- Mikhail Gorbachev
Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev, surname more accurately romanized as Gorbachyov; born 2nd March 1931) is a Russian politician. He was the last leader of the Soviet Union, serving from 1985 until its collapse in 1991. His attempts at reform helped end the Cold War, and also ended the political supremacy of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (CPSU) and dissolved the Soviet Union. He was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1990. - Yuri Andropov
Yuri Vladimirovich Andropov (February 9, 1984) was a Soviet politician and General Secretary of the CPSU from November 12, 1982 until his death just fifteen months later. - Konstantin Chernenko
Konstantin Ustinovich Chernenko was a Soviet politician and General Secretary of the CPSU who led the Soviet Union from February 13, 1984 until his death just thirteen months later on March 10, 1985. Chernenko was also Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet from April 11, 1984, until his death. - Roy Medvedev
Roy Aleksandrovich Medvedev a Russian historian, was born in Tbilisi, Georgia and graduated from the Leningrad University. During the Soviet era, Medvedev criticized Stalin and Stalinism from a Marxist viewpoint. Medvedev became a researcher at the Education Academy after joining the Communist Party of the Soviet Union in 1956. In the early 1960s, he was engaged in samizdat publications. In 1969, Medvedev was purged from the CPSU after the publication of his book, … - Anatoly Dobrynin
Anatoly Fyodorovich Dobrynin (born November 16, 1919) was Soviet Ambassador to the United States, serving from 1962 to 1986 and most notably during the Cuban Missile Crisis. He was appointed by Nikita Khrushchev. After his long term as ambassador, he returned to Moscow, joining the Secretariat of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (CPSU) and leading the International Department of the CPSU Central Committee for two years. - Viktor Grishin
Viktor Vasilyevich Grishin (September 5(18), 1914-May 25, 1992) was a Soviet politician. He was a Candidate (1961-1971) and Full Member of the CPSU Politburo. Grishin was born in Serpukhov, Moscow region. In 1938-1940 he served in the Red Army. From 1941 Grishin was a Communist Party functionary. He rose to be the leader of the Communist Party in the city of Moscow (1967-1985) He was known for his hardline stance. - Mircea Snegur
Mircea Ion Snegur was the first President of Moldova. In the Soviet era, he was often known in English as Mircha Ivanovich Snegur, a transliteration from the Russian "Мирча Иванович Снегур". A former Communist Party official, Snegur endorsed independence for Moldova and actively sought Western recognition. Moldova declared its independence from the Soviet Union in August 1991. - Aleksei Kuznetsov
Aleksei Aleksandrovich Kuznetsov (1905-1950) was a Soviet statesman, CPSU (since 1925) functionary, Lieutenant General, member of CPSU Central Committee (1939-1949). He was 1st Secretary (deputy leader) to Leningrad CPSU "gorkom" (city committee) and "obkom" (oblast committee), an organized of the defense during the Siege of Leningrad. He was arrested in 1949 as part of the Leningrad Affair show trial, executed in 1950 and rehabilitated posthumously. - Mykolas Burokevičius
Mykolas Burokevičius is a communist political leader in Lithuania. He established and led an alternative, pro-CPSU, Communist Party of Lithuania in 1990 after the traditional party declared its independence from the CPSU. As such, he served on the Politburo of the CPSU Central Committee from 1990 until its ban in 1991. - Yevgenia Ginzburg
Yevgenia Ginzburg (Russian language: Евгения Семёновна Гинзбург) was a Russian historian and writer. Her latinized name Eugenia is frequently used in the West. Soon after Yevgenia Ginzburg was born into the family of a Jewish pharmacist in Moscow, her family moved to Kazan. In 1920 she entered the social sciences department of Kazan State University, later switching to pedagogy. - Vladimir Solovyov
