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Yefim Pavlovich Slavsky Ефим Павлович Славский
'Yefim the Great,' who commanded the entire Soviet nuclear arsenal for 29 years
Industry and production · Soviet Union state institutions
1898–1991
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Jan Ernestovich Sten Ян Эрнестович Стэн
Marxist philosopher who went from Stalin's Hegel tutor to Right Opposition conspirator
Scholarship and theory · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks
1899–1937
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Boris Arkadyevich Yartsev Борис Аркадьевич Рыбкин
Risky diplomacy conducted behind an intelligence officer’s cover
Security, intelligence and policing · Soviet Union state institutions
1899–1947
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Andrei Platonovich Platonov Андрей Платонович Платонов
The engineer who wrote utopia's ruins
Literature and arts · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks
1899–1951
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Lavrentiy Pavlovich Beria Лаврентий Павлович Берия
The secret-police chief who arrived carrying reforms
Security, intelligence and policing · Soviet Union state institutions
1899–1953
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Avksenty Narikievich Rapava Авксентий Нарикиевич Рапава
He ran the Georgian police apparatus for a decade
Security, intelligence and policing · Soviet Union state institutions
1899–1955
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Solomon Rafailovich Milshtein Соломон Рафаилович Мильштейн
The transport chief who assembled the deportation trains
Security, intelligence and policing · Soviet Union state institutions
1899–1955
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Stepan Akopovich Akopov Степан Акопович Акопов
Armenian production boss from wartime medium machine-building to the postwar auto industry
Industry and production · Soviet Union state institutions
1899–1958
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Mikhail Sergeyevich Malinin Михаил Сергеевич Малинин
Rokossovsky's indispensable chief of staff, planner of the great offensives
Military command · Soviet Union state institutions
1899–1960
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Andrei Grigorievich Kravchenko Андрей Григорьевич Кравченко
The tank army commander who led the Red Army's elite armor from Stalingrad to Manchuria
Military command · Soviet Union state institutions
1899–1963
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Nikolai Nikolayevich Voronov Николай Николаевич Воронов
Architect of Red Army artillery who wove the Stalingrad encirclement
Military command · Soviet Union state institutions
1899–1968
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Pavel Fyodorovich Yudin Павел Фёдорович Юдин
Stalinist philosopher-diplomat who built orthodoxy, then incubated the foundations of Soviet cultural history
Ideology and propaganda · Soviet Union state institutions
1899–1968
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Filipp Sergeyevich Oktyabrsky Филипп Сергеевич Октябрьский
Admiral who led the Black Sea Fleet in the defence of Odessa and Sevastopol, and remains at the centre of the evacuation controversy
Military command · Soviet Union state institutions
1899–1969
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Lev Vladimirovich Kuleshov Лев Владимирович Кулешов
Creator of the Kuleshov Effect, the father of Soviet montage theory who proved editing, not the shot, creates meaning
Literature and arts · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks
1899–1970
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Semyon Moiseevich Krivoshein Семён Моисеевич Кривошеин
The Soviet tank general who reviewed the Brest parade with Guderian and held Oboyan at Kursk
Military command · Soviet Union state institutions
1899–1978
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Aleksandr Nikolayevich Nesmeyanov Александр Николаевич Несмеянов
Academy president who founded organoelement chemistry
Science and technology · Soviet Union state institutions
1899–1980
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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
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Alexei Alexandrovich Surkov Алексей Александрович Сурков
Poet of "Zemlyanka" and the Writers' Union enforcer who led the campaign against Pasternak
Literature and arts · Soviet Union state institutions
1899–1983
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Arvīds Yanovich Pelše Арвид Янович Пельше
Brezhnev-era guardian of party discipline and Latvian-born Politburo member
Social movements and organizing · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks
1899–1983
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Alexander Grigoryevich Barmine Александр Григорьевич Бармин
The Soviet GRU brigadier general who fled Stalin's purges and became one of the few defectors the hunters never caught
Military command · Soviet Union state institutions
1899–1987
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Grigory Mikhailovich Shtern Григорий Михайлович Штерн
Victor of Lake Khasan and Khalkhin Gol, purged Far Eastern Front commander
Military command · Soviet Union state institutions
1900–1941
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Ivan Ivanovich Maslennikov Иван Иванович Масленников
From NKVD Deputy Commissar to General of the Army: the rare commander who held senior rank in both the security apparatus and the Red Army
Security, intelligence and policing · Soviet Union state institutions
1900–1954
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Lavrentiy Fomich Tsanava Лаврентий Фомич Цанава
"Second Lavrentiy"; Beria's man who ran the Mikhoels killing
Security, intelligence and policing · Soviet Union state institutions
1900–1955
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Grigory Artemyevich Arutinov Григорий Артемьевич Арутинов
'Grigory the Builder': led Soviet Armenia for 16 years under Stalin, driving industrialization and a national cultural revival
Political and party leadership · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks
1900–1957
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Georgy Nikolayevich Zarubin Георгий Николаевич Зарубин
The Soviet diplomat who represented Moscow in all three major Western Allied capitals during the early Cold War
Diplomacy and international organization · Soviet Union state institutions
1900–1958
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Dmitri Vasilyevich Yefremov Дмитрий Васильевич Ефремов
