Central Committee of the 15th Congress of the All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks) explained

Number:	Central Committee
of the 15th Congress
Start:	19 December 1927
End:	13 July 1930
Gs:	Joseph Stalin
Ss:	Vyacheslav Molotov
Ig:	Politburo 9 full & 10 candidates Secretariat: 8 full & 4 candidates Orgburo: 16 full & 9 candidates
Departments:	11
Full:	71 full
Candidates:	50 candidates (CC)
Previous:	14th
Next:	16th

The Central Committee (CC) composition was elected by the 15th Congress, and sat from 19 December 1927 until 13 July 1930. The CC 1st Plenary Session renewed the composition of the Politburo, Secretariat and the Organizational Bureau (OB) of the All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks).

Plenums

The CC was not a permanent institution. It convened plenary sessions, of which six CC plenary sessions and two joint CC–Central Control Commission (CCC) plenary sessions were held between the 15th Congress and the 16th Congress. When the CC was not in session, decision-making powers were transferred to inner bodies of the CC itself; the Politburo, Secretariat and Orgburo (none of these bodies were permanent either, but convened several times a months).

Plenum! scope="col"

Date	Length
1st Plenary Session	data-sort-value="1"	19 December 1927	1 day
1st Joint Plenary Session	data-sort-value="2"	6–11 April 1928	6 days
2nd Plenary Session	data-sort-value="3"	4–12 July 1928	9 days
3rd Plenary Session	data-sort-value="4"	16–24 November 1928	9 days
2nd Joint Plenary Session	data-sort-value="5"	16–23 April 1929	8 days
4th Plenary Session	data-sort-value="6"	29 April 1929	1 day
5th Plenary Session	data-sort-value="7"	21 June 1929	1 day
6th Plenary Session	data-sort-value="8"	10–17 November 1929	8 days

Apparatus

Individuals employed by Central Committee's bureaus, departments and newspapers made up the apparatus between the 15th Congress and the 16th Congress. The bureaus and departments were supervised by the Secretariat, and each secretary (member of the Secretariat) supervised a specific department. The leaders of departments were officially referred to as Heads, while the titles of bureau leaders varied between chairman, first secretary and secretary.

Institution! scope="col"

Leader	Cyrillic	Took office	Left office	Length of tenure	Nationality	Gender
Administrator of Affairs		Тимофей Самсонов	19 December 1927	13 July 1930		Ukrainian	Male
Agitation, Propaganda and Press Department		Александр Криницкий	19 December 1927	19 November 1929		Russian	Male
Agitation, Propaganda and Press Department		Алексей Стецкий	19 November 1929	1 May 1930		Russian	Male
Bolshevik		Никола́й Буха́рин	19 December 1927	April 1929		Russian	Male
Bolshevik		Вильгельм Кнорин	1930	13 July 1930		Latvian	Male
Culture and Propaganda Department		Алексей Стецкий	1 May 1930	13 July 1930		Russian	Male
Information Department		Лев Рошаль	19 December 1927	1928		Jewish^[1] ^[2] ^[3]	Male
Institute of Red Professors		Михаи́л Покро́вский	19 December 1927	13 July 1930		Russian	Male
Lenin Institute		Ива́н Скворцо́в-Степа́нов	19 December 1927	August 1928		Russian	Male
Lenin Institute		Максимилиан Савельев	August 1928	13 July 1930		Russian	Male
Party History Department	Vacant		19 December 1927	20 August 1928
Pravda		Никола́й Буха́рин	19 December 1927	April 1929		Russian	Male
Pravda	Editorial Board		April 1929	13 July 1930
Press Department	Sergei Gusev	Сергей Гусев	19 December 1927	March 1928		Jewish^[4]	Male
Press Department		Николай Смирнов	March 1928	May 1928		Russian	Male
Organizational-Distribution Department		Иван Москвин	19 December 1927	13 July 1930		Russian	Male
Secret Department		Иван Товстуха	19 December 1927	13 July 1930		Ukrainian	Male
Statistical Department		Елена Смиттен	19 December 1927	13 July 1930		Belarusian	Female
Work in the Countryside Department		Карл Бауман	19 December 1927	13 July 1930		Latvian	Male
Women's Department		Елена Смиттен	19 December 1927	13 July 1930		Russian	Female

