| Post: | Leaders |
| Body: | Communist Tuva |
| Insignia: | Coat of arms of the Tuvan ASSR (1978-1992).svg |
| Insigniasize: | 120px |
| Insigniacaption: | Emblem of the Tuvan ASSR |
| Seat: | Kyzyl |
| Appointer: | Politburo, Central Committee or any party apparatus (de facto) Parliamentary vote (de jure) |
| Formation: | 14/15 August 1921 |
| Abolished: | 25 December 1991 |
The following is a list of leaders of Communist Tuva, encompassing leaders of the Tuvan People's Republic, the Tuvan Autonomous Oblast (the Tuvan AO) and the Tuvan Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic (the Tuvan ASSR).
It lists heads of state, heads of government, heads of the Tuvan People's Revolutionary Party and of the local branch of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.
The Tuvan People's Republic was nominally a sovereign state[1] in 1921–44, but it was considered a satellite state of the Soviet Union (the Soviet Union and the Mongolian People's Republic were the only countries to recognize its independence[2] [3]).
In 1944, at the request of Tuva's Small People's Khural (parliament), the Tuvan People's Republic became a part of the Soviet Union as an autonomous oblast (the Tuvan AO) of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic (the Russian SFSR) by the decision of Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR.[4]
In 1961, the Tuvan AO became an autonomous soviet socialist republic (the Tuvan ASSR) of the Russian SFSR.
| Term | Name | |
|---|---|---|
| 1928–1930 | Sodnam Oorjak | |
| 1932–1934 | Tanchai Oyun | |
| 1933–1937 | Polat Oyun | |
| 1940–1941 | Nikolay Tovarishtay | |
| 1941–1943 | Shamir Erectol | |
| 1943–1944 | Kenden Lopsan | |
| Source: [5] | ||