Leonid Kantorovich and Vladimir Arnold both acted as what in the Soviet Union?
Leonid Kantorovich Leonid Vitaliyevich Kantorovich (Russian: Леони́д Вита́льевич Канторо́вич ; ] ) (19 January 19127 April 1986) was a Soviet mathematician and economist, known for his theory and development of techniques for the optimal allocation of resources. He is regarded as the founder of linear programming. He was the winner of the Stalin Prize in 1949 and the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics in 1975.
Vladimir Sharpatov Vladimir Ilyich Sharpatov (Russian: Влади́мир Ильи́ч Шарпа́тов , born March 21, 1940, Krasnogorkiy village of Zvenigovsky District, Mari El) is an airplane pilot and Hero of the Russian Federation (1996). An Ilyushin Il-76 cargo plane under his command made a forced landing at the airfield near Kandahar, Afghanistan, in August 1995. All 7 Russian nationals on board were subsequently held captive by the Taliban for a year until they successfully escaped by flying their own plane out of Afghanistan in August 1996. Russian actor Alexander Baluyev played Vladimir Sharpatov in the 2010 film Kandagar.