Communist Party of the Soviet Union members

Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin is a Russian politician and former intelligence officer who has served as President of Russia since 2012, having previously served from 2000 to 2008. Putin also served as Prime Minister of Russia from 1999 to 2000 and again from 2008 to 2012. He has been described as the de facto leader of Russia since 2000.

President of Russia from 2008 to 2012, Prime Minister of Russia (2012-2020) and Deputy Chairman of the Security Council of Russia since 2020

President of the Republic of Belarus

Russian chess grandmaster and activist

President of Ukraine from 2010 to 2014

Soviet composer and pianist (1906-1975)

Soviet and Russian small arms designer (1919–2013)

Russian chess player

the second president of Ukraine

President of Tajikistan (1992-present)

Russian physicist (1916–2009)

Soviet diplomat (1872-1952)

President of Lithuania fom 2009 to 2019 (born 1956)

Soviet chess player

Soviet-Russian physicist (1930–2019)

Soviet rocket engineer and spacecraft designer (1907-1966)

Secretary of the Security Council of the Russian Federation since 2024 and former Russian defense minister

Soviet Armenian composer (1903–1978)

Soviet general, Chechen leader (1944-1996)

Soviet physicist (1904-1990)

Soviet and Russian physicist (1916-2002)

Soviet nuclear physicist (1903-1960)

Soviet and Russian actor and clown (1921-1997)

General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation

Soviet film director (1923-1993)

Soviet and Russian actor (1926-1994)

Soviet cosmonaut (1935-2000)

Russian economist (1956-2009)

Russian politician

Soviet and Russian film director, screenwriter, and actor (1920–1994)

Abkhazian politician (1949-2011)

Soviet spy in Germany and Japan (1895－1944)

Ukrainian politician (born 1947)

president of Kyrgyzstan from 2017 to 2020

Russian oligarch, government official, engineer and mathematician (1946-2013)

Russian politician and businessman

Polish politician (1905-1982)

Avar poet (1923-2003)

Soviet sniper (1915-1991)

Moldovan politician, former President of Moldova

Soviet-Russian composer (1904-1986)

Soviet and Russian actor (1928—2009)

Mayor of Moscow since 2010

Russian theatre director (1874–1940)

Ukrainian football manager (1939–2002)

Soviet aircraft designer (1905–1970)

Soviet film director, screenwriter and actor (1893–1953)

Russian geophysicist and polar explorer of Baltic German origin (1891-1956)

Russian politician and figure skater

Soviet aircraft engineer and aeroplanes designer (1894–1977)

Russian Soviet composer

Soviet ice hockey player (1948–1981)

Russian general (1950-2002)

Soviet nuclear chemist, chief of the commission investigating the Chernobyl disaster (1936-1988)

Soviet submarine officer who averted nuclear war (1926–1998)

Soviet miner, namesake of Stakhanovite movement (1906-1977)

Russian public figure

Soviet aeroplane designer (1906-1984)

Ukrainian composer, conductor, teacher (1894–1968)

Latvian politician (born 1939)