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

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1973 Salvador Allende stamp.

• Rudolf Abel, intelligence agent (1990)
• Khachatur Abovian, Armenian writer (1948, 1956)
• Yuldash Akhunbabayev, 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.

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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)
• Alexey Bakh, 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 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)
• Veniamin Bogorov, 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)
• Tikhon Bumazhkov, 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 Cervantes, Spanish writer (1966)
• Yeghishe Charents, Armenian poet (1958)
• Vasily Chapayev, military leader (1948, 1987)
• Ilya Chavchavadze, Georgian writer (1958)
• Liza Chaykina, 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

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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)

1979 stamp issued to honor the centennial of Albert Einstein's birth.

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

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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)
• Valentin Filatov, 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

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1957 Mikhail Glinka stamp.

• Georgy Gabrichevsky, 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

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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.

• Henrik Ibsen, Norwegian playwright (1956)
• Akmal Ikramov, politician (1968)
• Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres, French painter (1980)
• Abram Ioffe, physicist (1980)
• Sergey Ilyushin, aircraft designer (1984)
• Amangeldy Imanov, revolutionary (1961)
• Avetik Isahakyan, Armenian poet (1975)
• Ivan Isakov, admiral (1974)
• Vladimir Istomin, Russian admiral (1989)
• Alexander Andreyevich Ivanov, Russian painter (1956)
• Vsevolod Ivanov, writer (1965)

J

• Otakar Jaroš, Czech World War II officer on the Eastern Front (1969)
• Frédéric Joliot-Curie, French physicist (1959)

K

1983 stamp commemorating the 8th-century Persian astronomer Abu Abdullah Muhammad bin Musa al-Khwarizmi.

Bolshevik revolutionary and economist Gleb Krzhizhanovsky (1972).

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1989 stamp honoring the Komi writer Ivan Kuratov.

• Vasily Kalinnikov, Russian composer (1951)
• Nikolay Karamzin, Russian historian (1991)
• Alexander Karpinsky, geologist (1947)
• Nikolay Kasatkin, Russian painter (1956)
• Sen Katayama, Japanese communist (1967)
• Mstislav Keldysh, mathematician (1981)
• Paul Keres, chess player (1991)
• Aram Khachaturian, composer (1983)
• Mikhail Kharchenko, World War II partisan (1967)
• Kosta Khetagurov, Ossetian poet (1960, 1989)
• Muḥammad ibn Mūsā al-Khwārizmī, Persian astronomer (1983)
• Vasily Kikvidze, revolutionary (1970)
• Viktor Kingissepp, Estonian revolutionary (1950, 1963, 1988)
• Emil Kio, illusionist (1989)
• Orest Kiprensky, Russian painter (1973)
• Vladimir Kistyakovsky, physical chemist (1965)
• Leonid Kizim, cosmonaut (1981, 1985)
• Pyotr Klimuk, cosmonaut (1974)
• Vasily Klyuchevsky, Russian historian (1991)
• Yakub Kolas, Belarusian poet (1957, 1962)
• Alexandra Kollontay, revolutionary (1972)
• Dmitry Komar, 1991 coup d'état attempt victim (1991)
• Vladimir Komarov, cosmonaut (1964)
• Jan Amos Komenský, Czech educationist (1958)
• Komitas, Armenian composer (1969)
• Vera Komissarzhevskaya, Russian actress (1960)
• Maxim Konchalovsky, physician (1975)
• Pyotr Konchalovsky, painter (1976)
• Sergey Konenkov, sculptor (1973)
• Ivan Konev, Marshal of the Soviet Union (1897–1973), issue 1977
• Vladimir Alexeyevich Kornilov, Russian admiral (1989)
• Sergey Korolyov, spacecraft designer (1981, 1982, 1986)
• Oleg Koshevoy, anti-Nazi underground activist (1944)
• Stanislav Kosior, politician (1989)
• Zoya Kosmodemyanskaya, World War II partisan (1942)
• Ivan Kotlyarevsky, Ukrainian writer (1969)
• Sofia Kovalevskaya, Russian mathematician (1951)
• Alexander Kovalevsky, Russian zoologist and embyologist (1951)
• Vladimir Kovalyonok, cosmonaut (1981)
• Sydir Kovpak, World War II partisan (1987)
• Natalya Kovshova, World War II sniper (1944)
• Pyotr Kozlov, Russian explorer (1951)
• Stepan Krasheninnikov, Russian explorer (1951)
• Grigory Kravchenko, aviator (1966)
• Ernst Krenkel, Arctic explorer (1973, 1979)
• Ilya Krichevsky, 1991 coup d'état attempt victim (1991)
• Marko Kropivnitsky, Ukrainian dramatist (1965)
• Nadezhda Krupskaya, revolutionary (1956, 1964)
• Gleb Krzhizhanovsky, revolutionary (1972)
• Ivan Kudrya, intelligence agent (1990)
• Ivan Kulibin, Russian inventor (1955)
• Leonid Kulik, mineralogist (1958)
• Bela Kun, Hungarian revolutionary (1986)
• Yanka Kupala, Belarusian writer (1957, 1962)
• Ivan Kuratov, Komi writer (1989)
• Igor Kurchatov, physicist (1963, 1979)
• Ivan Kuskov, Russian Fort Ross, California settler (1991)
• Boris Kustodiev, painter and stage designer (1978)
• Mikhail Kutuzov, Russian field marshal (1945, 1962)
• Valerian Kuybyshev, politician (1953, 1988)
• Emanuel Kviring, politician (1988)

