List of people on the postage stamps of the Soviet Union

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This article lists people who have been featured on postage stamps of the Soviet Union.

A[]

1973 Salvador Allende stamp.
  • Rudolf Abel, intelligence agent (1990)
  • Khachatur Abovian, Armenian writer (1948, 1956)
  • , politician (1965)
  • Mirza Fatali Akhundov, Azeri writer and philosopher (1962)
  • Sergey Aksakov, Russian writer (1959)
  • Vladimir Aksyonov, cosmonaut (1976, 1980)
  • Ivan Akulov, first Prosecutor General of the USSR (1988)
  • Sholem Aleichem, Yiddish writer (1959)
  • Alexander Alexandrov, composer (1983)
  • Dante Alighieri, Italian poet (1965)
  • Salvador Allende, President of Chile (1973)
  • Alexander Alyabyev, Russian composer (1951)
  • Roald Amundsen, Norwegian explorer (1972)
  • Vladimir Arsenyev, travel writer (1956)
  • Lev Artsimovich, physicist (1974)
  • Boris Asafyev, composer (1984)
  • Oleg Atkov, cosmonaut (1985)
  • Hunan Avetisyan, World War II soldier (1963)
  • Sadriddin Ayni, Tajik writer (1958)

B[]

Aviators Georgy Baydukov, A. V. Belyakov, and Valery Chkalov on a 1937 stamp commemorating their flight across the North Pole.
19th-century Russian physicians Sergey Botkin, Nikolay Pirogov, and Ivan Sechenov on a 1948 stamp marking the 150th anniversary of the S.M. Kirov Military Medical Academy's founding.
Vostok 5 Cosmonaut Valery Bykovsky on a 1963 stamp.
  • Ivan Babushkin, revolutionary (1973)
  • Johann Sebastian Bach, German composer (1985)
  • Pyotr Bagration, Russian general (1962)
  • Alexei Nikolaevich Bach, biochemist (1957)
  • Mily Balakirev, Russian composer (1956)
  • Alexander Andreyevich Baranov, Russian Alaska settler (1991)
  • Krišjānis Barons, Latvian writer (1985)
  • Gevorg Bashinjaghyan, Armenian painter (1957)
  • Nikolay Bauman, revolutionary (1935, 1973)
  • Georgy Baydukov, aviator (1937)
  • Demyan Bedny, poet (1963)
  • Ludwig van Beethoven, German composer (1970)
  • Vladimir Bekhterev, neurologist (1952)
  • Vissarion Belinsky, Russian literary critic and philosopher (1957, 1961)
  • Fabian von Bellingshausen, Russian explorer (1950)
  • Aristarkh Belopolsky, Russian astronomer (1954)
  • Alexander Belyakov, aviator (1937)
  • Pavel Belyayev, cosmonaut (1965)
  • Nikolay Benardos, Russian inventor (1981)
  • Pierre-Jean de Béranger, French songwriter (1957)
  • Georgy Beregovoy, cosmonaut (1968)
  • Anatoly Berezovoy, cosmonaut (1983)
  • Vitus Bering, Russian explorer (1981)
  • Yan Karlovich Berzin, military leader (1989)
  • Abū Rayḥān al-Bīrūnī, Persian scholar (1973)
  • Sergey Biryuzov, Marshal of the Soviet Union (1967)
  • Ernests Birznieks-Upītis, Latvian writer, translator and librarian (1971)
  • Maurice Bishop, Grenadian revolutionary (1984)
  • William Blake, English poet (1958)
  • Alexander Blok, Russian poet (1956, 1980)
  • , oceanologist (1979)
  • Simón Bolívar, Venezuelan revolutionary (1983)
  • Andrey Bolotov, Russian agriculturalist (1988)
  • Mikhail Aleksandrovich Bonch-Bruevich, radio engineer (1988)
  • Alexander Borodin, Russian composer (1951)
  • Sergey Botkin, Russian physician (1982)
  • Louis Braille, French inventor (1959)
  • Fyodor Bredikhin, Russian astronomer (1954, 1956)
  • Karl Bryullov, Russian painter (1952)
  • Valery Bryusov, writer (1963)
  • , World War II partisan (1966)
  • Ivan Bunin, Russian writer (1990)
  • Robert Burns, Scottish poet (1956)
  • Grigory Butakov, Russian admiral (1989)
  • Alexander Butlerov, Russian chemist (1951)
  • Valery Bykovsky, cosmonaut (1963, 1976)
  • George Gordon Byron, English poet (1988)