Vladimir Rudol'fovich Solovyov is a popular Russian TV and radio journalist. His father, Rudolf Naumovich Solovyov, and his mother, Inna Solomonovna Shapiro, both graduated from the history and philology faculty of the Lenin Pedagogical University. Later on his father taught political economy at a school of statistics, while his mother worked as an arts critic at the Battle of Borodino museum. In 1980 he graduated from the elite English language secondary School No. - Nikolay Shvernik
Nikolay Mikhailovich Shvernik was the Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR (or President of the USSR) from March 19, 1946 until March 15, 1953. Though the titular head of state Shvernik, in fact, had little power as the real authority lay with Josef Stalin as General Secretary of the Communist Party. Shvernik joined the Bolsheviks in 1905. - Vasil Mzhavanadze
Vasil Mzhavanadze (also Vasily; ; ; Kutaisi, - 5 September 1988) was the First Secretary of the Communist Party of the Georgian SSR from September 1953 to September 28, 1972 and a member of the CPSU's Politburo from June 29, 1957 to December 18, 1972. Dismissed after a corruption scandal, he was replaced by Eduard Shevardnadze. Mzhavanadze served in the Red Army as a political commissar during World War II. After the war, … - Mikhail Frinovsky
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 Nikolai Yezhov was responsible for setting in motion Stalin's mass-represions. Mikhail Petrovich Frinovsky was born in 1898 into the family of a teacher in the village of Narovchat, Penza Guberniya. Prior to the First World War he studied in a religious school. In January of 1916, Frinovsky volunteered for the army. - Ivan Plyushch
Ivan Stepanovych Plyushch (born 1941) is a Ukrainian politician. He twice served as the Speaker of the Verkhovna Rada (parliament) of Ukraine, from December 5, 1991 through May 11, 1994 and from February 1, 2000 through May 14, 2002. Ivan Plyushch was born on September 11, 1941 in Borzna village of Chernihiv Oblast. After graduation in 1959 from Borzna Agriculture College he started his professional career as a mid-level worker, an agronomist, … - Hamazasp Babadzhanian
Hamazasp Khachaturovich Babadzhanian (February 18, 1906 — November 1, 1977). Chief Marshal of the Armored troops of the USSR in 1975. He was awarded Hero of the Soviet Union in 1944. He was born in the family of an Armenian peasant, in the village of Chardakhlu near Yelizavetpol (later Kirovabad, now Ganja, Azerbaijan), then part of the Russian Empire. Hovhannes (Ivan) Baghramian, Marshal of the Soviet Union, was born in the same village. - Panteleimon Ponomarenko
Panteleimon Kondrat'evich Ponomarenko, Russian: Пантелеймон Кондратьевич Пономаренко, (9 August 1902 - 18 January 1984) was a general in the Red Army and a Belarusian politician. From 1938 to 1947 Ponomarenko was the First Secretary of the Communist Party of Belarus. During World War II he led the Belarusian resistance movement. - Dmitriy Ustinov
Dmitriy Fyodorovich Ustinov (October 17, 1908-December 20, 1984) was Defense Minister of the Soviet Union from 1976 until his death. Dimitry Fyodorovich Ustinov was born in Samara to a working-class family. In the civil war, when hunger became intolerable, the entire family headed by Fyodor, his sick father went to Samarkand, which served as his elder brothers. Short time after that, in 1922, his father died. - Issa Pliyev
Issa Alexandrovich Pliyev (2 February 1979) was a Soviet military commander, Army General (1962), Double Hero of the Soviet Union (4.16.1944 and 9.8.1945), Hero of the Mongolian People's Republic (1971). Member of the CPSU since 1926. He was a native of Ossetia. - Semyon Lavochkin
Semyon Alekseyevich Lavochkin, a Soviet aircraft designer, Corresponding Member of the Soviet Academy of Sciences (1958), Major General of the Aviation Engineering (1944), Hero of Socialist Labor (1943 and 1956), member of the CPSU from 1953. After having enlisted in the Red Army, Lavochkin was sent to the Moscow State Technical University in 1920, from which he would graduate in 1927. - Polina Zhemchuzhina
