People of the Revolution and the USSR
- Ivan Vasilyevich Babushkin Иван Васильевич Бабушкин The worker-organizer Iskra trusted most: archetype of the Bolshevik worker
- Moisei Solomonovich Uritsky Моисей Соломонович Урицкий The Petrograd Cheka chairman who resisted the terror, and became its trigger
- Konkordia Nikolayevna Samoilova Конкордия Николаевна Самойлова Founder of Rabotnitsa and organizer of Russia's first International Women's Day
- Zinovy Yakovlevich Litvin-Sedoy Зиновий Яковлевич Литвин-Седой Organizer of Presnya’s workers’ fighting squads
- Grigory Alekseyevich Alexinsky Григорий Алексеевич Алексинский A polemicist who turned from revolutionary internationalism to wartime patriotism
- Fyodor Andreyevich Sergeyev Фёдор Андреевич Сергеев Founder and head of the Donetsk-Krivoy Rog Soviet Republic, close friend of Stalin and Kirov
- Vladimir Savelyevich Voitinsky Владимир Савельевич Войтинский A social democrat who changed course between revolution and economics
- V. Markovich Volodarsky В. Маркович Володарский Petrograd's press commissar whose assassination helped trigger the Red Terror
- 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 Ivanovich Terebilov Владимир Иванович Теребилов Jurist who revived the abolished Justice Ministry and directed the codification of Soviet legislation
- Gury Ivanovich Marchuk Гурий Иванович Марчук Last President of the USSR Academy of Sciences and pioneer of computational mathematics in Siberia
- Yuli Mikhailovich Vorontsov Юлий Михайлович Воронцов The arms-control negotiator who secured the INF Treaty and managed the Soviet withdrawal from Afghanistan
- Nikolai Ivanovich Ryzhkov Николай Иванович Рыжков Premier during perestroika’s economic crisis
- Nikolai Pavlovich Laverov Николай Павлович Лавёров The last chairman of Soviet state science policy and a uranium geologist
- Anatoly Aleksandrovich Sobchak Анатолий Александрович Собчак Constitutional Assembly chairman and first elected mayor of Saint Petersburg
- Ruslan Imranovich Khasbulatov Руслан Имранович Хасбулатов The Supreme Soviet chairman who stood with Yeltsin against the coup, then fell to Yeltsin's tanks
- Alexander Vladimirovich Rutskoy Александр Владимирович Руцкой Russia's only vice president: stood with Yeltsin against the coup, then fell to Yeltsin's tanks
- Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin Владимир Владимирович Путин A ruler who recast the loss of the Soviet Union as a narrative of state restoration
- Aleksandr Vladimirovich Pyzhikov Александр Владимирович Пыжиков A historian of the 1950s-60s USSR and the Russian church schism