The electrical engineer under NKVD investigation who became minister and delivered isotope separation for the atomic bomb
Industry and production · Soviet Union state institutions
1900–1960
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Semyon Alekseyevich Lavochkin Семён Алексеевич Лавочкин
Fighter designer who secured Soviet air supremacy with the La-5 and La-7
Industry and production · Soviet Union state institutions
1900–1960
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Pavel Fyodorovich Zhigarev Павел Фёдорович Жигарев
Twice Commander-in-Chief of the Soviet Air Force: led the VVS through Barbarossa and rebuilt it in the post-Stalin era
Military command · Soviet Union state institutions
1900–1963
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Arseny Grigoryevich Zverev Арсений Григорьевич Зверев
Long-serving finance minister through war and reconstruction
Economy, finance and planning · Soviet Union state institutions
1900–1969
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Konstantin Andreyevich Vershinin Константин Андреевич Вершинин
Two-time Soviet Air Force commander who led its transformation into the jet and nuclear age
Military command · Soviet Union state institutions
1900–1973
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Alexander Alexandrovich Novikov Александр Александрович Новиков
The VVS commander who rebuilt a shattered force into the air armada that swept the Luftwaffe from the sky
Military command · Soviet Union state institutions
1900–1976
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Mikhail Yefimovich Katukov Михаил Ефимович Катуков
Marshal of Armoured Troops who stopped Guderian and led the 1st Guards Tank Army
Military command · Soviet Union state institutions
1900–1976
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Sergei Ivanovich Ogoltsov Сергей Иванович Огольцов
An operative who spanned every iteration of Soviet state security across 35 years
Security, intelligence and policing · Soviet Union state institutions
1900–1976
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Maksim Zakharovich Saburov Максим Захарович Сабуров
Planner of the late Stalin and Malenkov years
Economy, finance and planning · Soviet Union state institutions
1900–1977
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Vladimir Filippovich Tributs Владимир Филиппович Трибуц
Longest-serving wartime fleet commander, from the Tallinn breakout to Königsberg
Military command · Soviet Union state institutions
1900–1977
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Filipp Ivanovich Golikov Филипп Иванович Голиков
The GRU chief who held the intelligence yet missed the invasion, and fought his way back to marshal
Military command · Soviet Union state institutions
1900–1980
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Mikhail Alekseyevich Lavrentiev Михаил Алексеевич Лаврентьев
Mathematician who built Akademgorodok and pioneered explosive applications
Science and technology · Soviet Union state institutions
1900–1980
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Nikolai Demyanovich Psurtsev Николай Демьянович Псурцев
Longest-serving Minister of Communications who ran front-line signals at the Battle of Moscow and built Soviet telecom for 27 years
Economy, finance and planning · Soviet Union state institutions
1900–1980
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Vasily Gavrilovich Grabin Василий Гаврилович Грабин
Master of Soviet field artillery, creator of the speed-design method
Industry and production · Soviet Union state institutions
1900–1980
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Boris Georgiyevich Bazhanov Борис Георгиевич Бажанов
The only defector from Stalin's Secretariat, chronicler of Politburo secrets
Social movements and organizing · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks
1900–1982
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Vasily Ivanovich Chuikov Василий Иванович Чуйков
“There is no land for us beyond the Volga”
Military command · Soviet Union state institutions
1900–1982
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Pavel Alekseyevich Kurochkin Павел Алексеевич Курочкин
From Civil War cavalryman to the commander whose army liberated Auschwitz, the last surviving wartime Front commander
Military command · Soviet Union state institutions
1900–1989
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Ilya Grigoryevich Starinov Илья Григорьевич Старинов
The 'grandfather of Soviet special forces,' a sabotage engineer who designed the radio-controlled mine and the partisan rail war
Military command · Soviet Union state institutions
1900–2000
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Nadezhda Sergeyevna Alliluyeva Надежда Сергеевна Аллилуева
A Bolshevik woman who worked in Lenin's secretariat, married Stalin, and pursued her own political independence
Ideology and propaganda · Soviet Union state institutions
1901–1932
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Pavel Aleksandrovich Mif Павел Александрович Миф
Comintern China specialist who cultivated the 28 Bolsheviks
Diplomacy and international organization · Comintern
1901–1938
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Boris Davydovich Berman Борис Давыдович Берман
The intelligence officer who directed the Great Purge in Belorussia
Security, intelligence and policing · Soviet Union state institutions
1901–1939
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Dmitry Matveyevich Dmitriev Дмитрий Матвеевич Дмитриев
The Sverdlovsk NKVD chief whose testimony first unspooled the 'NKVD conspiracy'
Security, intelligence and policing · Soviet Union state institutions
1901–1939
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Konstantin Dmitriyevich Pamfilov Константин Дмитриевич Памфилов
Wartime RSFSR acting premier who oversaw civilian evacuation amid the Moscow panic
Government and administration · Soviet Union state institutions
1901–1943
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Nikolai Fyodorovich Vatutin Николай Фёдорович Ватутин
Strategic architect of Stalingrad and Kursk, the army general who fell at the front
Military command · Soviet Union state institutions
1901–1944
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Alexander Sergeyevich Shcherbakov Александр Сергеевич Щербаков
Stalin's wartime propaganda chief and Moscow party boss, whose death became a spark for the Doctors' Plot
Ideology and propaganda · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks
1901–1945