People of the Revolution and the USSR
- Anatoly Naumovich Rybakov Анатолий Наумович Рыбаков The writer whose banned novel became the emblem of glasnost
- Tengiz Evgenyevich Abuladze თენგიზ ევგენის ძე აბულაძე Georgian film director whose Repentance fired the cultural starting gun of glasnost
- Yegor Vladimirovich Yakovlev Егор Владимирович Яковлев Editor of Moscow News who led the charge in breaking Soviet taboos during the glasnost era
- Vladimir Vladimirovich Kosygin Владимир Владимирович Косыгин First professional Koryak writer and USSR People's Deputy
- Vitaly Alekseevich Korotich Виталий Алексеевич Коротич The editor who turned Ogonyok into the battering ram of glasnost, publishing what the system suppressed for seventy years
- Nikolai Nikolayevich Gubenko Николай Николаевич Губенко The last Soviet culture minister
- Andris Slapiņš Andris Slapiņš A documentary filmmaker who recorded Latvia's independence struggle from the ground
- Alo Mattiisen Alo Mattiisen The composer whose five 'Fatherland' songs became the emotional engine of the Singing Revolution
- Ilya Maratovich Krichevsky Илья Маратович Кричевский The architect and poet shot dead rushing a BMP as the troops pulled back, the last of the coup's three martyrs