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People of the Revolution and the USSR
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Position
Citizenship
Background(set)
Era
People of the Soviet Union
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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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Dmitry Georgievich Zhimerin Дмитрий Георгиевич Жимерин
Standard-bearer of Soviet electrification who became wartime power minister at 35
Economy, finance and planning · Soviet Union
1906–1995
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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 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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Viktor Vladimirovich Dementsev Виктор Владимирович Деменцев
A fiscal realist who warned against abrupt prohibition
Economy, finance and planning · Soviet Union
1918–2010
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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 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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Nikolai Semyonovich Konarev Николай Семёнович Конарев
The last chief of the Soviet railways
Economy, finance and planning · Soviet Union
1927–2007
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Konstantin Fyodorovich Katushev Константин Фёдорович Катушев
Late Soviet foreign-economic official
Economy, finance and planning · Soviet Union
1927–2010
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Yuri Petrovich Batalin Юрий Петрович Баталин
The perestroika-era construction chief who built the West Siberian oil and gas complex and the Chernobyl sarcophagus
Economy, finance and planning · Soviet Union
1927–2013
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Boris Ivanovich Gostev Борис Иванович Гостев
The last orthodox Soviet finance minister who rejected market reform during perestroika
Economy, finance and planning · Soviet Union
1927–2015
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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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Lev Alekseyevich Voronin Лев Алексеевич Воронин
Guardian of state material supply in the Gorbachev era
Economy, finance and planning · Soviet Union
1928–2008
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Nikolai Vladimirovich Talyzin Николай Владимирович Талызин
Gosplan chairman of the perestroika era who built the world's first satellite TV broadcasting system
Economy, finance and planning · Soviet Union
1929–1991
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Aleksandra Pavlovna Biryukova Александра Павловна Бирюкова
Gorbachev's highest-ranking woman, the 'Russian Margaret Thatcher' tasked with solving Soviet consumer shortages
Economy, finance and planning · Soviet Union
1929–2008
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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
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Leonid Ivanovich Abalkin Леонид Иванович Абалкин
Chief economic theorist of late perestroika, architect of the 'regulated market' between radical reformers and conservative planners
Economy, finance and planning · Soviet Union
1930–2011
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Arnold Vasilyevich Voylukov Арнольд Васильевич Войлуков
The Soviet banker who testified about reform's hidden origins
Economy, finance and planning · Russian Federation state institutions
1932–2016
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Stanislav Sergeyevich Shatalin Станислав Сергеевич Шаталин
Architect of the 500 Days programme, radical reform economist who tried to convert the Soviet planned economy to the market in one leap
Economy, finance and planning · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks
1934–1997
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Valentin Sergeyevich Pavlov Валентин Сергеевич Павлов
The last Soviet premier and an August coup participant
Economy, finance and planning · Soviet Union
1937–2003
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Viktor Vladimirovich Gerashchenko Виктор Владимирович Геращенко
Central banker of the Soviet collapse and Russian transition
Economy, finance and planning · Soviet Union
1937–2022
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Vladimir Ivanovich Shcherbakov Владимир Иванович Щербаков
The last Gosplan chairman who presided over the dissolution of Soviet planning
Economy, finance and planning · Soviet Union
1949–
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Grigory Alekseyevich Yavlinsky Григорий Алексеевич Явлинский
Architect of the 500 Days Program: perestroika economist who drafted a rapid transition from planned economy to market
Economy, finance and planning · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks
1952–
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Vladimir Alexandrovich Usov Владимир Александрович Усов
The 37-year-old economist killed by a stray bullet while coming to Komar's aid at the barricades
Economy, finance and planning
1954–1991
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Yegor Timurovich Gaidar Егор Тимурович Гайдар
Architect of shock therapy, the economist who dismantled the planned economy and laid the first stones of Russian capitalism
Economy, finance and planning · Russian Federation state institutions
1956–2009