Moscow in the Space Age
The atlas holds 87 people and 173 moments here, from 1957 to 2022. The most recorded lives are Alexei Navalny, Vladimir Zhirinovsky and Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn.
Notable people
Abdelaziz Bouteflika
in 2001
1 moment here
Algerian politician, diplomat, and president. Born in Oujda, he joined the National Liberation Army during the Algerian War, served as Algeria's…
Abdullah Ahmad Badawi
in 2007
1 moment here
Malaysian civil servant and politician who served as Malaysia’s fifth prime minister from 2003 to 2009.…
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.…
Akhmad Kadyrov
in 1999
1 moment here
Chechen Islamic religious leader and politician. Born in Karaganda during his family’s deportation from Chechnya, he studied in Uzbekistan, returned…
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…
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
from 1994 to 2008
5 moments here
Soviet and Russian novelist, essayist, historian, dissident, and Nobel laureate whose writings on Soviet political repression and the Gulag made him…
Alexander Prokhorov
in 2002
1 moment here
Alexander Mikhailovich Prokhorov was an Australian-born Soviet and Russian physicist whose work in quantum electronics helped lead to the maser and…
Alexei Leonov
from 1969 to 2019
5 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…
Alexei Navalny
from 1998 to 2017
10 moments here
Russian opposition leader, anti-corruption activist, politician, and political prisoner. This chronology records supported locations of his birth,…
Amy Winehouse
in 2010
1 moment here
British singer and songwriter Amy Jade Winehouse was born in London and became internationally known for the albums Frank and Back to Black.…
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.…
Aslan Maskhadov
in 1997
1 moment here
Aslan Maskhadov was a Soviet artillery officer, Chechen military commander, and president of the unrecognized Chechen Republic of Ichkeria.…
Atal Bihari Vajpayee
in 2003
1 moment here
Indian statesman, poet, journalist and Bharatiya Janata Party leader who served as India’s prime minister in 1996 and from 1998 to 2004.…
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 1961 to 2006
4 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.…
Diana, Princess of Wales
in 1995
1 moment here
Diana Frances Spencer (1961–1997) was Princess of Wales from 1981 until her divorce in 1996.…
Diego Maradona
from 1990 to 2018
2 moments here
Argentine football player and manager Diego Armando Maradona (1960–2020) was a central figure in world football.…
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,…
Ebrahim Raisi
in 2022
1 moment here
Iranian cleric, judicial official, and politician who served as president of Iran from 2021 until his death in a helicopter crash in 2024.…
Moments
- 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
- 1961 Moscow International Film Festival juror Chinghiz Aitmatov
- 1961 Red Square appearance after Vostok 2 Gherman Titov
- 1961 World Youth Festival Congress Mikhail Gorbachev
- 1962 Peace Conference in Moscow Satyendra Nath Bose
- 1962 Return visit to Moscow Igor Stravinsky
- 1962 Bolshoi Theatre appearance during missile crisis Nikita Khrushchev
- 1962 Nobel Prize presentation in a Moscow hospital Lev Landau
- 1963 Leads Chinese delegation meeting in Moscow Deng Xiaoping
- 1963 Staff director at Gorky Film Studio Vasily Shukshin
- 1963 Soviet Union tour Fidel Castro
- 1963 Test-ban treaty ceremony U Thant
- 1963 State function during Soviet visit Sirimavo Bandaranaike
- 1964 Return visit to Moscow Fidel Castro
- 1964 Move to Moscow for study Vladimir Zhirinovsky
- 1964 Presidential visit to the Soviet Union Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan
- 1964 Return to Moscow before removal Nikita Khrushchev
- 1964 Walk through Red Square Che Guevara
- 1965 Moscow arms visit Mohammad Reza Pahlavi
- 1965 Brazil versus Soviet Union Garrincha
- 1965 Friendly in Moscow Pelé
- 1965 Moscow trade-deal visit Gamal Abdel Nasser
- 1965 Lenin Peace Prize ceremony Miguel Ángel Asturias
- 1966 Moscow stopover with Kosygin Indira Gandhi
- 1968 Death in Moscow Lev Landau
- 1968 Meeting Kosygin en route to Paris Lê Đức Thọ
- 1968 State visit to Moscow after the war Gamal Abdel Nasser
- 1969 Cosmonauts' motorcade shooting Alexei Leonov
- 1969 Ambassador to the Soviet Union and Poland Javier Pérez de Cuéllar
- 1970 Meeting Kosygin in Moscow Norodom Sihanouk
- 1970 Meeting with Alexei Kosygin Neil Armstrong
- 1970 Military talks and arms deal Gamal Abdel Nasser
- 1970 Soviet Union state visit Jean-Bédel Bokassa