Moscow in the Cold War
The atlas holds 75 people and 144 moments here, from 1947 to 1991. The most recorded lives are Kim Il Sung, Nikita Khrushchev and Konstantin Chernenko.
Notable people
Agostinho Neto
from 1976 to 1979
2 moments here
António Agostinho Neto was an Angolan physician, poet, anti-colonial leader, president of the MPLA, and the first president of independent Angola.…
Ahmed Sékou Touré
in 1959
1 moment here
Guinean nationalist, trade-union leader, and Guinea’s first president, serving from independence in 1958 until his death in 1984.…
Akira Kurosawa
from 1971 to 1975
3 moments here
Japanese filmmaker, screenwriter, producer, editor, and painter. Kurosawa directed 30 feature films between 1943 and 1993, including Rashomon, Seven…
Alexei Leonov
from 1969 to 1991
3 moments here
Soviet and Russian cosmonaut, aviator, artist, and writer. Leonov became the first person to conduct a spacewalk on 18 March 1965 and commanded Soyuz…
Anwar Sadat
in 1971
1 moment here
Muhammad Anwar el-Sadat was an Egyptian army officer, Free Officer, politician, and president of Egypt from 1970 until his assassination in 1981.…
Bob Hawke
in 1987
1 moment here
Australian trade-union leader and Labor politician who served as Australia’s 23rd prime minister from 1983 to 1991.…
Che Guevara
in 1964
1 moment here
Ernesto "Che" Guevara (1928–1967) was an Argentine physician, Marxist revolutionary, Cuban government official, diplomat, and guerrilla commander.…
Chinghiz Aitmatov
from 1956 to 1971
3 moments here
Kyrgyz author, public intellectual, and diplomat who wrote in Kyrgyz and Russian. His documented life connects his native Sheker and Soviet-era…
Claude Simon
from 1984 to 1986
2 moments here
French novelist, painter, photographer, viticulturist, Resistance participant, and 1985 Nobel Prize in Literature laureate.…
Corazon Aquino
in 1987
1 moment here
María Corazón Sumulong Cojuangco-Aquino was a Filipino political leader and president of the Philippines from 1986 to 1992.…
Deng Xiaoping
in 1963
1 moment here
Chinese revolutionary, statesman, and paramount leader of the People’s Republic of China from 1978 to 1989.…
Diego Maradona
in 1990
1 moment here
Argentine football player and manager Diego Armando Maradona (1960–2020) was a central figure in world football.…
Diego Rivera
in 1955
1 moment here
Mexican painter and muralist Diego Rivera was a central figure in Mexican muralism. His documented movements include study in Mexico and Europe, work…
Dorothy Hodgkin
from 1971 to 1985
3 moments here
English chemist and X-ray crystallographer Dorothy Mary Crowfoot Hodgkin determined major biomolecular structures including penicillin, vitamin B12,…
Eleanor Roosevelt
in 1957
1 moment here
American political figure, diplomat, activist, and First Lady of the United States from 1933 to 1945.…
Fidel Castro
from 1963 to 1964
2 moments here
Cuban revolutionary and political leader who led the 26th of July Movement against Fulgencio Batista, became Cuba's prime minister in 1959, and later…
Gamal Abdel Nasser
from 1958 to 1970
4 moments here
Egyptian army officer, leader of the 1952 Egyptian Revolution, and president of Egypt from 1954 until his death.…
Garrincha
in 1965
1 moment here
Manuel Francisco dos Santos, known as Garrincha, was a Brazilian right winger. He spent most of his club career with Botafogo and won the FIFA World…
George H. W. Bush
in 1991
1 moment here
George Herbert Walker Bush was an American naval aviator, oil executive, congressman, diplomat, director of central intelligence, vice president, and…
