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• Andropov, Yuri    b. June 15, 1914  d. February 9, 1984
  Soviet Union Premier. General Secretary of the Communist Party.
  Cause of death: Acute kidney failure
  Kremlin Wall, Moscow, Moscow Federal City, Russian Federation
   
• Bagramyan, Ivan Hristoforovich   b. December 2, 1897  d. September 21, 1982
  Soviet General. He was born in the city of Elizavetpol in the Republic of Azerbaijan. He joined the Russian Army in 1915 and served in both the First World War and the Russian Civil War. From 1923 to 1931 he served as the commander of an Armenian Rifle Division and also received advanced training in the Russian Calvary. He attended the Frunze Military Academy from 1931 to 1934 as a student and as a military instructor from 1938 to 1940. He was appointed chief of staff of the Southwest front...[Read More] (Bio by: Nils M. Solsvik Jr.)
  Kremlin Wall, Moscow, Moscow Federal City, Russian Federation
   
• Biriuzov, Sergei Semenovich   b. August 21, 1904  d. October 19, 1964
  Soviet General. He joined the Red Army at the age of 18, gaining promotion as commander of a combat battalion. In 1937 he graduated from the Frunze Military Academy, a highly acclaimed institution for training military staff officers. Following graduation he was appointed chief of staff of a Russian rifle division and two years later was promoted to Chief of Operations for the Kharkov Military District. In August 1939 he was appointed as the commanding officer of the 132nd Rifle Division...[Read More] (Bio by: Nils M. Solsvik Jr.)
  Kremlin Wall, Moscow, Moscow Federal City, Russian Federation
   
• Brezhnev, Leonid Ilyich    b. December 19, 1906  d. November 10, 1982
  General Secretary of the Communist Party. Named chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet in 1960, Brezhnev resigned in 1964 to become Khrushchev's direct assistant as second secretary of the Central Committee. The assistance he offered, however, was not what Khrushchev had hoped: After only three months in the post, Brezhnev helped lead the conservative coalition that forced Khrushchev from power. Brezhnev himself was one of the primary beneficiaries of Khrushchev's ouster. Named first...[Read More]
  Kremlin Wall, Moscow, Moscow Federal City, Russian Federation
   
• Budenny, Semyen Mikhaillovich    b. April 25, 1883  d. October 26, 1973
  Marshall of the Soviet Union.
  Kremlin Wall, Moscow, Moscow Federal City, Russian Federation
   
• Chernenko, Konstantin Ustinovich    b. September 24, 1911  d. March 10, 1985
  Russian Leader. General Secretary of the CPSU 1984-85.
  Kremlin Wall, Moscow, Moscow Federal City, Russian Federation
   
• Dobrovolskiy, Georgiy Timofeevich   b. June 1, 1928  d. June 30, 1971
  Cosmonaut. Born in Odessa, Ukraine, he had the unfortunate distinction of being part of the second Soviet crew to die during a space flight. On June 6, 1971, he was pilot in command of the Soyuz-11 spacecraft with Cosmonauts V.N. Volkov and V.I. Patsaev, launched under the program of the first manned mission to the Salyut space station. During the mission, they established a new world record of duration in space flight with 23 days 18 hours 21 minutes and 43 seconds. Upon re-entry to the Earth'...[Read More] (Bio by: John "J-Cat" Griffith)
  Kremlin Wall, Moscow, Moscow Federal City, Russian Federation
   
• Dzerzhinsky, Felix Edmundovich 'Iron Felix'   b. September 11, 1877  d. July 20, 1926
  Russian Secret Police Chief. He was the founder and head of the Russian Cheka from 1917 to 1921, a forerunner institution of the Russian NKVD and Soviet KGB. He was also the founder of the Polish Social Democratic Party and was active in both Polish and Russian revolutionary movements. He was arrested and exiled to Siberia in 1897 and 1900 for revolutionary activities and violence against the government, but managed to escape on both occasions. He was appointed Commissar for Internal Affairs of...[Read More] (Bio by: Nils M. Solsvik Jr.)
  Kremlin Wall, Moscow, Moscow Federal City, Russian Federation
   
• Frunze, Mikhail Vasilyevich   b. February 2, 1885  d. October 31, 1925
  Russian General, Revolutionary. He was one of the early supporters of the Bolshevik Party under the political leadership of Vladimir Ilyich Lenin, and one of the founding fathers of the Russian Red Army. He was one of the leaders of the 1905 Textile Workers Strike in the Russian towns of Shuya and Ivanovo. He was sentenced to prison later in the year for instigating political violence in Moscow, but managed to escape after...[Read More] (Bio by: Nils M. Solsvik Jr.)
  Kremlin Wall, Moscow, Moscow Federal City, Russian Federation
   
• Gagarin, Yuri Alexeevich    b. March 9, 1934  d. March 27, 1968
  Soviet Cosmonaut. He was the first human into outer space, making one orbit of the earth in an hour and 48 minutes of flight. Born the third of four children in Klushino, near Gzhatsk, his parents were workers on a Soviet collective farm; his father was a carpenter and his mother a homemaker. During World War II, his family suffered significantly, as did many Soviet families, and his two elder siblings were taken to Germany in 1943 as forced labor; they did not return to the family until...[Read More] (Bio by: Kit and Morgan Benson)
  Cause of death: Plane Crash
  Kremlin Wall, Moscow, Moscow Federal City, Russian Federation
   
