General Department of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union

The General Department of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union was a department of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union that oversaw the paperwork of all Central Committee institutions.

Heads

Office of the Presidium

• Nikolai Smirnov (12 September 1920 - 20 August 1922)
• Hamayak Nazaretyan (20 August 1922 - 1 November 1924)
• Lev Mekhlis (1 November 1924 - 22 January 1926)
• Ivan Tovstukha (22 January 1926 - 16 July 1930)
• Alexander Poskrebyshev (16 July 1930 - 15 August 1952)
• Dmitri Sukhanov (15 August 1952 - 20 February 1955)

General Department

• Vladimir Malin (20 February 1955 - 30 August 1965)
• Konstantin Chernenko (30 August 1965 - 12 November 1982)
• Klavdii Bogolyubov (12 November 1982 - 24 May 1985)
• Anatoly Lukyanov (24 May 1985 - 17 January 1987)
• Valery Boldin (17 January 1987 - 3 May 1991)
• Pavel Laptev (3 May 1991 - 29 August 1991)

See also

• General Office of the Communist Party of China