People of the Revolution and the USSR
- Leonid Fedorovych Toptunov Леонид Фёдорович Топтунов The 25-year-old senior reactor control engineer who pressed the AZ-5 button at Chernobyl's Unit 4
- Alexander Sapozhkov Александр Сапожков Red Army division commander who raised the "Red Army of Truth" against grain requisitioning in 1920
- Boris Mikhailov Борис Михайлов The chief designer of the Volga inflatable airlock that made Leonov's spacewalk possible
- Genrikh Lyushkov Генрих Люшков Far East NKVD chief, the highest-ranking defector
- Mikhail Kozlovsky Михаил Козловский KGB security officer who commanded border troops under Andropov
- Sergei Semyonovich Biryuzov Сергей Семёнович Бирюзов Marshal who helped plan the liberation of the Balkans, then commanded the Strategic Rocket Forces