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Born August 17, 1911
Died May 5, 1995 (aged 83) • Moscow • Russia • (Anniversary in 7 days)
Mikhail Nekhemyevich Tal
Latvian chess player
Garry Kasparov
Garry Kasparov
Soviet-born chess player
Karpov, Anatoly Yevgenyevich
Anatoly Yevgenyevich Karpov
Russian chess player
Boris Spassky
Boris Spassky
Russian chess player
Viktor Korchnoi.
Viktor Korchnoi
Russian chess grandmaster
Vasily Vasilyevich Smyslov
Russian chess master
Olga Nikolayevna Rubtsova
Russian chess player
Alekhine, Alexander
Alexander Alekhine
Russian-French chess player
Petrosyan, Tigran Vartanovich
Tigran Vartanovich Petrosyan
Soviet chess player
Vera Francevna Menchik-Stevenson
British chess player
Nona Gaprindashvili
Soviet chess player
Chiburdanidze, Maya
Maya Chiburdanidze
Soviet chess player
Oleg Baklanov
Soviet politician
Yegor Kuzmich Ligachev
Soviet politician
Vladimir Lenin
Vladimir Lenin
prime minister of Soviet Union
Nikita Khrushchev
Nikita Khrushchev
premier of Soviet Union
Leon Trotsky
Leon Trotsky
Russian revolutionary
Stanislav Petrov
Soviet military officer
Mikhail Gorbachev
Mikhail Gorbachev
president of Soviet Union
Andrey Sakharov
Andrey Sakharov
Soviet physicist and dissident

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