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
- Ivan Adolfovich Teodorovich Иван Адольфович Теодорович First Commissar for Food, purged for his NEP-era agrarian Marxism
- Alexander Petrovich Smirnov Александр Петрович Смирнов The peasant's son who ran the Krestintern and rose from NEP agriculture to the party Secretariat
- Jan Sierada Ян Серада Veterinarian who chaired the First All-Belarusian Congress and, as chairman of the Rada, presided over the declaration of independence
- Robert Indrikovich Eikhe Роберт Индрикович Эйхе Architect of terror in Siberia, recanted his confession under torture
- Mikhail Alexandrovich Chernov Михаил Александрович Чернов The commissar who ran agriculture through the second Five-Year Plan, from grain procurement to VDNKh
- Grigory Naumovich Kaminsky Григорий Наумович Каминский First USSR People's Commissar for Health, a founder of Soviet preventive medicine
- 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
- Vladimir Vladimirovich Matskevich Владимир Владимирович Мацкевич Agriculture minister after the virgin-lands drive
- Gennady Ivanovich Voronov Геннадий Иванович Воронов The RSFSR premier who never stopped speaking bluntly to Brezhnev
- Grigory Sergeyevich Zolotukhin Григорий Сергеевич Золотухин A Brezhnev-era agricultural functionary who ran Tambov and Krasnodar, then oversaw Soviet grain procurement for 14 years
- 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
- Dmitry Stepanovich Polyansky Дмитрий Степанович Полянский Brezhnev-era official across agriculture and government
- Vsevolod Serafimovich Murakhovsky Всеволод Серафимович Мураховский First chairman of Gosagroprom
- Valentin Karpovich Mesyats Валентин Карпович Месяц Agriculture minister of late stagnation
- Viktor Petrovich Nikonov Виктор Петрович Никонов Gorbachev's agriculture successor who became his last internal critic
- Nikolai Ivanovich Dementey Николай Иванович Дементей A chairman caught between preserving the Union and Belarusian sovereignty
- Vladimir Migranovich Movsisyan Վլադիմիր Միգրանովիչ Մովսիսյան The last Communist Party first secretary of Soviet Armenia
- Yegor Semyonovich Stroev Егор Семёнович Строев Gorbachev's last agriculture Politburo member: operational chief of perestroika farm policy
- Viktor Vasilyevich Baklanov Виктор Васильевич Бакланов Full cavalier of the Order of Labour Glory, collective-farm mechanizer