Who’s Out in Soviet Union? : DEAD:

* NIKOLAI Y. KRUCHINA, business manager of Communist Party’s Central Committee

The KGB reported that Kruchina jumped out the window of his seventh-floor apartment after leaving a suicide note. The contents of the note were not revealed.

Kruchina was born in the Soviet Far North in 1928, and he joined the Communist Party in 1949. He was appointed to the Central Committee in 1976. Since 1983, he had been the Communist Party’s administrator of affairs, responsible for its budget, finances and property--estimated to be worth nearly $9 billion.

RESIGNED:

* ANATOLY I. LUKYANOV, Speaker of Supreme Soviet

Lukyanov was close to the leaders of last week’s failed coup, and Russian Federation President Boris N. Yeltsin called him the “principal ideologist.”

As a longtime friend of Soviet President Mikhail S. Gorbachev, Lukyanov was elected deputy Speaker of the Supreme Soviet in May, 1989, and then became Speaker in March, 1990. He and Gorbachev studied law at Moscow’s Lomonosov University. Lukyanov graduated in 1953, two years before Gorbachev. Born in the Russian city of Smolensk in May, 1930, Lukyanov joined the Communist Party at age 25. After Gorbachev came to power in 1985, he was promoted to head of the Central Committee’s general department, which manages all documents and prepares its agenda.

FIRED:

* Leonid Kravchenko, the director of state TV and radio, was fired Monday by Gorbachev.

* Lev Spiridonov, director of the Tass news agency, was also fired.