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 1)

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)

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)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • Alexander Stepanovich Popov, inventor (1989)
  • Sergei Prokofiev , composer (1991)

R

  • Jean Racine, French dramatist(1989)
  • John Reed, American journalist (1987)
  • Maximilien Robespierre, French revolutionary (1989)
  • Mikhail Rumyantsev, clown(1989)

S

  • Andrei Sakharov, scientist and Nobel peace prize winner (1991)
  • William Saroyan, writer (1991)
  • Marietta Shaginyan, writer (1988)
  • 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)
  • Josef Stalin (1943–1954)

T

1926 Leon Trotsky stamp
  • Piotr Tchaikovsky, composer (1940–1990)
  • Tigranes the Great of Armenia (on coin) (1988)
  • Leo Tolstoy (1935–1978)
  • Leon Trotsky (1926 2, 1987 3)
    • 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)

Z

  • L. L. Zamenhof (1927), philologist, inventor of Esperanto
  • Marshal Georgy Zhukov (1976) 4