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People

People of the Revolution and the USSR

Activity

Any Political and party leadership 4 Government and administration 7 Legislature and state representation 4 Military command 50 Security, intelligence and policing 26 Diplomacy and international organization 16 Economy, finance and planning 38 Industry and production 39 Agriculture and land policy 9 Ideology and propaganda 25 Social movements and organizing 2 Scholarship and theory 1 Education 2 Science and technology 71 Literature and arts 6 Law and justice 5

Affiliation(set)

Soviet institution line

Any Party Secretariat and cadres 2 Heads of government 5 Military and defence 49 State security agencies 26 Ideology and propaganda 19 Culture and literary control 11 Foreign affairs 16 Nationalities and federal management 2 Central planning agencies 10 Economic management 25 Heavy industry and military industry 38 Agriculture 7 Science, nuclear and space development 68

Most people

Any Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks 310 Soviet Unionstate 305 Communist Party of the Russian Federation (CPRF) 3 United Russia 2 Comintern 1 Polish United Workers' Party (PZPR) 1

All 6 affiliations

International organizations

Comintern 1

Poland

Polish United Workers' Party (PZPR) 1

Russia

Communist Party of the Russian Federation (CPRF) 3 United Russia 2

Soviet Union

Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks 310 Soviet Unionstate 305

Position

Any Left critics of Bolshevism 1 Socialist-bloc reform leader 3 Dissident 3 Marxism and communism 298

Citizenship

Any Soviet Union 303 Russia 2

Background

Any Russia 240 Ukraine 29 Belarus 9 Armenia 6 Georgia 4 Latvia 4 Azerbaijan 3 Poland 3 Uzbekistan 2 Finland 1 Germany 1 Kyrgyzstan 1 Lithuania 1 Turkmenistan 1

Era(set)

Any

People of the Soviet Union

The old regime and its challengers1905–1917 2 The revolutionary generation1917–1940 167 People of the Stalin era1929–1953 381 People of the thaw and the stagnation1953–1985 305 The last generation1985–1991 127

People of the wider world

The revolutionary wave and the world war1917–1945 9 The Cold War and decolonization1945–현재 1

