in the Hutor Cossack Vesyolovsky District of Rostov Region, Russian's territory.
In 1975 he graduated from the Rostov art school (teacher of actor skill People's Artist of the USSR Mikhail Bushnov) and went to work in the Rostov drama theatre.
In 1984, Nikolai studied in Moscow, he graduated from the actor faculty of GITIS (teacher of actor skill People's Artist of the USSR Elina Bystritskaya).
In 1996, Nikolai Sorokin was appointed artistic director of the Rostov academic drama theatre of a name Maxim Gorky.
From 1999 to 2003 — Deputy of the State Duma of the Russian Federation of the third convocation (vice-Chairperson of the committee on culture and tourism), a member of the political party United Russia.
Since 2004, he was engaged in teaching activity. Professor of the Rostov branch of the St. Petersburg University of culture and arts, released two actors rate.
Nikolai Sorokin has worked at the Rostov theatre of drama about forty years. As an actor has created a lot of different images, as a director staged many performances in his native Rostov theatre, also worked abroad.
Mikhail Kobetsky
Mikhail Kobetsky (14 October 1881 in Odessa – 28 April 1937 in Moscow) was a Soviet politician and diplomat. From 1919 the head of the publishing house of the magazine "Kommunisticheskii Internatsional" in Petrograd. From 1922 he was a member of ECCI, the director of the Petrograd Department (Bureau) of the Executive Committee of the Communist International (ECCI). In 1921 he entered the Secretariat of ECCI. In 1924-27 he was the Polpred of the Soviet Union to Estonia (1924), Denmark (1924–33), Greece (1934–37) and Albania (1935–37). From January 1933 he was the referent of ECCI for the Scandinavian countries. He was arrested during one of the purges and executed.
Sergey Prokudin-Gorsky
Adolf Miethe designed a high-quality, sequential-exposure color camera, which was manufactured by Bermpohl and became available commercially in 1903. Prokudin-Gorsky published an illustration of it in "Fotograf-Liubitel" in 1906. The most common model used a single oblong plate 9 cm wide by 24 cm high, the same format as Prokudin-Gorsky's surviving negatives, and it photographed the images in unconventional blue-green-red sequence, which is also a characteristic of Prokudin-Gorsky's negatives if the usual upside-down image in a camera and gravity-compliant downward shiftings of his plates are assumed. An inventor as well as a photographer, Prokudin-Gorsky patented an optical system for cameras of the simultaneous-exposure type, and it is often claimed or implied that he invented, or at least built, the camera used for his Russian Empire project. No definite written or photographic documentation of his field equipment is known to exist, only the evidence inherent in the photographs themselves, and no rationale has been suggested for going to the trouble and expense of building a functionally identical copy of a Miethe-Bermpohl camera instead of simply buying one.
Vasily Gordov
Gordov was born on 30 December 1896 in the village of Matveyevka in Ufa Governorate. He was the son of peasants. Gordov joined the Imperial Russian Army in 1915 and was promoted to junior sergeant. He enlisted in the Red Guard in 1917, joining the Red Army in 1918. Gordov ended the Russian Civil War as the commander of the 53rd Rifle Regiment, fighting in the campaign against Nestor Makhno, for which he was awarded the Order of the Red Banner. Between 1925 and 1926, Gordov served as an advisor in the Mongolian People's Army. In 1932, he graduated from Frunze Military Academy and then became the chief of staff of the Moscow Red Banner Infantry School in 1933. He was the Chief of Staff of the 18th Rifle Division from May 1935 to 1937. In July 1937, Gordov became the commander of the 67th Rifle Division. In July 1939, he became the Chief of Staff of the Kalinin Military District.
Mikhail Borodkin
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Sergey Kalugin
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Sergey Prokopyev (beach volleyball)
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Georgi Proskurin
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Pyotr Semyonov-Tyan-Shansky
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Alexander Meller-Zakomelsky
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Sergey Karaganov
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Yuri Drozdov (general)
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Sergey Prokudin-Gorsky
On 30 August 2018, to commemorate what would have been his 155th birthday, Google released a Google Doodle celebrating him.
Sergey Mikhalkov
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Boris Gorin-Goryainov
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Sergey Kalmykov
Sergey Kalmykov was born in October 1891 in the Central Asian city of Samarkand, then a part of the Russian Empire. Soon after his birth the family moved to Orenburg where he studied in a gymnasium. In 1909-1910 Kalmykov lived in Moscow where he attended the Moscow Art School (studio of Konstantin Yuon, and from late 1919 in St.Petersburg where he was a member of the art studios of Mstislav Dobuzhinsky and Kuzma Petrov-Vodkin. It is widely believed that it was Kalmykov who inspired Petrov-Vodkin to create his famous painting.
