The Soviet Country. Forgotten Leaders

Andrei Andreevich Gromyko (July 5 (18), 1909, village Starye Gromyki, Gomel district, Mogilev province, Russian Empire - July 2, 1989, Moscow, USSR) - Soviet diplomat and statesman, in 1957-1985 - Minister of Foreign Affairs of the USSR, 1985-1988 - Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR. Doctor of Economics (1956).

Anastas Ivanovich (Hovanesovich) Mikoyan (Armenian Անաստաս Հովհաննեսի Միկոյան; November 13 (25), 1895, the village of Sanahin, Tiflis province, Russian Empire, now in Armenia - October 21, 1978, Moscow) - Russian revolutionary, Soviet state and party leader ... Party member since 1915, member of the Central Committee since 1923 (candidate since 1922), in 1935-1966, member of the Politburo of the Central Committee of the CPSU (candidate since 1926).

Mikhail Vasilievich Frunze (party pseudonyms Mikhailov, Trifonich, Arseny, literary pseudonyms Sergei Petrov, A. Shuisky, M. Mirsky; January 21 (February 2) 1885, Bishkek, Semirechenskaya region - October 31, 1925, Moscow) - , commander of the Red Army during the Civil War, military theorist.

Alexei Nikolaevich Kosygin (February 8 (21), 1904 [6] - December 18, 1980) - Soviet statesman and party leader. Chairman of the Council of People's Commissars of the RSFSR (1943-1946). Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the RSFSR (March 1946). Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the USSR (1964-1980). Twice Hero of Socialist Labor (1964, 1974).

Ivan Aleksandrovich Serov (August 12 [25], 1905, Afimskoye village, Kadnikovsky district, Vologda province, Russian Empire - July 1, 1990, Vishnevsky Central Krasnogorsk military hospital, Krasnogorsk, Moscow region, RSFSR, USSR) - head of Soviet special services, the first chairman of the State Security Committee under the Council of Ministers of the USSR in 1954-1958, head of the Main Intelligence Directorate of the General Staff in 1958-1963, General of the Army (August 8, 1955, demoted to Major General April 12, 1963), Hero of the Soviet Union (05/29/1945 , stripped of his title on 03/12/1963).

Grigory Konstantinovich Ordzhonikidze (Georgian გრიგოლ კონსტანტინეს ძე ორჯონიკიძე; party nickname Sergo (Georgian სერგო; October 12 (24), 1886, Goresh village, Shorapansky district, Kutaisi province, Russian Empire - February 18, 1937, Moscow, USSR) - Russian revolutionary (Bolshevik) of Georgian origin, from the nobility; one of the largest leaders of the CPSU (b) and the Soviet state.

Georgy Maximilianovich Malenkov (November 23 [December 6] 1901, Orenburg, Orenburg province, Russian Empire - January 14, 1988, Moscow, RSFSR, USSR) - Soviet statesman and party leader, associate of I. V. Stalin, Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the USSR (1953 - 1955). Member of the so-called anti-party group.

Anatoly Vasilyevich Lunacharsky (November 11 (23), 1875, Poltava, Russian Empire - December 26, 1933, Menton, France) - Russian revolutionary, Soviet statesman, writer, translator, publicist, critic, art critic. From October 1917 to September 1929 - the first People's Commissar of Education of the RSFSR, an active participant in the revolution of 1905-1907 and the October Revolution. Academician of the USSR Academy of Sciences (01.II.1930).