Composition

Members

Name! scope="col" class="unsortable"

Cyrillic	14th CC	16th CC				Nationality	Gender	Portrait
	Иван Акулов	bgcolor = LightGreen		bgcolor = PeachPuff		1888	1937	1907	Russian	Male
	Андрей Андреев	bgcolor = Salmon		bgcolor = LightGreen		1895	1971	1914	Russian	Male
	Николай Антипов	bgcolor = Salmon		bgcolor = LightGreen		1894	1938	1912	Russian	Male
	Александра Артюхина	bgcolor = Salmon		bgcolor = PeachPuff		1889	1969	1910	Russian	Female
	Алексей Бадаев	bgcolor = Salmon		bgcolor = LightGreen		1883	1951	1904	Russian	Male
	Карл Бауман	bgcolor = Salmon		bgcolor = LightGreen		1892	1937	1907	Latvian	Male
	Андрей Бубнов	bgcolor = Salmon		bgcolor = LightGreen		1884	1938	1903	Russian	Male
	Никола́й Буха́рин	bgcolor = Salmon		bgcolor = LightGreen		1888	1938	1906	Russian	Male
	Георгий Чичерин	bgcolor = Salmon		bgcolor = PeachPuff		1872	1936	1918	Russian	Male
	Влас Чубар	bgcolor = Salmon		bgcolor = LightGreen		1891	1939	1907	Ukrainian	Male
	Михаил Чудов	bgcolor = Salmon		bgcolor = LightGreen		1893	1937	1913	Russian	Male
	Александр Догадов	bgcolor = Salmon		bgcolor = #B2FFFF		1888	1937	1905	Russian	Male
	Ян Гамарник	bgcolor = #B2FFFF		bgcolor = LightGreen		1894	1937	1916	Jewish^[5]	Male
	Филипп Голощёкин	bgcolor = #B2FFFF		bgcolor = LightGreen		1876	1941	1903	Jewish^[6]	Male
	Иван Кабаков	bgcolor = Salmon		bgcolor = LightGreen		1891	1937	1914	Russian	Male
	Лазарь Каганович	bgcolor = Salmon		bgcolor = LightGreen		1893	1991	1911	Jewish^[7] ^[8] ^[9]	Male
	Михаил Калинин	bgcolor = Salmon		bgcolor = LightGreen		1875	1946	1898	Russian	Male
	Куприян Киркиж	bgcolor = Salmon		bgcolor = PeachPuff		1886	1932	1910	Belarusian	Male
	Серге́й Ки́ров	bgcolor = Salmon		bgcolor = LightGreen		1886	1934	1904	Russian	Male
	Вильгельм Кнорин	bgcolor = LightGreen		bgcolor = LightGreen		1890	1938	1910	Latvian	Male
	Николай Колотилов	bgcolor = Salmon		bgcolor = LightGreen		1885	1937	1903	Russian	Male
	Николай Комаров	bgcolor = Salmon		bgcolor = LightGreen		1886	1937	1909	Russian	Male
	Иосиф Косиор	bgcolor = #B2FFFF		bgcolor = LightGreen		1889	1937	1908	Polish	Male
	Станислав Косиор	bgcolor = Salmon		bgcolor = LightGreen		1889	1939	1907	Polish	Male
	Василий Котов	bgcolor = Salmon		bgcolor = PeachPuff		1885	1937	1915	Russian	Male
	Наде́жда Кру́пская	bgcolor = LightGreen		bgcolor = LightGreen		1869	1939	1898	Russian	Female
	Глеб Кржижано́вский	bgcolor = Salmon		bgcolor = LightGreen		1872	1959	1898	Polish-German^[10]	Male
	Николай Кубяк	bgcolor = Salmon		bgcolor = LightGreen		1881	1937	1898	Russian	Male
	Егор Куликов	bgcolor = Salmon		bgcolor = PeachPuff		1891	1943	1910	Russian	Male
	Валериан Куйбышев	bgcolor = Salmon		bgcolor = LightGreen		1888	1935	1904	Russian	Male
	Эммануил Квиринг	bgcolor = Salmon		bgcolor = LightGreen		1888	1937	1912	Volga German	Male
	Иван Лепсе	bgcolor = Salmon		bgcolor = LightYellow		1889	1929	1906	Latvian	Male
	Семён Лобов	bgcolor = Salmon		bgcolor = LightGreen		1888	1937	1913	Russian	Male
	Исидор Любимов	bgcolor = #B2FFFF		bgcolor = LightGreen		1882	1937	1902	Russian	Male
	Дмитро Мануїльський	bgcolor = Salmon		bgcolor = LightGreen		1883	1959	1903	Ukrainian	Male
