Soviet Union

Vladimir Lenin

Person

Russian revolutionary, politician, political theorist, and founder of the Soviet Union (1870–1924)

Mikhail Gorbachev

Person

leader of the Soviet Union from 1985 to 1991 (1931–2022)

Nikita Khrushchev

Person

leader of the Soviet Union from 1953 to 1964

Leonid Brezhnev

Person

General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (1906–1982)

Yuri Andropov

Person

General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (1914–1984)

Georgy Zhukov

Person

Marshal of the Soviet Union (1896-1974)

Konstantin Chernenko

Person

General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (1911-1985)

Mikhail Tukhachevsky

Person

Marshal of the Soviet Union (1893—1937)

Aleksandr Michajlovič Vasilevskij

Person

Marshal of the Soviet Union (1895-1977)

Alexei Rykov

Person

Premier of Russia and the Soviet Union (1881-1938)

Ivan Bagramyan

Person

Marshal of the Soviet Union (1897-1982)

Zoya Kosmodemyanskaya

Person

Soviet resistance member of World War II and Heroine of the Soviet Union (1923–1941)

Yelena Bonner

Person

human rights activist in the former Soviet Union; wife of dissident Andrei Sakharov

Boris Shaposhnikov

Person

Marshal of the Soviet Union (1882-1945)

Kim Philby

Person

KGB mole for the Soviet Union (1912–1988)

Vladimir Bukovsky

Person

Soviet dissident; prominent in the Soviet dissident movement of the 1960s and 1970s and spent a total of twelve years in psychiatric prison-hospitals, labor camps and prisons within the Soviet Union

Fyodor Ivanovich Tolbukhin

Person

Soviet military commander and Marshal of the Soviet Union (1894-1949)

Gennady Yanayev

Person

vice president of the Soviet Union from 1990 to 1991

Andrey Yeryomenko

Person

Marshal of the Soviet Union (1892-1970)

Francis Gary Powers

Person

American pilot shot down flying a U-2 spy plane over the Soviet Union (1929-1977)

Ivan Kozhedub

Person

Soviet aviator, thrice Hero of the Soviet Union (1920-1991)

Valery Chkalov

Person

Soviet aviator, Hero of the Soviet Union (1904-1938)

Alexander Ilyich Yegorov

Person

Marshal of the Soviet Union (1883-1939)

Aliya Moldagulova

Person

Soviet Kazakh sniper and Heroine of the Soviet Union (1925–1944)

Viktor Kulikov

Person

Marshal of the Soviet Union (1921-2013)

Anna German

Person

Polish singer, popular in Poland and in the Soviet Union (1936-1982)

Amet-khan Sultan

Person

Crimean Tatar WWII flying ace, test pilot, and twice Hero of the Soviet Union (1920-1971)

Grigory Kulik

Person

Marshal of the Soviet Union (1890–1950)

Ivan Yakubovsky

Person

Soviet military commander, Marshal of the Soviet Union (1912-1976)

Nikolai Ogarkov

Person

Marshal of the Soviet Union (1917–1994)

Meliton Kantaria

Person

Hero of the Soviet Union (1920-1993)

Vasily Petrov

Person

Marshal of the Soviet Union (1917–2014)

Pavel Batitsky

Person

Soviet military leader, Hero of the Soviet Union, Marshal of the Soviet Union (1910-1984)

Friedrich-Werner Graf von der Schulenburg

Person

German diplomat who served as the last German ambassador to the Soviet Union before Operation Barbarossa (1875–1944)

George Blake

Person

British spy, a double agent in the service of the Soviet Union

Alexander Matrosov

Person

Hero of the Soviet Union (1924–1943)

Alfred Sarant

Person

American scientist who spied for the soviet union

Joel Barr

Person

American spy for the Soviet Union (1916–1998)

Armenian Soviet Socialist Republic

Organization

union republic of the Soviet Union

Byelorussian Soviet Socialist Republic

Organization

one of fifteen constituent republics of the Soviet Union (USSR); founding member of the United Nations Organization in 1945; now Belarus

Georgian SSR

Organization

union republic of the Soviet Union

Estonian Soviet Socialist Republic

Organization

republic of the Soviet Union (1940–1991)

Transcaucasian Socialist Federative Soviet Republic

Organization

federation of Soviet republics in the South Caucasus and constituent republic of the Soviet Union

Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic

Organization

constituent republic of the Soviet Union (1922–1991)

Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic

Organization

sovereign state (1919–1922) and a republic of the Soviet Union (1922–1991); one of the founding members of the UN in 1945

Soviet ruble

Organization

currency of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics; briefly used by post-Soviet states after the dissolution of the Soviet Union

kopeck

Intangible

coin or currency unit of Russia, Belarus, Ukraine and formerly the Soviet Union

Venera 7

Vehicle

space probe of the Soviet Union which landed on the planet Venus

Mars 1M No.1

Vehicle

soviet Union Mars spacecraft

Vostok

Class

type of spacecraft built by the Soviet Union

Zenit 8

Class

military spy satellite used by Soviet Union

Central Radio Laboratory

Organization

R&D institution in the Soviet Union

Popov Institute of radio communications and acoustics

Organization

research institution in Soviet Union and Russia

flag of the Soviet Union

Intangible

flag of USSR 1955–1991

Luna 9

Vehicle

lander in the Soviet Union's Luna programme

Salyut 1

Organization

first space station launched by the Soviet Union

Luna 10

Vehicle

spacecraft in the Soviet Union's Luna programme

NPO Lavochkin

Organization

aircraft design bureau in the Soviet Union and Russia

R-36

Class

type of intercontinental ballistic missile designed by the Soviet Union

kremlinology

Thing

study and analysis of the politics and policies of the Soviet Union (while the term Sovietology means the study of politics and policies of both the Soviet Union and former communist states more generally)

Soyuz 20

Event

uncrewed spacecraft launched in 1975 by the Soviet Union

Communist University of the National Minorities of the West

Organization

former school in Leningrad, Soviet Union

Marx-Engels-Lenin Institute

Organization

Soviet Union library and archive

Tselina

Class

family of Soviet Union/Russian signals intelligence satellites

Kosmos 320

Vehicle

technology demonstration satellite which was launched by the Soviet Union in 1970

Kosmos 801

Vehicle

soviet Union satellite (1976–1978)

Kronos

Class

32-bit graphical workstation developed in the Soviet Union in the mid-1980s

Code stamp

Thing

machine readable postcodes in the former Soviet Union

R12-2

Class

first production monolithic integrated circuits made in the Soviet Union

Sputnik 8A91

Class

Soviet Union space launch vehicle

INMOS

Creative Work

Unix-like operating system developed in the Soviet Union in the early 1980s