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People of the Revolution and the USSR
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Affiliation
Position(set)
Citizenship
Background(set)
Era
People of the Soviet Union
People of the wider world
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Boris Yevgenyevich Paton Борис Евгеньевич Патон
Father of electroslag welding who led Ukraine's Academy of Sciences for 58 years
Science and technology · Soviet Union state institutions
1918–2020
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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 state institutions
1919–1963
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Lev Nikolayevich Tolkunov Лев Николаевич Толкунов
From Izvestia editor to Soviet of the Union chairman: a Brezhnev-era media mandarin who became the face of the supreme legislature
Ideology and propaganda · Soviet Union state institutions
1919–1989
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Vladimir Sergeyevich Alkhimov Владимир Сергеевич Алхимов
Long-serving head of Gosbank
Economy, finance and planning · Soviet Union state institutions
1919–1993
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Viktor Mikhailovich Bushuyev Виктор Михайлович Бушуев
CC department head who directed the Soviet chemical industry
Social movements and organizing · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks
1919–1996
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Georgy Emmanuilovich Tsukanov Георгий Эммануилович Цуканов
The quiet gatekeeper who controlled Brezhnev's paper flow
Social movements and organizing · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks
1919–2001
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Oleg Alexandrovich Troyanovsky Олег Александрович Трояновский
From Stalin's interpreter to UN ambassador, the Soviet diplomat who weathered Cold War crises with wit
Diplomacy and international organization · Soviet Union state institutions
1919–2003
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Pavel Vasilyevich Finogenov Павел Васильевич Финогенов
The defense industry minister who ran Soviet conventional arms production from late Brezhnev through perestroika
Industry and production · Soviet Union state institutions
1919–2004
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Yuri Vsyevolodovich Votintsev Юрий Всеволодович Вотинцев
A missile-defence builder who disclosed a Cold War false alarm
Military command · Soviet Union state institutions
1919–2005
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Yuri Andreyevich Zhdanov Юрий Андреевич Жданов
Stalin's son-in-law who criticized Lysenko, recanted, then built Rostov University over 31 years as rector
Education · Soviet Union state institutions
1919–2006
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Anatoly Ivanovich Gribkov Анатолий Иванович Грибков
Secret planner of the Cuban Missile Crisis deployment and last Chief of Staff of the Warsaw Pact Joint Armed Forces
Military command · Soviet Union state institutions
1919–2008
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Boris Grigorievich Dubovsky Борис Григорьевич Дубовский
The physicist who built the dosimetry for F-1's first criticality and founded the Soviet reactor radiation safety system
Science and technology · Soviet Union state institutions
1919–2008
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Dmitry Ilyich Kozlov Дмитрий Ильич Козлов
Korolev's right hand who led the R-7 through design, mass production, and every successive variant
Science and technology · Soviet Union state institutions
1919–2009
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Anatoly Fyodorovich Dobrynin Анатолий Фёдорович Добрынин
The ambassador whose 24 years in Washington made him the hidden circuit of Soviet–American diplomacy
Diplomacy and international organization · Soviet Union state institutions
1919–2010
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Alexander Mikhailovich Rekunkov Александр Михайлович Рекунков
Soviet Procurator General who served from Brezhnev to Gorbachev and personally delivered Sakharov's exile decree
Law and justice · Soviet Union state institutions
1920–1996
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Nikolai Grigoryevich Yegorychev Николай Григорьевич Егорычев
The Moscow party boss who challenged Brezhnev and was exiled to diplomacy
Social movements and organizing · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks
1920–2005
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Nikolai Nikolayevich Mesyatsev Николай Николаевич Месяцев
The official who exposed the fabricated Doctors' Plot
Ideology and propaganda · Soviet Union state institutions
1920–2011
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Ivan Lavrentievich Ustinov Иван Лаврентьевич Устинов
Military counterintelligence chief of the Brezhnev era
Security, intelligence and policing · Soviet Union state institutions
1920–2020
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Yegor Kuzmich Ligachev Егор Кузьмич Лигачёв
The conservative Second Secretary inside perestroika
Social movements and organizing · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks
1920–2021
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Vadim Stepanovich Tikunov Вадим Степанович Тикунов
Shelepin-network RSFSR interior minister who led Khrushchev-era policing
Security, intelligence and policing · Soviet Union state institutions
1921–1980
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Nikolai Nikolayevich Inozemtsev Николай Николаевич Иноземцев
Intellectual architect of Brezhnev-era détente
Scholarship and theory · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks
1921–1982
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Vladimir Mikhailovich Vinogradov Владимир Михайлович Виноградов
Soviet Middle East diplomat who witnessed the 1973 war and the Iranian Revolution from inside
Diplomacy and international organization · Soviet Union state institutions
1921–1997
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Viktor Georgiyevich Kulikov Виктор Георгиевич Куликов
Longest-serving Warsaw Pact supreme commander, who led its forces for twelve years
Military command · Soviet Union state institutions
1921–2013
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Anatoly Sergeyevich Chernyaev Анатолий Сергеевич Черняев
Gorbachev's pen and conscience: architect of New Thinking diplomacy
Diplomacy and international organization · Soviet Union state institutions
1921–2017
