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Era
People of the Soviet Union
People of the wider world
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Vladimir Mikhailovich Myasishchev Владимир Михайлович Мясищев
The designer who delivered the intercontinental jet bomber Tupolev said was impossible: in 22 months
Industry and production · Soviet Union state institutions
1902–1978
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Mikhail Andreyevich Suslov Михаил Андреевич Суслов
The Kremlin's Grey Cardinal
Ideology and propaganda · Soviet Union state institutions
1902–1982
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Ivan Alexandrovich Benediktov Иван Александрович Бенедиктов
Long-serving agriculture administrator of late Stalinism and reconstruction
Agriculture and land policy · Soviet Union state institutions
1902–1983
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Panteleimon Kondratyevich Ponomarenko Пантелеймон Кондратьевич Пономаренко
Stalin's trusted partisan chief who orchestrated the Rail War, pushed aside at the threshold of succession
Social movements and organizing · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks
1902–1984
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Kirill Semyonovich Moskalenko Кирилл Семёнович Москаленко
The marshal who led Beria's arrest and called his subordinates 'enemies of the people'
Military command · Soviet Union state institutions
1902–1985
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Valerian Aleksandrovich Zorin Валериан Александрович Зорин
The Soviet Cold War diplomat who denied the Cuban missiles at the UN Security Council
Diplomacy and international organization · Soviet Union state institutions
1902–1986
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Viktor Georgiyevich Bakayev Виктор Георгиевич Бакаев
16-year minister who built the Soviet merchant fleet into a global maritime power
Economy, finance and planning · Soviet Union state institutions
1902–1987
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Vasil Pavlovich Mzhavanadze Васил Павлович Мжаванадзе
The Georgian boss who ruled nineteen years, and godfathered a shadow economy
Social movements and organizing · Soviet Union state institutions
1902–1988
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Gennady Ivanovich Smirnov Геннадий Иванович Смирнов
Gosplan chief who vanished into the Terror in eight months
Economy, finance and planning · Soviet Union state institutions
1903–1938
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Aleksandr Vasilyevich Kosarev Александр Васильевич Косарев
The young Komsomol chief who carried out the Great Purge and was then consumed by it
Social movements and organizing · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks
1903–1939
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Nikolai Alexeyevich Voznesensky Николай Алексеевич Вознесенский
Wartime planning prodigy killed in the Leningrad Affair
Economy, finance and planning · Soviet Union state institutions
1903–1950
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Pyotr Sergeyevich Popkov Пётр Сергеевич Попков
Wartime steward of besieged Leningrad, first victim of the Leningrad Affair
Social movements and organizing · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks
1903–1950
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Igor Vasilyevich Kurchatov Игорь Васильевич Курчатов
Scientific head of the Soviet atomic bomb
Science and technology · Soviet Union state institutions
1903–1960
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Timofei Amvrosievich Strokach Тимофей Амвросиевич Строкач
The Ukrainian MVD chief whose warning to Khrushchev, after Beria threatened to make him 'camp dust,' triggered Beria's arrest
Security, intelligence and policing · Soviet Union state institutions
1903–1963
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Arkady Alexandrovich Sobolev Аркадий Александрович Соболев
Soviet diplomat who co-drafted the UN Charter, the Soviet face at the UN through the early Cold War
Diplomacy and international organization · Soviet Union state institutions
1903–1964
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Vasily Fyodorovich Popov Василий Фёдорович Попов
The Gosbank chairman who executed postwar monetary reform over a decade
Economy, finance and planning · Soviet Union state institutions
1903–1964
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Semyon Ariyevich Kosberg Семён Ариевич Косберг
The OKB-154 Chief Designer whose third-stage engines pushed Luna and Gagarin into space
Science and technology · Soviet Union state institutions
1903–1965
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Nikolai Ilyich Belyaev Николай Ильич Беляев
Khrushchev loyalist who defended him in 1957, undone by the Temirtau riots
Social movements and organizing · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks
1903–1966
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Nikolai Konstantinovich Cherkasov Николай Константинович Черкасов
The actor of transformation, whose profile is stamped on the Order of Alexander Nevsky
Literature and arts · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks
1903–1966
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Nikolai Ivanovich Krylov Николай Иванович Крылов
From Stalingrad to the Strategic Rocket Forces: the marshal who built the nuclear triad's third leg
Military command · Soviet Union state institutions
1903–1972
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Averky Borisovich Aristov Аверкий Борисович Аристов
Presidium member born a fisherman's son, party cadres chief who loved to fish
Social movements and organizing · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks
1903–1973
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Antanas Juozovich Sniečkus Antanas Sniečkus
The communist who ruled Soviet Lithuania for 34 years
Political and party leadership · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks
1903–1974
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Andrei Antonovich Grechko Андрей Антонович Гречко
Brezhnev-era defence minister
Military command · Soviet Union state institutions
1903–1976
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Aram Ilyich Khachaturian Арам Ильич Хачатурян
Composer who fused Armenian folk melody with the Soviet symphony
Ideology and propaganda · Soviet Union state institutions
1903–1978
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Alexei Nikolayevich Leontiev Алексей Николаевич Леонтьев
Founder of activity theory who laid the institutional foundations of Marxist psychology
Scholarship and theory · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks
