Central Committee of the 23rd Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union

The 23rd Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union was elected by the 23rd Congress, and was in session from 1966 until 1971. There were 195 regular members chosen, an increase from the 175 selected in 1961; of the 195 members, 51 were newcomers, and 144 were incumbents; another 31 had died or resigned since the 1961 election. Another 145 candidate members, who could participate but could not vote on motions, were picked in addition to the voting regular members.

The Committee elected, at its 1st Plenary Session, the 23rd Politburo, the 23rd Secretariat and the 23rd Party Control Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.

Plenums

• 1st Plenary Session (8 April 1966)
• 2nd Plenary Session (25–27 May 1966)
• 3rd Plenary Session (1 August 1966)
• 4th Plenary Session (12–13 December 1966)
• 5th Plenary Session (21–21 June 1967)
• 6th Plenary Session (26 September 1967)
• 7th Plenary Session (9–10 April 1968)
• 8th Plenary Session (17 July 1968)

• 9th Plenary Session (30–31 October 1968)
• 10th Plenary Session (9 December 1968)
• 11th Plenary Session (26 June 1969)
• 12th Plenary Session (15 December 1969)
• 13th Plenary Session (2–3 July 1970)
• 14th Plenary Session (13 July 1970)
• 15th Plenary Session (7 December 1970)
• 16th Plenary Session (22 March 1971)

