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Lev Nikolayevich Belsky Лев Николаевич Бельский The deputy commissar who ran the Soviet police Security, intelligence and policing · Soviet Union state institutions 1889–1941
Yakov Isaakovich Serebryansky Яков Исаакович Серебрянский Builder of Soviet covert ops who kidnapped a White general in Paris, then tortured by his own service Security, intelligence and policing · Soviet Union state institutions 1892–1956
Yakov Saulovich Agranov Яков Саулович Агранов The Cheka’s architect of political investigations Security, intelligence and policing · Soviet Union state institutions 1893–1938
Nikolai Matveyevich Goloded Николай Матвеевич Голодед The decade-long head of Byelorussia's government who signed the Academy purge, then stood in the same dock Government and administration · Soviet Union state institutions 1894–1937
Isaak Ilyich Shapiro Исаак Ильич Шапиро Yezhov's chief of secretariat, keeper of the Great Terror's papers and figures Security, intelligence and policing · Soviet Union state institutions 1895–1940
Alexander Mikhailovich Orlov Александр Михайлович Орлов The NKVD chief in Spain who shipped the Republic's gold to Moscow and broke the POUM, then fled Stalin Security, intelligence and policing · Soviet Union state institutions 1895–1973
Pavel Osipovich Sukhoi Павел Осипович Сухой Founder of the Sukhoi Design Bureau, the man behind the Su-7, Su-24, and Su-27 Industry and production · Soviet Union state institutions 1895–1975
Israel Moiseyevich Leplevsky Израиль Моисеевич Леплевский The man who drove the Ukrainian mass operations to their peak Security, intelligence and policing · Soviet Union state institutions 1896–1938
Yakov Arkadyevich Yakovlev Яков Аркадьевич Яковлев Agriculture commissar of collectivization Agriculture and land policy · Soviet Union state institutions 1896–1938
Nikolai Sidorovich Vlasik Николай Сидорович Власик Stalin's shadow for 25 years as head of personal security Security, intelligence and policing · Soviet Union state institutions 1896–1967
Vasily Danilovich Sokolovsky Василий Данилович Соколовский A peasant's son from the Grodno lands who framed Soviet nuclear-age strategy Military command · Soviet Union state institutions 1897–1968
Naum Isaakovich Eitingon Наум Исаакович Эйтингон The NKVD's master of covert action: from Trotsky's assassination to Soviet atomic espionage Security, intelligence and policing · Soviet Union state institutions 1899–1981
Vladimir Efimovich Gorev Владимир Ефимович Горев An internationalist soldier who helped organize Madrid’s defense Military command · Soviet Union state institutions 1900–1938
Terentii Fomich Shtykov Терентий Фомич Штыков Soviet occupation chief in North Korea and first ambassador; he conveyed Kim Il Sung's unification plan to Stalin, brokered approval for war Diplomacy and international organization · Soviet Union state institutions 1907–1964
Iosif Mikhailovich Turko Иосиф Михайлович Турко A Kuznetsov appointee to the Yaroslavl obkom who was sentenced to 15 years instead of death in the Leningrad Affair Social movements and organizing · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks 1908–1994
Yakov Borisovich Zel'dovich Яков Борисович Зельдович Three-time Hero of Socialist Labor, a self-taught physicist who became the theorist of Soviet nuclear weapons and a giant of cosmology Science and technology · Soviet Union state institutions 1914–1987