Photography in Uzbekistan
The first color photographs of Central Asia belong to Sergey Prokudin-Gorsky, one of the founders of color photography.
Sergei Magnitsky
Sergei Leonidovich Magnitsky (; 8 April 1972 – 16 November 2009) was a Russian tax accountant who specialized in anti-corruption activities. His arrest in 2008 and subsequent death after eleven months in police custody generated international media attention and triggered both official and unofficial inquiries into allegations of fraud, theft, and human rights violations in Russia.
Sergey Prokudin-Gorsky
In 1890, Prokudin-Gorsky married Anna Aleksandrovna Lavrova, and later the couple had two sons, Mikhail and Dmitri, and a daughter, Ekaterina. Anna was the daughter of the Russian industrialist Aleksandr Stepanovich Lavrov, an active member in the Imperial Russian Technical Society (IRTS). Prokudin-Gorsky subsequently became the director of the executive board of Lavrov's metal works near Saint Petersburg and remained so until the October Revolution. He also joined Russia's oldest photographic society, the photography section of the IRTS, presenting papers and lecturing on the science of photography. In 1901, he established a photography studio and laboratory in Saint Petersburg. In 1902, he traveled to Berlin and spent six weeks studying colour sensitization and three-colour photography with photochemistry professor Adolf Miethe, the most advanced practitioner in Germany at that time. Throughout the years, Prokudin-Gorsky's photographic work, publications and slide shows to other scientists and photographers in Russia, Germany and France earned him praise, and in 1906 he was elected the president of the IRTS photography section and editor of Russia's main photography journal, the "Fotograf-Liubitel". Gorsky was a member of the Royal Photographic Society between 1920 and 1932..
Perhaps Prokudin-Gorsky's best-known work during his lifetime was his color portrait of Leo Tolstoy, which was reproduced in various publications, on postcards, and as larger prints for framing. The fame from this photo and his earlier photos of Russia's nature and monuments earned him invitations to show his work to the Russian Grand Duke Michael Alexandrovich and Dowager Empress Maria Feodorovna in 1908, and to Tsar Nicholas II and his family in 1909. The Tsar enjoyed the demonstration, and, with his blessing, Prokudin-Gorsky got the permission and funding to document Russia in color. In the course of ten years, he was to make a collection of 10,000 photos. Prokudin-Gorsky considered the project his life's work and continued his photographic journeys through Russia until after the October Revolution. He was appointed to a new professorship under the new regime, but he left the country in August 1918. He still pursued scientific work in color photography, published papers in English photography journals and, together with his colleague S. O. Maksimovich, obtained patents in Germany, England, France and Italy.
Solomon Mikhlin
Solomon Grigor'evich Mikhlin (, real name Zalman Girshevich Mikhlin) (the family name is also transliterated as Mihlin or Michlin) (23 April 1908 – 29 August 1990) was a Soviet mathematician of who worked in the fields of linear elasticity, singular integrals and numerical analysis: he is best known for the introduction of the concept of "symbol of a singular integral operator", which eventually led to the foundation and development of the theory of pseudodifferential operators. He was born in Kholmech, a Belarusian village, and died in Saint Petersburg (former Leningrad).
Sergey Volkonsky
Prince Sergei Grigorievich Volkonsky (Серге́й Григорьевич Волко́нский; 19 December 1788 - 10 December 1865) was a Russian Major General and Decembrist from the aristocratic Volkonsky family.
Aleksandar Protogerov
Alexandar Protogerov (Bulgarian: Александър Протогеров) (28 February 1867 Ohrid, Ottoman Empire, today Republic of Macedonia – 7 July 1928, Sofia) was a Bulgarian general, politician and revolutionary, as well as a member of the revolutionary movement in Macedonia and Thrace. He was among the leaders of the Supreme Macedonian-Adrianople Committee and later joined the Internal Macedonian Revolutionary Organization. He was a volunteer in the Serbo-Bulgarian War in 1885. Protogerov took part in the Gorna Djumaya uprising in 1902 and in the Ilinden-Preobrazhenie Uprising.
Mikhail Gershenzon
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Pyotr Kryuchkov
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Vladimir Myshkin
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Alexander Ivanovich Mikhailov
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Mikhailov graduated in 1931 in Mechanical Engineering from the Mendeleev Institute and had a successful career in plane and aircraft engineering in the 1930s and 1940s. At the beginning of the 1950s, he participated in the creation and development of the Vserossijsky Institut Nauchnoi I Tekhnicheskoy Informatsii, or VINITI, an institute devoted to the study and practice of Scientific Information in Russia. The institute opened in 1952, and Mikhailov became director from October 1956 until his death.
