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By birth A–Z List Cards

Moisei Solomonovich Uritsky Моисей Соломонович Урицкий The Petrograd Cheka chairman who resisted the terror, and became its trigger Security, intelligence and policing · Soviet Union state institutions 1873–1918
Konkordia Nikolayevna Samoilova Конкордия Николаевна Самойлова Founder of Rabotnitsa and organizer of Russia's first International Women's Day Social movements and organizing · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks 1876–1921
Stepan Georgiyevich Shaumyan Степан Георгиевич Шаумян The 'Caucasian Lenin', Marxist theorist of the national question and leader of the Baku Commune Government and administration · Soviet Union state institutions 1878–1918
Alexander Alexandrovich Blok Александр Александрович Блок Russia's foremost Symbolist poet who embraced the October Revolution Literature and arts 1880–1921
Fyodor Andreyevich Sergeyev Фёдор Андреевич Сергеев Founder and head of the Donetsk-Krivoy Rog Soviet Republic, close friend of Stalin and Kirov Government and administration · Soviet Union state institutions 1883–1921
Mullanur Vakhitov Мулланур Вахитов Tatar revolutionary who led the Kazan Muslim Socialist Committee and became the first head of the Soviet Muslim Commissariat Government and administration · Soviet Union state institutions 1885–1918
Alexander Stepanovich Antonov Александр Степанович Антонов The man whose name became the rebellion: SR leader of the Tambov 'Antonovshchina,' the largest peasant uprising against Bolshevik rule Social movements and organizing · Party of Left Socialist Revolutionaries 1889–1922
Mustafa Shokay Мустафа Шокай Kazakh nationalist who led the Kokand Autonomy and dreamed of an independent Turkestan Political and party leadership 1890–1941
V. Markovich Volodarsky В. Маркович Володарский Petrograd's press commissar whose assassination helped trigger the Red Terror Ideology and propaganda · Soviet Union state institutions 1891–1918
Semyon Grigoryevich Roshal Семён Григорьевич Рошаль The 21-year-old commissar who brought Kronstadt sailors to the revolution Social movements and organizing · Russian Social Democratic Labour Party (RSDLP) 1896–1917
Alexander Sapozhkov Александр Сапожков Red Army division commander who raised the "Red Army of Truth" against grain requisitioning in 1920 Military command · Soviet Union state institutions ?–1920
Pyotr Tokmakov Пётр Токмаков Peasant-born officer who commanded the United Partisan Army of Tambov and chaired the Union of Working Peasantry Military command · Socialist Revolutionary Party (PSR/SR) ?–1921