Central Committee of the 27th Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union

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The Central Committee of the 27th Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union was in session from 1986 until 1990. [1] Its 1st Plenary Session elected the Politburo, the Secretariat and the Party Control Committee of the 27th Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.

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History

Election and composition

The 27th Congress witnessed the greatest turnover of Central Committee members in the party's history since 22nd Party Congress (held in 1961) during Nikita Khrushchev's leadership. [2] The numbers of full membership were reduced from 319 in the 26th Central Committee to 307, while candidate membership was increased from 151 to 170. [3] Of the 307 full members elected to the 27th Central Committee, 102 (making up 33 percent of membership) were newcomers. [4] 25 officials, who had previously served as candidate members in the 26th Central Committee, were promoted to full membership. [4] In total 125 new full members were appointed, making up 41 percent. [4] 182 members (59 percent) were reelected to the 27th Central Committee, a decrease from the 26th Congress, in which 238 (75 percent) were reelected. [4] Of the 170 candidate members, 54 (32 percent) were reelected, while the other 116 were newcomers. [4] The 1st Plenary Session elected Lev Zaykov (then First Secretary of the Leningrad City Party Committee) to full membership in the Politburo, while Nikolay Slyunkov (Communist Party of Byelorussia First Secretary) and Yuri Solovyev  [ ru ] (First Secretary of the Leningrad Regional Party Committee) were given Politburo candidate membership. [5] The plenum elected five newcomers to the Secretariat; Alexandra Biryukova (the first women to hold high party office since Yekaterina Furtseva in the Khrushchev era), Anatoly Dobrynin, Vadim Medvedev  [ ru ], Georgy Razumovsky and Alexander Yakovlev. [5] The 1st Plenary Session reelected Mikhail Gorbachev to the office of the general secretary. [6]

In a similar vein, Gorbachev managed to get close advisers elected to the Central Committee. [3] Anatoly Chernyaev (Gorbachev's foreign adviser) and Anatoly Lukyanov, (head of the party's General Department) were promoted to full membership, while Valery Boldin was elected to the 27th Central Committee as a candidate member. [3] Several figures within the Central Academy of Social Sciences, most notably Evgeny Velikhov, were appointed to the Central Committee as candidate members. [3] Notably the 27th Congress did not reelect Richard Kosolapov, the longtime editor of the party's theoretical journal Kommunist , and was replaced by Ivan Frolov. [3] Several Brezhnev appointed heads of Central Committee departments failed to be reelected to the Central Committee; Ivan Sakhnyuk  [ ru ] (Agricultural-Machine Building Department), Kirill Simonov (Transport and Communications Department) and Vasily Shauro  [ ru ] (Culture Department). [7] Nikolay Savkin (Administrative Organs Department) and Vladimir Karlov  [ ru ] (Agriculture and Food Industry Department) were the two last remaining Central Committee departments heads appointed by Brezhnev. [7] Of the 23 department heads, fourteen were replaced by the 1st Plenary Session. [8] Four leading officials from the Brezhnev era, who retired from the Politburo and the Secretariat at the 27th Congress, were reelected to the Central Committee; Nikolai Tikhonov (former Chairman of the Council of Ministers), Nikolai Baibakov (the former Chairman of the State Planning Committee), Boris Ponomarev (former Head of the International Department) and Vasili Kuznetsov (the former First Deputy Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet). [9]

Tenure

Combating party formalism; 1st–2nd Plenary Sessions

The newly elected leadership was united in supporting reforms, principally behind the slogan uskoreniye (literally "acceleration"), which called for improving the Soviet economy, [6] and to combat formalism[ further explanation needed ], corruption, nepotism and centralism within the party. [6] Beginning in March 1985, the Central Committee (through the Soviet press) began criticizing the norms and organizational habits of the party; criticism increased by the discovery of corruption rings in the communist parties of Kazakhstan (CPK, Kirghizia (CPKi), Turkmenistan (CPT), Moldavia (CPM), Uzbekistan (CPU) and Azerbaijan (ACP). [10] The policy of appointing officials on the basis of "personal loyalty, servility and protectionism" were blamed on the party's subpar performance in certain areas, and in areas in which this was not the case, the Central Committee focused on the lack of inner-party democracy. [11] To strengthen party democracy, Gorbachev called for an increase in criticism and self-criticism (claiming it was as critical "for us as air") [12] to overcome "'paradeness, ballyhoo . . . [and] the embellishment of reality". [13] An article in Pravda noted that "In some places people try to 'prepare' the discussion in such a way as to avoid any tricky issues in it. Speeches are usually made only by 'staff' speakers, usually in a predetermined order. Things even go as far as the editing of draft texts of speeches." [13] Meetings became ceremonial, and lacked effective power—which led local authorities to misinform the central authorities on the situation in the given area. [13] All forms of "window-dressing", or hiding abuses of power in general, were to be stopped. [14] In the current situation, Solovyev noted; [14]

The main demand which the party makes under modern conditions on the party committee secretary and the staff officer is ensuring that nowhere, under no circumstances, does word part from deed since any discrepancy here causes palpable damage to the authority of our policy and cannot be tolerated in any form. [14]

Boris Griaznov, the First Secretary of the Frunze District Party Committee, was signalled out as an official "'accustomed to stagnation, encouraged ostentation, ignored collective opinion, lost the feeling of party comradeship, and only pretended to be carrying out restructuring", [14] while party leaders in Kazakhstan had difficulty of ridding"themselves of elements of excessive administration and a commander-like style [behaviour]". [14] The central leadership continued to highlight the party work ethics of first secretaries at every level; at the 2nd Plenary Session Gorbachev condemned certain localities of not committing themselves to the new work-style. [14] In other cases, as noted by Gorbachev, party leaders did not know how to react to criticism or how to introduce changes, noting that "Sometimes words are substituted for deeds, no action is taken in response to criticism, and self-criticism takes the form of self-flagellation." [15] Historian Graeme Gill asserts; [16]

"complaints about the way in which the party was operating which resounded through the press in 1985 and 1986 amounted to a condemnation of the party's organisational culture. [...] During the first eighteen months or so of Gorbachev's tenure as General Secretary, there seems to have been a general underestimation of the strength and sources of this culture and of what was necessary to eradicate it. The heart of the solution the Gorbachev leadership pursued was thoroughly traditional in the Soviet context, personnel. [16]

Collectivity of leadership, and collectivism in general, was hailed as "a reliable guarantee against the adoption of volitional, subjective decisions, manifestations of the cult of personality, and the infringement of Leninist norms of party life." [17] In tandem, the Central Committee began calling for psychological restructuring of party members. [17] However, since the 27th Congress failed to create institutions which oversaw the implementation of these measures (and others), individual members who had no interest in changing their work habits were not punished. [17] The reason for the lack of oversight was Gorbachev's belief that the party was a "healthy organism", and as Graeme Gill concludes, "A healthy organism clearly did not need radical institutional surgery." [18] When it became clear to Gorbachev that the reforms to "invigorate" the party had failed, the reform consensus within the leadership was split asunder. [19] Gorbachev began moving in a more radical directions, while several prominent colleagues in the Politburo, Secretariat and the Central Committee opposed his new measures. [19] The schism in the leadership led to the failure to convene the 3rd Plenary Session in the last half of 1986 (being postponed to January 1987). [19] Nonetheless, before the 3rd Plenary Session, the Central Committee was able to remove Dinmukhamed Konayev, the CPK First Secretary. [20] The removal of Konayev, who was widely perceived to support an out-dated work ethic and to be corrupt, led to the Jeltoqsan riots when it was discovered that Konayev would be replaced by Gennady Kolbin, an ethnic Russian who had never lived in the Kazakh Soviet Socialist Republic. [21]

