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Recipients of the Order of the Red Banner of 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…
  • Mikhail GorbachevMikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev was born on the 2nd of March 1931 in Privolnoye, a small village in the North Caucasus region of what is now Russia.
  • 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…
  • Lev KuleshovLev Kuleshov was born in 1899 into an intellectual Russian family. His father Vladimir Sergeyevich Kuleshov studied art at the Moscow School of Painting…
  • Boris YeltsinBoris Yeltsin was born on the 1st of February 1931 in the village of Butka, Ural Oblast. His family had lived in this area of the Urals since at least the…
  • Sergei ProkofievSergei Sergeyevich Prokofiev was born on the 23rd of April 1891 at a rural estate in Sontsovka, a village in the Bakhmut uezd of the Yekaterinoslav…
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • Nikolai PodgornyNikolai Viktorovich Podgorny was born on the 18th of February 1903 in the city of Karlovka to a Ukrainian working-class family.
  • Andrey VyshinskyAndrey Yanuaryevich Vyshinsky was born in Odessa into a Polish Catholic family. His father, Yanuary Vyshinsky, worked as an experienced inspector for the…
  • 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…
  • 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.
  • Vladimir VernadskyVladimir Vernadsky was born in Saint Petersburg, Russian Empire, on the 12th of March 1863. His father Ivan Vernadsky served as a professor of political…
  • 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…