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People of the Revolution and the USSR
Activity
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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Ivan Grigoryevich Pavlovsky Иван Григорьевич Павловский
The ground forces commander who invaded Czechoslovakia and opposed Afghanistan
Military command · Soviet Union state institutions
1909–1999
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Pyotr Ivanovich Ivashutin Пётр Иванович Ивашутин
The KGB man who led the GRU for 24 years: Soviet military intelligence's longest-serving chief
Security, intelligence and policing · Soviet Union state institutions
1909–2002
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Mikhail Sergeyevich Smirtyukov Михаил Сергеевич Смиртюков
The non-Politburo power who was the institutional memory of the Soviet government for 25 years
Government and administration · Soviet Union state institutions
1909–2004
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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 state institutions
1910–1963
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Sergei Vladimirovich Kurashov Сергей Владимирович Курашов
Khrushchev-era health minister who presided over the World Health Assembly
Science and technology · Soviet Union state institutions
1910–1965
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Aleksandr Petrovich Rudakov Александр Петрович Рудаков
Heavy-industry secretary in Khrushchev's bifurcated industrial Secretariat
Social movements and organizing · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks
1910–1966
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Aleksandr Trifonovich Tvardovsky Александр Трифонович Твардовский
Novy Mir editor who opened the Thaw and national poet of Vasili Tyorkin
Literature and arts · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks
1910–1971
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Yekaterina Alexeyevna Furtseva Екатерина Алексеевна Фурцева
Long-serving culture minister between thaw and control
Ideology and propaganda · Soviet Union state institutions
1910–1974
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Ivan Dmitrievich Serbin Иван Дмитриевич Сербин
The party's 'Ivan the Terrible' who oversaw the entire Soviet military-industrial complex for 23 years
Industry and production · Soviet Union state institutions
1910–1981
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Viktor Yakovlevich Litvinov Виктор Яковлевич Литвинов
The factory director who led Soviet aircraft and rocket mass production for 33 years
Industry and production · Soviet Union state institutions
1910–1983
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Nikolai Anisimovich Shchelokov Николай Анисимович Щёлоков
Brezhnev's 16-year police chief who rebuilt the MVD into a modern force
Security, intelligence and policing · Soviet Union state institutions
1910–1984
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Pavel Fyodorovich Batitsky Павел Фёдорович Батицкий
The marshal who built Soviet air defence and personally executed Beria
Military command · Soviet Union state institutions
1910–1984
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Sergei Georgievich Gorshkov Сергей Георгиевич Горшков
The 29-year C-in-C who built the Soviet ocean-going navy, author of 'The Sea Power of the State'
Military command · Soviet Union state institutions
1910–1988
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Vladimir Afanasyevich Kasatonov Владимир Афанасьевич Касатонов
Fleet Admiral who commanded the Baltic, Black Sea, and Northern Fleets: a builder of the Soviet ocean-going navy
Military command · Soviet Union state institutions
1910–1989
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Georgy Sergeyevich Pavlov Георгий Сергеевич Павлов
Brezhnev's 18-year steward of the party treasury and 'party gold'
Social movements and organizing · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks
1910–1991
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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 state institutions
1910–1993
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Gennady Ivanovich Voronov Геннадий Иванович Воронов
The RSFSR premier who never stopped speaking bluntly to Brezhnev
Agriculture and land policy · Soviet Union state institutions
1910–1994
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Iosif Iosifovich Kuzmin Иосиф Иосифович Кузьмин
The planner who executed Khrushchev's sovnarkhoz reform
Economy, finance and planning · Soviet Union state institutions
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 state institutions
1910–1998
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Mikhail Alekseyevich Prokofyev Михаил Алексеевич Прокофьев
The scientist-minister who led Soviet education for 18 years
Education · Soviet Union state institutions
1910–1999
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Pyotr Stepanovich Neporozhny Пётр Степанович Непорожний
The longest-serving energy minister who built the Unified Energy System
Industry and production · Soviet Union state institutions
1910–1999
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Nikolai Konstantinovich Beloborodov Николай Константинович Белобородов
First deputy chief of the 12th GUMO who commanded Soviet nuclear warheads in Cuba and, three decades later, wrote the definitive report
Military command · Soviet Union state institutions
1910–2003
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Mikhail Kuzmich Yangel Михаил Кузьмич Янгель
Designer whose storable-propellant rockets became the backbone of the Strategic Rocket Forces
Science and technology · Soviet Union state institutions
1911–1971
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Alexander Mikhailovich Tarasov Александр Михайлович Тарасов
The man who opened the Soviet mass-automobile era: father of the Lada
Industry and production · Soviet Union state institutions
1911–1975
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Mstislav Vsevolodovich Keldysh Мстислав Всеволодович Келдыш
Academy president who coordinated space science