Democratization: 3rd–7th Plenary Sessions

On 23 December 1985, the Politburo appointed Boris Yeltsin, an official from Sverdlovsk, First Secretary of the Moscow City Committee (de facto mayor of Moscow). [22] Gorbachev had endorsed the appointment, heeding the advice of Yegor Ligachev (the party's informal second-in-command) who personally recommended him. [23] In contrast, Nikolai Ryzhkov told Gorbachev in private that "He [Yeltsin] will cause you only grief. I would not recommend him." [23] Yeltsin, who had introduced himself as something of a centrist at the 27th Congress, proved himself to be a supporter of radical change, going even as far, as on 19 January 1986, of criticising Gorbachev personally for "exaggerat[ing] the changes that had occurred" during his leadership. [24]

Gorbachev opened the 3rd Plenary Session by criticising the party's performance, claiming the party's failure to reform was due to "conservatism and inertia, lenience and lack of demandingness, toadyism and personal adulation, red tape, formalism, intolerance and suppression of criticism, ambition and careerism, administration by decree, permissiveness, mutual coverups, careerism, departmentalism, parochialism, nationalism, substitutionism, a weakening of the role of party meetings and elective bodies,embezzlement, bribery, report-padding and violation of discipline." [25] The cure for this "disease" was "demokratizatsiya", literally the democratization of society. [25] He called for open, democratic debates in the primary party organizations and to allow a secret ballot during plenary sessions of the district, area, city, region and territory party committees and the central committees of the republican parties to elect the executive organs. [25] This was an attack on the nomenklatura , a system in which leading officials appointed the cadres at the level below, the basis of the Soviet system. [26] The plenary session opposed his suggestions, and while his criticisms were mentioned in the Resolution of the 3rd Plenary Session, the idea of multi-candidate elections within the Party were omitted from the text. [27]

In preparation of the 4th Plenary Session, Gorbachev had prepared a speech on Soviet and Party history. [28] In it he condemned the rule of Joseph Stalin and Stalinism in general, but the speech was amended by Politburo. [28] Conservatives such as Ligachev, Andrei Gromyko, Mikhail Solomentsev and Vitaly Vorotnikov did not share Gorbachev's views, or at least, did not support a public anti-Stalinist proclamation. [28] Despite the conservative reaction, Gorbachev was able to rehabilitate Nikolay Bukharin and Nikita Khrushchev, while referring to Stalin's repressive regime as "immense and unpardonable". [28]

"People have often asked me—and later I asked myself the same question—why didn't Gorbachev decide to get me out of the way once and for all [in 1987]. . . . I could easily have been pensioned off or sent as ambassador to some faraway country. Yet Gorbachev let me stay in Moscow, gave me a relatively high placed job, and, in effect, kept a determined opponent close by him. It is my belief that if Gorbachev didn't have a Yeltsin, he would have had to invent one.... In this real-life production, the parts have been appropriately cast, as in a well-directed play. There is the conservative Ligachev, who plays the villain; there is Yeltsin, the bully-boy, the madcap radical; and the wise omniscient hero is Gorbachev himself. That, evidently, is how he sees it."

—Boris Yeltsin on his appointment as First Deputy Chairman of the State Committee for Construction. [29]

The 4th Plenary Session was supposed to discuss economic reforms, but instead of focusing on the matter at hand Yeltsin, according to Gorbachev, attacked the speed of perestroika, the work of the Secretariat and Ligachev personally. [30] From this point on, the relationship between Gorbachev and Yeltsin would only grow worse—however, by this time, the press mistakenly had begun to present Yeltsin as Gorbachev's closest reformist associate in the Politburo. [30] In the summer of 1987, when Gorbachev was on vacation, Ligachev (on Gorbachev's bidding) led the party apparatus (and chaired the meetings of the Politburo). [31] On 10 September he organized an Inquiry Commission of the Central Committee to investigate the performance of the Moscow City Committee under Yeltsin's stewardship—Yeltsin reacted to the inquiry by becoming the first Politburo member in history to willingly resign from his seat. [30] In respsonse Gorbachev told Yeltsin they could discuss the situation after the 70th Anniversary of the October Revolution. [32] At the 5th Plenary Session, which was devoted to the aforementioned anniversary, Yeltsin completely broke by protocol by denouncing Gorbachev and Ligachev personally, and resigned from the Politburo. [32] The central leadership reacted in kind, by criticizing him at the plenary session; Yakovlev contended that he had been "reacting immaturely to 'petty offenses'", while Ryzhkov accused him of being driven by "ambition pure and simple". [33] Soon after his resignation, Yeltsin was hospitalized, either for suffering a heart attack (as Yeltsin contends) or for "a fake suicide attempt with scissors" (as Gorbachev and the members of the central leadership contends). [34] At a session of the Moscow City Committee on 11 November 1987, the party leadership dragged Yeltsin out of the hospital and forced him to attend the meeting in which he was relieved of his duties as First Secretary and unceremoniously humiliated. [32] The meeting proved to be a mistake; the Soviet populace began sympathising with Yeltsin—a problem which was compounded "by the mistake" of Gorbachev attending the Moscow City Committee session. [34] In the aftermath, Yeltsin was appointed First Deputy Chairman of the State Committee for Construction (chaired by Yuri Batalin  [ ru ]), but was told on the day of his appointment by Gorbachev that he could not participate in politics. [34]

At the 6th Plenary Session Ligachev delivered the first speech, the first time that Gorbachev had not done so himself. [35] Ligachev attacked what he perceived as the excesses of glasnost, the influence of rock music in society, "the blackening of Soviet history" and the failure of the leadership to do anything with the growing nationalism in the republics. [35] Gorbachev did not speak until the second day of the plenum, and gave a defensive speech in which he defended his reform efforts but called for the establishment of a "middle ground" in which balanced Soviet historiography and supported using Soviet patriotism to counter the rising nationalism in the republics. [36] The plenary session relieved Yeltsin of his duties as candidate member of the Politburo and member of the Secretariat, and elected Razumovsky (Head of the Organisational-Party Work Department) and Yuri Maslyukov (Chairman of the State Planning Committee) to Politburo candidate membership. [36] Leading conservative figures, such as General Dmitry Yazov, had begun criticising Gorbachev's democratising policies openly in December 1987, claiming they weakened the honour of the Soviet military, while party first secretaries in the republics called for a tightening of party control in reaction to the growing nationalism amongst the populace. [36]

