List of people on the postage stamps of Russia

Stamp issues are described in the following general format: Year of issue: Catalogue number 1, Catalogue number 2.

The stamp catalogues are designated with letters placed before catalogue numbers: M – Michel catalogue S – Scott catalogue

The numbers of the Catalogue of Marka Publishing and Trade Centre, the official publishing house of Russian Post, are given without letters.

For example: 1992: 11, M:230 (Block3), S:6075 – the stamp issued in 1992, Marka catalogue number 11, Michel number 230 (Block3), Scott number 6075. 2012: 1603, M:1835. – the stamp issued in 2012, Marka catalogue number 1603, Michel number 1835 (a Scott number is not given).

The list includes the adhesive stamps, the stamps imprinted on postal stationeries (postal cards, stamped envelopes) are not mentioned in this list.

A Alexander II of Russia (1818, Moscow – 1881, Saint Petersburg), Emperor of Russia (1855–1881). 2005: 1011—1015, M:1243—1247, S:6894—6898. Alexy II (1929, Tallinn, Republic of Estonia – 2008, Moscow), Patriarch of Moscow and all the Rus' (1990–2008), the primate of the Russian Orthodox Church. 2012: 1602, M:1834. Heydar Aliyev (1923, Nakhchivan, USSR – 2003, Cleveland, United States), a Soviet and Azerbaijan statesman, a First Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Azerbaijan SSR (1968–1982), a First Deputy Premier of the Soviet Union (1982–1987), a President of Azerbaijan (1993–2003). Hero of Socialist Labour (1979, 1983). 2013: 1700, M:1926. Glafira Alymova (1758, Golyazhie village, near Bryansk – 1826, Moscow), a lady-in-waiting of Catherine II, one of the first Russian female harpists. 2010: 1417, M:1649. Abram Arkhipov (1862, Egorovo village, Ryazan Gubernia – 1930, Moscow), a Russian and Soviet painter, a member of the art group Peredvizhniki. 2012: 1629, M:1861 (Block173). Irina Arkhipova (1925, Moscow – 2010, Moscow), a Soviet and Russian mezzo-soprano and contralto opera singer and a teacher of art. Hero of Socialist Labour (1986). 2012: 1603, M:1835.

B Grigory Bakhchivandzhi (; 1909, Brinkovskaya stanitsa, Azov-Black Sea Krai – 1943, Bilimbay, Sverdlovsk Oblast), a Russian military aviator, a Captain of the Soviet Air Forces, a test pilot. Grigory Bakhchivandzhi died 27 March 1943 during one of test flights of the Soviet rocket-powered fighter BI. Hero of the Soviet Union (1973, posthumously). 2009: 1303, M:1535. Vladimir Borovikovsky (1757, Myrhorod, Russian Empire – 1825, Saint Petersburg), a Ukrainian-born Russian painter, a master of portraiture. 2007: 1179, M:1411. Valery Bryusov (1873, Moscow – 1924, Moscow), a Russian poet, prose writer, dramatist, translator, critic and historian; one of the principal members of the Russian Symbolist movement. 2011: 1490, M:1722. Ivan Bubnov (1872, Nizhny Novgorod – 1919, Petrograd), a Russian marine engineer, a designer of submarines and a mathematician, a Major General of the Corps of Naval Engineers. 1993: 118, M:337, S:6172.

C Feodor Chaliapin (1873, Kazan – 1938, Paris, France), an outstanding Russian bass opera singer. 2012: 1612, M:1845. Viktor Chernomyrdin (1938, Chyorny Otrog village, Gavrilovsky District, Chkalov Oblast – 2010, Moscow), a Soviet and Russian statesman, a Minister of Gas Industry of the USSR (1985–1989), the founder and the first President of the State Gas Concern Gazprom (1989–1992), a Prime Minister of the Russian Federation (1992–1998), an Ambassador of Russia to Ukraine (2001–2009). 2013: 1687, M:1919. Pavel Chistyakov (1832, Prudy village, Tver Guberniya – 1919, Detskoe Selo), a Russian painter and a teacher of art, a professor of Imperial Academy of Arts. 2007: 1177—1178, M: 1409—1410. Christopher Columbus (before 31 October 1451, Genoa, Republic of Genoa – 1506 Valladolid, Crown of Castile), an explorer, navigator and colonizer traditionally considered as the discoverer of American continents. 1992: 11, M:230 (Block3), S:6075; 1992: 63, M:282, S:6108.

