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Aleksei Mikhailovich Isaev Алексей Михайлович Исаев The engine designer who powered Soviet spacecraft: inventor of the closed-cycle rocket engine Science and technology · Soviet Union state institutions 1908–1971
Boris Nikolayevich Chernousov Борис Николаевич Черноусов The RSFSR premier who rose in the Leningrad Affair's wake and fell at the 19th Party Congress Government and administration · Soviet Union state institutions 1908–1978
Dmitry Ivanovich Chesnokov Дмитрий Иванович Чесноков The philosopher Stalin elevated to the Politburo in his final act Political and party leadership · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks 1910–1973
Olga Fyodorovna Berggolts Ольга Фёдоровна Берггольц The radio voice of the besieged city Literature and arts · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks 1910–1975
Vasily Stepanovich Fursov Василий Степанович Фурсов A physicist who linked reactor theory to scientific education Science and technology · Soviet Union state institutions 1910–1998
Pavel Vasilyevich Rychagov Павел Васильевич Рычагов The ace who told Stalin Soviet planes were flying coffins Military command · Soviet Union state institutions 1911–1941
Nikolai Ivanovich Kuznetsov Николай Иванович Кузнецов Soviet spy who posed as a German officer in Nazi-occupied Ukraine and personally eliminated high-ranking officials Security, intelligence and policing · Soviet Union state institutions 1911–1944
Marina Mikhaylovna Raskova Марина Михайловна Раскова Record-breaking aviator who created the women's combat air regiments Military command · Soviet Union state institutions 1912–1943
Pasha Nikitichna Angelina Прасковья Никитична Ангелина A pioneer of women’s mechanized labor Agriculture and land policy · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks 1912–1959
Isai Izrailevich Gurevich Исай Израилевич Гуревич A nuclear theorist who made reactor design possible Scholarship and theory 1912–1992
Vasily Mikhailovich Vinevitin Василий Михайлович Виневитин The NKVD sniper lieutenant who shot the Japanese gendarme on Frinovsky's order Security, intelligence and policing · Soviet Union state institutions 1913–1938
Mikhail Dmitrievich Ryumin Михаил Дмитриевич Рюмин Engineer of the Doctors' Plot, NKVD bookkeeper turned deputy minister Security, intelligence and policing · Soviet Union state institutions 1913–1954
Georgy Nikolayevich Flyorov Георгий Николаевич Флёров One letter that woke Stalin, one element that bears his name Science and technology · Soviet Union state institutions 1913–1990
Viktor Aleksandrovich Davidenko Виктор Александрович Давиденко A pioneer of two-stage thermonuclear design Science and technology · Soviet Union state institutions 1914–1983
Konstantin Mikhailovich Simonov Константин Михайлович Симонов The poet of 'Wait for Me': six-time Stalin Prize-winning war correspondent and literary bureaucrat Literature and arts · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks 1915–1979
Georgy Ageevich Lobov Георгий Агеевич Лобов The Soviet fighter commander who led the battle over MiG Alley Military command · Soviet Union state institutions 1915–1994
Yevgeny Petrovich Pitovranov Евгений Петрович Питовранов A survivor who transformed from Stalin's counter-intelligence chief to Brezhnev's trade diplomat Security, intelligence and policing · Soviet Union state institutions 1915–1999
Vladimir Ivanovich Komarov Владимир Иванович Комаров Abakumov's deputy interrogator who beat prisoners and fabricated protocols in the Leningrad Affair Security, intelligence and policing · Soviet Union state institutions 1916–1954
Valentin Mikhailovich Berezhkov Валентин Михайлович Бережков Stalin's personal interpreter at Tehran, Yalta, and Potsdam who became the Soviet Union's leading Americanist Diplomacy and international organization · Soviet Union state institutions 1916–1998
Igor Semyonovich Panasyuk Игорь Семёнович Панасюк Kurchatov's closest assistant who ran the F-1 reactor, then denounced his mentor and was sidelined Science and technology · Soviet Union state institutions 1917–1972
Yuri Andreyevich Zhdanov Юрий Андреевич Жданов Stalin's son-in-law who criticized Lysenko, recanted, then built Rostov University over 31 years as rector Education · Soviet Union state institutions 1919–2006
Boris Grigorievich Dubovsky Борис Григорьевич Дубовский The physicist who built the dosimetry for F-1's first criticality and founded the Soviet reactor radiation safety system Science and technology · Soviet Union state institutions 1919–2008
Mikhail Timofeyevich Kalashnikov Михаил Тимофеевич Калашников The small-arms designer who became the face of Soviet defence industry: father of the AK-47 Science and technology · United Russia 1919–2013
Zoya Anatolyevna Kosmodemyanskaya Зоя Анатольевна Космодемьянская The first woman Hero of the Soviet Union, the 18-year-old partisan who cried 'Stalin will come!' from the gallows Military command · Soviet Union state institutions 1923–1941
Nikolai Vasilyevich Sutyagin Николай Васильевич Сутягин The Soviet ace with MiG Alley’s highest score Military command · Soviet Union state institutions 1923–1986
Svetlana Iosifovna Alliluyeva Светлана Иосифовна Аллилуева Stalin's only daughter and the Kremlin's first insider witness to defect to the West Literature and arts 1926–2011
Leonid Moiseyevich Sabsovich Леонид Моисеевич Сабсович The economist who blueprinted Stalin's accelerated industrialization, standard-bearer of the 'socialist city' Urbanists Scholarship and theory ?–1938
Genrikh Lyushkov Генрих Люшков Far East NKVD chief, the highest-ranking defector Security, intelligence and policing · Soviet Union state institutions 1900/1902–1945

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