In between the 6th and the 7th plenary sessions, the Nina Andreyeva Affair took place. [37] Andreyeva, "an hitherto unknown lecturer at a Leningrad chemical institute, wrote an article in Sovetskaya Rossiya titled "I Cannot Forsake My Principles". [37] She condemned Gorbachev's reforms and called for their reversal. [37] She criticized the Gorbachev leadership's habit of opening the previous black spots in Soviet history, which she claimed only helped to denigrate the Soviet past. [37] In addition, the article is notable for its antisemitism; of all the Jews mentioned, only Karl Marx was not accused of participating in blackening of Soviet history and destroying the Soviet order. [37] The importance of the article does not lay in its author, but rather how it was interpreted by the forces in the Central Committee — both conservatives, centrists and reformers fought Nina Andreyeva was a pseudonym used by a high-standing official. [37] It was consistently referred to posthumously as "an anti-perestroika manifesto". [37] The publication of the article had been chosen carefully by conservative forces within the Central Committee apparatus and Valentin Chikin  [ ru ], the editor-in-chief of Sovetskaya Rossiya, and it was published on 13 March to coincide with Gorbachev's visit to Yugoslavia and Yavkovlev's visit to Mongolia on 14 March. [38] With both of the leading reformers gone, the conservative Ligachev was in charge of the Central Committee apparatus. [38] Ligachev endorsed the article, stating it was "a benchmark for what we need in our ideology today." [38] In the words of historian Archie Brown "Old habits of prudence rapidly reasserted themselves in the face of an apparent signal of change in the balance of forces at the top of the party hierarchy and of a return to a time when dissenting intellectuals would no longer be treated with tolerance." [38] Upon his return on 18 March, Gorbachev discussed it with the Politburo. [38] To his surprise several of his colleagues supported the content of the article, among them Vorotnikov, Gromyko, Ligachev, Solomentsev and Viktor Nikonov  [ ru ]. [38] The article was discussed in the 24–26 March Politburo meeting, in which the aforementioned conservatives alongside Viktor Chebrikov, the Chairman of the KGB, and Anatoly Lukyanov, a close associate of Gorbachev and the Head of the General Department, supported the article. [38] Chebrikov condemned the criticisms of the Soviet system which had appeared with Gorbachev's reforms, and lamented the scheming "of our ideological adversary". [38] Despite forming a majority, the conservatives did not opt for removing Gorbachev, largely because the institution of General Secretary still meant something in Soviet politics. [39] Gorbachev insisted that every Politburo member had to openly state their position on the matter; Yakovlev, Ryzhkov, Medvedev and Eduard Shevardnadze condemned the article. [39] In light of the pro-reformist stance of this mentioned, and Gorbachev himself, they managed to push the conservatives on the defensive, and got their approval to publish a formal reply to the article. [39]

In light of this event, Gorbachev would seek to consolidate his power within the apparatus even further, especially in the Secretariat (which oversaw the work of the Central Committee apparatus). [39] In his first years as General Secretary, Gorbachev had never chaired a meeting of the Secretariat, leaving that responsibility to the conservative. [39] But in light of the strong backing the Andreyeva article had in the Central Committee apparatus, Gorbachev chaired the first Secretariat meetings in the affair's aftermath. [39]

Plenums

The Central Committee was not a permanent institution. It convened plenary sessions. 21 CC plenary sessions were held between the 27th Congress and the 28th Congress. When the CC was not in session, decision-making power was vested in the internal bodies of the CC itself; that is, the Politburo and the Secretariat. None of these bodies were permanent either; typically they convened several times a month. [40]

Plenary sessions of the Central Committee
[41]
PlenumDateLength
1st Plenary Session6 March 19861 day
2nd Plenary Session16 June 19861 day
3rd Plenary Session27–28 January 19872 days
4th Plenary Session25–26 June 19872 days
5th Plenary Session21 October 19871 day
6th Plenary Session17–18 February 19882 days
7th Plenary Session23 May 19881 day
8th Plenary Session29 July 19881 day
9th Plenary Session30 September 19881 day
10th Plenary Session28 November 19881 day
11th Plenary Session10 January 19891 day
12th Plenary Session15–16 March 19892 days
13th Plenary Session25 April 19891 day
14th Plenary Session22 May 19891 day
15th Plenary Session2 June 19891 day
16th Plenary Session19–20 September 19892 days
17th Plenary Session9 December 19891 day
18th Plenary Session25–26 December 19892 days
19th Plenary Session5–7 February 19903 days
20th Plenary Session11, 14, 16 March 19903 days
21st Plenary Session29 June 19901 day

Apparatus

Individuals employed by Central Committee's bureaus, departments and newspapers made up the apparatus between the 27th Congress and the 28th Congress. The bureaus and departments were supervised by the Secretariat, and each secretary (member of the Secretariat) supervised a specific department. The leaders of departments were officially referred to as Heads, while the titles of bureau leaders varied between chairman, first secretary and secretary.[ citation needed ]

Traditional structure (1986–88)

Central Committee Apparatus of the 27th Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union established by the 1st Plenary Session
InstitutionLeader Cyrillic Took officeLeft officeLength of tenure
Administrator of Affairs Nikolay Kruchina Николай Кручина6 March 198624 August 19882 years and 171 days
Administrative Organs Department Nikolai Savinkin Николай Савинкин6 March 198617 January 1987317 days
Anatoly Lukyanov Анатолий Лукьянов17 January 198730 September 19881 year and 257 days
Agriculture and Food Industry Department Vladimir Karlov Влади́мир Ка́рлов6 March 1986October 1986209 days
Cadres Abroad Department Stepan Chervonenko Степан Червоненко6 March 198630 September 19882 years and 208 days
Chemical Industry Department Veniamin Afonin Вениамин Афонин6 March 198630 September 19882 years and 208 days
Construction Department Alexander Melnikov Александр Мельников6 March 198630 September 19882 years and 208 days
Culture Department Yuri Voronov Юрий Во́ронов6 March 198630 September 19882 years and 208 days
Defence Industry Department Oleg Belyakov Олег Беляков6 March 198630 September 19882 years and 208 days
Economic Department Vacant
6 March 198617 January 1987317 days
Nikolay Slyunkov Никола́й Слюнько́в17 January 198730 September 19881 year and 257 days
General Department Anatoly Lukyanov Анатолий Лукьянов6 March 198617 January 1987317 days
Valery Boldin Валерий Болдин17 January 198730 September 19881 year and 257 days
Heavy Industry and Energy Department Ivan Yastrebov Иван Ястребов6 March 198630 September 19882 years and 208 days
Institute of Marxism–Leninism Anatoly Yegorov Анато́лий Его́ров6 March 198617 January 1987317 days
Georgy Smirnov Анато́лий Его́ров17 January 198730 September 19881 year and 257 days
International Department Anatoly Dobrynin Анато́лий Добры́нин6 March 198630 September 19882 years and 208 days
Kommunist Ivan Frolov Иван Фролов6 March 198617 January 1987317 days
Nail Bikkenin Иван Фролов17 January 198730 September 19881 year and 257 days
Light Industry and Consumer Goods Department Leonid Bobykin Леонид Бобыкин6 March 198630 September 19882 years and 208 days
Machine-Building Department Arkady Volsky Арка́дий Во́льский6 March 198630 September 19882 years and 208 days
Organizational-Party Work Department Georgy Razumovsky Гео́ргий Разумо́вский6 March 198630 September 19882 years and 208 days
Propaganda Department Yuri Sklyarov Юрий Скляров6 March 198630 September 19882 years and 208 days
Pravda Viktor Afanasyev Ви́ктор Афана́сьев6 March 198630 September 19882 years and 208 days
Relations with Communist and Workers Parties Department Vadim Medvedev Вадим Медведев6 March 198630 September 19882 years and 208 days
Science and Education Department Valentin Grigoriev Юрий Скляров6 March 198630 September 19882 years and 208 days
Trade and Domestic Services Department Nikolai Stashenkov Николай Сташенков6 March 198630 September 19882 years and 208 days
Transport and Communications Department Viktor Pasternak Виктор Пастернак6 March 198630 September 19882 years and 208 days

Reorganisation (1988–90)

