People of the Revolution and the USSR
- Vsevolod Serafimovich Murakhovsky Всеволод Серафимович Мураховский First chairman of Gosagroprom
- Viktor Petrovich Nikonov Виктор Петрович Никонов Gorbachev's agriculture successor who became his last internal critic
- Nikolai Ivanovich Dementey Николай Иванович Дементей A chairman caught between preserving the Union and Belarusian sovereignty
- Vladimir Migranovich Movsisyan Վլադիմիր Միգրանովիչ Մովսիսյան The last Communist Party first secretary of Soviet Armenia
- Yegor Semyonovich Stroev Егор Семёнович Строев Gorbachev's last agriculture Politburo member: operational chief of perestroika farm policy