C[]

  • Musa Cälil, Tatar poet (1959, 1966)
  • Albert Calmette, French physician and microbiologist (1963)
  • Miguel de Cervantes, Spanish writer (1966)
  • Yeghishe Charents, Armenian poet (1958)
  • Vasily Chapayev, military leader (1948, 1987)
  • Ilya Chavchavadze, Georgian writer (1958)
  • Yelizaveta Chaikina, World War II partisan (1969)
  • Pafnuty Chebyshev, Russian mathematician (1946)
  • Alexander Chekalin, World War II partisan (1942)
  • Anton Chekhov, Russian writer (1940, 1959, 1960)
  • Miron Cherepanov, Russian inventor (1978)
  • Yefim Cherepanov, Russian inventor (1978)
  • Ivan Chernyakhovsky, military leader (1960)
  • Nikolay Chernyshevsky, Russian philosopher (1939, 1957, 1978)
  • Georgy Chicherin, revolutionary (1972)
  • Mikhail Chigorin, Russian chess player (1958)
  • Valery Chkalov, aviator (1937, 1954)
  • Frédéric Chopin, Polish composer (1960)
  • Korney Chukovsky, writer (1982)
  • Mikalojus Čiurlionis, Lithuanian painter and composer (1975)
  • Nicolaus Copernicus, Polish astronomer (1973)
  • James Fenimore Cooper, American writer (1989)
  • Marie Skłodowska Curie, Polish-French physicist and chemist (1987)
  • Pierre Curie, French physicist (1956)

D[]

Stamp issued to commemorate the 150th anniversary of Charles Darwin's birth in 1959.
  • Vladimir Dal, Russian lexicographer (1976)
  • Georges Danton, French revolutionary (1989)
  • Alexander Dargomyzhsky, Russian composer (1963)
  • Charles Darwin, English naturalist (1959)
  • Charles Dickens, English writer (1962)
  • Denis Diderot, French encyclopedist (1963)
  • Georgi Dimitrov, Bulgarian politician (1950, 1982)
  • Mikhail Dolivo-Dobrovolsky, Russian inventor (1962)
  • Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Russian writer (1956, 1971)
  • Lev Dovator, military leader (1942)
  • Alexander Dovzhenko, screenwriter (1964)
  • Jacques Duclaux, French physician (1975)
  • Anatoly Durov, circus animal trainer (1989)
  • Eleonora Duse, Italian actress (1958)
  • Pavel Dybenko, military leader (1989)
  • Felix Dzerzhinsky, revolutionary (1961, 1962, 1977)
  • Vladimir Dzhanibekov, cosmonaut (1978)
  • Prokofy Dzhaparidze, revolutionary (1933)

E[]

  • Albert Einstein, German physicist (1979)
  • Heino Eller, Estonian composer (1987)
  • Nikolay Emanuel, physical chemist (1985)
  • Friedrich Engels, German philosopher
  • Leonhard Euler, Swiss mathematician (1957)

F[]

1956 stamp commemorating the centennial of Ivan Franko's birth.
  • Alexander Fadeyev, writer (1971)
  • Pavel Fedotov, Russian painter (1976)
  • Glikeriya Fedotova, actress (1956)
  • Konstantin Feoktistov, cosmonaut (1964)
  • Alexander Fersman, geochemist and mineralogist (1966)
  • , circus animal trainer (1989)
  • Henry Fielding, English writer (1957)
  • Anatoly Filipchenko, cosmonaut (1969)
  • William Z. Foster, General Secretary of the Communist Party USA (1971)
  • Benjamin Franklin, American revolutionary (1956)
  • Ivan Franko, Ukrainian writer (1956)
  • Mikhail Frunze, revolutionary (1950, 1960, 1985)
  • Timur Frunze, aviator (1960)
  • Dmitry Furmanov, writer (1951)
  • Fuzûlî, Azeri poet (1958)
  • Ivan Fyodorov, Russian printer (1933, 1983)

G[]

