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People of the Revolution and the USSR

Activity(set)

Any Political and party leadership 16 Government and administration 36 Legislature and state representation 15 Military command 225 Security, intelligence and policing 168 Diplomacy and international organization 52 Economy, finance and planning 106 Industry and production 100 Agriculture and land policy 22 Ideology and propaganda 58 Social movements and organizing 5 Scholarship and theory 8 Education 9 Science and technology 120 Literature and arts 12 Law and justice 27

Affiliation(set)

Soviet institution line

Any Heavy industry and military industry 97

Most people

Any Soviet Unionstate 100 Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks 83 Russian Social Democratic Labour Party (RSDLP) 3 Socialist Revolutionary Party (PSR/SR) 1 United Russia 1

All 5 affiliations

Russia

Socialist Revolutionary Party (PSR/SR) 1 Russian Social Democratic Labour Party (RSDLP) 3 United Russia 1

Soviet Union

Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks 83 Soviet Unionstate 100

Position

Any Marxism and communism 100

Citizenship(set)

Any Soviet Union 100 Russia 1

Background

Any Russia 81 Ukraine 5 Belarus 4 Armenia 3 Azerbaijan 3 Bulgaria 1 Georgia 1 Germany 1 Poland 1

Era

Any

People of the Soviet Union

The revolutionary generation1917–1940 4 People of the Stalin era1929–1953 42 People of the thaw and the stagnation1953–1985 39 The last generation1985–1991 15

