People of the Revolution and the USSR
- Sergei Gennadiyevich Nechayev Сергей Геннадиевич Нечаев Author of the Catechism of a Revolutionary, the nihilist who demanded total sacrifice for the revolutionary cause
- Elisabeth Lukinichna Dmitrieff Елизавета Лукинична Кушелева Russian revolutionary who organized the Paris Commune's Women's Union
- Viktor Konstantinovich Kurnatovsky Виктор Константинович Курнатовский One of Russia's first Marxists, from Narodnaya Volya to leader of the 1905 Chita Republic
- Nikolai Yevgrafovich Fedoseev Николай Евграфович Федосеев Russian revolutionary who organized the first Marxist circles in the Volga region
- Nikolai Ernestovich Bauman Николай Эрнестович Бауман The 'Rook' who flew across borders building the Iskra network, and the revolution's first martyr
- Ivan Vasilyevich Babushkin Иван Васильевич Бабушкин The worker-organizer Iskra trusted most: archetype of the Bolshevik worker
- Konkordia Nikolayevna Samoilova Конкордия Николаевна Самойлова Founder of Rabotnitsa and organizer of Russia's first International Women's Day
- Bogdan Mirzadzhanovich Knunyants Богдан Мирзаджанович Кнунянц Iskra majority delegate at the 2nd Congress, a pioneer Caucasus Bolshevik who died in prison at 32
- Zinovy Yakovlevich Litvin-Sedoy Зиновий Яковлевич Литвин-Седой Organizer of Presnya’s workers’ fighting squads
- Fyodor Andreyevich Sergeyev Фёдор Андреевич Сергеев Founder and head of the Donetsk-Krivoy Rog Soviet Republic, close friend of Stalin and Kirov
- Mullanur Vakhitov Мулланур Вахитов Tatar revolutionary who led the Kazan Muslim Socialist Committee and became the first head of the Soviet Muslim Commissariat
- Semyon Grigoryevich Roshal Семён Григорьевич Рошаль The 21-year-old commissar who brought Kronstadt sailors to the revolution
- Viktor Vasilyevich Grishin Виктор Васильевич Гришин The face of the Brezhnev era who ran Moscow for eighteen years and died while re-applying for his pension
- Vladimir Antonovich Ivashko Владимир Антонович Ивашко The last deputy general secretary before dissolution
- Ruslan Imranovich Khasbulatov Руслан Имранович Хасбулатов The Supreme Soviet chairman who stood with Yeltsin against the coup, then fell to Yeltsin's tanks