List

• Lev Kamenev
  Lev Kamenev
  Lev Borisovich Kamenev , born Rozenfeld , was a Bolshevik revolutionary and a prominent Soviet politician. He was briefly head of state of the new republic in 1917, and from 1923-24 the acting Premier in the last year of Lenin's life....
  
   (July 6, 1923 - January 16, 1926)
• Alexey Rykov (July 6, 1923 - February 2, 1924)
• Alexander Tsiurupa (July 6, 1923 - May 8, 1928)
• Vlas Chubar
  Vlas Chubar
  Vlas Yakovlevich Chubar was a Ukrainian Bolshevik revolutionary and a Soviet politician.-Early career:Chubar was born in Fedorovka, Yekaterinoslav Governorate, Russian Empire . He became a Marxist revolutionary early in life and joined the Bolshevik faction of the Russian Social Democratic Labor...
  
   (July 6, 1923 - May 21, 1925, April 24, 1934 - July 4, 1938)
• Mamia Orakhelashvili (July 6, 1923 - May 21, 1925)
• Valerian Kuybyshev (January 16, 1926 - November 5, 1926, 10 November 1930 - May 14, 1934)
• Jānis Rudzutaks (January 16, 1926 - May 25, 1937)
• Grigoriy Ordzhonikidze
  Grigoriy Ordzhonikidze
  Grigol Ordzhonikidze ორჯონიკიძე - Grigol Orjonikidze, , generally known as Sergo Ordzhonikidze ; – February 18, 1937) was a Georgian Bolshevik, later member of the CPSU Politburo and close friend to Joseph Stalin...
  
   (November 5, 1926 - November 10, 1930)
• Vasily V. Schmidt (August 11, 1928 - December 1, 1930)
• Andrey Andreyevich Andreyev (December 22, 1930 - October 9, 1931)
• Valery Ivanovich Mezhlauk (April 25, 1934 - February 25, 1937, October 17, 1937 - December 1, 1937)
• Nikolai K. Antipov (April 27, 1935 - June 21, 1937)
• Anastas Mikoyan
  Anastas Mikoyan
  Anastas Ivanovich Mikoyan was an Armenian Old Bolshevik and Soviet statesman during the rules of Vladimir Lenin, Joseph Stalin, Nikita Khrushchev, and Leonid Brezhnev....
  
   (July 22, 1937 - March 15, 1946)
• Stanislav Kosior
  Stanislav Kosior
  Stanislav Vikentyevich Kosior, sometimes spelled Kossior was one of three Kosior brothers, Polish-born Soviet politicians. He was General Secretary of the Ukrainian Communist Party, deputy prime minister of the USSR, and a member of the Politburo of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union...
  
   (January 19, 1938 - May 3, 1938)
• Lazar Kaganovich
  Lazar Kaganovich
  Lazar Moiseyevich Kaganovich was a Soviet politician and administrator and one of the main associates of Joseph Stalin.-Early life:Kaganovich was born in 1893 to Jewish parents in the village of Kabany, Radomyshl uyezd, Kiev Governorate, Russian Empire...
  
   (August 21, 1938 - May 15, 1944, December 20, 1944 - March 15, 1946)
• Nikolai Voznesensky
  Nikolai Voznesensky
  Nikolai Alekseevich Voznesensky was the Soviet economic planner who oversaw the running of Gosplan during the German-Soviet War. A protégé of Andrei Zhdanov, Voznesensky was appointed Deputy Premier in May 1940 at the age of thirty-eight. He was directly involved in the recovery of production...
  
   (April 4, 1939 - Mar. 10, 1941)
• Nikolai Bulganin
  Nikolai Bulganin
  Nikolai Alexandrovich Bulganin was a prominent Soviet politician, who served as Minister of Defense and Premier of the Soviet Union . The Bulganin beard is named after him.-Early career:...
  
   (September 16, 1938 - May 15, 1944)
• Andrey Vyshinsky
  Andrey Vyshinsky
  Andrey Januaryevich Vyshinsky – 22 November 1954) was a Soviet politician, jurist and diplomat.He is known as a state prosecutor of Joseph Stalin's Moscow trials and in the Nuremberg trials. He was the Soviet Foreign Minister from 1949 to 1953, after having served as Deputy Foreign...
  
   (May 31, 1939 - May 15, 1944)
• Rosalia Zemlyachka (8 May 1939 - August 26, 1943)
• Alexei Kosygin (April 17, 1940 - March 15, 1946)
• Mikhail Pervukhin
  Mikhail Pervukhin
  Mikhail Gyeorgievich Pervukhin was a Soviet official during the Stalin Era, Khrushchev Era and the early Brezhnev Era. He served as a First Deputy Chairman of the Council of Ministers, literally First Vice-Premier of the Soviet Union, from 1955 to 1957....
  
