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People of the Revolution and the USSR
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Affiliation
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Citizenship
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Era
People of the Soviet Union
People of the wider world
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Evald Vasilyevich Ilyenkov Эвальд Васильевич Ильенков
A Soviet European who excavated dialectical logic from Marx's Capital
Ideology and propaganda · Soviet Union state institutions
1924–1979
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Viktor Petrovich Makeyev Виктор Петрович Макеев
Founder of Soviet naval strategic rocketry, the man the CIA called 'the Ural Dragon'
Science and technology · Soviet Union state institutions
1924–1985
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Alexei Ivanovich Adzhubey Алексей Иванович Аджубей
Khrushchev's son-in-law and the editor who turned Izvestia into the most-read Soviet newspaper of the thaw
Ideology and propaganda · Soviet Union state institutions
1924–1993
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Mikhail Fyodorovich Reshetnev Михаил Фёдорович Решетнёв
The chief designer who built a Soviet satellite empire in the Siberian taiga
Science and technology · Soviet Union state institutions
1924–1996
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Vladimir Yefimovich Semichastny Владимир Ефимович Семичастный
The KGB chairman during Khrushchev’s fall
Security, intelligence and policing · Soviet Union state institutions
1924–2001
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Yuri Pavlovich Maksimov Юрий Павлович Максимов
General of the Army who commanded the Strategic Rocket Forces through the Afghan war and the dissolution of the USSR
Military command · Soviet Union state institutions
1924–2002
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Vladimir Leonidovich Govorov Владимир Леонидович Говоров
Son of a marshal who led the Chernobyl response and turned Soviet civil defence toward peacetime emergencies
Military command · Soviet Union state institutions
1924–2006
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Vladimir Alexandrovich Kryuchkov Владимир Александрович Крючков
The KGB chairman who designed the August coup
Security, intelligence and policing · Soviet Union state institutions
1924–2007
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Vladimir Petrovich Pirozhkov Владимир Петрович Пирожков
The KGB constant: 20 years as deputy chairman under four chiefs
Security, intelligence and policing · Soviet Union state institutions
1924–2009
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Dmitry Timofeyevich Yazov Дмитрий Тимофеевич Язов
The last Marshal of the Soviet Union and defence minister of the August coup
Military command · Soviet Union state institutions
1924–2020
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Vladimir Ivanovich Dolgikh Владимир Иванович Долгих
The CC secretary who ran Soviet heavy industry and energy for 16 years under Brezhnev
Industry and production · Soviet Union state institutions
1924–2020
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Pavel Ivanovich Belyayev Павел Иванович Беляев
The fighter pilot who commanded the first spacewalk
Science and technology · Soviet Union state institutions
1925–1970
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Vladlen Mikhailovich Mikhailov Владлен Михайлович Михайлов
The last chief of Soviet GRU who led military intelligence through the USSR's dissolution
Military command · Soviet Union state institutions
1925–2004
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Yuri Filippovich Solovyov Юрий Филиппович Соловьёв
Ligachev protégé who led Leningrad during early perestroika
Social movements and organizing · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks
1925–2011
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Gury Ivanovich Marchuk Гурий Иванович Марчук
Last President of the USSR Academy of Sciences and pioneer of computational mathematics in Siberia
Science and technology · Soviet Union state institutions
1925–2013
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Vladislav Grigoryevich Kolesnikov Владислав Григорьевич Колесников
The last Soviet Minister of Electronics, who led microelectronics through perestroika's final years
Industry and production · Soviet Union state institutions
1925–2015
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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 state institutions
1925–2018
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Filip Denisovich Bobkov Филипп Денисович Бобков
Architect of KGB ideological counterintelligence, 45-year Chekist under 12 chiefs
Security, intelligence and policing · Soviet Union state institutions
1925–2019
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Vasily Aleksandrovich Arkhipov Василий Александрович Архипов
Soviet submarine officer who refused to launch a nuclear torpedo and prevented nuclear war
Military command · Soviet Union state institutions
1926–1998
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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 state institutions
1926–2009
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Vitaly Ivanovich Vorotnikov Виталий Иванович Воротников
The last RSFSR premier who tried not to break Russia away
Government and administration · Soviet Union state institutions
1926–2012
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Vsevolod Serafimovich Murakhovsky Всеволод Серафимович Мураховский
First chairman of Gosagroprom
Agriculture and land policy · Soviet Union state institutions
1926–2017
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Valentin Mikhailovich Falin Валентин Михайлович Фалин
The Soviet Union's foremost Germany expert who opposed Gorbachev's concessions during reunification negotiations
Diplomacy and international organization · Soviet Union state institutions
1926–2018
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Vladimir Mikhaylovich Komarov Владимир Михайлович Комаров
Voskhod 1 commander and the first human to perish in a spaceflight
