Kosygin's Fifth Government
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The former government
of Alexei Kosygin was dissolved following the Soviet legislative election
of 1979. Kosygin was once again elected Premier by the Politburo and the Central Committee following the election. His fourth government lasted for over one years due to bad health which led him to resign.
Kosygin's Fourth Government
The former government of Alexei Kosygin was dissolved following the Soviet legislative election of 1974. Kosygin was once again elected Premier by the Politburo and the Central Committee following the election...
of Alexei Kosygin was dissolved following the Soviet legislative election
Soviet Union legislative election, 1979
On 4 March 1979, elections were held to the Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union.The Supreme Soviet was made up of two chambers, each of 750 deputies: the Soviet of the Union and the Soviet of Nationalities .According...
of 1979. Kosygin was once again elected Premier by the Politburo and the Central Committee following the election. His fourth government lasted for over one years due to bad health which led him to resign.
Ministries
| Ministry | Minister | Period |
|---|---|---|
| Chairman Premier of the Soviet Union The office of Premier of the Soviet Union was synonymous with head of government of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics . Twelve individuals have been premier... of the Council of Ministers |
Alexei Kosygin | 19 April 1979 – 23 November 1980 |
| First Deputy Chairman of the Council of Ministers | Nikolai Tikhonov Nikolai Tikhonov Nikolai Aleksandrovich Tikhonov was a Soviet Russian-Ukrainian statesman during the Cold War. He served as Chairman of the Council of Ministers from 1980 to 1985, and as a First Deputy Chairman of the Council of Ministers, literally First Vice Premier, from 1976 to 1980... |
19 April 1979 – 23 November 1980 |
| Deputy Chairman of the Council of Ministers | Ivan Arkhipov Ivan Arkhipov Ivan Vasilyevich Arkhipov , – Moscow, 28 February 1998) was a Soviet-Russian statesman who was First Deputy of the Council of Ministers from 1980 to 1986.-Honours and awards:* Hero of Socialist Labour * Five Orders of Lenin... |
19 April 1979 – 23 November 1980 |
| Nikolai Baibakov Nikolai Baibakov Nikolai Konstantinovich Baibakov was a Soviet statesman, economist and Hero of Socialist Labor. He finished secondary school in 1928 and entered the Azerbaijan Oil and Chemistry Institute, from which he graduated in 1931 as a mining engineer. In 1935, he was drafted into the armed forces... |
19 April 1979 – 23 November 1980 | |
| Venyamin Dymshitz | 19 April 1979 – 23 November 1980 | |
| Konstantin Katushev | 19 April 1979 – 23 November 1980 | |
| Vladimir Kirillin | 19 April 1979 – 22 January 1980 | |
| Juri Marchuk | 22 January – 23 November 1980 | |
| Vladimir Novikov Vladimir Novikov (politician) Vladimir Nikolaevich Novikov was a Soviet-Russian statesman was Chairman of the State Planning Committee from 1960 to 1962 and Chairman of the Supreme Soviet of the National Economy from 1962 to 1965.... |
19 April 1979 – 23 November 1980 | |
| Tikhon Kiselev | 19 April 1979 – 23 November 1980 | |
| Mikhail Lesetshko | 19 April 1979 – 23 November 1980 | |
| Nikolai Martynov | 19 April 1979 – 23 November 1980 | |
| Ignati Novikov | 19 April 1979 – 23 November 1980 | |
| Vladimir Novikov Vladimir Novikov Vladimir Dmitriyevich Novikov was a Russian water polo player who competed for the Soviet Union in the 1960 Summer Olympics.He was born in Moscow.... |
19 April 1979 – 23 November 1980 | |
| Ziya Nurijev | 19 April 1979 – 23 November 1980 | |
| Leonid Smirnov Leonid Smirnov (politician) Leonid Vasil’evich Smirnov was director of the the missile factory at Dnepropetrovsk in the late 1950s, developing strategic missiles for the defence of the USSR... |
19 April 1979 – 23 November 1980 | |
| Minister of Agriculture Construction | Stepan Khitrov | 19 April 1979 – 23 November 1980 |
| Minister of Agricultural Products Procurement | Grigori Zolotukhin | 19 April 1979 – 23 November 1980 |
| Minister of Agriculture | Valentin Mesyats | 19 April 1979 – 23 November 1980 |
| Minister of Aviation Industry | Vasili Kazakov | 19 April 1979 – 23 November 1980 |
| Minister of Assembling and Special Construction | Boris Bakin | 19 April 1979 – 23 November 1980 |
| Minister of Automobile Industry | Viktor Poljakov | 19 April 1979 – 23 November 1980 |
| Minister of Building Material Industry | Aleksei Jasin | 19 April 1979 – 23 November 1980 |
| Minister of Chemical Industry | Leonid Kostandov | 19 April 1979 – 23 November 1980 |
| Minister of Civil Aviation | Boris Bugajev | 19 April 1979 – 23 November 1980 |
| Minister of Coal Industry | Boris Bratshenko | 19 April 1979 – 23 November 1980 |
