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People of the Soviet Union
People of the wider world
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Alexander Ilyich Rodimtsev Александр Ильич Родимцев
Twice Hero of the Soviet Union who held Mamayev Kurgan at Stalingrad
Military command · Soviet Union state institutions
1905–1977
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Sergei Vasilyevich Kaftanov Сергей Васильевич Кафтанов
The GKO science plenipotentiary who pressed Stalin to restart atomic bomb research
Science and technology · Soviet Union state institutions
1905–1978
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Leonid Mikhailovich Nemenov Леонид Михайлович Неменов
The physicist who built an atomic accelerator amid wartime siege
Science and technology · Soviet Union state institutions
1905–1980
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Ivan Ivanovich Ilyichev Иван Иванович Ильичёв
Wartime GRU chief who reported directly to Stalin, steering Soviet military intelligence through the Red Army's greatest victories
Military command · Soviet Union state institutions
1905–1983
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Mikhail Alexandrovich Lifshitz Михаил Александрович Лифшиц
Builder of Marxist aesthetics who defended absolute truth and beauty against relativism
Scholarship and theory · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks
1905–1983
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Mikhail Alexandrovich Sholokhov Михаил Александрович Шолохов
The Russian and Soviet novelist of And Quiet Flows the Don
Literature and arts · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks
1905–1984
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Fyodor Tarasovich Gusev Фёдор Тарасович Гусев
Soviet diplomat who shuttled between the Big Three wartime summits as Molotov's deputy
Diplomacy and international organization · Soviet Union state institutions
1905–1987
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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 state institutions
1905–1988
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Isaak Moiseyevich Zaltsman Исаак Моисеевич Зальцман
The Tank King who built Tankograd
Industry and production · Soviet Union state institutions
1905–1988
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Ivan Alexandrovich Serov Иван Александрович Серов
The first chairman of the KGB
Security, intelligence and policing · Soviet Union state institutions
1905–1990
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Ivan Vasilyevich Spiridonov Иван Васильевич Спиридонов
Khrushchev-era Leningrad party boss who proposed removing Stalin's body from the Mausoleum and stumbled over the apparatus's loyalty test
Social movements and organizing · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks
1905–1991
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Nikolai Mikhailovich Pegov Николай Михайлович Пегов
Cadres chief pushed from late-Stalin Secretariat into diplomacy
Social movements and organizing · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks
1905–1991
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Vladimir Semyonovich Kruzhkov Владимир Семёнович Кружков
The ideology bureaucrat who co-wrote Stalin's biography, enforced the Zhdanov line, and fell in a sex scandal
Ideology and propaganda · Soviet Union state institutions
1905–1991
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Leonid Romanovich Kvasnikov Леонид Романович Квасников
The scientist-spy who stole the atomic bomb
Security, intelligence and policing · Soviet Union state institutions
1905–1993
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Boris Nikolayevich Ponomarev Борис Николаевич Пономарёв
The party international chief who managed the communist line abroad
Ideology and propaganda · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks
1905–1995
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Nikolai Alexandrovich Tikhonov Николай Александрович Тихонов
The conservative premier of late Brezhnevism
Government and administration · Soviet Union state institutions
1905–1997
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Alexander Samoylovich Khazan Александр Самойлович Хазан
Released in 1938, shot in 1955
Security, intelligence and policing · Soviet Union state institutions
1906–1955
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Arseniy Grigoryevich Golovko Арсений Григорьевич Головко
Guardian of the Arctic convoys as Northern Fleet commander, architect of Soviet naval power projection in the Atlantic
Military command · Soviet Union state institutions
1906–1962
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Lev Romanovich Sheinin Лев Романович Шейнин
The Stalin-era chief investigator who pioneered the Soviet detective story
Literature and arts · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks
1906–1967
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Georgy Mikhailovich Popov Георгий Михайлович Попов
The Moscow party boss who rebuilt the postwar capital and fell in the succession struggle
Social movements and organizing · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks
1906–1968
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Alexander Nikolayevich Komarovsky Александр Николаевич Комаровский
The military engineer who built the Soviet atomic project
Industry and production · Soviet Union state institutions
1906–1973
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Iosif Vasilievich Shikin Иосиф Васильевич Шикин
Zhdanov's GlavPUR chief who survived the Leningrad Affair: political commissar of the postwar Red Army
Military command · Soviet Union state institutions
1906–1973
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Dmitri Dmitriyevich Shostakovich Дмитрий Дмитриевич Шостакович
The composer who scored the Soviet century, and walked through two official annihilations
