People of the Revolution and the USSR
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Leonid Fedorovych Toptunov Леонид Фёдорович Топтунов
The 25-year-old senior reactor control engineer who pressed the AZ-5 button at Chernobyl's Unit 4
Science and technology · Soviet Union
1960–1986
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Volodymyr Pavlovych Pravyk Володимир Павлович Правик
The first firefighter at Chernobyl, who climbed onto the roof of Unit 3 without being told of the radioactive danger
Science and technology · Soviet Union
1962–1986
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Boris Mikhailov Борис Михайлов
The chief designer of the Volga inflatable airlock that made Leonov's spacewalk possible
Science and technology · Soviet Union
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Genrikh Lyushkov Генрих Люшков
Far East NKVD chief, the highest-ranking defector
Security, intelligence and policing · Soviet Union
1900/1902–1945
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Mikhail Kozlovsky Михаил Козловский
KGB security officer who commanded border troops under Andropov
Security, intelligence and policing · Soviet Union
?–?
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Sergei Semyonovich Biryuzov Сергей Семёнович Бирюзов
Marshal who helped plan the liberation of the Balkans, then commanded the Strategic Rocket Forces
Military command · Soviet Union
1904/1905–1964
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Vagan Grigoryevich Grigoryan Ваган Григорьевич Григорьян
Armenian party functionary who managed the international communist movement in late Stalinism
Ideology and propaganda · Soviet Union
1901/1902–1983
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Pang Hak-se Пан Хак Се
Founder of North Korea's state security and enforcer of its political repression
Security, intelligence and policing · Democratic People’s Republic of Korea
?–1992