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- Leonid Borisovich Krasin Леонид Борисович Красин From revolutionary engineer to Soviet diplomatic architect, the only Bolshevik who could do business with Western capital
- Moissei Ilyich Frumkin Моисей Ильич Фрумкин 'The countryside is against us': the deputy finance commissar who said it to the Politburo
- Nikolai Pavlovich Bryukhanov Николай Павлович Брюханов The commissar who steered from famine's shadow to NEP finance, then fell under industrialization's demands
- Yakov Stanislavovich Ganetsky Яков Станиславович Ганецкий The Polish revolutionary who ran Lenin's financial pipeline from Kraków to Stockholm
- Mikhail Pavlovich Tomsky Михаил Павлович Томский Chief of the Soviet trade unions, third man of the Right Opposition
- Alexander Mikhailovich Krasnoshchyokov Александр Михайлович Краснощёков The pragmatic Bolshevik who designed and led the Far Eastern Republic
- Pyotr Alekseevich Bogdanov Пётр Алексеевич Богданов Architect of NEP industrialization who championed trusts against Glavkist centralization
- Varvara Nikolayevna Yakovleva Варвара Николаевна Яковлева The finance commissar who passed from Cheka to the Left Opposition
- Aron Lvovich Sheinman Арон Львович Шейнман Architect of the chervonets who tamed NEP inflation, then broke with Stalin as the first high-ranking Soviet financial defector
- Vasily Vladimirovich Schmidt Василий Владимирович Шмидт The labour commissar who steered the statification of Soviet trade unions
- Valerian Valerianovich Obolensky Валериан Валерианович Оболенский First chairman of VSNKh; theorist of the Left Communists and of Democratic Centralism
- Semyon Semyonovich Lobov Семён Семёнович Лобов Bolshevik industrial administrator who rose from the Cheka to chair VSNKh RSFSR
- Grigory Yakovlevich Sokolnikov Григорий Яковлевич Сокольников The finance commissar of NEP stabilization
- Nikolai Alexandrovich Milyutin Николай Александрович Милютин RSFSR Finance Commissar who commissioned the Narkomfin Building and authored the Sotsgorod linear-city concept
- Grigory Fedorovich Grinko Григорий Фёдорович Гринько From Ukrainian Borotbist to People's Commissar of Finance: the man who funded the Five-Year Plans