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

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

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 [http://sio.midco.net/dansmapstamps/russia.htm] )

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

Georg Ots, singer (1980)

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 [http://queries.heindorffhus.dk/ussr1926-Trotzky.jpg] , 1987 [http://sio.midco.net/dansmapstamps/russia.htm] )
**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) [http://www.stamprussia.com/4553b.jpg]

External links

* [http://www.stamprussia.com/ Stamps of the Soviet Era]