From Stalin to Putin: our compatriots on the cover of Time

Time magazine has been published since 1923. Created by Yale alumni Henry Luce and Brighton Hadden, it became the world's first news weekly. During its existence, the publication has gained popularity among readers around the world. The cover of the magazine for 93 years has been visited by a variety of personalities from different countries.

We decided to compile for you a small selection of our compatriots who got on the cover of the magazine.

(Total 25 photos)

Joseph Stalin was named "Man of the Year" by Time in 1939.

Dmitri Shostakovich got on the cover in 1942, but in the form of a firefighter, as he participated in extinguishing a fire in an observatory that caught fire from German bombing.

Vasily Stalin, 1951

Mikhail Gorbachev appeared on the cover of Time 15 times.

Lavrenty Beria, 1953.

Georgy Zhukov, 1955

Boris Pasternak, 1958.

Nikita Khrushchev, 1957.

Nikita Khrushchev, 1960.

Yuri Gagarin, 1961.

Vladimir Lenin, 1964.

Leonid Brezhnev, 1964.

Leonid Brezhnev, 1972.

Alexander Solzhenitsyn, 1974.

Mikhail Baryshnikov, 1975.

Andrei Sakharov, 1977.

Ronald Reagan and Yuri Andropov, 1984.

1987 Time cover. The issue was dedicated to the Soviet Union.

Raisa Gorbacheva, 1988.

Boris Yeltsin, 1991.

In total, Boris Yeltsin got on the cover of Time 5 times.

Boris Yeltsin, 1996.

Vladimir Putin has been on the cover of Time four times, and in 2007 he was recognized as "Person of the Year" by the publication.

Figure skater Yulia Lipnitskaya, 2014.