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People of the Revolution and the USSR
Activity
Affiliation
Position
Citizenship(set)
Background
Era(set)
People of the Soviet Union
People of the wider world
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Mikhail Borisovich Khrapchenko Михаил Борисович Храпченко
Soviet arts chief felled by the Zhdanov anti-formalism campaign, who rebuilt a career as a leading Gogol and Tolstoy scholar
Ideology and propaganda · Soviet Union state institutions
1904–1986
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Sergei Ignatevich Rudenko Сергей Игнатьевич Руденко
Marshal of Aviation who commanded the 16th Air Army from Stalingrad to Berlin
Military command · Soviet Union state institutions
1904–1990
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Vasily Stepanovich Ryasnoy Василий Степанович Рясной
NKVD chief who directed the suppression of Ukraine's nationalist insurgency
Security, intelligence and policing · Soviet Union state institutions
1904–1995
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Yulii Borisovich Khariton Юлий Борисович Харитон
Chief designer who led the Soviet nuclear weapons design bureau for 46 years
Science and technology · Soviet Union state institutions
1904–1996
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Zalman Isaevich Passov Зельман Исаевич Пассов
Foreign intelligence chief who led the Polish Operation mass arrests
Security, intelligence and policing · Soviet Union state institutions
1905–1940
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Alexei Alexandrovich Kuznetsov Алексей Александрович Кузнецов
Postwar No. 2 in the Party Secretariat, purged in the Leningrad Affair
Social movements and organizing · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks
1905–1950
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Pyotr Georgievich Lazutin Пётр Георгиевич Лазутин
Chairman of the Leningrad City Executive Committee and one of the six executed in the Leningrad Affair
Government and administration · Soviet Union state institutions
1905–1950
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Viktor Grigorievich Nasedkin Виктор Григорьевич Наседкин
The camp empire's administrator who ran the GULAG through the Great Patriotic War
Security, intelligence and policing · Soviet Union state institutions
1905–1950
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Lev Yemelyanovich Vlodzimirsky Лев Емельянович Влодзимирский
Head of the unit for especially important cases
Security, intelligence and policing · Soviet Union state institutions
1905–1953
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Anatoly Alexandrovich Esaulov Анатолий Александрович Эсаулов
The interrogator of Yezhov: the hand that kept the record as the machine devoured its own master
Security, intelligence and policing · Soviet Union state institutions
1905–1954
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Konstantin Sergeyevich Savitsky Константин Сергеевич Савицкий
Kobulov's personal secretary, condemned in 1955
Security, intelligence and policing · Soviet Union state institutions
1905–1955
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Nikolai Maksimovich Rukhadze Николай Максимович Рухадзе
He drove the Mingrelian affair and then fell himself
Security, intelligence and policing · Soviet Union state institutions
1905–1955
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Boris Rodos Борис Вениаминович Родос
The Great Purge's chief interrogator: NKVD Investigation Deputy Chief who broke Politburo members, generals, and writers
Security, intelligence and policing · Soviet Union state institutions
1905–1956
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Pavel Mikhailovich Zernov Павел Михайлович Зернов
First director of the nuclear weapons design bureau KB-11, who built the administrative foundation of the Soviet atomic bomb
Industry and production · Soviet Union state institutions
1905–1964
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Vasily Semyonovich Grossman Василий Семёнович Гроссман
The writer of war's front line and totalitarianism's mirror
Literature and arts
1905–1964
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Artyom Ivanovich Mikoyan Артём Иванович Микоян
Father of the MiG: the fighter designer who ruled the sky in an instant
Industry and production · Soviet Union state institutions
1905–1970
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Aleksandr Semyonovich Panyushkin Александр Семёнович Панюшкин
Soviet foreign intelligence chief who directed operations under ambassadorial cover in China and the United States
Security, intelligence and policing · Soviet Union state institutions
1905–1974
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Alexander Ilyich Rodimtsev Александр Ильич Родимцев
Twice Hero of the Soviet Union who held Mamayev Kurgan at Stalingrad
Military command · Soviet Union state institutions
1905–1977
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Sergei Vasilyevich Kaftanov Сергей Васильевич Кафтанов
The GKO science plenipotentiary who pressed Stalin to restart atomic bomb research
Science and technology · Soviet Union state institutions
1905–1978
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Leonid Mikhailovich Nemenov Леонид Михайлович Неменов
The physicist who built an atomic accelerator amid wartime siege
Science and technology · Soviet Union state institutions
1905–1980
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Ivan Ivanovich Ilyichev Иван Иванович Ильичёв
Wartime GRU chief who reported directly to Stalin, steering Soviet military intelligence through the Red Army's greatest victories
Military command · Soviet Union state institutions
1905–1983
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Mikhail Alexandrovich Lifshitz Михаил Александрович Лифшиц
Builder of Marxist aesthetics who defended absolute truth and beauty against relativism
Scholarship and theory · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks
1905–1983
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Mikhail Alexandrovich Sholokhov Михаил Александрович Шолохов
The Russian and Soviet novelist of And Quiet Flows the Don
Literature and arts · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks
1905–1984
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Fyodor Tarasovich Gusev Фёдор Тарасович Гусев
Soviet diplomat who shuttled between the Big Three wartime summits as Molotov's deputy
Diplomacy and international organization · Soviet Union state institutions
1905–1987
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Isaak Moiseyevich Zaltsman Исаак Моисеевич Зальцман
The Tank King who built Tankograd
Industry and production · Soviet Union state institutions
1905–1988
