There are some who believe that Andropov was behind the deaths of Fyodor Kulakov and Pyotr Masherov, the two youngest members of the Soviet leadership.

The main universities of Vitebsk are Vitebsk State Technological University, Vitebsk State Medical University and Vitebsk State University named in honor of Pyotr Masherov.

Pyotr Mironovich Masherov (; ;-October 4, 1980 ) was the first secretary of Belarusian committee of the Communist Party of Soviet Union and a communist leader of Soviet Belarus.

Pyotr Masherov was born as Pyatro Mashera in a village in Vitsebsk region of Belarus and before the outbreak of the Great Patriotic War in 1941 worked as a high school physics and math teacher.

In 1965 after holding some key positions in Belarusian regions and in Minsk Pyotr Masherov became the first secretary of the Communist party in Belarus.

In 1978 Pyotr Masherov was awarded Hero of Socialist Labor title for his contributions to the development of Belorussian republic.

By late 1775, however, their relationship was changing, though it is uncertain exactly when Catherine took a secretary, Pyotr Zavadovsky, as a lover.

Historians believe that Pyotr Mstislavets was born in a Belarusian town of Mstsislaw.

* Pyotr Vasilevsky ( born 1956 ), Belarusian football player ( 1973 – 1985 ) and manager ( 1989 – 1991 )

Pyotr Ananyevich Krasikov () ( 5 October 1870 – 20 August 1939 ) was a functionary of the All-Union Communist Party ( bolsheviks ) and the Soviet Union.

Among the executed were Zhdanov's deputy, Aleksei Kuznetsov ; the economic chief, Nikolai Voznesensky ; the Party head in Leningrad, Pyotr Popkov ; and the Prime Minister of the Russian Republic, Mikhail Rodionov.

* 1986 – The Soviet passenger liner sinks in the Black Sea after colliding with the bulk carrier Pyotr Vasev, killing 423.

* 1973 – Soviet Soyuz Programme: Soyuz 13, crewed by cosmonauts Valentin Lebedev and Pyotr Klimuk, is launched from Baikonur in the Soviet Union.

* 1942 – Pyotr Klimuk, Soviet astronaut

However, according to the Soviet Major General Pyotr Grigorenko Voroshilov himself alluded to his Ukrainian heritage and the previous family name of Voroshilo.

By the time of Trotsky's arrival, the St. Petersburg Soviet was already functioning headed by Khrustalyov-Nosar ( Georgy Nosar, alias Pyotr Khrustalyov ), a compromise figure, and proved to be very popular with the workers in spite of the Bolsheviks ' original opposition.

** The Soviet passenger liner Admiral Nakhimov collides with the bulk carrier Pyotr Vasev in the Black Sea and sinks almost immediately, killing 398.

* Pyotr Nikolayevich Kropotkin ( 1910 – 1996 ), Soviet / Russian geologist, tectonician, and geophysicist

Notable Russian scientists include Dmitri Mendeleev, Nikolay Bogolyubov, Andrei Kolmogorov, Ivan Pavlov, Nikolai Semyonov, Dmitri Ivanenko, Nikolai Lobachevsky, Alexander Lodygin, Alexander Popov ( one of inventors of radio ), Nikolai Zhukovsky, Alexander Prokhorov and Nikolay Basov ( co-inventors of laser ), Georgiy Gamov, Vladimir Zworykin, Lev Pontryagin, Sergei Sobolev, Pavel Yablochkov, Aleksandr Butlerov, Andrei Sakharov, Dmitry Ivanovsky, Sergey Korolyov and Mstislav Keldysh ( creators of the Soviet space program ), Aleksandr Lyapunov, Mikhail Dolivo-Dobrovolsky, Andrei Tupolev, Yuri Denisyuk ( the first practicable method of holography ), Mikhail Lomonosov, Vladimir Vernadsky, Pyotr Kapitsa, Igor Sikorsky, Ludvig Faddeev, Zhores Alferov, Konstantin Novoselov, Fyodor Shcherbatskoy, Nikolai Trubetzkoy etc.

The initiators of the movement were Alexander Busygin ( automobile industry ), Nikolai Smetanin ( shoe industry ), Yevdokiya and Maria Vinogradov ( textile industry ), I. I. Gudov ( machine tool industry ), V. S. Musinsky ( timber industry ), Pyotr Krivonos ( railroad ), Pasha Angelina ( glorified as the first Soviet woman to operate a tractor ), Konstantin Borin and Maria Demchenko ( agriculture ) and many others.

