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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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Anastas Ivanovich Mikoyan Анастас Иванович Микоян
The man who built the Soviet table, and the negotiator “from Ilyich to Ilyich”
Economy, finance and planning · Soviet Union
1895–1978
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Nikolai Demyanovich Psurtsev Николай Демьянович Псурцев
Longest-serving Minister of Communications who ran front-line signals at the Battle of Moscow and built Soviet telecom for 27 years
Economy, finance and planning · Soviet Union
1900–1980
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Viktor Georgiyevich Bakayev Виктор Георгиевич Бакаев
16-year minister who built the Soviet merchant fleet into a global maritime power
Economy, finance and planning · Soviet Union
1902–1987
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Boris Pavlovich Beshchev Борис Павлович Бещев
The longest-serving Soviet minister, who led the railways for 29 years
Economy, finance and planning · Soviet Union
1903–1981
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Leonid Gatovsky Лев Маркович Гатовский
The editor who built the political economy of socialism as a discipline
Economy, finance and planning · Soviet Union
1903–1997
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Alexei Andreyevich Poskonov Алексей Андреевич Посконов
The Bashkir-born financial technocrat who ran Gosbank through the Kosygin reform
Economy, finance and planning · Soviet Union
1904–1969
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Alexei Nikolayevich Kosygin Алексей Николаевич Косыгин
The premier who tried to plant profit inside the plan
Economy, finance and planning · Soviet Union
1904–1980
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Pyotr Faddeyevich Lomako Пётр Фаддеевич Ломако
Founder of Soviet non-ferrous metallurgy and Gosplan chairman
Economy, finance and planning · Soviet Union
1904–1990
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Vladimir Nikonovich Starovsky Владимир Никонович Старовский
The man who ran Soviet statistics for 35 years
Economy, finance and planning · Soviet Union
1905–1975
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Alexander Akimovich Ishkov Александр Акимович Ишков
Architect of the Soviet ocean-going fishing fleet, felled by the 'fish mafia' scandal
Economy, finance and planning · Soviet Union
1905–1988
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Ivan Aleksandrovich Grishmanov Иван Александрович Гришманов
Carpenter-turned-minister who led the Soviet building-materials industry for 14 years
Economy, finance and planning · Soviet Union
1906–1979
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Yevgeni Fyodorovich Kozhevnikov Евгений Фёдорович Кожевников
Founding head of Mintransstroy who led Soviet transport construction across the Khrushchev and Brezhnev eras
Economy, finance and planning · Soviet Union
1906–1979
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Alexander Ivanovich Struyev Александр Иванович Струев
The trade minister who ran Soviet domestic commerce for 18 years
Economy, finance and planning · Soviet Union
1906–1991
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Vasily Mikhailovich Ryabikov Василий Михайлович Рябиков
Nine Orders of Lenin: the organizer who sustained the Soviet military-industrial complex for 35 years, from wartime arms to Sputnik
Economy, finance and planning · Soviet Union
1907–1974
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Pavel Vasilyevich Kovanov Павел Васильевич Кованов
First chairman of People's Control, Shelepin's deputy who became Brezhnev's auditor
Economy, finance and planning · Soviet Union
1907–1986
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Semen Andreevich Skachkov Семён Андреевич Скачков
The industrial manager who ran Soviet foreign economic aid for a quarter-century
Economy, finance and planning · Soviet Union
1907–1996
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Ivan Vasilyevich Arkhipov Иван Васильевич Архипов
Face of Sino-Soviet economic cooperation, senior operational manager of the Soviet economy under four general secretaries
Economy, finance and planning · Soviet Union
1907–1998
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Vladimir Nikolayevich Novikov Владимир Николаевич Новиков
A defence-industry technocrat who rose from arms-plant floor to head of state planning
Economy, finance and planning · Soviet Union
1907–2000
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Nikolai Semyonovich Patolichev Николай Семёнович Патоличев
The man who ran Soviet foreign trade for 27 years, holder of eleven Orders of Lenin