Vladimir Kurochkin
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Mikhail Savitsky
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Mikhail Porechenkov
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Sergey Mergelyan
Sergey Mergelyan (; born 19 May 1928 in Simferopol, Crimea, Soviet Union; died 20 August 2008 in Los Angeles, United States; buried at the Novodevichie Memorial Cemetery in Moscow, Russia) was an Armenian scientist, an outstanding mathematician, who is the author of major contributions in Approximation Theory. The modern Complex Approximation Theory is based on Mergelyan's classical work.
Corresponding Member Academy of Sciences of USSR (since 1953 года, 1991 — Russian Academy of Sciences), member of NAS ASSR (since 1956 года, 1993 года — NAS RA). The surname "Mergelov" given at birth was changed from patriotic considerations to "Mergelyan" by the mathematician himself before his trip to Moscow.у.
Mikhail Zagoskin
Zagoskin was born in the village of Ramzay in Penza Oblast. He began his official career as a librarian, then became part of the management of the Imperial Theatres, and lastly served as director of the Moscow Armory Museum. In the 1810s and 20s he published a series of comedies. His best known work, the historical novel "Yury Miloslavsky", was published in 1829 and became the first Russian best-seller. His historical novels, including "Yury Miloslavsky", were open imitations of Sir Walter Scott, and were immensely popular. Zagoskin attempted to Russify his characters and provided authentic descriptive detail; his "contribution lies in his innovative of language to create an illusion of antiquity. The dramatist in him shows through in the preponderance of dialogue over description or exposition, and in the use of colloquial speech, and the oral speech of the common people." Sergey Aksakov described the extraordinary impact of "Yury Miloslavsky":We did not yet have a popular writer in the accurate and full sense of the word . . . our distance from the people and their low literacy being direct and readily apparent obstacles. [...] But Zagoskin more than anyone else can be called a popular writer. In addition to other classes, he has been read and is read by all merchant peasants able to read. . . . They tell about what they have read and sometimes read aloud to many other illiterate peasants. The enormous number of snuffboxes and printed kerchiefs with depictions of various scenes from "Yury Miloslavsky" carried to all corners of the Russian expanse uphold the renown of its author.
Mikhail Gorbachev
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Sergey Prokudin-Gorsky
Around 1905, Prokudin-Gorsky envisioned and formulated a plan to use the emerging technological advances that had been made in color photography to document the Russian Empire systematically. Through such an ambitious project, his ultimate goal was to educate the schoolchildren of Russia with his "optical color projections" of the vast and diverse history, culture, and modernization of the empire.
Sergey Nikolsky
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Nikolai Garin-Mikhailovsky
He came down in the history of Russian literature as the author of the story "Tyoma's Childhood" (1892) and the short story "Several Years in the Country". His travels in the Far East resulted in the travel notes "Around Korea, Manchuria and Liaodong Peninsula" (1899) and "Korean Tales" (1899). One of his stories was published in the first volume of Maxim Gorky's Znanie collections in 1904.
Grigoriy Myasoyedov
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Sergey Gusev-Orenburgsky
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Maxim Gorky
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Georgi Yungvald-Khilkevich
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Igor Guberman
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Leon Mirsky
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Mikhail Sangursky
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Boris Grekov
Boris Dmitrievich Grekov (21 April 1882 in Myrhorod – 9 September 1953 in Moscow) was a Soviet historian noted for his comprehensive studies of Kievan Rus and the Golden Horde. He was a member of the Soviet Academy of Sciences (1934) and several foreign academies, as well as Director of the Russian History Institute in Moscow.
Sergey Prokudin-Gorsky
Another very notable practitioner was Adolf Miethe, with whom Prokudin-Gorsky studied in Germany in 1902. Miethe was a photochemist who greatly improved the panchromatic characteristics of the black-and-white photographic materials suitable for use with this method of color photography. He presented projected color photographs to the German Imperial Family in 1902 and was exhibiting them to the general public in 1903, when they also began to appear in periodicals and books. Miethe took the first known aerial color photographs, from a hot air balloon, in 1906.
Mikhail Gluzsky
Mikhail Andreyevich Gluzsky was born in Kiev in 1918. He worked at a factory before World War II and made his film debut as a Mosfilm acting studio student, appearing diverse episodic roles in Grigory Roshal's "The Oppenheim Family", Konstantin Yudin's "A Girl with a Personality", and Vsevolod Pudovkin's "Minin and Pozharsky" in 1939. He graduated from the studio in 1940 and joined the troupe of the Central Theater of the Red Army, fought as a soldier in World War II, and worked in Moscow after his discharge. His prolific career in film reached its height during the post-war period.
