TRIGON, for example, was the code name for Aleksandr Ogorodnik, a member of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in what was then the Soviet Union, whom the CIA developed as a spy ; HERO was the code name for Col. Oleg Penkovsky, who supplied data on the nuclear readiness of the Soviet Union during the Cuban Missile Crisis of 1962.

There has been some speculation that the identity of this officer was Oleg Penkovsky, however during his radio interview to Russian station Echo of Moscow Vladimir Rezun ( alias Victor Suvorov ) denied this, saying " I never mentioned it was Penkovsky " No executed GRU traitors ( Penkovsky aside ) are known matching scant Suvorov's description given in " Aquarium "

Also, in the GRU, they recruited Colonel Oleg Penkovsky.

The " Penkovksy Papers " were alleged to have been written by a Soviet GRU defector, Colonel Oleg Penkovsky, but was in fact produced by the CIA in an effort to diminish the Soviet Union's credibility at a pivotal time during the Cold War.

George Kisevalter, the CIA operations officer that was the CIA side of the joint US-UK handling of Oleg Penkovsky, did not believe Angleton's theory that Nosenko was a KGB plant.

* Oleg Penkovsky, a GRU officer who played an important role during the Cuban Missile Crisis

This story was originated by Oleg Penkovsky, a GRU agent who spied for MI6.

* Oleg Penkovsky.

The Guardian reported on October 16, 1965, that captured spy Oleg Penkovsky had confirmed details of the missile accident, and exiled scientist Zhores Medvedev provided further details in 1976 in the British weekly magazine New Scientist.

* Oleg Penkovsky ( 1919 – 1963 ), Soviet colonel

He struck up friendships with Guy Burgess, the British defector, and Martina Browne, the nanny employed by Ruari and Janet Chisholm, who were working for SIS and were instrumental in the defection of Oleg Penkovsky — a colonel in Soviet military intelligence — who was responsible for disabusing the Kennedy administration of the myth that the ' missile gap ' was in the Soviet's favour.

Oleg Vladimirovich Penkovsky (; born April 23, 1919 in Vladikavkaz, North Ossetia, Soviet Russia ; died May 16, 1963 in the Soviet Union ), codenamed HERO, was a colonel with Soviet military intelligence ( GRU ) during the late 1950s and early 1960s who informed the United Kingdom and the United States about the Soviet emplacement of missiles in Cuba.

There are two very different opinions about Oleg Penkovsky.

Former GRU Colonel and defector Viktor Suvorov writes, " And historians will remember with gratitude the name of the GRU Colonel Oleg Penkovsky.

* Oleg Penkovsky, Spartacus Educational website by John Simkin

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Greville Maynard Wynne ( 19 March 1919 – 28 February 1990 ) was a British spy famous for his involvement with, and imprisonment as a result of, the espionage activities of Oleg Penkovsky.

He was an intermediary for the important Russian spy Oleg Penkovsky, who was engaged in selling arms and weapons secrets to British intelligence.

When Oleg Penkovsky offered Soviet military secrets to MI6 she became the go-between.

The programme included covert KGB photographs showing Janet Chisholm meeting Oleg Penkovsky.

* Agent Hero, codename for Soviet double agent Oleg Penkovsky ( 1919 – 1963 )

Filitov was recruited by GRU colonel and British agent Oleg Penkovskiy, and offered his services to the CIA after the deaths of his wife and two sons ; the latter two were killed during their service in the Red Army.

* Oleg Penkovskiy (" Hero ")

Former KGB major-general Oleg Kalugin does not once mention Penkovskiy in his comprehensive book.

KGB defector Vladimir Sakharov, suggests Penkovskiy was genuine, saying, " I knew about the ongoing KGB reorganization precipitated by Oleg Penkovsky's case and Yuri Nosenko's defection.

* 1971 – Oleg Petrov, Russian ice hockey player

Russian chronicles mention prince Oleg of Novgorod use kites during the siege of Constantinople in 906 A. D .: " and he crafted horses and men of paper, armed and gilded, and lifted them into the air over the city ; the Greeks saw them and feared ".

* Oleg Kuleshov ( b. 1974 ), a Russian handball player

Russian Oleg Vladimirovich Losev reported creation of the first LED in 1927.

* 1960 – Oleg Menshikov, Russian actor

* 1969 – Oleg Salenko, Russian footballer

* 1937 – Oleg Lobov, Russian politician

** Oleg Salenko, Russian football player

** Oleg Makarov, Russian cosmonaut ( d. 2003 )

Three Russian protected cruisers, Aurora, Zhemchug, and Oleg escaped to the US Naval base at Manila in what was then American-controlled Philippines, where they were interned.

According to Russian Primary Chronicle, Smolensk ( probably located slightly downstream, at the archaeological site of Gnezdovo ) was the capital of the Slavic Krivich tribe in 882 when Oleg of Novgorod took it in passing from Novgorod to Kiev.

" Indeed, Russian historian Oleg Sokolov noted that Wellington had committed a serious strategic error by following the French into northern Portugal, and that this decision could have had grievous consequences for the Anglo-Portuguese.

Recently, however, scholars such as David Christian and Constantine Zuckerman have suggested that the Schechter Letter's account is corroborated by various other Russian chronicles, and suggests a struggle within the early Rus ' polity between factions loyal to Oleg and to the Rurikid Igor, a struggle that Oleg ultimately lost.

Seven years later during the Russo-Japanese War at the close of the Battle of Tsushima in 1905, three surviving Russian protected cruisers, the Aurora, Zhemchug, and Oleg, managed to make port in then-United States-controlled Manila for repairs.

* Oleg Gazmanov ( born 1951 ), Russian pop-singer, composer and poet

The third seat might have gone to the Chilean Klaus von Storch as a Chilean space agency ( Agencia Chilena del Espacio ) cosmonaut, but even before the Columbia disaster it looked like his flight would not happen, and the seat would go to the Russian cosmonaut Oleg Kotov or to deliver freight to the station.

* Oleg Mityaev — Russian bard, musician and actor.

After fraud was alleged in the mayoral election of 2012 and the United Russia candidate was declared the winner, organizers of the 2011 – 2012 Russian protests supported the defeated candidate, Oleg V. Shein of Just Russia, in a hunger strike.

In 2006, the Russian Channel One aired a new mini-series based on the novel starring Oleg Menshikov as Bender.

Oleg Antonovich Gordievsky (), CMG ( born 10 October 1938 in Moscow, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union ), is a former Colonel of the KGB and KGB Resident-designate ( rezident ) and bureau chief in London, who was a double agent of the British Secret Intelligence Service ( MI6 ) from 1974 to 1985.

Russian metallurgist Pavel Petrovich Anosov ( see Bulat steel ), Dr. Oleg Sherby and Dr. Jeff Wadsworth and Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory have all done research, attempting to create steels with similar characteristics to Wootz.

The three Russian actors ; Kramarov, Oleg Rudnik, and Elya Baskin also appear together in the film 2010 as cosmonauts.

The most prominent conductors include Sasha Nikolovski-Gjumar, Borjan Canev, Sasho Tatarchevski, Bisera Chadlovska and Oliver Balaburski, and the most notable instrumentalist are the violinists Ljubisha Kirovski, Oleg Kondratenko and Russian born Anna Kondratenko, the saxophonist Ninoslav Dimov, the clarinetist Stojan Dimov, the basists Velko Todevski and Petrus Petrusevski and the oboist Gordana Josifova-Nedelkovska.