Kosygin's second government
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Alexei Kosygin's second government would last four years, until the 1970 Soviet election
held on 14 June. It saw the creation of many new ministries.
The former government
of Alexei Kosygin was dissolved following the Soviet legislative election
of 1966. Kosygin was once again elected Premier by the Politburo and the Central Committee following the election.
Soviet Union legislative election, 1970
On 14 June 1970, 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 on 14 June. It saw the creation of many new ministries.
The former government
Kosygin's first government
The former government of Nikita Khrushchev 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,...
of Alexei Kosygin was dissolved following the Soviet legislative 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...
of 1966. Kosygin was once again elected Premier by the Politburo and the Central Committee following the election.
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 | 3 August 1966 – 14 June 1970 |
| First Deputy Chairman of the Council of Ministers | 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... |
3 August 1966 – 14 June 1970 |
| Deputy Chairman of the Council of Ministers | Ignati Novikov | 3 August 1966 – 14 June 1970 |
| Venyamin Dymshitz | 3 August 1966 – 14 June 1970 | |
| Mikhail Lesetshko | 3 August 1966 – 14 June 1970 | |
| 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... |
3 August 1966 – 14 June 1970 | |
| 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... |
3 August 1966 – 14 June 1970 | |
| Kirill Mazurov Kirill Mazurov Kirill Trofimovich Mazurov was a Belarusian Soviet politician.-Political career:... |
3 August 1966 – 14 June 1970 | |
| Vladimir Kirillin | 3 August 1966 – 14 June 1970 | |
| 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... |
3 August 1966 – 14 June 1970 | |
| Mikhail Yefremov Mikhail Timofeyevich Yefremov Mikhail Timofeyevich Yefremov , was a Soviet politician and diplomat.... |
3 August 1966 – 14 June 1970 | |
| Minister of Foreign Trade | Nikolai Patolitshev | 3 August 1966 – 14 June 1970 |
| 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 | 3 August 1966 – 14 June 1970 |
| Minister of Merchant Marine | Viktor Bakajev | 3 August 1966 – 14 January 1970 |
| Timofei Guzenko | 14 January – 14 June 1970 | |
| Minister of Medium Machine Building | Yefim Slavski | 3 August 1966 – 14 June 1970 |
| Minister of Transport Construction | Yevgeni Kozhevnikov | 3 August 1966 – 14 June 1970 |
| Minister of Aviation Industry | Pyotr Dementev | 3 August 1966 – 14 June 1970 |
| Minister of Shipbuilding | Boris Butoma | 3 August 1966 – 14 June 1970 |
| Minister of Radio Industry | Valeri Kalmykov | 3 August 1966 – 14 June 1970 |
| 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... |
3 August 1966 – 14 June 1970 |
| Minister of Internal Affairs | Nikolai Shchelokov | 17 September 1966 – 14 June 1970 |
| 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 | 3 August 1966 – 14 June 1970 |
| Minister of Education Ministry of Education (Soviet Union) Ministry of Education, founded as the People's Commissariat for Education but commonly called Narkompros , was the Soviet agency charged with the administration of public education and most of other issues related to culture. In 1946, it was renamed the Ministry of Education. Its first head was... |
Mikhail Prokofjev | 3 August 1966 – 14 June 1970 |
| Minister of Higher Education | Vjatsheslav Yeljutin | 3 August 1966 – 14 June 1970 |
| Minister of Finance | Vasily Garbuzov | 3 August 1966 – 14 June 1970 |
| Minister of Commerce | Aleksandr Strujev | 3 August 1966 – 14 June 1970 |
| 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... |
3 August 1966 – 31 March 1967 |
| Andrei Grechko Andrei Grechko Andrei Antonovich Grechko was a Soviet general, Marshal of the Soviet Union and Minister of Defense.-Biography:Born in a small town near Rostov-on-Don, the son of Ukrainian peasants, he joined the Red Army in 1919, where he was a part of the legendary “Budyonny Cavalry”... |
12 April – 14 June 1970 | |
| 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 | 3 August 1966 – 31 March 1967 |
| 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... |
