People of the Revolution and the USSR
- Yefim Afanasievich Shchadenko Ефим Афанасьевич Щаденко From 1st Cavalry Army commissar to the purge's personnel executioner
- Sydir Artemovych Kovpak Сидор Артемьевич Ковпак The Soviet Union's greatest partisan commander, who raided all the way to the Carpathians
- Grigory Ivanovich Kulik Григорий Иванович Кулик Stalin's artillery chief from Tsaritsyn: Marshal who blocked the T-34, KV-1 and Katyusha
- Mikhail Petrovich Kirponos Михаил Петрович Кирпонос Southwestern Front commander who fell in the Kiev encirclement
- Andrei Ivanovich Yeryomenko Андрей Иванович Ерёменко The cavalryman who closed Stalingrad's southern pincer
- Pavel Semyonovich Rybalko Павел Семёнович Рыбалко Twice Hero who drove the 3rd Guards Tank Army from Stalingrad to Prague
- Semyon Konstantinovich Timoshenko Семён Константинович Тимошенко Marshal of the Soviet Union, People's Commissar for Defence 1940-1941
- Ivan Fyodorovich Fedko Иван Фёдорович Федько Four-time Red Banner hero of the Civil War, rose to First Deputy Defence Commissar: purged by the machine he served
- Andrei Grigorievich Kravchenko Андрей Григорьевич Кравченко The tank army commander who led the Red Army's elite armor from Stalingrad to Manchuria
- Dmitry Danilovich Lelyushenko Дмитрий Данилович Лелюшенко 'General Forward' who halted Guderian at the gates of Moscow and drove the 4th Guards Tank Army to Prague
- Sergei Ignatevich Rudenko Сергей Игнатьевич Руденко Marshal of Aviation who commanded the 16th Air Army from Stalingrad to Berlin
- Ivan Iosifovich Proskurov Иван Иосифович Проскуров The GRU chief who warned Stalin of the German invasion, and was shot for it
- Ivan Danilovich Chernyakhovsky Иван Данилович Черняховский The youngest front commander in Red Army history: twice Hero of the Soviet Union, killed in East Prussia weeks before victory
- Ivan Nikitovich Kozhedub Иван Никитович Кожедуб Top Allied fighter ace who scored 64 victories and was never downed by an enemy