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People of the Revolution and the USSR
Activity(set)
Affiliation
Position
Citizenship
Background
Era(set)
People of the Soviet Union
People of the Chinese revolution and the People’s Republic
People of the French Revolution and the Napoleonic era
People of the wider world
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Viktor Vladimirovich Dementsev Виктор Владимирович Деменцев
A fiscal realist who warned against abrupt prohibition
Economy, finance and planning · Soviet Union
1918–2010
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Nikolai Semyonovich Konarev Николай Семёнович Конарев
The last chief of the Soviet railways
Economy, finance and planning · Soviet Union
1927–2007
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Konstantin Fyodorovich Katushev Константин Фёдорович Катушев
Late Soviet foreign-economic official
Economy, finance and planning · Soviet Union
1927–2010
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Yuri Petrovich Batalin Юрий Петрович Баталин
The perestroika-era construction chief who built the West Siberian oil and gas complex and the Chernobyl sarcophagus
Economy, finance and planning · Soviet Union
1927–2013
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Boris Ivanovich Gostev Борис Иванович Гостев
The last orthodox Soviet finance minister who rejected market reform during perestroika
Economy, finance and planning · Soviet Union
1927–2015
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Lev Alekseyevich Voronin Лев Алексеевич Воронин
Guardian of state material supply in the Gorbachev era
Economy, finance and planning · Soviet Union
1928–2008
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Nikolai Vladimirovich Talyzin Николай Владимирович Талызин
Gosplan chairman of the perestroika era who built the world's first satellite TV broadcasting system
Economy, finance and planning · Soviet Union
1929–1991
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Aleksandra Pavlovna Biryukova Александра Павловна Бирюкова
Gorbachev's highest-ranking woman, the 'Russian Margaret Thatcher' tasked with solving Soviet consumer shortages
Economy, finance and planning · Soviet Union
1929–2008
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Stepan Aramaisovich Sitaryan Степан Арамаисович Ситарян
The highest-ranking Armenian economist in the Soviet apparatus, who pushed the Law on Cooperatives through the Politburo
Economy, finance and planning · Soviet Union
1930–2009
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Leonid Ivanovich Abalkin Леонид Иванович Абалкин
Chief economic theorist of late perestroika, architect of the 'regulated market' between radical reformers and conservative planners
Economy, finance and planning · Soviet Union
1930–2011
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Arnold Vasilyevich Voylukov Арнольд Васильевич Войлуков
The Soviet banker who testified about reform's hidden origins
Economy, finance and planning · Russian Federation state institutions
1932–2016
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Stanislav Sergeyevich Shatalin Станислав Сергеевич Шаталин
Architect of the 500 Days programme, radical reform economist who tried to convert the Soviet planned economy to the market in one leap
Economy, finance and planning · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks
1934–1997
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Kondrat Zigmundovich Terekh Кондрат Зигмундович Терех
The last Soviet trade minister, formed in consumer cooperatives
Economy, finance and planning · Soviet Union
1935–
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Valentin Sergeyevich Pavlov Валентин Сергеевич Павлов
The last Soviet premier and an August coup participant
Economy, finance and planning · Soviet Union
1937–2003
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Yuri Dmitrievich Maslyukov Юрий Дмитриевич Маслюков
The last Gosplan generation
Economy, finance and planning · Soviet Union
1937–2010
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Viktor Vladimirovich Gerashchenko Виктор Владимирович Геращенко
Central banker of the Soviet collapse and Russian transition
Economy, finance and planning · Soviet Union
1937–2022
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Vladimir Ivanovich Shcherbakov Владимир Иванович Щербаков
The last Gosplan chairman who presided over the dissolution of Soviet planning
Economy, finance and planning · Soviet Union
1949–
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Artyom Mikhaylovich Tarasov Артём Михайлович Тарасов
The first legal Soviet millionaire, whose 90,000-ruble party dues payment forced the cooperative law to be amended twice
Economy, finance and planning · Soviet Union
1950–2017
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Valentin Bodiul Valentin Bodiul
The Cricova winery chief who testified to the vineyard destruction of Gorbachev's anti-alcohol campaign
Economy, finance and planning · Soviet Union
1951–2020
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Grigory Alekseyevich Yavlinsky Григорий Алексеевич Явлинский
Architect of the 500 Days Program: perestroika economist who drafted a rapid transition from planned economy to market
Economy, finance and planning · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks
1952–
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Vladimir Alexandrovich Usov Владимир Александрович Усов
The 37-year-old economist killed by a stray bullet while coming to Komar's aid at the barricades
Economy, finance and planning
1954–1991
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Yegor Timurovich Gaidar Егор Тимурович Гайдар
Architect of shock therapy, the economist who dismantled the planned economy and laid the first stones of Russian capitalism
Economy, finance and planning · Russian Federation state institutions
1956–2009