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People of the Revolution and the USSR
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Sergei Naumovich Mironov Сергей Наумович Миронов
The 'North Caucasian' Chekist who opened the mass operations in West Siberia
Security, intelligence and policing · Soviet Union state institutions
1894–1940
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Pavel Semyonovich Rybalko Павел Семёнович Рыбалко
Twice Hero who drove the 3rd Guards Tank Army from Stalingrad to Prague
Military command · Soviet Union state institutions
1894–1948
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Maksim Alexeyevich Purkayev Максим Алексеевич Пуркаев
Mordvin carpenter's son who rose to Army General and led the Manchurian offensive
Military command · Soviet Union state institutions
1894–1953
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Alexander Petrovich Dovzhenko Александр Петрович Довженко
Poet of Earth: the Soviet master who sang the Ukrainian land and people through lyrical montage
Literature and arts · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks
1894–1956
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Semyon Ilyich Bogdanov Семён Ильич Богданов
The tank army commander who first entered Berlin, sidelined after Stalin's death
Military command · Soviet Union state institutions
1894–1960
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Yakov Ilyich Golev Яков Ильич Голев
The finance technocrat who led Gosbank through the post-war reconstruction years
Economy, finance and planning · Soviet Union state institutions
1894–1960
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Alexander Ivanovich Todorsky Александр Иванович Тодорский
The Vesyegonsk chronicler of Soviet power whose book Lenin called 'remarkable'
Military command · Soviet Union state institutions
1894–1965
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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
Military command · Soviet Union state institutions
1894–1967
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Demyan Sergeyevich Korotchenko Демьян Сергеевич Коротченко
Khrushchev's loyal executor: a peasant-born apparatchik who twice led Soviet Ukraine's government
Government and administration · Soviet Union state institutions
1894–1969
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Nikita Sergeyevich Khrushchev Никита Сергеевич Хрущёв
He opened the coffin lid, and became the first leader to die in bed
Political and party leadership · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks
1894–1971
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Vasily Mikhailovich Zarubin Василий Михайлович Зарубин
The NKVD rezident who ran a Gestapo mole and coordinated Soviet atomic espionage in America
Security, intelligence and policing · Soviet Union state institutions
1894–1972
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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
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Ivan Mikhailovich Gronsky Иван Михайлович Гронский
The literary commissar who coined 'socialist realism' with Stalin
Ideology and propaganda · Soviet Union state institutions
1894–1985
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Ivan Dmitriyevich Papanin Иван Дмитриевич Папанин
The face of Soviet polar exploration who charted the Arctic from a drifting ice floe
Science and technology · Soviet Union state institutions
1894–1986
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Nikolai Alexandrovich Shchors Николай Александрович Щорс
Legendary Red Army division commander whom Stalin called the 'Ukrainian Chapayev'
Military command · Soviet Union state institutions
1895–1919
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Larisa Mikhailovna Reisner Лариса Михайловна Рейснер
The revolution's Valkyrie. Poet, scout, and the first woman commissar of the Naval General Staff
Literature and arts · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks
1895–1926
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Boris Petrovich Sheboldaev Борис Петрович Шеболдаев
Party master of the Azov-Black Sea krai, brought down on the eve of the Great Terror
Social movements and organizing · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks
1895–1937
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Georgy Yevgenyevich Prokofiev Георгий Евгеньевич Прокофьев
The deputy commissar who manufactured the wrecking cases
Security, intelligence and policing · Soviet Union state institutions
1895–1937
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Robert Petrovich Eideman Роберт Петрович Эйдеман
Latvian-born Civil War hero turned defendant in the Tukhachevsky trial
Military command · Soviet Union state institutions
1895–1937
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Grigory Naumovich Kaminsky Григорий Наумович Каминский
First USSR People's Commissar for Health, a founder of Soviet preventive medicine
Agriculture and land policy · Soviet Union state institutions
1895–1938
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Pavel Petrovich Bulanov Павел Петрович Буланов
Yagoda's secretary who staged the Moscow trials and became a defendant himself
Security, intelligence and policing · Soviet Union state institutions
1895–1938
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Semyon Petrovich Uritsky Семён Петрович Урицкий
GRU chief who expanded Soviet military intelligence, then fell to the Great Purge
Military command · Soviet Union state institutions
1895–1938
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Isaak Ilyich Shapiro Исаак Ильич Шапиро
Yezhov's chief of secretariat, keeper of the Great Terror's papers and figures
Security, intelligence and policing · Soviet Union state institutions
1895–1940
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Izrail Yakovlevich Dagin Израиль Яковлевич Дагин
From North Caucasus NKVD chief to government protection head, an executor of the Great Terror
Security, intelligence and policing · Soviet Union state institutions
1895–1940
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Nikolai Ivanovich Yezhov Николай Иванович Ежов
The Bloody Dwarf, an executor of the Great Terror shaped by the party personnel apparatus
Security, intelligence and policing · Soviet Union state institutions
1895–1940