Science and technology · Soviet Union state institutions
1911–1978
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Konstantin Nikolayevich Rudnev Константин Николаевич Руднев
The defence-industry administrator who sent Gagarin into space
Industry and production · Soviet Union state institutions
1911–1980
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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 state institutions
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 state institutions
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 state institutions
1911–1985
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Lev Nikolayevich Smirnov Лев Николаевич Смирнов
From Nuremberg assistant prosecutor to chief justice of the USSR, the Supreme Court chairman who presided over political trials
Law and justice · Soviet Union state institutions
1911–1986
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Grigory Sergeyevich Zolotukhin Григорий Сергеевич Золотухин
A Brezhnev-era agricultural functionary who ran Tambov and Krasnodar, then oversaw Soviet grain procurement for 14 years
Agriculture and land policy · Soviet Union state institutions
1911–1988
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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 state institutions
1911–1989
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Georgy Mokeevich Markov Георгий Мокеевич Марков
The Brezhnev-era literary gatekeeper who celebrated Siberia while enforcing official aesthetics as head of the Writers' Union for 15 years
Literature and arts · Soviet Union state institutions
1911–1991
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Vladimir Semyonovich Semyonov Владимир Семёнович Семёнов
Four-decade architect of Soviet German policy
Diplomacy and international organization · Soviet Union state institutions
1911–1992
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Nikolai D. Dmitriyevich Kuznetsov Николай Дмитриевич Кузнецов
From the NK-12 to the NK-33: the chief engine designer who powered Soviet skies and space
Science and technology · Soviet Union state institutions
1911–1995
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Mikhail Timofeyevich Yefremov Михаил Тимофеевич Ефремов
From Volga orphanage boy to Kosygin's deputy premier: a party cadres specialist who ran three obkoms
Social movements and organizing · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks
1911–2000
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Nikolai Konstantinovich Baibakov Николай Константинович Байбаков
Long-serving Gosplan chairman of the stagnation era
Economy, finance and planning · Soviet Union state institutions
1911–2008
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Ivan Ignatyevich Yakubovsky Иван Игнатьевич Якубовский
Belarusian-born marshal who commanded the Warsaw Pact forces for nine years
Military command · Soviet Union state institutions
1912–1976
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Sergei Alekseyevich Zverev Сергей Алексеевич Зверев
The Defense Industry Minister who ran Soviet conventional arms production for 13 years under Brezhnev
Industry and production · Soviet Union state institutions
1912–1978
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Sabit Atayevich Orudzhev Сабит Атаевич Оруджев
The Azeri engineer who built the Soviet gas industry into the world's largest
Industry and production · Soviet Union state institutions
1912–1981
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Mikhail Porfiryevich Georgadze Михаил Порфирьевич Георгадзе
The institutional anchor who co-signed every Soviet decree across four heads of state for 25 years
Agriculture and land policy · Soviet Union state institutions
1912–1982
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Sergei Pavlovich Trapeznikov Сергей Павлович Трапезников
The gatekeeper of academic orthodoxy in the Brezhnev era
Ideology and propaganda · Soviet Union state institutions
1912–1984
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Yakov Abramovich Kronrod Яков Абрамович Кронрод
Leader of the 'commodity school' in Soviet political economy who argued for the law of value and economic democracy
Scholarship and theory
1912–1984
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Konstantin Ustinovich Chernenko Константин Устинович Черненко
The last General Secretary of the Brezhnev order
Political and party leadership · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks
1912–1985
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Leonid Vitaliyevich Kantorovich Леонид Витальевич Канторович
The Nobel laureate who tried to optimize central planning with mathematics
Science and technology · Soviet Union state institutions
1912–1986
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Vladimir Ilyich Stepakov Владимир Ильич Степаков
Brezhnev-era Agitprop chief removed over a misattributed Lenin quote
Ideology and propaganda · Soviet Union state institutions
1912–1987
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Sergey Georgiyevich Lapin Сергей Георгиевич Лапин
Brezhnev's broadcasting czar who ran all Soviet TV and radio for 15 years
Ideology and propaganda · Soviet Union state institutions
1912–1990
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Lev Nikolayevich Gumilev Лев Николаевич Гумилёв
Historian who reinvented Eurasianism with the theory of ethnogenesis and passionarity
Scholarship and theory
1912–1992
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Aleksei Pavlovich Shitikov Алексей Павлович Шитиков
From Khabarovsk party boss to Chairman of the Soviet of the Union: the institutional face of federal legislation in the Brezhnev era
Political and party leadership · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks
1912–1993
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Dinmukhamed Akhmetuly Kunaev Дінмұхамед Ахметұлы Қонаев
The republic-builder who led Kazakhstan for 24 years as Brezhnev's partner, whose dismissal sparked the Zheltoksan uprising
Political and party leadership · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks
1912–1993