Central Committee Apparatus of the 27th Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union established by the 9th Plenary Session
InstitutionLeader Cyrillic Took officeLeft officeLength of tenure
Administrator of Affairs Nikolay Kruchina Николай Кручина30 September 198813 July 19901 year and 286 days
Agricultural Department Ivan Skiba Иван Скиба30 September 198813 July 19901 year and 286 days
Commission on Agrarian Policy Yegor Ligachyov Егор Лигачёв30 September 198813 July 19901 year and 286 days
Commission on International Policy Alexander Yakovlev Алекса́ндр Я́ковлев30 September 198813 July 19901 year and 286 days
Commission on Legal Policy Viktor Chebrikov Виктор Че́бриков30 September 198820 September 1989355 days
Vacant
20 September 198913 July 1990296 days
Commission on Party Building and Cadre Work Commission Policy Georgy Razumovsky Гео́ргий Разумо́вский30 September 198813 July 19901 year and 286 days
Commission on Socio-Economic Policy Nikolay Slyunkov Никола́й Слюнько́в30 September 198813 July 19901 year and 286 days
Defence Department Oleg Belyakov Олег Беляков30 September 198813 July 19901 year and 286 days
General Department Valery Boldin Валерий Болдин30 September 198813 July 19901 year and 286 days
Ideology Commission Vadim Medvedev Вадим Медведев30 September 198813 July 19901 year and 286 days
Ideology Department Aleksandr Kapto Александр Капто30 September 198813 July 19901 year and 286 days
Institute of Marxism–Leninism Georgy Smirnov Анато́лий Его́ров30 September 198813 July 19901 year and 286 days
International Department Valentin Falin Baлeнтин Фaлин30 September 198813 July 19901 year and 286 days
Kommunist Nail Bikkenin Иван Фролов30 September 198813 July 19901 year and 286 days
Party Building and Cadre Work Department Valery Sharkov Валерий Шарков30 September 198813 July 19901 year and 286 days
Pravda Viktor Afanasyev Ви́ктор Афана́сьев30 September 1988198993 days
Ivan Frolov Иван Фролов198913 July 19901 year and 193 days
Socio-Economic Department Vladislav Shimko Владимир Шимко30 September 198813 July 19901 year and 286 days
State Legal Policy Department Alexander Pavlov Александр Павлов30 September 198813 July 19901 year and 286 days

