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Notable Honorees Nikita Khrushchev • Aleksandr Oparin • Viktor Ambartsumian • Georgy Zhukov • Aleksandr Volkov • Bruno Pontecorvo • Vasily Ivanovich Alekseyev • Mirosław Hermaszewski • Valentina Tereshkova • Abdul Ahad Mohmand • Peretz Markish • Bertalan Farkas • Arnaldo Tamayo Méndez • Sigmund Jähn • Yevgeny Grishin • Leonid Leonidov • Georgi Ivanov • Gus Hall • Mikhail Tukhachevsky • Gherman Stepanovich Titov • Yuri Gagarin • Lev Ivanovich Yashin • Muhammed Faris • Aleksandr Medved • Sergey Georgyevich Gorshkov • Sergey Vladimirovich Ilyushin • Igor Ilinsky • Mark Donskoy • Aleksandr Sergeyevich Yakovlev

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