Who lived longer, Georgi Bolshakov or Nikita Khrushchev?
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Georgi Bolshakov Georgi Bolshakov (1922–1989) was a Soviet GRU officer under journalist cover who was posted to Washington, D.C., twice, most significantly in the early 1960s. In this capacity, he played a major role in diplomacy between the United States and the Soviet Union during the beginning of the John F. Kennedy administration. President Kennedy’s brother, Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy, secretly met with Bolshakov on numerous occasions in 1961 in order to gain more information about Soviet intentions and convey messages from the administration to the top Soviet leadership, including Premier Nikita Khrushchev.
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Nikita Khrushchev Nikita Sergeyevich Khrushchev (15 April [O.S. 3 April] 1894  – 11 September 1971) was a Soviet politician who led the Soviet Union during part of the Cold War as the First Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union from 1953 to 1964, and as Chairman of the Council of Ministers, or Premier, from 1958 to 1964. Khrushchev was responsible for the de-Stalinization of the Soviet Union, for backing the progress of the early Soviet space program, and for several relatively liberal reforms in areas of domestic policy. Khrushchev's party colleagues removed him from power in 1964, replacing him with Leonid Brezhnev as First Secretary and Alexei Kosygin as Premier.
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Georgy Chicherin Georgy Vasilyevich Chicherin (24 November [O.S. 12 November] 1872 – 7 July 1936) (Георгий Васильевич Чичерин) was a Marxist revolutionary and a Soviet politician. He served as People's Commissar for Foreign Affairs in the Soviet government from March 1918 to 1930.
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Vyacheslav Dolgov Vyacheslav Ivanovich Dolgov (Russian: Вячеслав Иванович Долгов ), born 31 July 1937, is a Soviet and Russian diplomat and professor.
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Gennady Yanayev Gennady Ivanovich Yanayev (Russian: Генна́дий Ива́нович Яна́ев ; 26 August 1937 – 24 September 2010) was a Soviet politician who served as the first and only Vice President of the Soviet Union. Yanayev's political career spanned the rules of Khrushchev, Brezhnev, Andropov and Chernenko, and culminated during the Gorbachev years. Yanayev was born in Perevoz, Gorky Oblast. After years in local politics, he rose to prominence as Chairman of the All-Union Central Council of Trade Unions, but he also held other lesser posts such as deputy of the Union of Soviet Societies for Friendship and Cultural Relations with Foreign Countries.
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Mikhail Tukhachevsky Mikhail Nikolayevich Tukhachevsky (Russian: Михаи́л Никола́евич Тухаче́вский ; February 16 [O.S. February 4] 1893  – June 12, 1937) was a leading Soviet military leader and theoretician from 1918 to 1937. He commanded the Soviet Western Front in the Soviet-Polish War of 1920–1921 and served as chief of staff of the Red Army from 1925 through 1928, as assistant in the People's Commissariat of Defense after 1934 and as commander of the Volga Military District in 1937. He contributed to the modernization of Soviet armament and army force structure in the 1920s and 1930s and became instrumental in the development of aviation, mechanized, and airborne forces. As a theoretician, he was a driving force behind Soviet development of the theory of deep operations. The Soviet authorities accused him of treason and had him shot during the military purges of 1937–1938, but rehabilitated his reputation in the 1960s.
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Andrey Vyshinsky Andrey Yanuaryevich Vyshinsky (Russian: Андре́й Януа́рьевич Выши́нский, "Andrej Yanuar'evič Vyšinskij" ; Polish: "Andrzej Wyszyński" ) (10 December [O.S. 28 November] 1883 – 22 November 1954) was a Soviet politician, jurist and diplomat.
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Vilhelm Knorin Vilgelm Georgyevich Knorinsh (Knorinsh) (Latvian: "Vilhelms Vilis Knoriņš"(1890-1939)) was the second First secretary of the Central Committee of the Byelorussian SSR from 1920 to 1923 and from 1927 to 1928. He was killed in the Great Purge.
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Pavel Bulanov Pavel Petrovich Bulanov (1895 – March 15, 1938) was a NKVD officer and one of the defendants in the Case of the Anti-Soviet "Bloc of Rights and Trotskyites". He was secretary to Genrikh Yagoda, who became head of the NKVD in July 1934. In September 1936, Yagoda, who has being removed from his post at the NKVD, ordered Bulanov to spray poison on the walls of the office of his successor, Nikolai Yezhov. Yezhov had implicated Yagoda in the December 1, 1934 assassination of Sergei Kirov. On March 29, 1937, both Yagoda and Bulanov were arrested on Yezhov's orders. Both were put on trial with 19 others on March 2, 1938. On March 13, 1938, all defendants were found guilty. Bulanov, Yagoda and 16 others were executed two days later. Although Bulanov was rehabilitated after the death of Joseph Stalin in 1956, Yagoda was never rehabilitated.
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Yegor Yakovlev Yegor Vladimirovich Yakovlev (Яковлев, Егор Владимирович ; 14 March 1930 – 18 September 2005) was one of the founders of Mikhail Gorbachev and Boris Yeltsin's policy of "glasnost", and one of the most respected Russian journalists.