Science and technology · Soviet Union state institutions
1927–1967
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Gennady Vasilyevich Kolbin Геннадий Васильевич Колбин
The unknown Russian party functionary whose appointment to Kazakhstan ignited the Zheltoksan uprising
Political and party leadership · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks
1927–1998
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Vadim Valentinovich Zagladin Вадим Валентинович Загладин
A Brezhnev favorite who became the Soviet face of dialogue with Eurocommunism
Ideology and propaganda · Soviet Union state institutions
1927–2006
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Nikolai Semyonovich Konarev Николай Семёнович Конарев
The last chief of the Soviet railways
Economy, finance and planning · Soviet Union state institutions
1927–2007
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Konstantin Fyodorovich Katushev Константин Фёдорович Катушев
Late Soviet foreign-economic official
Economy, finance and planning · Soviet Union state institutions
1927–2010
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Mikhail Ivanovich Shchadov Михаил Иванович Щадов
The last Soviet coal minister, who drove open-pit mining and led the miners into the Chernobyl tunnel
Industry and production · Soviet Union state institutions
1927–2011
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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 state institutions
1927–2013
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Fyodor Mikhailovich Burlatsky Фёдор Михайлович Бурлацкий
Architect of Khrushchev's reforms and pioneer of Soviet political science
Scholarship and theory · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks
1927–2014
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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 state institutions
1927–2015
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Oleg Timofeyevich Bogomolov Олег Тимофеевич Богомолов
An economist of socialist economic integration and reform
Scholarship and theory · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks
1927–2015
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Nikolai Yefimovich Kruchina Николай Ефимович Кручина
The last treasurer who guarded the party coffers through perestroika
Social movements and organizing · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks
1928–1991
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Dmitry Antonovich Volkogonov Дмитрий Антонович Волкогонов
From Soviet military propagandist to the historian who opened the secret archives
Military command · Soviet Union state institutions
1928–1995
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Viktor Pavlovich Karpov Виктор Павлович Карпов
The face of Soviet arms control diplomacy across SALT, INF, and START
Diplomacy and international organization · Soviet Union state institutions
1928–1997
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Nikolai Alexeyevich Maltsev Николай Алексеевич Мальцев
The minister who led Soviet oil to its peak through the West Siberian fields
Industry and production · Soviet Union state institutions
1928–2001
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Lev Petrovich Feoktistov Лев Петрович Феоктистов
From nuclear-weapon designer to critic of the arms race
Science and technology · Soviet Union state institutions
1928–2002
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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 state institutions
1928–2003
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Igor Sergeyevich Belousov Игорь Сергеевич Белоусов
The shipbuilding minister who built the Soviet Navy's strategic parity
Industry and production · Soviet Union state institutions
1928–2005
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Alexei Dmitrievich Lizichev Алексей Дмитриевич Лизичев
The last GlavPUR chief who stood to defend the military political organs through perestroika
Military command · Soviet Union state institutions
1928–2006
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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 state institutions
1928–2008
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German Arsenyevich Goncharov Герман Арсеньевич Гончаров
Physicist from Sakharov's group who became the lead declassifier and historian of the Soviet H-bomb project
Science and technology · Soviet Union state institutions
1928–2009
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Yakov Petrovich Ryabov Яков Петрович Рябов
Yeltsin's political patron and CPSU defence secretary who forced the T-72 tank through against Ustinov's opposition
Social movements and organizing · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks
1928–2018
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Valentin Karpovich Mesyats Валентин Карпович Месяц
Agriculture minister of late stagnation
Agriculture and land policy · Soviet Union state institutions
1928–2019
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Yevgeny Mikhailovich Tyazhelnikov Евгений Михайлович Тяжельников
The model Brezhnev-era youth-cadre pipeline apparatchik
Social movements and organizing · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks
1928–2020
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Vladimir Nikolayevich Chernavin Владимир Николаевич Чернавин
The last C-in-C of the Soviet Navy, the nuclear submariner who first patrolled under the Arctic ice
Military command · Soviet Union state institutions
1928–2023
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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 state institutions
1929–1991
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Sergei Pavlovich Pavlov Сергей Павлович Павлов
The anti-thaw Komsomol chief who delivered the Moscow Olympics
Social movements and organizing · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks
1929–1993
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Viktor Petrovich Nikonov Виктор Петрович Никонов
Gorbachev's agriculture successor who became his last internal critic
Agriculture and land policy · Soviet Union state institutions
1929–1993