People of the Revolution and the USSR
- Alexander Petrovich Smirnov Александр Петрович Смирнов The peasant's son who ran the Krestintern and rose from NEP agriculture to the party Secretariat
- Mikhail Alexandrovich Chernov Михаил Александрович Чернов The commissar who ran agriculture through the second Five-Year Plan, from grain procurement to VDNKh
- Ivan Alexandrovich Benediktov Иван Александрович Бенедиктов Long-serving agriculture administrator of late Stalinism and reconstruction
- Mikhail Aleksandrovich Olshanski Михаил Александрович Ольшанский The Lysenkoist agronomist who led Soviet agricultural science administration
- Vladimir Vladimirovich Matskevich Владимир Владимирович Мацкевич Agriculture minister after the virgin-lands drive
- Grigory Sergeyevich Zolotukhin Григорий Сергеевич Золотухин A Brezhnev-era agricultural functionary who ran Tambov and Krasnodar, then oversaw Soviet grain procurement for 14 years
- Ziya Nuriyevich Nuriyev Зия Нуриевич Нуриев Bashkir deputy premier who ran Brezhnev's agro-industrial complex
- Vsevolod Serafimovich Murakhovsky Всеволод Серафимович Мураховский First chairman of Gosagroprom
- Valentin Karpovich Mesyats Валентин Карпович Месяц Agriculture minister of late stagnation
- Viktor Petrovich Nikonov Виктор Петрович Никонов Gorbachev's agriculture successor who became his last internal critic
- Yegor Semyonovich Stroev Егор Семёнович Строев Gorbachev's last agriculture Politburo member: operational chief of perestroika farm policy
- Viktor Vasilyevich Baklanov Виктор Васильевич Бакланов Full cavalier of the Order of Labour Glory, collective-farm mechanizer