Polina Semyonovna Zhemchuzhina ; 1897 - 1970) was the wife of Vyacheslav Molotov. Born Pearl Karpovskaya (the word "pearl" in Russian is "жемчужина") to the family of a Jewish tailor in the village of Pologi, in the Yekaterinoslav region (today Dnepropetrovsk Oblast, Ukraine), she joined the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party of Bolsheviks in 1918 and served as a propaganda commissar in the Red Army during the Russian Civil War. - Vladimir Chub
Vladimir Fyodorovich Chub (born July 24, 1948 in Pinsk, Brest Province, Belarus) is the governor of Rostov Oblast in Russia. He was appointed governor in October 1991 and later that year won an election for the post by a large majority. He was re-elected in 1996 and 2001. He was appointed to the Federation Council in 1993. Prior to his governorship, he was First Secretary of the CPSU proletariat committee of Rostov. He is a member of the United Russia party, … - Otto Schmidt
Otto Yulievich Schmidt ((September 7, 1956) was a Soviet scientist, mathematician, astronomer, geophysicist, statesman, academician (Corresponding Member of the USSR Academy of Sciences, 1935 and Ukrainian Academy of Sciences, 1934), Hero of the USSR (6.27.1937), member of the Communist Party since 1918. He was born in Mogilyov, Imperial Russia (now in Belarus). In 1913, Schmidt graduated from the University of Kiev, where he worked as a privat-docent starting from 1916. - Alexei Petrovich Maresiev
Alexei Petrovich Maresiev (May 20, 1916 - May 19, 2001) was a famous Russian fighter ace during the Great Patriotic War. He was born May 20, 1916 in Kamyshin. Before joining the army in 1937, Maresiev worked as a turner and then participated in the construction of Komsomolsk-na-Amure. In 1940, he graduated from Bataysk Military School of Aviation. He began his flights as a fighter pilot in August 1941. He had shot down 4 Nazi planes by March 1942, … - Sergei Kamenev
Sergei Sergeyevich Kamenev (April 4 (16), 1881, Kiev - August 25, 1936, Moscow) was a Soviet military leader. He was a member of CPSU since 1930. - Viktor Kress
Viktor Melkiorovich Kress (b. 1948 in Kostroma Oblast) is the governor of Tomsk Oblast, Russia. Both his parents were ethnic Germans. Kress graduated from Novosibirsk Agricultural Institute in 1971. From 1987-90, he was First Secretary of the CPSU committee of Pervomayskoye rayon. In 1990, Kress was elected and served as speaker of the Tomsk Oblast Soviet. - Robert Laxer
Robert M. Laxer (1915-1998) was a Canadian psychologist, professor, author, and political activist. Laxer was born in Montreal, Quebec in 1915 and graduated from McGill University with a B.A. in 1936 and an M.A. in 1939. Laxer joined the Communist Party of Canada during the Great Depression. He worked as a freelance journalist until 1941 when he joined the Canadian Army and served during World War II. Upon returning to Canada in 1947, … - Arvīds Pelše
Arvīds Pelše ;, Mazais, Latvia – May 29, 1983, Moscow) was a Soviet statesman. As a worker in Riga, Pelše joined the Social-Democratic Party (Bolsheviks) of the Latvian Region in 1914. During the First World War, 1914-1918 he worked in Vitebsk, Kharkiv, Petrograd and Arkhangelsk; On behalf of the local committees had joined the revolutionary propaganda. Participated in February revolution in 1917, a member of the famous Petrograd Soviet. - Boris Shimeliovich
Boris Shimeliovich (1892-1952) was the medical director of Moscow's Botkin Hospital, a well known and widely respected institution. Born in Riga, he was an active revolutionary who participated in the Russian Civil War and eventually became active in Jewish Anti-Fascist Committee (JAC). Shimeliovich was arrested on January 13, 1949 and was so severely beaten during the interrogations that he had to be carried on a stretcher into the court three years after. - Vasily Degtyaryov
Vasily Alekseyevich Degtyaryov (January 2, 1880, Tula - January 16, 1949, Moscow) was a Russian weapons designer, Major General of the Engineering and Artillery Service, Doctor of Technical Sciences (1940), and Hero of Socialist Labor (1940, he received the second such award in the history just two weeks later than Joseph Stalin himself). He became a CPSU member in 1941. Vasily Degtyaryov was the one to head the first Soviet firearms design bureau. - Alexander Yakovlevich Bereznyak
