The Presidential Council was created in March 1990 to replace the Politburo

Politburo

Politburo , literally "Political Bureau [of the Central Committee]," is the executive committee for a number of communist political parties.-Marxist-Leninist states:...

 as the major policymaking body in the USSR. According to article 127 in the Soviet constitution the job of the presidential council was "to implement the basic thrust of USSR's domestic and foreign policy and ensure the country's security". It was abolished in November 1990. Only the writer Valentin Rasputin

Valentin Rasputin

Valentin Grigoriyevich Rasputin is a Russian writer. He was born and lived much of his life in the Irkutsk Oblast in Eastern Siberia. Rasputin's works depict rootless urban characters and the fight for survival of centuries-old traditional rural ways of life...

 was a non-party member.

The members were as follows:

Name	Occupation
Chingiz Aitmatov	A Kyrgyz writer
Vadim Bakatin Vadim Bakatin Vadim Viktorovich Bakatin was a Soviet politician who served as the last chairman of the KGB in 1991. He is the last surviving former chairman of this organization...	Minister of Interior
Valery Boldin	Head of the Central Committee Central Committee Central Committee was the common designation of a standing administrative body of communist parties, analogous to a board of directors, whether ruling or non-ruling in the twentieth century and of the surviving, mostly Trotskyist, states in the early twenty first. In such party organizations the...  General Department
Nikolai Gubenko Nikolai Gubenko Nikolai Nikolaevich Gubenko is a Soviet actor, film director and screenwriter. He appeared in twelve films between 1964 and 1977. He also directed eight films between 1970 and 1988. His film Wounded Game, was entered into the 1977 Cannes Film Festival...	Minister of Culture of the Soviet Union
Albert Kauls	Chairman of the Adazhi agromdustnal combine (Latvian)
Vadim Medvedev
Yury Maslyukov	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...
Yury Osipian	Physicist Physicist A physicist is a scientist who studies or practices physics. Physicists study a wide range of physical phenomena in many branches of physics spanning all length scales: from sub-atomic particles of which all ordinary matter is made to the behavior of the material Universe as a whole...  and Vice Chairman of the USSR Academy of Sciences
Yevgeny Primakov Yevgeny Primakov Yevgeny Maksimovich Primakov is a Russian politician and diplomat. During his long career, he served as the Russian Foreign Minister, Prime Minister of Russia, Speaker of the Soviet of the Union of the Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union, and chief of intelligence service...	Chairman of the USSR Soviet of the Union Soviet of the Union Soviet of the Union , was one of the two chambers of the Supreme Soviet of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, elected on the basis of universal, equal and direct suffrage by secret ballot in accordance with the principles of Soviet democracy, and with the rule that there be one deputy for...
Valentin Rasputin Valentin Rasputin Valentin Grigoriyevich Rasputin is a Russian writer. He was born and lived much of his life in the Irkutsk Oblast in Eastern Siberia. Rasputin's works depict rootless urban characters and the fight for survival of centuries-old traditional rural ways of life...	A nationalist writer
Grigory Revenko	The head of the president's staff (Ukrainian)
Alexander Yakovlev Alexander Nikolaevich Yakovlev Alexander Nikolaevich Yakovlev was a Soviet politician and historian who was a Soviet governmental official in the 1980s and a member of the Politburo and Secretariat of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union...	A senior secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union Communist Party of the Soviet Union The Communist Party of the Soviet Union was the only legal, ruling political party in the Soviet Union and one of the largest communist organizations in the world...
Nikolai Ryzhkov Nikolai Ryzhkov Nikolai Ivanovich Ryzhkov was a Soviet official who became a Russian politician following the dissolution of the Soviet Union. He served as the last Chairman of the Council of Ministers or Premier of the Soviet Union from 1985 to 1991...	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
Stanislav Shatalin	Economist
Eduard Shevardnadze Eduard Shevardnadze Eduard Shevardnadze is a former Soviet, and later, Georgian statesman from the height to the end of the Cold War. He served as President of Georgia from 1995 to 2003, and as First Secretary of the Georgian Communist Party , from 1972 to 1985. Shevardnadze was responsible for many top decisions on...	Foreign Minister of the Soviet Union (Georgian)
Gennady Yanayev Gennady Yanayev Gennady Ivanovich Yanayev was a Soviet Russian politician and statesman whose career spanned the rules of Khrushchev, Brezhnev, Andropov and Chernenko, and culminated during the Gorbachev years. Yanayev was born in Perevoz, Gorky Oblast...	Vice President of the Soviet Union
Venyamin Yarin	Chairman of the United Workers Front
Dmitry Yazov Dmitry Yazov Dmitry Timofeyevich Yazov was the last Marshal of the Soviet Union to be appointed before the collapse of the Soviet Union . He was the only Marshal of the Soviet Union to be born in Siberia....	Marshal Marshal of the Soviet Union Marshal of the Soviet Union was the de facto highest military rank of the Soviet Union. ....  and Minister of Defence of Soviet Union Minister of Defence of Soviet Union -List of defence ministers:-See also:* Heads of military of Imperial Russia* Defence Ministry of the Russian Federation...