The Administrator of Affairs of the Council of People's Commissars of the Soviet Union and Council of Labour and Defense (Russian: Управляющие делами Совета Народных Комиссаров Союза ССР и Совета Труда и Обороны),[1] [2] or Secretary to the Premier, was a high-standing officer within the Soviet Government whose main task was to co-sign, with the Premier of the Soviet Union, decrees and resolutions made by the All-Union government. The government apparatus (office of government affairs, Russian: Управление Делами Совета Народных Комиссаров Союза ССР) prepared items of policy, which the office holder would check systematically against decrees of the Party-Government. This function consisted of several departments and other structural units. The Soviet government apparatus was headed by the Administrator of Affairs who, in accordance with the established order, was a member of the federal government body.[3]
| Holder | Tenure | Premier | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Administrator of Affairs of the Council of People's Commissars (1922–1946) | ||
| Nikolai Gorbunov | 17 July 1923 – 29 December 1930 | Vladimir Lenin | |
| Alexey Rykov | |||
| Vyacheslav Molotov | |||
| 2 | Platon Kerzhentsev | 29 December 1930 – 23 March 1933 | Vyacheslav Molotov |
| 3 | 23 March 1933 – 29 March 1937 | Vyacheslav Molotov | |
| 4 | 29 March 1937 – 31 July 1937 | Vyacheslav Molotov | |
| 5 | 31 July 1937 – 5 November 1938 | Vyacheslav Molotov | |
| 6 | Ivan Bolshakov | 17 December 1938 – 4 June 1939 | Vyacheslav Molotov |
| 7 | 10 June 1939 – 14 November 1940 | Vyacheslav Molotov | |
| 8 | 14 November 1940 – 15 March 1946 | Vyacheslav Molotov | |
| Joseph Stalin | |||
| Administrator of Affairs of the Council of Ministers (1946–1991) | |||
| 19 March 1946 – 13 March 1949 | Joseph Stalin | ||
| 9 | Mikhail Pomaznev | 13 March 1949 – 29 June 1953 | Joseph Stalin |
| Georgy Malenkov | |||
| 10 | Anatoly Korobov | 29 June 1953 – 1 July 1958 | Georgy Malenkov |
| Nikolai Bulganin | |||
| Nikita Khrushchev | |||
| 11 | Pyotr Demichev | 1 July 1958 – 3 March 1959 | Nikita Khrushchev |
| 12 | George Stepanov | 18 March 1959 – 22 October 1964 | Nikita Khrushchev |
| Alexei Kosygin | |||
| 13 | Mikhail Smirtyukov | 18 December 1964 – 7 June 1989 | Alexei Kosygin |
| Nikolai Tikhonov | |||
| Nikolai Ryzhkov | |||
| 14 | Mikhail Shkabardnya | 7 June 1989 – 21 March 1991 | Nikolai Ryzhkov |
| 15 | Administrative Director of the Cabinet of Ministers (1991) | ||
| Igor Prostiakov | 21 March 1991 – 26 November 1991 | Valentin Pavlov | |
| Ivan Silayev | |||