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People

People of the Revolution and the USSR

Activity(set)

Any Political and party leadership 139 Government and administration 40 Legislature and state representation 6 Monarchs and royalty 4 Military command 211 Security, intelligence and policing 110 Diplomacy and international organization 44 Economy, finance and planning 94 Industry and production 84 Agriculture and land policy 18 Ideology and propaganda 56 Social movements and organizing 179 Scholarship and theory 105 Education 8 Science and technology 108 Literature and arts 79 Religion 4 Law and justice 31

Affiliation

Most people

Any Soviet Unionstate 103 Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks 73 Russian Empirestate 6 Russian Social Democratic Labour Party (RSDLP) 5 Party of Left Socialist Revolutionaries 1

All 5 affiliations

Russia

Russian Empirestate 6 Party of Left Socialist Revolutionaries 1 Russian Social Democratic Labour Party (RSDLP) 5

Soviet Union

Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks 73 Soviet Unionstate 103

Position

Any Imperial establishment and White movement 6 Left critics of Bolshevism 2 Marxism and communism 101

Citizenship

Any Soviet Union 102 Russia 8

Background(set)

Any Russia 110 Ukraine 19 Germany 16 Georgia 11 Poland 11 Belarus 10 Hungary 9 France 6 Latvia 6 United States 6 Lithuania 4 China 3 Armenia 2 Czechoslovakia 2 Albania 1 East Germany 1 Estonia 1 Greece 1 Japan 1 Korea 1 Madagascar 1 Romania 1 Serbia 1 Slovakia 1 Somalia 1 Spain 1 Turkey 1 Uzbekistan 1

Era

Any

People of the Soviet Union

The old regime and its challengers1905–1917 6 The revolutionary generation1917–1940 13 People of the Stalin era1929–1953 63 People of the thaw and the stagnation1953–1985 21 The last generation1985–1991 7

