First Secretary of the Moscow City Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union

Office of the First Secretary on Tverskaya Street, depicted on a 1947 stamp

The First Secretary of the Moscow City Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, was the position of highest authority in the city of Moscow roughly equating to that of mayor. The position was created on November 10, 1917, following the October Revolution and abolished on August 24, 1991. The First Secretary was a de facto appointed position usually by the Politburo or the General Secretary himself[citation needed]. Until the abolition of the CPSU monopoly on power on March 14, 1990, he had actual power in Moscow.

First Secretaries

Name Term of Office Life years
Start End
Vadim Podbelskiy 10 November 1917 12 April 1918 1887–1920
Dominik Yefremov 12 April 1918 7 September 1918 1883–1925
Vladimir Zagorsky 17 September 1918 25 September 1919 1883–1919
Dominik Yefremov October 1919 November 1919 1883–1925
Alexander Myasnakov November 1919 April 1920 1886–1925
Osip Piatnitsky April 1920 November 1920 1882–1938
Fedor Sergeyev (Artem) November 1920 March 1921 1883–1921
Isaak Zelensky March 1921 20 August 1924 1890–1938
Nikolai Uglanov 20 August 1924 27 November 1928 1886–1937
Vyacheslav Molotov 27 November 1928 15 August 1929 1890–1986
Karl Bauman 15 August 1929 12 July 1930 1892–1937
Lazar Kaganovich 12 July 1930 January 1934 1893–1991
Nikita Khrushchev January 1934 27 January 1938 1894–1971
Aleksandr Ugarov 11 February 1938 19 September 1938 1900–1939
Aleksandr Shcherbakov 2 December 1938 10 May 1945 1901–1945
Georgy Popov 10 May 1945 12 February 1950 1906–1968
Ivan Rumyantsev 12 February 1950 July 1952 1913–1992
Ivan Kapitonov August 1952 29 March 1954 1915–2002
Yekaterina Furtseva 17 November 1954 30 June 1957 1910–1974
Vladimir Ustinov 30 June 1957 4 March 1960 1907–1971
Pyotr Demichev 4 March 1960 1 November 1962 1917–2010
Nikolay Yegorychev 1 November 1962 4 October 1967 1920–2005
Viktor Grishin 4 October 1967 23 December 1985 1914–1992
Boris Yeltsin 23 December 1985 11 November 1987 1931–2007
Lev Zaykov 11 November 1987 21 November 1989 1923–2002
Yury Prokofyev 21 November 1989 24 August 1991 1939–

See also

Sources

  • [1] World Statesmen.org

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