The former government of Nikita Khrushchev

Nikita Khrushchev

Nikita Sergeyevich Khrushchev led the Soviet Union during part of the Cold War. He served as First Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union from 1953 to 1964, and as Chairman of the Council of Ministers, or Premier, from 1958 to 1964...

 was dissolved following his removal from the post of the Chairman of the Council of Ministers. Alexei Kosygin was elected Premier by the Politburo and the Central Committee following the removal of Khrushchev. His first government would last for two years, until the 1966 Soviet election

Soviet Union legislative election, 1966

In 12 June 1966, elections were held to the Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union.The Supreme Soviet was made up of two chambers, each of 750 deputies: the Soviet of the Union and the Soviet of Nationalities .According...

 held in June. Kosygin's first government saw the re-creation of many ministries that were removed under Khrushchev's previous government.

Ministries

Ministry	Minister	Period
Chairman Premier of the Soviet Union The office of Premier of the Soviet Union was synonymous with head of government of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics . Twelve individuals have been premier...  of the Council of Ministers	Alexei Kosygin	15 October 1964 – 3 August 1966
First Deputy Chairman of the Council of Ministers	Dmitriy Ustinov Dmitriy Ustinov Dmitriy Feodorovich Ustinov was Minister of Defense of the Soviet Union from 1976 until his death.-Early life:Dimitry Feodorovich Ustinov was born in a working-class family in Samara. During the civil war, when hunger became intolerable, his sick father went to Samarkand, leaving Dimitry as head...	15 October 1964 – 27 March 1965
	Dmitry Polyansky Dmitry Polyansky Note: There is also a Russian triathlete with the same name, transliterated also as Dmitry Polyanski.Dmitry Stepanovich Polyansky , – Moscow, 8 October 2001) was a Soviet-Russian statesman who was First Deputy Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the Soviet Union from 1965 to 1973...	27 March 1965 – 3 August 1966
Deputy Chairman of the Council of Ministers	Konstantin Rudnev	27 March 1964 – 10 April 1965
	Aleksandr Shelepin	27 March 1964 – 9 December 1965
	Ignati Novikov	27 March 1964 – 3 August 1966
	Venyamin Dymshitz	27 March 1964 – 3 August 1966
	Mikhail Lesetshko	27 March 1964 – 3 August 1966
	Leonid Smirnov Leonid Smirnov (politician) Leonid Vasil’evich Smirnov was director of the the missile factory at Dnepropetrovsk in the late 1950s, developing strategic missiles for the defence of the USSR...	27 March 1964 – 3 August 1966
	Vladimir Novikov Vladimir Novikov (politician) Vladimir Nikolaevich Novikov was a Soviet-Russian statesman was Chairman of the State Planning Committee from 1960 to 1962 and Chairman of the Supreme Soviet of the National Economy from 1962 to 1965....	27 March 1964 – 13 November 1965
	Mikhail Yefremov Mikhail Timofeyevich Yefremov Mikhail Timofeyevich Yefremov , was a Soviet politician and diplomat....	13 November 1965 – 3 August 1966
	Nikolai Baibakov Nikolai Baibakov Nikolai Konstantinovich Baibakov was a Soviet statesman, economist and Hero of Socialist Labor. He finished secondary school in 1928 and entered the Azerbaijan Oil and Chemistry Institute, from which he graduated in 1931 as a mining engineer. In 1935, he was drafted into the armed forces...	27 March 1964 – 3 August 1966
	Kirill Mazurov Kirill Mazurov Kirill Trofimovich Mazurov was a Belarusian Soviet politician.-Political career:...	26 March 1965 – 3 August 1966
	Vladimir Kirillin	2 October 1965 – 3 August 1966
	Nikolai Tikhonov Nikolai Tikhonov Nikolai Aleksandrovich Tikhonov was a Soviet Russian-Ukrainian statesman during the Cold War. He served as Chairman of the Council of Ministers from 1980 to 1985, and as a First Deputy Chairman of the Council of Ministers, literally First Vice Premier, from 1976 to 1980...	2 October 1965 – 3 August 1966
Minister of Foreign Trade	Nikolai Patolitshev	15 October 1964 – 3 August 1966
Minister of Railways Ministry of Railways (Soviet Union) The Ministry of Railways oversaw the railways of the Soviet Union. It was subdivided into 32 different railway agencies, which between them had millions of employees...	Boris Beshchev	15 October 1964 – 3 August 1966
Minister of Merchant Marine	Viktor Bakajev	15 October 1964 – 3 August 1966
Minister of Medium Machine Building	Yefim Slavski	2 March 1965 – 3 August 1966
Minister of Transport Construction	Yevgeni Kozhevnikov	2 October 1965 – 3 August 1966
Minister of Aviation Industry	Pyotr Dementev	2 October 1965 – 3 August 1966
Minister of Shipbuilding	Boris Butoma	2 March 1965 – 3 August 1966
Minister of Radio Industry	Valeri Kalmykov	2 March 1965 – 3 August 1966
