People of the Revolution and the USSR
- Ivan Moiseevich Tretyak Иван Моисеевич Третьяк Soviet air defence chief who ordered the KAL 007 shootdown
- Yakov Petrovich Pogrebnyak Яков Петрович Погребняк CPU secretary who oversaw the anti-alcohol campaign in Ukraine and testified that Ligachev ordered the Massandra wine library destroyed
- Anatoly Ivanovich Mayorets Анатолий Иванович Майорец The last Soviet energy minister sent into the Chernobyl disaster zone
- Vladimir Antonovich Ivashko Владимир Антонович Ивашко The last deputy general secretary before dissolution
- Vitold Pavlovych Fokin Вітольд Павлович Фокін From Soviet economic planner to independent Ukraine’s first prime minister
- Valentyna Semenivna Shevchenko Валентина Семенівна Шевченко Ukrainian SSR head of state during Chernobyl who pushed the evacuation of 526,000 children from Kyiv against Moscow's resistance
- Grigory Ivanovich Revenko Григорий Иванович Ревенко From Kiev regional party leader to Gorbachev's last chief of staff
- Grigory Petrovich Kharchenko Григорий Петрович Харченко Organizational-Party Work deputy chief who witnessed Sumgait, and said 'we were a day late'
- Vitaly Alekseevich Korotich Виталий Алексеевич Коротич The editor who turned Ogonyok into the battering ram of glasnost, publishing what the system suppressed for seventy years
- Konstantin Ivanovich Kobets Константин Иванович Кобец The highest-ranking general who sided with Yeltsin during the August coup, commanding the White House defense
- Nikolai Nikolayevich Gubenko Николай Николаевич Губенко The last Soviet culture minister