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People of the Revolution and the USSR
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People of the Soviet Union
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Alexander Dmitrievich Tsyurupa Александр Дмитриевич Цюрупа
The Civil War food administrator who designed the grain dictatorship
Economy, finance and planning · Soviet Union
1870–1928
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Pavel Ilyich Popov Павел Ильич Попов
The founder of Soviet statistics whom Lenin rebuked and relied on
Economy, finance and planning · Soviet Union
1872–1950
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Gleb Maksimilianovich Krzhizhanovsky Глеб Максимилианович Кржижановский
Early architect of electrification and planning
Economy, finance and planning · Soviet Union
1872–1959
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Vladimir Alexandrovich Bazarov Владимир Александрович Базаров
The Machist philosopher-economist of Gosplan who proposed a genetic-teleological planning synthesis
Literature and arts · Soviet Union
1874–1939
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Vladimir Gustavovich Groman Владимир Густавович Громан
The Menshevik statistician who designed Gosplan's early control figures and balance method, leading voice of genetic planning
Economy, finance and planning · Soviet Union
1874–1940
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Stanislav Gustavovich Strumilin Станислав Густавович Струмилин
The economist who designed socialism in numbers
Economy, finance and planning · Soviet Union
1877–1974
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Yuri Mikhailovich Larin Юрий Михайлович Ларин
An imaginative economic theorist who bridged NEP and central planning, co-founded Gosplan, and championed Jewish agricultural settlement
Economy, finance and planning · Soviet Union
1882–1932
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Vladimir Pavlovich Milyutin Владимир Павлович Милютин
First People's Commissar for Agriculture who laid the statistical foundations of Soviet planning
Economy, finance and planning · Soviet Union
1884–1937
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Grigory Alexandrovich Feldman Григорий Александрович Фельдман
The Gosplan mathematical economist who first formalized the capital-goods-led growth model
Economy, finance and planning · Soviet Union
1884–1958
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Valerian Vladimirovich Kuibyshev Валериан Владимирович Куйбышев
Planning official of the first Five-Year Plans
Economy, finance and planning · Soviet Union
1888–1935
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Alexander Vasilievich Chayanov Александр Васильевич Чаянов
The agrarian economist who uncovered the moral logic of peasant economy
Literature and arts · Soviet Union
1888–1937
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Lev Natanovich Kritsman Лев Натанович Крицман
The agrarian Marxist who theorized War Communism
Economy, finance and planning · Soviet Union
1890–1938
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Nikolai Dmitrievich Kondratiev Николай Дмитриевич Кондратьев
The agrarian economist who discovered long economic waves
Economy, finance and planning · Soviet Union
1892–1938
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Valery Ivanovich Mezhlauk Валерий Иванович Межлаук
A planner purged by the system he served
Economy, finance and planning · Soviet Union
1893–1938
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Nikolai Kirillovich Antipov Николай Кириллович Антипов
The control commissar who ran Stalin's personnel-appointment machinery
Economy, finance and planning · Soviet Union
1894–1938
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Ivan Adamovich Kraval Иван Адамович Краваль
The statistician who counted a population that displeased Stalin
Economy, finance and planning · Soviet Union
1897–1937
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Maksim Zakharovich Saburov Максим Захарович Сабуров
Planner of the late Stalin and Malenkov years
Economy, finance and planning · Soviet Union
1900–1977
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Grigory Petrovich Kosyachenko Григорий Петрович Косяченко
Gosplan planner across the late Stalin and post-Stalin transition
Economy, finance and planning · Soviet Union
1901–1983
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Gennady Ivanovich Smirnov Геннадий Иванович Смирнов
Gosplan chief who vanished into the Terror in eight months
Economy, finance and planning · Soviet Union
1903–1938