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Nikolai Mikhailovich Pegov Николай Михайлович Пегов
Cadres chief pushed from late-Stalin Secretariat into diplomacy
Social movements and organizing · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks
1905–1991
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Vladimir Semyonovich Kruzhkov Владимир Семёнович Кружков
The ideology bureaucrat who co-wrote Stalin's biography, enforced the Zhdanov line, and fell in a sex scandal
Ideology and propaganda · Soviet Union state institutions
1905–1991
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Leonid Romanovich Kvasnikov Леонид Романович Квасников
The scientist-spy who stole the atomic bomb
Security, intelligence and policing · Soviet Union state institutions
1905–1993
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Alexander Samoylovich Khazan Александр Самойлович Хазан
Released in 1938, shot in 1955
Security, intelligence and policing · Soviet Union state institutions
1906–1955
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Amayak Zakharovich Kobulov Амаяк Захарович Кобулов
The Berlin rezident who piped Nazi disinformation to Moscow
Security, intelligence and policing · Soviet Union state institutions
1906–1955
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Lev Romanovich Sheinin Лев Романович Шейнин
The Stalin-era chief investigator who pioneered the Soviet detective story
Literature and arts · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks
1906–1967
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Georgy Mikhailovich Popov Георгий Михайлович Попов
The Moscow party boss who rebuilt the postwar capital and fell in the succession struggle
Social movements and organizing · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks
1906–1968
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Alexander Nikolayevich Komarovsky Александр Николаевич Комаровский
The military engineer who built the Soviet atomic project
Industry and production · Soviet Union state institutions
1906–1973
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Iosif Vasilievich Shikin Иосиф Васильевич Шикин
Zhdanov's GlavPUR chief who survived the Leningrad Affair: political commissar of the postwar Red Army
Military command · Soviet Union state institutions
1906–1973
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Dmitri Dmitriyevich Shostakovich Дмитрий Дмитриевич Шостакович
The composer who scored the Soviet century, and walked through two official annihilations
Literature and arts · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks
1906–1975
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Alexei Grigoryevich Stakhanov Алексей Григорьевич Стаханов
The miner whose 102-ton, 14x-norm shift ignited the defining mass productivity campaign of the Stalin era
Industry and production · Soviet Union state institutions
1906–1977
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Yakov Aleksandrovich Malik Яков Александрович Малик
The Soviet UN diplomat who enabled Korean War intervention by boycott, and then proposed the armistice
Diplomacy and international organization · Soviet Union state institutions
1906–1980
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Leonid Georgiyevich Melnikov Леонид Георгиевич Мельников
First Secretary who ran the largest republican party in the USSR at the close of the Stalin era
Political and party leadership · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks
1906–1981
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Nikolai Aleksandrovich Mikhailov Николай Александрович Михайлов
Stalin's youth mobilizer turned Thaw-era Culture Minister, a party apparatus survivor
Ideology and propaganda · Soviet Union state institutions
1906–1982
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Oleg Konstantinovich Antonov Олег Константинович Антонов
From the An-2 to the An-225: the father of Soviet transport aviation
Industry and production · Soviet Union state institutions
1906–1984
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Alexander Sergeyevich Yakovlev Александр Сергеевич Яковлев
Father of the Yak fighter: the only aircraft designer Stalin personally summoned for advice
Industry and production · Soviet Union state institutions
1906–1989
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Dmitry Georgievich Zhimerin Дмитрий Георгиевич Жимерин
Standard-bearer of Soviet electrification who became wartime power minister at 35
Economy, finance and planning · Soviet Union state institutions
1906–1995
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Alexander Mikhailovich Puzanov Александр Михайлович Пузанов
The RSFSR premier who opposed the Crimea transfer and silently let Kim Il Sung consolidate one-man rule
Diplomacy and international organization · Soviet Union state institutions
1906–1998
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Ivan Iosifovich Proskurov Иван Иосифович Проскуров
The GRU chief who warned Stalin of the German invasion, and was shot for it
Military command · Soviet Union state institutions
1907–1941
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Ivan Danilovich Chernyakhovsky Иван Данилович Черняховский
The youngest front commander in Red Army history: twice Hero of the Soviet Union, killed in East Prussia weeks before victory
Military command · Soviet Union state institutions
1907–1945
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Mikhail Ivanovich Rodionov Михаил Иванович Родионов
The RSFSR premier who turned wartime Gorky into an arsenal
Political and party leadership · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks
1907–1950
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Lev Leonidovich (Aronovich) Shvartsman Лев Леонидович (Аронович) Шварцман
MGB's most brutal interrogator, killer of Blyukher, Babel, and Meyerhold
Security, intelligence and policing · Soviet Union state institutions
1907–1955
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Terentii Fomich Shtykov Терентий Фомич Штыков
Soviet occupation chief in North Korea and first ambassador; he conveyed Kim Il Sung's unification plan to Stalin, brokered approval for war
Diplomacy and international organization · Soviet Union state institutions
1907–1964
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Vladimir Nikolaevich Sukhodolsky Владимир Николаевич Суходольский
NKVD major-general who led Tula's wartime defence and fell from grace
Security, intelligence and policing · Soviet Union state institutions
1907–1966
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Pavel Mikhailovich Fitin Павел Михайлович Фитин
The man who rebuilt foreign intelligence from the wreckage of the Yezhovshchina and stole the atomic bomb
Security, intelligence and policing · Soviet Union state institutions
1907–1971