Composition

Members

Members of the Central Committee of the 27th Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union
[42] [43] [44] [45]
Name Cyrillic 26th CC 28th CC BirthDeathPMEthnicityGender
Sergey Afanasyev Серге́й Афана́сьевOldResigned191820011943 Russian Male
Viktor Afanasyev Ви́ктор Афана́сьевOldNot192219941943 Russian Male
Veniamin Afonin Серге́й Афана́сьевPromotedReelected193120171957 Russian Male
Sergey Akhromeyev Серге́й Ахроме́евOldNot192319911943 Russian Male
Aleksandr Aksyonov Алекса́ндр АксёновOldNot192420091945 Belarusian Male
Anatoly Alexandrov Анатолий АлександровOldResigned190319941962 Ukrainian Male
Heydar Aliyev Гейда́р Али́евOldResigned192320031945 Azerbaijani Male
Alexander Altunin Алекса́ндр Алту́нинOldResigned192119891943 Russian Male
Vladimir Anichtchev Владимир АнищевNewNot193520181961 Russian Male
Aleksey Antonov Алексей АнтоновOldResigned191220101940 Russian Male
Georgy Arbatov Гео́ргий Арба́товOldNot192320101943 Russian Male
Boris Aristov Борис АристовOldNot192520181945 Russian Male
Ivan Arkhipov Иван АрхиповOldResigned190719981928 Russian Male
Vladimir Arkhipov Владимир Архи́повNewNot193320041957 Russian Male
Erkin Auelbekov Еркин АуельбековOldNot193019991940 Kazakh Male
Alexander Babenko Александр БабенкоPromotedNot1935Alive1961 Russian Male
Kamran Baghirov Кямран БагировNewResigned193320001961 Azerbaijani Male
Nikolai Baibakov Николай БайбаковOldResigned191120081939 Russian Male
Vadim Bakatin Вадим БакатинNewReelected193720221964 Russian Male
Vyacheslav Bakhirev Вячеслав БахиревOldResigned191619911951 Russian Male
Boris Bakin Борис БакинOldNot191319921941 Russian Male
Oleg Baklanov Оле́г Бакла́новNewReelected193220211953 Ukrainian Male
Anatoly Balandin Анато́лий Бала́ндинOldNot192720141954 Russian Male
Yuri Balandin Юрий БаландинOldNot192520041944 Russian Male
Boris Balmont Борис БальмонтOldResigned192720221956 Russian Male
Gennady Bartoshevich Геннадий БартошевичNewNot193419931957 Belarusian Male
Sergei Bashilov Сергей БашиловCandidateResigned192320051947 Russian Male
Gennady Bashtanyuk Генна́дий Баштаню́кCandidateNot1949Alive1977 Russian Male
Yuri Batalin Ю́рий Бата́линNewNot192720131956 Russian Male
Vladimir Bazovsky Владимир БазовскийOldNot191719931942 Russian Male
Igor Belousov Игорь БелоусовNewNot192820051955 Russian Male
Oleg Belyakov Олег БеляковNewNot193320031961 Russian Male
Anatoly Beryozin Анатолий БерёзинNewNot193119981954 Russian Male
Aleksandra Biryukova Александра БирюковаOldNot192920081956 Russian Female
Filipp Bobkov Фили́пп Бобко́вNewNot192520191944 Russian Male
Gennady Bogomyakov Генна́дий Богомя́ковOldNot193020201959 Russian Male
Valery Boldin Валерий БолдинPromotedReelected193520061960 Russian Male
Ivan Boldyryov Иван БолдырёвNewNot1937Alive1956 Russian Male
Vasily Borisenkov Василий БорисенковOldNot192720051946 Russian Male
Leonid Borodin Леонид БородинOldResigned192320081948 Russian Male
Viktor Boyko Виктор БойкоNewNot193120141954 Ukrainian Male
Vladimir Brovikov Владимир БровиковOldNot193119921958 Belarusian Male
Lidiya Bryzga Лидия БрызгаPromotedNot194320141975 Belarusian Female
Boris Bugayev Борис БугаевOldNot192320071942 Ukrainian Male
Aleksandr Chakovsky Александр ЧаковскийCandidateNot191319941941 Russian Male
Yevgeniy Chazov Евгений ЧазовOldNot192920211962 Russian Male
Viktor Chebrikov Виктор Че́бриковOldNot192319991950 Ukrainian Male
Vasily Cherdintsev Василий ЧердинцевOldNot192720181956 Russian Male
Valentina Cherkashina Валентина ЧеркашинаNewNot194220121972 Russian Female
Vladimir Chernavin Владимир ЧернавинCandidateNot192820231949 Russian Male
Viktor Chernomyrdin Ви́ктор Черномы́рдинNewNot193820101961 Russian Male
Anatoly Chernyaev Василий ШауроCandidateNot192120171940 Russian Male
Stepan Chervonenko Степан ЧервоненкоOldResigned191520031940 Ukrainian Male
Vladimir Chicherov Влади́мир Чи́черовOldNot193319961964 Russian Male
Vladimir Chirskov Владимир ЧирсковNewNot1935Alive1958 Russian Male
Aleksey Chornyy Алексей ЧёрныйOldResigned192120021931 Ukrainian Male
Pyotr Demichev Пётр Де́мичевOldResigned191720101939 Russian Male
Vasily Demidenko Василий ДемиденкоOldResigned193019981955 Ukrainian Male
Karen Demirchyan Каре́н Демирчя́нOldResigned193219991955 Armenian Male
Vasily Dinkov Василий ДинковNewNot192420011946 Ukrainian Male
Viktor Dobrik Виктор До́брикOldResigned192720081954 Ukrainian Male
Anatoly Dobrynin Анато́лий Добры́нинOldNot191920101945 Russian Male
Vladimir Dolgikh Владимир ДолгихOldResigned192420201942 Russian Male
Valentin Falin Baлeнтин ФaлинPromotedReelected192620181953 Russian Male
Pavel Fedirko Па́вел Феди́ркоOldNot193220191957 Russian Male
Pyotr Fedoseyev Петр ФедосеевOldResigned190819901939 Russian Male
Aleksandr Filatov Александр ФилатовOldResigned192220161947 Russian Male
Pavel Finogenov Па́вел Финоге́новOldNot191920041943 Russian Male
Vladimir Foteyev Владимир ФотеевNewNot1935Alive1961 Russian Male
Ivan Frolov Иван ФроловNewReelected192919991960 Russian Male
Konstantin Frolov Константин ФроловPromotedNot193220071965 Russian Male
Dmitry Gagarov Дмитрий ГагаровNewDied193819891966 Russian Male
Andrey Girenko Андрей ГиренкоPromotedReelected193620171963 Ukrainian Male
Natalya Gellert Наталья ГеллертPromotedNot1953Alive1973 Russian Female
Ivan Gerasymov Иван ГерасимовCandidateResigned192120081942 Ukrainian Male
Valentin Glushko Валенти́н Глушко́OldDied190819891956 Ukrainian Male
Mariya Golubeva Мария ГолубеваCandidateNot194519911968 Russian Female
Valentina Golubeva Валентина ГолубеваOldNot1949Alive1977 Russian Female
Boris Goncharenko Николай ГолдинOldNot192719971948 Ukrainian Male
Mikhail Gorbachev Михаил ГорбачёвOldReelected193120221952 Russian Male
Leonid Gorshkov Леонид ГоршковOldNot193019941952 Russian Male
Sergey Gorshkov Серге́й ГоршковOldDied191019881942 Russian Male
Boris Gostev Бори́с Го́стевOldNot192720151954 Russian Male
Vladimir Govorov Владимир ГоворовOldNot192420061946 Russian Male
Leonid Grekov Леонид ГрековOldNot192820041949 Russian Male
Anatoly Gribkov Анато́лий Грибко́вOldResigned191920081943 Russian Male
Vladimir Grigoriev Николай ГрибачёвPromotedReelected194120111960 Belarusian Male
Petras Griškevičius Пя́трас Гришкя́вичюсOldDied192419871945 Lithuanian Male
Pyotr Grishchenko Пётр ГрищенкоNewNot193120211956 Russian Male
Mariya Gromova Мария ГромоваOldResigned192920081973 Russian Female
Andrei Gromyko Андрей ГромыкоOldResigned190919891931 Belarusian Male
Semion Grossu Семён ГроссуOldNot1934Alive1961 Moldovan Male
Aleksandr Gudkov Александр ГудковOldResigned193019921958 Russian Male
Vladimir Gusev Владимир ГусевOldNot193220221963 Russian Male
Ivan Gustov Иван ГустовOldNot191119961932 Russian Male
Timofey Guzhenko Тимофей ГуженкоOldResigned191820081941 Russian Male
Vadim Ignatov Вадим ИгнатовOldNot193119981953 Russian Male
Vladimir Ivashko Владимир ИвашкоPromotedReelected193219941960 Ukrainian Male
Yevgeny Ivanovsky Евге́ний Ивано́вскийOldResigned191819911941 Belarusian Male
Yevgeny Kachalovsky Евгений КачаловскийOldNot192620111947 Ukrainian Male
Dmitry Kachin Дмитрий КачинOldNot1929Alive1953 Russian Male
Boris Kachura Борис КачураOldNot193020071957 Ukrainian Male
Vladimir Kalashnikov Владимир КалашниковNewReelected192920081954 Russian Male
Vladimir Kamentsev Ка́менцев Миха́йловичCandidateNot192820031954 Russian Male
Aleksandr Kapto Александр КаптоCandidateNot193320201955 Ukrainian Male
Vladimir Karlov Влади́мир Ка́рловOldResigned191419941940 Russian Male
Vladimir Karpov Владимир КарповPromotedReelected192220101943 Russian Male
Yevdokya Karpova Марина ЖуравлёваOldResigned192320001952 Russian Female
Valentina Kasimova Валентина КасимоваPromotedNot1944Alive1972 Russian Female
Konstantin Katushev Константин КатушевOldNot192720101952 Russian Male
