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Nikolai Gerasimovich Kuznetsov Николай Герасимович Кузнецов
Architect of the Soviet Navy who ordered combat readiness hours before Barbarossa, twice demoted and posthumously restored
Military command · Soviet Union state institutions
1904–1974
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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
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Alexander Yevgeniyevich Golovanov Александр Евгеньевич Голованов
Red Army's youngest marshal: Stalin's personal commander of strategic bomber aviation
Military command · Soviet Union state institutions
1904–1975
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Pyotr Kirillovich Koshevoy Пётр Кириллович Кошевой
Twice Hero of the Soviet Union who took Mount Sapun and stormed Königsberg
Military command · Soviet Union state institutions
1904–1976
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Ivan Terentyevich Peresypkin Иван Терентьевич Пересыпкин
The architect of communications at Stalingrad and Kursk: first Marshal of the Signal Troops
Military command · Soviet Union state institutions
1904–1978
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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
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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
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Fyodor Fedotovich Kuznetsov Фёдор Федотович Кузнецов
GRU to GlavPUR: the colonel general who led wartime intelligence and late Stalinist army political control
Military command · Soviet Union state institutions
1904–1979
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Alexei Nikolayevich Kosygin Алексей Николаевич Косыгин
The premier who tried to plant profit inside the plan
Economy, finance and planning · Soviet Union state institutions
1904–1980
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Vladimir Alexandrovich Sudets Владимир Александрович Судец
Marshal of Aviation who led the 17th Air Army to Prague and commanded Soviet Air Defence Forces
Military command · Soviet Union state institutions
1904–1981
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Stepan Afanasyevich Balezin Степан Афанасьевич Балезин
Kaftanov's senior assistant who did the day-to-day organizational work that launched the Soviet atomic project
Science and technology · Soviet Union state institutions
1904–1982
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Semyon Denisovich Ignatiev Семён Денисович Игнатьев
The last MGB minister of Stalin’s final years
Security, intelligence and policing · Soviet Union state institutions
1904–1983
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Mikhail Borisovich Khrapchenko Михаил Борисович Храпченко
Soviet arts chief felled by the Zhdanov anti-formalism campaign, who rebuilt a career as a leading Gogol and Tolstoy scholar
Ideology and propaganda · Soviet Union state institutions
1904–1986
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Pavel Alekseyevich Cherenkov Павел Алексеевич Черенков
The Soviet Nobel physicist who discovered the Cherenkov effect
Science and technology · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks
1904–1990
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Pyotr Faddeyevich Lomako Пётр Фаддеевич Ломако
Founder of Soviet non-ferrous metallurgy and Gosplan chairman
Economy, finance and planning · Soviet Union state institutions
1904–1990
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Sergei Ignatevich Rudenko Сергей Игнатьевич Руденко
Marshal of Aviation who commanded the 16th Air Army from Stalingrad to Berlin
Military command · Soviet Union state institutions
1904–1990
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Aleksei Sergeyevich Zheltov Алексей Сергеевич Желтов
Chief political commissar of the post-Stalin Soviet military who helped bring down Zhukov
Military command · Soviet Union state institutions
1904–1991
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Vasily Stepanovich Ryasnoy Василий Степанович Рясной
NKVD chief who directed the suppression of Ukraine's nationalist insurgency
Security, intelligence and policing · Soviet Union state institutions
1904–1995
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Yulii Borisovich Khariton Юлий Борисович Харитон
Chief designer who led the Soviet nuclear weapons design bureau for 46 years
Science and technology · Soviet Union state institutions
1904–1996
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Fyodor Grigorievich Uglov Фёдор Григорьевич Углов
The oldest practicing surgeon in history and the key propagandist of Gorbachev's anti-alcohol campaign
Science and technology · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks
1904–2008
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Zalman Isaevich Passov Зельман Исаевич Пассов
Foreign intelligence chief who led the Polish Operation mass arrests
Security, intelligence and policing · Soviet Union state institutions
1905–1940
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Alexei Alexandrovich Kuznetsov Алексей Александрович Кузнецов
Postwar No. 2 in the Party Secretariat, purged in the Leningrad Affair
Social movements and organizing · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks
1905–1950
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Pyotr Georgievich Lazutin Пётр Георгиевич Лазутин
Chairman of the Leningrad City Executive Committee and one of the six executed in the Leningrad Affair
Government and administration · Soviet Union state institutions
1905–1950
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Viktor Grigorievich Nasedkin Виктор Григорьевич Наседкин
The camp empire's administrator who ran the GULAG through the Great Patriotic War
Security, intelligence and policing · Soviet Union state institutions
1905–1950
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Lev Yemelyanovich Vlodzimirsky Лев Емельянович Влодзимирский
Head of the unit for especially important cases
Security, intelligence and policing · Soviet Union state institutions
1905–1953
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Anatoly Alexandrovich Esaulov Анатолий Александрович Эсаулов
The interrogator of Yezhov: the hand that kept the record as the machine devoured its own master
