Soviet Union Collection (page 73)

Ivan Yefremov, Soviet palaeontologist
Ivan Antonovich Yefremov (1907-1972), Soviet palaeontologist and science fiction author. Yefremov founded the science of taphonomy

Vladimir Platonov, Soviet mathematician
Vladimir Petrovich Platonov (born 1939), Soviet mathematician. Platonov, a member of the Belarusian Academy of Sciences, was the Director of the Institute of Mathematics for that Academy from 1977 to

Mikhail Yangel, Soviet rocket scientist
Mikhail Yangel (1911-1971), Soviet scientist. Yangel was one of the most important designers of liquid-fuelled rockets in the Soviet Union

Obruchev and colleagues, Moscow, 1937
Vladimir Afanasyevich Obruchev (1863-1956, lower left), Soviet geologist and explorer, at the International Geology Congress in Moscow, Russia, in 1937

Genrikh Novozhilov, aircraft designer
Genrikh Novozhilov (born 1925), Soviet aircraft designer. Novozhilov, a member of the Russian Academy of Sciences, was the deputy designer at the Ilyushin aircraft design bureau

Vladimir Lapygin, Soviet rocket engineer
Vladimir Lavrentyevich Lapygin (born 1925), Soviet rocket engineer, talking at a meeting. Lapygin was one of the principal designers of the automatic control units for Soviet missiles and spacecraft

Mikhail Lavrentyev, Soviet mathematician
Mikhail Alekseevich Lavrentyev (1900-1980), Soviet mathematician and hydrodynamicist, giving a lecture. Lavrentyevs work included studies of the physics of explosions

Sergei Lebedev, Soviet chemist
Sergei Vasiljevich Lebedev (1874-1934), Soviet chemist. Lebedev is best known as the inventor of a method of making synthetic rubber

Alexey Lyapunov, Soviet mathematician
Alexey Andreevich Lyapunov (1911-1973), Soviet mathematician and computer scientist. Lyapunov was an early pioneer of computer science. He was a Corresponding member of the USSR Academy of Sciences

Vladimir Kotelnikov, Soviet engineer
Vladimir Aleksandrovich Kotelnikov (1908-2005), Soviet engineer. Kotelnikov, a member of the USSR Academy of Sciences, specialized in radio technology and information theory

Nikolay Kamov, Soviet helicopter designer
Nikolay Ilyich Kamov (1902-1973), Soviet helicopter designer. Kamov built his first autogyro in 1929, a breakthrough that led to his later helicopter designs

Boris Kukarkin, Soviet astrophysicist
Boris Vasilyevich Kukarkin (1909-1977), Soviet astrophysicist and astronomer, operating a calculating machine. Kukarkin, who worked for most of his career at Moscow University

Boris Kadomtsev, Soviet nuclear physicist
Boris Borisovich Kadomtsev (1928-1998), Soviet nuclear physicist, talking with a colleague (not seen). Kadomtsev was a pioneer in nuclear fusion research

Oleg Krokhin, Soviet physicist
Oleg Nikolayevich Krokhin (born 1932), Soviet physicist, giving a lecture. Krokhin was one the designers of the quantum generator, and worked with the Nobel laureate Basov on lasers

Yulii Khariton, Soviet nuclear physicist
Yulii Borisovich Khariton (1904-1996), Soviet nuclear physicist. Khariton, who studied under Ernest Rutherford as a student, was the chief designer of the Soviet atomic bomb

Mstislav Keldysh, Soviet physicist
Mstislav Vsevolodovich Keldysh (1911-1978), Soviet physicist and mathematician. Keldysh spent the inter-war years working on better aerodynamical models for aircraft

Alexander Karpinsky, Soviet geologist
Alexander Petrovich Karpinsky (1847-1936), Soviet geologist and mineralogist. Karpinsky completed the first geological map of European Russia. Many geographical features are named in his honour

Nikolai Kurnakov, Soviet chemist
Nikolai Semenovich Kurnakov (1860-1941), Soviet inorganic chemist and industrialist. Kurnakovs most famous discovery was a reaction used to distinguish between optical isomers of platinum compounds

