People of the Revolution and the USSR
- Pyotr Stepanovich Neporozhny Пётр Степанович Непорожний The longest-serving energy minister who built the Unified Energy System
- Alexander Mikhailovich Tarasov Александр Михайлович Тарасов The man who opened the Soviet mass-automobile era: father of the Lada
- Konstantin Nikolayevich Rudnev Константин Николаевич Руднев The defence-industry administrator who sent Gagarin into space
- Sergei Alekseyevich Zverev Сергей Алексеевич Зверев The Defense Industry Minister who ran Soviet conventional arms production for 13 years under Brezhnev
- Sabit Atayevich Orudzhev Сабит Атаевич Оруджев The Azeri engineer who built the Soviet gas industry into the world's largest
- Boris Fyodorovich Bratchenko Борис Фёдорович Братченко The coal minister who led the Soviet mining industry for twenty years across the Brezhnev era
- Leonid Arkadyevich Kostandov Леонид Аркадьевич Костандов Longest-serving chemical industry minister who led the Brezhnev-era chemicalization drive
- Viktor Nikolayevich Polyakov Виктор Николаевич Поляков The first general director of VAZ who built Soviet mass automobility on the banks of the Volga
- Valentin Dmitrievich Shashin Валентин Дмитриевич Шашин The minister who made the USSR #1 in oil, then warned against over-pumping
- Vasily Alexandrovich Kazakov Василий Александрович Казаков From factory technologist to aviation minister: a military-industrial administrator who rose through every rung
- Leonid Vasilyevich Smirnov Леонид Васильевич Смирнов The VPK chairman who coordinated the Soviet military-industrial complex for 22 years
- Alexander Vasilyevich Sidorenko Александр Васильевич Сидоренко The institutional architect of Soviet geology who spanned desert and Precambrian
- Sergey Alexandrovich Afanasyev Сергей Александрович Афанасьев Long-serving minister of missile and space industry
- Ivan Pavlovich Kazanets Иван Павлович Казанец From Ukrainian premier to USSR steel minister: a Dnieper-born technocrat who ran Soviet ferrous metallurgy for twenty years
- Boris Yevdokimovich Shcherbina Борис Евдокимович Щербина The Chernobyl commander who built Siberia's oil empire
- Pavel Vasilyevich Finogenov Павел Васильевич Финогенов The defense industry minister who ran Soviet conventional arms production from late Brezhnev through perestroika
- Pyotr Stepanovich Pleshakov Пётр Степанович Плешаков Architect of Soviet radio-electronic warfare
- Vasily Aleksandrovich Dinkov Василий Александрович Динков The gas and oil minister who made the USSR the world's largest gas producer
- Vladimir Ivanovich Dolgikh Владимир Иванович Долгих The CC secretary who ran Soviet heavy industry and energy for 16 years under Brezhnev
- 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
- Nikolai Alexeyevich Maltsev Николай Алексеевич Мальцев The minister who led Soviet oil to its peak through the West Siberian fields
- 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
- Yevgeny Aleksandrovich Kozlovsky Евгений Александрович Козловский Longest-serving geology minister who presided over the 'golden age' of Soviet mineral exploration
- 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
- Erlen Kirikovich Pervyshin Эрлен Кирикович Первышин Minister of Communications Equipment Industry who oversaw Soviet military C3 infrastructure
- 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