Grigory Petrovsky
Grigory Ivanovich Petrovsky (, "Hryhoriy Ivanovych Petrovsky") (3 February 1878 - 9 January 1958) was a Ukrainian Soviet politician. He participated in signing the Treaty on the Creation of the USSR and the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk. Petrovsky was one of the officials responsible for implementing collectivization and for the subsequent Ukrainian famine of 1932-33.
Mikhail Novitsky
Mikhail V. Novitsky (; born 17 December 1963) is a Russian actor, singer/songwriter and guitarist, who fronts the rock band "SP Babai " (Saint Petersburg), which he formed in 1993 from the ashes of his first band "Avtobus". He is also the organizer of the Vladimir Vysotsky singer-songwriter festival "Lampushka" since 2001. Apart from music, he is an active member of his preservationist group "Green Wave", which he set up to protect St. Petersburg parks and lakes.Mikhail Novitsky is a regular participant of the protest movement in Russia. From the middle of the zero's he constantly played at meetings of the democratic opposition in St. Petersburg, where he performed critical songs of his own devoted to the Russian authorities, especially Russian President Vladimir Putin. His song “Putin, skiing, Magadan” in recent years has become the unofficial anthem of the protest movement in St. Petersburg. Putin's regime cancels his concerts in Russia regularly because of irreconcilable political position of Mikhail Novitsky.
Serguei Kostiuchenko
He was born on December 17, 1965. At the age of six he began to learn to play the accordion and wind instruments. In 1981, Kostiuchenko was enrolled in the Moscow Military Music College. After graduating with honors in 1985, he entered the Moscow State Conservatory named after P. Tchaikovsky. In 1990, he was appointed the chief conductor for the massed bands of the Belarusian Military District. Between 1990 and 2008, he served as chief military conductor of the orchestra of the 357 gv. parachute regiment 103 gv. parachute division. The chief conductor of the Orchestra of the Minsk Higher Engineering Air Defense Missile School, military conductor of the Guard of Honor, and Deputy Chief of the military orchestral service of the Armed Forces. Since 2008, he has served as the Head of the Military Orchestra Service of the Armed Forces. During his tenure as chief director, he put the Central band of the armed forces in many military festivals, such as Moscow's Spasskaya Tower Military Music Festival and Tattoo.
Spartak Mishulin
Spartak Vasilyevich Mishulin (; Moscow, October 22, 1926 – Moscow, July 17, 2005) was a Soviet actor and People's Artist of USSR. He was best known for his roles as Sayid in "White Sun of the Desert" (1969) and the title character in the Soviet stage adaptation of the Swedish children's book series Karlsson-on-the-Roof (1971) at Moscow's famed Satire Theatre.
Alexander Veledinsky
Alexander Alexeevich Veledinsky (Александр Алексеевич Велединский, born July 27, 1959 in Gorky) is a Russian film director and scenarist. He directed several films, but is most famous for The Geographer Drank His Globe Away (2013). The film won five Nika Awards (including the best film), five prizes at Kinotavr festival, and many other awards.
Vladimir Gorodetsky
Vladimir Filippovich Gorodetsky (; born July 11, 1948) is a Russian politician. He served three terms as mayor of Novosibirsk, Russia from 2000 to 2014 and was the governor of Novosibirsk Oblast from 2014 to 2017.
Vladimir Proskurin
Vladimir Grigoryevich Proskurin (; born 24 January 1945 in Voronezh) is a Soviet Russian football player and coach.
Sergey Gorshkov
Born in Kamianets-Podilskyi to a Russian family, Gorshkov grew up in Kolomna. After joining the Soviet Navy in 1927, he entered the M.V. Frunze Naval School in Leningrad during October of that year. Gorshkov began his service with the Black Sea Fleet (then known as the Black Sea Naval Forces) upon graduation in November 1931 as a watch officer aboard the destroyer . He quickly became its navigator a month later and in March 1932 transferred to the Pacific Fleet to serve in the same position aboard the minelayer . Promoted to become flagship navigator of the minelaying and minesweeping brigade of the fleet in January 1934, Gorshkov was given command of the "Uragan"-class guard ship "Buran" in November of that year. He studied at courses for destroyer commanders between December 1936 and March 1937, becoming commander of the destroyer following completion. After becoming chief of staff of the Pacific Fleet Destroyer Brigade in October, Gorshkov was appointed its commander in May 1938. During this period he participated in the Battle of Lake Khasan before being transferred west to command the Black Sea Fleet Cruiser Brigade in June 1940.
