Curated category
Recipients of the Order of Friendship of Peoples
- Akira KurosawaOn the 23rd of March 1910, Akira Kurosawa was born in Tokyo to a samurai family. His father Isamu worked as the director of the Army's Physical Education…
- Bulat OkudzhavaBulat Okudzhava was born in Moscow on the 9th of May 1924. His parents were Georgian and Armenian communists who had moved to the capital from Tbilisi.
- Eldar RyazanovEldar Aleksandrovich Ryazanov entered the world on the 18th of November 1927 in Samara. His father, Aleksandr Semyonovich Ryazanov, worked as a diplomat…
- Garry KasparovGarik Kimovich Weinstein was born on the 13th of April 1963 in Baku, Azerbaijan SSR. His father worked as a geologist and his mother taught at a university.
- Cheddi JaganCheddi Berret Jagan arrived in the world on the 22nd of March 1918 within Ankerville, a rural village nestled in Port Mourant.
- Wojciech JaruzelskiIn June 1941, a young boy named Wojciech Jaruzelski stood on a railway platform in Poland. He watched his family stripped of their possessions before being…
- Evgeny LifshitzEvgeny Mikhailovich Lifshitz entered the world on the 21st of February 1915. He was born into a Jewish family in Kharkov, then part 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.
- Alexey IvakhnenkoAleksey Ivakhnenko entered the world on the 30th of March 1913 in Kobelyaky, Poltava Governorate. His family background was rooted in education as both…
- Arvydas SabonisArvydas Romas Sabonis was born on the 19th of December 1964 in Kaunas, Lithuania. He began playing basketball at age 13 while living under Soviet rule.
- Valentina TereshkovaValentina Tereshkova was born on the 6th of March 1937 in Bolshoye Maslennikovo, a small village along the Volga River. Her father Vladimir died in the…
- Armand HammerOn the 5th of July 1919, federal agents watched a thirty-three-year-old woman named Marie Oganesoff enter the medical office of Julius Hammer in the Bronx.
- 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…
- Leonid GaidaiOn the 30th of January 1923, Leonid Iovich Gaidai was born in Svobodny, a town in the Amur Oblast. His father had been sentenced to hard labor for…