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Burials at the Kremlin Wall Necropolis
- Joseph StalinJoseph Stalin signed his articles "K. Stalin", an alias drawn from the Russian word for steel, translated as "Man of Steel." The man who chose it was born…
- Alexei KosyginAlexei Nikolayevich Kosygin was born in the city of Saint Petersburg on the 18th of February 1904. He grew up in a Russian working-class family with his…
- Mikhail SuslovMikhail Suslov died on the 25th of January 1982, ending a life that began in rural Russia in 1902. His early years were spent in Shakhovskoye, a small…
- Leonid BrezhnevLeonid Ilyich Brezhnev was born on the 19th of December 1906 in Kamenskoye, Ukraine. His father worked as a metalworker and his mother came from Yenakiieve.
- Yuri AndropovYuri Vladimirovich Andropov was born on the 15th of June 1914 in Stanitsa Nagutskaya, a town that now belongs to Stavropol Krai.
- Konstantin ChernenkoKonstantin Chernenko was born to a poor family in the Siberian village of Bolshaya Tes on the 24th of September 1911. He joined the Komsomol Communist Youth…
- Vladimir LeninVladimir Ilyich Ulyanov was born on the 22nd of April 1870 in Streletskaya Ulitsa, a street in the city of Simbirsk. He grew up as the third child among…
- Kliment VoroshilovKliment Voroshilov was born on the 4th of February 1881 in Verkhnyeye, a small settlement within the Bakhmut uyezd of the Russian Empire.
- Andrey VyshinskyAndrey Yanuaryevich Vyshinsky was born in Odessa into a Polish Catholic family. His father, Yanuary Vyshinsky, worked as an experienced inspector for the…
- Maxim GorkyAlexei Maximovich Peshkov adopted the pseudonym Maxim Gorky in 1892. The name meant bitter, reflecting his simmering anger about life in Russia and a…
- Yuri GagarinOn the 18th of October 1941, Nazi forces captured the village of Klushino. The occupiers burned down the local school and twenty-seven houses in a single day.