1903–1979
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Issa Alexandrovich Pliyev Исса Александрович Плиев
The only cavalryman twice Hero of the Soviet Union, who went to the brink of nuclear war in Cuba
Military command · Soviet Union state institutions
1903–1979
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Boris Pavlovich Beshchev Борис Павлович Бещев
The longest-serving Soviet minister, who led the railways for 29 years
Economy, finance and planning · Soviet Union state institutions
1903–1981
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Sardion Nikolayevich Nadaraya Сардион Николаевич Надарая
Beria's bodyguard chief, formerly of the internal prison
Security, intelligence and policing · Soviet Union state institutions
1903–1982
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Yuri Yevgenyevich Maksarev Юрий Евгеньевич Максарёв
The industrial architect who mass-produced the T-34 and shaped Soviet tank power
Industry and production · Soviet Union state institutions
1903–1982
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Nikolai Viktorovich Podgorny Николай Викторович Подгорный
Head of state in the Brezhnev-Kosygin collective leadership
Political and party leadership · Soviet Union state institutions
1903–1983
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Bonifaty Mikhailovich Kedrov Бонифатий Михайлович Кедров
Philosopher of science who systematized dialectical materialism for natural science and created the Kedrov Triangle
Ideology and propaganda · Soviet Union state institutions
1903–1985
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Andrey Nikolayevich Kolmogorov Андрей Николаевич Колмогоров
The mathematician who axiomatized modern probability theory
Science and technology · Soviet Union state institutions
1903–1987
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Nikolai Vasilyevich Novikov Николай Васильевич Новиков
Soviet diplomat whose Novikov Telegram answered Kennan's Long Telegram, framing US policy as imperialist expansion
Diplomacy and international organization · Soviet Union state institutions
1903–1989
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Anatoly Petrovich Alexandrov Анатолий Петрович Александров
Physicist who pioneered the Soviet nuclear navy and nuclear power, brought down by Chernobyl
Science and technology · Soviet Union state institutions
1903–1994
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Zinaida Vasilyevna Yershova Зинаида Васильевна Ершова
A radiochemist who helped build the Soviet atomic project
Science and technology · Soviet Union state institutions
1903–1995
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Leonid Gatovsky Лев Маркович Гатовский
The editor who built the political economy of socialism as a discipline
Economy, finance and planning · Soviet Union state institutions
1903–1997
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Anatoly Antonovich Volin Анатолий Антонович Волин
The Supreme Court chairman who purged judges and was removed for rehabilitation measures
Law and justice · Soviet Union state institutions
1903–2007
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Nikolai Alekseyevich Ostrovsky Николай Алексеевич Островский
Author of How the Steel Was Tempered, paragon of socialist realism
Literature and arts · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks
1904–1936
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Valery Pavlovich Chkalov Валерий Павлович Чкалов
Stalin's falcon who flew nonstop over the North Pole to America, and fell on his final test flight
Military command · Soviet Union state institutions
1904–1938
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Yakov Fyodorovich Kapustin Яков Фёдорович Капустин
The engineer who ran Leningrad's industry as second city secretary, shot as a lead defendant in the Leningrad Affair
Social movements and organizing · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks
1904–1950
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Bogdan Zakharovich Kobulov Богдан Захарович Кобулов
Beria's closest deputy, executor of Katyn and the mass deportations
Security, intelligence and policing · Soviet Union state institutions
1904–1953
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Kuzma Nikolayevich Derevyanko Кузьма Николаевич Деревянко
The Soviet general who signed Japan's surrender, ending World War II
Military command · Soviet Union state institutions
1904–1954
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Nikolai Leonidovich Dukhov Николай Леонидович Духов
From KV and IS heavy tanks to nuclear warheads: the designer who anchored both pillars of the Soviet military-industrial complex
Industry and production · Soviet Union state institutions
1904–1964
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Vasily Alekseevich Makhnev Василий Алексеевич Махнёв
An organiser of the secret atomic administration
Science and technology · Soviet Union state institutions
1904–1965
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Sergei Romanovich Savchenko Сергей Романович Савченко
The state security chief who dismantled the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church by force, then ran Soviet foreign intelligence in late Stalinism
Security, intelligence and policing · Soviet Union state institutions
1904–1966
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Vilis Tenisovich Lācis Вилис Тенисович Лацис
From Ulmanis's favorite novelist to the architect of Latvia's Sovietization
Literature and arts · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks
1904–1966
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Alexei Andreyevich Poskonov Алексей Андреевич Посконов
The Bashkir-born financial technocrat who ran Gosbank through the Kosygin reform
Economy, finance and planning · Soviet Union state institutions
1904–1969
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Abram Isaakovich Alikhanov Абрам Исаакович Алиханов
From heavy-water reactors to the world's largest accelerator: 23-year director of ITEP
Science and technology · Soviet Union state institutions
1904–1970
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Grigory Nikolayevich Safonov Григорий Николаевич Сафонов
USSR Prosecutor General who served at Nuremberg and was removed for refusing to sanction Beria's arrest
Law and justice · Soviet Union state institutions
1904–1972
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Nikolai Gerasimovich Kuznetsov Николай Герасимович Кузнецов
Architect of the Soviet Navy who ordered combat readiness hours before Barbarossa, twice demoted and posthumously restored
Military command · Soviet Union state institutions
1904–1974