Membership

Regular members

• Pyotr Abrasimov (1912–2009)
• Anatoly Alexandrov (1903–1994)
• Yuri Andropov (1914–1984)
• Sergey Antonov (1914–unknown)
• Averky Aristov (1903–1973)
• Asanbay Askarov (1922–2001)
• Sergey Afanasyev (1918–2001)
• Vali Akhundov (1916–1986)
• Ivan Bagramyan (1897–1982)
• Nikolai Baibakov (1911–2008)
• Aleksandr Basov (1912–1988)
• Pavel Batitsky (1910–1984)
• Masymkhan Beysebayev (1908–1987)
• Afanasy Beloborodov (1903–1990)
• Ivan Benediktov (1902–1983)
• Boris Beshchev (1903–1981)
• Ivan Bodiul (1918–2013)
• Andrei Borodin (1912–1984)
• Pavel Borodin (1911–1998)
• Leonid Brezhnev (1906–1982)
• Boris Butoma (1907–1976)
• Nikolay Vasilyev (1916–2011)
• Aleksey Vatchenko (1914–1984)
• Grigory Vashchenko (1920–1990)
• Konstantin Vershinin (1900–1973)
• Alexander Volkov (1910–1990)
• Gennady Voronov (1910–1994)
• Feodosy Voronov (1904–1975)
• Kliment Voroshilov (1881–1969)
• Valentina Gaganova (1932–2010)
• Konstantin Galanshin (1912–2011)
• Vasily Garbuzov (1911–1985)
• Alexander Georgiev (1913–1976)
• Sergey Gorshkov (1910–1988)
• Fodor Goryachev (1905–1996)
• Andrei Grechko (1903–1976)
• Viktor Grishin (1914–1992)
• Konstantin Grishin (1902–1976)
• Ivan Grishmanov (1906–1979)
• Andrei Gromyko (1909–1989)
• Ivan Hrushetsky (1904–1982)
• Pavel Grushin (1906–1993)
• Abdurakhman Daniyalov (1908–1981)
• Vladimir Degtyarov (1920–1993)
• Pyotr Dementev (1907–1977)
• Pyotr Demichev (1917–2010)
• Givi Javakhishvili (1912–1985)
• Veniamin Dymshitz (1910–1993)
• Nikolay Yegorychev (1920–2005)
• Vyacheslav Yelyutin (1907–1993)
• Alexei Yepishev (1908–1985)
• Leonid Efremov (1912–2007)
• Mikhail Yefremov (1911–2000)
• Afanasy Yeshtokin (1913–1974)
• Vladimir Zhigalin (1907–1990)
• Matvei Zakharov (1898–1972)
• Sergey Zverev (1912–1978)
• Mikhail Zimyanin (1914–1995)
• Grigory Zolotukhin (1911–1988)
• Valerian Zorin (1902–1986)
• Nikolai Ignatov (1901–1966)
• Vasily Kavun (1928–2009)
• Ivan Kazanets (1918–2013)
• Valery Kalmykov (1908–1974)
• Yan Kalnberzin (1893–1986)
• Ivan Kapitonov (1915–2002)
• Konstantin Katushev (1927–2010)
• Mstislav Keldysh (1911–1978)
• Andrei Kirilenko (1906–1990)
• Vladimir Kirillin (1913–1999)
• Ivan Kiselov (1917–2004)
• Tikhon Kiselyov (1917–1983)
• Vasily Klimenko (1906–1984)
• Alexander Kovalenko (1909–1987)
• Pavel Kovanov (1907–1986)
• Yevgeny Kozhevnikov (1905–1979)
• Vasily Kozlov (1903–1967)
• Aleksandr Kokarev (1909–1991)
• Vasily Komyakhov (1911–1966)
• Ivan Konev (1898–1973)
• Nikolay Konovalov (1907–1993)
• Vasily Konotop (1916–1995)
• Oleksandr Korniychuk (1905–1972)
• Demyan Korotchenko (1894–1969)
• Nikolay Korytkov (1910–2000)
• Shapet Kospanov (1914–unknown)
• Anatoly Kostousov (1906–1985)
• Alexei Kosygin (1904–1980)
• Anton Kochinyan (1913–1989)
• Mikhail Krakhmalov (1914–1977)
• Nikolay Krylov (1903–1972)
• Vasily Kuznetsov (1901–1990)
• Fyodor Kulakov (1918–1978)
• Leonid Kulichenko (1913–1990)
• Dinmukhamed Konayev (1912–1993)
• Rakhmankul Kurbanov (1912–2012)
• Ivan Kebin (1905–1999)