Gregory Pikus
Gregory Evgenievich (Ezekielevich) Pikus (May 7, 1923 – April 12, 1998) was a prominent Soviet theoretical physicist whose contributions strongly influenced developing physics of semiconductors. Among his most fundamental contributions are development of the method of invariants in band theory of solids, the Bir-Aronov-Pikus mechanism of spin relaxation of electrons, prediction of the circular photogalvanic effect, and theory of weak localization in noncentrosymmetric structures. His three monographs reflect the focus points of the theory of semiconductors during the second half of 20th century from transistors to band theory to properties to artificial nanostructures.
Sergey Chaplygin
Sergey Alexeyevich Chaplygin (; April 5, 1869, Ranenburg – October 8, 1942, Novosibirsk) was a Russian and Soviet physicist, mathematician, and mechanical engineer. He is known for mathematical formulas such as Chaplygin's equation and for a hypothetical substance in cosmology called Chaplygin gas, named after him. He graduated in 1890 from Moscow University, and later became a professor. He taught mechanical engineering at Moscow Higher Women's Courses in 1901, and of applied mathematics at Moscow School of Technology, 1903. Leonid I. Sedov was one of his students.
Sergey Arzhanukhin
Sergey V. Arzhanukhin was born September 1, 1957. In 1980 he graduated the Philosophy Faculty, the Ural Federal University and 1984 completed the post-graduate course at the Saint-Petersburg State University; the highest academic degree, Doctor of Philosophical Sciences, was successfully defended in 1996 at the Ural federal University.
Grigori Sokolnikov
Grigori Sokolnikov was born Girsh Yankelevich Brilliant in Romny on 15 August 1888, the son of a Jewish doctor employed byt he railways. He moved to Moscow as a teenager and joined the Bolshevik faction of the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party in 1905. In 1906-07, he was based in the Sokolniki district of Moscow as a Bolshevik propagandist, until autumn 1907, when the district organisation was crushed by mass arrests, and he was detained for 18 months in solitary confinement in Butyrka prison, and sentenced to lifelong exile in Siberia. Deported in February 1909, it took four months for him to reach his assigned destination, a village called Rybnoye, on the bank fo the Angara River, and six weeks to escape, via Moscow to Paris. In Paris, he obtained a doctorate in economics. He joined the 'conciliatior' Bolsheviks, who wanted to avert an outright split with the Mensheviks. During the war, he moved to Switzerland, and contributed to the newspaper Nashe Slovo, edited by Trotsky.
Vladimir Gorsky
Gorsky was born in Moscow and emigrated from Russia to Texas. He died on September 30, 2008 at 13:56. His art is on the walls of heads of state, private collectors, and art galleries around the world. His portfolio ranges from a Russian fairy tale series to miniature gold leafed portraits on small wooden eggs. Special projects include "From the Depth of Ages" depicting historical artwork from stone tablets to the Mona Lisa. His painting "Tapestry of the Centuries" comprises 350 people and events that shaped the history of the world from the time of Christ up to the year 2000. The medium is mixed media on canvas. The canvas is 9' × 18' and took 3 years to paint. This painting has achieved international recognition. The "Tapestry" is currently on display at the Museum of Biblical Art (Dallas).
Georgy Sudeykin
Georgy Porfiryevich Sudeykin (; 11 April 1850 - 16 December 1883 Saint Petersburg) was a Russian Gendarme colonel, the inspector of the "Saint Petersburg Department for Protection of Communal Security and Order". He was killed by his own double agent, Sergey Degayev.
Mikhail Skobelev
Mikhail Dmitriyevich Skobelev (29 September 1843 – 7 July 1882) was a Russian general famous for his conquest of Central Asia and heroism during the Russo-Turkish War of 1877–1878. Dressed in white uniform and mounted on a white horse, and always in the thickest of the fray, he was known and adored by his soldiers as the "White General" (and by the Turks as the "White Pasha"). During a campaign in Khiva, his Turkmen opponents called him "goz zanli" or "Bloody Eyes". British Field Marshal Bernard Montgomery wrote that Skobelev was the world's "ablest single commander" between 1870 and 1914 and called him a "skilful and inspiring" leader.
Sergey Stepnyak-Kravchinsky
Sergey Mikhaylovich Stepnyak-Kravchinsky (; July 1, 1851 – 23 December 1895), known in the 19th century London revolutionary circles as Sergius Stepniak, was a Ukrainian revolutionary mainly known for assassinating General Nikolai Mezentsov, the chief of Russia's Gendarme corps and the head of the country's secret police, with a dagger in the streets of St Petersburg in 1878.
