People of the Revolution and the USSR
Economy, finance and planning
Citizenship: Soviet Union
People of the Stalin era 1929–1953
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- Stanislav Gustavovich Strumilin Станислав Густавович Струмилин The economist who designed socialism in numbers
- Aleksei Yegorovich Badayev Алексей Егорович Бадаев Official publisher of Pravda who rose from Duma deputy to nominal head of the Russian republic
- Ivan Pavlovich Bardin Иван Павлович Бардин Father of Soviet ferrous metallurgy who built Kuznetsk
- Grigory Alexandrovich Feldman Григорий Александрович Фельдман The Gosplan mathematical economist who first formalized the capital-goods-led growth model
- Jānis Ernestovich Rudzutaks Ян Эрнестович Рудзутак Latvian Bolshevik who denounced NKVD case fabrication in court
- Valerian Vladimirovich Kuibyshev Валериан Владимирович Куйбышев Planning official of the first Five-Year Plans
- Moisei Iosifovich Kalmanovich Моисей Иосифович Калманович Revolutionary-turned-banker who led Gosbank through collectivization
- Valery Ivanovich Mezhlauk Валерий Иванович Межлаук A planner purged by the system he served
- Lev Yefimovich Maryasin Лев Ефимович Марьясин The Gosbank chairman Stalin called 'our Red banker' and removed a week later
- Nikolai Kirillovich Antipov Николай Кириллович Антипов The control commissar who ran Stalin's personnel-appointment machinery
- Yakov Ilyich Golev Яков Ильич Голев The finance technocrat who led Gosbank through the post-war reconstruction years
- Ivan Adamovich Kraval Иван Адамович Краваль The statistician who counted a population that displeased Stalin
- Polina Semyonovna Zhemchuzhina Полина Семёновна Жемчужина The first woman to head a Soviet industrial ministry, Molotov's wife, caught between Kremlin power and Jewish identity
- Ivan Grigoryevich Kabanov Иван Григорьевич Кабанов The wartime electrical industry chief who delivered lithium-6 for the hydrogen bomb, and Stalin's last foreign trade minister
- Arseny Grigoryevich Zverev Арсений Григорьевич Зверев Long-serving finance minister through war and reconstruction
- Maksim Zakharovich Saburov Максим Захарович Сабуров Planner of the late Stalin and Malenkov years
- Grigory Petrovich Kosyachenko Григорий Петрович Косяченко Gosplan planner across the late Stalin and post-Stalin transition
- Ivan Vladimirovich Kovalev Иван Владимирович Ковалёв The railway general who moved armies in secret, and fell over a pair of earrings
- Gennady Ivanovich Smirnov Геннадий Иванович Смирнов Gosplan chief who vanished into the Terror in eight months
- Nikolai Alexeyevich Voznesensky Николай Алексеевич Вознесенский Wartime planning prodigy killed in the Leningrad Affair
- Vasily Fyodorovich Popov Василий Фёдорович Попов The Gosbank chairman who executed postwar monetary reform over a decade
- Yakov Yermolayevich Chadayev Яков Ермолаевич Чадаев The Gosplan economist who co-signed wartime decrees with Stalin
- Dmitry Georgievich Zhimerin Дмитрий Георгиевич Жимерин Standard-bearer of Soviet electrification who became wartime power minister at 35
- Pyotr Fyodorovich Krivonos Пётр Фёдорович Кривонос The locomotive driver who carried productivity innovation onto the railways