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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
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
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
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
1895–1975
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Nikolai Alexandrovich Bulganin Николай Александрович Булганин
The uniformed premier pushed aside by Khrushchev
Government and administration · Soviet Union
1895–1975
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Aleksandr Mikhailovich Vasilevsky Александр Михайлович Василевский
The seminarian-turned-staff-officer who designed Uranus
Military command · Soviet Union
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
1896–1938
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Yakov Arkadyevich Yakovlev Яков Аркадьевич Яковлев
Agriculture commissar of collectivization
Agriculture and land policy · Soviet Union
1896–1938
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Semyon Borisovich Zhukovsky Семён Борисович Жуковский
The trade official who became a deputy commissar
Security, intelligence and policing · Soviet Union
1896–1940
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Vasily Fyodorovich Dementiev Василий Фёдорович Дементьев
A 'North Caucasian' Chekist moved from Chechnya to Primorye
Security, intelligence and policing · Soviet Union
1896–1940
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Voldemar Avgustovich Ulmer Вольдемар Августович Ульмер
Operational secretary of the GUGB whose 'certified' signature closes the Great Terror's operational orders
Security, intelligence and policing · Soviet Union
1896–1945
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Yakov Nikolayevich Fedorenko Яков Николаевич Федоренко
First Marshal of Armored Troops who led the Red Army's tank forces through the entire war
Military command · Soviet Union
1896–1947
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Andrei Alexandrovich Zhdanov Андрей Александрович Жданов
The ideology manager whose name marked Stalinist culture
Ideology and propaganda · Soviet Union
1896–1948
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Vasily Vasilyevich Chernyshev Василий Васильевич Чернышёв
The only Yezhov deputy to survive, who ran the GULAG as Deputy People's Commissar of Internal Affairs
Security, intelligence and policing · Soviet Union
1896–1952
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Ivan Alekseyevich Likhachev Иван Алексеевич Лихачёв
Father of the Soviet auto industry, the 'red director' who told Henry Ford he was a servant of the people
Industry and production · Soviet Union
1896–1956
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Ivan Yefimovich Petrov Иван Ефимович Петров
The army general who held Odessa and Sevastopol, and returned to command every time Stalin sacked him
Military command · Soviet Union
1896–1958
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Aleksei Innokentievich Antonov Алексей Иннокентьевич Антонов
The architect of every major Soviet operation from 1943 onward: the only Order of Victory holder who was not a marshal
Military command · Soviet Union
1896–1962
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Sofia Aleksandrovna Yanovskaya Софья Александровна Яновская
Bolshevik mathematician who resurrected mathematical logic in the Soviet Union
Scholarship and theory · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks
1896–1966
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Nikolai Sidorovich Vlasik Николай Сидорович Власик
Stalin's shadow for 25 years as head of personal security
Security, intelligence and policing · Soviet Union
1896–1967
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Georgy Konstantinovich Zhukov Георгий Константинович Жуков
Stalin's Marshal of Victory, twice demoted for his own fame
Military command · Soviet Union
1896–1974
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Mikhail Semyonovich Khozin Михаил Семёнович Хозин
Soviet Colonel General who led Leningrad through the first blockade winter, then lost the 2nd Shock Army and his command
Military command · Soviet Union
1896–1979
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Nikolay Nikolayevich Semyonov Николай Николаевич Семёнов
The only Soviet Nobel laureate in Chemistry, founder of chain reaction theory
Science and technology · Soviet Union
1896–1986
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Georgy Andreyevich Molchanov Георгий Андреевич Молчанов
Yagoda's chief of the Secret Political Department
Security, intelligence and policing · Soviet Union
1897–1937
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Ivan Adamovich Kraval Иван Адамович Краваль
The statistician who counted a population that displeased Stalin
Economy, finance and planning · Soviet Union
1897–1937
