Sergey Korolyov

Sergey Korolyov

male, deceased (1966)
Early spaceflight scientist, Vostok program, Zhytomyr, ICBM, sputnik, gulag…GreatPurge
Sergey Pavlovich Korolyov, (Zhytomyr – January 14, 1966, Moscow), was the head Soviet rocket engineer and designer during the Space Race between th...
Leonid Govorov

Leonid Govorov

male, deceased (1955)
russian revolution of 1917, Marshal of the Soviet Union, Hero of the Soviet Union, soviet, crimea, russian revolution…GreatPurge
Leonid Aleksandrovich Govorov, Soviet military commander, was born in the village of Butyrki in central Russia (now in Kirov Oblast). His father...
Yevgenia Ginzburg

Yevgenia Ginzburg

female, deceased (1977)
Social Sciences, Kazan State University, Great Patriotic War, Western world, GreatPurge, Lefortovo prison
Yevgenia Ginzburg (Russian language: Евгения Семёновна Гинзбург) was a Russian historian and writer. Her latinized name Eugenia is frequently us...
Boris Bazarov

Boris Bazarov

male, deceased (1939)
German, French, Soviet spy, Russian, soviet, Bulgarian…GreatPurge, Great Purges
Boris Jakovlevich Bazarov (1893-1939) was a Soviet spy. He was born in 1893 in Kovno gubernia of the Russian Empire (modern Lithuania). In addition...

Bolesław Bierut

male, deceased (1956)
World War II, Krajowa Rada Narodowa, Communist Party of Poland, State National Council, Polish Workers' Party, Communist International…GreatPurge
Bolesław Bierut was a Polish-born Communist leader, a Stalinist who became President of Poland after the Soviet occupation of the country in the a...

Mikhail Frinovsky

male, 111 years old
military leader, Russian, Victim of Soviet repressions, sergeant, Nkvd, kgb…GreatPurge
Mikhail Petrovich Frinovsky (January of 1898 - February 4, 1940 served as a deputy head of the NKVD in the years of the Great Purge and, along with...

Vagarshak Arutyunovich Ter-Vaganyan

male, deceased (1936)
communist party, armenian, Soviet politician, politician, GreatPurge, Communist Party of the Soviet Union
Vagarshak Arutyunovich Ter-Vaganyan (1893-1936) was an Armenian communist party leader who was one of the first victims of Joseph Stalin's Great...

Chabua Amirejibi

male, 88 years old
communist party, World War II, writer, Siberia, stalin, Soviet dissident…GreatPurge
Chabua (Mzechabuk) Amirejibi (born November 18, 1921) is a Georgian novelist notable for his magnum opus, "Data Tutashkhia", and a lengthy...

Polikarp Mdivani

male, deceased (1937)
communist, bolshevik, soviet, Old Bolshevik, Victim of Soviet repressions, georgian…GreatPurge
Polikarp "Budu" Mdivani (1877 – July 19, 1937) was a veteran Georgian Bolshevik and Soviet government official energetically involved in the Ru...
Polina Zhemchuzhina

Polina Zhemchuzhina

female, deceased (1970)
Russian, bolshevik, politburo, Soviet politician, Victim of Soviet repressions, Jewish person…GreatPurge
Polina Semyonovna Zhemchuzhina ; 1897 - 1970) was the wife of Vyacheslav Molotov. Born Pearl Karpovskaya (the word "pearl" in Russian is...