List of people on stamps of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics

A

• Rudolf Abel, intelligence agent (1990)
• Ivan Akulov, first Prosecutor General of the USSR (1988)
• Salvador Allende, President of Chile (1973)

B

• Alexandr Baranov, Alaska settler (1991)
• Vitus Bering, explorer (1981)
• Yan Berzin, military (1989)
• Andrey Bolotov, agriculturalist (1988)
• Mikhail Aleksandrovich Bonch-Bruevich, radio engineer (1988)
• Ivan Bunin, writer (1990)

C

• James Fenimore Cooper, writer (1989)

D

• Georges Danton, French revolutionary (1989)
• Anatoly Durov, circus (1989)
• Pavel Dybenko, military leader (1989)
• Felix Edmundovich Dzerzhinsky, revolutionary (1987 )

E

• Friedrich Engels, German philosopher

F

• Valentin Filatov, circus animal trainer (1989)
• William Z. Foster, General Secretary of the Communist Party USA (1971)
• Benjamin Franklin, American politician (1956)

G

• Yuri Gagarin, cosmonaut (1961–1991)
• Indira Gandhi, Indian politician (1987)

H

• O. Henry, American writer (1962)

I

• I. S. Isakov, admiral (1894-1967), issue 1974

J

K

• Nikolay Karamzin, historian (1991)
• Paul Keres, chess player (1991)
• Kosta Khetagurov, writer (1989)
• Viktor Kingissepp, revolutionary(1988)
• Emil Kio, illusionist (1989)
• Vasily Klyuchevsky, historian (1991)
• Dmitriy Komar, victim coup attempt (1991)
• I. S. Konev, Marshal of the Soviet Union (1897-1973), issue 1977
• Stanislav Kosior, Commissar(1989)
• Ilya Krichevskiy, victim coup attempt (1991)
• Ivan Kudrya, intelligence agent (1990)
• Ivan Kuratov, writer (1989)
• Ivan Kuskov, settler Fort Ross, California (1991)
• Valerian Kuybyshev, politician (1988)
• Emmanuil Kviring, politician (1988)

L

• Martins Lacis, revolutionary (1988)
• V E Lazarenko, clown acrobat (1989)
• Vladimir Lenin, (1924–1991)
• Li Dazhao, Chinese Communist(1989)
• Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, American writer (1958)

M

• Anton Makarenko, educationist(1988)
• Nelson Mandela, South African politician (1988)
• Jean-Paul Marat, French revolutionary (1989)
• Karl Marx
• Ilya Ilyich Mechnikov, microbiologist (1991)
• K. A. Mereckov, Marshal of the Soviet Union (1897-1968), issue 1977
• Hồ Chí Minh (1990)
• Konon Molody, intelligence agent alias Gordon Lonsdale (1990)
• Vera Mukhina, sculptor(1989)
• Modest Mussorgsky, composer (1989)

N

• Alisher Navoi, Uzbek Middle Ages poet (1942)
• Jawaharlal Nehru, Indian statesman (1989)
• Kwame Nkrumah, President, of Ghana (1989)

O

P

• Boris Pasternak, writer (1990)
• Ivan Pavlov, physiologist (1991)
• Peter I of Russia, Tsar (1989)
• Kim Philby, intelligence agent (1990)
• Pablo Picasso, Spanish painter (1881-1973), issue 1973
• Alexander Stepanovich Popov, inventor (1989)
• Sergei Prokofiev , composer (1991)

Q

R

• Jean Racine, French dramatist(1989)
• John Reed, American journalist (1987)
• Maximilien Robespierre, French revolutionary (1989)
• Konstantin Konstantinovich Rokossovsky, Marshal of the Soviet Union (1896-1968), issue 1976
• Mikhail Rumyantsev, clown(1989)

S

• Andrei Sakharov, scientist and Nobel peace prize winner (1991)
• M. V. Sakharov, Marshal of the Soviet Union (1898-1972), issue 1978
• William Saroyan, writer (1991)
• Marietta Shaginyan, writer (1988)
• Georgiy Yakovlevich Sedov, Arctic explorer (1877-1914), issue 1977
• Grigory Shelikhov, settler Alaska (1991)
• Nikolay Shvernik, politician (1988)
• Taras Shevchenko, poet and painter (1989)
• Michail Aleksandrovich Sholokhov, writer (1990)
• Frantsisk Skorina, printer (1988)
• Alexander Soloviev , historian(1991)
• Yakov Mikhaylovich Sverdlov, politician (1885-1919), issue 1985
• Joseph Stalin (1943–1954)

T

• Piotr Tchaikovsky, composer (1940–1990)
• Tigranes the Great of Armenia (on coin) (1988)
• Palmiro Togliatti, italian politician (1893-1964)
• Leo Tolstoy (1935–1978)
• Semyon Konstantinovich Timoshenko, Marshal of the Soviet Union (1895-1970), issue 1980
• Leon Trotsky (1926 , 1987 )
• Note: The 1926 issue mistakenly used an image of Trotksy's son, not Trotsky himself.
• Andrei Tupolev, aircraft designer (1988)
• Mark Twain (1960)

U

• Vladimir Usov, victim coup attempt (1991)
• Marshal Dmitriy Ustinov (1988)

V

• Stanislav Vaupshasov ,intelligence agent (1990)
• Jalmari Virtanen, Karelian poet (1989)
• Pyotr Voykov, diplomat (1988)

W

X

Y

Z

• L. L. Zamenhof (1927), philologist, inventor of Esperanto
• Marshal Georgy Zhukov (1976)

External links

• Stamps of the Soviet Era