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
Eleanor Roosevelt
in 1957
1 moment here
American political figure, diplomat, activist, and First Lady of the United States from 1933 to 1945.…
Elizabeth II
in 1994
1 moment here
Elizabeth II was Queen of the United Kingdom and other Commonwealth realms from 6 February 1952 until her death.…
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
from 1991 to 1993
2 moments 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 2000
4 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…
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
in 1960
1 moment 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.…
Hugo Chávez
in 2008
1 moment here
Hugo Rafael Chávez Frías was a Venezuelan army officer and politician who led the failed February 1992 coup attempt, became president of Venezuela in…
Igor Stravinsky
in 1962
1 moment here
Russian-born composer, conductor, and pianist who became a French citizen in 1934 and an American citizen in 1945.…
Igor Tamm
in 1971
1 moment here
Soviet theoretical physicist and 1958 Nobel laureate in Physics, noted for work on Cherenkov radiation, nuclear physics, and controlled thermonuclear…
Indira Gandhi
from 1966 to 1984
3 moments here
Indira Priyadarshini Gandhi was an Indian stateswoman who served as prime minister from 1966 to 1977 and from 1980 until her assassination in 1984.…
Islam Karimov
in 2010
1 moment here
Uzbek political leader who became first secretary of the Communist Party of Uzbekistan in 1989 and served as Uzbekistan’s first president from…
Jacques Chirac
in 2005
1 moment here
French statesman who served as prime minister (1974–1976; 1986–1988), mayor of Paris (1977–1995), and president of France (1995–2007).…
Javier Pérez de Cuéllar
in 1969
1 moment here
Peruvian diplomat and politician who became the fifth Secretary-General of the United Nations (1982–1991).…
Jean-Bédel Bokassa
in 1970
1 moment here
Central African military officer and politician who seized power in the Central African Republic in 1966, served as president, and proclaimed himself…
Jiang Zemin
from 1991 to 2001
5 moments here
Jiang Zemin was a Chinese electrical engineer and politician who served as General Secretary of the Chinese Communist Party from 1989 to 2002,…
Kim Il Sung
from 1957 to 1986
5 moments here
Kim Il Sung (born Kim Song Ju) was a Korean communist guerrilla leader, North Korean political leader, and founder of the Democratic People’s…
Kofi Annan
in 2005
1 moment here
Ghanaian diplomat and statesman who served as Secretary-General of the United Nations from 1997 to 2006.…
Konstantin Chernenko
from 1984 to 1985
5 moments here
Soviet Communist Party official and General Secretary of the CPSU from 13 February 1984 until his death.…
Lê Đức Thọ
in 1968
1 moment here
Vietnamese revolutionary, Communist Party leader, and diplomat. Born Phan Đình Khải, he was imprisoned by French colonial authorities, worked in…
Lev Landau
from 1962 to 1968
2 moments here
Soviet theoretical physicist Lev Davidovich Landau was born in Baku, educated in Baku and Leningrad, and undertook formative research travel in…
Moments
- 1970 Treaty of Moscow visit Willy Brandt
- 1970 Arrival in Moscow for planned concerts Umm Kulthum
- 1971 Moscow Film Festival discussions Akira Kurosawa
- 1971 Death in Moscow Igor Tamm
- 1971 Moscow International Film Festival juror Chinghiz Aitmatov
- 1971 Academy of Sciences visit in Moscow Dorothy Hodgkin
- 1971 Death at Moscow Central Clinical Hospital Nikita Khrushchev
- 1971 Moscow diplomatic visit Anwar Sadat
- 1971 First Soviet visit Saddam Hussein
- 1971 Belov birthday celebrations in Moscow Dorothy Hodgkin
- 1972 Graduation from the General Staff Academy Gherman Titov
- 1972 Visit to Moscow Saddam Hussein
- 1972 Goodwill trip to Moscow Sheikh Mujibur Rahman
- 1972 Three-day Moscow visit Zulfikar Ali Bhutto
- 1972 Moscow summit Richard Nixon
- 1972 Kremlin dinner in Moscow Salvador Allende
- 1973 Jury service at Moscow International Film Festival Toshiro Mifune
- 1974 Departure from Moscow for Siberian production Akira Kurosawa
- 1974 Official visit to Moscow Zulfikar Ali Bhutto
- 1975 Editing Dersu Uzala at Mosfilm Akira Kurosawa
- 1975 Postflight tour in Moscow Alexei Leonov
- 1976 Meeting with Ceausescu in Moscow Siad Barre
- 1976 Visit to Moscow during Emergency Indira Gandhi
- 1976 Official visit to Moscow Agostinho Neto
- 1976 Talks in Moscow Muammar Gaddafi
- 1977 Second Moscow International Film Festival jury Toshiro Mifune
- 1977 Visit to Moscow amid Soviet-Somali tensions Siad Barre
- 1978 Soviet Union visit Muhammad Ali
- 1978 Moves back to Moscow Raisa Gorbacheva
- 1978 Move back to Moscow Mikhail Gorbachev
- 1979 Death in Moscow Agostinho Neto
- 1980 Military-sciences dissertation defense Gherman Titov
- 1981 Studies at the Academy of Sciences Nguyễn Phú Trọng
- 1981 Meeting in Moscow Muammar Gaddafi
- 1984 Visit to Moscow Claude Simon
- 1984 Funeral of Yuri Andropov Indira Gandhi
- 1984 Election as General Secretary Konstantin Chernenko
- 1984 Meeting with Hans-Jochen Vogel Konstantin Chernenko
- 1984 State visit to Moscow in 1984 Kim Il Sung
- 1984 Address to Komsomol organization leaders Konstantin Chernenko
- 1984 Meeting with Neil Kinnock Konstantin Chernenko
- 1985 Death in Moscow Konstantin Chernenko
- 1985 Trans-Siberian journey and stay in Moscow Dorothy Hodgkin
- 1985 Meeting with Gorbachev in Moscow Muammar Gaddafi
- 1985 Moscow diplomatic visit Saddam Hussein
- 1986 Official visit to Moscow Mathieu Kérékou
- 1986 Return meeting in Moscow Claude Simon
- 1986 Moscow visit with Gorbachev Kim Il Sung
- 1986 Negotiations with Eduard Shevardnadze Saddam Hussein
- 1987 Meeting with Mikhail Gorbachev Corazon Aquino