L

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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)
• V E Lazarenko, clown acrobat (1989)
• Mikhail Petrovich Lazarev, Russian admiral (1987)
• Sergey Lazo, revolutionary (1948)
• Pyotr Lebedev, Russian physicist (1951)
• Valentin Lebedev, cosmonaut (1974, 1983)
• Vladimir Lebedinsky, 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)
• Kārlis Miesnieks, painter (1987)
• Mikhail Millionshchikov, physicist and politician (1974)
• John Milton, English poet (1958)
• Grigory Minkh, Russian physician (1960)
• Viktor Miroshnichenko, 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

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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)
• Kayum Nasyri, 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)
• Mstislav Novinsky, Russian oncologist (1976)
• Khanpasha Nuradilov, World War II soldier (1944)

O

• Vladimir Obruchev, geologist and writer (1963)
• Alexander Odoyevsky, Russian poet (1952)
• Georgy Oppokov, politician (1988)
• Sulkhan-Saba Orbeliani, Georgian writer (1959)
• Mammed Said Ordubadi, Azeri writer (1972)
• Grigory Ordzhonikidze, politician (1952, 1958, 1966, 1986)
• Kirill Orlovsky, World War II partisan (1970)
• Polina Osipenko, aviator (1939)
• Mikhail Ostrogradsky, Russian mathematician (1951)
• Alexander Ostrovsky, Russian playwright (1948, 1949, 1959, 1973)
• Georg Ots, Estonian singer (1980)

P

Spanish painter Pablo Picasso on a 1973 stamp

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1958 Vadim Podbelsky stamp

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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)
• Mikas Petrauskas, 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)
• Nikolay Popudrenko, 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)
• Abay Qunanbayuli, Kazakh poet (1965)

R

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1954 stamp issued to commemorate the 125th anniversary of 19th-century Russian composer Anton Rubinstein's birth.

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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)

S

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12th-century poet Saʿdī on a 1959 stamp commemorating the seven-hundredth anniversary of the Gulistan.

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Ukrainian poet and painter Taras Shevchenko, 1957.

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Lezgin poet Suleyman Stalsky, 1969.

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A 1950 postage stamp commemorating 125 years since the birth of Armenian playwright Gabriel Sundukyan.

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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)
• M. V. Sakharov, 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)
• Mikhail Shatelen, 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)
• 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)
• Filipp Strelets, 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

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A 1960 Leo Tolstoy stamp.

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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)
• Sergey Tyulenin, anti-Nazi underground activist (1944)

U

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1956 Lesya Ukrainka stamp.

• Lesya Ukrainka, Ukrainian writer (1956)
• Ulugh Beg, Uzbek astronomer and mathematician (1987)
• Dmitry Ulyanov, revolutionary (1974)
• Valerian Uryvayev, 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)
• Ilya Usyskin, physicist (1934, 1944)

V

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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)
• Stanislav Vaupshasov, 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)
• Jalmari Virtanen, 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)

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 Yelizarova-Ulyanova, revolutionary (1964)
• Salawat Yulayev, Bashkir rebel (1952)

Z

• L. L. Zamenhof, philologist, inventor of Esperanto (1927)
• Nikolay Zelinsky, chemist (1961)
• Žemaitė, Lithuanian writer (1956)
• Ivan Zemnukhov, 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)
• Vasily Zhukovsky, Russian poet (1952, 1954)
• Vyacheslav Zudov, cosmonaut (1977)

See also

• Definitive stamps of the Soviet Union
• Stamps of the Soviet Union

External links

• Stamps of the Soviet Era

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