1957 Mikhail Glinka stamp.
  • , Russian microbiologist (1960)
  • Magomet Gadzhiyev, submarine commander (1962)
  • Yuri Gagarin, cosmonaut (1961–1991)
  • Arkady Gaidar, writer (1962, 1964)
  • Galileo Galilei, Italian astronomer (1964)
  • Nikolay Gamaleya, microbiologist (1959)
  • Yakov Gamarnik, politician (1964)
  • Indira Gandhi, Prime Minister of India (1984, 1987)
  • Mahatma Gandhi, President of the Indian National Congress (1969)
  • Giuseppe Garibaldi, Italian patriot (1957, 1961, 1982)
  • Vsevolod Garshin, Russian writer (1955)
  • Aleksandr Gerasimov, painter (1981)
  • Gheorghe Gheorghiu-Dej, Prime Minister of the Socialist Republic of Romania (1965)
  • Fyodor Gladkov, writer (1963)
  • Yury Glazkov, cosmonaut (1977)
  • Manolis Glezos, Greek politician (1959)
  • Mikhail Glinka, Russian composer (1951, 1957)
  • Nikolay Gogol, Russian writer (1952, 1959)
  • Carlo Goldoni, Italian playwright (1958)
  • Anna Golubkina, Russian sculptor (1964)
  • Ivan Goncharov, Russian writer (1962)
  • Viktor Gorbatko, cosmonaut (1969, 1977)
  • Leonid Govorov, Marshal of the Soviet Union (1977)
  • Igor Grabar, painter (1972)
  • Georgy Grechko, cosmonaut (1978)
  • Edvard Grieg, Norwegian composer (1957)
  • Valentina Grizodubova, aviator (1939)
  • Ulyana Gromova, anti-Nazi underground activist (1944)
  • Otto Grotewohl, Prime Minister of the German Democratic Republic (1965)
  • Guan Hanqing, Chinese playwright (1958)
  • Dmitry Gulia, Abkhaz writer (1964)
  • Davit Guramishvili, Georgian poet (1980)

H[]

1990 Hồ Chí Minh stamp
  • William Harvey, English physician (1957, 1978)
  • Jaroslav Hašek, Czech writer (1963)
  • Joseph Haydn, Austrian composer (1959)
  • Heinrich Heine, German poet (1956)
  • O. Henry, American writer (1962)
  • Alexander Herzen, Russian philosopher (1945, 1962)
  • Nâzım Hikmet, Turkish writer (1982)
  • Hồ Chí Minh (1980, 1990)
  • Victor Hugo, French writer (1952)
  • Alexander von Humboldt, German naturalist and geographer (1959)

I[]

Writer Vsevolod Ivanov on a 1965 stamp.

J[]

K[]

1983 stamp commemorating the 8th-century Persian astronomer Abu Abdullah Muhammad bin Musa al-Khwarizmi.
Bolshevik revolutionary and economist Gleb Krzhizhanovsky (1972).
1989 stamp honoring the Komi writer Ivan Kuratov.

L[]

19th-century Russian painter Isaak Levitan on a Soviet stamp, 1950.
19th-century Russian inventor Alexander Lodygin on a Soviet stamp, 1951.
  • Selma Lagerlöf, Swedish writer (1959)
  • Martin Latsis, revolutionary (1988)
  • Mikhail Lavrentyev, mathematician (1981)
  • , clown acrobat (1989)
  • Mikhail Petrovich Lazarev, Russian admiral (1987)
  • Sergey Lazo, revolutionary (1948)
  • Pyotr Lebedev, Russian physicist (1951)
  • Valentin Lebedev, cosmonaut (1974, 1983)
  • , physicist (1968)
  • Vladimir Lenin, (1924–1991)
  • Mikhail Lermontov, Russian writer (1941, 1957)
  • Sigizmund Levanevsky, aviator (1935)
  • Isaak Levitan, Russian painter (1950)
  • Li Dazhao, Chinese communist (1989)
  • Carl Linnaeus, Swedish naturalist (1957)
  • Franz Liszt, Hungarian composer (1961)
  • Fyodor Litke, Russian explorer (1947)
  • Alexander Lodygin, Russian inventor (1951)
  • Mikhail Lomonosov, Russian polymath (1949, 1956, 1961, 1986)
  • Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, American writer (1958)
  • Luigi Longo, Italian politician (1981)
  • Patrice Lumumba, Prime Minister of the Republic of the Congo (1961)
  • Anatoly Lunacharsky, revolutionary (1975)
  • Rosa Luxemburg, German revolutionary (1957)
  • Anatoly Lyadov, Russian composer (1955)
  • Anatoly Lyapidevsky, aviator (1935)
  • Vladimir Lyakhov, cosmonaut (1979)

