Tikhonov's Second Government
Encyclopedia
The former government
of Nikolai Tikhonov
was dissolved following the Soviet legislative election
of 1984 which gave a clear majority in favour of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union
. Tikhonov's government was dissolved in 1985 when Mikhail Gorbachev
replaced him with Nikolai Ryzhkov
as Premier.
Tikhonov's First Government
The former government of Alexei Kosygin was dissolved following his resignation in October 1980. Nikolai Tikhonov took over the office of the Premier. The government was dissolved following the nationwide 1984 legislative election.-Ministries:-Committees:...
of 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...
was dissolved following the Soviet legislative election
Soviet Union legislative election, 1984
On 4 March 1984, 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 .In the...
of 1984 which gave a clear majority in favour 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...
. Tikhonov's government was dissolved in 1985 when Mikhail Gorbachev
Mikhail Gorbachev
Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev is a former Soviet statesman, having served as General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union from 1985 until 1991, and as the last head of state of the USSR, having served from 1988 until its dissolution in 1991...
replaced him with 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...
as Premier.
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 |
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... |
11 April 1984 – 27 September 1985 |
| First Deputy Chairman of the Council of Ministers | Heydar Aliyev Heydar Aliyev Heydar Alirza oglu Aliyev , also spelled as Heidar Aliev, Geidar Aliev, Haydar Aliyev, Geydar Aliyev was the third President of Azerbaijan for the New Azerbaijan Party from June 1993 to October 2003, when his son Ilham Aliyev succeeded him.From 1969 till 1982, Aliyev was also the leader of Soviet... |
11 April 1984 – 27 September 1985 |
| Ivan Arkhipov Ivan Arkhipov Ivan Vasilyevich Arkhipov , – Moscow, 28 February 1998) was a Soviet-Russian statesman who was First Deputy of the Council of Ministers from 1980 to 1986.-Honours and awards:* Hero of Socialist Labour * Five Orders of Lenin... |
11 April 1984 – 27 September 1985 | |
| 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... |
11 April 1984 – 2 July 1985 | |
| Deputy Chairman of the Council of Ministers | 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... |
11 April 1984 – 27 September 1985 |
| Venyamin Dymshits | 11 April 1984 – 27 September 1985 | |
| Nikolai Talyzin Nikolai Talyzin Nikolai Vladimirovich Talyzin was a Soviet statesman, economist and head of the Gosplan, or the State Planning Committee.... |
11 April 1984 – 27 September 1985 | |
| Leonid Kostandov | 11 April 1984 – 5 September 1985 | |
| Yakov Ryabov | 11 April 1984 – 27 September 1985 | |
| Juri Marchuk | 11 April 1984 – 27 September 1985 | |
| Nikolai Martynov | 11 April 1984 – 27 September 1985 | |
| Aleksei Antonov Aleksei Antonov Aleksei Innokentievich Antonov was a General of the Soviet Army, awarded the Order of Victory for his efforts in World War II.-Career:... |
11 April 1984 – 27 September 1985 | |
| Ziya Nurijev | 11 April 1984 – 27 September 1985 | |
| 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... |
11 April 1984 – 27 September 1985 | |
| Ivan Bodyul | 11 April 1984 – 27 September 1985 | |
| Boris Shcherbina | 11 April 1984 – 27 September 1985 | |
| Minister of Agriculture Construction | Viktor Danilenko | 11 April 1984 – 27 September 1985 |
| Minister of Agricultural Products Procurement | Grigori Zolotukhin | 11 April 1984 – 27 September 1985 |
| Minister of Agriculture | Valentin Mesyats | 11 April 1984 – 27 September 1985 |
| Minister of Aviation Industry | Ivan Silayev Ivan Silayev Ivan Stepanovich Silayev is a former Soviet official who became a Russian politician following the dissolution of the Soviet Union. He served as Premier of the Soviet Union through the offices of Chairman of the Interstate Economic Committee and Chairman of the Committee on the Operational... |
