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People of the Revolution and the USSR
Activity
Affiliation
Position
Citizenship
Background(set)
Era
People of the Soviet Union
People of the wider world
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Mikhail Sergeyevich Ryazansky Михаил Сергеевич Рязанский
The 'radio man' of Soviet rocketry: Chief Designer of guidance and telemetry for every Soviet rocket and spacecraft
Science and technology · Soviet Union state institutions
1909–1987
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Alexander Ivanovich Shokin Александр Иванович Шокин
Architect of Soviet military electronics who built the industry from scratch and led it for 20 years
Industry and production · Soviet Union state institutions
1909–1988
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Nikolai Nikolayevich Bogolyubov Николай Николаевич Боголюбов
The institutional titan of theoretical physics who led the Eastern Bloc's largest international research institute
Science and technology · Soviet Union state institutions
1909–1992
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Konstantin Viktorovich Rusakov Константин Викторович Русаков
Brezhnev's secretary who ran party-to-party diplomacy with the socialist bloc
Social movements and organizing · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks
1909–1993
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Vladimir Pavlovich Barmin Владимир Павлович Бармин
From Katyusha to Buran: the engineer who designed the ground beneath every Soviet rocket
Science and technology · Soviet Union state institutions
1909–1993
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Vladimir Vladimirovich Matskevich Владимир Владимирович Мацкевич
Agriculture minister after the virgin-lands drive
Agriculture and land policy · Soviet Union state institutions
1909–1998
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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 state institutions
1909–2002
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Mikhail Sergeyevich Smirtyukov Михаил Сергеевич Смиртюков
The non-Politburo power who was the institutional memory of the Soviet government for 25 years
Government and administration · Soviet Union state institutions
1909–2004
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Alexander Fedorovich Zasyadko Александр Фёдорович Засядько
The miner's son who climbed from the Donbas pits to the summit of Kremlin economic planning
Economy, finance and planning · Soviet Union state institutions
1910–1963
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Sergei Vladimirovich Kurashov Сергей Владимирович Курашов
Khrushchev-era health minister who presided over the World Health Assembly
Science and technology · Soviet Union state institutions
1910–1965
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Aleksandr Petrovich Rudakov Александр Петрович Рудаков
Heavy-industry secretary in Khrushchev's bifurcated industrial Secretariat
Social movements and organizing · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks
1910–1966
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Aleksandr Trifonovich Tvardovsky Александр Трифонович Твардовский
Novy Mir editor who opened the Thaw and national poet of Vasili Tyorkin
Literature and arts · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks
1910–1971
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Dmitry Ivanovich Chesnokov Дмитрий Иванович Чесноков
The philosopher Stalin elevated to the Politburo in his final act
Political and party leadership · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks
1910–1973
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Yekaterina Alexeyevna Furtseva Екатерина Алексеевна Фурцева
Long-serving culture minister between thaw and control
Ideology and propaganda · Soviet Union state institutions
1910–1974
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Olga Fyodorovna Berggolts Ольга Фёдоровна Берггольц
The radio voice of the besieged city
Literature and arts · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks
1910–1975
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Ivan Dmitrievich Serbin Иван Дмитриевич Сербин
The party's 'Ivan the Terrible' who oversaw the entire Soviet military-industrial complex for 23 years
Industry and production · Soviet Union state institutions
1910–1981
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Viktor Yakovlevich Litvinov Виктор Яковлевич Литвинов
The factory director who led Soviet aircraft and rocket mass production for 33 years
Industry and production · Soviet Union state institutions
1910–1983
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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 state institutions
1910–1984
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Raya Dunayevskaya Raya Dunayevskaya
From Trotsky's secretary to founder of Marxist Humanism
Social movements and organizing · Socialist Workers Party (United States)
1910–1987
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Sergei Georgievich Gorshkov Сергей Георгиевич Горшков
The 29-year C-in-C who built the Soviet ocean-going navy, author of 'The Sea Power of the State'
Military command · Soviet Union state institutions
1910–1988
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Vladimir Afanasyevich Kasatonov Владимир Афанасьевич Касатонов
Fleet Admiral who commanded the Baltic, Black Sea, and Northern Fleets: a builder of the Soviet ocean-going navy
Military command · Soviet Union state institutions
1910–1989
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Georgy Sergeyevich Pavlov Георгий Сергеевич Павлов
Brezhnev's 18-year steward of the party treasury and 'party gold'
Social movements and organizing · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks
1910–1991
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Veniamin Emmanuilovich Dymshits Вениамин Эммануилович Дымшиц
The Jewish construction technocrat who was Soviet deputy premier for 23 years
Economy, finance and planning · Soviet Union state institutions
1910–1993
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Gennady Ivanovich Voronov Геннадий Иванович Воронов
The RSFSR premier who never stopped speaking bluntly to Brezhnev
Agriculture and land policy · Soviet Union state institutions
1910–1994
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Iosif Iosifovich Kuzmin Иосиф Иосифович Кузьмин
The planner who executed Khrushchev's sovnarkhoz reform
