| 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-1877 |
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 |
20-Feb-1904 |
18-Dec-1980 |
Premier of the Soviet Union, 1964-80 |
| Yegor Ligachev |
Politician |
29-Nov-1920 |
|
Former Politburo hardliner |
| 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 |
| Nikolai Podgorny |
Head of State |
18-Feb-1903 |
11-Jan-1983 |
President of the USSR, 1965-77 |
| Nikolai Ryzhkov |
Politician |
28-Sep-1929 |
|
Soviet Premier, 1985-91 |
| Eduard Shevardnadze |
Head of State |
25-Jan-1928 |
7-Jul-2014 |
President of Georgia, 1995-2003 |
| Nikolai Tikhonov |
Politician |
14-May-1905 |
1-Jun-1997 |
Premier of the Soviet Union, 1980-85 |
| Boris Yeltsin |
Head of State |
1-Feb-1931 |
23-Apr-2007 |
First president of post-Soviet Russia |
| Grigory Zinoviev |
Government |
23-Sep-1883 |
25-Aug-1936 |
Old Bolshevik executed during the Great Purge |
