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NameOccupationBirthDeathKnown for
Nikolay G. Basov
Physicist
14-Dec-1922 1-Jul-2001 Invention of the maser and laser
Lavrenty Beria
Government
29-Mar-1899 23-Dec-1953 Chief of the NKVD, 1940-46
Anatoly Dobrynin
Diplomat
19-Nov-1919 6-Apr-2010 Soviet Ambassador to the US, 1962-86
Felix Dzerzhinsky
Government
11-Sep-1877 20-Jul-1926 The Black Pope of Bolshevism
Nikolai Krylenko
Government
2-May-1885 29-Jul-1938 Soviet prosecutor executed during the Great Purge
Sergei Lavrov
Diplomat
21-Mar-1950   Russian Foreign Minister
Yuri Luzhkov
Politician
21-Sep-1936   Mayor of Moscow, 1992-2010
Anastas Mikoyan
Politician
25-Nov-1895 21-Oct-1978 Knew where the shrimps stay in winter
Mikhail Segal
Business
c. 1951   Co-Founder of LS Power Group
Nikolay Semyonov
Chemist
15-Apr-1896 25-Sep-1986 Combustion, explosions, and chemical kinetics
Andrei Vyshinsky
Government
10-Dec-1883 22-Nov-1954 Soviet Prosecutor General during the Great Purge
Grigory Zinoviev
Government
23-Sep-1883 25-Aug-1936 Old Bolshevik executed during the Great Purge




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