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Heroes of Socialist Labour

  • Nikita KhrushchevNikita Sergeyevich Khrushchev was born on the 15th of April 1894 in Kalinovka, a small village in western Russia. His parents were poor peasants who…
  • 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.
  • Vyacheslav MolotovVyacheslav Mikhailovich Skryabin was born in the village of Kukarka, Yaransk Uyezd, Vyatka Governorate. He grew up as the son of a merchant and spent his…
  • Valentin GlushkoValentin Glushko was born on the 2nd of September 1908 in Odesa to a Ukrainian Cossack father and a Russian peasant mother.
  • 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…
  • Lavrentiy BeriaLavrentiy Pavlovich Beria was born in the village of Merkheuli, near Sukhumi, within the Kutais Governorate of the Russian Empire.
  • Alexei LeonovAlexei Leonov was born on the 30th of May 1934 in Listvyanka, West Siberian Krai. His grandfather had been forced to relocate to Siberia for his role in the…
  • Kliment VoroshilovKliment Voroshilov was born on the 4th of February 1881 in Verkhnyeye, a small settlement within the Bakhmut uyezd of the Russian Empire.
  • Dmitri ShostakovichDmitri Dmitriyevich Shostakovich was born on the 9th of August 1875 in Podolskaya Street, then part of the Russian Empire.
  • Andrei SakharovAndrei Dmitrievich Sakharov entered the world on the 21st of May 1921 in Moscow. His father, Dmitri Ivanovich Sakharov, worked as a physics professor at the…
  • Nikolai PodgornyNikolai Viktorovich Podgorny was born on the 18th of February 1903 in the city of Karlovka to a Ukrainian working-class family.
  • Lev LandauLev Davidovich Landau was born on the 22nd of January 1908 in Baku, then part of the Russian Empire. His father worked as an engineer for the local oil…
  • Lev YashinLev Yashin was born on the 22nd of October 1929 in Moscow. He grew up in a Russian family of industrial workers during a time when World War II forced him to…
  • Alexander ProkhorovAlexander Michael Prochoroff entered the world on the 11th of July 1916 at Russell Road in Peeramon, Queensland. His parents Mikhail Ivanovich and Maria…
  • Trofim LysenkoTrofim Denisovich Lysenko was born on the 29th of September 1898 in the village of Karlovka. His family belonged to a peasant class within the Poltava…
  • Sergey MikhalkovSergey Vladimirovich Mikhalkov entered the world on the 27th of August 1913 within a noble family in Moscow. His father was Vladimir Aleksandrovich Mikhalkov…
  • Georgy SviridovGeorgy Vasilyevich Sviridov was born on the 16th of December 1915 in the town of Fatezh. His father, a Bolshevik sympathizer named Vasily, died when Georgy…