Soviet Union (state) People of the thaw and the stagnation 1953–1985 Clear all

305 people

By birth A–Z List Cards

Pyotr Nilovich Demichev Пётр Нилович Демичев A Brezhnev-era manager of cultural policy Ideology and propaganda · Soviet Union 1917–2010
Vasily Ivanovich Petrov Василий Иванович Петров Commander-in-Chief of Ground Forces who led the Soviet operation in the Ogaden War, the last marshal forged in combat Military command · Soviet Union 1917–2014
Igor Demyanovich Statsenko Игорь Демьянович Стаценко Commander of the 51st Missile Division that deployed R-12 missiles to Cuba Military command · Soviet Union 1918–1987
Fyodor Konstantinovich Mortin Фёдор Константинович Мортин Sakharovsky's 13-year right hand and the short-lived PGU chief of early détente Security, intelligence and policing · Soviet Union 1918–1990
Yevgeny Filippovich Ivanovsky Евгений Филиппович Ивановский Longest-serving GSFG commander who led the Soviet front-line force facing NATO for eight years Military command · Soviet Union 1918–1991
Andrei Mikhailovich Alexandrov-Agentov Андрей Михайлович Александров-Агентов The foreign-policy aide who served four Soviet General Secretaries Diplomacy and international organization · Soviet Union 1918–1993
Alexander Nikolayevich Shelepin Александр Николаевич Шелепин The Komsomol boss who took over the KGB Security, intelligence and policing · Soviet Union 1918–1994
Grigory Vasilyevich Kisunko Григорий Васильевич Кисунько Soviet military scientist who designed the world's first operational anti-ballistic missile defense system Science and technology · Soviet Union 1918–1998
Nikolai Timofeevich Glushkov Николай Тимофеевич Глушков Brezhnev-era chief price administrator who oversaw every official price in the USSR for 11 years Economy, finance and planning · Soviet Union 1918–1999
Sergey Alexandrovich Afanasyev Сергей Александрович Афанасьев Long-serving minister of missile and space industry Industry and production · Soviet Union 1918–2001
Ivan Kirillovich Yakovlev Иван Кириллович Яковлев The MVD general who turned the Internal Troops into a mobile strike force and sealed Chernobyl Security, intelligence and policing · Soviet Union 1918–2002
Sergei Sergeevich Kryukov Сергей Сергеевич Крюков Korolev's key partner in shaping the R-7's packet design Science and technology · Soviet Union 1918–2005
Grigory Fyodorovich Grigorenko Григорий Фёдорович Григоренко Architect of Soviet counterintelligence for 40 years, from SMERSH radio games to chief of the KGB Second Chief Directorate Security, intelligence and policing · Soviet Union 1918–2007
Timofey Borisovich Guzhenko Тимофей Борисович Гуженко The merchant marine minister who conquered the Arctic with a nuclear icebreaker fleet Economy, finance and planning · Soviet Union 1918–2008
Vitaly Vasilyevich Fedorchuk Виталий Васильевич Федорчук The brief KGB chairman after Andropov Security, intelligence and policing · Soviet Union 1918–2008
Ivan Pavlovich Kazanets Иван Павлович Казанец From Ukrainian premier to USSR steel minister: a Dnieper-born technocrat who ran Soviet ferrous metallurgy for twenty years Industry and production · Soviet Union 1918–2013
Yevgeny Georgievich Pepelyayev Евгений Георгиевич Пепеляев A Soviet ace of MiG Alley Military command · Soviet Union 1918–2013
Boris Yevgenyevich Paton Борис Евгеньевич Патон Father of electroslag welding who led Ukraine's Academy of Sciences for 58 years Science and technology · Soviet Union 1918–2020
Oleg Vladimirovich Penkovsky Олег Владимирович Пеньковский The GRU colonel who fed the West over 5,000 classified documents on Soviet missile weakness, exposing Khrushchev's strategic bluff Security, intelligence and policing · Soviet Union 1919–1963
Lev Nikolayevich Tolkunov Лев Николаевич Толкунов From Izvestia editor to Soviet of the Union chairman: a Brezhnev-era media mandarin who became the face of the supreme legislature Ideology and propaganda · Soviet Union 1919–1989
Boris Yevdokimovich Shcherbina Борис Евдокимович Щербина The Chernobyl commander who built Siberia's oil empire Industry and production · Soviet Union 1919–1990
Vladimir Sergeyevich Alkhimov Владимир Сергеевич Алхимов Long-serving head of Gosbank Economy, finance and planning · Soviet Union 1919–1993
Oleg Alexandrovich Troyanovsky Олег Александрович Трояновский From Stalin's interpreter to UN ambassador, the Soviet diplomat who weathered Cold War crises with wit Diplomacy and international organization · Soviet Union 1919–2003
Pavel Vasilyevich Finogenov Павел Васильевич Финогенов The defense industry minister who ran Soviet conventional arms production from late Brezhnev through perestroika Industry and production · Soviet Union 1919–2004
Yuri Vsyevolodovich Votintsev Юрий Всеволодович Вотинцев A missile-defence builder who disclosed a Cold War false alarm Military command · Soviet Union 1919–2005