11 April 1984 – 27 September 1985 |
| Minister of Assembling and Special Construction | Boris Bakin | 11 April 1984 – 27 September 1985 |
| Minister of Automobile Industry | Viktor Poljakov | 11 April 1984 – 27 September 1985 |
| Minister of Building Material Industry | Aleksei Jasin | 11 April 1984 – 15 July 1985 |
| Sergei Voyenushkin | 15 July – 27 September 1985 | |
| Minister of Chemical Industry | Vladimir Listov | 11 April 1984 – 27 September 1985 |
| Minister of Civil Aviation | Boris Bugajev | 11 April 1984 – 27 September 1985 |
| Minister of Coal Industry | Boris Bratshenko | 11 April 1984 – 27 September 1985 |
| 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... |
Vasily Shamshin | 11 April 1984 – 27 September 1985 |
| Minister of Construction | Georgi Karavajev | 11 April 1984 – 27 September 1985 |
| Minister of Construction the Far East and Transbaikal Region | Aleksandr Babenko | 11 April 1984 – 27 September 1985 |
| Ministry of Constructuction of Heavy Industry | Nikolai Goldin | 11 April 1984 – 27 September 1985 |
| Minister of Construction of Oil and Gas Industry | Boris Shcherbina | 11 April 1984 – 27 September 1985 |
| Minister of Construction of Petrochemical Machinery | Konstantin Brekhov | 11 April 1984 – 27 September 1985 |
| Minister of Construction of Power Plants | Vladimir Velichko Vladimir Velichko Vladimir Makarovich Velichko was a Soviet official and entrepreneur appointed as the First Deputy Prime Minister of the Cabinet of Ministers in 1991.-Life and career:... |
11 April 1984 – 27 September 1985 |
| Minister of Construction, Road Building and Communal Machines | Vitali Chudin | 11 April 1984 – 2 August 1985 |
| Jevgeni Varnachev | 2 August – 27 September 1985 | |
| 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... |
Pyotr Demichev Pyotr Demichev Pyotr Nilovich Demichev was a Soviet-Russian political figure; First Deputy Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet from 1986 to 1988 and Minister of Culture from 1974 to 1986.... |
11 April 1984 – 27 September 1985 |
| Minister of Defence | 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... |
11 April 1984 – 22 December 1984 |
| Sergei Sokolov Sergei Sokolov Sergei Leonidovich Sokolov is a Soviet military commander.Sokolov served in the Battle of Lake Khasan during the Soviet-Japanese Border Wars and also served on the Eastern Front during World War II.... |
22 December 1984 – 27 September 1985 | |
| Minister of Defence Industry | Pavel Finogenov | 11 April 1984 – 27 September 1985 |
| 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 | 11 April – 21 December 1984 |
| Sergei Shcherbakov | 21 December 1984 – 27 September 1985 | |
| Minister of Electrical Engineering | Anatoli Mayorets | 11 April 1984 – 8 May 1985 |
| Gennady Voronovski | 8 May – 27 September 1985 | |
| Minister of Power and Electrification | Pyotr Neporozhny | 11 April 1984 – 23 March 1985 |
| Anatoli Mayorets | 23 March – 27 September 1985 | |
| Minister of Electronic Industry | Aleksandr Shokin | 11 April 1984 – 27 September 1985 |
| Minister of Finance | Vasily Garbuzov | 11 April 1984 – 27 September 1985 |
| Minister of Fish Industry | Vladimir Kamentsev | 11 April 1984 – 27 September 1985 |
| Minister of Food Industry | Voldemar Lein | 11 April 1984 – 27 September 1985 |
| Minister of Fruits and Vegetables | Nikolai Koslov | 11 April 1984 – 27 September 1985 |
| 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... |
11 April 1984 – 7 July 1985 |
| Eduard Shevarnadze | 7 July – 27 September 1985 | |
| Minister of Foreign Trade | Nikolai Patolitshev | 11 April 1984 – 27 September 1985 |
| Minister of Gas Industry | Sabit Orudzhev | 11 April 1984 – 13 February 1985 |
| Viktor Tshernomyrdin | 13 February – 27 September 1985 | |
| Minister of Geology | Jevgeni Kozlovski | 11 April 1984 – 27 September 1985 |
| 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 Burenkov | 11 April 1984 – 27 September 1985 |
| Minister of Heavy and Transport Construction | Sergei Afanasjev | 11 April 1984 – 27 September 1985 |
