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Deputy Premier of the Soviet Union
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This is a list of all
deputy premiers of the Soviet Union
.
Contents
List
Deputy chairman of the Council of People's Commissars
Deputy chairman of the Council of Ministers
See also
List
Deputy chairman of the Council of People's Commissars
Lev Kamenev
(July 6, 1923 – January 16, 1926)
Alexei Rykov
(July 6, 1923 – February 2, 1924)
Alexander Tsiurupa
(July 6, 1923 – May 8, 1928)
Vlas Chubar
(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
(November 5, 1926 – November 10, 1930)
Vasily Schmidt
(August 11, 1928 – December 1, 1930)
Andrey Andreyev
(December 22, 1930 – October 9, 1931)
Valery Mezhlauk
(April 25, 1934 – February 25, 1937, October 17, 1937 – December 1, 1937)
Nikolay Antipov
(April 27, 1935 – June 21, 1937)
Anastas Mikoyan
(July 22, 1937 – March 15, 1946)
Stanislav Kosior
(January 19, 1938 – May 3, 1938)
Lazar Kaganovich
(August 21, 1938 – May 15, 1944, December 20, 1944 – March 15, 1946)
Nikolai Voznesensky
(April 4, 1939 – March 10, 1941)
Nikolai Bulganin
(September 16, 1938 – May 15, 1944)
Andrey Vyshinsky
(May 31, 1939 – May 15, 1944)
Rosalia Zemlyachka
(8 May 1939 – August 26, 1943)
Alexei Kosygin
(April 17, 1940 – March 15, 1946)
Mikhail Pervukhin
(17 April 1940 – May 15, 1944)
Vyacheslav Malyshev
(April 17, 1940 – May 15, 1944)
Kliment Voroshilov
(May 7, 1940 – 15 March 1946)
Lavrentiy Beria
(3 February 1941 – March 15, 1946)
Lev Mekhlis
(6 September 1940 – May 15, 1944)
Maksim Saburov
(March 10, 1941 – May 15, 1944)
Vyacheslav Molotov
(May 6, 1941 – August 16, 1942)
Georgy Malenkov
(May 15, 1944 – March 15, 1946)
Deputy chairman of the Council of Ministers
Lavrentiy Beria
(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
(19 March 1946 – March 15, 1953, April 27, 1954 – February 28, 1955)
Nikolai Voznesensky
(March 19, 1946 – March 7, 1949)
Kliment Voroshilov
(March 19, 1946 – March 15, 1953)
Lazar Kaganovich
(March 19, 1946 – March 6, 1947, December 18, 1947 – March 5, 1953)
Georgy Malenkov
(August 2, 1946 – March 5, 1953, February 9, 1955 – June 29, 1957)
Maksim Saburov
(February 8, 1947 – March 5, 1953, 7 December 1953 – February 28, 1955)
Nikolai Bulganin
(March 5, 1947 – April 7, 1950)
Vyacheslav Malyshev
(December 19, 1947 – March 15, 1953, December 7, 1953 – December 25, 1956)
Alexey Krutikov
(July 13, 1948 – February 8, 1949)
Aleksandr Yefremov
(March 8, 1949 – November 23, 1951)
Ivan Tevosian
(June 13, 1949 – March 15, 1953, December 7, 1953 – December 28, 1956)
Mikhail Pervukhin
(January 17, 1950 – March 15, 1953, 7 December 1953 – February 28, 1955)
Panteleimon Ponomarenko
(December 12, 1952 – March 15, 1953)
Vladimir Kucherenko
[
ru
]
(February 28, 1955 – December 25, 1956)
Pavel Lobanov
(February 28, 1955 – April 9, 1956)
Mikhail Khrunichev
(February 28, 1955 – December 25, 1956 April 8, 1961 – June 2, 1961)
Avraami Zavenyagin
(February 28, 1955 – December 31, 1956)
Vladimir Matskevich
(April 9, 1956 – December 25, 1956)
Dmitriy Ustinov
(December 14, 1957 – March 13, 1963 )
Alexander Zasyadko
(March 31, 1958 – November 9, 1962)
Joseph Kuzmin
(March 31, 1958 – March 20, 1959)
Nikolai Ignatov
(May 4, 1960 – December 26, 1962)
Vladimir Novikov
(May 4, 1960 – November 24, 1962, March 26, 1965 – December 19, 1980)
Konstantin Rudnev
(June 10, 1961 – October 2, 1965)
Benjamin Dymshitz
(July 17, 1962 – December 20, 1980)
Pyotr Lomako
(November 10, 1962 – October 2, 1965)
Dmitry Polyansky
(November 23, 1962 – October 2, 1965)
Alexander Shelepin
(November 23, 1962 – December 9, 1965)
Mikhail Lesechko
[
ru
]
(November 24, 1962 – October 24, 1980)
Ignaty Novikov
[
ru
]
(November 24, 1962 – July 20, 1983)
Leonid Smirnov
(March 13, 1963 – November 15, 1985)
Nikolai Baibakov
