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Dmitry Zakharovich Manuilsky Дмитрий Захарович Мануильский ECCI secretary who carried out the Stalinist purges (1928–1943) Diplomacy and international organization · Comintern 1883–1959
Yefim Afanasievich Shchadenko Ефим Афанасьевич Щаденко From 1st Cavalry Army commissar to the purge's personnel executioner Military command · Soviet Union state institutions 1885–1951
Sydir Artemovych Kovpak Сидор Артемьевич Ковпак The Soviet Union's greatest partisan commander, who raided all the way to the Carpathians Military command · Soviet Union state institutions 1887–1967
Grigory Ivanovich Kulik Григорий Иванович Кулик Stalin's artillery chief from Tsaritsyn: Marshal who blocked the T-34, KV-1 and Katyusha Military command · Soviet Union state institutions 1890–1950
Vlas Yakovlevich Chubar Влас Яковлевич Чубарь The economic administrator who led Ukraine's government for 11 years, caught between Stalin's demands and the famine Government and administration · Soviet Union state institutions 1891–1939
Vsevolod Apollonovich Balitsky Всеволод Аполлонович Балицкий The master of the Ukrainian security apparatus Security, intelligence and policing · Soviet Union state institutions 1892–1937
Mikhail Petrovich Kirponos Михаил Петрович Кирпонос Southwestern Front commander who fell in the Kiev encirclement Military command · Soviet Union state institutions 1892–1941
Andrei Ivanovich Yeryomenko Андрей Иванович Ерёменко The cavalryman who closed Stalingrad's southern pincer Military command · Soviet Union state institutions 1892–1970
Nikolai Iosifovich Antonov-Gritsyuk Николай Иосифович Антонов-Грицюк Chekist who went from chairing the Kabardino-Balkar troika to heading the NKVD prison department Security, intelligence and policing · Soviet Union state institutions 1893–1939
Pavel Semyonovich Rybalko Павел Семёнович Рыбалко Twice Hero who drove the 3rd Guards Tank Army from Stalingrad to Prague Military command · Soviet Union state institutions 1894–1948
Demyan Sergeyevich Korotchenko Демьян Сергеевич Коротченко Khrushchev's loyal executor: a peasant-born apparatchik who twice led Soviet Ukraine's government Government and administration · Soviet Union state institutions 1894–1969
Vladimir Yefimovich Tsesarsky Владимир Ефимович Цесарский Yezhov’s confidant who kept the Great Terror’s ledgers Security, intelligence and policing · Soviet Union state institutions 1895–1940
Semyon Konstantinovich Timoshenko Семён Константинович Тимошенко Marshal of the Soviet Union, People's Commissar for Defence 1940-1941 Military command · Soviet Union state institutions 1895–1970
Nikolai Fyodorovich Gikalo Николай Фёдорович Гикало Civil War hero who commanded the Grozny defence, then drove industrialization and collectivization as First Secretary of three republics Political and party leadership · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks 1897–1938
Ivan Fyodorovich Fedko Иван Фёдорович Федько Four-time Red Banner hero of the Civil War, rose to First Deputy Defence Commissar: purged by the machine he served Military command · Soviet Union state institutions 1897–1939
Nikolai Galaktionovich Nikolayev-Zhurid Николай Галактионович Николаев-Журид Yezhov's counterintelligence chief who ran the army purge and the national operations Security, intelligence and policing · Soviet Union state institutions 1897–1940
Pyotr Fyodorovich Bulakh Пётр Фёдорович Булах The Ordzhonikidze NKVD chief who opened fire ahead of schedule Security, intelligence and policing · Soviet Union state institutions 1898–1938
Grigory Fyodorovich Gorbach Григорий Фёдорович Горбач The 'North Caucasian' Chekist who carried quota increases from Omsk to Khabarovsk Security, intelligence and policing · Soviet Union state institutions 1898–1939
Ivan Petrovich Popashenko Иван Петрович Попашенко A 'North Caucasian' Chekist who sat on the mass-operation troika in Kuibyshev Security, intelligence and policing · Soviet Union state institutions 1898–1940
Boris Arkadyevich Yartsev Борис Аркадьевич Рыбкин Risky diplomacy conducted behind an intelligence officer’s cover Security, intelligence and policing · Soviet Union state institutions 1899–1947
Andrei Grigorievich Kravchenko Андрей Григорьевич Кравченко The tank army commander who led the Red Army's elite armor from Stalingrad to Manchuria Military command · Soviet Union state institutions 1899–1963
Grigory Petrovich Kosyachenko Григорий Петрович Косяченко Gosplan planner across the late Stalin and post-Stalin transition Economy, finance and planning · Soviet Union state institutions 1901–1983
Dmitry Danilovich Lelyushenko Дмитрий Данилович Лелюшенко 'General Forward' who halted Guderian at the gates of Moscow and drove the 4th Guards Tank Army to Prague Military command · Soviet Union state institutions 1901–1987
Timofei Amvrosievich Strokach Тимофей Амвросиевич Строкач The Ukrainian MVD chief whose warning to Khrushchev, after Beria threatened to make him 'camp dust,' triggered Beria's arrest Security, intelligence and policing · Soviet Union state institutions 1903–1963
Semyon Denisovich Ignatiev Семён Денисович Игнатьев The last MGB minister of Stalin’s final years Security, intelligence and policing · Soviet Union state institutions 1904–1983
Sergei Ignatevich Rudenko Сергей Игнатьевич Руденко Marshal of Aviation who commanded the 16th Air Army from Stalingrad to Berlin Military command · Soviet Union state institutions 1904–1990
Vasily Stepanovich Ryasnoy Василий Степанович Рясной NKVD chief who directed the suppression of Ukraine's nationalist insurgency Security, intelligence and policing · Soviet Union state institutions 1904–1995
Ivan Iosifovich Proskurov Иван Иосифович Проскуров The GRU chief who warned Stalin of the German invasion, and was shot for it Military command · Soviet Union state institutions 1907–1941
Ivan Danilovich Chernyakhovsky Иван Данилович Черняховский The youngest front commander in Red Army history: twice Hero of the Soviet Union, killed in East Prussia weeks before victory Military command · Soviet Union state institutions 1907–1945
Pavel Anatolyevich Sudoplatov Павел Анатольевич Судоплатов Stalin’s spymaster who eliminated Trotsky, then spent fifteen years in Stalin’s prisons Security, intelligence and policing · Soviet Union state institutions 1907–1996
Pavel Yakovlevich Meshik Павел Яковлевич Мешик Beria's inner circle and an organiser of the Great Terror Security, intelligence and policing · Soviet Union state institutions 1910–1953
Pyotr Fyodorovich Krivonos Пётр Фёдорович Кривонос The locomotive driver who carried productivity innovation onto the railways Economy, finance and planning · Soviet Union state institutions 1910–1980