People of the Revolution and the USSR
- Jukums Ioakimovich Vācietis Jukums Иоакимович Vācietis The Red Army's first commander-in-chief: an Imperial colonel who built the revolutionary armed forces
- Yan Karlovich Berzin Jānis Ян Карлович Берзин Bērziņš The Latvian Bolshevik who built Soviet military intelligence and was consumed by the purges
- Yakov Ivanovich Alksnis Яков Иванович Алкснис Built the world's largest bomber force, then died the death he had sentenced others to