Boris Petrovski | 3 August 1966 – 7 July 1970 |
| Minister of Agriculture | Vladimir Matskevich | 3 August 1966 – 7 July 1970 |
| Minister of Geology | Aleksandr Sidorenko | 3 August 1966 – 7 July 1970 |
| Minister of Energy and Electrification | Pyotr Neporozhny | 3 August 1966 – 7 July 1970 |
| Minister of Civil Aviation | Yevgeni Loginov | 3 August 1966 – 20 May 1970 |
| Boris Bugajev | 20 May 1970 – 7 July 1970 | |
| Minister of Ferrous Metallurgy | Ivan Kazanetz | 3 August 1966 – 7 July 1970 |
| Minister of Coal Industry | Boris Bratshenko | 3 August 1966 – 7 July 1970 |
| Minister of Chemical Industry | Leonid Kostandov | 3 August 1966 – 7 July 1970 |
| Minister of Oil Industry | Valentin Shashin | 3 August 1966 – 7 July 1970 |
| Minister of Oil and Petrochemical Industry | Viktor Fjodorov | 3 August 1966 – 7 July 1970 |
| Minister of Timber and Wood Processing Industry | Nikolai Timofjejev | 3 August 1966 – 7 July 1970 |
| Minister of Building Materials Industry | Ivan Grishmanov | 3 August 1966 – 7 July 1970 |
| Minister of Light Industry | Nikolai Tarasov | 3 August 1966 – 7 July 1970 |
| Minister of Food Industry | Vasili Zotov | 3 August 1966 – 16 January 1970 |
| Voldemar Lein | 16 January – 7 July 1970 | |
| Minister of Fish Industry | Aleksandr Ishkov | 3 August 1966 – 7 July 1970 |
| Minister of Meat and Dairy Industry | Sergei Antonov | 3 August 1966 – 7 July 1970 |
| Minister of Heavy and Transport Machines Construction | Vladimir Zhigalin | 3 August 1966 – 7 July 1970 |
| Minister of Construction of Tool-Machines | Anatoli Kostousov | 3 August 1966 – 7 July 1970 |
| Minister of Construction, Road Building and Communal Machines | Jefim Novosjelov | 3 August 1966 – 7 July 1970 |
| Minister of Tractors and Agricultural Machines | Ivan Sinizyn | 3 August 1966 – 7 July 1970 |
| Minister of Automobile Industry | Aleksandr Tarasov | 3 August 1966 – 7 July 1970 |
| Minister of Construction of Petrochemical Machinery | Konstantin Brekhov | 3 August 1966 – 7 July 1970 |
| Minister of Electrical Engineering | Aleksei Antonov | 3 August 1966 – 7 July 1970 |
| Minister of Instrument-Making, Automation and Control Systems | Konstantin Rudnev | 3 August 1966 – 7 July 1970 |
| Minister of Machine Building for Light and Food Industries | Vasili Doyenin | 3 August 1966 – 7 July 1970 |
| Minister of Assembling and Special Construction | Fuad Jakubowski | 3 August 1966 – 7 July 1970 |
| Minister of Land Reclamation and Water Conservancy | Yevgeni Aleksejevski | 3 August 1966 – 7 July 1970 |
| Minister of Gas Industry | Aleksei Kortunov | 3 August 1966 – 7 July 1970 |
| Minister of General Machine Building | Sergei Afanasjev | 3 August 1966 – 7 July 1970 |
| 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... |
3 August 1966 – 7 July 1970 |
| Minister of Electronic Industry | Aleksandr Shokin | 3 August 1966 – 7 July 1970 |
| Minister of Defence Industry | Sergei Sverov | 3 August 1966 – 7 July 1970 |
| Minister of Housing and Architecture | Mikhail Pozokhin | 3 August 1966 – 7 July 1970 |
| Minister of Construction of Heavy Industry | Nikolai Goldin | 21 February 1967 – 7 July 1970 |
| Minister of Industrial Construction | Aleksandr Tokarjev | 21 February 1967 – 7 July 1970 |
| Minister of Agricultural Construction | Stepan Khitrov | 21 February 1967 – 7 July 1970 |
| Minister of Construction | Georgi Karavajev | 21 February 1967 – 7 July 1970 |
| Minister of Medical Industry | Pyotr Gusenko | 25 April 1967 – 7 July 1970 |
| Minister of Machine Building | Vjatsheslav Bakhirov | 5 February 1968 – 7 July 1970 |
| Minister of Cellulose and Paper Industry | Konstantin Galantshin | 3 July 1968 – 7 July 1970 |
Committees
| Committee | Chairman | Period |
|---|---|---|
| Chairman of the People's Control Commission | Pavel Kovanov | 3 August 1966 – 14 July 1970 |
| 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... |
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... |
3 August 1966 – 14 July 1970 |
| 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 – 19 May 1967 |
| Yuri Andropov Yuri Andropov Yuri Vladimirovich Andropov was a Soviet politician and the General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union from 12 November 1982 until his death fifteen months later.-Early life:... |
19 May 1967 – 14 July 1970 |