Famous Russians on Stamps With Their Accomplishments

This information was kindly provided by Tanya Schwartzman of the Sharon Music Academy

  • Yakov Sverdlov - One of the leaders of Bolshevik Revolution. One of Lenin's closest comrades.

  • N.P. Kravkov - Pharmacologist. Rayko Daskalov - Bulgarian political activist.

  • Alexander Griboedov - Great Russian writer.

  • Salvador Allende - Chilean political leader, elected Chilean president in 1970.

  • M. Lavrentiev - Famous Russian mathematician.

  • V. Menzhinsky - Professional revolutionary, one of the members of Stalin government and second leader of KGB after the death of its founder Felix Dzerzhinsky. Commemorates 100 year anniversary of his birth.

  • Mikhail Kalinin - Another leader of Bolshevik Revolution and long-time president of People's Supreme Council.

  • Georgiy Kirkov-Maystora - Bolgarian politician, writer and journalist. One of the founders of the BRSDP - pro-Communist party.

  • V.I. Vernadsky - Famous world-renown scientist - creator of biogeochemistry, knowledge of biosphere, noosphere. Great philosopher and historian of science. Commemorates 100 year anniversary of his birth.

  • Folk craftsmen of Paleh. Paleh painting is the famous Russian craft of painting on wood originated from the village of Paleh.

  • Dmitri Shostakovich - Famous Russian composer. Stamp commemorates 70 year anniversary of his birth.

  • Konstantin Tsialkovsky - Father of Russian rocket science.

  • A. Lunacharsky - Minister of education in Bolshevik government. Commemorates 100 year anniversary of his birth.

  • A.P. Karpinskiy - Famous Russian geologist. Stamp commemorates 100 year anniversary of his birth.

  • M.I. Kostomarov - Ukrainian historian, writer and ethnographer.

  • A.P. Chekhov - Famous Russian writer and world renowned play writer.

  • N.D. Dobrolubov - Famous Russian liberal literary critique of 19th century.

  • N.G. Chernyshevsky - Famous Russian writer and one of the leaders of the revolutionary democratic movement in 1860's.

  • V. Vorovsky - One of the leaders of the Bolshevik revolution, Marxist journalist and soviet diplomat in 1920s.

  • A.E. Archipov - Famous Russian painter.

  • Nadegda (Nadja) Krupskaya - Bolshevik revolutionary and Lenin's wife (her main claim of fame). Stalin made an icon out of her


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