People of the Revolution and the USSR
- Dmitry Sergeyevich Likhachev Дмитрий Сергеевич Лихачёв Gulag survivor, world authority on Old Russian literature, moral conscience of late Soviet society
- Abulfaz Gadirgulu oghlu Elchibey Əbülfəz Qədirqulu oğlu Elçibəy The pan-Turkist dissident who became Azerbaijan's first democratically elected president
- Merab Ivanes dze Kostava მერაბ ივანეს ძე კოსტავა A poet who joined the struggle for independence to the defense of human rights
- Zviad Konstantinovich Gamsakhurdia ზვიად კონსტანტინეს ძე გამსახურდია The nationalist dissident who became Georgia's first democratically elected president
- Lagle Parek Lagle Parek The dissident architect who walked out of a Soviet prison camp and opened Estonia's political road to independence
- Tiit Madisson Tiit Madisson The Estonian dissident who helped break the silence at Hirvepark
- Etibar Salidar oglu Mammadov Etibar Səlidar oğlu Məmmədov Deputy chairman of the Azerbaijani Popular Front who warned Primakov there would be resistance
- Heiki Ahonen Heiki Ahonen Estonian former political prisoner who survived the Soviet camps and co-organized the first open rally of the Baltic independence movement