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27 people

By birth A–Z List Cards

Bogdan Mirzadzhanovich Knunyants Богдан Мирзаджанович Кнунянц Iskra majority delegate at the 2nd Congress, a pioneer Caucasus Bolshevik who died in prison at 32 Social movements and organizing 1878–1911
Stepan Georgiyevich Shaumyan Степан Георгиевич Шаумян The 'Caucasian Lenin', Marxist theorist of the national question and leader of the Baku Commune Government and administration · Soviet Union 1878–1918
Alexander Fyodorovich Myasnikov Александр Фёдорович Мясников Lenin's periphery-builder who brought Soviet power to Belarus and Armenia Government and administration · Soviet Union 1886–1925
Lev Mikhailovich Karakhan Лев Михайлович Карахан Author of the 1919 Karakhan Manifesto that renounced Tsarist unequal treaties with China Diplomacy and international organization · Soviet Union 1889–1937
Yuvelian Davidovich Sumbatov-Topuridze Ювельян Давидович Сумбатов-Топуридзе Azerbaijan's people's commissar of internal affairs in the mass operations, arrested in the Beria case Security, intelligence and policing · Soviet Union 1889–1960
Ivan Stepanovich Isakov Иван Степанович Исаков The Soviet Navy's scholar-admiral who lost a leg at Tuapse and still fought two wars to the end Military command · Soviet Union 1894–1967
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
Ivan Khristoforovich Bagramyan Иван Христофорович Баграмян The first non-Slavic front commander, from Bagration to the Baltic Military command · Soviet Union 1897–1982
Stepan Akopovich Akopov Степан Акопович Акопов Armenian production boss from wartime medium machine-building to the postwar auto industry Industry and production · Soviet Union 1899–1958
Sergei Alexandrovich Khudyakov Сергей Александрович Худяков Stalin's air adviser at Tehran and Yalta. The Red Army's only Armenian Marshal of Aviation, executed 1950 Military command · Soviet Union 1902–1950
Aram Ilyich Khachaturian Арам Ильич Хачатурян Composer who fused Armenian folk melody with the Soviet symphony Ideology and propaganda · Soviet Union 1903–1978
Bogdan Zakharovich Kobulov Богдан Захарович Кобулов Beria's closest deputy, executor of Katyn and the mass deportations Security, intelligence and policing · Soviet Union 1904–1953
Abram Isaakovich Alikhanov Абрам Исаакович Алиханов From heavy-water reactors to the world's largest accelerator: 23-year director of ITEP Science and technology · Soviet Union 1904–1970
Artyom Ivanovich Mikoyan Артём Иванович Микоян Father of the MiG: the fighter designer who ruled the sky in an instant Industry and production · Soviet Union 1905–1970
Andranik Melkonovich Petrosyants Андраник Мелконович Петросьянц Civilian face of the nuclear program who chaired the State Atomic Energy Committee for 24 years Science and technology · Soviet Union 1906–2005
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
Leonid Arkadyevich Kostandov Леонид Аркадьевич Костандов Longest-serving chemical industry minister who led the Brezhnev-era chemicalization drive Industry and production · Soviet Union 1915–1984
Karen Nersesovich Brutents Карен Нерсесович Брутенц The International Department theorist who designed Soviet Third World policy under Brezhnev Ideology and propaganda · Soviet Union 1924–2017
Sergo Anastasi Mikoyan Серго Анастасович Микоян A historian who reconstructed the Cold War’s hidden record Scholarship and theory · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks 1929–2010
Stepan Aramaisovich Sitaryan Степан Арамаисович Ситарян The highest-ranking Armenian economist in the Soviet apparatus, who pushed the Law on Cooperatives through the Politburo Economy, finance and planning · Soviet Union 1930–2009
Genrikh Andreyevich Poghosyan Հենրիկ Անդրեյի Պողոսյան The last party first secretary who tilted Nagorno-Karabakh toward Armenia Political and party leadership · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks 1931–2000
Boris Sarkisovich Kevorkov Բորիս Սարգսի Կևորկով The Armenian party functionary who enforced Baku's control over Nagorno-Karabakh Political and party leadership · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks 1932–1998
Karen Serobovich Demirchyan Карен Серобович Демирчян Modernized Soviet Armenia over 14 years, sacked for siding with Karabakh, returned and assassinated in parliament Political and party leadership · Soviet Union 1932–1999
Stepan Karapetovich Pogosyan Ստեփան Կարապետի Պողոսյան The last leader of Armenia's Communist Party before the Soviet collapse Ideology and propaganda · Soviet Union 1932–2012
Vladimir Migranovich Movsisyan Վլադիմիր Միգրանովիչ Մովսիսյան The last Communist Party first secretary of Soviet Armenia Agriculture and land policy · Soviet Union 1933–2014
Artyom Mikhaylovich Tarasov Артём Михайлович Тарасов The first legal Soviet millionaire, whose 90,000-ruble party dues payment forced the cooperative law to be amended twice Economy, finance and planning · Soviet Union 1950–2017
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