People of the Revolution and the USSR
- Alexander Grigorievich Shlikhter Александр Григорьевич Шлихтер Bolshevik agrarian policymaker: first Agriculture Commissar, later VP of Ukraine's Academy of Sciences
- Andrei Lukich Kolegayev Андрей Лукич Колегаев First People's Commissar for Agriculture in the Soviet coalition, co-author of the Law on the Socialization of Land
- Mikhail Alexandrovich Chernov Михаил Александрович Чернов The commissar who ran agriculture through the second Five-Year Plan, from grain procurement to VDNKh
- Yakov Arkadyevich Yakovlev Яков Аркадьевич Яковлев Agriculture commissar of collectivization
- Ivan Alexandrovich Benediktov Иван Александрович Бенедиктов Long-serving agriculture administrator of late Stalinism and reconstruction
- Mikhail Aleksandrovich Olshanski Михаил Александрович Ольшанский The Lysenkoist agronomist who led Soviet agricultural science administration
- Grigory Sergeyevich Zolotukhin Григорий Сергеевич Золотухин A Brezhnev-era agricultural functionary who ran Tambov and Krasnodar, then oversaw Soviet grain procurement for 14 years
- Pasha Nikitichna Angelina Прасковья Никитична Ангелина A pioneer of women’s mechanized labor
- Mikhail Porfiryevich Georgadze Михаил Порфирьевич Георгадзе The institutional anchor who co-signed every Soviet decree across four heads of state for 25 years
- Ziya Nuriyevich Nuriyev Зия Нуриевич Нуриев Bashkir deputy premier who ran Brezhnev's agro-industrial complex
- Vsevolod Serafimovich Murakhovsky Всеволод Серафимович Мураховский First chairman of Gosagroprom
- Valentin Karpovich Mesyats Валентин Карпович Месяц Agriculture minister of late stagnation
- Nikolai Ivanovich Dementey Николай Иванович Дементей A chairman caught between preserving the Union and Belarusian sovereignty