Anna Mukhamedova was the Acting General Secretary

General Secretary

The office of general secretary is staffed by the chief officer of:*The General Secretariat for Macedonia and Thrace, a government agency for the Greek regions of Macedonia and Thrace...

 of the Communist Party of the Turkmen SSR

Communist Party of the Turkmen SSR

The Communist Party of the Turkmen SSR was the ruling communist party of the Turkmen SSR, and a part of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. From 1985 it was led by Saparmurat Niyazov, who in 1991 renamed the party to the Democratic Party of Turkmenistan, which is no longer a communist party...

 immediately following Yakov Popok

Yakov Popok

Yakov Abramovich Popok served as the fifth General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Turkmen SSR.His term began in August 1930, replacing Grigory Aronshtam. He fell ill in early 1937, causing him to resign on 15 April...

's resignation due to ill health on 15 April 1937. She served as the sixth General Secretary and the only woman to ever hold that position throughout its existence from 1924 to 1991.

Her term lasted two days until, on 17 April, Joseph Stalin

Joseph Stalin

Joseph Vissarionovich Stalin was the Premier of the Soviet Union from 6 May 1941 to 5 March 1953. He was among the Bolshevik revolutionaries who brought about the October Revolution and had held the position of first General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union's Central Committee...

 selected Yakov Chubin

Yakov Chubin

Yakov Chubin also known as Yakov Shub served as the seventh General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Turkmen SSR....

to succeed Popok.