Pyotr Klimuk and Vitali Sevastyanov set a new Soviet space endurance record of 63 days and the mark for most people in space simultaneously ( seven ) was tied during the mission.

Among those handed over were White émigré-Russians who had never been Soviet citizens, but who had fought for Nazi Germany against the Soviets during the war, including General Andrei Shkuro and the Ataman of the Don Cossack host Pyotr Krasnov.

* Pyotr Ufimtsev Soviet / Russian physicist who created much of the original theory behind radar stealth

The flight, manned by Pyotr Klimuk and Valentin Lebedev, was the Soviet Union's first dedicated science mission, and was the first mission controlled by the new Kaliningrad Mission Control Center.

SMERSH was also actively involved in the capture of Soviet citizens who had been active in anti-communist armed groups fighting on the side of Nazi Germany such as the Russian Liberation Army, the Cossack Corps of Pyotr Krasnov, and the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists ( see also forced repatriation ).

* Pyotr Vershigora ( Soviet major general and writer, Soviet partisan leader during WWII )

* Pyotr Parfenovich Vlasov ( 1905 – 1953 ), Soviet diplomat and journalist

During the early Soviet period, under the initiative of architect and restorer Pyotr Baranovsky, old wooden buildings and various artifacts were transported to Kolomenskoye from different parts of the USSR for preservation, so currently Kolomenskoye Park hosts an impressive set of different constructions and historical objects.

* Pyotr Gavrilov ( 1900-1979 ), Soviet war hero, last defender of the Brest Fortress

His doctoral students included some of the most famous Soviet mathematicians: Pavel Aleksandrov, Nina Bari, Aleksandr Khinchin, Andrey Kolmogorov, Alexander Kronrod, Mikhail Lavrentyev, Alexey Lyapunov, Lazar Lyusternik, Pyotr Novikov, Lev Schnirelmann and Pavel Urysohn.

Izhevsk Machinebuilding Plant () Soviet engineer Pyotr Vladimirovich Mokharov ( 1888 – 1934 ).

In late 1945 and early 1946, a group of prominent Soviet scientists, including in particular the future Nobel Prize winner Pyotr Kapitsa, lobbied the government for the creation of a higher educational institution radically different from the type established in the Soviet system of higher education.

He also protested Solzhenitsyn's expulsion from the Writers ' Union and wrote in defense of dissenting General Pyotr Grigorenko, imprisoned at a psikhushka.

The runners expected to challenge him were defending champion Pyotr Bolotnikov of the Soviet Union, and Murray Halberg of New Zealand, who had won the 5000 m in 1960.

In January 1949 Pyotr Popkov, Aleksei Kuznetsov and Nikolai Voznesensky organized a Leningrad Trade Fair to boost the post-war economy and support the survivors of the Siege of Leningrad with goods and services from all over the Soviet Union.

Pyotr Sergeyevich Novikov (; 15 August 1901, Moscow, Russian Empire – 9 January 1975, Moscow, Soviet Union ) was a Soviet mathematician.

He became the center of an anti-Soviet monarchist resistance group, and headed the Russian All Military Union alongside general Pyotr Wrangel.

Kutepov originally believed terrorist action was necessary to defeat the Bolsheviks and formed the " combat organization ," a militant splinter from the Russian Armed Services Union ( Russkiy Obshcho ­ Voyenskiy Soyuz ) led by General Baron Pyotr Nikolayevich Wrangel

* Pyotr Koshevoy, Marshal of the Soviet Union ( 1968 )

* Pyotr Bogdanov ( 1920 – 1945 ), Soviet military officer, Hero of the Soviet Union

The Russian All-Military Union ( in Russian Русский Обще-Воинский Союз, abbreviated РОВС, ROVS ) was founded by White Army General Pyotr Wrangel in the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes on September 1, 1924.

He founded the Religious Union ( later Soyuz Neprimirimykh, the Union of the Unpacified ), was holding lectures, contributed to Pavel Milyukov's Poslednye Novosty and Pyotr Struve's Osvobozhdenye newspapers, exposing what he saw as the Bolshevist lies and denouncing the ' Kingdom of Antichrist ' by all means available.