Leningrad City Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union explained

The Leningrad City Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, commonly referred to as the Leningrad CPSU gorkom, was the position of highest authority in the city of Leningrad (until January 26, 1924, Petrograd) roughly equating to that of mayor. The position was created in March 1918, and abolished on August 24, 1991. The First Secretary was a de facto appointed position usually by the Politburo or the General Secretary himself. Until the abolition of the CPSU monopoly on power on March 14, 1990, he had actual power in Leningrad.

First Secretaries

NameTerm of OfficeLife years
StartEnd
Pyotr ZaslavskyMarch 1918April 19191890–1967
Moisey KharitonovApril 1919November 19191887–1948
Sergey ZorinNovember 1919February 19211891–1937
Nikolay UglanovFebruary 21, 1921December 14, 19211886–1937
Ivan SmirnovDecember 15, 1921March 19221881–1936
Pyotr ZalutskyMarch 1922December 19251888–1937
Grigory EvdokimovDecember 1925January 7, 1926 1884–1936
Sergei KirovJanuary 8, 1926December 1, 19341886–1934
Andrei ZhdanovDecember 15, 1934January 17, 19451896–1948
Alexey KuznetsovJanuary 17, 1945March 8, 19461905–1950
Pyotr PopkovMarch 9, 1946February 15, 19491903–1950
Vasily AndrianovFebruary 22, 1949January 19, 19501902–1978
Frol KozlovJanuary 19, 1950July 8, 19521908–1965
Aleksey AlekseyevJuly 8, 1952April 1, 19531911–
Nikolay IgnatovApril 1, 1953November 25, 19531901–1966
Ivan ZamchevskyNovember 25, 1953July 27, 19561909–1979
Ivan SpiridonovJuly 27, 1956December 24, 19571905–1991
Nikolay RodionovDecember 24, 1957January 8, 19601915–1999
Georgy PopovJanuary 9, 1960February 12, 19711912–
Boris AristovFebruary 13, 1971April 19, 19781925–
Yury SolovyovApril 19, 1978March 12, 19841925–2011
Anatoly DumachevMarch 12, 1984January 17, 19861932–2004
Anatoly GerasimovJanuary 17, 1986November 21, 19891931–
Boris GidaspovNovember 21, 1989August 24, 19911939–2007

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