1. Vilis Lācis (1904)

Soviet Politician

A Latvian author and Communist political figure, he is particularly known for his 1933 novel Zvejnieka dēls (Fisherman's Son). From 1940-1959, he held the high-ranking office of Chairman of the...

2. Khertek Anchimaa-Toka (Unknow)

Soviet Politician

Khertek Amyrbitovna Anchimaa-Toka was a Tuvan/Soviet politician who in 1940–44 was a chairwoman of Little Khural of Tuvan People's Republic and the first elected or appointed female head of state...

3. Alexandra Ovchinnikova (1914)

Soviet Politician

Alexandra Yakovlevna Ovchinnikova a native Yakut served as President of the Yakut Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic. A daughter of illiterate cattle-breeders west of Yakutsk she became a road engineer....

4. Georgy Malenkov (1902)

Soviet Politician

Georgy Maximilianovich Malenkov was a Soviet politician and Communist Party leader. His family connections with Lenin speeded his promotion in the party and in 1925 he was put in charge...

5. Boris Pugo (1937)

Soviet Politician

Boris Karlovich Pugo OAN was a hardline Soviet Communist political figure. Pugo was born in Kalinin Russian SFSR into a family of Latvian communists who had left Latvia after...

6. Vasily Pronin (Unknow)

Soviet Politician

Vasily Prokhorovich Pronin was a Soviet statesman and Chairman of the Executive Committee of the Moscow City Council of Laborers' Deputies between April 14 1939 and December 7 1944. Vasily...

7. Pyotr Demichev (1917)

Soviet Politician

Pyotr Nilovich Demichev was a Soviet-Russian political figure; First Deputy Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet from 1986 to 1988 and Minister of Culture from 1974 to 1986.

8. Vasily Starodubtsev (1931)

Soviet Politician

Vasily Alexandrovich Starodubtsev was a Soviet/Russian politician and governor of Tula Oblast from 1997 to 2005.

9. Vasili Schmidt (1886)

Soviet Politician

Vasili Schmidt was a Bolshevik politician. On 1 December 1918 he was appointed Commissar for Labour a post he held until 29 November 1928. He was particularly concerned with the...

10. Nadezhda Grekova (1910)

Soviet Politician

Nadezhda Grigoryevna Grekova or Nadežda Grekova was a Soviet Belarusian politician. She was Chairman of the Supreme Soviet of the Belorussian SSR 1938-1947. Her office as Chairman of the Supreme...

11. Nikolai Janson (1882)

Soviet Politician

Nikolai Janson was a Soviet and Estonian communist politician. He was People's Commissar for Justice and People's Commissar for Water Transport. On 13 March 1934 he was demoted to the...

12. Volodymyr Shcherbytsky (1918)

Soviet Politician

Volodymyr Vasylyovych Shcherbytsky was a Ukrainian and Soviet politician. He was a leader of the Communist Party of Ukraine from 1972 to 1989.

13. Muhammetnazar Gapurow (1922)

Soviet Politician

Muhammetnazar Gapurowiç Gapurow served as the First Secretary of the Communist Party of the Turkmen SSR from 1969 until 1985.

14. Pyotr Masherov (1918)

Soviet Politician

Pyotr Mironovich Masherov was the first secretary of Belarusian committee of the Communist Party of Soviet Union and a communist leader of Soviet Belarus.

15. Lev Kamenev (1883)

Soviet Politician

Lev Borisovich Kamenev born Rozenfeld was a Bolshevik revolutionary and a prominent Soviet politician. He served briefly as the first head of state of Soviet Russia in 1917 and from...

16. Maryam Tugambayeva (Unknow)

Soviet Politician

Maryam Tugambayeva was a Soviet Kyrgyzstanian politician. She was Chairman of the Supreme Soviet of the Kirghiz Soviet Socialist Republic in 1937. Her office as Chairman of the Supreme Soviet...

17. Polina Zhemchuzhina (1897)

Soviet Politician

Polina Semyonovna Zhemchuzhina was a Soviet politician and the wife of the Soviet foreign minister Vyacheslav Molotov.

18. Aaron Soltz (1872)

Soviet Politician

Aaron Aleksandrovich Soltz was an Old Bolshevik and a Soviet politician and lawyer.

19. Nikolai Yezhov (1895)

Soviet Politician

Nikolai Ivanovich Yezhov or Ezhov was a Soviet secret police official under Joseph Stalin. He was head of the NKVD from 1936 to 1938 during the most severe period of...

20. Vladimir Fyodorovich Promyslov (1908)

Soviet Politician

Vladimir Fyodorovich Promyslov was a Russian Soviet Communist political figure. He served as the Mayor of Moscow between 1963 and 1986 and was succeeded by Valery Saikin. A professional builder...

21. Vladimir Kryuchkov (1924)

Soviet Politician

Vladimir Alexandrovich Kryuchkov was a Soviet lawyer diplomat and head of the KGB member of the Politburo of the Central Committee of the CPSU. Initially working in the Soviet...

22. Aghasi Khanjian (1901)

Soviet Politician

Aghasi Khanjian also Aghasi Khanchian or Agasi Khandzhan was First Secretary of the Communist Party of Armenia from May 1930 to July 1936. Khanjian was born in the city...

23. Alexey Kuznetsov (1905)

Soviet Politician

Alexey Alexandrovich Kuznetsov was a Soviet statesman CPSU functionary Lieutenant General member of CPSU Central Committee. He was Second Secretary to Leningrad CPSU gorkom and obkom and during the Siege...

