General Department of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union explained

General Department of the Central Committee of the CPSU
Native Name:	Общий отдел ЦК КПСС
Formation:	September 1920
Dissolved:	August 1991
Type:	Department directly reporting to the Central Committee
Vat Id:	(for non-profit org) -->
Headquarters:	Staraya Square, Moscow, Russian SFSR^[1]
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Leader Title:	Director
Leader Name:	Pavel Laptev (last)
Parent Organization:	Central Committee of the CPSU

The General Department of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union was a department of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union that oversaw the paperwork of all Central Committee institutions.

Heads

Office of the Presidium

• Nikolai Smirnov (12 September 1920  - 20 August 1922)
• Hamayak Nazaretyan (20 August 1922  - 1 November 1924)
• Lev Mekhlis (1 November 1924  - 22 January 1926)
• Ivan Tovstukha (22 January 1926  - 16 July 1930)
• Alexander Poskrebyshev (16 July 1930  - 15 August 1952)
• Dmitri Sukhanov (15 August 1952  - 20 February 1955)

General Department

• Vladimir Malin (20 February 1955  - 30 August 1965)
• Konstantin Chernenko (30 August 1965  - 12 November 1982)
• Klavdii Bogolyubov (12 November 1982  - 24 May 1985)
• Anatoly Lukyanov (24 May 1985  - 17 January 1987)
• Valery Boldin (17 January 1987  - 3 May 1991)
• Pavel Laptev (3 May 1991  - 29 August 1991)

See also

• General Office of the Communist Party of China

Notes and References

1. Web site: Аппарат ЦК КПСС в 1953—1985 годах как пример «закрытого» общества. magazines.russ.ru. The Journal Hall in RJ. 1 March 2018.