Mikhail Kvetsinsky
Mikhail Fyodorovich Kvetsinsky ( (January 3, 1866 – March 31, 1923), also known as Michael (von) Kwetzinsky, was a Russian officer and a military administrator. He held notable command posts in the Russian Far East, during the Russo-Japanese War, during the First World War and during the Russian Civil War, when he was one of the leaders of the White Army of the North during the North Russia Intervention. Kvetsinsky became a Major-General in 1910 and a Lieutenant-General in 1915.
Michel Heller
Michel Heller (Михаил Яковлевич Геллер, 1922–1997) was a Russian historian.
Mikhail Y. Geller (August 31, 1922, Mogilev, Belorussian SSR, January 3, 1997, Paris, France) - historian, journalist, writer, critic and dissident. Author of several books that explore different aspects of Russian history and literature of the Soviet period, published in England, France, Poland, Hungary and other countries. He has proved an authority in the field of modern Russian literature, the modern history of Russia. His works are better known outside Russia. Author of a monograph on homo sovieticus, social engineering and propaganda in the USSR titled "Cogs in the Wheel: The Formation of Soviet Man".
Georgy Burdzhalov
Georgy Sergeyevich Burdzhalov (, born "Бурджалян", Бурджалян; 14 April 1869, Astrakhan, Russian Empire, — 10 December 1924, Moscow, Soviet Union) was an Armenian Russian stage actor and theatre director, associated with Moscow Art Theatre, where he played, in all, 38 parts, including the acclaimed Mikhaylo Golovin ("Tsar Fyodor Ioannovich", A.K. Tolstoy, 1898), The Wood Demon ("The Sunken Bell", Gerhart Hauptmann, 1898), Launcelot Gobbo ("The Merchant of Venice", William Shakespeare, 1898), Kadushkin ("Men Above the Law", Alexey Pisemsky, 1898), Tatishchev ("The Death of Ivan the Terrible", A.K. Tolstoy, 1899).
Sergey Oldenburg
Sergey Feodorovitch Oldenburg was born in Russia on 26 September 1863, in Byankino, Transbaikal Oblast. His father was ; his grandfather was a full general in the Imperial Russian Army. During the 1880s while at St. Petersburg University Oldenburg participated in the Scientific-Literary Association of Students, a brotherhood which shared liberal and radical ideals. Here he met Aleksandr Ulyanov as they were both in the inner circle of this organisation. Ulyanov dropped out of the inner circle when he started to plan an assassination attempt on the life of emperor Alexander III. The attempt failed, and following the execution of Ulyanov in 1887, his brother, Vladimir Lenin visited Oldenburg in St Petersburg in 1891. Oldenburg had just returned from a two-year trip to London, Paris, and Cambridge.
Alexander Alexeyevich Gorsky
The Russian ballet choreographer Alexander Gorsky was born August 6, 1871 outside of St. Petersburg, Russia. When he turned eight his parents hoped to send him to the School of Commerce and his sister to the Imperial Ballet School both in St. Petersburg. After being accepted to the School of Commerce he went along with his sister to the Imperial School of Ballet. Officials of the school insisted he also be a student there as well as his sister. His parents accepted and Alexander became a student at the Imperial Ballet School
Grigory Kugushev
Prince Grigory Vasilyevich Kugushev (, 17 March 1824 – 3 October 1871) was a Russian writer, poet and playwright whose comedies, including "Goluboi Kapot" (Blue Hood), "Pari" (The Bet), "Priyomysh" (The Foster) had considerable, if not lasting, success in the Russian Imperial Theatres in 1850s. More substantial and critically acclaimed were Kugushev's works of fiction, notably "Kornet Otletayev" (Корнет Отлетаев, a three-part novella, first published by "Russky Vestnik" in 1856) and the four-part novel "Postoronneye Vliyaniye" (Постороннее влияние, The Outside Influence, 1858—1859). He also wrote the libretto for the epic drama opera "Mazeppa" (1859) by Baron 
Boris Fitinhof-Schell.
Fyodor Burdin
Fyodor Alexeyevich Burdin (, April 11, 1827 in Moscow, Russian Empire – February 24, 1887 in Moscow) was a Russian actor, best remembered for his parts in the Alexandrinsky Theatre productions of plays by his best friend Alexander Ostrovsky, whose rise to fame had a lot to do with Burdin's enthusiasm about the playwright's work, his connections in high places and considerable entrepreneurial talents.
