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People of the Revolution and the USSR
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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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Lev Leonidovich (Aronovich) Shvartsman Лев Леонидович (Аронович) Шварцман
MGB's most brutal interrogator, killer of Blyukher, Babel, and Meyerhold
Security, intelligence and policing · Soviet Union state institutions
1907–1955
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Terentii Fomich Shtykov Терентий Фомич Штыков
Soviet occupation chief in North Korea and first ambassador; he conveyed Kim Il Sung's unification plan to Stalin, brokered approval for war
Diplomacy and international organization · Soviet Union state institutions
1907–1964
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Vladimir Nikolaevich Sukhodolsky Владимир Николаевич Суходольский
NKVD major-general who led Tula's wartime defence and fell from grace
Security, intelligence and policing · Soviet Union state institutions
1907–1966
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Pavel Mikhailovich Fitin Павел Михайлович Фитин
The man who rebuilt foreign intelligence from the wreckage of the Yezhovshchina and stole the atomic bomb
Security, intelligence and policing · Soviet Union state institutions
1907–1971
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Sergei Matveyevich Shtemenko Сергей Матвеевич Штеменко
The staff officer who designed Stalin's war plans and fell twice
Military command · Soviet Union state institutions
1907–1976
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Sergey Nikiforovich Kruglov Сергей Никифорович Круглов
The last NKVD People's Commissar, the longest-serving MVD minister, killed by a train
Security, intelligence and policing · Soviet Union state institutions
1907–1977
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Karl Ilitch Eliasberg Карл Ильич Элиасберг
The conductor who rebuilt an orchestra under siege
Literature and arts
1907–1978
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Konstantin Petrovich Gorshenin Константин Петрович Горшенин
The USSR's first Prosecutor General who organized war crimes trials and handed Khrushchev the statistics of the Great Terror
Law and justice · Soviet Union state institutions
1907–1978
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Konstantin Fyodorovich Lunev Константин Фёдорович Лунёв
A party cadre elevated into the security apparatus
Security, intelligence and policing · Soviet Union state institutions
1907–1980
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Alexander Kharitonovich Busygin Александр Харитонович Бусыгин
A Gorky auto-plant blacksmith who became a symbol of industrial productivity
Industry and production · Soviet Union state institutions
1907–1985
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Alexander Ivanovich Langfang Александр Иванович Лангфанг
An interrogator convicted of falsifying cases and torturing prisoners
Security, intelligence and policing · Soviet Union state institutions
1907–1990
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Pavel Anatolyevich Sudoplatov Павел Анатольевич Судоплатов
Stalin’s spymaster who eliminated Trotsky, then spent fifteen years in Stalin’s prisons
Security, intelligence and policing · Soviet Union state institutions
1907–1996
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Konstantin Antonovich Petrzhak Константин Антонович Петржак
Co-discoverer of spontaneous fission, a pillar of the Soviet atomic project
Science and technology · Soviet Union state institutions
1907–1998
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Viktor Semyonovich Abakumov Виктор Семёнович Абакумов
Stalin's security chief who commanded SMERSH and ruled the MGB
Security, intelligence and policing · Soviet Union state institutions
1908–1954
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Georgy Fyodorovich Alexandrov Георгий Фёдорович Александров
Stalin's chief ideological supervisor, broken by a philosophy debate
Ideology and propaganda · Soviet Union state institutions
1908–1961
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Yevgeny Dmitriyevich Kiselyov Евгений Дмитриевич Киселёв
The Soviet envoy in Budapest who distrusted Rákosi
Diplomacy and international organization · Soviet Union state institutions
1908–1963
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Lev Davidovich Landau Лев Давидович Ландау
Soviet theoretical physics titan who founded the 'Landau school' and pioneered quantum fluid dynamics
Science and technology · Soviet Union state institutions
1908–1968
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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
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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
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Zhozef Yakovlevich Kotin Жозеф Яковлевич Котин
Chief designer of the KV and IS heavy tanks, builder of Tankograd
Industry and production · Soviet Union state institutions
1908–1979
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Isaak Konstantinovich Kikoin Исаак Константинович Кикоин
Scientific director of uranium isotope separation for the Soviet atomic bomb
Science and technology · Soviet Union state institutions
1908–1984
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Iosif Mikhailovich Turko Иосиф Михайлович Турко
A Kuznetsov appointee to the Yaroslavl obkom who was sentenced to 15 years instead of death in the Leningrad Affair
Social movements and organizing · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks
1908–1994
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Pavel Yakovlevich Meshik Павел Яковлевич Мешик
Beria's inner circle and an organiser of the Great Terror
Security, intelligence and policing · Soviet Union state institutions
1910–1953
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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
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Olga Fyodorovna Berggolts Ольга Фёдоровна Берггольц
The radio voice of the besieged city
Literature and arts · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks
1910–1975
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Pyotr Fyodorovich Krivonos Пётр Фёдорович Кривонос
The locomotive driver who carried productivity innovation onto the railways
Economy, finance and planning · Soviet Union state institutions
1910–1980
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Vasily Stepanovich Fursov Василий Степанович Фурсов
A physicist who linked reactor theory to scientific education
Science and technology · Soviet Union state institutions
1910–1998
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Pavel Vasilyevich Rychagov Павел Васильевич Рычагов
The ace who told Stalin Soviet planes were flying coffins
Military command · Soviet Union state institutions
1911–1941
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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
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Kirill Ivanovich Shchelkin Кирилл Иванович Щёлкин
The physicist who personally armed the first Soviet atomic bomb and built the second nuclear weapons center as its first scientific director
Science and technology · Soviet Union state institutions
1911–1968
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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
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Pasha Nikitichna Angelina Прасковья Никитична Ангелина
A pioneer of women’s mechanized labor
Agriculture and land policy · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks
1912–1959
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Isai Izrailevich Gurevich Исай Израилевич Гуревич
A nuclear theorist who made reactor design possible
Scholarship and theory
1912–1992
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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
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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
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Nikita Arkadyevich Krimyan Никита Аркадьевич Кримян
The investigator who became Armenia's security minister at thirty-one
Security, intelligence and policing · Soviet Union state institutions
1913–1955
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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
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Viktor Aleksandrovich Davidenko Виктор Александрович Давиденко
A pioneer of two-stage thermonuclear design
Science and technology · Soviet Union state institutions
1914–1983
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Yakov Borisovich Zel'dovich Яков Борисович Зельдович
Three-time Hero of Socialist Labor, a self-taught physicist who became the theorist of Soviet nuclear weapons and a giant of cosmology
Science and technology · Soviet Union state institutions
1914–1987
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Helmut Gröttrup Helmut Gröttrup
From Peenemünde to Gorodomlya, the German rocket engineer who designed the conceptual ancestor of the R-7
Science and technology · Soviet Union state institutions
1916–1981
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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
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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
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Alexander Yefimovich Vorontsov Александр Ефимович Воронцов
A frontline cameraman who recorded liberation
Literature and arts · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks
1919–1991
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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
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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
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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