Literature and arts · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks
1906–1975
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Alexei Grigoryevich Stakhanov Алексей Григорьевич Стаханов
The miner whose 102-ton, 14x-norm shift ignited the defining mass productivity campaign of the Stalin era
Industry and production · Soviet Union state institutions
1906–1977
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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 state institutions
1906–1977
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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 state institutions
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 state institutions
1906–1979
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Yakov Aleksandrovich Malik Яков Александрович Малик
The Soviet UN diplomat who enabled Korean War intervention by boycott, and then proposed the armistice
Diplomacy and international organization · Soviet Union state institutions
1906–1980
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Leonid Georgiyevich Melnikov Леонид Георгиевич Мельников
First Secretary who ran the largest republican party in the USSR at the close of the Stalin era
Political and party leadership · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks
1906–1981
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Leonid Ilyich Brezhnev Леонид Ильич Брежнев
The man whose statecraft was not rocking the boat
Political and party leadership · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks
1906–1982
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Nikolai Aleksandrovich Mikhailov Николай Александрович Михайлов
Stalin's youth mobilizer turned Thaw-era Culture Minister, a party apparatus survivor
Ideology and propaganda · Soviet Union state institutions
1906–1982
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Vladimir Nikiforovich Malin Владимир Никифорович Малин
11-year keeper of the party's central document flow
Social movements and organizing · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks
1906–1982
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Oleg Konstantinovich Antonov Олег Константинович Антонов
From the An-2 to the An-225: the father of Soviet transport aviation
Industry and production · Soviet Union state institutions
1906–1984
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Anatoly Ivanovich Kostousov Анатолий Иванович Костоусов
The longest-serving industrial minister who made the USSR the world's top machine-tool producer
Industry and production · Soviet Union state institutions
1906–1985
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Alexander Sergeyevich Yakovlev Александр Сергеевич Яковлев
Father of the Yak fighter: the only aircraft designer Stalin personally summoned for advice
Industry and production · Soviet Union state institutions
1906–1989
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Andrei Pavlovich Kirilenko Андрей Павлович Кириленко
Brezhnev-era senior secretary for cadres
Social movements and organizing · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks
1906–1990
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Leonid Fyodorovich Ilyichev Леонид Фёдорович Ильичёв
Khrushchev's chief ideologue: the philosopher who edited both Pravda and Izvestia, then designed the anti-religious campaign
Ideology and propaganda · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks
1906–1990
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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 state institutions
1906–1991
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Mikhail Alekseyevich Yasnov Михаил Алексеевич Яснов
The 20-year formal head of state of the Russian republic under Brezhnev
Legislature and state representation · Soviet Union state institutions
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 state institutions
1906–1995
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Alexander Mikhailovich Puzanov Александр Михайлович Пузанов
The RSFSR premier who opposed the Crimea transfer and silently let Kim Il Sung consolidate one-man rule
Diplomacy and international organization · Soviet Union state institutions
1906–1998
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Mikhail Ivanovich Rodionov Михаил Иванович Родионов
The RSFSR premier who turned wartime Gorky into an arsenal
Political and party leadership · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks
1907–1950
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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 state institutions
1907–1955
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Lev Ilyich Rusinov Лев Ильич Русинов
An experimental physicist who explored fission and nuclear isomerism
Science and technology · Soviet Union state institutions
1907–1960
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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 state institutions
1907–1966
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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 state institutions
1907–1971
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Alexei Kirillovich Kortunov Алексей Кириллович Кортунов
Hero of the Soviet Union who built the Unified Gas Supply System
Industry and production · Soviet Union state institutions
1907–1973
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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 state institutions
1907–1974
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Sergei Matveyevich Shtemenko Сергей Матвеевич Штеменко
The staff officer who designed Stalin's war plans and fell twice
Military command · Soviet Union state institutions
1907–1976
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Pyotr Vasilyevich Dementiev Пётр Васильевич Дементьев
The Chuvash 'Peter the Great' who led Soviet aviation for 24 years
Industry and production · Soviet Union state institutions
1907–1977