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Viktor Sukhodrev Viktor Mikhaylovich Sukhodrev (Russian: Виктор Михайлович Суходрев ; 12 December 1932 – 16 May 2014) was a Russian-English interpreter for highest level Soviet politicians including Nikita Khrushchev, Leonid Brezhnev, Mikhail Gorbachev and Alexey Kosygin.
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Nikolai Bryukhanov Nikolai Pavlovich Bryukhanov (Last name sometimes transliterated as Briukhanov; party aliases Andrey and Andrey Simbirsky; literary alias N. Pavlov) (December 28, 1878 - September 1, 1938) was a Soviet statesman and political figure who served as People's Commissar of Finance between 1926 and 1930. Until recently, his date of death was believed to have been June 30, 1943.
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Kosygin's First Government The former government of Nikita Khrushchev was dissolved following his removal from the post of the Chairman of the Council of Ministers. Alexei Kosygin was elected Premier by the Politburo and the Central Committee following the removal of Khrushchev. His first government would last for two years, until the 1966 Soviet election held in June. Kosygin's first government saw the re-creation of many ministries that were removed under Khrushchev's previous government.
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Timofey Khryukin Timofey Timofeyevich Khryukin (Russian: Тимофе́й Тимофе́евич Хрю́кин ; 21 June 1910 [O.S. 8 June] , in Yeysk19 July 1953, in Moscow) was a Soviet aviator, Spanish Civil War volunteer, and colonel-general of the Soviet Air Force. Emerging from an impoverished working-class background, he rose to command the 8th Air Army and 1st Air Army during the Second World War, being twice decorated as a Hero of the Soviet Union before his death following a period of illness caused by a road accident.
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Mikhail Pokrovsky Mikhail Nikolayevich Pokrovsky (Russian: Михаи́л Никола́евич Покро́вский , August 29 [O.S. August 17] 1868 – April 10, 1932) was a Russian Marxist historian. One of the earliest professionally trained historians to join the Russian revolutionary movement, Pokrovsky is regarded as the most influential Soviet historian of the 1920s.
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Nikolai Bunge Nikolai Khristianovich Bunge (Russian: Никола́й Христиа́нович Бу́нге ; 23 November [O.S. 11 November] 1823 , Kiev – 15 June [O.S. 3 June] 1895 , Tsarskoye Selo) was the preeminent architect of Russian capitalism under Alexander III. He was a distinguished economist, statesman, and academician of the St. Petersburg Academy of Sciences.
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Khrushchev: The Man and His Era Khrushchev: The Man and His Era is a 2003 biography of Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev. Written by William Taubman, the book is the first in-depth and comprehensive American biography of Khrushchev. Taubman was the recipient of the 2004 Pulitzer Prize for Biography or Autobiography, as well as the 2004 National Book Critics Circle Award. The author spent almost 20 years researching the life of Khrushchev in preparation to write the book. Extensive research was made possible through access to archives in Russia and the Ukraine, which were opened to the public following the collapse of the Soviet Union. In addition to printed materials and documentation, he spent time engaging Khrushchev's children and extended relatives, resulting in over 70 personal interviews. Taubman presents a historical narrative and study of the life of Nikita Khrushchev, the Soviet leader who succeeded Joseph Stalin. The book concludes with Khrushchev's death on September 11, 1971.
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Cold War (1953–62) The Cold War (1953–1962) discusses the period within the Cold War from the death of Soviet leader Joseph Stalin in 1953 to the Cuban Missile Crisis in 1962. Following the death of Stalin unrest occurred in the Eastern Bloc, while there was a calming of international tensions, the evidence of which can be seen in the signing of the Austrian State Treaty reuniting Austria, and the Geneva Accords ending fighting in Indochina. However, this "thaw" was only partial with an expensive arms race continuing during the period.
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Nikolay Mikhaylovich Kharlamov Nikolay Mikhaylovich Kharlamov (Russian: Никола́й Миха́йлович Харла́мов ; 6 (19) December 1905 – 9 April 1983) was a Soviet military leader and admiral.
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Georgy Koshlakov Georgy Koshlakov (Tajik:Георгий Кошлаков; 8 February 1936 – 7 July 2017) was the deputy Prime Minister of Tajikistan. On January 23, 1989, the Gissar earthquake occurred. He is quoted as saying: "The earthquake caused a burst of mud from the foothills which poured down on the villages. It was up to five miles wide and one-and-a-half miles long." He was a head of the Department of Economics and Management at the Tajik-Russian Slavic University.
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Georgi Zharkov Georgi Ivanovich Zharkov (Russian: Георгий Иванович Жарков ; born 19 August 1918 in Bogorodsk; died 19 October 1981 in Moscow) was a Soviet Russian football player and coach.
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Georgy Arbatov Georgy Arkadyevich Arbatov (Russian: Гео́ргий Арка́дьевич Арба́тов , 19 May 1923, Kherson – 1 October 2010, Moscow) was a Soviet and Russian political scientist who served as an adviser to five General Secretaries of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union and was best known in the West during the Cold War era as a representative for the policies of the Soviet Union in the United States, where his fluent English helped make him a frequent guest on American television. He was the founding Director and later Emeritus Director of the Institute of USA and Canada of the Russian Academy of Sciences (ISKRAN), the Soviet and Russian think tank for the study of USA and Canada.