M[]

1988 Nelson Mandela stamp.
  • Samora Moisés Machel, President of Mozambique (1986)
  • John Maclean, Scottish socialist (1979)
  • Anton Makarenko, educationist (1988)
  • Oleg Makarov, cosmonaut (1978, 1981)
  • Stepan Makarov, Russian admiral (1949, 1989)
  • Rodion Malinovsky, Marshal of the Soviet Union (1973)
  • Yury Malyshev, cosmonaut (1980)
  • Dmitry Mamin-Sibiryak, Russian writer (1952)
  • Jalil Mammadguluzadeh, Azeri writer (1966)
  • Nelson Mandela, South African politician (1988)
  • Jean-Paul Marat, French revolutionary (1989)
  • Samuil Marshak, writer (1987)
  • Karl Marx
  • Mesrop Mashtots, Armenian alphabet inventor (1962)
  • Alexander Matrosov, World War II soldier (1944, 1963)
  • Jan Matejko, Polish painter (1955)
  • Ilya Ilyich Mechnikov, microbiologist (1991)
  • Dmitry Medvedev, World War II partisan (1970)
  • Vyacheslav Menzhinsky, revolutionary (1974)
  • Kirill Meretskov, Marshal of the Soviet Union (1977)
  • Sergey Merkurov, sculptor (1981)
  • Michelangelo, Italian painter (1964)
  • Vincas Mickevičius-Kapsukas, Lithuanian revolutionary (1957)
  • Adam Mickiewicz, Polish poet (1955)
  • , painter (1987)
  • , physicist and politician (1974)
  • John Milton, English poet (1958)
  • Gregory Minh, Russian physician (1960)
  • , World War II soldier (1961)
  • Togolok Moldo, Kyrgyz songwriter (1962)
  • Konon Molody, intelligence agent alias Gordon Lonsdale (1990)
  • Vasily Molokov, aviator (1935)
  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Austrian composer (1956)
  • Vera Mukhina, sculptor (1989)
  • Mihály Munkácsy, Hungarian painter (1969)
  • Modest Mussorgsky, Russian composer (1951, 1989)

N[]

1987 Isaac Newton stamp commemorating the three-hundredth anniversary of the publication of his Philosophiæ Naturalis Principia Mathematica.
  • Pavel Nakhimov, Russian admiral (1987)
  • Sergey Namyotkin, chemist (1976)
  • Fridtjof Nansen, Norwegian explorer (1961)
  • Eduard Nápravník, Czech-Russian composer (1989)
  • Nariman Narimanov, revolutionary (1973)
  • Imadaddin Nasimi, Azeri poet (1973)
  • , Tatar scholar (1952)
  • Alisher Navoi, Uzbek poet (1942)
  • Jawaharlal Nehru, Prime Minister of India (1964, 1989)
  • Alexander Nesmeyanov, chemist (1980)
  • Mikhail Nesterov, painter (1962)
  • Nestor the Chronicler, Kievan Rus writer (1956)
  • Gennady Nevelskoy, Russian admiral (1989)
  • Isaac Newton, English mathematician and physicist (1987)
  • Ivan Savvich Nikitin, Russian poet (1974)
  • Andriyan Nikolayev, cosmonaut (1962, 1970)
  • Hamza Hakimzade Niyazi, Uzbek poet (1964, 1989)
  • Kwame Nkrumah, President of Ghana (1989)
  • Viktor Nogin, revolutionary (1934)
  • Anatoly Novikov, composer (1986)
  • , Russian oncologist (1976)
  • Khanpasha Nuradilov, World War II soldier (1944)

O[]

P[]