	Алексей Медведев	bgcolor = Salmon		bgcolor = PeachPuff		1884	1937	1904	Russian	Male
	Вячеслав Менжинский	bgcolor = LightGreen		bgcolor = PeachPuff		1874	1934	1902	Polish	Male
	Василий Михайлов	bgcolor = Salmon		bgcolor = #B2FFFF		1894	1937	1915	Russian	Male
	Анастас Микоян	bgcolor = Salmon		bgcolor = LightGreen		1895	1978	1915	Armenian	Male
	Вячеслав Молотов	bgcolor = Salmon		bgcolor = LightGreen		1890	1986	1906	Russian	Male
	Иван Москвин	bgcolor = #B2FFFF		bgcolor = LightGreen		1890	1937	1911	Russian	Male
	Георгий Оппоков	bgcolor = #B2FFFF		bgcolor = LightGreen		1888	1938	1903	Russian	Male
	Мамия Орахелашвили	bgcolor = Salmon		bgcolor = LightGreen		1888	1937	1903	Georgian	Male
	Григо́рій Петро́вський	bgcolor = Salmon		bgcolor = LightGreen		1878	1958	1898	Ukrainian	Male
	Осип Пятницкий	bgcolor = LightGreen		bgcolor = LightGreen		1882	1938	1898	Jewish^[11]	Male
	Григо́рій Петро́вський	bgcolor = #B2FFFF		bgcolor = LightGreen		1887	1939	1904	Russian	Male
	Ян Рудзутак	bgcolor = Salmon		bgcolor = LightGreen		1887	1938	1906	Latvian	Male
	Моисей Рухимович	bgcolor = Salmon		bgcolor = LightGreen		1889	1937	1913	Jewish^[12]	Male
	Иван Румянцев	bgcolor = Salmon		bgcolor = LightGreen		1886	1937	1905	Russian	Male
	Алексей Рыков	bgcolor = Salmon		bgcolor = LightGreen		1881	1938	1899	Russian	Male
	Сергей Чуцкаев	bgcolor = Salmon		bgcolor = #B2FFFF		1886	1938	1905	German^[13]	Male
	Исаак Шварц	bgcolor = Salmon		bgcolor = LightGreen		1879	1951	1899	Jewish^[14]	Male
	Николай Шверник	bgcolor = Salmon		bgcolor = LightGreen		1888	1970	1905	Russian	Male
	Микола Скрипник	bgcolor = #B2FFFF		bgcolor = LightGreen		1872	1933	1898	Ukrainian	Male
	Ива́н Скворцо́в-Степа́нов	bgcolor = Salmon		bgcolor = LightYellow		1878	1928	1898	Russian	Male
	Александр Смирнов	bgcolor = Salmon		bgcolor = LightGreen		1878	1938	1898	Russian	Male
	Григорий Сокольников	bgcolor = Salmon		bgcolor = #B2FFFF		1888	1938	1905	Jewish^[15] ^[16]	Male
	Ио́сиф Ста́лин	bgcolor = Salmon		bgcolor = LightGreen		1878	1953	1898	Georgian	Male
	Алексей Стецкий	bgcolor = LightGreen		bgcolor = LightGreen		1896	1938	1915	Russian	Male
	Константин Стриевский	bgcolor = #B2FFFF		bgcolor = LightGreen		1885	1938	1902	Belarusian	Male
	Даниил Сулимов	bgcolor = Salmon		bgcolor = LightGreen		1890	1937	1905	Russian	Male
	Сергей Сырцов	bgcolor = #B2FFFF		bgcolor = LightGreen		1893	1937	1913	Russian	Male
	Александр Толоконцев	bgcolor = Salmon		bgcolor = LightGreen		1889	1937	1914	Russian	Male
	Михаил Томский	bgcolor = Salmon		bgcolor = LightGreen		1880	1936	1904	Russian	Male
	Алекса́ндр Цюру́па	bgcolor = Salmon		bgcolor = LightYellow		1870	1928	1898	Ukrainian	Male
	Фёдор Угаров	bgcolor = #B2FFFF		bgcolor = LightGreen		1885	1932	1905	Russian	Male
	Николай Угланов	bgcolor = Salmon		bgcolor = PeachPuff		1886	1937	1907	Russian	Male
	Константин Уханов	bgcolor = Salmon		bgcolor = LightGreen		1891	1937	1907	Russian	Male
	Климент Ворошилов	bgcolor = Salmon		bgcolor = LightGreen		1881	1969	1903	Russian	Male
	Исаак Зеленский	bgcolor = Salmon		bgcolor = LightGreen		1890	1937	1906	Jewish^[17] ^[18]	Male
	Иван Жуков	bgcolor = Salmon		bgcolor = LightGreen		1889	1937	1909	Russian	Male

