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This is a list of Second Secretaries of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.
| Portrait | Name (Birth–Death) | Term | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Took office | Left office | |||
 | Vyacheslav Molotov (1890–1986) | April 1922 | December 1930 | |
 | Lazar Kaganovich (1893–1991) | December 1930 | 21 March 1939 | |
 | Andrei Zhdanov (1896–1948) | 21 March 1939 | 31 August 1948† | |
 | Georgy Malenkov (1902–1988) | 31 August 1948 | 16 October 1952 | |
 | Nikita Khrushchev (1894–1971) | 16 October 1952 | 14 September 1953 | |
 | Mikhail Suslov (1902–1982) | 14 September 1953 | 17 December 1957 | |
 | Alexei Kirichenko (1908–1975) | 17 December 1957 | 5 April 1960 | |
| Frol Kozlov (1908–1965) | 5 April 1960 | 21 June 1963 | ||
 | Leonid Brezhnev (1906–1982) | 21 June 1963 | 14 October 1964 | |
 | Nikolai Podgorny (1903–1983) | 14 October 1964 | 6 December 1965 | |
| | Mikhail Suslov (1902–1982) | 6 December 1965 | 25 January 1982 | |
 | Konstantin Chernenko (1911–1985) | 25 January 1982 | 24 May 1982 | |
 | Yuri Andropov (1914–1984) | 24 May 1982 | 10 November 1982 | |
| | Konstantin Chernenko (1911–1984) | 10 November 1982 | 9 February 1984 | |
 | Mikhail Gorbachev (1931–2022) | 9 February 1984 | 10 March 1985 | |
 | Yegor Ligachev (1920–2021) | 10 March 1985 | 14 July 1990 | |