Member of the Soviet Politburo

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Member of the Soviet Politburo

GOVERNMENT OFFICE

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

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