(October 2, 1965 – October 14, 1985)
Nikolai Tikhonov
(October 2, 1965 – September 2, 1976)
Vladimir Kirillin
(Oct. 2, 1965 – January 22, 1980)
Mikhail Yefremov
(November 13, 1965 – October 29, 1971)
Petro Shelest
(May 19, 1972 – May 7, 1973)
Zia Nureyev
[
ru
]
(3 April 1973 – November 1, 1985)
Ivan Arkhipov
(March 21, 1974 – October 27, 1980)
Nikolai Martynov
[
ru
]
(June 25, 1976 – November 15, 1985)
Konstantin Katushev
(March 16, 1977 – July 29, 1982)
Tikhon Kiselyov
(December 5, 1978 – 23 October 1980)
Gury Marchuk
(January 28, 1980 – October 28, 1986)
Valentin Makeyev
[
ru
]
(October 23, 1980 – January 20, 1983)
Nikolai Talyzin
(October 24, 1980 – October 14, 1985, October 1, 1988 – June 7, 1989)
Leonid Kostandov
(November 4, 1980 – September 5, 1984)
Alexey Antonov
[
ru
]
(December 19, 1980 – October 1, 1988)
Ivan Bodiul
(December 19, 1980 – May 30, 1985)
Boris Shcherbina
(January 13, 1984 – June 7, 1989)
Yakov Ryabov
[
ru
]
(September 27, 1984 – June 19, 1986)
Ivan Silayev
(1 November 1985 – October 9, 1990)
Lev Voronin
(November 15, 1985 – June 7, 1989)
Yuri Maslyukov
(November 15, 1985 – February 5, 1988)
Yuri Batalin
[
ru
]
(December 20, 1985 – June 7, 1989)
Gennady Vedernikov
[
ru
]
(June 19, 1986 – June 7, 1989)
Vladimir Gusev
(June 19, 1986 – December 26, 1990)
Vladimir Kamentsev
[
ru
]
(September 1, 1986 – June 7, 1989)
Boris Tolstykh
[
ru
]
(February 6, 1987 – June 7, 1989)
Igor Belousov
(February 12, 1988 – December 26, 1990)
Aleksandra Biryukova
(October 1, 1988 – September 17, 1990)
Leonid Abalkin
(July 17, 1989 – December 26, 1990)
Vitaly Doguzhiev
(July 17, 1989 – December 26, 1990)
Nikolai Laverov
[
ru
]
(July 17, 1989 – December 26, 1990)
Pavel Mostovoy
[
ru
]
( July 17, 1989 – December 26, 1990)
Lev Ryabev
[
ru
]
(July 17, 1989 – December 26, 1990)
Stepan Sitaryan
[
ru
]
(October 24, 1989 – December 26, 1990)
Deputy Prime Minister of the USSR
Nikolai Laverov
[
ru
]
(January 15, 1991 – November 26, 1991)
Yuri Maslyukov
(January 15, 1991 – November 26, 1991)
Lev Ryabev
[
ru
]
(March 1, 1991 – November 26, 1991)
Fedor Senko
[
ru
]
(March 1, 1991 – November 26, 1991)
Vladimir Shcherbakov
[
ru
]
(March 1, 1991 – May 16, 1991)
Bihojal Rakhimova
[
ru
]
(May 16, 1991 – November 26, 1991)
Deputy of the
Committee on the operational management of the economy of the USSR
Arkady Volsky
(24 August 1991 – 25 December 1991)
Yury Luzhkov
(24 August – 29 October 1991)
Grigory Yavlinsky
(24 August – 25 December 1991)
Deputy of the
Interstate Economic Committee of the Economic Community
Gennady Kulik
(November 18, 1991 – December 26, 1991)
Amangeldy Bektemisov
[
ru
]
(November 29, 1991 – December 26, 1991)
See also
Premier of the Soviet Union
First Deputy Premier of the Soviet Union
List of leaders of the Soviet Union
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Premiers of the Soviet Union
Premiers
Lenin
(1923–1924)
Rykov
(1924–1930)
Molotov
(1930–1941)
Stalin
(1941–1953)
Malenkov
(1953–1955)
Bulganin
(1955–1958)
Khrushchev
(1958–1964)
Kosygin
(1964–1980)
Tikhonov
(1980–1985)
Ryzhkov
(1985–1991)
Pavlov
(Jan.–Aug. 1991)
Doguzhiyev
(Aug. 1991)
Silayev
(Aug.–Dec. 1991)
First Deputies
Kuybyshev
(1934–1935)
Voznesensky
(1941–1946)
Molotov
(1942–1957)
Bulganin
(1950–1955)
Beria
(Mar.–June 1953)
Kaganovich
(1953–1957)
Mikoyan
(1955–1964)
Pervukhin
(1955–1957)
Saburov
(1955–1957)
Kuzmin
(1957–1958)
Kozlov
(1958–1960)
Kosygin
(1960–1964)
Ustinov
(1963–1965)
Mazurov
(1965–1978)
Polyansky
(1965–1973)
Tikhonov
(1976–1980)
Arkhipov
(1980–1986)
Aliyev
(1982–1987)
Gromyko
(1983–1985)
Talyzin
(1985–1988)
Murakhovsky
(1985–1989)
Maslyukov
(1988–1990)
Voronin
(1989–1990)
Vladilen Niktin (1989–1990)
Velichko
(Jan.–Nov. 1991)
Doguzhiyev
(Jan.–Nov. 1991)
Shcherbakov
[
ru
]
(May–Nov. 1991)
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