   (17 April 1940 - May 15, 1944)
• Vyacheslav A. Malyshev (April 17, 1940 - May 15, 1944) Malyshev, Vyacheslav (April 17, 1940 - May 15, 1944)
• Kliment Voroshilov
  Kliment Voroshilov
  Kliment Yefremovich Voroshilov , popularly known as Klim Voroshilov was a Soviet military officer, politician, and statesman...
  
   (May 7, 1940 - 15 March 1946)
• Lavrentiy Beria
  Lavrentiy Beria
  Lavrentiy Pavlovich Beria was a Georgian Soviet politician and state security administrator, chief of the Soviet security and secret police apparatus under Joseph Stalin during World War II, and Deputy Premier in the postwar years ....
  
   (3 February 1941 - March 15, 1946)
• Lev Mekhlis
  Lev Mekhlis
  Lev Zakharovich Mekhlis was a Jewish-Soviet statesman and party figure.-Career:He however served incompetently as a party commissar at the front during World War II, among his mistakes being failures, in conjunction with General Dmitri Kozlov, which meant the Crimean Front was defeated and had to...
  
   (6 September 1940 - May 15, 1944)
• Maksim Saburov
  Maksim Saburov
  Maksim Zakharovich Saburov was a Soviet engineer, economist and politician, three-time Chairman of Gosplan and later First Deputy Premier of the Soviet Union...
  
   (March 10, 1941 - May 15, 1944)
• Vyacheslav Molotov
  Vyacheslav Molotov
  Vyacheslav Mikhailovich Molotov was a Soviet politician and diplomat, an Old Bolshevik and a leading figure in the Soviet government from the 1920s, when he rose to power as a protégé of Joseph Stalin, to 1957, when he was dismissed from the Presidium of the Central Committee by Nikita Khrushchev...
  
   (May 6, 1941 - August 16, 1942)
• Georgy Malenkov
  Georgy Malenkov
  Georgy Maximilianovich Malenkov was a Soviet politician, Communist Party leader and close collaborator of Joseph Stalin. After Stalin's death, he became Premier of the Soviet Union and was in 1953 briefly considered the most powerful Soviet politician before being overshadowed by Nikita...
  
   (May 15, 1944 - March 15, 1946)

• Lavrentiy Beria
  Lavrentiy Beria
  Lavrentiy Pavlovich Beria was a Georgian Soviet politician and state security administrator, chief of the Soviet security and secret police apparatus under Joseph Stalin during World War II, and Deputy Premier in the postwar years ....
  
   (March 19, 1946 - March 5, 1953)
• Andrey Andreyev (March 19, 1946 - March 15, 1953 )
• Alexei Kosygin (March 19, 1946 - March 15, 1953, December 7, 1953 - December 25, 1956, July 5, 1957 - May 4, 1960)
• Anastas Mikoyan
  Anastas Mikoyan
  Anastas Ivanovich Mikoyan was an Armenian Old Bolshevik and Soviet statesman during the rules of Vladimir Lenin, Joseph Stalin, Nikita Khrushchev, and Leonid Brezhnev....
  
   (19 March 1946 - March 15, 1953, April 27, 1954 - February 28, 1955)
• Nikolai Voznesensky
  Nikolai Voznesensky
  Nikolai Alekseevich Voznesensky was the Soviet economic planner who oversaw the running of Gosplan during the German-Soviet War. A protégé of Andrei Zhdanov, Voznesensky was appointed Deputy Premier in May 1940 at the age of thirty-eight. He was directly involved in the recovery of production...
  
   (March 19, 1946 - March 7, 1949)
• Kliment Voroshilov
  Kliment Voroshilov
  Kliment Yefremovich Voroshilov , popularly known as Klim Voroshilov was a Soviet military officer, politician, and statesman...
  
   (March 19, 1946 - March 15, 1953)
• Lazar Kaganovich
  Lazar Kaganovich
  Lazar Moiseyevich Kaganovich was a Soviet politician and administrator and one of the main associates of Joseph Stalin.-Early life:Kaganovich was born in 1893 to Jewish parents in the village of Kabany, Radomyshl uyezd, Kiev Governorate, Russian Empire...
  
   (March 19, 1946 - March 6, 1947, December 18, 1947 - March 5, 1953)
• Georgy Malenkov
  Georgy Malenkov
  Georgy Maximilianovich Malenkov was a Soviet politician, Communist Party leader and close collaborator of Joseph Stalin. After Stalin's death, he became Premier of the Soviet Union and was in 1953 briefly considered the most powerful Soviet politician before being overshadowed by Nikita...
  
