People of the Revolution and the USSR
Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks
Background: Armenia
People of the Stalin era 1929–1953
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GlossarySoviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks
- Yuvelian Davidovich Sumbatov-Topuridze Ювельян Давидович Сумбатов-Топуридзе Azerbaijan's people's commissar of internal affairs in the mass operations, arrested in the Beria case
- Ivan Stepanovich Isakov Иван Степанович Исаков The Soviet Navy's scholar-admiral who lost a leg at Tuapse and still fought two wars to the end
- Ivan Khristoforovich Bagramyan Иван Христофорович Баграмян The first non-Slavic front commander, from Bagration to the Baltic
- Stepan Akopovich Akopov Степан Акопович Акопов Armenian production boss from wartime medium machine-building to the postwar auto industry
- Sergei Alexandrovich Khudyakov Сергей Александрович Худяков Stalin's air adviser at Tehran and Yalta. The Red Army's only Armenian Marshal of Aviation, executed 1950
- Bogdan Zakharovich Kobulov Богдан Захарович Кобулов Beria's closest deputy, executor of Katyn and the mass deportations
- Artyom Ivanovich Mikoyan Артём Иванович Микоян Father of the MiG: the fighter designer who ruled the sky in an instant
- Kirill Ivanovich Shchelkin Кирилл Иванович Щёлкин The physicist who personally armed the first Soviet atomic bomb and built the second nuclear weapons center as its first scientific director