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Semyon Grigoryevich Firin Семён Григорьевич Фирин
The Dmitlag chief who staged the "reforging" propaganda
Security, intelligence and policing · Soviet Union state institutions
1898–1937
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Abram Aronovich Slutsky Абрам Аронович Слуцкий
The last of Yagoda's department heads, and chief of foreign intelligence
Security, intelligence and policing · Soviet Union state institutions
1898–1938
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Akmal Ikramovich Ikramov Акмаль Икрамович Икрамов
First ethnic Uzbek to head the CP of Uzbekistan, who drove collectivization and cotton monoculture before the Great Purge destroyed him
Political and party leadership · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks
1898–1938
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Georgy Erikhovich Langemak Георгий Эрихович Лангемак
Father of the Katyusha rocket, the engineer who perfected the RS‑82 and RS‑132 and coined the word 'cosmonautics'
Industry and production · Soviet Union state institutions
1898–1938
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Pyotr Fyodorovich Bulakh Пётр Фёдорович Булах
The Ordzhonikidze NKVD chief who opened fire ahead of schedule
Security, intelligence and policing · Soviet Union state institutions
1898–1938
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Yakov Abramovich Deych Яков Абрамович Дейч
Yezhov's head of secretariat who went on to sit on the Rostov troika
Security, intelligence and policing · Soviet Union state institutions
1898–1938
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Grigory Fyodorovich Gorbach Григорий Фёдорович Горбач
The 'North Caucasian' Chekist who carried quota increases from Omsk to Khabarovsk
Security, intelligence and policing · Soviet Union state institutions
1898–1939
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Matvei Davydovich Berman Матвей Давыдович Берман
The longest-serving chief who built up the Gulag
Security, intelligence and policing · Soviet Union state institutions
1898–1939
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Ivan Aleksandrovich Maltsev Иван Александрович Мальцев
A state-security administrator who commanded regional apparatuses
Security, intelligence and policing · Soviet Union state institutions
1898–1940
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Ivan Petrovich Popashenko Иван Петрович Попашенко
A 'North Caucasian' Chekist who sat on the mass-operation troika in Kuibyshev
Security, intelligence and policing · Soviet Union state institutions
1898–1940
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Mikhail Efimovich Koltsov Михаил Ефимович Кольцов
A leading voice of Soviet journalism whom Hemingway immortalized as Karkov
Literature and arts · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks
1898–1940
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Mikhail Ilyich Koshkin Михаил Ильич Кошкин
The chief designer who birthed the T-34 and died of pneumonia at 41
Industry and production · Soviet Union state institutions
1898–1940
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Mikhail Petrovich Frinovsky Михаил Петрович Фриновский
Yezhov’s iron deputy
Security, intelligence and policing · Soviet Union state institutions
1898–1940
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Vladimir Georgiyevich Dekanozov Владимир Георгиевич Деканозов
He staged Lithuania's annexation and took the declaration of war in Berlin
Security, intelligence and policing · Soviet Union state institutions
1898–1953
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Mikhail Mikhailovich Tsarevsky Михаил Михайлович Царевский
The NKVD construction general who built the Mayak plutonium complex
Industry and production · Soviet Union state institutions
1898–1963
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Aleksei Pavlovich Panfilov Алексей Павлович Панфилов
The GRU chief whose chemical-warfare intelligence moved Churchill, and the tank lieutenant-general who drove to Berlin
Military command · Soviet Union state institutions
1898–1966
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Rodion Yakovlevich Malinovsky Родион Яковлевич Малиновский
Marshal and Defence Minister, 1957–1967
Military command · Soviet Union state institutions
1898–1967
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Ivan Grigoryevich Kabanov Иван Григорьевич Кабанов
The wartime electrical industry chief who delivered lithium-6 for the hydrogen bomb, and Stalin's last foreign trade minister
Economy, finance and planning · Soviet Union state institutions
1898–1972
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Matvei Vasilevich Zakharov Матвей Васильевич Захаров
The staff officer who foresaw the blitzkrieg and saved the Odessa District, then rebuilt the Cold War General Staff
Military command · Soviet Union state institutions
1898–1972
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Georgy Samoilovich Isserson Георгий Самойлович Иссерсон
The military theorist who completed the deep-operation trio, and the prophet cast aside
Military command · Soviet Union state institutions
1898–1976
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Pyotr Nikolayevich Pospelov Пётр Николаевич Поспелов
The historian who wrote Stalin's biography, then dismantled his myth
Ideology and propaganda · Soviet Union state institutions
1898–1979
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Alexei Vladimirovich Snegov Алексей Владимирович Снегов
An Old Bolshevik survivor who pressed the Soviet leadership toward de-Stalinization
Political and party leadership · Soviet Union state institutions
1898–1989
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Yefim Pavlovich Slavsky Ефим Павлович Славский
'Yefim the Great,' who commanded the entire Soviet nuclear arsenal for 29 years
Industry and production · Soviet Union state institutions
1898–1991
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Jan Ernestovich Sten Ян Эрнестович Стэн
Marxist philosopher who went from Stalin's Hegel tutor to Right Opposition conspirator
Scholarship and theory · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks
1899–1937
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Boris Arkadyevich Yartsev Борис Аркадьевич Рыбкин
Risky diplomacy conducted behind an intelligence officer’s cover
Security, intelligence and policing · Soviet Union state institutions
1899–1947
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Andrei Platonovich Platonov Андрей Платонович Платонов
The engineer who wrote utopia's ruins