Anatoly Ivanovich Gribkov Анатолий Иванович Грибков Secret planner of the Cuban Missile Crisis deployment and last Chief of Staff of the Warsaw Pact Joint Armed Forces Military command · Soviet Union 1919–2008
Dmitry Ilyich Kozlov Дмитрий Ильич Козлов Korolev's right hand who led the R-7 through design, mass production, and every successive variant Science and technology · Soviet Union 1919–2009
Anatoly Fyodorovich Dobrynin Анатолий Фёдорович Добрынин The ambassador whose 24 years in Washington made him the hidden circuit of Soviet–American diplomacy Diplomacy and international organization · Soviet Union 1919–2010
Alexander Mikhailovich Rekunkov Александр Михайлович Рекунков Soviet Procurator General who served from Brezhnev to Gorbachev and personally delivered Sakharov's exile decree Law and justice · Soviet Union 1920–1996
Yadgar Sadykovna Nasriddinova Ядгар Садыковна Насриддинова Uzbek SSR figure who chaired the Soviet of Nationalities Legislature and state representation · Soviet Union 1920–2006
Nikolai Nikolayevich Mesyatsev Николай Николаевич Месяцев The official who exposed the fabricated Doctors' Plot Ideology and propaganda · Soviet Union 1920–2011
Ivan Lavrentievich Ustinov Иван Лаврентьевич Устинов Military counterintelligence chief of the Brezhnev era Security, intelligence and policing · Soviet Union 1920–2020
Vadim Stepanovich Tikunov Вадим Степанович Тикунов Shelepin-network RSFSR interior minister who led Khrushchev-era policing Security, intelligence and policing · Soviet Union 1921–1980
Andrei Dmitrievich Sakharov Андрей Дмитриевич Сахаров He built the hydrogen bomb, then turned on the system Science and technology · Soviet Union 1921–1989
Vladimir Mikhailovich Vinogradov Владимир Михайлович Виноградов Soviet Middle East diplomat who witnessed the 1973 war and the Iranian Revolution from inside Diplomacy and international organization · Soviet Union 1921–1997
Viktor Georgiyevich Kulikov Виктор Георгиевич Куликов Longest-serving Warsaw Pact supreme commander, who led its forces for twelve years Military command · Soviet Union 1921–2013
Pyotr Stepanovich Pleshakov Пётр Степанович Плешаков Architect of Soviet radio-electronic warfare Industry and production · Soviet Union 1922–1987
Georgi Nikitovich Bolshakov Георгий Никитович Большаков The GRU officer who ran the secret backchannel between Khrushchev and the Kennedys Military command · Soviet Union 1922–1989
Viktor Grigoryevich Afanasyev Виктор Григорьевич Афанасьев Longest-serving Pravda editor and gatekeeper of Brezhnev-era print orthodoxy Ideology and propaganda · Soviet Union 1922–1994
Nikolai Gennadiyevich Basov Николай Геннадиевич Басов Nobel-winning physicist who laid the foundations of the maser and laser, then extended quantum electronics into missile defense Science and technology · Soviet Union 1922–2001
Vadim Alekseyevich Kirpichenko Вадим Алексеевич Кирпиченко KGB First Chief Directorate deputy who ran Soviet foreign intelligence for twelve years Security, intelligence and policing · Soviet Union 1922–2005
Oleg Genrikhovich Ivanovsky Олег Генрихович Ивановский The engineer who turned early Soviet spacecraft designs into tested machines Science and technology · Soviet Union 1922–2014
Leonid Mitrofanovich Zamyatin Леонид Митрофанович Замятин Information architect of the Brezhnev system Ideology and propaganda · Soviet Union 1922–2019
Viktor Mikhailovich Glushkov Виктор Михайлович Глушков Father of Soviet cybernetics whose OGAS network envisioned real-time socialist planning decades before the internet Science and technology · Soviet Union 1923–1982
Alexander Ivanovich Koldunov Александр Иванович Колдунов The top Yak ace of the war who rose to command the Air Defence Forces, and fell after a teenager landed on Red Square Military command · Soviet Union 1923–1992
Viktor Mikhailovich Chebrikov Виктор Михайлович Чебриков KGB chairman from late stagnation into perestroika Security, intelligence and policing · Soviet Union 1923–1999
Vladimir Fyodorovich Utkin Владимир Фёдорович Уткин Father of the SS-18 'Satan' and architect of the late Cold War nuclear balance Science and technology · Soviet Union 1923–2000
Filipp Timofeyevich Yermash Филипп Тимофеевич Ермаш The party functionary who ran Soviet cinema as a state Hollywood: blockbusters, Oscars, and ideological control Ideology and propaganda · Soviet Union 1923–2002
Boris Pavlovich Bugayev Борис Павлович Бугаев Brezhnev's personal pilot who became Chief Marshal and the head of Soviet civil aviation Economy, finance and planning · Soviet Union 1923–2007
Mikhail Mitrofanovich Zaitsev Михаил Митрофанович Зайцев GSFG Commander-in-Chief and Army General who oversaw Soviet operations in Afghanistan Military command · Soviet Union 1923–2009

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