Born in Baku, Azerbaijan, in the Soviet Union in 1963, Garry Kasparov became the under-18 chess champion of the USSR at the age of 12 and the world under-20 champion at 17. He…
Former President of the Commercial Spaceflight Federation, Michael Lopez-Alegria has been involved in four space missions and has been a NASA astronaut and holder of three records: the longest space flight (215 days),…
Mikhail Gorbachev was born in 1931 in the Stavropol Territory of Russia. Born to peasant farmers, he became active in the Communist Party and studied law at the Moscow State University. He returned to…