Sergey Prokudin-Gorsky
In 1920, Prokudin-Gorsky remarried and had a daughter with his assistant Maria Fedorovna née Schedrimo. The family finally settled in Paris in 1922, reuniting with his first wife and children. Prokudin-Gorsky set up a photo studio there together with his three adult children, naming it after his fourth child, Elka. In the 1930s, the elderly Prokudin-Gorsky continued with lectures showing his photographs of Russia to young Russians in France, but stopped commercial work and left the studio to his children, who named it Gorsky Frères. He died in Paris on September 27, 1944, a month after the Liberation of Paris. He is buried in the Sainte-Geneviève-des-Bois Russian Cemetery.
Lev Gor'kov
Lev Petrovich Gor'kov (Лев Петрович Горьков; 14 June 1929 – 28 December 2016) was a Russian-American research physicist internationally known for his pioneering work in the field of superconductivity. He was a professor of physics at Florida State University in Tallahassee, Florida, and a program director in Condensed Matter at the National High Magnetic Field Laboratory. He was one of the Magnet Lab's founding scientists.
Prince Mikhail Cantacuzène
Prince Mikhail Mikhailovich Cantacuzène, Count Speransky (; 29 April 1875 – 25 March 1955) was a Russian general. The title of Count Speransky has been alternatively spelled "Spiransky" and "Speranski".
Mikhail Khodorkovsky
Mikhail Borisovich Khodorkovsky (, ; born 26 June 1963) is an exiled Russian businessman, philanthropist and former oligarch, now resident in Switzerland. In 2003, Khodorkovsky was believed to be the wealthiest man in Russia (with a fortune estimated to be worth $15 billion) and was ranked 16th on "Forbes" list of billionaires. He had worked his way up the Komsomol apparatus during the Soviet years, and started several businesses during the period of "glasnost" and "perestroika" in the late 1980s. After the dissolution of the Soviet Union, in the mid-1990s, he accumulated considerable wealth by obtaining control of a number of Siberian oil fields unified under the name Yukos, one of the major companies to emerge from the privatization of state assets during the 1990s (a scheme known as "Loans for Shares").
Mikhail Roginsky
Mikhail Roginsky (; 14 August 1931 – 5 July 2004) was a Russian painter. Roginsky was one of the leaders of Soviet Nonconformist Art and the creator of the modern national visual method, with its laconic means and inner expressiveness.
Sergey Kuskov
Kuskoy was born on June 6, 1957 in Moscow to Ivan Kuskov () and Irina, daughter of Russian scientist Alexander Chizhevsky. In 1980, he graduated from the Department of History at Moscow State University, with a major in History and Art Theory. In 1989 has defended his Ph.D. in Art Studies. After that he worked in Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts, Moscow and curated a large number of exhibitions. Beyond curating exhibits, he was a well known art critic and authored articles about many artists, including Rasikh Akhmetvaliev, Anatoly Zverev, Dmitry Krasnopevtsev, Lena Hades, Nina Valetova, and .
He died on June 22, 2008 in Krasnodar.
Mikhail Pogodin
Mikhail Petrovich Pogodin (; ) was a Russian historian and journalist who, jointly with Nikolay Ustryalov, dominated the national historiography between the death of Nikolay Karamzin in 1826 and the rise of Sergey Solovyov in the 1850s. He is best remembered as a staunch proponent of the Normanist theory of Russian statehood.
Mikhail Gorbanevsky
Mikhail Viktorovich Gorbanevsky (; born 21 May 1953, Chelyabinsk) is a Soviet and Russian linguist. His studies include general and Russian onomastics, toponymy and lexicology, forensic linguistic expertise, Slavic studies and speech culture, Russian language in computer technologies. He earned his Doctor of Philology in 1994. He became a Professor of the Department of General and Russian Linguistics of Peoples' Friendship University of Russia in 1996.
Vadim Sidur
Vadim Abramovich Sidur (; 28 June 1924, Yekaterinoslav - 26 June 1986, Moscow) was a Soviet avant-garde sculptor and artist sometimes referred as the "Soviet Henry Moore". Sidur is the creator of a style named Grob-Art ("Coffin-Art"). He also left a book of poetry "The Happiest Autumn" (Самая Счастливая Осень) and a memoir "Monuments to the Current State" (Памятники Современному Состоянию).
Mikhail Sadovsky
Mikhail Aleksandrovich Sadovsky () (November 6, 1904, Saint Petersburg – October 12, 1994) was a Soviet physicist, academician (1966), and Hero of Socialist Labor (1949). Awarded the Lomonosov Gold Medal in 1985.
Sergey Prokopyev (cosmonaut)
Sergei Valeriyevich Prokopyev (, born 19 February 1975) is a Russian cosmonaut. He is the commander of Soyuz MS-09, and flight engineer of Expedition 56/57 to the International space station.