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Nikolai Alexeyevich Voznesensky Николай Алексеевич Вознесенский
Wartime planning prodigy killed in the Leningrad Affair
Economy, finance and planning · Soviet Union
1903–1950
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Yakov Yermolayevich Chadayev Яков Ермолаевич Чадаев
The Gosplan economist who co-signed wartime decrees with Stalin
Economy, finance and planning · Soviet Union
1904–1985
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Pyotr Faddeyevich Lomako Пётр Фаддеевич Ломако
Founder of Soviet non-ferrous metallurgy and Gosplan chairman
Economy, finance and planning · Soviet Union
1904–1990
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Vladimir Nikonovich Starovsky Владимир Никонович Старовский
The man who ran Soviet statistics for 35 years
Economy, finance and planning · Soviet Union
1905–1975
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Dmitry Georgievich Zhimerin Дмитрий Георгиевич Жимерин
Standard-bearer of Soviet electrification who became wartime power minister at 35
Economy, finance and planning · Soviet Union
1906–1995
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Vasily Mikhailovich Ryabikov Василий Михайлович Рябиков
Nine Orders of Lenin: the organizer who sustained the Soviet military-industrial complex for 35 years, from wartime arms to Sputnik
Economy, finance and planning · Soviet Union
1907–1974
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Vladimir Nikolayevich Novikov Владимир Николаевич Новиков
A defence-industry technocrat who rose from arms-plant floor to head of state planning
Economy, finance and planning · Soviet Union
1907–2000
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Alexander Fedorovich Zasyadko Александр Фёдорович Засядько
The miner's son who climbed from the Donbas pits to the summit of Kremlin economic planning
Economy, finance and planning · Soviet Union
1910–1963
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Veniamin Emmanuilovich Dymshits Вениамин Эммануилович Дымшиц
The Jewish construction technocrat who was Soviet deputy premier for 23 years
Economy, finance and planning · Soviet Union
1910–1993
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Iosif Iosifovich Kuzmin Иосиф Иосифович Кузьмин
The planner who executed Khrushchev's sovnarkhoz reform
Economy, finance and planning · Soviet Union
1910–1996
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Nikolai Vasilyevich Martynov Николай Васильевич Мартынов
From munitions to material supply, the technocrat who managed the arteries of the planned economy
Economy, finance and planning · Soviet Union
1910–1998
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Lev Markovich Volodarsky Лев Маркович Володарский
Keeper of Soviet state statistics who managed the planned economy's numbers as the younger brother of a revolutionary martyr
Economy, finance and planning · Soviet Union
1911–1989
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Nikolai Konstantinovich Baibakov Николай Константинович Байбаков
Long-serving Gosplan chairman of the stagnation era
Economy, finance and planning · Soviet Union
1911–2008
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Yuri Petrovich Batalin Юрий Петрович Баталин
The perestroika-era construction chief who built the West Siberian oil and gas complex and the Chernobyl sarcophagus
Economy, finance and planning · Soviet Union
1927–2013
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Lev Alekseyevich Voronin Лев Алексеевич Воронин
Guardian of state material supply in the Gorbachev era
Economy, finance and planning · Soviet Union
1928–2008
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Nikolai Vladimirovich Talyzin Николай Владимирович Талызин
Gosplan chairman of the perestroika era who built the world's first satellite TV broadcasting system
Economy, finance and planning · Soviet Union
1929–1991
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Stepan Aramaisovich Sitaryan Степан Арамаисович Ситарян
The highest-ranking Armenian economist in the Soviet apparatus, who pushed the Law on Cooperatives through the Politburo
Economy, finance and planning · Soviet Union
1930–2009
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Yuri Dmitrievich Maslyukov Юрий Дмитриевич Маслюков
The last Gosplan generation
Economy, finance and planning · Soviet Union
1937–2010
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Vladimir Ivanovich Shcherbakov Владимир Иванович Щербаков
The last Gosplan chairman who presided over the dissolution of Soviet planning
Economy, finance and planning · Soviet Union
1949–