People of the Revolution and the USSR
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Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks
People of the thaw and the stagnation 1953–1985
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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
- Viktor Georgiyevich Bakayev Виктор Георгиевич Бакаев 16-year minister who built the Soviet merchant fleet into a global maritime power
- Boris Pavlovich Beshchev Борис Павлович Бещев The longest-serving Soviet minister, who led the railways for 29 years
- Leonid Gatovsky Лев Маркович Гатовский The editor who built the political economy of socialism as a discipline
- Alexei Andreyevich Poskonov Алексей Андреевич Посконов The Bashkir-born financial technocrat who ran Gosbank through the Kosygin reform
- Alexei Nikolayevich Kosygin Алексей Николаевич Косыгин The premier who tried to plant profit inside the plan
- Pyotr Faddeyevich Lomako Пётр Фаддеевич Ломако Founder of Soviet non-ferrous metallurgy and Gosplan chairman
- Vladimir Nikonovich Starovsky Владимир Никонович Старовский The man who ran Soviet statistics for 35 years
- Alexander Akimovich Ishkov Александр Акимович Ишков Architect of the Soviet ocean-going fishing fleet, felled by the 'fish mafia' scandal
- Ivan Aleksandrovich Grishmanov Иван Александрович Гришманов Carpenter-turned-minister who led the Soviet building-materials industry for 14 years
- Yevgeni Fyodorovich Kozhevnikov Евгений Фёдорович Кожевников Founding head of Mintransstroy who led Soviet transport construction across the Khrushchev and Brezhnev eras
- Alexander Ivanovich Struyev Александр Иванович Струев The trade minister who ran Soviet domestic commerce for 18 years
- Vasily Mikhailovich Ryabikov Василий Михайлович Рябиков Nine Orders of Lenin: the organizer who sustained the Soviet military-industrial complex for 35 years, from wartime arms to Sputnik
- Pavel Vasilyevich Kovanov Павел Васильевич Кованов First chairman of People's Control, Shelepin's deputy who became Brezhnev's auditor
- Semen Andreevich Skachkov Семён Андреевич Скачков The industrial manager who ran Soviet foreign economic aid for a quarter-century
- Ivan Vasilyevich Arkhipov Иван Васильевич Архипов Face of Sino-Soviet economic cooperation, senior operational manager of the Soviet economy under four general secretaries
- Vladimir Nikolayevich Novikov Владимир Николаевич Новиков A defence-industry technocrat who rose from arms-plant floor to head of state planning
- Mikhail Avksentyevich Lesechko Михаил Авксентьевич Лесечко The deputy premier who directed Soviet economic integration with the Eastern Bloc for 18 years
- Alexander Fedorovich Zasyadko Александр Фёдорович Засядько The miner's son who climbed from the Donbas pits to the summit of Kremlin economic planning
- Veniamin Emmanuilovich Dymshits Вениамин Эммануилович Дымшиц The Jewish construction technocrat who was Soviet deputy premier for 23 years
- Iosif Iosifovich Kuzmin Иосиф Иосифович Кузьмин The planner who executed Khrushchev's sovnarkhoz reform
- Mefody Naumovich Sveshnikov Мефодий Наумович Свешников A career banker of peasant stock who rose to the summit of the Soviet monobank
- Nikolai Timofeyevich Grishin Иван Тимофеевич Гришин Deputy Minister of Foreign Trade for 26 years who steered industrial import deals across the Brezhnev era
- Vasily Fyodorovich Garbuzov Василий Фёдорович Гарбузов The long-serving finance minister of stagnation
- Lev Markovich Volodarsky Лев Маркович Володарский Keeper of Soviet state statistics who managed the planned economy's numbers as the younger brother of a revolutionary martyr
- Nikolai Konstantinovich Baibakov Николай Константинович Байбаков Long-serving Gosplan chairman of the stagnation era
- Nikolai Timofeevich Glushkov Николай Тимофеевич Глушков Brezhnev-era chief price administrator who oversaw every official price in the USSR for 11 years
- Timofey Borisovich Guzhenko Тимофей Борисович Гуженко The merchant marine minister who conquered the Arctic with a nuclear icebreaker fleet
- Vladimir Sergeyevich Alkhimov Владимир Сергеевич Алхимов Long-serving head of Gosbank
- Boris Pavlovich Bugayev Борис Павлович Бугаев Brezhnev's personal pilot who became Chief Marshal and the head of Soviet civil aviation
- Boris Ivanovich Aristov Борис Иванович Аристов The last Minister of Foreign Trade, who inherited a 27-year incumbent's post only to see the ministry itself abolished on his watch
- Vasily Aleksandrovich Shamshin Василий Александрович Шамшин Engineer-turned-minister who led the modernization of Soviet communications infrastructure
- Vladimir Mikhailovich Kamentsev Владимир Михайлович Каменцев The technocrat who brought Soviet fisheries to global leadership
- Stepan Alekseyevich Shalaev Степан Алексеевич Шалаев The last leader of the Soviet trade-union system