Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, a writer. His novel In the First Circle is a vivid account of life in sharashka Marfino.
Lev Kopelev, a writer, another inmate of Marfino (a prototype for Rubin from In the First Circle)
Sergei Korolev, an aircraft and rocket designer, later the chief designer for the Soviet space program.
Valentin Glushko, a chief rocket engine designer. (His biography at MN)
Andrei Tupolev, the chief designer of the aircraft families Tu and ANT.
Vladimir Petlyakov, the chief designer of the aircraft families Pe and VI (The Petlyakov aircraft).
Vladimir Myasishchev, an aircraft designer.
Leonid Kerber, an aircraft radio equipment designer.
Robert Ludvigovich Bartini (or Roberto Oros di Bartini) an aircraft designer and scientist.
Helmut Gröttrup, a German rocket scientist from the Peenemünde laboratory. (Its head Wernher von Braun was acquired by the US).
Nikolai Nikolaevich Polikarpov, an aircraft designer (arrested for a brief period).
Léon Theremin, a pioneer of electronic music, the inventor of the theremin and a passive eavesdropping device.
Nikolay Timofeev-Ressovsky, a geneticist and radiobiologist (His biography at genetics.org).
Leonid Ramzin, the inventor of the straight-flow boiler ( His biography in Russian).
Yuri Kondratyuk, a pioneer of astronautics and spaceflight, the inventor of the gravitational slingshot.
Sergei Mikhailovich Nikanorov, a leading specialist on Yersinia pestis (the causative agent of plague).[2]
Sergei Vasil'vich Suvorov, a leading specialist on Yersinia pestis (the causative agent of plague).[2]
Boris Yakovlevich El'bert, a leading specialist on Francisella tularensis (the causative agent of tularaemia).[2]
Nikolai Akimovich Gaiskii, a leading specialist on Francisella tularensis (the causative agent of tularaemia). [2]