| Name | Occupation | Birth | Death | Known for |
|---|
| Lavrenty Beria |
Government |
29-Mar-1899 |
23-Dec-1953 |
Chief of the NKVD, 1940-46 |
| Felix Dzerzhinsky |
Government |
11-Sep-1887 |
20-Jul-1926 |
The Black Pope of Bolshevism |
| Andrei Gromyko |
Politician |
5-Jul-1909 |
2-Jul-1989 |
Cold War Foreign Minister of the USSR |
| Alexei Kosygin |
Head of State |
1904 |
18-Dec-1980 |
Premier of the Soviet Union, 1964-80 |
| Nikolai Krylenko |
Government |
2-May-1885 |
29-Jul-1938 |
Soviet prosecutor executed during the Great Purge |
| Maxim Litvinov |
Government |
17-Jul-1876 |
31-Dec-1951 |
Soviet foreign minister ousted in nod to Hitler |
| Anastas Mikoyan |
Politician |
25-Nov-1895 |
21-Oct-1978 |
Knew where the shrimps stay in winter |
| Vyacheslav Molotov |
Government |
9-Mar-1890 |
8-Nov-1986 |
Stalin's right-hand-man |
| Eduard Shevardnadze |
Head of State |
25-Jan-1928 |
|
President of Georgia, 1995-2003 |
| Andrei Vyshinsky |
Government |
10-Dec-1883 |
22-Nov-1954 |
Soviet Prosecutor General during the Great Purge |
| Georgi Zhukov |
Military |
1-Dec-1896 |
18-Jun-1974 |
Soviet commander during WWII |
