How Steel Was Tempered was a novel by Ostrovsky, a Russian author. It described the growth of a young worker and his political, economic, and cultural struggles with the Soviet society. The following are the names of all the characters in the novel: 1. Pavel Kochagin (Pavel Kochagin) 2. A. A. Yevich Kamnev 3 Zhu He Lai (Zhu He Lai) 4 Brezhnev (Brezhnev) 5 Yeremoenko (Yeremoenko) 6. Mariinsky (Mariinsky) 7 Boris Pavlov (Boris Pavlov) 8 Ivan Yevich Nikolsky (Ivan Yevich Nikolsky) 9 Bolsheviks (Bolsheviks) 10 Zamiagin (Zamiagin) 11 Kondraevich Vladimir Sholokhov (Kondraevich Vladimir Sholokhov) 12. Kaganovich Dantroven (Kaganovich Dantroven) 13 Sergei Chermezov 14 Nina Ivanovich Zamiyatyn 15 Maraus Pavlov 16. Kaganovich Plekhanov 17 Sergei Sheremetyov 18 Alexei Pavlov 19 Yuri Vladimir Kameniev 20 Maria Kanerawa (Maria Kanerawa)