D Vladimir Dal (1801, Lugansky Zavod, Russian Empire – 1872, Moscow), a Russian lexicographer, ethnographer, linguist, writer, the author of Explanatory Dictionary of the Living Great Russian Language. 2001: 713, M:945 (Block40), S:6668. Gavrila Derzhavin (1743, Sokury village, Laishevo Uyezd, Kazan Guberniya – 1816, Zvanka estate, Novgorod Gubernuiya), a Russian poet of the Age of Enlightenment, a scientist, and a statesman. 2012: 1630, M:1862.

E Sergei Eisenstein (1898, Riga, Russian Empire – 1948, Moscow), a pioneering Soviet Russian film director and cinema theorist. 2000: 619, M:851, S:6606c.

F Georgy Flyorov (1913, Rostov-on-Don – 1990, Moscow), a Soviet nuclear physicist, one of the discoverers of spontaneous fission of heavy elements, (1940), one of notable figures of the Soviet atomic bomb project, the founder and the first director of the Joint Institute for Nuclear Research in Dubna. Hero of Socialist Labour (1949). 2013: 1660, M:1892. Ilya Frank (1908, Saint Petersburg – 1990, Moscow), a Soviet physicist, a winner of Nobel Prize in Physics in 1958 for the work in explaining the phenomenon of Cherenkov radiation (jointly with P. Cherenkov and I. Tamm). 2008: 1219, M:1451. Yevgeny Fyodorov (1910, Bendery, Russian Empire – 1981, Moscow), a Soviet geophysicist, a polar explorer, the Head of Hydrometeorology Service of the USSR in 1939–1947 and 1962–1974. Hero of the Soviet Union (1938). 2010: 1398, M:1630.

G Dmitry Mikhailovich Galitzine (, 1735–1771) was a Russian nobleman of the princely house Galitzine, a son of Prince Mikhail Mikhailovich Galitzine (1684–1764) and his second wife Tatiana Kirillovna Galitzine, née Naryshkina (1702–1757). A Colonel of the Imperial Russian Army. 2010: 1394, M:1626. Rasul Gamzatov (1923, Cada village, Khunzakhsky District, Dagestan ASSR – 2003, Moscow), a Soviet and Russian Avarian poet and a public figure. Hero of Socialist Labour (1974) 2013: 1709, M:1941. Nikolai Ge (1831, Voronezh – 1894, Ivanovsky Khutor, Chernigov Gubernia, Russian Empire), a Russian painter, famous for his works on historical and religious motifs. 2006: 1075, M:1307, S:6942. Ivan Goncharov (1812, Simbirsk – 1891, Saint Petersburg), a Russian writer best known as the author of the novel Oblomov (1859). 2012: 1594, M:1826 (Block164). Maxim Gorky (A.M. Gorky) (1868, Nizhny Novgorod – 1936, Gorki, Moscow Oblast), a Russian and Soviet writer, thinker and political activist; a founder of the Socialist realism literally method. 2000: 620, M:852, S:6606d. Valentina Grizodubova (1909, Kharkov, Russian Empire – 1993, Moscow), a Soviet female pilot, a Podpolkovnik of the Soviet Air Force, a participant in record flights, the commander of 101st Regiment of Long Range Aviation in 1942–1944, an aviation engineer. The first woman awarded the title Hero of the Soviet Union (1938); Hero of Socialist Labor (1986). 2010: 1386, M:1618. Ernesto “Che” Guevara (1928, Rosario, Santa Fe, Argentina – 1967, La Higuera village, Vallegrande Province, Bolivia), a Latin American Marxist revolutionary, Comandante of Cuban Revolution. 2009: 1298, M:1530.

I Vladimir Istomin (1809, Lipovka village, Penza Guberniya – 1855, Sevastopol, Russian Empire), a Russian naval officer, a Rear Admiral of the Imperial Russian Navy, a hero of the Siege of Sevastopol. 2009: 1373, M:1605.

