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Vasily Alekseyevich Degtyaryov Василий Алексеевич Дегтярёв Founder of Soviet firearms design, creator of the DP-27, DShK, and PTRD Industry and production · Soviet Union state institutions 1880–1949
Mikhail Moiseyevich Kaganovich Михаил Моисеевич Каганович Builder of Soviet defence industry in the shadow of his brother Lazar Industry and production · Soviet Union state institutions 1888–1941
Moisei Lvovich Rukhimovich Моисей Львович Рухимович The industrial builder Lenin trusted; first People's Commissar for Defence Industry Industry and production · Soviet Union state institutions 1889–1938
Sergei Yakovlevich Zhuk Сергей Яковлевич Жук Stalin's chief hydraulic engineer who designed the Gulag canal network Industry and production · Soviet Union state institutions 1892–1957
Sergei Vladimirovich Ilyushin Сергей Владимирович Ильюшин Founder of Ilyushin OKB. His Il-2 Sturmovik remains the most-produced combat aircraft in history Industry and production · Soviet Union state institutions 1894–1977
Ivan Alekseyevich Likhachev Иван Алексеевич Лихачёв Father of the Soviet auto industry, the 'red director' who told Henry Ford he was a servant of the people Industry and production · Soviet Union state institutions 1896–1956
Boris Lvovich Vannikov Борис Львович Ванников Ammunition and atomic administrator under Beria Industry and production · Soviet Union state institutions 1897–1962
Semyon Zakharovich Ginzburg Семён Захарович Гинзбург First People's Commissar for Construction, who built wartime industry from the ground up Industry and production · Soviet Union state institutions 1897–1993
Georgy Erikhovich Langemak Георгий Эрихович Лангемак Father of the Katyusha rocket, the engineer who perfected the RS‑82 and RS‑132 and coined the word 'cosmonautics' Industry and production · Soviet Union state institutions 1898–1938
Mikhail Mikhailovich Tsarevsky Михаил Михайлович Царевский The NKVD construction general who built the Mayak plutonium complex Industry and production · Soviet Union state institutions 1898–1963
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
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
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
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
Avraami Pavlovich Zavenyagin Авраамий Павлович Завенягин Industrial organizer of the Stalin era, from Magnitogorsk and Norilsk to the atomic bomb Industry and production · Soviet Union state institutions 1901–1956
Mikhail Vasilyevich Khrunichev Михаил Васильевич Хруничев The aviation minister who persuaded Stalin to buy British jet engines and opened the MiG-15 era Industry and production · Soviet Union state institutions 1901–1961
Vasily Vasilyevich Vakhrushev Василий Васильевич Вахрушев The commissar who turned coal into a weapon Industry and production · Soviet Union state institutions 1902–1947
Nikita Alekseyevich Izotov Никита Алексеевич Изотов Pioneer of the Izotov movement (1932): mass on-the-job mentoring that became the template for Stakhanovism Industry and production · Soviet Union state institutions 1902–1951
Ivan Isidorovich Nosenko Иван Исидорович Носенко From shipyard messenger boy to master of Soviet shipbuilding Industry and production · Soviet Union state institutions 1902–1956
Ivan Fyodorovich Tevosian Иван Фёдорович Тевосян Metallurgy administrator of Stalinist industrialization Industry and production · Soviet Union state institutions 1902–1958
Pyotr Nikolayevich Goremykin Пётр Николаевич Горемыкин From ammunition to space: first head of the rocket ministry behind a deliberately vague name Industry and production · Soviet Union state institutions 1902–1976
Yuri Yevgenyevich Maksarev Юрий Евгеньевич Максарёв The industrial architect who mass-produced the T-34 and shaped Soviet tank power Industry and production · Soviet Union state institutions 1903–1982
Nikolai Leonidovich Dukhov Николай Леонидович Духов From KV and IS heavy tanks to nuclear warheads: the designer who anchored both pillars of the Soviet military-industrial complex Industry and production · Soviet Union state institutions 1904–1964
Aleksei Ivanovich Shakhurin Алексей Иванович Шахурин The commissar who directed wartime aviation and out-produced the Luftwaffe Industry and production · Soviet Union state institutions 1904–1975
Mikhail Georgievich Pervukhin Михаил Георгиевич Первухин State commission chair for the first atomic bomb test, demoted in 1957 for opposing Khrushchev Industry and production · Soviet Union state institutions 1904–1978
Alexander Alexandrovich Morozov Александр Александрович Морозов The face of Soviet tank design: T-34, T-54/55, and T-64 Industry and production · Soviet Union state institutions 1904–1979
Artyom Ivanovich Mikoyan Артём Иванович Микоян Father of the MiG: the fighter designer who ruled the sky in an instant Industry and production · Soviet Union state institutions 1905–1970
Isaak Moiseyevich Zaltsman Исаак Моисеевич Зальцман The Tank King who built Tankograd Industry and production · Soviet Union state institutions 1905–1988
Alexander Nikolayevich Komarovsky Александр Николаевич Комаровский The military engineer who built the Soviet atomic project Industry and production · Soviet Union state institutions 1906–1973
Alexei Grigoryevich Stakhanov Алексей Григорьевич Стаханов The miner whose 102-ton, 14x-norm shift ignited the defining mass productivity campaign of the Stalin era Industry and production · Soviet Union state institutions 1906–1977
Oleg Konstantinovich Antonov Олег Константинович Антонов From the An-2 to the An-225: the father of Soviet transport aviation Industry and production · Soviet Union state institutions 1906–1984
Alexander Sergeyevich Yakovlev Александр Сергеевич Яковлев Father of the Yak fighter: the only aircraft designer Stalin personally summoned for advice Industry and production · Soviet Union state institutions 1906–1989
Alexander Kharitonovich Busygin Александр Харитонович Бусыгин A Gorky auto-plant blacksmith who became a symbol of industrial productivity Industry and production · Soviet Union state institutions 1907–1985
Zhozef Yakovlevich Kotin Жозеф Яковлевич Котин Chief designer of the KV and IS heavy tanks, builder of Tankograd Industry and production · Soviet Union state institutions 1908–1979