• Sergey Lapin (1912–1990)
• Mikhail Lesechko (1909–1984)
• Pyotr Lomako (1904–1990)
• Vladimir Lomonosov (1928–1999)
• Ivan Lutak (1919–2009)
• Oleksandr Liashko (1915–2002)
• Kirill Mazurov (1914–1989)
• Rodion Malinovsky (1898–1967)
• Sergey Manyakin (1923–2010)
• Vladimir Matskevich (1909–1998)
• Pyotr Masherov (1918–1980)
• Vasil Mzhavanadze (1902–1988)
• Anastas Mikoyan (1895–1978)
• Nikolay Mikhailov (1906–1982)
• Leonid Monashev (1914–1995)
• Kirill Moskalenko (1902–1985)
• Yadgar Nasriddinova (1920–2006)
• Konstantin Nikolayev (1910–1972)
• Tatyana Nikolayeva (unknown–unknown)
• Vladimir Novikov (1907–2000)
• Ignaty Novikov (1906–1993)
• Ziya Nuriyev (1915–2012)
• Balysh Ovezov (1915–1975)
• Nikolay Organov (1901–1982)
• Vladimir Pavlov (1923–1998)
• Sergey Pavlov (1929–1993)
• Nikolai Patolichev (1908–1989)
• Borys Paton (born 1918)
• Nikolay Pegov (1905–1991)
• Yan Peyve (1906–1976)
• Arvīds Pelše (1899–1983)
• Nikolai Podgorny (1903–1983)
• Ivan Polyakov (1914–2004)
• Dmitry Polyansky (1917–2001)
• Boris Ponomarev (1905–1995)
• Georgy Popov (1912–unknown)
• Nina Popova (1902–1994)
• Pyotr Pospelov (1898–1979)
• Siarhei Prytytski (1913–1971)
• Vasily Promyslov (1908–1992)
• Alexander Puzanov (1906–1998)
• Konstantin Pysin (1910–1987)
• Jabbor Rasulov (1913–1982)
• Sharof Rashidov (1917–1983)
• Nikolai Rodionov (1915–1999)
• Grigory Romanov (1923–2008)
• Aleksandr Rudakov (1910–1966)
• Roman Rudenko (1907–1981)
• Konstantin Rudnev (1911–1980)
• Alexey Rumyantsev (1905–1993)
• Vasily Ryabikov (1907–1974)
• Vladimir Semichastny (1924–2001)
• Mikhail Sinitsa (1913–1985)
• Anatoly Skochilov (1912–1977)
• Yefim Slavsky (1898–1991)
• Leonid Smirnov (1916–2001)
• Antanas Sniečkus (1903–1974)
• Nikolay Sobol (1910–1991)
• Tikhon Sokovlev (1913–1992)
• Leonid Solovyov (1906–1993)
• Mikhail Solomentsev (1913–2008)
• Ivan Spiridnov (1905–1991)
• Vladimir Stepakov (1912–1987)
• Alexander Struyev (1906–1991)
• Fodor Surganov (1911–1976)
• Mikhail Suslov (1902–1982)
• Fikryat Tabeyev (born 1928)
• Vitaly Titov (1907–1980)
• Fedor Titov (1910–1989)
• Nikolai Tikhonov (1905–1997)
• Aleksandr Tokarev (1921–2004)
• Vasily Tolstikov (1917–2003)
• Sergey Trapeznikov (1912–1984)
• Dmitriy Ustinov (1908–1984)
• Turdakun Usubaliyev (born 1919)
• Pyotr Fedoseyev (1908–1990)
• Leonid Florentyev (1911–2003)
• Yekaterina Furtseva (1910–1974)
• Stepan Khitrov (1910–1999)
• Vladimir Kholyavko (born 1934)
• Stepan Chervonenko (1915–2003)
• Vasily Chernyshov (1908–1969)
• Vasily Chuikov (1900–1982)
• Viktor Churayev (1903–1982)
• Nikolai Shvernik (1888–1970)
• Vladimir Shevchenko (1918–1982)
• Alexander Shelepin (1918–1994)
• Petro Shelest (1908–1996)
• Aleksey Shibayev (1915–1991)
• Aleksey Shitikov (1912–1993)
• Aleksey Shkolnikov (1914–2003)
• Aleksandr Shokin (1909–1988)
• Mikhail Sholokhov (1905–1984)
• Volodymyr Shcherbytsky (1918–1990)
• Semon Shchetinin (1910–1975)
• Ivan Yunak (1918–1995)
• Ivan Yakubovsky (1912–1976)
• Mikhail Yasnov (1906–1991)