Minister of Foreign Affairs	Andrei Gromyko Andrei Gromyko Andrei Andreyevich Gromyko was a Soviet statesman during the Cold War. He served as Minister of Foreign Affairs and as Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet . Gromyko was responsible for many top decisions on Soviet foreign policy until he retired in 1987. In the West he was given the...	15 October 1964 – 3 August 1966
Minister of Culture Ministry of Culture (Soviet Union) The Ministry of Culture of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics , formed in 1936, was one of the most important government offices in the Soviet Union. It was formerly known as the State Committee on the Arts . The Ministry, at the all-Union level, was established in 1953, after existing as a...	Jekaterina Furtzeva	15 October 1964 – 3 August 1966
Minister of Higher Education	Vjatsheslav Yeljutin	15 October 1964 – 3 August 1966
Minister of Finance	Vasily Garbuzov	15 October 1964 – 3 August 1966
Minister of Commerce	Aleksandr Strujev	2 October 1965 – 3 August 1966
Minister of Defence	Rodion Malinovsky Rodion Malinovsky Rodion Yakovlevich Malinovsky was a Soviet military commander in World War II and Defense Minister of the Soviet Union in the late 1950s and 1960s. He contributed to the major defeat of Nazi Germany at the Battle of Stalingrad and the Battle of Budapest...	2 October 1965 – 3 August 1966
Minister of Communications Ministry of Communications (Soviet Union) The Ministry of Communications of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics was the central state administration body on communications in the Soviet Union from 1946 to 1991...	Nikolai Psurtshev	2 October 1965 – 3 August 1966
Minister of Health Ministry of Health (Soviet Union) The Ministry of Health of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics , formed on 15 March 1946, was one of the most important government offices in the Soviet Union. It was formerly known as the People's Commissariat for Health...	Sergei Kurashov	2 October 1965 – 23 August 1965
	Boris Petrovski	8 September 1965 – 3 August 1966
Minister of Agriculture	Ivan Volovtshenko	15 October 1964 – 18 February 1965
	Vladimir Matskevich	18 February 1965 – 3 August 1966
Minister of Geology	Aleksandr Sidorenko	2 October 1965 – 3 August 1966
Minister of Energy and Electrification	Pyotr Neporozhny	15 October 1964 – 3 August 1966
Minister of Civil Aviation	Yevgeni Loginov	15 October 1964 – 3 August 1966
Minister of Ferrous Metallurgy	Ivan Kazanetz	2 October 1965 – 3 August 1966
Minister of Coal Industry	Boris Bratshenko	2 October 1965 – 3 August 1966
Minister of Chemical Industry	Leonid Kostandov	2 October 1965 – 3 August 1966
Minister of Oil Industry	Valentin Shashin	2 October 1965 – 3 August 1966
Minister of Oil and Petrochemical Industry	Viktor Fjodorov	2 October 1965 – 3 August 1966
Minister of Timber and Wood Processing Industry	Nikolai Timofjejev	2 October 1965 – 3 August 1966
Minister of Building Materials Industry	Ivan Grishmanov	2 October 1965 – 3 August 1966
Minister of Light Industry	Nikolai Tarasov	2 October 1965 – 3 August 1966
Minister of Food Industry	Vasili Zotov	15 October 1964 – 3 August 1966
Minister of Fish Industry	Aleksandr Ishkov	2 October 1965 – 3 August 1966
Minister of Meat and Dairy Industry	Sergei Antonov	2 October 1965 – 3 August 1966
Minister of Heavy and Transport Machines Construction	Vladimir Zhigalin	2 October 1965 – 3 August 1966
Minister of Construction of Tool-Machines	Anatoli Kostousov	2 October 1965 – 3 August 1966
Minister of Construction, Road Building and Communal Machines	Jefim Novosjelov	2 October 1965 – 3 August 1966
Minister of Tractors and Agricultural Machines	Ivan Sinizyn	2 October 1965 – 3 August 1966
Minister of Automobile Industry	Aleksandr Tarasov	2 October 1965 – 3 August 1966
Minister of Construction of Petrochemical Machinery	Konstantin Brekhov	2 October 1965 – 3 August 1966
Minister of Electrical Engineering	Aleksei Antonov	2 October 1965 – 3 August 1966
Minister of Instrument-Making, Automation and Control Systems	Konstantin Rudnev	2 October 1965 – 3 August 1966
Minister of Machine Building for Light and Food Industries	Vasili Doyenin	1 October 1965 – 3 August 1966
Minister of Assembling and Special Construction	Fuad Jakubowski	2 October 1965 – 3 August 1966
Minister of Land Reclamation and Water Conservancy	Yevgeni Aleksejevski	2 October 1965 – 3 August 1966
Minister of Gas Industry	Aleksei Kortunov	2 October 1965 – 3 August 1966
Minister of General Machine Building	Sergei Afanasjev	2 October 1965 – 3 August 1966
Minister of Non-Ferrous Metallurgy	Pyotr Lomako Pyotr Lomako Pyotr Faddeyevich Lomako was a Soviet politician and economist, head of Gosplan between 1962 and 1965. During the Second World War, he was responsible for overseeing the evacuation of Soviet industry to the Ural mountains...	2 October 1965 – 3 August 1966
Minister of Electronic Industry	Aleksandr Shokin	2 October 1965 – 3 August 1966
Minister of Defence Industry	Sergei Sverov	2 October 1965 – 3 August 1966
Minister of Housing and Architecture	Mikhail Pozokhin	15 October 1964 – 3 August 1966