Sergey Grishin (footballer, born 1973)
Sergey Sergeyevich Grishin (; born 18 November 1973) is a retired professional association footballer.Grishin played his first game for Russia on 30 April 1997 against Luxembourg in a 1998 FIFA World Cup qualifier, scoring a goal on his debut. He only played two more games for Russia.
Sergei Ogoltsov
Sergei Ivanovich Ogoltsov ("Сергей Иванович Огольцов" in Russian; August 29, 1900 – October 26, 1976) was a Russian member of the Soviet NKVD from 1936 until it was reorganized as the MGB in 1946. He served in the MGB until his arrest in 1953. He was the Deputy Director of State Security (MGB) from July 14, 1951 to August 9, 1951. By the time he was arrested in 1953 he had risen to the rank of Lieutenant General in the NKVD. He was released from prison in 1953 after a short arrest and he retired from the MGB. He died in 1976.
Georgi Mosolov
Georgi Konstantinovitš Mosolov (; 3 May 1926, Ufa, Bashkortostan, Soviet Union – 18 March 2018) was a Soviet Russian test pilot. He attained the rank of "Polkovnik" (Colonel). He attained two world air speed records, in either the Mikoyan MiG-21 or the prototype Mikoyan Ye-66, as well as one altitude record. Colonel Mosolov was awarded the Hero of the Soviet Union and the Lenin Prize.
Gennady Gor
Gennady Samoilovich Gor () (January 15, 1907 in Verkhneudinsk, Siberia - January 6, 1981 in St. Petersburg) was a Russian writer and science fiction author of the Soviet Union.
Sergey Prokudin-Gorsky
Due to the very specialized and labor-intensive processes required to make photographic color prints from the negatives, only about a hundred of the images were used in exhibits, books and scholarly articles during the half-century after the Library of Congress acquired them. Their widest exposure was in the 1980 coffee table book "Photographs for the Tsar: The Pioneering Color Photography of Sergei Mikhailovich Prokudin-Gorskii Commissioned by Tsar Nicholas II", in which the color images are combined yellow, magenta and cyan ink-on-paper halftones mass-produced with a multicolor printing press in the usual way.
Graal Arelsky
Stephan Stephanovich Petrov (), better known by the pen name Graal-Arelsky (; born 1889, died 1937), was a poet of Ego-Futurism in Russia. He co-founded the Academy of Ego-Poetry with fellow Ego-Futurist Konstantin Olimpov.
Vladimir Pravdich-Neminsky
Vladimir Pravdich-Neminsky (, ; 2 July 1879 – 17 May 1952) was Ukrainian and then Soviet physiologist who published the first EEG and the evoked potential of the mammalian brain. He was a representative of Kiev Physiological School. He was a victim of Soviet repressions.
First Chief Directorate
From June to September 1946, the head of foreign intelligence (MGB 1st directorate), was Lieutenant General Pyotr Kubatkin (born in 1907), when he was replaced by then Lieutenant General Pyotr Fedotov (born in 1900). Before he became head of foreign intelligence, he was working in OGPU/GUGB counter-intelligence and 'Secret Political departments and then he headed the NKVD's counter-intelligence department. From 1949 to 1951, the head of intelligence in the Committee of Information was Sergey Savchenko. Savchenko was born in 1904 and at first he was working as a security guard. He joined Soviet security organs in 1922 and in the 1940s was a top NKVD man in Ukrainian SSR. When Andrey Vyshinsky became "Minister for Foreign Affairs" and the head of Committee of Information, Savchenko was his deputy and head of foreign intelligence. In 1951, he was replaced by Lt. Gen. Yevgeny Petrovich Pitovranov, longtime secret service worker. Between 1950 and 1951, he was the deputy of MGB head Viktor Abakumov.
House-Museum of Mitrofan Grekov
Battle painter Martyshchenko Mitrofan Pavlovich primarily known as Mitrofan Grekov was born in khutor of Sharpaevka, Don Host Oblast, Russian Empire on 3 June 1882. He graduated from Odessa art school and the Saint Petersburg Academy of Arts. Grekov is founder of Soviet battle genre. He spent in Novocherkassk 14 years of his life. Grekov lived here from June 1918 to 1931. At this period Grekov created 94 paintings include "To the squadron with Budyonny" (1923), "Tachanka" (1925), "Mounted attack" (1927), "Battle of stanitsa of Yegorlyvskaya" (1927-1928), the first Soviet diorama "Siege of Rostov". Mitrofan Grekov had served in Novocherkassk for four years and three months. Novocherkassk period of activity has been the most productive in the painter's biography. The opening ceremony of the House-Museum took place on 30 March 1957 23 years after death of Mitrofan Grekov.