| Minister of Communications Ministry of Communications (Soviet Union) The Ministry of Communications of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics was the central state administration body on communications in the Soviet Union from 1946 to 1991... |
Nikolai Talyshin | 19 April 1979 – 23 November 1980 |
| Minister of Construction | Georgi Karavajev | 19 April 1979 – 23 November 1980 |
| Minister of Construction the Far East and Transbaikal Region | Sergei Bashilov | 18 December 1979 – 23 November 1980 |
| Ministry of Construction of Heavy Industry | Nikolai Goldin | 19 April 1979 – 23 November 1980 |
| Minister of Construction of Oil and Gas Industry | Boris Shcherbina | 19 April 1979 – 23 November 1980 |
| Minister of Construction of Petrochemical Machinery | Konstantin Brekhov | 19 April 1979 – 23 November 1980 |
| Minister of Construction of Power Plants | Viktor Krotov | 19 April 1979 – 23 November 1980 |
| Minister of Culture Ministry of Culture (Soviet Union) The Ministry of Culture of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics , formed in 1936, was one of the most important government offices in the Soviet Union. It was formerly known as the State Committee on the Arts . The Ministry, at the all-Union level, was established in 1953, after existing as a... |
Pyotr Demichev Pyotr Demichev Pyotr Nilovich Demichev was a Soviet-Russian political figure; First Deputy Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet from 1986 to 1988 and Minister of Culture from 1974 to 1986.... |
19 April 1979 – 23 November 1980 |
| Minister of Construction, Road Building and Communal Machines | Jefim Novosjelov | 19 April 1979 – 23 November 1980 |
| Minister of Defence | Dmitriy Ustinov Dmitriy Ustinov Dmitriy Feodorovich Ustinov was Minister of Defense of the Soviet Union from 1976 until his death.-Early life:Dimitry Feodorovich Ustinov was born in a working-class family in Samara. During the civil war, when hunger became intolerable, his sick father went to Samarkand, leaving Dimitry as head... |
19 April 1979 – 23 November 1980 |
| Minister of Defence Industry | Pavel Finogenov | 19 April 1979 – 23 November 1980 |
| Minister of Education Ministry of Education (Soviet Union) Ministry of Education, founded as the People's Commissariat for Education but commonly called Narkompros , was the Soviet agency charged with the administration of public education and most of other issues related to culture. In 1946, it was renamed the Ministry of Education. Its first head was... |
Mikhail Prokofjev | 19 April 1979 – 23 November 1980 |
| Minister of Electrical Engineering | Aleksei Antonov Aleksei Antonov Aleksei Innokentievich Antonov was a General of the Soviet Army, awarded the Order of Victory for his efforts in World War II.-Career:... |
19 April 1979 – 23 November 1980 |
| Minister of Electrical Power and Electrification | Pyotr Neporozhny | 19 April 1979 – 23 November 1980 |
| Minister of Electronic Industry | Aleksandr Shokin | 19 April 1979 – 23 November 1980 |
| Minister of Finance | Vasily Garbuzov | 19 April 1979 – 23 November 1980 |
| Minister of Fish Industry | Vladimir Kamentsev | 19 April 1979 – 23 November 1980 |
| Minister of Food Industry | Voldemar Lein | 19 April 1979 – 23 November 1980 |
| Minister of Foreign Affairs | Andrei Gromyko Andrei Gromyko Andrei Andreyevich Gromyko was a Soviet statesman during the Cold War. He served as Minister of Foreign Affairs and as Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet . Gromyko was responsible for many top decisions on Soviet foreign policy until he retired in 1987. In the West he was given the... |
19 April 1979 – 23 November 1980 |
| Minister of Foreign Trade | Nikolai Patolitshev | 19 April 1979 – 23 November 1980 |
| Minister of Gas Industry | Sabit Orudzhev | 19 April 1979 – 23 November 1980 |
| Minister of Geology | Jevgeni Kozlovski | 19 April 1979 – 23 November 1980 |
| Minister of Health Ministry of Health (Soviet Union) The Ministry of Health of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics , formed on 15 March 1946, was one of the most important government offices in the Soviet Union. It was formerly known as the People's Commissariat for Health... |
Boris Petrovski | 19 April 1979 – 23 November 1980 |
| Minister of Heavy and Transport Construction | Vladimir Zhigalin | 19 April 1979 – 23 November 1980 |
| Ministry of Higher Education | Vjatsheslav Yeljutin | 19 April 1979 – 23 November 1980 |
| Ministry of Industrial Construction | Aleksandr Tokarjev | 19 April 1979 – 23 November 1980 |
| Minister of Instrument-Making, Automation and Control Systems | Konstantin Rudnev | 19 April 1979 – 1 July 1980 |
| Mikhail Shkabardnya | 10 September – 23 November 1980 | |
| Minister of Internal Affairs | Nikolai Shchelokov | 19 April 1979 – 23 November 1980 |
| Minister of Iron and Steel Industry | Ivan Kazanetz | 19 April 1979 – 23 November 1980 |