Gherman Titov
from 1961 to 1980
3 moments here
Soviet Air Force pilot, cosmonaut, and later Russian politician. Titov flew Vostok 2 on 6–7 August 1961, becoming the second human to orbit Earth and…
Golda Meir
in 1948
2 moments here
Golda Meir was an Israeli political leader who served as Israel’s prime minister from 1969 to 1974.…
Haile Selassie
in 1959
1 moment here
Haile Selassie I (born Tafari Makonnen) was Emperor of Ethiopia from 1930 until his deposition in 1974.…
Ho Chi Minh
from 1950 to 1960
2 moments here
Vietnamese revolutionary and statesman, born Nguyễn Sinh Cung, who led the Việt Minh, proclaimed the Democratic Republic of Vietnam in 1945, and…
Hosni Mubarak
in 1959
1 moment here
Egyptian military officer and politician who served as president of Egypt from 1981 until his resignation in 2011.…
Moments
- 1947 First Soviet journey: Moscow John Steinbeck
- 1948 Israeli mission in Moscow Golda Meir
- 1948 Rosh Hashanah at Moscow Choral Synagogue Golda Meir
- 1949 Begins university study Raisa Gorbacheva
- 1949 Medical journey to Moscow Jiang Qing
- 1949 First state visit to Moscow Kim Il Sung
- 1949 First Moscow visit Mao Zedong
- 1949 Return to Moscow party leadership Nikita Khrushchev
- 1950 Arrival for Moscow State University Mikhail Gorbachev
- 1950 Moscow State University residence Mikhail Gorbachev
- 1950 Foundry apprenticeship Yuri Gagarin
- 1950 Meeting with Stalin and Mao Ho Chi Minh
- 1950 Diplomatic call on Gromyko Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan
- 1951 Correspondent in Moscow Italo Calvino
- 1951 Stalin Peace Prize in Moscow Jorge Amado
- 1951 Stalin Prize jury meetings in Moscow Pablo Neruda
- 1953 Visit to the Soviet Union Soong Ching-ling
- 1953 Dies at Kuntsevo Dacha Joseph Stalin
- 1953 Stalin funeral in Moscow Zhou Enlai
- 1953 Postwar state visit to Moscow Kim Il Sung
- 1953 Marriage registration Raisa Gorbacheva
- 1953 Moves into Lenin Hills dormitory Raisa Gorbacheva
- 1954 Return to Moscow after thermonuclear project Igor Tamm
- 1954 VGIK student in Moscow Vasily Shukshin
- 1955 Training at Stalin Automobile Works Jiang Zemin
- 1955 State visit to the Soviet Union Jawaharlal Nehru
- 1955 Travels to Moscow for medical treatment Diego Rivera
- 1956 Literature Institute residence Chinghiz Aitmatov
- 1956 Move to the CPSU apparatus Konstantin Chernenko
- 1956 Secret Speech at the Twentieth Party Congress Nikita Khrushchev
- 1956 Visit to Moscow under Khrushchev Kim Il Sung
- 1956 Return visit to Moscow Kim Il Sung
- 1957 Moscow visit with Mao delegation Soong Ching-ling
- 1957 Meeting Valentina Goryacheva Yuri Gagarin
- 1957 Soviet Union journey Eleanor Roosevelt
- 1957 October Revolution celebrations Kim Il Sung
- 1958 State visit to Moscow Gamal Abdel Nasser
- 1959 Moscow visit in 1959 Kim Il Sung
- 1959 Pilot training in Moscow Hosni Mubarak
- 1959 Visit to the Soviet Union Haile Selassie
- 1959 Kitchen Debate at Sokolniki Park Nikita Khrushchev
- 1959 Kitchen Debate at the American National Exhibition Richard Nixon
- 1959 Soviet-Guinean communiqué Ahmed Sékou Touré
- 1960 Diploma-film production at Mosfilm Vasily Shukshin
- 1960 Beginning cosmonaut training Yuri Gagarin
- 1960 State visit to the Soviet Union Rajendra Prasad
- 1960 Moscow conference of communist parties Ho Chi Minh
- 1961 Moscow visit in 1961 Kim Il Sung
- 1961 Hero's parade and speech Yuri Gagarin
- 1961 Moscow press conference Yuri Gagarin