Spanish painter Pablo Picasso on a 1973 stamp
1958 Vadim Podbelsky stamp
1937 Alexander Pushkin stamp
  • Olof Palme, Prime Minister of Sweden (1986)
  • Ivan Panfilov, military leader (1963)
  • Boris Pasternak, writer (1990)
  • Louis Pasteur, French chemist and microbiologist (1962, 1963)
  • Lyudmila Pavlichenko, World War II sniper (1976)
  • Ivan Pavlov, physiologist (1963, 1969, 1991)
  • Vasily Perov, Russian painter (1956)
  • Peter I of Russia, Czar of Russia (1989)
  • Sándor Petőfi, Hungarian poet (1959)
  • , Lithuanian composer (1963)
  • Kuzma Petrov-Vodkin, painter (1978)
  • Ivan Petrovsky, mathematician (1973)
  • Kim Philby, intelligence agent (1990)
  • Pablo Picasso, Spanish painter (1973, 1981)
  • Wilhelm Pieck, President of the German Democratic Republic (1966, 1976)
  • Nikolay Pirogov, Russian physician (1960)
  • Vadim Podbelsky, revolutionary (1958, 1962, 1987)
  • Ivan Polbin, military leader (1965)
  • Vasily Polenov, painter (1952)
  • Maria Polivanova, World War II sniper (1944)
  • Harry Pollitt, General Secretary of the Communist Party of Great Britain (1970)
  • Alexander Stepanovich Popov, Russian inventor (1945, 1949, 1989)
  • Andrei Alexandrovich Popov, Russian admiral (1989)
  • Leonid Popov, cosmonaut (1981, 1983)
  • Pavel Popovich, cosmonaut (1962)
  • , World War II partisan (1968)
  • Pavel Postyshev, politician (1968)
  • Nicolas Poussin, French painter (1965)
  • Karolis Požėla, Lithuanian revolutionary (1986)
  • Mikhail Prishvin, writer (1973)
  • Sergei Prokofiev, composer (1981, 1991)
  • Yemelyan Pugachyov, Russian cossack rebel (1973)
  • Andrejs Pumpurs, Latvian poet (1961)
  • Alexander Pushkin, Russian poet (1937, 1947, 1955, 1956)

Q[]

Qi Baishi, Chinese painter (1957)
  • Qi Baishi, Chinese painter (1957)
  • Abay Qunanbayuli, Kazakh poet (1965)

R[]

1954 stamp issued to commemorate the 125th anniversary of 19th-century Russian composer Anton Rubinstein's birth.
1956 Shota Rustaveli stamp.
  • Jean Racine, French dramatist (1989)
  • Alexander Radishchev, Russian writer (1949, 1952)
  • Jānis Rainis, Latvian writer (1965)
  • Marina Raskova, aviator (1939)
  • Luis Emilio Recabarren, Chilean politician (1976)
  • John Reed, American journalist (1987)
  • Ilya Repin, Russian painter (1944, 1969)
  • Rembrandt van Rijn, Dutch painter (1956)
  • Nikolay Rimsky-Korsakov, Russian composer (1944, 1951)
  • Maximilien Robespierre, French revolutionary (1989)
  • Konstantin Konstantinovich Rokossovsky, Marshal of the Soviet Union (1896–1968), issue 1976
  • Romain Rolland, French writer (1966)
  • Yury Romanenko, cosmonaut (1978)
  • Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Swiss philosopher (1962)
  • Valery Rozhdestvensky, cosmonaut (1977)
  • Anton Rubinstein, Russian composer (1954)
  • Rudaki, Tajik writer (1958)
  • Vsevolod Rudnev, Russian naval officer (1958)
  • Mikhail Rumyantsev, clown (1989)
  • Shota Rustaveli, Georgian poet (1956, 1966)
  • Ernest Rutherford, British physicist (1971)
  • Valery Ryumin, cosmonaut (1979, 1981)
  • Ravindranath Tagore, Indian Author and Nobel Prize Winner (1961)

S[]