Literature and arts · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks
1899–1951
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Lavrentiy Pavlovich Beria Лаврентий Павлович Берия
The secret-police chief who arrived carrying reforms
Security, intelligence and policing · Soviet Union state institutions
1899–1953
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Avksenty Narikievich Rapava Авксентий Нарикиевич Рапава
He ran the Georgian police apparatus for a decade
Security, intelligence and policing · Soviet Union state institutions
1899–1955
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Solomon Rafailovich Milshtein Соломон Рафаилович Мильштейн
The transport chief who assembled the deportation trains
Security, intelligence and policing · Soviet Union state institutions
1899–1955
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Stepan Akopovich Akopov Степан Акопович Акопов
Armenian production boss from wartime medium machine-building to the postwar auto industry
Industry and production · Soviet Union state institutions
1899–1958
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Mikhail Sergeyevich Malinin Михаил Сергеевич Малинин
Rokossovsky's indispensable chief of staff, planner of the great offensives
Military command · Soviet Union state institutions
1899–1960
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Andrei Grigorievich Kravchenko Андрей Григорьевич Кравченко
The tank army commander who led the Red Army's elite armor from Stalingrad to Manchuria
Military command · Soviet Union state institutions
1899–1963
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Nikolai Nikolayevich Voronov Николай Николаевич Воронов
Architect of Red Army artillery who wove the Stalingrad encirclement
Military command · Soviet Union state institutions
1899–1968
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Pavel Fyodorovich Yudin Павел Фёдорович Юдин
Stalinist philosopher-diplomat who built orthodoxy, then incubated the foundations of Soviet cultural history
Ideology and propaganda · Soviet Union state institutions
1899–1968
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Filipp Sergeyevich Oktyabrsky Филипп Сергеевич Октябрьский
Admiral who led the Black Sea Fleet in the defence of Odessa and Sevastopol, and remains at the centre of the evacuation controversy
Military command · Soviet Union state institutions
1899–1969
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Lev Vladimirovich Kuleshov Лев Владимирович Кулешов
Creator of the Kuleshov Effect, the father of Soviet montage theory who proved editing, not the shot, creates meaning
Literature and arts · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks
1899–1970
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Semyon Moiseevich Krivoshein Семён Моисеевич Кривошеин
The Soviet tank general who reviewed the Brest parade with Guderian and held Oboyan at Kursk
Military command · Soviet Union state institutions
1899–1978
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Aleksandr Nikolayevich Nesmeyanov Александр Николаевич Несмеянов
Academy president who founded organoelement chemistry
Science and technology · Soviet Union state institutions
1899–1980
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Naum Isaakovich Eitingon Наум Исаакович Эйтингон
The NKVD's master of covert action: from Trotsky's assassination to Soviet atomic espionage
Security, intelligence and policing · Soviet Union state institutions
1899–1981
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Alexei Alexandrovich Surkov Алексей Александрович Сурков
Poet of "Zemlyanka" and the Writers' Union enforcer who led the campaign against Pasternak
Literature and arts · Soviet Union state institutions
1899–1983
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Arvīds Yanovich Pelše Арвид Янович Пельше
Brezhnev-era guardian of party discipline and Latvian-born Politburo member
Social movements and organizing · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks
1899–1983
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Alexander Grigoryevich Barmine Александр Григорьевич Бармин
The Soviet GRU brigadier general who fled Stalin's purges and became one of the few defectors the hunters never caught
Military command · Soviet Union state institutions
1899–1987
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Grigory Mikhailovich Shtern Григорий Михайлович Штерн
Victor of Lake Khasan and Khalkhin Gol, purged Far Eastern Front commander
Military command · Soviet Union state institutions
1900–1941
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Ivan Ivanovich Maslennikov Иван Иванович Масленников
From NKVD Deputy Commissar to General of the Army: the rare commander who held senior rank in both the security apparatus and the Red Army
Security, intelligence and policing · Soviet Union state institutions
1900–1954
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Lavrentiy Fomich Tsanava Лаврентий Фомич Цанава
"Second Lavrentiy"; Beria's man who ran the Mikhoels killing
Security, intelligence and policing · Soviet Union state institutions
1900–1955
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Grigory Artemyevich Arutinov Григорий Артемьевич Арутинов
'Grigory the Builder': led Soviet Armenia for 16 years under Stalin, driving industrialization and a national cultural revival
Political and party leadership · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks
1900–1957
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Georgy Nikolayevich Zarubin Георгий Николаевич Зарубин
The Soviet diplomat who represented Moscow in all three major Western Allied capitals during the early Cold War
Diplomacy and international organization · Soviet Union state institutions
1900–1958
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Dmitri Vasilyevich Yefremov Дмитрий Васильевич Ефремов
The electrical engineer under NKVD investigation who became minister and delivered isotope separation for the atomic bomb
Industry and production · Soviet Union state institutions
1900–1960
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Semyon Alekseyevich Lavochkin Семён Алексеевич Лавочкин
Fighter designer who secured Soviet air supremacy with the La-5 and La-7
Industry and production · Soviet Union state institutions
1900–1960
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Pavel Fyodorovich Zhigarev Павел Фёдорович Жигарев
Twice Commander-in-Chief of the Soviet Air Force: led the VVS through Barbarossa and rebuilt it in the post-Stalin era
Military command · Soviet Union state institutions
1900–1963