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Vitaly Markovich Primakov Виталий Маркович Примаков
Commander of the Red Cossacks and the Soviet 'Red Lawrence' who led the covert 1929 intervention in Afghanistan
Military command · Soviet Union
1897–1937
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Vladimir Mikhailovich Kursky Владимир Михайлович Курский
The 'North Caucasian' deputy commissar who shot himself at the peak of his career
Security, intelligence and policing · Soviet Union
1897–1937
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Ivan Semyonovich Kutyakov Иван Семёнович Кутяков
Chapayev's successor and Civil War hero who outlived his usefulness to Stalin
Military command · Soviet Union
1897–1938
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Nikolai Fyodorovich Gikalo Николай Фёдорович Гикало
Civil War hero who commanded the Grozny defence, then drove industrialization and collectivization as First Secretary of three republics
Political and party leadership · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks
1897–1938
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Yakov Ivanovich Alksnis Яков Иванович Алкснис
Built the world's largest bomber force, then died the death he had sentenced others to
Military command · Soviet Union
1897–1938
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Ivan Fyodorovich Fedko Иван Фёдорович Федько
Four-time Red Banner hero of the Civil War, rose to First Deputy Defence Commissar: purged by the machine he served
Military command · Soviet Union
1897–1939
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Pyotr Ivanovich Smorodin Пётр Иванович Смородин
The worker-Bolshevik who built the Komsomol's mass base and made 'study' its watchword
Social movements and organizing · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks
1897–1939
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Aleksey Alekseyevich Nasedkin Алексей Алексеевич Наседкин
Smolensk NKVD chief who fabricated the 'Latvian National Centre' case and launched the Latvian operation
Security, intelligence and policing · Soviet Union
1897–1940
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Nikolai Galaktionovich Nikolayev-Zhurid Николай Галактионович Николаев-Журид
Yezhov's counterintelligence chief who ran the army purge and the national operations
Security, intelligence and policing · Soviet Union
1897–1940
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Dmitry Grigoryevich Pavlov Дмитрий Григорьевич Павлов
The general who built Soviet tank forces and became their first scapegoat
Military command · Soviet Union
1897–1941
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Georgy Alexandrovich Astakhov Георгий Александрович Астахов
The Soviet chargé d'affaires in Berlin who opened the secret channel to the Nazi-Soviet pact
Diplomacy and international organization · Soviet Union
1897–1942
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Mikhail Gr. Grigoryevich Yefremov Михаил Григорьевич Ефремов
Commander of the 33rd Army at Moscow, encircled at Vyazma and shot himself when Stalin denied retreat
Military command · Soviet Union
1897–1942
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Leonid Aleksandrovich Govorov Леонид Александрович Говоров
From Kolchak's White Army to Marshal of the USSR who broke the 900-day siege of Leningrad
Military command · Soviet Union
1897–1955
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Anna Mikhailovna Pankratova Анна Михайловна Панкратова
Leading historian of the working class who drove destalinization in scholarship: first woman full academician in Soviet historical studies
Scholarship and theory · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks
1897–1957
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Georgy Fedorovich Zakharov Георгий Фёдорович Захаров
Peasant-born Army General who led the 2nd Belorussian Front and was demoted after Bagration
Military command · Soviet Union
1897–1957
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Nikolai Mikhailovich Rychkov Николай Михайлович Рычков
The justice commissar without a law degree who ran Soviet courts for a decade, from the Great Terror through the war-crimes trials
Law and justice · Soviet Union
1897–1959
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Vladimir Viktorovich Kryukov Владимир Викторович Крюков
Hero of the Guards cavalry corps, brought down by the Trophy Case, rehabilitated in the Thaw
Military command · Soviet Union
1897–1959
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Boris Lvovich Vannikov Борис Львович Ванников
Ammunition and atomic administrator under Beria
Industry and production · Soviet Union
1897–1962
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Kirill Afanasyevich Meretskov Кирилл Афанасьевич Мерецков
The marshal who survived NKVD torture to break the Leningrad blockade
Military command · Soviet Union
1897–1968