Curated category
Soviet atheists
- 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…
- 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.
- 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.
- 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…
- Dmitri ShostakovichDmitri Dmitriyevich Shostakovich was born on the 9th of August 1875 in Podolskaya Street, then part of the Russian Empire.
- Leon TrotskyLev Davidovich Bronstein was born on the 7th of November 1879 into a wealthy but illiterate Jewish farming family in Yanovka, a village in the Kherson…
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…