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Notable Honorees Nikita Khrushchev • Aleksandr Oparin • Viktor Ambartsumian • Georgy Zhukov • Aleksandr Volkov • Bruno Pontecorvo • Yuri Gagarin • Abdul Ahad Mohmand • Peretz Markish • Vasily Ivanovich Alekseyev • Bertalan Farkas • Sigmund Jähn • Leonid Leonidov • Arnaldo Tamayo Méndez • Mirosław Hermaszewski • Yevgeny Grishin • Gus Hall • Georgi Ivanov • Mikhail Tukhachevsky • Gherman Stepanovich Titov • Lev Ivanovich Yashin • Muhammed Faris • Valentina Tereshkova • Aleksandr Medved • Sergey Georgyevich Gorshkov • Sergey Vladimirovich Ilyushin • Igor Ilinsky • Mark Donskoy • Aleksandr Sergeyevich Yakovlev

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