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People

People of the Revolution and the USSR

Activity

Any Political and party leadership 45 Government and administration 7 Legislature and state representation 4 Military command 50 Security, intelligence and policing 26 Diplomacy and international organization 17 Economy, finance and planning 38 Industry and production 39 Agriculture and land policy 9 Ideology and propaganda 30 Social movements and organizing 43 Scholarship and theory 18 Education 2 Science and technology 73 Literature and arts 15 Law and justice 4

Affiliation

Most people

Any Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks 307 Soviet Union state institutions 303 Communist Party of the Russian Federation (CPRF) 3 United Russia 2 Comintern 1 Polish United Workers' Party (PZPR) 1

All 6 affiliations

International organizations

Comintern 1

Poland

Polish United Workers' Party (PZPR) 1

Russia

Communist Party of the Russian Federation (CPRF) 3 United Russia 2

Soviet Union

Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks 307 Soviet Union state institutions 303

Position

Any Left critics of Bolshevism 2 Socialist-bloc reform leader 5 Dissident 9 Marxism and communism 366

Citizenship(set)

Any Soviet Union 390 Russia 5 Azerbaijan 1 Belarus 1

Background

Any Russia 301 Ukraine 33 Belarus 12 Armenia 7 Georgia 7 Latvia 6 Azerbaijan 4 Poland 3 Uzbekistan 3 Finland 2 Kazakhstan 2 Kyrgyzstan 2 Lithuania 2 Turkmenistan 2 Estonia 1 Germany 1 Moldova 1 Tajikistan 1

Era(set)

Any

People of the Soviet Union

The old regime and its challengers1905–1917 15 The revolutionary generation1917–1940 268 People of the Stalin era1929–1953 453 People of the thaw and the stagnation1953–1985 390 The last generation1985–1991 173

People of the wider world

The age of the Internationals and empires1820–1917 4 The revolutionary wave and the world war1917–1945 15 The Cold War and decolonization1945–현재 1 Scholars of this history1892–현재 6

Citizenship: Soviet Union People of the thaw and the stagnation 1953–1985 Clear all