24. Aleksei Alekseyevich Volkov (1890)

Soviet Politician

Aleksei Alekseyevich Volkov was a first secretary of the Byelorussian SSR during the Soviet Union.

25. Matvey Skobelev (1885)

Soviet Politician

Matvey Ivanovich Skobelev was a Russian Marxist revolutionary and politician.

26. Moisei Uritsky (1873)

Soviet Politician

Moisei Solomonovich Uritsky January 14 1873–August 17 1918) was a Bolshevik revolutionary leader in Russia.

27. Aleksander Ansberg (1909)

Soviet Politician

Aleksander Ansberg was an Estonian politician.

28. Nikolai Podgorny (1903)

Soviet Politician

Nikolai Viktorovich Podgorny was a Soviet Ukrainian statesman during the Cold War. He served as First Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Ukraine from 1957 to...

29. Alexander Poskrebyshev (1891)

Soviet Politician

Alexander Nikolaevich Poskrebyshev was a Soviet Major-General. He was a USSR political state and communist party functionary and a Member of Soviet Communist Party since March 1917. He was Chief...

30. Viktor Grishin (1914)

Soviet Politician

Viktor Grishin is also the name of the current head of the State Duma Committee on Federal Matters and Regional Policy of RussiaViktor Vasilyevich Grishin September 1914 – 25...

31. Chingiz Ildyrym (1890)

Soviet Politician

Chingiz Sultanov Ildyrym oglu better known as Chingiz Ildyrym was a Bolshevik revolutionary innovator and the first People's Commissar for Military and Naval Affairs of Azerbaijan after the Sovietization...

32. Nikolai Bulganin (1895)

Soviet Politician

Nikolai Alexandrovich Bulganin was a prominent Soviet politician who served as Minister of Defence and Premier of the Soviet Union.

33. Vladimir Ivashko (1932)

Soviet Politician

Vladimir Antonovich Ivashko was briefly the acting General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union during the period from 24 August 1991 to 29 August 1991. On...

34. Sultan Ibraimov (1927)

Soviet Politician

Sultan Ibraimovich Ibraimov was a prominent administrator and politician in the Kirghiz Soviet Socialist Republic. A long-time and popular governor of Osh oblast then comprising the entire southern part...

35. Meta Vannas (1924)

Soviet Politician

Meta Vannas was a Soviet politician.

36. Alexei Kosygin (1904)

Soviet Politician

Alexei Nikolayevich Kosygin was a Soviet-Russian statesman during the Cold War. Kosygin was born in the city of St. Petersburg in 1904 to a Russian working-class family.

37. Vadim Bakatin (1937)

Soviet Politician

Vadim Viktorovich Bakatin was a Soviet politician who served as the last chairman of the KGB in 1991. He is the last surviving former chairman of this organization. He...

38. Yemelyan Yaroslavsky (1878)

Soviet Politician

Yemelyan Mikhailovich Yaroslavsky was a Russian revolutionary Soviet politician communist party organizer and activist journalist and historian.

39. Pavel Kurochkin (Unknow)

Soviet Politician

Pavel Alekseyevich Kurochkin was a Soviet military leader.

40. Martemyan Ryutin (1890)

Soviet Politician

Martemyan Nikitich Ryutin was a Russian Marxist revolutionary and a political functionary of the Russian Communist Party. Ryutin is best remembered as the leader of a pro-peasant political faction...

41. Ivan Klimov (Unknow)

Soviet Politician

Ivan Frolovich Klimov was first Secretary of the Baranovichi Oblast Committee of the Communist Party from 1952 to 1953.

42. Ivan Vlasov (Unknow)

Soviet Politician

Ivan Alekseyevich Vlasov was the nominal head of state of the RSFSR twice during the dictatorship of Joseph Stalin.

43. Avel Enukidze (1877)

Soviet Politician

Avel Safronovich Enukidze a prominent Old Bolshevik and at one point a member of the Soviet Central Committee in Moscow.

44. Galaktion Alpaidze (1916)

Soviet Politician

Galaktion Yeliseyevich Alpaidze was a Soviet Lieutenant General Hero of the Soviet Union chief of the Plesetsk rocket proving ground in 1963-1975 and 1977 laureate of the USSR State...

45. Semyon Ignatyev (1904)

Soviet Politician

Semyon Denisovich Ignatiev also spelled Ignatyev was a Soviet politician.

46. Mikhail Khrunichev (Unknow)

Soviet Politician

Mikhail Vasilyevich Khrunichev was a Soviet Union statesman lieutenant-general in the technical and engineering corps who was awarded the title of Soviet Hero of Socialist Labour in 1945. Krunichev became...

47. Sergei Bakinsky (1886)

Soviet Politician

Sergei Bakinsky was a politician revolutionary the first People's Commissar of Ukrainian People's Republic of Soviets on nationalities.

48. Stanislav Hurenko (1936)

Soviet Politician

Stanislav Hurenko was a Ukrainian Soviet politician and member of the Communist Party. Mikhail Gorbachev brought in his ally Hurenko in to replace Vladimir Ivashko as First Secretary of the...

49. Grigory Romanov (1923)

Soviet Politician

Grigory Vasilyevich Romanov was a Soviet politician and member of the Politburo and Secretariat of the CPSU. In 1985 he was considered Mikhail Gorbachev's main rival in the succession struggle...

50. Ivar Smilga (1892)

Soviet Politician

Ivar Tenisovich Smilga Russian: И́вар Тени́сович Сми́лга was a Bolshevik revolutionary leader in and member of the Left Opposition in the Soviet Union. Ivar was born in Aloja in the...