| Ministry of Higher Education | Vjatsheslav Yeljutin | 11 April 1984 – 16 July 1985 |
| Gennady Yogadin | 16 July – 27 September 1985 | |
| Ministry of Industrial Construction | Juri Solovjev | 11 April 1984 – 16 July 1985 |
| Arkadi Shchepetilnikov | 16 July – 27 September 1985 | |
| Minister of Instrument-Making, Automation and Control Systems | Mikhail Shkabardnya | 11 April 1984 – 27 September 1985 |
| Minister of Internal Affairs | Vitali Fedorchuk | 11 April 1984 – 27 September 1985 |
| Minister of Iron and Steel Industry | Ivan Kazanetz | 11 April 1984 – 16 July 1985 |
| Serafim Kolpakov | 16 July – 27 September 1985 | |
| Minister of Justice Ministry of Justice (Soviet Union) The Ministry of Justice 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 Justice... |
Boris Kravtsov | 11 April 1984 – 27 September 1985 |
| Minister of Land Reclamation and Water Conservancy | Nikolai Vasiljev | 11 April 1984 – 27 September 1985 |
| Minister of Light Industry | Nikolai Tarasov | 11 April 1984 – 6 July 1985 |
| Vladimir Klyuyev | 6 July – 27 September 1985 | |
| Minister of Machine Building | Vjatsheslav Bakhirov | 11 April 1984 – 27 September 1985 |
| Minister of Machine Building for Light and Food Industries | Ivan Pudkov | 11 April 1984 – 19 May 1984 |
| Lev Vasiljev | 19 May 1984 – 27 September 1985 | |
| Minister of Machinery for Stock Raising and Feeding | Konstantin Beljak | 11 April 1984 – 27 September 1985 |
| Minister of General Machine Building | Oleg Baklamov | 11 April 1984 – 27 September 1985 |
| Minister of Manufacture of Communication Media | Erien Pervyshin | 11 April 1984 – 27 September 1985 |
| Minister of Meat and Dairy Industry | Jevgeni Sizenko | 11 April 1984 – 27 September 1985 |
| Minister of Medical Industry | Afanasi Melnitshenko | 11 April 1984 – 27 September 1985 |
| Minister of Medium Machine Building | Yefim Slavski | 11 April 1984 – 27 September 1985 |
| Minister of Merchant Marine | Timofei Guzenko | 11 April 1984 – 27 September 1985 |
| Minister of Mineral Fertilizer Production | Aleksei Petrishchev | 11 April 1984 – 27 September 1985 |
| 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... |
11 April 1984 – 27 September 1985 |
| Minister of Oil Industry | Nikolai Maltsev | 11 April 1984 – 13 February 1985 |
| Vasili Dinkov | 13 February – 27 September 1985 | |
| Minister of Oil Processing and Petrochemical Industry | Viktor Fjodorov | 11 April 1984 – 27 September 1985 |
| Minister of Radio Industry | Pyotr Pleshakov | 11 April 1984 – 27 September 1985 |
| 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... |
Nikolai Konarjev | 11 April 1984 – 27 September 1985 |
| Minister of Shipbuilding | Igor Belousov | 11 April 1984 – 27 September 1985 |
| Ministry of Timber and Wood Processing Industry | Mikhail Busygin | 11 April 1984 – 27 September 1985 |
| Minister of Tractors and Agricultural Machines | Aleksandr Yezhevski | 11 April 1984 – 27 September 1985 |
| Minister of Trade, Home | Grigori Vashchenko | 11 April 1984 – 27 September 1985 |
| Minister of Transport Construction | Ivan Sosnov | 11 April 1984 – 8 May 1985 |
| Vladimir Brezhnev Vladimir Brezhnev Vladimir Brezhnev was an ice hockey player who played in the Soviet Hockey League. He played for HC CSKA Moscow. He was inducted into the Russian and Soviet Hockey Hall of Fame in 1965. He was born and died in Moscow.... |
8 May – 27 September 1985 |
Committees
| Committee | Chairman | Period |
|---|---|---|
| Chief Administrator of the Council of Ministers | Mikhail Smirtyukov | 11 April 1984 – 27 September 1985 |
| Chairman of the People's Control Commission | Aleksei Shkolnikov | 11 April 1984 – 27 September 1985 |
| 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... |
11 April 1984 – 27 September 1985 |
| 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) |
Viktor Chebrikov Viktor Chebrikov Viktor Mikhailovich Chebrikov ) was a Soviet Union public official and security administrator and head of the KGB from December 1982 to October 1988.... |
11 April 1984 – 27 September 1985 |