K Mstislav Keldysh (1911, Riga, Russian Empire – 1978, Moscow), a Soviet scientist in the field of mathematics and mechanics, one of the key figures behind the Soviet space program, President of the USSR Academy of Sciences (1961–1975). Hero of Socialist Labor (1956, 1961, 1971). 2011: 1462, M:1694. Orest Kiprensky (1782, Koporye, near Saint Petersburg – 1836, Rome, Italy), a Russian painter and graphic artist, a master of portraiture. 2007: 1165, M:1397. Anatoli Koni (; 1844, Saint Petersburg – 1927, Leningrad), a Russian lawyer, a judge, a member of the State Council of the Russian Empire, a public speaker and a prose writer. 2012: 1631, M:1863. Konstantin Korovin (1861, Moscow – 1939, Paris, France), a Russian artist, a leading Russian Impressionist painter also known as a prose writer. 2011: 1544, M:1776 (Block155). Mikhail Koshkin (1898, Brynchagi village, Uglich Uyezd – 1940, health resort Zvanki, Kharkiv Oblast, USSR), a Soviet tank designer, the chief designer of the T-34 medium tank. Hero of Socialist Labour (1990). 1998: 475, M:696, S:6487. Gleb Kotelnikov (1872, Saint Petersburg – 1944, Moscow), a Russian and Soviet engineer, a designer of parachute equipment, the inventor of knapsack parachute. Gleb Kotelnikov was also known as a theater actor. 2012: 1619, M:1851. Ivan Kramskoi (1837, Ostrogozhsk – 1887, Saint Petersburg), a Russian painter and art critic, one of founders and an intellectual leader of the art group Peredvizhniki. 2012: 1592, M:1824. Nikolai Kryuchkov (1911, Moscow –1994, Moscow), a Soviet Russian film and theater actor. Hero of Socialist Labour (1980). 2001: 704, M:936, S:6659. Adolph Theodor Kupffer (1799, Mitau, Russian Empire – 1865, Saint Petersburg), a German-Baltic physicist and chemist, a metrologist, the founder of the Depot of Standard Weights and Measures in Saint Petersburg and the Main Physical Observatory of Russia. 2009: 1316, M:1548. Oleg Kutafin (; 1937, Odessa, USSR – 2008, Moscow), a Soviet and Russian jurist, an authority in the field of constitutional law. 2012: 1601, M:1833.

L Lev Landau (1908, Baku, Russian Empire – 1968, Moscow), a prominent Soviet physicist, the founder of a school of thought, a winner of Nobel Prize in Physics in 1962 for development of a mathematical theory of superfluidity. Hero of Socialist Labour (1954). 2008: 1218, M:1450. Grigory Langsdorff (1754, Wöllstein, Germany –1852, Freiburg im Breisgau, Germany), a Prussian and Russian ethnologist, a naturalist, a physician, and a diplomat, an explorer of Brasília. 1992: 31, M:250, S:6089. Yevgeny Leonov (1926, Moscow – 1994, Moscow), a Soviet Russian film and theater actor. 2001: 707, M:939, S:6662. Dmitry Levitzky (1735, Kiev, Russian Empire – 1822, Saint Petersburg), a Ukrainian-born Russian portrait painter. 2010: 1416, M:1648. Dmitry Likhachov (1906, Saint Petersburg – 1999, Saint Petersburg), an outstanding Soviet and Russian philologist, art historian, literary man and public figure; he was considered the world's foremost expert in Old Russian language and literature. Hero of Socialist Labor (1986). 2000: 628, M:860, S:6606l; 2006: 1146, M:1378; 2011: 1509, M:1741.

M Maria Alexandrovna (1824, Darmstadt, Grand Duchy of Hesse – 1880, Saint Petersburg), a princess of the Grand Duchy of Hesse, Empress consort of Alexander II of Russia (1855–1880). 2011: 1463, M:1695 (Block143) Vsevolod Meyerhold (1874, Penza – 1940, Moscow), a Russian and Soviet actor and theatre director, a theorist of the theatrics, the creator of the system of actor training known as the Theatrical Biomechanics. 2000: 623, M:855, S:6606g. Sergey Mikhalkov (1913, Moscow – 2009, Moscow), a Soviet Russian poet, prose writer, dramatist and a public figure. Hero of Socialist Labour (1973). 2013: 1737, M:1969. Nicholas Miklouho-Maclay (1846, Yazykovo-Rozhdestevenskoe village, Borovichi Uyezd, Novgorod Guberniya – 1888, Saint Petersburg), a Russian ethnologist, anthropologist and biologist, an explorer of Oceania, Southeast Asia and Australia. 1992: 30, M:249, S:6088. Andrei Mironov (1941, Moscow – 1987, Riga, USSR), a Soviet Russian film and theater actor and a singer. 2001: 709, M:941, S:6664. Ekaterina Alekseevna Musina-Pushkina (; 1754–1829, Moscow) a member of the Russian nobility, a countess, the second daughter of Prince Aleksey Nikitich Volkonsky (?–1781) and Margarita Rodionovna Volkonskaya (née Kosheleva), the wife of Count Aleksei Ivanovich Musin-Pushkin (1744–1817). 2010: 1395, M:1627.

N Mikhail Nesterov (1862, Ufa – 1942, Moscow), a Russian and Soviet painter, a major representative of religious Symbolism in Russian art. 2012: 1591, M:1823 (Block163).