12th-century poet Saʿdī on a 1959 stamp commemorating the seven-hundredth anniversary of the Gulistan.
Ukrainian poet and painter Taras Shevchenko, 1957.
Lezgin poet Suleyman Stalsky, 1969.
A 1950 postage stamp commemorating 125 years since the birth of Armenian playwright Gabriel Sundukyan.
1980 stamp commemorating the 250th anniversary of Alexander Suvorov's birth.
  • Saʿdī, Persian poet (1959)
  • Boris Safonov, aviator (1944)
  • Andrei Sakharov, scientist and Nobel peace prize winner (1991)
  • , Marshal of the Soviet Union (1898–1972), issue 1978
  • Toktogul Satylganov, Kyrgyz poet (1964)
  • Mikhail Saltykov-Shchedrin, Russian writer (1956, 1976)
  • William Saroyan, Armenian-American writer (1991)
  • Viktor Savinykh, cosmonaut (1981)
  • Svetlana Savitskaya, cosmonaut (1983)
  • Konstantin Savitsky, Russian painter (1955)
  • Sayat-Nova, Armenian musician and poet (1962)
  • Friedrich Schiller, German poet (1955)
  • Pavel Schilling, Russian inventor (1982)
  • Otto Schmidt, astronomer and Arctic explorer (1966, 1980)
  • Robert Schumann, German composer (1960)
  • Ivan Sechenov, Russian physiologist (1956)
  • Georgy Sedov, Russian Arctic explorer (1952, 1977)
  • Valentin Serov, Russian painter (1965)
  • Pyotr Semyonov-Tyan-Shansky, Russian geographer (1952)
  • Dmitry Senyavin, Russian admiral (1987)
  • Fyodor Sergeyev, revolutionary (1963)
  • Saken Seyfullin, Kazakh writer (1964)
  • Ivan Shadr, sculptor (1962)
  • Stepan Shahumyan, revolutionary (1933, 1968, 1978)
  • Marietta Shaginyan, writer (1988)
  • William Shakespeare, English playwright (1964)
  • Boris Shaposhnikov, Marshal of the Soviet Union (1982)
  • , electrical engineer (1966)
  • Mikhail Shchepkin, Russian actor (1963)
  • Nikolay Shchors, revolutionary (1948)
  • Boris Shchukin, actor (1971)
  • Grigory Shelikhov, Russian Alaska settler (1991)
  • Taras Shevchenko, Ukrainian poet and painter (1939, 1957, 1961, 1964, 1967, 1989)
  • Lyubov Shevtsova, anti-Nazi underground activist (1944)
  • Minay Shmyryov, World War II partisan (1967)
  • Yuly Shokalsky, oceanologist and geographer (1956)
  • Mikhail Sholokhov, writer (1985, 1990)
  • Pavel Shternberg, astronomer and revolutionary (1965)
  • Fedot Shubin, Russian sculptor (1955)
  • Vladimir Shukhov, structural engineer (1963)
  • Nikolay Shvernik, politician (1988)
  • Stasys Šimkus, Lithuanian composer (1987)
  • Ruben Simonov, actor (1971)
  • Francysk Skaryna, Belarusian printer (1988)
  • Nikolay Sklifosovsky, Russian physician (1961)
  • Samantha Smith, Peace Activist, Child actor (1985)
  • Leonid Sobinov, opera singer (1972)
  • Vasily Sokolovsky, Marshal of the Soviet Union (1977)
  • Alexander Solovyov, Russian historian (1991)
  • Vladimir Solovyov, cosmonaut (1985)
  • Mikhail Somov, oceanologist (1980)
  • Richard Sorge, intelligence agent (1965)
  • Grigory Spiridov, Russian admiral (1987)
  • Gennady Strekalov, cosmonaut (1981)
  • Joseph Stalin, (1943–1954)
  • Suleyman Stalsky, Lezgin poet (1969)
  • Yelena Stasova, revolutionary (1973)
  • , World War II partisan (1966)
  • Vasily Struve, Russian astronomer (1954, 1964)
  • Damdin Sükhbaatar, Mongolian revolutionary (1983)
  • Sun Yat-sen, Chinese revolutionary (1966, 1986)
  • Gabriel Sundukyan, Armenian playwright (1950)
  • Vasily Surikov, Russian painter (1941, 1948)
  • Alexander Suvorov, Russian generalissimus (1941, 1950, 1962, 1980)
  • Yakov Sverdlov, revolutionary (1934, 1960, 1965, 1975, 1985)
  • Fedot Sychkov, painter (1970)

T[]