• Gorky, Maxim   b. March 28, 1868  d. June 18, 1936
  Author. The famed Russian short story writer, novelist, autobiographer and essayist, he was born Aleksei Maximovich Peshkov but start to write under pseudonym Gorki (Gorky) which means "bitter". The town he was born in, Nizhnii Novgorod, was later named "Gorky" in his honor. He lost his parents at an early age - his father died of cholera and his mother died of tuberculosis. The scene of his mother, wailing and mourning over her dead husband, opens his book of memoir "My Childhood". Orphaned at...[Read More] (Bio by: Jelena)
  Kremlin Wall, Moscow, Moscow Federal City, Russian Federation
   
• Govorov, Leonid Aleksandrovich   b. February 22, 1897  d. March 19, 1955
  Soviet Military Commander. He began his career as student of shipbuilding in Petrograd before transferring to the Konstantinovskye Artillery School where he graduated as a second lieutenant. He joined the Red Army after serving in the Russian Civil War as a commander of an artillery battalion. During the 1920's he received additional training from the Frunze Military Academy. Following graduation he served as commander of an artillery unit in the Kiev Military District and as an instructor in...[Read More] (Bio by: Nils M. Solsvik Jr.)
  Kremlin Wall, Moscow, Moscow Federal City, Russian Federation
   
• Grechko, Andrei   b. October 17, 1903  d. April 26, 1976
  Soviet Army Leader and Soviet Deputy Minister of Defense. During World War II as a Commander in the Russian Army he took part in the liberation of the Caucasus, Ukraine, Czechslovakia, and Poland. In 1953 he assumed command of Soviet troops in East Germany, suppressing the East German Worker's Rebellion of that same year. He became Russia's first Deputy Minister of Defense under Marshal Malinovsky. In 1967 assuming the top post, he organized the 1968 invasion of Czechslovakia by Soviet troops...[Read More] (Bio by: K)
  Kremlin Wall, Moscow, Moscow Federal City, Russian Federation
   
• Haywood, William 'Big Bill' [Half of cremated remains]   b. February 4, 1869  d. May 17, 1928
  Labor Leader. He organized and led the Industrial Workers of the World. After his death he was cremated, with half his ashes interred in the United States and half in the Kremlin in Moscow, Russia.
  Kremlin Wall, Moscow, Moscow Federal City, Russian Federation
   
• Kalinin, Mikhail Ivanovich    b. November 7, 1875  d. June 3, 1946
  Soviet Union Statesman. President of the Supreme Council of the Soviet Union from 1938 to 46.
  Kremlin Wall, Moscow, Moscow Federal City, Russian Federation
   
• Kirov, Sergei Mironovich   b. March 27, 1886  d. December 1, 1934
  Revolutionary Figure, Politician. He was born under the name Sergei Mironovich Kostrikov in the town of Urzhum, Russia. He joined the Russian Social-Democratic Labour Party in 1904 and fought in both the 1905 Russian Revolution and Russian Civil War. In 1921 he was appointed head of the Azerbaijan party organization and helped in the formation of the Transcaucasian Soviet Federated Socialist Republic. He was appointed secretary of the Leningrad Communist Party by [Read More] (Bio by: Nils M. Solsvik Jr.)
  Kremlin Wall, Moscow, Moscow Federal City, Russian Federation
   
• Komarov, Vladimir    b. March 16, 1927  d. April 24, 1967
  Cosmonaut. Born Vladimir Mikhailovich in Moscow, Russia, he was a Colonel in the Soviet Air Force when he was selected as a Cosmonaut in February 1960. After various cosmonaut assignments, he made his first spaceflight with the Voskhod 1 mission on October 12, 1964. In April 1967, on his second flight on Soyuz 1, during the re-entry he was killed when the spacecraft crashed due to a flaw in the parachute compartment of the main parachute which did not deploy. In his honor, the asteroid 1836 and...[Read More] (Bio by: John "J-Cat" Griffith)
  Kremlin Wall, Moscow, Moscow Federal City, Russian Federation
   
• Konev, Ivan Stepanovich    b. December 28, 1897  d. May 21, 1973
  Soviet General. He was drafted into the Imperial Army in 1916 and sent home after the Armie's demobilization following the Russian Revolution in 1917. In 1919 he Joined the Red Army and Bolshevik party. He served in the Russian Civil War fighting anti-Soviet forces in the Far Eastern Province. He received his formal military training from the Frunze Military Academy. Following graduation in 1926 he held a number of senior military commands including commander of the Transbaikal and North...[Read More] (Bio by: Nils M. Solsvik Jr.)
  Kremlin Wall, Moscow, Moscow Federal City, Russian Federation
   
• Korolev, Sergei Pavlovich   b. January 12, 1906  d. January 14, 1966
  Rocket Designer, Engineer, Space Pioneer. He was the head of the Soviet Space Program during the 1950s and 1960s, overseeing the Sputnik, Luna, Verena, Vostok and Soyuz space missions. He attended the Kiev Polytechnic University and Moscow High Technical School. Following graduation he joined the Central Aero and Hydrodynamics Institute where he worked in the development of cruise missiles and rocket-powered gliders. He was imprisoned during the party purges of the 1930s on false charges of...[Read More] (Bio by: Nils M. Solsvik Jr.)
  Kremlin Wall, Moscow, Moscow Federal City, Russian Federation
   
• Kosygin, Alexei   b. February 20, 1904  d. December 18, 1980
  Soviet Political Leader. Served in the Red Army as a volunteer during the Russian Civil War. A member of the Communist Party beginning in 1927, he went onto join it's Central Committe in 1939. During the 1940s he became an aide to Joseph Stalin and was recognized as an expert in economics and industry. Kosygin held various other government and party posts before becoming the first Deputy Chairman of the USSR Council of Minister. In 1964 he succeeded Nikita Khruschev as Premier. In the 1960s his...[Read More] (Bio by: K)
  Kremlin Wall, Moscow, Moscow Federal City, Russian Federation
   

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