   (August 2, 1946 - March 5, 1953, February 9, 1955 - June 29, 1957)
• Maksim Saburov
  Maksim Saburov
  Maksim Zakharovich Saburov was a Soviet engineer, economist and politician, three-time Chairman of Gosplan and later First Deputy Premier of the Soviet Union...
  
   (February 8, 1947 - March 5, 1953, 7 December 1953 - February 28, 1955)
• Nikolai Bulganin
  Nikolai Bulganin
  Nikolai Alexandrovich Bulganin was a prominent Soviet politician, who served as Minister of Defense and Premier of the Soviet Union . The Bulganin beard is named after him.-Early career:...
  
   (March 5, 1947 - April 7, 1950)
• Vyacheslav Alexandrovich Malyshev (December 19, 1947 - March 15, 1953, December 7, 1953 - December 25, 1956)
• Alexey Krutikov (July 13, 1948 - February 8, 1949)
• Aleksandr Yefremov
  Aleksandr Illarionovich Yefremov
  Alexander Illarionovich Yefremov was a Soviet statesman, party figure and Chairman of the Executive Committee of the Moscow City Council of Workers', Peasants' and Red Armymen's Deputies from 3 November 1938 to 14 April 1939.Alexander Yefremov was born into a family of a factory worker...
  
   (March 8, 1949 - November 23, 1951)
• Ivan Tevosyan (June 13, 1949 - March 15, 1953, December 7, 1953 - December 28, 1956)
• Mikhail Georgievich Pervukhin (January 17, 1950 - March 15, 1953, 7 December 1953 - February 28, 1955)
• Panteleimon Ponomarenko
  Panteleimon Ponomarenko
  Panteleimon Kondrat'evich Ponomarenko ; 9 August 1902 18 January 1984) was a general in the Red Army before becoming a Soviet administrator in Belarus and then Kazakhstan. He was born in Krasnodar Krai, Russia....
  
   (December 12, 1952 - March 15, 1953)
• Vladimir Kucherenko (February 28, 1955 - December 25, 1956)
• Pavel Pavlovich Lobanov (February 28, 1955 - April 9, 1956)
• Mikhail Khrunichev
  Mikhail Khrunichev
  Mikhail Vasilyevich Khrunichev was a Soviet Union statesman, lieutenant-general in the technical and engineering corps , who was awarded the title of Soviet Hero of Socialist Labour in 1945....
  
   (February 28, 1955 - December 25, 1956 April 8, 1961 - June 2, 1961)
• Abraham P. Zavenyagin (February 28, 1955 - December 31, 1956)
• Vladimir Matskevich (April 9, 1956 - December 25, 1956)
• 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...
  
   (December 14, 1957 - March 13, 1963 )
• Alexander F. Zasyadko (March 31, 1958 - November 9, 1962)
• Joseph I. Kuzmin (March 31, 1958 - March 20, 1959)
• Nikolai Ignatov (May 4, 1960 - December 26, 1962)
• 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....
  
   (May 4, 1960 - November 24, 1962, March 26, 1965 - December 19, 1980)
• Konstantin Rudnev (June 10, 1961 - October 2, 1965)
• Benjamin Emmanuilovich (July 17, 1962 - December 20, 1980)
• Peter Fadeevich Lomako (November 10, 1962 - October 2, 1965)
• Dmitry Stepanovich Polyansky (November 23, 1962 - October 2, 1965)
• Alexander Shelepin
  Alexander Shelepin
  Alexander Nikolayevich Shelepin was a Soviet state security officer and party statesman. He was a member of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union and its Politburo and was the head of the KGB from 25 December 1958 to 13 November 1961.Shelepin was born in Voronezh...
  
   (November 23, 1962 - December 9, 1965)
• Mikhail Avksentevich Lesechko (November 24, 1962 - October 24, 1980)
• Ignat Trofimovich Novikov (November 24, 1962 - July 20, 1983)
• 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...
  
   (March 13, 1963 - November 15, 1985)
• 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...
  
   (October 2, 1965 - October 14, 1985)
• 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...
  
   (October 2, 1965 - September 2, 1976)
• Vladimir Kirillin (Oct. 2, 1965 - January 22, 1980)
• Mikhail Yefremov
  Mikhail Timofeyevich Yefremov
  Mikhail Timofeyevich Yefremov , was a Soviet politician and diplomat....
  
   (November 13, 1965 - October 29, 1971)
• Petro Shelest
  Petro Shelest
  Petro Yukhymovych Shelest was the First Secretary of the Communist party in the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic Petro Yukhymovych Shelest (February 14, 1908 - January 22, 1996) was the First Secretary of the Communist party in the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic Petro Yukhymovych Shelest...
  
