Nikolai Yezhov
Russian
Head of the Soviet secret police. He disappeared, probably eliminated by Stalin.
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| 1896–1974 | Giorgiy Zhukov |
| 1883–1936 | Grigoriy Zinoviev |
| 1927–2013 | Tatyana Zaslavskaya |
| 1884–1937 | Yevgeny Zamyatin |
| 1931–2007 | Boris Yeltsin |
| 1896–1934 | Lev Vygotsky |
| 1828–1910 | Count Leo Tolstoy |
| 1902–1982 | Mikhail Suslov |
| 1862–1911 | Peter Stolypin |
| 1852–1895 | Stepnyak |
| c. 1886–1934 | Alexandre Stavisky |
| 1906–1977 | Alexey Stakhanov |
| 1853–1900 | Vladimir Solovyev |
| 1918–2008 | Alexander Solzhenitsyn |
| 1928–2014 | Eduard Shevardnadze |
| 1921–1989 | Andrey Sakharov |
| 1881–1938 | Alexey Rykov |
| c. 1871–1916 | Grigoriy Rasputin |
| 1885–c. 1939 | Karl Radek |
| 1856–1918 | Georgiy Plekhanov |
| 1938–1993 | Rudolf Nureyev |
| 1902–1977 | Alexander Luria |
| 1870–1924 | Vladimir Lenin |
| 1842–1921 | Pyotr Kropotkin |
| Born 1931 | Mikhail Gorbachev |
| 1872–1918 | Alexandra Feodorovna |
| 1877–1926 | Felix Dzerzhinsky |
| 1872–1929 | Sergei Diaghilev |
| 1888–1938 | Nikolay Bukharin |
| 1923–2011 | Yelena Bonner |
| 1880–1921 | Alexander Blok |
| 1909–1997 | Sir Isaiah Berlin |
| 1899–1953 | Lavrenti Beria |
| 1838–1906 | Friedrich Beilstein |
| 1857–1927 | Vladimir Bekhterev |
| 1904–1983 | George Balanchine |
| 1920–1992 | Isaac Asimov |