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Pyotr Stepanovich Pleshakov Пётр Степанович Плешаков
Architect of Soviet radio-electronic warfare
Industry and production · Soviet Union state institutions
1922–1987
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Georgi Nikitovich Bolshakov Георгий Никитович Большаков
The GRU officer who ran the secret backchannel between Khrushchev and the Kennedys
Military command · Soviet Union state institutions
1922–1989
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Viktor Grigoryevich Afanasyev Виктор Григорьевич Афанасьев
Longest-serving Pravda editor and gatekeeper of Brezhnev-era print orthodoxy
Ideology and propaganda · Soviet Union state institutions
1922–1994
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Nikolai Gennadiyevich Basov Николай Геннадиевич Басов
Nobel-winning physicist who laid the foundations of the maser and laser, then extended quantum electronics into missile defense
Science and technology · Soviet Union state institutions
1922–2001
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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 state institutions
1922–2005
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Oleg Genrikhovich Ivanovsky Олег Генрихович Ивановский
The engineer who turned early Soviet spacecraft designs into tested machines
Science and technology · Soviet Union state institutions
1922–2014
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Leonid Mitrofanovich Zamyatin Леонид Митрофанович Замятин
Information architect of the Brezhnev system
Ideology and propaganda · Soviet Union state institutions
1922–2019
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Zoya Anatolyevna Kosmodemyanskaya Зоя Анатольевна Космодемьянская
The first woman Hero of the Soviet Union, the 18-year-old partisan who cried 'Stalin will come!' from the gallows
Military command · Soviet Union state institutions
1923–1941
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Viktor Mikhailovich Glushkov Виктор Михайлович Глушков
Father of Soviet cybernetics whose OGAS network envisioned real-time socialist planning decades before the internet
Science and technology · Soviet Union state institutions
1923–1982
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Nikolai Vasilyevich Sutyagin Николай Васильевич Сутягин
The Soviet ace with MiG Alley’s highest score
Military command · Soviet Union state institutions
1923–1986
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Sergei Fyodorovich Akhromeyev Сергей Фёдорович Ахромеев
The Soviet Marshal who forged the INF Treaty and could not outlive the USSR
Military command · Soviet Union state institutions
1923–1991
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Alexander Ivanovich Koldunov Александр Иванович Колдунов
The top Yak ace of the war who rose to command the Air Defence Forces, and fell after a teenager landed on Red Square
Military command · Soviet Union state institutions
1923–1992
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Pyotr Georgievich Lushev Пётр Георгиевич Лушев
The last supreme commander of the Warsaw Pact forces
Military command · Soviet Union state institutions
1923–1997
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Viktor Mikhailovich Chebrikov Виктор Михайлович Чебриков
KGB chairman from late stagnation into perestroika
Security, intelligence and policing · Soviet Union state institutions
1923–1999
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Vladimir Fyodorovich Utkin Владимир Фёдорович Уткин
Father of the SS-18 'Satan' and architect of the late Cold War nuclear balance
Science and technology · Soviet Union state institutions
1923–2000
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Filipp Timofeyevich Yermash Филипп Тимофеевич Ермаш
The party functionary who ran Soviet cinema as a state Hollywood: blockbusters, Oscars, and ideological control
Ideology and propaganda · Soviet Union state institutions
1923–2002
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Lev Nikolayevich Zaikov Лев Николаевич Зайков
The technocrat who rose from defense-plant apprentice to Politburo overseer of the military-industrial complex
Industry and production · Soviet Union state institutions
1923–2002
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Boris Ivanovich Stukalin Борис Иванович Стукалин
Brezhnev-era chief of all Soviet publishing and censorship
Ideology and propaganda · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks
1923–2004
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Alexander Nikolayevich Yakovlev Александр Николаевич Яковлев
The architect of glasnost: the ideology chief who dismantled the ideology
Ideology and propaganda · Soviet Union state institutions
1923–2005
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Grigory Vasilyevich Romanov Григорий Васильевич Романов
From Leningrad to Moscow: the successor halted one step short
Social movements and organizing · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks
1923–2008
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Mikhail Mitrofanovich Zaitsev Михаил Митрофанович Зайцев
GSFG Commander-in-Chief and Army General who oversaw Soviet operations in Afghanistan
Military command · Soviet Union state institutions
1923–2009
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Valentin Ivanovich Varennikov Валентин Иванович Варенников
General who received the Victory Banner and stood alone in the coup dock
Military command · Soviet Union state institutions
1923–2009
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Sergei Iosifovich Manyakin Сергей Иосифович Манякин
The longest-serving regional party secretary in Soviet history, who led Omsk for 26 years
Social movements and organizing · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks
1923–2010
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Aleksandr Nikolayevich Yefimov Александр Николаевич Ефимов
Twice Hero of the Soviet Union, Il-2 assault ace who rose to command the Soviet Air Force at its zenith
Military command · Soviet Union state institutions
1923–2012
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Makhmut Akhmetovich Gareev Махмут Ахметович Гареев
A staff general who turned wartime experience into military theory
Military command · Soviet Union state institutions
1923–2019
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Alexander Yakovlevich Sukharev Александр Яковлевич Сухарев
The last reform-era Procurator General of the USSR, who oversaw the legal rehabilitation of Stalin's victims during perestroika
Law and justice · Soviet Union state institutions
1923–2021