People of the Revolution and the USSR
Economy, finance and planning
Soviet Union state institutions
The last generation 1985–1991
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- Viktor Vladimirovich Dementsev Виктор Владимирович Деменцев A fiscal realist who warned against abrupt prohibition
- Nikolai Semyonovich Konarev Николай Семёнович Конарев The last chief of the Soviet railways
- Konstantin Fyodorovich Katushev Константин Фёдорович Катушев Late Soviet foreign-economic official
- Yuri Petrovich Batalin Юрий Петрович Баталин The perestroika-era construction chief who built the West Siberian oil and gas complex and the Chernobyl sarcophagus
- Boris Ivanovich Gostev Борис Иванович Гостев The last orthodox Soviet finance minister who rejected market reform during perestroika
- Lev Alekseyevich Voronin Лев Алексеевич Воронин Guardian of state material supply in the Gorbachev era
- Nikolai Vladimirovich Talyzin Николай Владимирович Талызин Gosplan chairman of the perestroika era who built the world's first satellite TV broadcasting system
- Aleksandra Pavlovna Biryukova Александра Павловна Бирюкова Gorbachev's highest-ranking woman, the 'Russian Margaret Thatcher' tasked with solving Soviet consumer shortages
- Stepan Aramaisovich Sitaryan Степан Арамаисович Ситарян The highest-ranking Armenian economist in the Soviet apparatus, who pushed the Law on Cooperatives through the Politburo
- Leonid Ivanovich Abalkin Леонид Иванович Абалкин Chief economic theorist of late perestroika, architect of the 'regulated market' between radical reformers and conservative planners
- Kondrat Zigmundovich Terekh Кондрат Зигмундович Терех The last Soviet trade minister, formed in consumer cooperatives
- Valentin Sergeyevich Pavlov Валентин Сергеевич Павлов The last Soviet premier and an August coup participant
- Yuri Dmitrievich Maslyukov Юрий Дмитриевич Маслюков The last Gosplan generation
- Viktor Vladimirovich Gerashchenko Виктор Владимирович Геращенко Central banker of the Soviet collapse and Russian transition
- Vladimir Ivanovich Shcherbakov Владимир Иванович Щербаков The last Gosplan chairman who presided over the dissolution of Soviet planning
- Artyom Mikhaylovich Tarasov Артём Михайлович Тарасов The first legal Soviet millionaire, whose 90,000-ruble party dues payment forced the cooperative law to be amended twice
- Valentin Bodiul Valentin Bodiul The Cricova winery chief who testified to the vineyard destruction of Gorbachev's anti-alcohol campaign