Igor Kurchatov, Soviet nuclear physicist
Igor Vasilyevich Kurchatov (1903-1960), Soviet nuclear physicist. In the 1930s, Kurchatov supervised the construction of what was then the worlds largest cyclotron particle accelerator

Thor Heyerdahl, Norwegian ethnographer
Thor Heyerdahl (1914-2002), Norwegian ethnographer and explorer. Heyerdhal is talking to journalists at Moscow State University, Moscow, Russia, where he has just received an honorary doctorate

Soviet rocket scientists
Sergei Korolev (1907-1966), pioneering Soviet rocket scientist, with other scientists from GIRD, the Moscow Group for Reactive Motion. Korolev is far left

Sergei Korolev, Soviet rocket scientist
Sergei Korolev (1907-1966), pioneering Soviet rocket scientist (left). Also seen are glider designer S.N. Lyushin (centre) and pilot Artseulov (right)

Elepter Andronikashvili, Soviet physicist
Elepter Luarsabovich Andronikashvili (1910-1989), Soviet physicist, in a laboratory. Andronikashvili, a member of the USSR Academy of Sciences

Bogolyubov (right), Soviet physicist
Soviet nuclear physicists. At right, Nikolai Nikolaevich Bogolyubov (1909-1992), the Director of the Joint Institute for Nuclear Research (JINR)

Boris Gubanov, Soviet rocket engineer
Boris Ivanovich Gubanov (1930-1999), Soviet rocket engineer. Gubanov worked at the Yangel design bureau, and was First Deputy Chief Designer and General Designer from 1972 to 1982

Mikhail Gromov, Soviet transpolar pilot
Mikhail Mikhailovich Gromov (1899-1985), Soviet pilot, wearing aviation clothing for the July 1937 transpolar flight across the North Pole. Gromov was one of three pilots on this pioneering flight

Vladimir Arnold, Soviet mathematician
Vladimir Arnold (born 1937), Soviet mathematician. Arnold studied at Moscow State University, graduating in 1959. He became a professor at the university in 1965

Bogolyubov and Keldysh, Soviet scientists
Soviet science administrators Keldysh (right) and Bogolyubov (left) attending the fifth session of one of the Supreme Soviets of the USSR in Moscow, Russia, on 18 December 1972

Boris Galitsyn, Soviet physicist. Photographed in 1972, in Russia

Abel Aganbegyan, Soviet economist
Abel Aganbegyan (born 1932), Soviet economist and mathematician, writing on a blackboard. Aganbegyan, of Armenian descent

N. Dollezhal, Soviet nuclear engineer
Nikolay Antonovich Dollezhal (1899-2000), Soviet nuclear engineer, at a meeting of the USSR Academy of Sciences. Dollezhal participated in the Soviet atomic bomb project from 1946

Dmitri Belyaev, Soviet zoologist
Dmitri Konstantinovich Belyaev (1917-1985), Soviet zoologist, making a telephone call. Belyaev, a member of the USSR Academy of Sciences

Belyaev with his selectively bred foxes
Dmitri Konstantinovich Belyaev (1917-1985), Soviet zoologist, with his selectively bred foxes. Belyaev, a member of the USSR Academy of Sciences

Aleksey Bakh, Soviet biochemist
Aleksey Nikolayevich Bakh (1857-1946), Soviet biochemist, in a laboratory. Bakh was the founder of Soviet biochemistry, and became a member of the USSR Academy of Sciences in 1929

Nikolai Bogolyubov, Soviet physicist
Nikolai Nikolaevich Bogolyubov (1909-1992), Soviet mathematician and physicist. Bogolyubov was born in Russia, and then educated in Kiev, the Ukraine

Georgy Babakin, Soviet scientist
Georgy Babakin (1914-1971), Soviet scientist and designer who worked on the guidance system for early missiles. Later, he helped design equipment for space exploration

Nikolai Amosov, Soviet heart surgeon
Nikolai Amosov (1913-2002), Soviet heart surgeon and author, resting his head in his hands. Amosov invented surgical procedures to treat heart defects

