List of heads of Saint Petersburg government

List of heads of the government of Saint Petersburg, Russia

For the period during the Russian Empire, see Saint Petersburg Governorate.

The city's name changed during the 20th century:

• From 16 May 1703: Saint Petersburg
• From 19 July 1914: Petrograd
• From 26 January 1924: Leningrad
• From 6 September 1991: Saint Petersburg

Petrograd/Leningrad during the Russian SFSR

Chairpersons of the Executive Committee:

• 25 October 1917 – 11 December 1917: Lev Trotsky (1879–1940)
• 13 December 1917 – 12 July 1926: Grigory Zinoviev (1883–1936)
• 12 July 1926 – 7 January 1930: Nikolay Komarov (1886–1937)
• April 1930 – January 1937: Ivan Kodatsky (1893–1937)
• January 1937 – March 1937: Vasily Shestakov (1891–1956)
• September 1937 – October 1938: Aleksey Petrovsky (1889–1939)
• October 1938 – 6 January 1939: Alexei Kosygin (1904–1980)
• 6 January 1939 – 9 March 1946: Pyotr Popkov (s.a.)
• 11 March 1946 – 22 February 1949: Pyotr Lazutin (1905–1949)
• 2 March 1949 – June 1954: Pyotr Ladanov (1904–1989)
• June 1954 – 17 June 1962: Nikolay Smirnov (1906–1962)
• June 1962 – August 1966: Vasily Isayev (died 1977)
• August 1966 – December 1972: Aleksandr Sizov (1913–1972)
• January 1973 – June 1976: Vasily Kazakov (born 1927)
• June 1976 – 26 April 1983: Lev Zaykov (1923–2002)
• 26 April 1983 – 23 May 1990: Vladimir Khodyrev (born 1930)
• 23 May 1990 –12 June 1991: Aleksandr Schelkanov (born 1939)

First Secretaries of the Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union:

• March 1918 – April 1919: Pyotr Zaslavsky
• April 1919 – November 1919: Moisey Kharitonov (1887–1948)
• November 1919 – February 1921: Sergey Zorin (1891–1937)
• 21 February 1921 – 14 December 1921: Nikolay Uglanov (1886–1937)
• 15 December 1921 – March 1922: Ivan Smirnov (1881–1936)
• March 1922 – December 1925: Pyotr Zalutsky (1888–1937)
• December 1925 – 7 January 1926: Grigory Yevdokimov (1884–1936)
• 8 January 1926 – 1 December 1934: Sergei Kirov (1886–1934)
• 15 December 1934 – 28 December 1944: Andrei Zhdanov(1896–1948)
• 5 January 1945 – 8 March 1946: Alexei Kuznetsov (1905–1950)
• 9 March 1946 – 15 February 1949: Pyotr Popkov (1903–1950)
• 16 February 1949 –19 January 1950: Vasily Andrianov (1902–1978)
• January 1950 – July 1952: Frol Kozlov (1908–1965)
• July 1952 – April 1953: Aleksey Alekseyev (born 1911)
• April 1953 – November 1953: Nikolay Ignatov (1901–1966)
• November 1953 – July 1956: Ivan Zamchevsky (1909–1979)
• July 1956 – December 1957: Ivan Spiridonov (1905–1991)
• December 1957 – January 1960: Nikolay Rodionov (1915–1999)
• January 1960 – February 1971: Georgy Popov (born 1912)
• February 1971 – April 1978: Boris Aristov (born 1925)
• April 1978 – January 1984: Yury Solovyov (born 1925)
• January 1984 – January 1986: Anatoly Dumachev (born 1932)
• January 1986 – July 1989: Anatoly Gerasimov (born 1931)
• 12 July 1989 – 24 August 1991: Boris Gidaspov (born 1933)

Mayor:

• June 1991 – 25 December 1991: Anatoly Sobchak (1937–2000)

Leningrad / Saint Petersburg after 1991

Mayor :

• June 1991 – 5 June 1996: Anatoly Aleksandrovich Sobchak (1937–2000)

Governors :

• 5 June 1996 – 16 June 2003: Vladimir Anatolyevich Yakovlev (born 1944)
• 16 June 2003 – 15 October 2003: Aleksandr Dmitriyevich Beglov (acting)(born 1956)
• 15 October 2003 – 31 August 2011: Valentina Ivanovna Matvienko (born 1949)
• 31 August 2011 – present: Georgy Sergeyevich Poltavchenko (born 1953)

See also

• Saint Petersburg City Administration
• List of heads of Moscow government