People of the Revolution and the USSR
- Vitaly Ivanovich Vorotnikov Виталий Иванович Воротников The last RSFSR premier who tried not to break Russia away
- Nikolai Ivanovich Ryzhkov Николай Иванович Рыжков Premier during perestroika’s economic crisis
- Vyacheslav Frantsevich Kebich Вячаслаў Францавіч Кебіч Belarus's first prime minister; co-signed the Belovezh Accords and later testified the Russian delegation alone arrived with a plan
- Ayaz Niyazi oghlu Mutalibov Ајаз Нијази оғлу Мүтәллибов The last Soviet leader caught between a renewed union and independence
- Andrei Serafimovich Grachev Андрей Серафимович Грачёв An insider witness to the collapse of reform
- Alexander Mitrofanovich Obolensky Александр Митрофанович Оболенский The engineer who became the first person in Soviet history to run against a sitting General Secretary