Mikhail Ivanovich Kalinin

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Born	November 19, 1875 • Russia
Died	June 3, 1946 (aged 70)
Title / Office	head of state (1922-1946), Soviet Union • head of state (1919-1922), Russia
Founder	“Pravda”
Political Affiliation	Bolshevik • Communist Party of the Soviet Union • Russian Social-Democratic Workers’ Party

Leon Trotsky

Leon Trotsky

Russian revolutionary

Joseph Stalin

Joseph Stalin

premier of Soviet Union

Vladimir Lenin

Vladimir Lenin

prime minister of Soviet Union

Nadezhda Konstantinovna Krupskaya

Soviet politician

Andrey Sergeyevich Bubnov

Soviet official

Chicherin, Georgy Vasilyevich

Georgy Vasilyevich Chicherin

Soviet diplomat

Sverdlov, Yakov Mikhaylovich

Yakov Mikhaylovich Sverdlov

Soviet statesman

Frunze, Mikhail Vasilyevich

Mikhail Vasilyevich Frunze

Russian military officer

Boris Yeltsin

Boris Yeltsin

president of Russia

Grigory Yevseyevich Zinovyev

Grigory Yevseyevich Zinovyev

Russian revolutionary

Lazar Moiseyevich Kaganovich.

Lazar Moiseyevich Kaganovich

Soviet official

Viktor Stepanovich Chernomyrdin

prime minister of Russia

Pyotr Berngardovich Struve

Russian writer

Nikita Khrushchev

Nikita Khrushchev

premier of Soviet Union

Lev Kamenev

Lev Kamenev

Soviet government official

Dzerzhinsky, Feliks Edmundovich

Feliks Edmundovich Dzerzhinsky

Russian revolutionary

Nikolay Bukharin

Nikolay Bukharin

Soviet political leader

Aleksey Ivanovich Rykov

Soviet statesman

Maksim Litvinov

Maksim Litvinov

Soviet diplomat

Primakov, Yevgeny

Yevgeny Primakov

prime minister of Russia