| Minister of Justice Ministry of Justice (Soviet Union) The Ministry of Justice of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics , formed on 15 March 1946, was one of the most important government offices in the Soviet Union. It was formerly known as the People's Commissariat for Justice... |
Vladimir Terebilov | 19 April 1979 – 23 November 1980 |
| Minister of Land Reclamation and Water Conservancy | Nikolai Vasiljev | 19 April 1979 – 23 November 1980 |
| Minister of Light Industry | Nikolai Tarasov | 19 April 1979 – 23 November 1980 |
| Minister of Machine Building | Vjatsheslav Bakhirov | 19 April 1979 – 23 November 1980 |
| Minister of Construction, Road Building and Communal Machines | Jefim Novosjelov | 19 April 1979 – 23 November 1980 |
| Minister of Machine Building for Light and Food Industries | Ivan Pudkov | 19 April 1979 – 23 November 1980 |
| Minister of Machinery for Stock Raising and Feeding | Konstantin Beljak | 19 April 1979 – 23 November 1980 |
| Minister of General Machine Building | Sergei Afanasjev | 19 April 1979 – 23 November 1980 |
| Minister of Machine-Tool and Instrument Making | Anatoli Kostousov | 19 April 1979 – 23 November 1980 |
| Minister of Manufacture of Communication Media | Erien Pervyshin | 19 April 1979 – 23 November 1980 |
| Minister of Meat and Dairy Industry | Sergei Antonov Sergei Antonov Sergei Antonov was a Bulgarian airline representative who was accused of involvement in an assassination attempt against Pope John Paul II by Mehmet Ali Ağca in 1981.... |
19 April 1979 – 23 November 1980 |
| Minister of Medical Industry | Afanasi Melnitshenko | 19 April 1979 – 23 November 1980 |
| Minister of Medium Machine Building | Yefim Slavski | 19 April 1979 – 23 November 1980 |
| Minister of Merchant Marine | Timofei Guzenko | 19 April 1979 – 23 November 1980 |
| Minister of Non-Ferrous Metallurgy | Pyotr Lomako Pyotr Lomako Pyotr Faddeyevich Lomako was a Soviet politician and economist, head of Gosplan between 1962 and 1965. During the Second World War, he was responsible for overseeing the evacuation of Soviet industry to the Ural mountains... |
19 April 1979 – 23 November 1980 |
| Minister of Oil Industry | Nikolai Maltsev | 19 April 1979 – 23 November 1980 |
| Minister of Oil Processing and Petrochemical Industry | Viktor Fjodorov | 19 April 1979 – 23 November 1980 |
| Minister of Pulp and Paper Industry | Konstantin Galantshin | 19 April 1979 – 23 November 1980 |
| Minister of Radio Industry | Pyotr Pleshakov | 19 April 1979 – 23 November 1980 |
| Minister of Railways Ministry of Railways (Soviet Union) The Ministry of Railways oversaw the railways of the Soviet Union. It was subdivided into 32 different railway agencies, which between them had millions of employees... |
Ivan Pavlovski | 19 April 1979 – 23 November 1980 |
| Minister of Shipbuilding | Mikhail Yegorov | 19 April 1979 – 23 November 1980 |
| Ministry of Timber and Wood Processing Industry | Nikolai Timofjejev | 19 April 1979 – 23 November 1980 |
| Minister of Tractors and Agricultural Machines | Ivan Sinizyn | 19 April 1979 – 10 October 1980 |
| Aleksandr Yezhevski | 10 October – 23 November 1980 | |
| Minister of Trade, Home | Aleksandr Strujev | 19 April 1979 – 23 November 1980 |
| Minister of Transport Construction | Ivan Sosnov | 19 April 1979 – 23 November 1980 |
Committees
| Committee | Chairman | Period |
|---|---|---|
| Chief Administrator of the Council of Ministers | Mikhail Smirtyukov | 19 April 1979 – 23 November 1980 |
| Chairman of the People's Control Commission | Aleksei Shkolnikov | 19 April 1979 – 23 November 1980 |
| Chairman of the State Planning Committee Gosplan Gosplan or State Planning Committee was the committee responsible for economic planning in the Soviet Union. The word "Gosplan" is an abbreviation for Gosudarstvenniy Komitet po Planirovaniyu... |
Nikolai Baibakov Nikolai Baibakov Nikolai Konstantinovich Baibakov was a Soviet statesman, economist and Hero of Socialist Labor. He finished secondary school in 1928 and entered the Azerbaijan Oil and Chemistry Institute, from which he graduated in 1931 as a mining engineer. In 1935, he was drafted into the armed forces... |
19 April 1979 – 23 November 1980 |
| Chairman of State Committee for State Security KGB The KGB was the commonly used acronym for the . It was the national security agency of the Soviet Union from 1954 until 1991, and was the premier internal security, intelligence, and secret police organization during that time.The State Security Agency of the Republic of Belarus currently uses the... (KGB) |
Yuri Andropov Yuri Andropov Yuri Vladimirovich Andropov was a Soviet politician and the General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union from 12 November 1982 until his death fifteen months later.-Early life:... |
19 April 1979 – 23 November 1980 |