Industry and production Soviet Union (state) Citizenship: Soviet Union Clear all

100 people

By birth A–Z List Cards

Vasily Alekseyevich Degtyaryov Василий Алексеевич Дегтярёв Founder of Soviet firearms design, creator of the DP-27, DShK, and PTRD Industry and production · Soviet Union 1880–1949
Ivan Dmitrievich Chugurin Иван Дмитриевич Чугурин Vyborg worker-Bolshevik who handed Lenin his party card Industry and production · Soviet Union 1883–1947
Alexander Pavlovich Serebrovsky Александр Павлович Серебровский The "Soviet Rockefeller" who rebuilt Baku oil and organized the Soviet gold rush Industry and production · Soviet Union 1884–1938
Grigory Konstantinovich Ordzhonikidze Григорий Константинович (Серго) Орджоникидзе Commander of the industrial front: he pulled the trigger himself Industry and production · Soviet Union 1886–1937
Nikolai Pavlovich Glebov-Avilov Николай Павлович Глебов-Авилов First People's Commissar of Posts and Telegraphs who later built Rostselmash, flagship of Soviet agricultural machinery Industry and production · Soviet Union 1887–1937
Mikhail Moiseyevich Kaganovich Михаил Моисеевич Каганович Builder of Soviet defence industry in the shadow of his brother Lazar Industry and production · Soviet Union 1888–1941
Andrei Nikolayevich Tupolev Андрей Николаевич Туполев "Ugly planes don't fly." The father of Soviet metal aviation. Industry and production · Soviet Union 1888–1972
Moisei Lvovich Rukhimovich Моисей Львович Рухимович The industrial builder Lenin trusted; first People's Commissar for Defence Industry Industry and production · Soviet Union 1889–1938
Vladimir Mikhailovich Petlyakov Владимир Михайлович Петляков The prisoner who gave the Red Air Force its finest tactical bomber: Pe-2, born in a sharashka Industry and production · Soviet Union 1891–1942
Sergei Yakovlevich Zhuk Сергей Яковлевич Жук Stalin's chief hydraulic engineer who designed the Gulag canal network Industry and production · Soviet Union 1892–1957
Mikhail Iosifovich Gurevich Михаил Иосифович Гуревич Co-founder of MiG: the Soviet Union's foremost fighter designer who never joined the Communist Party Industry and production · Soviet Union 1893–1976
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 1894–1977
Pavel Osipovich Sukhoi Павел Осипович Сухой Founder of the Sukhoi Design Bureau, the man behind the Su-7, Su-24, and Su-27 Industry and production · Soviet Union 1895–1975
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
Boris Lvovich Vannikov Борис Львович Ванников Ammunition and atomic administrator under Beria Industry and production · Soviet Union 1897–1962
Semyon Zakharovich Ginzburg Семён Захарович Гинзбург First People's Commissar for Construction, who built wartime industry from the ground up Industry and production · Soviet Union 1897–1993
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 1898–1938
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 1898–1940
Mikhail Mikhailovich Tsarevsky Михаил Михайлович Царевский The NKVD construction general who built the Mayak plutonium complex Industry and production · Soviet Union 1898–1963
Yefim Pavlovich Slavsky Ефим Павлович Славский 'Yefim the Great,' who commanded the entire Soviet nuclear arsenal for 29 years Industry and production · Soviet Union 1898–1991
Stepan Akopovich Akopov Степан Акопович Акопов Armenian production boss from wartime medium machine-building to the postwar auto industry Industry and production · Soviet Union 1899–1958
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 1900–1960
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 1900–1960
Vasily Gavrilovich Grabin Василий Гаврилович Грабин Master of Soviet field artillery, creator of the speed-design method Industry and production · Soviet Union 1900–1980
Avraami Pavlovich Zavenyagin Авраамий Павлович Завенягин Industrial organizer of the Stalin era, from Magnitogorsk and Norilsk to the atomic bomb Industry and production · Soviet Union 1901–1956
Mikhail Vasilyevich Khrunichev Михаил Васильевич Хруничев The aviation minister who persuaded Stalin to buy British jet engines and opened the MiG-15 era Industry and production · Soviet Union 1901–1961
Vasily Vasilyevich Vakhrushev Василий Васильевич Вахрушев The commissar who turned coal into a weapon Industry and production · Soviet Union 1902–1947
Nikita Alekseyevich Izotov Никита Алексеевич Изотов Pioneer of the Izotov movement (1932): mass on-the-job mentoring that became the template for Stakhanovism Industry and production · Soviet Union 1902–1951
Ivan Isidorovich Nosenko Иван Исидорович Носенко From shipyard messenger boy to master of Soviet shipbuilding Industry and production · Soviet Union 1902–1956
Vyacheslav Alexandrovich Malyshev Вячеслав Александрович Малышев Production boss from tanks to atomic industry Industry and production · Soviet Union 1902–1957
Ivan Fyodorovich Tevosian Иван Фёдорович Тевосян Metallurgy administrator of Stalinist industrialization Industry and production · Soviet Union 1902–1958
Nikolai Ilyich Kamov Николай Ильич Камов The coaxial-rotor pioneer who gave Soviet naval aviation its wings Industry and production · Soviet Union 1902–1973
Pyotr Nikolayevich Goremykin Пётр Николаевич Горемыкин From ammunition to space: first head of the rocket ministry behind a deliberately vague name Industry and production · Soviet Union 1902–1976
Vladimir Mikhailovich Myasishchev Владимир Михайлович Мясищев The designer who delivered the intercontinental jet bomber Tupolev said was impossible: in 22 months Industry and production · Soviet Union 1902–1978
Yuri Yevgenyevich Maksarev Юрий Евгеньевич Максарёв The industrial architect who mass-produced the T-34 and shaped Soviet tank power Industry and production · Soviet Union 1903–1982
Nikolai Leonidovich Dukhov Николай Леонидович Духов From KV and IS heavy tanks to nuclear warheads: the designer who anchored both pillars of the Soviet military-industrial complex Industry and production · Soviet Union 1904–1964
Aleksei Ivanovich Shakhurin Алексей Иванович Шахурин The commissar who directed wartime aviation and out-produced the Luftwaffe Industry and production · Soviet Union 1904–1975
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 1904–1978
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 1904–1979
Boris Glebovich Muzrukov Борис Глебович Музруков The industrial commander who delivered tanks at Uralmash, plutonium at Mayak, and nuclear warheads at Arzamas-16 Industry and production · Soviet Union 1904–1979
Pavel Mikhailovich Zernov Павел Михайлович Зернов First director of the nuclear weapons design bureau KB-11, who built the administrative foundation of the Soviet atomic bomb Industry and production · Soviet Union 1905–1964
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 1905–1970
Isaak Moiseyevich Zaltsman Исаак Моисеевич Зальцман The Tank King who built Tankograd Industry and production · Soviet Union 1905–1988
Alexander Nikolayevich Komarovsky Александр Николаевич Комаровский The military engineer who built the Soviet atomic project Industry and production · Soviet Union 1906–1973
Alexei Grigoryevich Stakhanov Алексей Григорьевич Стаханов The miner whose 102-ton, 14x-norm shift ignited the defining mass productivity campaign of the Stalin era Industry and production · Soviet Union 1906–1977
Oleg Konstantinovich Antonov Олег Константинович Антонов From the An-2 to the An-225: the father of Soviet transport aviation Industry and production · Soviet Union 1906–1984
Anatoly Ivanovich Kostousov Анатолий Иванович Костоусов The longest-serving industrial minister who made the USSR the world's top machine-tool producer Industry and production · Soviet Union 1906–1985
Alexander Sergeyevich Yakovlev Александр Сергеевич Яковлев Father of the Yak fighter: the only aircraft designer Stalin personally summoned for advice Industry and production · Soviet Union 1906–1989
Alexei Kirillovich Kortunov Алексей Кириллович Кортунов Hero of the Soviet Union who built the Unified Gas Supply System Industry and production · Soviet Union 1907–1973
Boris Yevstafyevich Butoma Борис Евстафьевич Бутома Architect of the nuclear submarine fleet who led Soviet shipbuilding for 19 years Industry and production · Soviet Union 1907–1976

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