People of the Revolution and the USSR
- Georgy Khosroevich Shakhnazarov Георгий Хосроевич Шахназаров Founder of Soviet political science and brains of perestroika's political reform
- Stepan Aramaisovich Sitaryan Степан Арамаисович Ситарян The highest-ranking Armenian economist in the Soviet apparatus, who pushed the Law on Cooperatives through the Politburo
- Genrikh Andreyevich Poghosyan Հենրիկ Անդրեյի Պողոսյան The last party first secretary who tilted Nagorno-Karabakh toward Armenia
- Abel Gezevich Aganbegyan Абел Гезевич Аганбегян Gorbachev's chief economic adviser and the market-reform architect of perestroika
- Stepan Karapetovich Pogosyan Ստեփան Կարապետի Պողոսյան The last leader of Armenia's Communist Party before the Soviet collapse
- Vladimir Migranovich Movsisyan Վլադիմիր Միգրանովիչ Մովսիսյան The last Communist Party first secretary of Soviet Armenia
- Artyom Mikhaylovich Tarasov Артём Михайлович Тарасов The first legal Soviet millionaire, whose 90,000-ruble party dues payment forced the cooperative law to be amended twice