Soviet North Pole-1 station crew, 1939
Soviet North Pole-1 station crew members. Seated at left is Ivan Papanin (1894-1986), expedition leader and Arctic explorer. Seated at centre is Ernst Krenkel (1903-1971), radio operator

Arkhangelsky, Tupolev, Soviet engineers
Alexander Alexandrovich Arkhangelsky (left, 1892-1978), and Andrei Nikolayevich Tupolev (1888-1972), Soviet aviation engineers, talking at an airfield

V. Ambartsumian, Soviet astrophysicist
Viktor Amazaspovich Ambartsumian (1908-1996), Soviet astrophysicist and astronomer. Ambartsumian was one of the founders of theoretical astrophysics

Korolev and Sheremetyev, Soviet engineers
Sergey Pavlovich Korolev (left, 1907-1966), and Boris Sheremetyev, Soviet rocket engineers. Korolev, who had worked on rockets in the 1930s

Soviet engineers and physicists, 1954
Soviet engineers and physicists. From left to right: Vasily Mishin (1917-2001), rocket engineer; Mstislav Keldysh (1911-1978), mathematician; Igor Kurchatov (1903-1960)

Ilyushin and Kokkinaki, aviation pioneers
Sergey Vladimirovich Ilyushin (left, 1894-1977), Soviet aviation engineer, and Vladimir Konstantinovich Kokkinaki (right, 1904-1985), Soviet test pilot

Aleksandr and Boris Arbuzov, Kazan, 1966
Aleksandr Erminingeldovich Arbuzov (1877-1968, seated, left), and his son Boris Aleksandrovich Arbuzov (1903-1991, standing, right), Soviet chemists

Abram Alikhanov, Soviet nuclear physicist
Abram Isaakovich Alikhanov (1904-1970), Soviet nuclear physicist. Alikhanovs most famous work was in 1949, when he and his team created the first Soviet heavy water nuclear reactor

Frank and Cherenkov, Soviet physicists
Ilya Mikhailovich Frank (1908-1990, left) and Pavel Alekseyevich Cherenkov (1904-1990, right), Soviet physicists, talking in a particle physics laboratory

Aleksandr Arbuzov, Soviet organic chemist
Aleksandr Erminingeldovich Arbuzov (1877-1968), Soviet organic chemist. Arbuzov is famous for his work on the Michaelis-Arbuzov reaction, a key reaction in the synthesis of organophosphates

Vorobyev and Flyorov, Soviet physicists
Georgy Nikolayevich Flyorov (1913-1990, right), Soviet nuclear physicist, at the Joint Institute for Nuclear Research, with department head Dr Vorobyev (left)

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"The Soviet Union: A Tapestry of History, Culture, and Achievements" Step into the fascinating world of the Soviet Union through these captivating hints. From Laika, the brave space dog who paved the way for human exploration beyond Earth's atmosphere, to Dmitri Shostakovich, a renowned Soviet composer immersed in his study during 1938. Even across borders, great minds like Carl Sagan recognized the contributions of this vast nation. Olga Korbut's graceful performance at the 1976 Montreal Olympics showcased Soviet excellence in sports. Propaganda played a significant role in shaping society; Boris Parmeev's iconic poster "Under The Sun of The Motherland We Strengthen" from the 1970s exemplifies this sentiment. Influential figures such as Vladimir Ilich Lenin left an indelible mark on history. Captured within Moscow's Kremlin walls in October 1918, Lenin was a Russian Bolshevik leader whose ideas shaped an era. Sergei V. Rachmaninov expressed his genius through music; here he is seen intently examining a manuscript at his piano during the late 1920s. Yuri Gagarin became humanity's first cosmonaut when he embarked on an extraordinary journey beyond our planet’s boundaries. His achievement symbolized Soviet dominance in space exploration. Artistic expressions also flourished under Soviet rule; Vera Mukhina's sculpture "Worker and Kolkhoz Woman" stands tall as a testament to resilience and unity amidst industrial progress (b/w photo). Aleksandr Gerasimov captured Lenin’s essence with striking portraits that reflect both power and determination - one from around c1930 and another from 1939. Delve into Russia's rich past with an antique map showcasing its vast territory - reminding us of its historical significance and cultural diversity.