Security, intelligence and policing · Soviet Union state institutions
1905–1954
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Boris Rodos Борис Вениаминович Родос
The Great Purge's chief interrogator: NKVD Investigation Deputy Chief who broke Politburo members, generals, and writers
Security, intelligence and policing · Soviet Union state institutions
1905–1956
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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
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Vladimir Nikonovich Starovsky Владимир Никонович Старовский
The man who ran Soviet statistics for 35 years
Economy, finance and planning · Soviet Union state institutions
1905–1975
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Alexander Ilyich Rodimtsev Александр Ильич Родимцев
Twice Hero of the Soviet Union who held Mamayev Kurgan at Stalingrad
Military command · Soviet Union state institutions
1905–1977
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Sergei Vasilyevich Kaftanov Сергей Васильевич Кафтанов
The GKO science plenipotentiary who pressed Stalin to restart atomic bomb research
Science and technology · Soviet Union state institutions
1905–1978
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Ivan Ivanovich Ilyichev Иван Иванович Ильичёв
Wartime GRU chief who reported directly to Stalin, steering Soviet military intelligence through the Red Army's greatest victories
Military command · Soviet Union state institutions
1905–1983
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Mikhail Alexandrovich Lifshitz Михаил Александрович Лифшиц
Builder of Marxist aesthetics who defended absolute truth and beauty against relativism
Scholarship and theory · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks
1905–1983
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Mikhail Alexandrovich Sholokhov Михаил Александрович Шолохов
The Russian and Soviet novelist of And Quiet Flows the Don
Literature and arts · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks
1905–1984
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Alexander Akimovich Ishkov Александр Акимович Ишков
Architect of the Soviet ocean-going fishing fleet, felled by the 'fish mafia' scandal
Economy, finance and planning · Soviet Union state institutions
1905–1988
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Isaak Moiseyevich Zaltsman Исаак Моисеевич Зальцман
The Tank King who built Tankograd
Industry and production · Soviet Union state institutions
1905–1988
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Ivan Alexandrovich Serov Иван Александрович Серов
The first chairman of the KGB
Security, intelligence and policing · Soviet Union state institutions
1905–1990
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Ivan Vasilyevich Spiridonov Иван Васильевич Спиридонов
Khrushchev-era Leningrad party boss who proposed removing Stalin's body from the Mausoleum and stumbled over the apparatus's loyalty test
Social movements and organizing · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks
1905–1991
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Nikolai Mikhailovich Pegov Николай Михайлович Пегов
Cadres chief pushed from late-Stalin Secretariat into diplomacy
Social movements and organizing · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks
1905–1991
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Vladimir Semyonovich Kruzhkov Владимир Семёнович Кружков
The ideology bureaucrat who co-wrote Stalin's biography, enforced the Zhdanov line, and fell in a sex scandal
Ideology and propaganda · Soviet Union state institutions
1905–1991
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Alexei Matveyevich Rumyantsev Алексей Матвеевич Румянцев
The political economist who opened Khrushchev's economic debate, and institutional founder of Soviet sociology
Scholarship and theory · Soviet Union state institutions
1905–1993
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Boris Nikolayevich Ponomarev Борис Николаевич Пономарёв
The party international chief who managed the communist line abroad
Ideology and propaganda · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks
1905–1995
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Dmitri Trofimovich Shepilov Дмитрий Трофимович Шепилов
Khrushchev’s theoretician who became “Shepilov who joined them”
Ideology and propaganda · Soviet Union state institutions
1905–1995
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Nikolai Alexandrovich Tikhonov Николай Александрович Тихонов
The conservative premier of late Brezhnevism
Government and administration · Soviet Union state institutions
1905–1997
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Johannes Gustavovich Käbin Иван Густавович Кэбин
A pragmatic national communist who navigated between Moscow and Estonia for 28 years
Political and party leadership · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks
1905–1999
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Amayak Zakharovich Kobulov Амаяк Захарович Кобулов
The Berlin rezident who piped Nazi disinformation to Moscow
Security, intelligence and policing · Soviet Union state institutions
1906–1955
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Arseniy Grigoryevich Golovko Арсений Григорьевич Головко
Guardian of the Arctic convoys as Northern Fleet commander, architect of Soviet naval power projection in the Atlantic
Military command · Soviet Union state institutions
1906–1962
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Lev Romanovich Sheinin Лев Романович Шейнин
The Stalin-era chief investigator who pioneered the Soviet detective story
Literature and arts · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks
1906–1967
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Georgy Mikhailovich Popov Георгий Михайлович Попов
The Moscow party boss who rebuilt the postwar capital and fell in the succession struggle
Social movements and organizing · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks
1906–1968
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Alexander Nikolayevich Komarovsky Александр Николаевич Комаровский
The military engineer who built the Soviet atomic project
Industry and production · Soviet Union state institutions
1906–1973