List of Second Secretaries of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union

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This is a list of Second Secretaries of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.

PortraitName
(Birth–Death)
Term
Took officeLeft office
Vyacheslav Molotov Anefo2 (cropped)(d).jpg Vyacheslav Molotov
(1890–1986)
April 1922December 1930
Lazar' Moiseevich Kaganovich.jpg Lazar Kaganovich
(1893–1991)
December 193021 March 1939
Andrei Aleksandrovich Zhdanov 1.jpg Andrei Zhdanov
(1896–1948)
21 March 193931 August 1948†
Georgy Malenkov 1964.jpg Georgy Malenkov
(1902–1988)
31 August 194816 October 1952
Nikita Khruchchev Colour (cropped 2).jpg Nikita Khrushchev
(1894–1971)
16 October 195214 September 1953
Mikhail Suslov 1964.jpg Mikhail Suslov
(1902–1982)
14 September 195317 December 1957
Aleksej Kirichenko.jpg Alexei Kirichenko
(1908–1975)
17 December 19575 April 1960
Frol Kozlov
(1908–1965)
5 April 196021 June 1963
Leonid Brezhnev Portrait (1).jpg Leonid Brezhnev
(1906–1982)
21 June 196314 October 1964
Podgorny1963.jpg Nikolai Podgorny
(1903–1983)
14 October 19646 December 1965
Mikhail Suslov 1964.jpg Mikhail Suslov
(1902–1982)
6 December 196525 January 1982
Cernenko (upscale).jpg Konstantin Chernenko
(1911–1985)
25 January 198224 May 1982
ANDROPOV1980S.jpg Yuri Andropov
(1914–1984)
24 May 198210 November 1982
Cernenko (upscale).jpg Konstantin Chernenko
(1911–1984)
10 November 19829 February 1984
GorbachevMS.jpg Mikhail Gorbachev
(1931–2022)
9 February 198410 March 1985
Bundesarchiv Bild 183-1989-0913-03 (Cro4, LPG Neuzelle, Besuch einer KPdSU-Delegation (cropped)(b) (1).jpg Yegor Ligachev
(1920–2021)
10 March 198514 July 1990