Administrator of Affairs of the Soviet Union
The Administrator of Affairs of the Soviet Union, or Secretary to the Premier, was a high-standing officer within the Soviet Government whose main task was to co-sign, with the Premier of the Soviet Union, decrees and resolutions made by either the Council of People's Commissars (1922–1946), Council of Ministers (1946–1991) or the Cabinet of Ministers (1991). The government apparatus prepared items of policy, which the office holder would check systematically against decrees of the Party-Government. This function consisted of several departments and other structural units. The Soviet Government apparatus was headed by the Administrator of Affairs who, in accordance with the established order, was a member of the federal government body.[1]
List of administrators
| # [note 1] |
Holder | Tenure | Premier |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Administrator of Affairs of the Council of People's Commissars (1922–1946) | ||
| Nikolai Gorbunov | 17 July 1923 – 29 December 1930 | Vladimir Lenin | |
| Alexey Rykov | |||
| Vyacheslav Molotov | |||
| 2 | Platon Kerzhentsev | 29 December 1930 – 23 March 1933 | Vyacheslav Molotov |
| 3 | Ivan Miroshnikov | 23 March 1933 – 29 March 1937 | Vyacheslav Molotov |
| 4 | Mikhail Arbuzov | 29 March 1937 – 31 July 1937 | Vyacheslav Molotov |
| 5 | Nikolai Petrunichev | 31 July 1937 – 5 November 1938 | Vyacheslav Molotov |
| 6 | Ivan Bolshakov | 17 December 1938 – 4 June 1939 | Vyacheslav Molotov |
| 7 | Mikhail Hlomov | 10 June 1939 – 14 November 1940 | Vyacheslav Molotov |
| 8 | Jacob Chadeyev | 14 November 1940 – 15 March 1946 | Vyacheslav Molotov |
| Joseph Stalin | |||
| Administrator of Affairs of the Council of Ministers (1946–1991) | |||
| Jacob Chadeyev | 19 March 1946 – 13 March 1949 | Joseph Stalin | |
| 9 | Mikhail Pomaznev | 13 March 1949 – 29 June 1953 | Joseph Stalin |
| Georgy Malenkov | |||
| 10 | Anatoly Korobov | 29 June 1953 – 1 July 1958 | Georgy Malenkov |
| Nikolai Bulganin | |||
| Nikita Khrushchev | |||
| 11 | Pyotr Demichev | 1 July 1958 – 3 March 1959 | Nikita Khrushchev |
| 12 | George Stepanov | 18 March 1959 – 22 October 1964 | Nikita Khrushchev |
| Alexei Kosygin | |||
| 13 | Mikhail Smirtyukov | 18 December 1964 – 7 June 1989 | Alexei Kosygin |
| Nikolai Tikhonov | |||
| Nikolai Ryzhkov | |||
| 14 | Mikhail Shkabardnya | 18 December 1964 – 7 June 1989 | Nikolai Ryzhkov |
| 15 | Administrative Director of the Cabinet of Ministers (1991) | ||
| Igor Prostiakov | 21 March 1991 – 26 November 1991 | Valentin Pavlov | |
| Ivan Silayev | |||
Notes
- ↑ These numbers are not official.
References
- ↑ Кабинет Министров СССР. 5 июля 1978 «ЗАКОН О СОВЕТЕ МИНИСТРОВ СССР». (Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union. 5 July 1978 Law of the Council of Ministers of the USSR. ).