Vasily Kavun Василий КавунOldNot192820091954 Ukrainian Male
Leonid Kazakov Леонид КазаковOldNot1951Alive1974 Russian Male
Vladimir Khodyryov Владимир ХодырёвNewNot1930Alive1954 Russian Male
Aleksandr Khomyakov Александр ХомяковOldNot193220141958 Russian Male
Yuri Khristoradnov Юрий ХристорадновOldNot192920181951 Russian Male
Tukhtakhon Kirgizbayeva Тухтахон КиргизбаеваPromotedNot1942Alive1965 Uzbek Female
Mikhail Klepikov Михаил КлепиковOldNot192719991956 Russian Male
Stepan Kleyko Степан КлейкоPromotedNot1935Alive1966 Russian Male
Ivan Klimenko Иван КлименкоOldResigned192120061945 Russian Male
Vladimir Klyuyev Владимир КлюевOldResigned192419981949 Ukrainian Male
Mikhail Knyazyuk Михаил КнязюкNewNot1940Alive1963 Belarusian Male
Vyacheslav Kochemasov Вячеслав КочемасовOldNot191819981944 Russian Male
Alexey Kolbeshkin Алексей КолбешкинPromotedNot1945Alive1976 Russian Male
Gennady Kolbin Геннадий КолбинOldNot192719981954 Russian Male
Alexander Koldunov Александр КолдуновOldNot192319921944 Russian Male
Aleksandr Kolesnikov Александр КолесниковOldNot193020081966 Ukrainian Male
Vladislav Kolesnikov Владислав КолесниковNewNot192520151961 Russian Male
Serafim Kolpakov Серафим КолпаковNewReelected193320111956 Russian Male
Nikolay Konaryov Николай КонарёвNewNot192720071952 Ukrainian Male
Boris Konoplyov Борис КоноплёвNewResigned191920081945 Russian Male
Valentin Koptyug Коптюг АфанасьевичPromotedReelected193119971961 Russian Male
Georgy Korniyenko Гео́ргий Корние́нкоOldResigned192520061947 Ukrainian Male
Anatoly Korolyov Анатолий КоролёвOldNot1936Alive1967 Russian Male
Vitaly Kostin Виталий КостинOldNot193820091961 Russian Male
Mikhail Kovalyov Михаил КовалёвNewNot192520071962 Belarusian Male
Nikolay Kruchina Николай КручинаOldReelected192819911949 Russian Male
Zinaida Kruglova Зинаи́да Кругло́ваOldResigned192319951944 Russian Male
Vladimir Kryuchkov Влади́мир Крючко́вNewReelected192420071944 Russian Male
Yuly Kvitsinsky Юлий КвицинскийPromotedNot193620101952 Russian Male
Dinmukhamed Kunaev Дінмұхаммед ҚонаевOldRemoved191219931939 Kazakh Male
Fyodor Kulikov Фёдор КуликовOldNot192520151949 Russian Male
Viktor Kulikov Виктор КуликовOldResigned192120131942 Russian Male
Valentin Kuptsov Валентин КупцовNewReelected1937Alive1944 Russian Male
Semyon Kurkotkin Семё́н Курко́ткинOldResigned191719901940 Russian Male
Vasily Kuznetsov Василий КузнецовOldResigned190119901927 Russian Male
Nikolay Lemayev Николай ЛемаевNewNot192920001955 Russian Male
Oleksandr Liashko Алекса́ндр Ляшко́OldResigned191520021942 Ukrainian Male
Yegor Ligachyov Егор ЛигачёвOldNot192020211944 Russian Male
Yury Litvintsev Юрий ЛитвинцевNewReelected193420091956 Russian Male
Alexey Lizichev Алексей ЛизичевNewNot192820061955 Russian Male
Yuri Lobov Юрий ЛобовPromotedNot1942Alive1975 Russian Male
Anatoly Logunov Анатолий ЛогуновCandidateNot192620151960 Russian Male
Viktor Lomakin Виктор ЛомакинOldNot192620121953 Russian Male
Pyotr Lomako Пётр Лома́коOldResigned190419901925 Russian Male
Vladimir Lomonosov Владимир ЛомоносовOldNot192819991950 Russian Male
Fodor Loshchenkov Фодор ЛощенковOldNot191520091943 Russian Male
Pyotr Luchinsky Пётр ЛучинскийPromotedReelected1941Alive1964 Moldovan Male
Anatoly Lukyanov Анатолий ЛукьяновNewReelected193020191953 Russian Male
Anatoly Lushchikov Анатолий ЛущиковNewNot191719991942 Russian Male
Pyotr Lushev Пётр Лу́шевOldNot192319971951 Russian Male
Ivan Lutak Иван ЛутакComebackResigned191920091940 Ukrainian Male
Viktor Makarenko Виктор МакаренкоOldResigned193120071960 Ukrainian Male
Qahhor Mahkamov Кахар МахкамовNewReelected193220161957 Tajik Male
Yuri Maksimov Юрий МаксимовCandidateNot192420021943 Ukrainian Male
Nikolai Malkov Николай МальковCandidateNot193220071954 Russian Male
Anatoly Malofeyev Анато́лий Малофе́евNewReelected193320221957 Belarusian Male
Viktor Maltsev Виктор МальцевOldResigned191720031945 Russian Male
Vasily Malykhin Василий МалыхинNewNot1935Alive1958 Russian Male
Yuri Manayenkov Юрий МанаенковNewReelected193620211960 Russian Male
Sergey Manyakin Сергей МанякинOldNot192320101945 Russian Male
Gury Marchuk Гурий МарчукOldReelected192520131947 Russian Male
Georgy Markov Гео́ргий Ма́рковOldNot191119911946 Russian Male
Absamat Masaliyev Абсамат МасалиевNewReelected193320041960 Kyrgyz Male
Nikolay Maslennikov Николай МасленниковOldNot192120131951 Russian Male
Yuri Maslyukov Юрий МаслюковNewReelected193720101966 Russian Male
Vitaliy Masol Виталий МасолPromotedReelected192820181956 Ukrainian Male
Anatoly Mayorets Анатолий МайорецCandidateNot192920161957 Russian Male
Vadim Medvedev Вадим МедведевNewNot1929Alive1952 Russian Male
Alexander Melnikov Александр МельниковNewNot193020111957 Russian Male
Marat Mendybayev Марат МендыбаевNewNot193620111958 Kazakh Male
Galina Merkulova Галина МеркуловаPromotedNot1951Alive1976 Uzbek Female
Valentin Mesyats Валентин МесяцOldNot192820191955 Russian Male
Guram Metonidze Гурам МетонидзеPromotedNot1935Alive1964 Georgian Male
Viktor Mironenko Виктор МироненкоPromotedNot1953Alive1975 Ukrainian Male
Vasily Mironov Василий МироновNewDied192519881949 Ukrainian Male
Oleg Miroshikhin Олег МирошихинNewNot1928Alive1959 Russian Male
Viktor Mishin Виктор МишинNewNot1943Alive1967 Russian Male
Fedir Morhun Фёдор Моргу́нOldNot192420081952 Ukrainian Male
Ivan Morozov Иван МорозовOldDied192419871943 Russian Male
Dmitry Motorny Дмитрий МоторныйNewNot192720181951 Ukrainian Male
Ivan Mozgovoy Ива́н Мозгово́йOldResigned192720051940 Ukrainian Male
Vsevolod Murakhovsky Евгений МуравьёвOldNot192620171946 Ukrainian Male
Yevgeny Muravyov Евгений МуравьёвOldResigned192919981952 Russian Male
Alexey Myasnikov Алексей МясниковNewNot1934Alive1974 Russian Male
Vladislav Mysnichenko Владислав МысниченкоOldNot192920191955 Ukrainian Male
Nursultan Nazarbayev Нурсултан НазарбаевNewReelected1940Alive1962 Kazakh Male
Mikhail Nenashev Михаи́л Нена́шевPromotedReelected192920191952 Russian Male
Viktor Nikonov Виктор НиконовOldNot192919931954 Russian Male
Saparmurat Niyazov Сапармурад НиязовNewReelected194020061962 Turkmen Male
Anatoly Nochyovkin Анатолий НочёвкинNewResigned1928Alive1956 Russian Male
Genrikh Novozhilov Сапармурад НиязовNewReelected192520191951 Russian Male
Vladimir Odintsov Владимир ОдинцовNewResigned192420091944 Russian Male
Nikolai Orgakov Николай ОгарковOldResigned191719941945 Russian Male
Vladimir Orlov Владимир ОрловOldNot192119991948 Russian Male
Vladimir Osipov Владимир ОсиповPromotedNot1933Alive1958 Russian Male
Konstantin Panov Константин ПановCandidateNot193320051967 Russian Male
Valentina Parshina Валентина ПаршинаPromotedNot193720201965 Russian Female
Yemelyan Parubok Емелья́н Па́рубокNewReelected194020171966 Ukrainian Male
Jumber Patiashvili Джумбер ПатиашвилиNewNot1940Alive1962 Georgian Male
Borys Paton Бори́с Пато́нOldReelected191820201952 Ukrainian Male
Nikolai Pavlov Николай ПавловPromotedNot1950Alive1978 Russian Male
Vladimir Pavlov Влади́мир Па́вловOldNot192319981948 Russian Male
Ivan Pentyukhov Иван ПентюховPromotedNot192919971962 Russian Male
Nina Pereverzeva Ни́на Переве́рзеваOldNot192920221970 Russian Female
Erlen Pervyshin Эрлен ПервышинCandidateNot193220041959 Russian Male
Vasily Petrov Васи́лий Петро́вOldNot191720141944 Russian Male
Vladislav Petrov Владислав ПетровOldNot193520111961 Ukrainian Male
Yuri Petrov Юрий ПетровNewNot193920131962 Russian Male
Alexander Plekhanov Александр ПлехановNewReelected193220151960 Russian Male
Pyotr Pleshakov Пётр ПлешаковOldDied192219871944 Russian Male
Valentina Pletnyova Валентина ПлетнёваNewNot193020121952 Russian Female
Ivan Polozkov Иван ПолозковNewReelected1935Alive1958 Russian Male
Viktor Polyakov Ви́ктор Поляко́вOldResigned191520041944 Russian Male