Economy, finance and planning · Soviet Union state institutions
1910–1996
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Nikolai Vasilyevich Martynov Николай Васильевич Мартынов
From munitions to material supply, the technocrat who managed the arteries of the planned economy
Economy, finance and planning · Soviet Union state institutions
1910–1998
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Vasily Stepanovich Fursov Василий Степанович Фурсов
A physicist who linked reactor theory to scientific education
Science and technology · Soviet Union state institutions
1910–1998
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Mikhail Alekseyevich Prokofyev Михаил Алексеевич Прокофьев
The scientist-minister who led Soviet education for 18 years
Education · Soviet Union state institutions
1910–1999
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Nikolai Konstantinovich Beloborodov Николай Константинович Белобородов
First deputy chief of the 12th GUMO who commanded Soviet nuclear warheads in Cuba and, three decades later, wrote the definitive report
Military command · Soviet Union state institutions
1910–2003
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Pavel Vasilyevich Rychagov Павел Васильевич Рычагов
The ace who told Stalin Soviet planes were flying coffins
Military command · Soviet Union state institutions
1911–1941
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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 state institutions
1911–1944
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Mikhail Kuzmich Yangel Михаил Кузьмич Янгель
Designer whose storable-propellant rockets became the backbone of the Strategic Rocket Forces
Science and technology · Soviet Union state institutions
1911–1971
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Alexander Mikhailovich Tarasov Александр Михайлович Тарасов
The man who opened the Soviet mass-automobile era: father of the Lada
Industry and production · Soviet Union state institutions
1911–1975
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Konstantin Nikolayevich Rudnev Константин Николаевич Руднев
The defence-industry administrator who sent Gagarin into space
Industry and production · Soviet Union state institutions
1911–1980
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Mefody Naumovich Sveshnikov Мефодий Наумович Свешников
A career banker of peasant stock who rose to the summit of the Soviet monobank
Economy, finance and planning · Soviet Union state institutions
1911–1981
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Nikolai Timofeyevich Grishin Иван Тимофеевич Гришин
Deputy Minister of Foreign Trade for 26 years who steered industrial import deals across the Brezhnev era
Economy, finance and planning · Soviet Union state institutions
1911–1985
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Vasily Fyodorovich Garbuzov Василий Фёдорович Гарбузов
The long-serving finance minister of stagnation
Economy, finance and planning · Soviet Union state institutions
1911–1985
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Lev Nikolayevich Smirnov Лев Николаевич Смирнов
From Nuremberg assistant prosecutor to chief justice of the USSR, the Supreme Court chairman who presided over political trials
Law and justice · Soviet Union state institutions
1911–1986
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Grigory Sergeyevich Zolotukhin Григорий Сергеевич Золотухин
A Brezhnev-era agricultural functionary who ran Tambov and Krasnodar, then oversaw Soviet grain procurement for 14 years
Agriculture and land policy · Soviet Union state institutions
1911–1988
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Lev Markovich Volodarsky Лев Маркович Володарский
Keeper of Soviet state statistics who managed the planned economy's numbers as the younger brother of a revolutionary martyr
Economy, finance and planning · Soviet Union state institutions
1911–1989
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Georgy Mokeevich Markov Георгий Мокеевич Марков
The Brezhnev-era literary gatekeeper who celebrated Siberia while enforcing official aesthetics as head of the Writers' Union for 15 years
Literature and arts · Soviet Union state institutions
1911–1991
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Vladimir Semyonovich Semyonov Владимир Семёнович Семёнов
Four-decade architect of Soviet German policy
Diplomacy and international organization · Soviet Union state institutions
1911–1992
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Nikolai D. Dmitriyevich Kuznetsov Николай Дмитриевич Кузнецов
From the NK-12 to the NK-33: the chief engine designer who powered Soviet skies and space
Science and technology · Soviet Union state institutions
1911–1995
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Anatoly Naumovich Rybakov Анатолий Наумович Рыбаков
The writer whose banned novel became the emblem of glasnost
Literature and arts
1911–1998
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Mikhail Timofeyevich Yefremov Михаил Тимофеевич Ефремов
From Volga orphanage boy to Kosygin's deputy premier: a party cadres specialist who ran three obkoms
Social movements and organizing · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks
1911–2000
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Sergei Leonidovich Sokolov Сергей Леонидович Соколов
The defence minister removed after the Rust affair
Military command · Soviet Union state institutions
1911–2012
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Marina Mikhaylovna Raskova Марина Михайловна Раскова
Record-breaking aviator who created the women's combat air regiments
Military command · Soviet Union state institutions
1912–1943
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Pasha Nikitichna Angelina Прасковья Никитична Ангелина
A pioneer of women’s mechanized labor
Agriculture and land policy · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks
1912–1959
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Sergei Alekseyevich Zverev Сергей Алексеевич Зверев
The Defense Industry Minister who ran Soviet conventional arms production for 13 years under Brezhnev
Industry and production · Soviet Union state institutions
1912–1978
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Sergei Pavlovich Trapeznikov Сергей Павлович Трапезников
The gatekeeper of academic orthodoxy in the Brezhnev era
Ideology and propaganda · Soviet Union state institutions
1912–1984