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People of the Revolution and the USSR
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Affiliation
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Citizenship
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People of the Soviet Union
People of the Chinese revolution and the People’s Republic
People of the wider world
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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
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
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
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
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
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
1912–1943
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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
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
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
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
1913–1990
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Viktor Aleksandrovich Davidenko Виктор Александрович Давиденко
A pioneer of two-stage thermonuclear design
Science and technology · Soviet Union
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
1917–1972
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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
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
1919–2008
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Ivan Nikitovich Kozhedub Иван Никитович Кожедуб
Top Allied fighter ace who scored 64 victories and was never downed by an enemy
Military command · Soviet Union
1920–1991
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Vasily Iosifovich Stalin Василий Иосифович Сталин
Lieutenant general of aviation and founder of Soviet ice hockey, the leader's son
Military command · Soviet Union
1921–1962
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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
1923–1941
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Nikolai Vasilyevich Sutyagin Николай Васильевич Сутягин
The Soviet ace with MiG Alley’s highest score
Military command · Soviet Union
1923–1986
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Genrikh Lyushkov Генрих Люшков
Far East NKVD chief, the highest-ranking defector
Security, intelligence and policing · Soviet Union
1900/1902–1945
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Vagan Grigoryevich Grigoryan Ваган Григорьевич Григорьян
Armenian party functionary who managed the international communist movement in late Stalinism
Ideology and propaganda · Soviet Union
1901/1902–1983
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Pang Hak-se Пан Хак Се
Founder of North Korea's state security and enforcer of its political repression
Security, intelligence and policing · Democratic People’s Republic of Korea
?–1992