People of the Revolution and the USSR
- Tengiz Evgenyevich Abuladze თენგიზ ევგენის ძე აბულაძე Georgian film director whose Repentance fired the cultural starting gun of glasnost
- Yegor Vladimirovich Yakovlev Егор Владимирович Яковлев Editor of Moscow News who led the charge in breaking Soviet taboos during the glasnost era
- Nikolai Nikolayevich Gubenko Николай Николаевич Губенко The last Soviet culture minister