Saint Petersburg in the Interwar Period

The atlas holds 5 people and 7 moments here, from 1918 to 1934. The most recorded lives are Vladimir Lenin, Lev Landau and Leon Trotsky.

Alexander Prokhorov
in 1934
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…
Leon Trotsky
in 1918
1 moment here
Leon Trotsky (Lev Davidovich Bronstein) was a Russian revolutionary, Soviet political leader, Marxist theorist, and organizer of the Red Army.…
Lev Landau
from 1924 to 1931
2 moments here
Soviet theoretical physicist Lev Davidovich Landau was born in Baku, educated in Baku and Leningrad, and undertook formative research travel in…
Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar
in 1934
1 moment here
Indian-American astrophysicist whose work established the Chandrasekhar limit and ranged across stellar structure, stellar dynamics, radiative…
Vladimir Lenin
from 1918 to 1920
2 moments here
Russian Marxist revolutionary, Bolshevik leader, political theorist, and founding head of government of Soviet Russia and the Soviet Union.…