Candidates

Name! scope="col" class="unsortable"

Cyrillic	14th CC	16th CC				Nationality	Gender	Portrait
	Пётр Алексеев	bgcolor = LightGreen		bgcolor = LightGreen		1893	1937	1914	Russian	Male
	Наум Анцелович	bgcolor = LightGreen		bgcolor = PeachPuff		1888	1952	1905	Jewish	Male
	Пётр Баранов	bgcolor = LightGreen		bgcolor = #B2FFFF		1892	1933	1912	Russian	Male
	Николай Брюханов	bgcolor = LightGreen		bgcolor = #B2FFFF		1878	1938	1902	Russian	Male
	Николай Чаплин	bgcolor = #B2FFFF		bgcolor = #B2FFFF		1902	1938	1919	Russian	Male
	Сергей Чуцкаев	bgcolor = LightGreen		bgcolor = #B2FFFF		1876	1944	1903	Russian	Male
	Михаил Чувырин	bgcolor = LightGreen		bgcolor = LightGreen		1883	1947	1903	Russian	Male
	Роберт Эйхе	bgcolor = #B2FFFF		bgcolor = LightGreen		1890	1940	1906	Latvian	Male
	Шалва Элиава	bgcolor = LightGreen		bgcolor = #B2FFFF		1883	1937	1904	Georgian	Male
	Константин Гей	bgcolor = #B2FFFF		bgcolor = #B2FFFF		1896	1939	1916	German-Russian	Male
	Фёдор Грядинский	bgcolor = LightGreen		bgcolor = #B2FFFF		1893	1938	1912	Russian	Male
	Акмаль Икрамов	bgcolor = #B2FFFF		bgcolor = #B2FFFF		1898	1938	1918	Uzbek	Male
	Владимир Иванов	bgcolor = #B2FFFF		bgcolor = #B2FFFF		1893	1938	1915	Russian	Male
	Анна Калыгина	bgcolor = #B2FFFF		bgcolor = #B2FFFF		1895	1937	1915	Russian	Female
	Григорий Каминский	bgcolor = #B2FFFF		bgcolor = #B2FFFF		1895	1938	1913	Jewish^[19] ^[20]	Male
	Мендель Хатаевич	bgcolor = LightGreen		bgcolor = LightGreen		1893	1937	1913	Jewish	Male
	Алексей Киселёв	bgcolor = #B2FFFF		bgcolor = #B2FFFF		1879	1937	1898	Russian	Male
	Иван Клименко	bgcolor = #B2FFFF		bgcolor = #B2FFFF		1891	1937	1912	Russian	Male
	Иван Кодацкий	bgcolor = #B2FFFF		bgcolor = LightGreen		1893	1937	1914	Russian	Male
	Филимон Колгушкин	bgcolor = LightGreen		bgcolor = Thistle		1887	1937	1905	Russian	Male
	Тарас Кондратьев	bgcolor = #B2FFFF		bgcolor = PeachPuff		1892	1937	1913	Russian	Male
	Александр Криницкий	bgcolor = #B2FFFF		bgcolor = #B2FFFF		1894	1937	1915	Russian	Male
	Фёдор Леонов	bgcolor = LightGreen		bgcolor = LightGreen		1892	1938	1914	Russian	Male
	Филипп Локацков	bgcolor = LightGreen		bgcolor = PeachPuff		1881	1937	1904	Russian	Male
	Виссарион Ломинадзе	bgcolor = #B2FFFF		bgcolor = LightGreen		1897	1935	1917	Georgian	Male
	Соломон Лозовский	bgcolor = LightGreen		bgcolor = #B2FFFF		1892	1952	1901	Jewish	Male
	Александр Марков	bgcolor = #B2FFFF		bgcolor = PeachPuff		1877	1935	1898	Russian	Male