390 people

By birth A–Z List Cards

Viktor Georgiyevich Kulikov Виктор Георгиевич Куликов Longest-serving Warsaw Pact supreme commander, who led its forces for twelve years Military command · Soviet Union state institutions 1921–2013
Pyotr Stepanovich Pleshakov Пётр Степанович Плешаков Architect of Soviet radio-electronic warfare Industry and production · Soviet Union state institutions 1922–1987
Georgi Nikitovich Bolshakov Георгий Никитович Большаков The GRU officer who ran the secret backchannel between Khrushchev and the Kennedys Military command · Soviet Union state institutions 1922–1989
Viktor Grigoryevich Afanasyev Виктор Григорьевич Афанасьев Longest-serving Pravda editor and gatekeeper of Brezhnev-era print orthodoxy Ideology and propaganda · Soviet Union state institutions 1922–1994
Muhammetnazar Gapurovich Gapurov Мухамедназар Гапурович Гапуров 16-year leader of Brezhnev-era Turkmenistan who integrated its cotton and gas economy into the Soviet center Political and party leadership · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks 1922–1999
Nikolai Gennadiyevich Basov Николай Геннадиевич Басов Nobel-winning physicist who laid the foundations of the maser and laser, then extended quantum electronics into missile defense Science and technology · Soviet Union state institutions 1922–2001
Vadim Alekseyevich Kirpichenko Вадим Алексеевич Кирпиченко KGB First Chief Directorate deputy who ran Soviet foreign intelligence for twelve years Security, intelligence and policing · Soviet Union state institutions 1922–2005
Oleg Genrikhovich Ivanovsky Олег Генрихович Ивановский The engineer who turned early Soviet spacecraft designs into tested machines Science and technology · Soviet Union state institutions 1922–2014
Leonid Mitrofanovich Zamyatin Леонид Митрофанович Замятин Information architect of the Brezhnev system Ideology and propaganda · Soviet Union state institutions 1922–2019
Viktor Mikhailovich Glushkov Виктор Михайлович Глушков Father of Soviet cybernetics whose OGAS network envisioned real-time socialist planning decades before the internet Science and technology · Soviet Union state institutions 1923–1982
Alexander Ivanovich Koldunov Александр Иванович Колдунов The top Yak ace of the war who rose to command the Air Defence Forces, and fell after a teenager landed on Red Square Military command · Soviet Union state institutions 1923–1992
Viktor Mikhailovich Chebrikov Виктор Михайлович Чебриков KGB chairman from late stagnation into perestroika Security, intelligence and policing · Soviet Union state institutions 1923–1999
Vladimir Fyodorovich Utkin Владимир Фёдорович Уткин Father of the SS-18 'Satan' and architect of the late Cold War nuclear balance Science and technology · Soviet Union state institutions 1923–2000
Filipp Timofeyevich Yermash Филипп Тимофеевич Ермаш The party functionary who ran Soviet cinema as a state Hollywood: blockbusters, Oscars, and ideological control Ideology and propaganda · Soviet Union state institutions 1923–2002
Boris Ivanovich Stukalin Борис Иванович Стукалин Brezhnev-era chief of all Soviet publishing and censorship Ideology and propaganda · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks 1923–2004
Boris Pavlovich Bugayev Борис Павлович Бугаев Brezhnev's personal pilot who became Chief Marshal and the head of Soviet civil aviation Economy, finance and planning · Soviet Union state institutions 1923–2007
Grigory Vasilyevich Romanov Григорий Васильевич Романов From Leningrad to Moscow: the successor halted one step short Social movements and organizing · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks 1923–2008
Mikhail Mitrofanovich Zaitsev Михаил Митрофанович Зайцев GSFG Commander-in-Chief and Army General who oversaw Soviet operations in Afghanistan Military command · Soviet Union state institutions 1923–2009
Georgy Arkadyevich Arbatov Георгий Аркадьевич Арбатов The USSR's preeminent Americanist who built a think-tank on Arbat Street, not in Akademgorodok, and designed détente Scholarship and theory · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks 1923–2010
Sergei Iosifovich Manyakin Сергей Иосифович Манякин The longest-serving regional party secretary in Soviet history, who led Omsk for 26 years Social movements and organizing · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks 1923–2010
Aleksandr Nikolayevich Yefimov Александр Николаевич Ефимов Twice Hero of the Soviet Union, Il-2 assault ace who rose to command the Soviet Air Force at its zenith Military command · Soviet Union state institutions 1923–2012
Evald Vasilyevich Ilyenkov Эвальд Васильевич Ильенков A Soviet European who excavated dialectical logic from Marx's Capital Ideology and propaganda · Soviet Union state institutions 1924–1979
Viktor Petrovich Makeyev Виктор Петрович Макеев Founder of Soviet naval strategic rocketry, the man the CIA called 'the Ural Dragon' Science and technology · Soviet Union state institutions 1924–1985
Alexei Ivanovich Adzhubey Алексей Иванович Аджубей Khrushchev's son-in-law and the editor who turned Izvestia into the most-read Soviet newspaper of the thaw Ideology and propaganda · Soviet Union state institutions 1924–1993