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Vladimir Yefimovich Tsesarsky Владимир Ефимович Цесарский
Yezhov’s confidant who kept the Great Terror’s ledgers
Security, intelligence and policing · Soviet Union state institutions
1895–1940
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Zinovy Markovich Ushakov Зиновий Маркович Ушаков
The interrogator who beat a confession out of Tukhachevsky, and spoke of beating only once it was his turn
Security, intelligence and policing · Soviet Union state institutions
1895–1940
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Richard Gustavovich Sorge Рихард Густавович Зорге
The spy who stole the war’s timetable in Tokyo
Security, intelligence and policing · Soviet Union state institutions
1895–1944
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Peretz Davidovich Markish Перец Давидович Маркиш
A radical lyrical voice of Soviet Yiddish literature
Literature and arts · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks
1895–1952
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Vsevolod Nikolayevich Merkulov Всеволод Николаевич Меркулов
The NKGB chief named first in the Katyn order, who wrote plays under a pseudonym
Security, intelligence and policing · Soviet Union state institutions
1895–1953
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Vasily Mikhailovich Blokhin Василий Михайлович Блохин
The executioner who served twenty-seven years under three chiefs
Security, intelligence and policing · Soviet Union state institutions
1895–1955
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Mir Jafar Abbasovich Bagirov Мир Аббасович Джафар Багиров
Stalin-era party boss who ruled Azerbaijan for two decades
Political and party leadership · Soviet Union state institutions
1895–1956
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Nikolai Pavlovich Pukhov Николай Павлович Пухов
The seminary-trained instructor who drove the 13th Army into the heart of Europe
Military command · Soviet Union state institutions
1895–1958
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Iona Timofeievich Nikitchenko Иона Тимофеевич Никитченко
Soviet judge at the Nuremberg IMT, death-sentence arbiter of the Great Purge
Law and justice · Soviet Union state institutions
1895–1967
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Semyon Konstantinovich Timoshenko Семён Константинович Тимошенко
Marshal of the Soviet Union, People's Commissar for Defence 1940-1941
Military command · Soviet Union state institutions
1895–1970
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Andrei Andreyevich Andreyev Андрей Андреевич Андреев
The organization man who sat in the Politburo for 20 years, the CC secretary most often dispatched to purge the regions
Social movements and organizing · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks
1895–1971
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Ivan Stepanovich Yumashev Иван Степанович Юмашев
Pacific Fleet commander of Operation August Storm, the admiral Stalin dismissed as 'not a minister'
Military command · Soviet Union state institutions
1895–1972
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Alexander Mikhailovich Orlov Александр Михайлович Орлов
The NKVD chief in Spain who shipped the Republic's gold to Moscow and broke the POUM, then fled Stalin
Security, intelligence and policing · Soviet Union state institutions
1895–1973
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Ivan Sergeyevich Khokhlov Иван Сергеевич Хохлов
The weaver who became wartime premier of the Russian republic
Government and administration · Soviet Union state institutions
1895–1973
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Mikhail Stepanovich Shumilov Михаил Степанович Шумилов
Commander of the 64th Army: Stalingrad's southern shield for six months
Military command · Soviet Union state institutions
1895–1975
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Nikolai Alexandrovich Bulganin Николай Александрович Булганин
The uniformed premier pushed aside by Khrushchev
Government and administration · Soviet Union state institutions
1895–1975
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Aleksandr Mikhailovich Vasilevsky Александр Михайлович Василевский
The seminarian-turned-staff-officer who designed Uranus
Military command · Soviet Union state institutions
1895–1977
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Anastas Ivanovich Mikoyan Анастас Иванович Микоян
The man who built the Soviet table, and the negotiator “from Ilyich to Ilyich”
Economy, finance and planning · Soviet Union state institutions
1895–1978
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Semyon Grigoryevich Roshal Семён Григорьевич Рошаль
The 21-year-old commissar who brought Kronstadt sailors to the revolution
Social movements and organizing · Russian Social Democratic Labour Party (RSDLP)
1896–1917
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Ieronim Petrovich Uborevich Иероним Петрович Уборевич
A prodigy who commanded an army at twenty-three, architect of the Red Army's mechanization
Military command · Soviet Union state institutions
1896–1937
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Iona Emmanuilovich Yakir Иона Эммануилович Якир
Civil War hero who turned the Kiev Military District into a laboratory for reform
Military command · Soviet Union state institutions
1896–1937
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Aleksei Ivanovich Stetsky Алексей Иванович Стецкий
Propaganda chief who moved from Bukharin's 'red professor' circle to Stalin's side
Ideology and propaganda · Soviet Union state institutions
1896–1938
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Faizulla Gubaidullayevich Khodzhayev Файзулла Губайдуллаевич Ходжаев
Son of a Bukharan merchant who rose from the Jadid reform movement to become the first head of government of Soviet Uzbekistan
Government and administration · Soviet Union state institutions
1896–1938
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Georgy Ivanovich Blagonravov Георгий Иванович Благонравов
Bolshevik commissar of the Peter and Paul Fortress
Security, intelligence and policing · Soviet Union state institutions
1896–1938
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Israel Moiseyevich Leplevsky Израиль Моисеевич Леплевский
The man who drove the Ukrainian mass operations to their peak
Security, intelligence and policing · Soviet Union state institutions
1896–1938