Moscow in World War II

The atlas holds 8 people and 10 moments here, from 1939 to 1945. The most recorded lives are Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Alexander Prokhorov and Joseph Stalin.

Notable people

  1. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

    from 1941 to 1945

    2 moments here

    Soviet and Russian novelist, essayist, historian, dissident, and Nobel laureate whose writings on Soviet political repression and the Gulag made him…

  2. Alexander Prokhorov

    from 1939 to 1944

    2 moments here

    Alexander Mikhailovich Prokhorov was an Australian-born Soviet and Russian physicist whose work in quantum electronics helped lead to the maser and…

  3. Howard Florey

    in 1944

    1 moment here

    Australian pharmacologist and pathologist who led the Oxford team that developed penicillin into a practical therapeutic drug.…

  4. Igor Tamm

    in 1945

    1 moment here

    Soviet theoretical physicist and 1958 Nobel laureate in Physics, noted for work on Cherenkov radiation, nuclear physics, and controlled thermonuclear…

  5. Joseph Stalin

    in 1945

    1 moment here

    Soviet revolutionary and political leader, born Ioseb Besarionis dze Jughashvili in Gori, Georgia.…

  6. Konstantin Chernenko

    in 1943

    1 moment here

    Soviet Communist Party official and General Secretary of the CPSU from 13 February 1984 until his death.…

  7. Winston Churchill

    in 1942

    1 moment here

    Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill (1874–1965) was a British soldier, journalist, author and statesman whose career ranged from imperial campaigns in…

  8. Zhou Enlai

    in 1939

    1 moment here

    Chinese revolutionary, statesman, and diplomat who served as the first premier of the People’s Republic of China from 1949 until his death.…

Moments

  1. 1939 Move to the Lebedev Physical Institute Alexander Prokhorov
  2. 1939 Medical visit to Moscow Zhou Enlai
  3. 1941 Final examinations interrupted by war Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
  4. 1942 Flies to Moscow via Egypt Winston Churchill
  5. 1943 Party-organizer study Konstantin Chernenko
  6. 1944 Postgraduate work after demobilization Alexander Prokhorov
  7. 1944 Anglo-American mission to Moscow Howard Florey
  8. 1945 Imprisonment at Lubyanka Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
  9. 1945 Establishes theoretical-physics department at MEPhI Igor Tamm
  10. 1945 Watches the Moscow Victory Parade Joseph Stalin

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