Alexey Ponomarev Алексей ПономарёвNewReelected193020021957 Russian Male
Boris Ponomarev Борис ПономарёвOldResigned190519951919 Russian Male
Mikhail Ponomarev Михаил ПономарёвOldResigned191820011939 Russian Male
Filipp Popov Филипп ПоповNewNot193020071957 Russian Male
Nikolay Popov Николай ПоповOldNot193120081960 Russian Male
Yevgeny Primakov Евгений ПримаковPromotedNot192920151959 Russian Male
Ilya Prokopyev Николай ПриезжевOldResigned192620171946 Chuvash Male
Yuri Prokopyev Юрий ПрокопьевNewNot193220172003 Russian Male
Vladimir Ptitsyn Влади́мир Пти́цынOldResigned192520061946 Russian Male
Nikolay Pugin Николай ПугинNewNot1940Alive1965 Russian Male
Boris Pugo Борис ПугоNewNot193719911963 Latvian Male
Oleg Rakhmanin Олег РахманинOldResigned192420101942 Russian Male
Yevgeny Razumov Евгений РазумовCandidateNot191920171942 Belarusian Male
Georgy Razumovsky Гео́ргий Разумо́вскийCandidateNot1936Alive1961 Russian Male
Alexander Rekunkov Александр РекунковOldResigned192019961940 Russian Male
Anatoly Reut Анатолий РеутNewNot192820011955 Belarusian Male
Grigory Revenko Григорий РевенкоNewNot193620141962 Ukrainian Male
Ivan Romazan Иван РомазанPromotedNot193419911964 Russian Male
Yakov Ryabov Я́ков Ря́бовOldNot192820181954 Russian Male
Anatoly Rybakov Анатолий РыбаковOldNot192720121961 Russian Male
Vasily Rykov Василий РыковOldResigned191820111943 Russian Male
Nikolai Ryzhkov Николай РыжковOldReelected192920241956 Russian Male
Kakimbek Salykov Какимбек СалыковNewNot193220131958 Kazakh Male
Nikolai Savinkin Николай СавинкинOldResigned191319931927 Russian Male
Valery Saykin Валерий СайкинNewNot1937Alive1966 Russian Male
Anatoly Sazonov Анатолий СазоновNewNot193520191962 Ukrainian Male
Vitaly Shabanov Вита́лий Шаба́новOldNot192319951947 Russian Male
Midkhat Shakirov Мидха́т Шаки́ровOldResigned191620041944 Bashkir Male
Stepan Shalayev Степан ШалаевOldNot192920221954 Russian Male
Vasily Shamshin Василий ШамшинCandidateNot192620091962 Russian Male
Leonid Sharin Леонид ШаринNewNot193420141962 Russian Male
Mikhail Shchadov Михаил ЩадовNewNot192720111947 Russian Male
Boris Shcherbina Борис ЩербинаOldNot191919901939 Ukrainian Male
Volodymyr Shcherbytsky Влади́мир Щерби́цкийOldDied191819901948 Ukrainian Male
Eduard Shevardnadze Эдуард ШеварднадзеOldReelected192820141936 Georgian Male
Valentyna Shevchenko Валентина ШевченкоNewNot193520201957 Ukrainian Female
Mikhail Shkabardnya Михаил ШкабардняCandidateNot1930Alive1960 Russian Male
Aleksey Shkolnikov Алексей Шко́льниковOldResigned191420031940 Russian Male
Yevgeny Shulyak Евгений ШулякNewNot1939Alive1961 Belarusian Male
Ivan Silayev Ива́н Сила́евOldReelected193020231959 Russian Male
Vasily Sitnikov Василий СитниковNewNot192720161948 Russian Male
Yevgeny Sizenko Евгений СизенкоOldNot193120161953 Russian Male
Yefim Slavsky Ефи́м Сла́вскийOldNot189819911918 Russian Male
Nikolay Slyunkov Никола́й Слюнько́вNewNot192920221954 Belarusian Male
Mikhail Smirtyukov Михаи́л Смиртюко́вOldNot190920041940 Russian Male
Pavel Smolsky Павел СмольскийNewDied193119871955 Russian Male
Valentin Smyslov Валентин СмысловNewNot192820041956 Russian Male
Sergey Sokolov Серге́й Соколо́вOldResigned191120121937 Russian Male
Yefrem Sokolov Ефре́м Соколо́вCandidateReelected192620221955 Belarusian Male
Mikhail Solomentsev Михаи́л Соло́менцевOldResigned191320081940 Russian Male
Yuri Solovyev Михаи́л Соло́менцевOldNot192520111955 Russian Male
Vladimir Stepanov Владимир СтепановNewNot192720221952 Karelian Male
Yegor Stroyev Его́р Стро́евNewReelected1937Alive1958 Russian Male
Boris Stukalin Борис СтукалинOldNot192320041943 Russian Male
Apollon Systsov Аполлон СысцовNewNot192920051961 Russian Male
Fikryat Tabeyev Фикрят ТабеевOldNot192820151957 Russian Male
Nikolai Talyzin Никола́й Талы́зинOldNot192919911960 Russian Male
Vasily Taratuta Василий ТаратутаOldNot193020081955 Ukrainian Male
Georgy Tarazevich Георгий ТаразевичNewNot193720031967 Belarusian Male
Nikolay Tatarchuk Николай ТатарчукNewNot192819911955 Ukrainian Male
Pyotr Telepnyov Пётр ТелепнёвNewNot193020131956 Belarusian Male
Vladimir Terebilov Владимир ТеребиловCandidateResigned191620041940 Russian Male
Nikolai Tereshchenko Николай ТерещенкоCandidateDied193019891955 Russian Male
Valentina Tereshkova Валентина ТерешковаOldNot1937Alive1960 Russian Female
Vladimir Tikhomirov Тихомиров ПорфировичOldNot193419971958 Russian Male
Nikolai Tikhonov Николай ТихоновOldResigned190519971940 Russian Male
Aleksey Titarenko Алексе́й Титаре́нкоOldResigned191519921940 Ukrainian Male
Lev Tolkunov Лев ТолкуновOldDied191919891943 Russian Male
Vladimir Tolubko Влади́мир Толу́бкоOldDied191419891939 Ukrainian Male
Ivan Tretyak Иван ТретьякOldNot192320071943 Ukrainian Male
Pyotr Tretyakov Пётр ТретьяковCandidateResigned192720181957 Russian Male
Yuri Trofimov Юрий ТрофимовNewDied193119891956 Russian Male
Mikhail Trunov Михаил ТруновOldResigned193120101955 Russian Male
Yevgeny Tyazhelnikov Евге́ний Тяже́льниковOldNot192820201951 Russian Male
Raisa Udalaya Раиса УдалаяNewNot193120201974 Russian Female
Gumer Usmanov Гумер УсмановOldNot193220151953 Tatar Male
Inomjon Usmonxoʻjayev Инамджан УсманходжаевOldNot193020171958 Uzbek Male
Vladimir Utkin Владимир УткинOldNot192320001940 Russian Male
Karl Vaino Карл ВайноOldNot192320221940 Estonian Male
Grigory Vashchenko Григорий ВащенкоOldResigned192019901943 Ukrainian Male
Nikolai Vasilyev Павел БородинOldResigned191620111942 Russian Male
Gennady Vedernikov Геннадий ВедерниковNewNot193720011965 Russian Male
Vladimir Velichko Владимир ВеличкоNewNot1937Alive1963 Russian Male
Evgeny Velikhov Евгений ВелиховPromotedNot1935Alive1971 Russian Male
Aleksandr Vlasov Александр ВласовOldReelected193220021956 Russian Male
Boris Volodin Борис ВолодинNewNot1931Alive1955 Russian Male
Arkady Volsky Борис ВолодинNewReelected193220061958 Russian Male
Lev Voronin Лев ВоронинOldNot192820081953 Russian Male
Yuli Vorontsov Ю́лий Воронцо́вOldNot192920071956 Russian Male
Mikhail Voropayev Михаил ВоропаевOldNot191920091945 Russian Male
Vitaly Vorotnikov Вита́лий Воротнико́вOldNot192620121950 Russian Male
Augusts Voss Август ВоссOldNot191619941940 Latvian Male
Anatoly Voystrochenko Анатолий ВойстроченкоNewNot193720101958 Russian Male
Gennady Yagodin Геннадий ЯгодинNewReelected192720151948 Russian Male
Alexander Yakovlev Алекса́ндр Я́ковлевNewNot192320051944 Russian Male
Dmitry Yazov Дми́трий Я́зовPromotedReelected192420201944 Russian Male
Alexander Yefimov Александр ЕфимовNewNot192320121943 Russian Male
Anatoly Yegorov Анато́лий Его́ровOldResigned192019971944 Russian Male
Yury Yelchenko Юрий ЕльченкоOldNot192920191953 Ukrainian Male
Boris Yeltsin Борис ЕльцинOldNot193120071961 Russian Male
Nikolay Yemokhonov Николай ЕмохоновNewNot192120141947 Russian Male
Nikolay Yermakov Николай ЕрмаковNewDied192719871961 Russian Male
Lev Yermin Ле́в Е́рминOldResigned192320041943 Russian Male
Neli Yershova Нэли ЕршоваCandidateNot1939Alive1973 Russian Female
Aleksandr Yezhevsky Александр ЕжевскийOldResigned191520171945 Russian Male
Magomed Yusupov Магомед ЮсуповNewNot193520181959 Avar Male
Vadim Zagladin Вади́м Загла́динOldNot192720061955 Russian Male
Mikhail Zaitsev Михаи́л За́йцевOldResigned192320091943 Russian Male
Vasily Zakharov Василий ЗахаровNewNot193420231964 Russian Male
Leonid Zamyatin Леонид ЗамятинOldNot192220191952 Russian Male
Vladimir Zatvornitsky Владимир ЗатворницкийOldNot192920171958 Russian Male
Lev Zaykov Лев ЗайковOldNot192320021957 Russian Male
Mikhail Zimyanin Михаил ЗимянинOldResigned191419951939 Belarusian Male
Grigory Zolotukhin Григо́рий Золоту́хинOldDied191119881939 Russian Male
Viktor Zorkaltsev Виктор ЗоркальцевNewNot193620101962 Russian Male