Alexander Yakovlevich Bereznyak (–July 7 1974) was a Soviet aircraft and missile designer. Chief of MKB "Raduga" since March 1957. He was born 29 December 1912 in Boyarkino, Ozerski District, Moscow Region. Soviet aircraft designer, doctor of technical science (1968), honoured worker of science and technology of RSFSR (1973). Member of CPSU since 1932. He was employed in aviation industries since 1931. - Arkady Vorobyov
Arkady Nikitich Vorobyev (Russian: Аркадий Никитич Воробьёв; born October 3, 1924 in village Mordovo, Tambov Oblast) was a Russian Soviet middle-heavyweight, who won two Olympic gold medals in weightlifting. Arkady Vorobyov took part in the Great Patriotic War, serving in the Marines. After the war he worked on the restoration of the Odessa sea port and cleared the adjoining area of water of mines as a diver. - Leonid Zhabotinsky
Leonid Ivanovych Zhaboynsky (Ukrainian: Леонiд Iванович Жаботинський; born January 28, 1938 in village Uspenka, Sumy Oblast, Ukrainian SSR) was an outstanding Soviet weightlifter who set 17 world records in the superheavyweight class, and won gold medals at the 1964 and 1968 Olympics. Zhabotynsky, spent his childhood years in Kharkiv. - Sergei Biriuzov
Sergei Semenovich Biriuzov (August 21 1904-October 19 1964) Marshal of the Soviet Union, Chief of the General Staff, born in Skopin, in the province of Ryazan. A member of the CPSU since 1926. At 18, joined the Red Army, where he was steadily promoted to become the commander of a battalion before going to the Frunze Military Academy in 1934. He graduated in 1937, after which he became the Chief of Staff of a rifle division. - Volodymyr Zatonsky
Volodymyr Zatonsky (Vladimir Petrovich Zatonsky) (July 27, 1888-July 29 1938) was Soviet politician, Communist Party activist, member of the Ukrainian SSR Academy of Sciences (since 1929). Zatonsky was born in the village of Lysets in of Ushitsy (Ushytsia) Uyezd, Podolia Governorate, Russia (now in Dunaevets Raion, Khmelnytskyi Oblast, Ukraine). He joined the RSDLP party, faction of Mensheviks, in 1905. In March 1917 he joined Bolsheviks. - Dmitri Lelyushenko
Dmitri Danilovich Lelyushenko (?) was a Soviet military commander, Army General (1959), twice the Hero of the Soviet Union (April 7, 1940 and April 5, 1945), Hero of Czechoslovakia (May 30, 1970). Member of the CPSU from 1924. - Yevgeniya Rudneva
Evgeniya Maksimovna Rudneva, also known as Zhenya Rudneva ("Женя Руднева") (Berdiansk, December 24, 1920 - April 9, 1944 near Kerch) was a Soviet military air navigator, a Hero of the Soviet Union, a member of the Moscow branch of the Astronomical-Geodesical Society of the USSR, and head of the Solar Department. She was Ukrainian, born into the family of an office worker. - Leib Kvitko
Leib Kvitko (October 15, 1890 — August 12, 1952) was a prominent Yiddish poet, an author of well-known children's poems and a member of the Jewish Anti-Fascist Committee (JAC). He was one of the editors of Einigkeit (the JAC's newspaper) and of the Heymland, a literary magazine. He was executed in Moscow on August 12, 1952 together with twelve other members of the JAC, a massacre known as the Night of the Murdered Poets. - Pyotr Krasikov
Pyotr Ananyevich Krasikov was a functionary of the CPSU and the Soviet Union. Pyotr Krasikov was involved in revolutionary politics since 1892, when he joined the Emancipation of Labour group. Later he joined the RSDLP. After the Russian Revolution his positions were related to legal issues and he is considered to be among the principal creators of the Soviet legal system, along with Andrey Vyshinsky. He was deputy People's Commissar of Justice since 1918, … - Yuri Ovchinnikov
Yuri Anatolievich Ovchinnikov (1934-1988) was a Soviet bioorganic chemist. He was the youngest vice president of the Soviet Academy of Sciences (1971-1988) and a member of Central Committee of CPSU. Ovchinnikov was director of Institute of Bioorganic Chemistry in Moscow. He was a leading proponent of using molecular biology and genetics for creating new types of biological weapons.
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