An old cal­en­dar of 1964 pic­tur­ing a set of remark­able cit­i­zens of the world: a Soviet per­son next to its Amer­i­can coun­ter­part. Sadly there is no anno­ta­tion left to fig­ure what the mes­sage was — infor­ma­tive, pro­pa­gan­dist or other, so the faces below are torn out of con­text. But it is still nice to have a look at some Soviet artist’s work.

It would have been a brief post, so we thought we’d include the major achieve­ments of these great men.

Sergey Eisen­stein, also known as the “father of mon­tage”, made silent film Bat­tle­ship Potemkin in 1925.

David Llewe­lyn Wark Grif­fith directed the con­tro­ver­sial and ground­break­ing 1915 film The Birth of a Nation and sub­se­quent film Intol­er­ance a year later.

Elie Metch­nikoff received a 1908 Nobel Prize in med­i­cine for his con­tri­bu­tion to the immune sys­tem research. He is also said to coin the term geron­tol­ogy for his emerg­ing study of longevity and aging.

George W Carver is famous for his research of crops such as nuts and sweet pota­toes as alter­na­tive to cot­ton to erad­i­cate poverty among farmers.

Related posts:

1. Dia­mond Dog’s Run 4,000 miles long: David Bowie in the USSR.
2. Celebri­ties of the 1960s: Queen of Bel­gium et al
3. Sign­boards of Soviet Stores
4. A Swiss­man in Moscow: Leonard Gianadda, 1957.
5. Good-Natured Humour Post­cards from the 1950s