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Name Occupation Birth Death Known 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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