Candidates

Candidate Members of the Central Committee of the 27th Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union
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Name Cyrillic 26th CC 28th CC BirthDeathPMEthnicityGender
Veniamin Afonin Серге́й Афана́сьевNewPromoted193120171957 Russian Male
Geny Ageyev Гений АгеевNewNot192919941952 Russian Male
Timur Alimov Тимур АлимовNewNot193620151967 Uzbek Male
Georgy Alyoshin Георгий АлёшинNewNot193120111957 Russian Male
Nikolai Antonov Никола́й Анто́новCandidateResigned192119961944 Russian Male
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Mikhail Nenashev Михаи́л Нена́шевCandidatePromoted192920191952 Russian Male
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Valentin Nikiforov Валентин НикифоровNewNot193420211958 Russian Male
Boris Nikolsky Борис НикольскийNewNot193720071963 Russian Male
Ivan Obraztsov Иван ОбразцовCandidateNot192020051944 Russian Male
Vladimir Osipov Владимир ОсиповNewPromoted1933Alive1958 Russian Male
Yuri Ovchinnikov Юрий ОвчинниковCandidateDied193419881962 Russian Male
Valentina Parshina Валентина ПаршинаCandidatePromoted193720201965 Russian Female
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Nikolai Pavlov Николай ПавловNewPromoted1950Alive1978 Russian Male
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Albert Rachkov Альбе́рт Рачко́вCandidateNot192720231955 Russian Male
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Vladimir Reshetilov Владимир РешетиловNewNot1937Alive1963 Ukrainian Male
Viktor Rodin Виктор РодинNewNot192820111950 Russian Male
Dmitry Romanin Дмитрий РоманинNewNot192919961952 Russian Male
Ivan Romazan Иван РомазанNewPromoted193419911964 Russian Male
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Aleksey Rybakov Алексей РыбаковCandidateResigned192520161945 Russian Male
Mikhail Ryzhikov Михаил РыжиковNewNot1930Alive1953 Russian Male
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Fadey Sargsyan Фадей СаркисянNewResigned192320101945 Armenian Male
Bruno Saul Бруно СаулNewNot193220221960 Estonian Male
Lev Shapiro Лев ШапироCandidateResigned192720211959 Ukrainian Male
Arkady Shchepetilnikov Аркадий ЩепетильниковNewNot1930Alive1958 Ukrainian Male
Sergey Shcherbakov Сергей ЩербаковNewNot192519921944 Russian Male
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Aleksandr Shitov Александр ШитовCandidateNot192520011955 Russian Male
Nikolay Shubnikov Николай ШубниковNewResigned1924Alive1946 Russian Male
Vladimir Shuralyov Владимир ШуралёвNewNot193520201959 Russian Male
Vladimir Sidorov Владимир СидоровCandidateNot192420001949 Russian Male
Ivan Skiba Иван СкибаNewNot1937Alive1959 Ukrainian Male
Yuri Sklyarov Юрий СкляровCandidateResigned192520131944 Russian Male
Pyotr Slyozko Петро СлєзкоNewNot193120041954 Russian Male
Georgy Smirnov Гео́ргий Смирно́вCandidateNot192219991943 Russian Male
Viktor Smirnov Виктор СмирновNewNot1929Alive1951 Russian Male
Boris Snetkov Виктор СмирновNewNot192520061945 Russian Male
Vitaly Sologub Виталий СологуCandidateNot192620041927 Ukrainian Male
Alexey Sorokin Виктор СмирновNewNot192220201943 Russian Male
Lev Spiridonov Лев СпиридоновNewNot193120091956 Russian Male
Nikolai Stashenkov Николай СташенковNewNot1934Alive1960 Russian Male
Vladimir Toropov Владимир ТороповNewNot193819961962 Russian Male
Oleg Troyanovsky Олег ТрояновскийNewNot191920031947 Russian Male
Gennady Ulanov Олег ТрояновскийNewNot192920181956 Russian Male
Yuri Valov Юрий ВаловNewNot193420121961 Russian Male
Valentin Varennikov Валентин ВаренниковNewNot192320091944 Russian Male
Yevgeny Varnachyov Евгений ВарначёвNewNot193220181963 Russian Male
Lev Vasilyev Лев ВасильевNewNot192520231951 Russian Male
Igor Velichko Игорь ВеличкоNewNot193420141964 Ukrainian Male
Evgeny Velikhov Евгений ВелиховNewPromoted1935Alive1971 Russian Male
Ivan Vladychenko Ива́н Влады́ченкоCandidateNot192420221943 Ukrainian Male
Gennady Voronovsky Геннадий ВороновскийNewResigned1924Alive1955 Russian Male
Ivan Yastrebov Иван Я́стребовCandidateResigned191120021941 Russian Male
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Anatoly Yefimov Анатолий ЕфимовNewMember1939Alive1966 Russian Male
Georgy Yegorov Гео́ргий Его́ровNewResigned191820081942 Russian Male
Yevgeny Yeliseyev Евгений ЕлисеевNewNot1936Alive1959 Russian Male
Filipp Yermash Филипп ЕрмашCandidateResigned192320021945 Russian Male
Vladimir Zakharov Владимир ЗахаровCandidateNot1936Alive1961 Russian Male
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