Security, intelligence and policing Background: Russia Clear all

110 people

By birth A–Z List Cards

Vasily Abramovich Karutsky Василий Абрамович Каруцкий NKVD chief who sat on a mass-operation troika and killed himself before his arrest Security, intelligence and policing · Soviet Union 1900–1938
Ivan Yakovlevich Lavrushin Иван Яковлевич Лаврушин NKVD chief who chaired the Gorky oblast troika Security, intelligence and policing · Soviet Union 1900–1940
Ivan Ivanovich Maslennikov Иван Иванович Масленников From NKVD Deputy Commissar to General of the Army: the rare commander who held senior rank in both the security apparatus and the Red Army Security, intelligence and policing · Soviet Union 1900–1954
Pyotr Vasilyevich Fedotov Пётр Васильевич Федотов 38-year Chekist who commanded both counterintelligence and foreign intelligence from Cheka to KGB Security, intelligence and policing · Soviet Union 1900–1963
Sergei Ivanovich Ogoltsov Сергей Иванович Огольцов An operative who spanned every iteration of Soviet state security across 35 years Security, intelligence and policing · Soviet Union 1900–1976
Boris Davydovich Berman Борис Давыдович Берман The intelligence officer who directed the Great Purge in Belorussia Security, intelligence and policing · Soviet Union 1901–1939
Dmitry Matveyevich Dmitriev Дмитрий Матвеевич Дмитриев The Sverdlovsk NKVD chief whose testimony first unspooled the 'NKVD conspiracy' Security, intelligence and policing · Soviet Union 1901–1939
Nikolai Nikolayevich Selivanovsky Николай Николаевич Селивановский The counterintelligence officer who bypassed the chain of command and telegraphed Stalin to replace Stalingrad's commander Security, intelligence and policing · Soviet Union 1901–1997
Semyon Grigoryevich Gendin Семён Григорьевич Гендин Cheka-bred intelligence officer who led the GRU during the Great Purge and saved Sorge's Tokyo station Security, intelligence and policing · Soviet Union 1902–1939
Alexander Ivanovich Uspensky Александр Иванович Успенский The Ukrainian NKVD chief who faked his suicide and ran Security, intelligence and policing · Soviet Union 1902–1940
Viktor Pavlovich Zhuravlev Виктор Павлович Журавлёв Author of the letter that brought Yezhov down Security, intelligence and policing · Soviet Union 1902–1946
Sergei Romanovich Savchenko Сергей Романович Савченко The state security chief who dismantled the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church by force, then ran Soviet foreign intelligence in late Stalinism Security, intelligence and policing · Soviet Union 1904–1966
Zalman Isaevich Passov Зельман Исаевич Пассов Foreign intelligence chief who led the Polish Operation mass arrests Security, intelligence and policing · Soviet Union 1905–1940
Viktor Grigorievich Nasedkin Виктор Григорьевич Наседкин The camp empire's administrator who ran the GULAG through the Great Patriotic War Security, intelligence and policing · Soviet Union 1905–1950
Lev Yemelyanovich Vlodzimirsky Лев Емельянович Влодзимирский Head of the unit for especially important cases Security, intelligence and policing · Soviet Union 1905–1953
Anatoly Alexandrovich Esaulov Анатолий Александрович Эсаулов The interrogator of Yezhov: the hand that kept the record as the machine devoured its own master Security, intelligence and policing · Soviet Union 1905–1954
Boris Rodos Борис Вениаминович Родос The Great Purge's chief interrogator: NKVD Investigation Deputy Chief who broke Politburo members, generals, and writers Security, intelligence and policing · Soviet Union 1905–1956
Aleksandr Semyonovich Panyushkin Александр Семёнович Панюшкин Soviet foreign intelligence chief who directed operations under ambassadorial cover in China and the United States Security, intelligence and policing · Soviet Union 1905–1974
Ivan Alexandrovich Serov Иван Александрович Серов The first chairman of the KGB Security, intelligence and policing · Soviet Union 1905–1990
Leonid Romanovich Kvasnikov Леонид Романович Квасников The scientist-spy who stole the atomic bomb Security, intelligence and policing · Soviet Union 1905–1993
Alexander Samoylovich Khazan Александр Самойлович Хазан Released in 1938, shot in 1955 Security, intelligence and policing · Soviet Union 1906–1955
Nikolai Pavlovich Dudorov Николай Павлович Дудоров Khrushchev's civilian interior minister who tried and failed to dismantle the informant system Security, intelligence and policing · Soviet Union 1906–1977
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 1907–1955
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 1907–1966
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 1907–1971
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 1907–1977
Konstantin Fyodorovich Lunev Константин Фёдорович Лунёв A party cadre elevated into the security apparatus Security, intelligence and policing · Soviet Union 1907–1980
Viktor Semyonovich Abakumov Виктор Семёнович Абакумов Stalin's security chief who commanded SMERSH and ruled the MGB Security, intelligence and policing · Soviet Union 1908–1954
Aleksandr Mikhailovich Sakharovsky Александр Михайлович Сахаровский State-security officer who led Soviet foreign intelligence for 15 years Security, intelligence and policing · Soviet Union 1909–1983
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 1909–2002
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 1910–1984
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
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
Mikhail Dmitrievich Ryumin Михаил Дмитриевич Рюмин Engineer of the Doctors' Plot, NKVD bookkeeper turned deputy minister Security, intelligence and policing · Soviet Union 1913–1954
Yuri Vladimirovich Andropov Юрий Владимирович Андропов The paradox: a reformer’s patron inside the KGB Security, intelligence and policing · Soviet Union 1914–1984
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
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
Vadim Aleksandrovich Matrosov Вадим Александрович Матросов The military axis of the KGB: 17 years commanding the border army Security, intelligence and policing · Soviet Union 1917–1999
Fyodor Konstantinovich Mortin Фёдор Константинович Мортин Sakharovsky's 13-year right hand and the short-lived PGU chief of early détente Security, intelligence and policing · Soviet Union 1918–1990
Alexander Nikolayevich Shelepin Александр Николаевич Шелепин The Komsomol boss who took over the KGB Security, intelligence and policing · Soviet Union 1918–1994
Ivan Kirillovich Yakovlev Иван Кириллович Яковлев The MVD general who turned the Internal Troops into a mobile strike force and sealed Chernobyl Security, intelligence and policing · Soviet Union 1918–2002
Oleg Vladimirovich Penkovsky Олег Владимирович Пеньковский The GRU colonel who fed the West over 5,000 classified documents on Soviet missile weakness, exposing Khrushchev's strategic bluff Security, intelligence and policing · Soviet Union 1919–1963
Ivan Lavrentievich Ustinov Иван Лаврентьевич Устинов Military counterintelligence chief of the Brezhnev era Security, intelligence and policing · Soviet Union 1920–2020
Vadim Stepanovich Tikunov Вадим Степанович Тикунов Shelepin-network RSFSR interior minister who led Khrushchev-era policing Security, intelligence and policing · Soviet Union 1921–1980
Vadim Alekseyevich Kirpichenko Вадим Алексеевич Кирпиченко KGB First Chief Directorate deputy who ran Soviet foreign intelligence for twelve years Security, intelligence and policing · Soviet Union 1922–2005
Viktor Mikhailovich Chebrikov Виктор Михайлович Чебриков KGB chairman from late stagnation into perestroika Security, intelligence and policing · Soviet Union 1923–1999
Vladimir Yefimovich Semichastny Владимир Ефимович Семичастный The KGB chairman during Khrushchev’s fall Security, intelligence and policing · Soviet Union 1924–2001
Vladimir Alexandrovich Kryuchkov Владимир Александрович Крючков The KGB chairman who designed the August coup Security, intelligence and policing · Soviet Union 1924–2007
Vladimir Petrovich Pirozhkov Владимир Петрович Пирожков The KGB constant: 20 years as deputy chairman under four chiefs Security, intelligence and policing · Soviet Union 1924–2009
Filip Denisovich Bobkov Филипп Денисович Бобков Architect of KGB ideological counterintelligence, 45-year Chekist under 12 chiefs Security, intelligence and policing · Soviet Union 1925–2019

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