Russia

German Marxist theorist, communist activist, and tireless advocate for women's rights

Last leader of the Soviet Union from 1985 to 1991, Nobel Peace Prize laureate for his role in radical changes in East-West relations, and a jurist, economist, and environmentalist

Russian mercenary leader, oligarch, and entrepreneur who led the Wagner Group and owned catering businesses that served the Kremlin

Soviet pilot and cosmonaut who became the first human to conduct a spacewalk on March 18, 1965, during the Voskhod 2 mission

Soviet-Russian physicist and inventor who shared the Nobel Prize in Physics for developing semiconductor heterostructures used in high-speed- and opto-electronics