   (May 19, 1972 - May 7, 1973)
• Zia Nurievich Nureyev (3 April 1973 - November 1, 1985)
• 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...
  
   (March 21, 1974 - October 27, 1980)
• Nikolai Martynov (June 25, 1976 - November 15, 1985)
• Konstantin Fedorovich Katushev (March 16, 1977 - July 29, 1982)
• Tikhon Kiselyov
  Tikhon Kiselyov
  Tikhon Yakovlevich Kiselyov was a Belarusian statesman in the Soviet Union, the leader of the Communist Party of Belorussia, i.e., the de-facto leader of the Byelorussian SSR...
  
   (December 5, 1978 - 23 October 1980)
• Gury Marchuk
  Gury Marchuk
  Gury Ivanovich Marchuk is a prominent Soviet/Russian scientist in the fields of computational mathematics, and physics of atmosphere. Academician ; the President of the USSR Academy of Sciences in 1986–1991...
  
   (January 28, 1980 - October 28, 1986)
• Valentin Makeev (October 23, 1980 - January 20, 1983)
• Nikolai Talyzin
  Nikolai Talyzin
  Nikolai Vladimirovich Talyzin was a Soviet statesman, economist and head of the Gosplan, or the State Planning Committee....
  
   (October 24, 1980 - October 14, 1985, October 1, 1988 - June 7, 1989)
• Leonid Arkad'evich Kostandi (November 4, 1980 - September 5, 1984)
• Alexey Antonov (December 19, 1980 - October 1, 1988)
• Ivan Bodiul
  Ivan Bodiul
  Ivan Ivanovich Bodiul was a Moldovan SSR politician.- Biography :Ivan Ivanovich Bodiul was born on 3 January 1918, in Alexandrovca, Mykolaiv Oblast, Ukraine...
  
   (December 19, 1980 - May 30, 1985)
• Boris Antonovich Shcherbina (January 13, 1984 - June 7, 1989)
• Yakov Ryabov (September 27, 1984 - June 19, 1986)
• Ivan Silayev
  Ivan Silayev
  Ivan Stepanovich Silayev is a former Soviet official who became a Russian politician following the dissolution of the Soviet Union. He served as Premier of the Soviet Union through the offices of Chairman of the Interstate Economic Committee and Chairman of the Committee on the Operational...
  
   (1 November 1985 - July 2, 1990)
• Lev Voronin
  Lev Voronin
  Lev Gennadiyevich Voronin is a Russian team handball player and Olympic champion from 2000 in Sydney.-References:...
  
   (November 15, 1985 - June 7, 1989)
• Yuri Maslyukov
  Yuri Maslyukov
  Yuri Dmitriyevich Maslyukov was a Russian politician who was in charge of the Gosplan for three years preceding the demise of the Soviet Union.-Early life:...
  
   (November 15, 1985 - February 5, 1988)
• Yuri Petrovich Batalin (December 20, 1985 - June 7, 1989)
• Gennady G. Vedernikov (June 19, 1986 - June 7, 1989)
• Vladimir Kuzmich Gusev (June 19, 1986 - December 26, 1990)
• Vladimir Mikhailovich Kamentsev (September 1, 1986 - June 7, 1989)
• Boris L. Tolstoy (February 6, 1987 - June 7, 1989)
• Igor Belousov (February 12, 1988 - December 26, 1990)
• Aleksandra Pavlovna Biryukova (October 1, 1988 - September 17, 1990)
• Leonid Abalkin
  Leonid Abalkin
  Leonid Ivanovich Abalkin was a Russian economist. He was born in Moscow and became director of the Institute of Economics of the USSR Academy of Sciences in 1986. A member of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR with special responsibility for economic affairs...
  
   (July 17, 1989 - December 26, 1990)
• Vitaly Husseynovich Doguzhiev (July 17, 1989 - December 26, 1990)
• Nikolai Pavlovich Laverov (July 17, 1989 - December 26, 1990)
• Pavel Ivanovich Mostovoy ( July 17, 1989 - December 26, 1990)
• Lev Ryabev (July 17, 1989 - December 26, 1990)
• Stepan Aramaisovich Sitaryan (October 24, 1989 - December 26, 1990)

• Arkady Ivanovich Volsky (24 August 1991 - 14 November 1991)
• Yury Luzhkov (24 August - 14 November 1991)
• Grigory Yavlinsky (24 August - 2 October 1991)

• Gennady V. Kulik (November 18, 1991 - December 26, 1991)
• Amangeldy Imanakyshevich Bektemisov (November 29, 1991 - December 26, 1991)