	Валерий Межлаук	bgcolor = LightGreen		bgcolor = #B2FFFF		1893	1938	1917	Latvian	Male
	Михаил Михайлов-Иванов	bgcolor = LightGreen		bgcolor = #B2FFFF		1894	1931	1913	Russian	Male
	Левон Мирзоян	bgcolor = LightGreen		bgcolor = #B2FFFF		1887	1939	1917	Armenian	Male
	Григорий Мельничанский	bgcolor = #B2FFFF		bgcolor = PeachPuff		1886	1937	1902	Jewish^[21]	Male
	Газанфар Мусабеков	bgcolor = #B2FFFF		bgcolor = #B2FFFF		1888	1938	1918	Azerbaijani	Male
	Клавдия Николаева	bgcolor = #B2FFFF		bgcolor = #B2FFFF		1893	1944	1909	Russian	Female
	Иван Носов	bgcolor = #B2FFFF		bgcolor = LightGreen		1888	1937	1905	Russian	Male
	Михаил Ошвинцев	bgcolor = LightGreen		bgcolor = #B2FFFF		1889	1939	1917	Russian	Male
	Валериан Оболенский	bgcolor = #B2FFFF		bgcolor = #B2FFFF		1882	1938	1907	Russian	Male
	Владимир Полонский	bgcolor = Salmon		bgcolor = #B2FFFF		1893	1937	1912	Russian	Male
	Константин Румянцев	bgcolor = #B2FFFF		bgcolor = #B2FFFF		1889	1939	1916	Russian	Male
	Кузьма Рындин	bgcolor = #B2FFFF		bgcolor = LightGreen		1893	1938	1915	Russian	Male
	Мартемья́н Рю́тин	bgcolor = LightGreen		bgcolor = PeachPuff		1890	1937	1914	Russian	Male
	Борис Семёнов	bgcolor = #B2FFFF		bgcolor = #B2FFFF		1890	1937	1907	Russian	Male
	Александр Серебровский	bgcolor = #B2FFFF		bgcolor = #B2FFFF		1884	1938	1903	Russian	Male
	Александр Серебровский	bgcolor = LightGreen		bgcolor = PeachPuff		1900	1939	1918	Russian	Male
	Василий Строганов	bgcolor = LightGreen		bgcolor = PeachPuff		1888	1938	1905	Russian	Male
	Кирилл Сухомлин	bgcolor = LightGreen		bgcolor = #B2FFFF		1886	1938	1905	Russian	Male
	Антон Цихон	bgcolor = LightGreen		bgcolor = LightGreen		1887	1939	1906	Belausian	Male
	Ио́сиф У́ншлихт	bgcolor = #B2FFFF		bgcolor = #B2FFFF		1879	1938	1907	Jewish^[22]	Male
	Михаил Урываев	bgcolor = #B2FFFF		bgcolor = #B2FFFF		1887	1937	1917	Russian	Male
	Иосиф Варейкис	bgcolor = #B2FFFF		bgcolor = LightGreen		1894	1938	1913	Lithuanian	Male
	Андрей Жданов	bgcolor = #B2FFFF		bgcolor = LightGreen		1896	1948	1915	Russian	Male

References

General

Plenary sessions, apparatus heads, ethnicity (by clicking on the individual names on "The Central Committee elected by the XVth Congress of the CPSU (b) 12.19.1927 members" reference), the Central Committee full- and candidate membership, Politburo membership, Secretariat membership and Orgburo membership were taken from these sources:

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