Mikhail Fyodorovich Reshetnev Михаил Фёдорович Решетнёв The chief designer who built a Soviet satellite empire in the Siberian taiga Science and technology · Soviet Union state institutions 1924–1996
Vladimir Yefimovich Semichastny Владимир Ефимович Семичастный The KGB chairman during Khrushchev’s fall Security, intelligence and policing · Soviet Union state institutions 1924–2001
Vladimir Leonidovich Govorov Владимир Леонидович Говоров Son of a marshal who led the Chernobyl response and turned Soviet civil defence toward peacetime emergencies Military command · Soviet Union state institutions 1924–2006
Vladimir Petrovich Pirozhkov Владимир Петрович Пирожков The KGB constant: 20 years as deputy chairman under four chiefs Security, intelligence and policing · Soviet Union state institutions 1924–2009
Karen Nersesovich Brutents Карен Нерсесович Брутенц The International Department theorist who designed Soviet Third World policy under Brezhnev Ideology and propaganda · Soviet Union state institutions 1924–2017
Vladimir Ivanovich Dolgikh Владимир Иванович Долгих The CC secretary who ran Soviet heavy industry and energy for 16 years under Brezhnev Industry and production · Soviet Union state institutions 1924–2020
Yuri Fyodorovich Orlov Юрий Фёдорович Орлов The physicist who held the Kremlin to the Helsinki human-rights promises it signed Ideology and propaganda · Soviet Union state institutions 1924–2020
Pavel Ivanovich Belyayev Павел Иванович Беляев The fighter pilot who commanded the first spacewalk Science and technology · Soviet Union state institutions 1925–1970
Andrei Donatovich Sinyavsky Андрей Донатович Синявский Abram Tertz, from Novy Mir critic to symbol of the Soviet dissident movement Literature and arts 1925–1997
Georgy Markovich Korniyenko Георгий Маркович Корниенко Gromyko's point man on America who ran arms-control talks, opposed the Afghan invasion, and demanded truth over KAL 007 Diplomacy and international organization · Soviet Union state institutions 1925–2006
Yuri Ivanovich Drozdov Юрий Иванович Дроздов Legendary Soviet spymaster who headed KGB illegal intelligence for 12 years Security, intelligence and policing · Soviet Union state institutions 1925–2017
Boris Ivanovich Aristov Борис Иванович Аристов The last Minister of Foreign Trade, who inherited a 27-year incumbent's post only to see the ministry itself abolished on his watch Economy, finance and planning · Soviet Union state institutions 1925–2018
Zhores Alexandrovich Medvedev Жорес Александрович Медведев The dissident biologist who argued the archives contain no evidence Stalin planned a Jewish deportation Scholarship and theory 1925–2018
Filip Denisovich Bobkov Филипп Денисович Бобков Architect of KGB ideological counterintelligence, 45-year Chekist under 12 chiefs Security, intelligence and policing · Soviet Union state institutions 1925–2019
Roy Alexandrovich Medvedev Рой Александрович Медведев The Marxist historian who put Stalinism on trial Scholarship and theory · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks 1925–2026
Vasily Aleksandrovich Arkhipov Василий Александрович Архипов Soviet submarine officer who refused to launch a nuclear torpedo and prevented nuclear war Military command · Soviet Union state institutions 1926–1998
Vasily Aleksandrovich Shamshin Василий Александрович Шамшин Engineer-turned-minister who led the modernization of Soviet communications infrastructure Economy, finance and planning · Soviet Union state institutions 1926–2009
Vladimir Mikhaylovich Komarov Владимир Михайлович Комаров Voskhod 1 commander and the first human to perish in a spaceflight Science and technology · Soviet Union state institutions 1927–1967
Vadim Valentinovich Zagladin Вадим Валентинович Загладин A Brezhnev favorite who became the Soviet face of dialogue with Eurocommunism Ideology and propaganda · Soviet Union state institutions 1927–2006
Fyodor Mikhailovich Burlatsky Фёдор Михайлович Бурлацкий Architect of Khrushchev's reforms and pioneer of Soviet political science Scholarship and theory · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks 1927–2014
Nikolai Alexeyevich Maltsev Николай Алексеевич Мальцев The minister who led Soviet oil to its peak through the West Siberian fields Industry and production · Soviet Union state institutions 1928–2001
Lev Petrovich Feoktistov Лев Петрович Феоктистов From nuclear-weapon designer to critic of the arms race Science and technology · Soviet Union state institutions 1928–2002
Dzhermen Mikhailovich Gvishiani Джермен Михайлович Гвишиани Philosopher who bridged Soviet planning science and Western systems analysis Science and technology · Soviet Union state institutions 1928–2003
Vladimir Mikhailovich Kamentsev Владимир Михайлович Каменцев The technocrat who brought Soviet fisheries to global leadership Economy, finance and planning · Soviet Union state institutions 1928–2003
Chinghiz Torekulovich Aitmatov Чингиз Торекулович Айтматов Kyrgyz writer and diplomat who carved a Central Asian voice into world literature Literature and arts · Soviet Union state institutions 1928–2008
German Arsenyevich Goncharov Герман Арсеньевич Гончаров Physicist from Sakharov's group who became the lead declassifier and historian of the Soviet H-bomb project Science and technology · Soviet Union state institutions 1928–2009

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