Committees

Committee	Chairman	Period
Chairman of the State Control Commission	Aleksandr Shelepin	15 October 1964 – 3 December 1965
Chairman of the People's Control Commission	Pavel Kovanov	3 December 1965 – 3 August 1966
Chairman of the State Planning Committee Gosplan Gosplan or State Planning Committee was the committee responsible for economic planning in the Soviet Union. The word "Gosplan" is an abbreviation for Gosudarstvenniy Komitet po Planirovaniyu...	Pyotr Lomako Pyotr Lomako Pyotr Faddeyevich Lomako was a Soviet politician and economist, head of Gosplan between 1962 and 1965. During the Second World War, he was responsible for overseeing the evacuation of Soviet industry to the Ural mountains...	15 October 1964 – 2 December 1965
	Nikolai Baibakov Nikolai Baibakov Nikolai Konstantinovich Baibakov was a Soviet statesman, economist and Hero of Socialist Labor. He finished secondary school in 1928 and entered the Azerbaijan Oil and Chemistry Institute, from which he graduated in 1931 as a mining engineer. In 1935, he was drafted into the armed forces...	2 December 1965 – 3 August 1966
Chairman of State Committee for State Security KGB The KGB was the commonly used acronym for the . It was the national security agency of the Soviet Union from 1954 until 1991, and was the premier internal security, intelligence, and secret police organization during that time.The State Security Agency of the Republic of Belarus currently uses the...  (KGB)	Vladimir Semichastny Vladimir Semichastny Vladimir Yefimovich Semichastny was the head of the KGB from November 1961 to April 1967....	15 October 1964 – 3 August 1966