Candidates

• Malik Abdurazakov (1919–1973)
• Stepan Avramenko (1918–2010)
• Yevgeny Alekseyevsky (1906–1979)
• Enver Alikhanov (1917–1992)
• Nikolay Amelko (1914–2007)
• Dmitry Angelyev (1918–1985)
• Aleksey Antonov (1912–2010)
• Vasily Antonov (1914–1967)
• Pavel Afanasyev (1905–1989)
• Vladimir Bazovsky (1917–1993)
• Viktor Bakayev (1902–1987)
• Nikolai Bannikov (1914–2004)
• Raisa Belskikh (1934–2004)
• Aleksandr Bochkarov (1908–1985)
• Boris Bratchenko (1912–2004)
• Konstantin Brekhov (1907–1994)
• Nikita Bubnovsky (1907–unknown)
• Semyon Budyonny (1883–1973)
• Aleksandr Bulgakov (1907–1976)
• Arthur Vader (1920–1978)
• Ivan Vladychenko (born 1924)
• Praskovya Vorinina (1918–unknown)
• Sergey Vorotnikov (born 1929)
• Mikhail Vsevolozhsky (1917–2000)
• Mukhammednazar Gapurov (1922–1999)
• Mikhail Georgadze (1912–1982)
• Konstantin Gerasimov (1910–1982)
• Andrei Getman (1903–1983)
• Fodor Golovchenko (1918–unknown)
• Basan Gorodovikov (1910–1983)
• Dmitry Goryunov (1915–1992)
• Nikolay Gribachov (1910–1992)
• Konstantin Grushevoy (1906–1982)
• Ivan Gustov (1911–1996)
• Raisa Dementieva (born 1925)
• Vladimir Demchenko (born 1920)
• Georgy Denisov (1910–2005)
• Alexandru Diordiță (1911–1996)
• Viktor Dobrik (born 1927)
• Anatoly Dobrynin (1919–2010)
• Vasiliy Doyenin (1909–1977)
• Vasily Drozdenko (1924–1982)
• Anatoly Drygin (1914–1990)
• Anatoly Yegorov (1920–1977)
• Aleksandr Yezhevsky (born 1915)
• Pyotr Yelistratov (1917–1987)
• Andrey Yeromenko (1892–1970)
• Lev Yermin (1923–2004)
• Marina Zhuravlova (born 1931)
• Nikolay Zhurin (1908–1996)
• Konstantin Zarodov (1920–1982)
• Mikhail Zakharov (1918–unknown)
• Vasily Zotov (1899–1977)
• Vasily Isayev (1917–2008)
• Semon Islyukov (1915–1998)
• Aleksandr Ishkov (1905–1988)
• Bilar Kabaloyev (1917–2009)
• Mikhail Kazakov (1901–1979)
• Nikifor Kalchenko (1906–1989)
• Andrey Kandrenkov (1915–1989)
• Vladimir Karlov (1914–1994)
• Yevdokiya Karpova (1923–2000)
• Abdulakhad Kakharov (1913–1984)
• Valter Klauson (1914–1988)
• Mikhail Klepikov (1927–1999)
• Aleksandr Klimov (1914–1979)
• Filipp Knyazev (1916–1994)
• Ivan Koval (1910–1996)
• Grigory Kozlov (1912–1968)
• Nikolai Kozlov (1925–2001)
• Pavel Kozyr (1913–1998)
• Olga Kolchina (born 1918)
• Leonid Korniyets (1901–1969)
• Aleksey Kortunov (1907–1973)
• Leonid Kostandov (1915–1984)
• Vyacheslav Kochemasov (1918–1998)
• Nikolay Kochetkov (1927–2002)
• Pyotr Koshevoy (1904–1976)
• Anatoly Kremen (born 1929)
• Gleb Kriulin (born 1923)
• Nikolai Kuznetsov (1922–1988)
• Vasily Kutsevol (1920–2001)
• Ivan Lavronov (1912–1967)
• Mikhail Lavrentyev (1900–1980)
• Pavel Leonov (1918–1992)
• Yegor Ligachev (born 1920)
• Semyon Lobov (1913–1977)
• Yevgeny Loginov (1907–1970)
• Fodor Loshchenkov (1915–2009)
• Lydia Lykova (born 1913)
• Nikolay Lyashchenko (1910–2000)
• Pavel Malofeyev (1910–1983)
• Timbora Malbakhov (1917–1999)
• Bolot Mambetov (1907–1990)
• Valery Marisov (1915–1992)
• Sergey Maryakhin (1911–1972)
• Nikolai Mesyatsev (1920–2011)
• Dmitry Mikhaylov (born 1919)
• Andrey Modogoyev (1915–1989)
• Aleksandr Muzhitsky (1912–unknown)
• Badal Muradyan (1915–unknown)
• Mirzamakhmud Musakhanov (1912–1995)
• Pyotr Neporozhniy (1910–1999)
• Sabir Niyazbekov (1912–1989)
• Konstantin Novikov (1910–1974)
• Nikolai Orgakov (1917–1994)
• Georgy Osipov (1906–1980)
• Grigory Pavlov (1913–1994)
• Georgy Pavlov (1910–1991)
• Justas Paleckis (1899–1980)
• Boris Pastukhov (born 1933)
• Valentin Penkovsky (1904–1969)
• Boris Petrovsky (1908–2004)
• Boris Petukhov (1913–1979)
• Pyotr Pimenov (1915–1980)
• Maria Poberey (unknown–unknown)
• Viktor Podzerko (1912–unknown)
• Mikhail Ponomarev (1918–2001)
• Maria Popova (born 1928)
• Sergey Postovalov (1907–1983)
• Nikolay Psurtsev (1900–1980)
• Pyotr Rodionov (1916–2010)
• Pyotr Rozenko (1907–1991)
• Konstantin Rokossovsky (1896–1968)
• Aleksey Romanov (1908–1998)
• Nikolai Romanov (1913–1993)
• Vitaly Ruben (1914–1994)
• Vasily Rykov (1918–2011)
• Vladimir Semyonov (1911–1992)
• Ivan Senkin (1915–1986)
• Ivan Serbin (1910–1981)
• Aleksandr Sidorenko (1917–1982)
• Pavel Sizov (1916–1988)
• Ivan Sinitsyn (1911–1988)
• Semon Skachkov (1907–1996)
• Igor Skulkov (1913–1971)
• Ivan Slazhnov (1913–unknown)
• Aleksandr Smirnov (1907–1997)
• Alexander Smirnov (1909–1972)
• Vasily Smirnov (1904–1979)
• Sergey Sokolov (1911–2012)
• Vasily Sokolovsky (1897–1968)
• Andrey Stuchenko (1904–1972)
• Aleksandr Tarasov (1911–1975)
• Nikolay Tarasov (1911–2010)
• Vadim Tikunov (1921–1980)
• Semyon Timoshenko (1895–1970)
• Aleksey Titarenko (1915–1992)
• Salchak Toka (1901–1973)
• Lev Tolkunov (1919–1989)
• Pyotr Urayev (1910–1967)
• Viktor Fodorov (1912–1990)
• Georgy Frantsov (1903–1969)
• Vasily Frolov (1914–1994)
• Konstantin Chernenko (1911–1985)
• Gavrii Chiryayev (1925–1982)
• Anatoly Chubarov (1922–2006)
• Vasily Shauro (1912–2007)
• Aleksandra Shevchenko (born 1926)
• Alexander Sheremetov (1925–unknown)
• Motiejus Šumauskas (1905–1982)
• Nikolai Shchelokov (1910–1984)
• Borys Shcherbyna (1919–1990)
• Fuad Yakubovsky (1908–1975)
• Mikhail Yangel (1911–1971)