A 1960 Leo Tolstoy stamp.
Commemorative stamp issued on the 125th anniversary of Mark Twain's birth.
  • Rabindranath Tagore, Bengali polymath (1961)
  • Viktor Talalikhin, aviator (1942–1944)
  • Piotr Tchaikovsky, Russian composer (1940–1990)
  • Valentina Tereshkova, cosmonaut (1963, 1983)
  • Ernst Thälmann, German revolutionary (1966, 1986)
  • Maurice Thorez, French politician (1964, 1965)
  • Kliment Timiryazev, Russian biologist (1951)
  • Semyon Timoshenko, Marshal of the Soviet Union (1980)
  • Josip Broz Tito, Prime Minister and President of the Federal Socialist Republic of Yugoslavia (1982)
  • Palmiro Togliatti, Italian politician (1893–1964)
  • Barclay de Tolly, Russian field marshal (1962)
  • Fyodor Petrovich Tolstoy, Russian painter and sculptor (1983)
  • Leo Tolstoy, Russian writer (1935–1978)
  • Evangelista Torricelli, Italian physicist and mathematician (1959)
  • Konstantin Trenyov, playwright (1976)
  • Pavel Tretyakov, Russian philanthropist (1956)
  • Vasily Tropinin, Russian painter (1976)
  • Konstantin Tsiolkovsky, rocketry pioneer (1964, 1986)
  • Alexander Tsyurupa, revolutionary (1970)
  • Mikhail Tukhachevsky, Marshal of the Soviet Union (1963)
  • Hovhannes Tumanyan, Armenian poet (1969)
  • Andrei Tupolev, aircraft designer (1988)
  • Ivan Turgenev, Russian writer (1943, 1968)
  • Mark Twain, American writer (1960)
  • , anti-Nazi underground activist (1944)

U[]

1956 Lesya Ukrainka stamp.
  • Lesya Ukrainka, Ukrainian writer (1956)
  • Ulugh Beg, Uzbek astronomer and mathematician (1987)
  • , revolutionary (1974)
  • , hydrologist (1980)
  • Fyodor Ushakov, Russian admiral (1987)
  • Konstantin Ushinsky, Russian educationist (1974)
  • Vladimir Usov, 1991 coup d'état attempt victim (1991)
  • Dmitriy Ustinov, Defence Minister and Marshal of the Soviet Union (1988)
  • , physicist (1934, 1944)

V[]

1956 stamp commemorating the one-hundredth anniversary of painter Apollinary Vasnetsov's birth.
  • Chokan Valikhanov, Kazakh scholar (1965)
  • Alexander Vasilevsky, Marshal of the Soviet Union (1980)
  • Apollinary Vasnetsov, Russian painter (1956)
  • Viktor Vasnetsov, Russian painter (1951)
  • Alexey Venetsianov, Russian painter (1955)
  • , intelligence agent (1990)
  • Vazha-Pshavela, Georgian poet (1961)
  • Giuseppe Verdi, Italian composer (1963)
  • Pyotr Vershigora, World War II partisan (1968)
  • Eduard Vilde, Estonian author (1965)
  • , Karelian poet (1989)
  • Mikhail Vodopyanov, aviator (1935)
  • Fyodor Volkov, Russian actor (1956)
  • Vladislav Volkov, cosmonaut (1969, 1971, 1979)
  • Boris Volynov, cosmonaut (1976)
  • Kliment Voroshilov, Marshal of the Soviet Union (1976)
  • Andrey Voronikhin, Russian architect (1960)
  • Vatslav Vorovsky, revolutionary (1933, 1971)
  • Pyotr Voykov, diplomat (1988)
  • Samed Vurgun, Azeri poet (1976)
  • Vladimir Vysotsky, singer (1988)

W[]

  • Richard Wagner, German composer (1963)

X[]

Y[]

  • Pavel Yablochkov, Russian inventor (1951)
  • Iona Yakir, military leader (1966)
  • Alexander Ilyich Yegorov, Marshal of the Soviet Union (1983)
  • Boris Yegorov, cosmonaut (1964)
  • Anna Ulyanova, revolutionary (1964)
  • Salawat Yulayev, Bashkir rebel (1952)

Z[]

  • L. L. Zamenhof, philologist, inventor of Esperanto (1927)
  • , psychologist (1948)
  • Nikolay Zelinsky, chemist (1961)
  • Žemaitė, Lithuanian writer (1956)
  • , anti-Nazi underground activist (1944)
  • Clara Zetkin, German politician (1957)
  • Nikolay Zinin, Russian chemist (1962)
  • Vitaly Zholobov, cosmonaut (1976)
  • Georgy Zhukov, Marshal of the Soviet Union (1976)[1]
  • Vasily Zhukovsky, Russian poet (1952, 1954)
  • Vyacheslav Zudov, cosmonaut (1977)

See also[]

References[]

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