Borys HORBATOV (1908 – 1954) was born at Petro-Marivska mine (now Pervomaisk, Luhansk region). Writer and war correspondent. Twice laureate of the Stalin Prize / USSR (1946, 1952)

Borys LEVITAN (07.06.1914 – 04.04.2004) was born in Berdiansk of Zaporizhzhia region. Physicist, laureate of the Lenin Prize (1962), Academician of the Moscow department of applied mathematics and mathematical physics of the Russian Academy of Natural Sciences (1998)

David OISTRAKH (17.09.1908 – 24.10.1974) was born in Odesa. Violinist, conductor. Laureate of the Stalin (1943) and Lenin (1960) Prizes, People’s Artist of the USSR (1953)

Emil GILELS (19.10.1916 – 14.10.1985) was born in Odesa. Pianist, People’s Artist of the USSR (1954), laureate of the Stalin and Lenin (1962) Prizes. Hero of Socialist Labor (1976)

Fedir IOFFE (17.10.1880 – 14.10.1960) was born in Romny of Poltava province. “Father of the Soviet physics”, academician (1920), vice-president of the USSR Academy of Sciences (1942–1945). Honored Scientist of the RSFSR (1933), laureate of the Stalin (1942) and Lenin (1961) Prizes. Hero of Socialist Labor (1955)

Gersh BUDKER (01.05.1918 – 4.07.1977) was born in Vinnytsia region. Physicist, laureate of the Stalin (1949) and Lenin (1967) Prizes

Igor TAMM (1895–1971) – theoretical physicist, Academician of the USSR Academy of Sciences; Doctor of Physical and Mathematical Sciences. Hero of Socialist Labor (1954), twice laureate of the USSR Stalin Prize (1946, 1953). Laureate of the Nobel Prize in Physics (1958)

Illia EHRENBURG (15.01.1891 – 31.08.1967) was born in Kyiv. Writer, poet and war correspondent. Twice laureate of the USSR Stalin Prize (1942, 1948)

Illia ZILBERSTEIN (28.03.1905 – 22.05.1988) was born in Odesa. Theorist of literature, reviewer, art historian and collector. Doctor of Arts, member of the USSR Writers’ Union (1968), laureate of the USSR State Prize (1979)

Isaac KHALATNIKOV (17.10.1919 – 09.01.2021) was born in Katerynoslav. Theoretical physicists, Academician of the USSR Academy of Sciences, laureate of the Stalin Prize (1953)

Isaac MINTZ (22.01.1896 – 05.04.1991) was born in Krynychky village of Katerynoslav province. Historian, Academician of the USSR Academy of Sciences. Twice laureate of the Stalin (1943, 1946) and Lenin Prizes (1974). Hero of Socialist Labor (1976)

Isaac POSTOVSKYI (17.03.1898 – 21.11.1980) was born in Odesa. Chemist, Academician of the USSR Academy of Sciences. Twice laureate of the USSR Stalin Prize (1946, 1952)

Israel GELFAND (20.08.1913 – 5.10.2009) was born in Kherson province. Mathematician and biologist. Laureate of the Stalin (1951, 1953) and Lenin (1961) Prizes

Leonid KOGAN (14.11.1924 – 17.12.1982) was born in Katerynoslav. Violinist. Laureate of the Lenin Prize (1965), People’s Artist of the USSR (1966)

Leonid NIEMIENOV (16.11.1905 – 20.07.1980) was born in Katerynoslav. Physicist, Academician, laureate of the Stalin Prize (1953). The first director of L. Landau Institute of Theoretical Physics

Lev LANDAU (22.01.1908 – 1.04.1968) was born in Baku. Theoretical physicists, in the 1930s he led the theoretical department of Ukrainian Physical and Technical Institute in Kharkiv, at the same time he was heading the Department of Theoretical Physics at Physical and Mechanical Faculty of Kharkiv Institute of Mechanical Engineering. In 1935 he headed the Department of Experimental Physics at Kharkiv State University. Hero of Socialist Labor (1954), laureate of the Lenin (1962) and three times Laureate of the Stalin Prizes. Laureate of the Nobel Prize in Physics (1962)

Mark NEIMAN (BERNES) (25.09.1911 – 16.08.1969) was born in Nizhyn. Film actor, singer, laureate of the Stalin Prize (1951). People’s Artist of the RSFSR (1965)

Mykhailo MATUSOVSKYI (23.07.1915 – 16.07.1990) was born in Luhansk. Poet, laureate of the USSR State Prize (1977)

Natan RYBAK (21.12.1912 – 11.09.1978) was born in Ivanivka of Kherson province. Writer, author of the historical novel “Pereiaslav Council”. Laureate of the Stalin Prize of the second degree (1950)

Oleksandr BRODSKYI (07.06.1895 – 21.08.1969) was born in Katerynoslav. Chemist, Academician of the UkrSSR Academy of Sciences, laureate of the Stalin Prize (1946), Hero of Socialist Labor (1969)

Oleksandr NUDELMAN (21.08.1912 – 02.08.1996) was born in Odesa. Constructor, mechanical engineer. Doctor of Engineering, Professor, Academician of K. Tsiolkovskyi Academy of Cosmonautics. Three times laureate of the Stalin Prize (1943, 1946, 1951), laureate of the Lenin Prize (1964), twice laureate of the USSR State Prize (1970, 1979). Twice Hero of Socialist Labor (1966, 1982)

Serhii BERNSTEIN (22.02.1980 – 26.10.1968) was born in Odesa. Mathematician, Academician of the USSR Academy of Sciences (1929). Laureate of the USSR Stalin Prize (1942)

Serhii MANDELSTAM (22.02.1910 – 26.10.1990) was born in Odesa. Physicist, corresponding member of the USSR Academy of Sciences (1971). Founder of the Institute of Spectroscopy of the USSR Academy of Sciences. Laureate of the Stalin Prize (1946), the State Prize (1977) and Rozhdestvenskyi Prize (1977)

Serhii RUBINSTEIN (06.06.1989 – 11.01.1970) was born in Odesa. Psychologist and philosopher. Laureate of the Stalin Prize of the second degree (1942). Corresponding member of the USSR Academy of Sciences (1943)

Victor NEKRASOV (17.06.1911 – 3.09.1987) was born in Kyiv. Writer, winner of the Stalin Prize (1947)

Yakiv TSYPKIN (19.09.1919 – 02.12.1997) was born in Katerynoslav. Mechanic, Academician of the USSR Academy of Sciences, laureate of the Lenin Prize (1960)

Yan FRENKEL (21.11.1920 – 25.08.1989) was born in Kyiv. Composer, singer, violinist. Laureate of the USSR State Prize (1982), People’s Artist of the USSR (1989)

Yevhen TARLE (27.10.1874 – 05.01.1955) was born in Kyiv. Historian. Academician of the USSR Academy of Sciences (1927). Three times laureate of the USSR Stalin Prize (1942, 1943, 1946). Corresponding member of the British Academy for the Promotion of Historical, Philosophical and Philological Studies, full member of the Norwegian Academy of Science and Philadelphia Academy of Political and Social Sciences

Yosyp RAPOPORT (14.03.1912 – 31.12.1990) was born in Chernihiv. Genetics scientist, corresponding member of the USSR Academy of Sciences (since 1979). Laureate of the Lenin Prize (1984), Hero of Socialist Labor (1990)

Yosyp SHKLOVSKYI (18.06.1916 – 3.03.1985) was born in Hlukhiv. Astronomer, astrophysicist, corresponding member of the USSR Academy of Sciences, founder of the school of modern astrophysics. Laureate of the Lenin Prize (1960)