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GlossarySoviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks
- Vasily Aleksandrovich Dinkov Василий Александрович Динков The gas and oil minister who made the USSR the world's largest gas producer
- Vladislav Grigoryevich Kolesnikov Владислав Григорьевич Колесников The last Soviet Minister of Electronics, who led microelectronics through perestroika's final years
- Mikhail Ivanovich Shchadov Михаил Иванович Щадов The last Soviet coal minister, who drove open-pit mining and led the miners into the Chernobyl tunnel
- Igor Sergeyevich Belousov Игорь Сергеевич Белоусов The shipbuilding minister who built the Soviet Navy's strategic parity
- Apollon Sergeyevich Systsov Аполлон Сергеевич Сысцов Last Soviet Minister of Aviation Industry: from the Buran shuttle to the privatisation of a military-industrial empire
- Anatoly Ivanovich Mayorets Анатолий Иванович Майорец The last Soviet energy minister sent into the Chernobyl disaster zone
- Ivan Stepanovich Silayev Иван Степанович Силаев The last head of government of the Soviet Union: from aviation minister to liquidator of an empire
- Mikhail Sergeyevich Shkabardnya Михаил Сергеевич Шкабардня The minister whose precision instruments controlled missiles and the Buran shuttle
- Arkady Ivanovich Volsky Аркадий Иванович Вольский The operator who ran Soviet machine-building and organized post-Soviet capital
- Lev Dmitrievich Ryabev Лев Дмитриевич Рябев Nuclear industry minister who inherited Sredmash in the shadow of Chernobyl
- Vladimir Makarovich Velichko Владимир Макарович Величко Technocrat who ran Soviet heavy machine-building in its late decades
- Viktor Stepanovich Chernomyrdin Виктор Степанович Черномырдин Last Soviet gas minister who turned his ministry into Gazprom