Economy, finance and planning · Soviet Union
1908–1989
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Alexander Konstantinovich Korovushkin Александр Константинович Коровушкин
The Gosbank chairman who carried out the 1961 redenomination and, witnesses say, threw his hat at Khrushchev
Economy, finance and planning · Soviet Union
1909–1976
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Mikhail Avksentyevich Lesechko Михаил Авксентьевич Лесечко
The deputy premier who directed Soviet economic integration with the Eastern Bloc for 18 years
Economy, finance and planning · Soviet Union
1909–1984
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Alexander Fedorovich Zasyadko Александр Фёдорович Засядько
The miner's son who climbed from the Donbas pits to the summit of Kremlin economic planning
Economy, finance and planning · Soviet Union
1910–1963
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Veniamin Emmanuilovich Dymshits Вениамин Эммануилович Дымшиц
The Jewish construction technocrat who was Soviet deputy premier for 23 years
Economy, finance and planning · Soviet Union
1910–1993
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Iosif Iosifovich Kuzmin Иосиф Иосифович Кузьмин
The planner who executed Khrushchev's sovnarkhoz reform
Economy, finance and planning · Soviet Union
1910–1996
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Nikolai Vasilyevich Martynov Николай Васильевич Мартынов
From munitions to material supply, the technocrat who managed the arteries of the planned economy
Economy, finance and planning · Soviet Union
1910–1998
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Mefody Naumovich Sveshnikov Мефодий Наумович Свешников
A career banker of peasant stock who rose to the summit of the Soviet monobank
Economy, finance and planning · Soviet Union
1911–1981
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Nikolai Timofeyevich Grishin Иван Тимофеевич Гришин
Deputy Minister of Foreign Trade for 26 years who steered industrial import deals across the Brezhnev era
Economy, finance and planning · Soviet Union
1911–1985
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Vasily Fyodorovich Garbuzov Василий Фёдорович Гарбузов
The long-serving finance minister of stagnation
Economy, finance and planning · Soviet Union
1911–1985
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Lev Markovich Volodarsky Лев Маркович Володарский
Keeper of Soviet state statistics who managed the planned economy's numbers as the younger brother of a revolutionary martyr
Economy, finance and planning · Soviet Union
1911–1989
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Nikolai Konstantinovich Baibakov Николай Константинович Байбаков
Long-serving Gosplan chairman of the stagnation era
Economy, finance and planning · Soviet Union
1911–2008
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Nikolai Timofeevich Glushkov Николай Тимофеевич Глушков
Brezhnev-era chief price administrator who oversaw every official price in the USSR for 11 years
Economy, finance and planning · Soviet Union
1918–1999
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Timofey Borisovich Guzhenko Тимофей Борисович Гуженко
The merchant marine minister who conquered the Arctic with a nuclear icebreaker fleet
Economy, finance and planning · Soviet Union
1918–2008
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Vladimir Sergeyevich Alkhimov Владимир Сергеевич Алхимов
Long-serving head of Gosbank
Economy, finance and planning · Soviet Union
1919–1993
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Boris Pavlovich Bugayev Борис Павлович Бугаев
Brezhnev's personal pilot who became Chief Marshal and the head of Soviet civil aviation
Economy, finance and planning · Soviet Union
1923–2007
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Boris Ivanovich Aristov Борис Иванович Аристов
The last Minister of Foreign Trade, who inherited a 27-year incumbent's post only to see the ministry itself abolished on his watch
Economy, finance and planning · Soviet Union
1925–2018
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Vasily Aleksandrovich Shamshin Василий Александрович Шамшин
Engineer-turned-minister who led the modernization of Soviet communications infrastructure
Economy, finance and planning · Soviet Union
1926–2009
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Vladimir Mikhailovich Kamentsev Владимир Михайлович Каменцев
The technocrat who brought Soviet fisheries to global leadership
Economy, finance and planning · Soviet Union
1928–2003
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Stepan Alekseyevich Shalaev Степан Алексеевич Шалаев
The last leader of the Soviet trade-union system
Economy, finance and planning · Soviet Union
1929–2022