Sakhalin Regional Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union explained

The Sakhalin Regional Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, commonly referred to as the Sakhalin CPSU obkom, was the position of highest authority in the Sakhalin Oblast,^[1] in the Russian SFSR of the Soviet Union. The position was created in July 1925, and abolished in August 1991. The First Secretary was a de facto appointed position usually by the Politburo or the General Secretary himself.

List of First Secretaries of the Communist Party of Sakhalin

Name	Term of Office		Life years
	Start	End
First Secretaries of the Okrug Committee of the Communist Party
Nikolay Rudakov	July 1925	June 1926
Nikolay Sedov	June 1926	April 1927
Filipp Konyukhov	April 1927	February 1930
Nikolay Ivanov	March 1930	October 20, 1932	1894–1938
First Secretaries of the Oblast Committee of the Communist Party
Nikolay Ivanov	October 20, 1932	April 17, 1934	1894–1938
Pavel Ulyansky	April 17, 1934	November 14, 1937	1898–1938
?	November 14, 1937	March 4, 1938
Fyodor Bespalko	March 4, 1938	September 24, 1938	1901–?
Grigoriy Shatalin	February 9, 1939	June 21, 1940	1911–?
	June 21, 1940	December 8, 1943	1909–1988
Ivan Chizhov	December 8, 1943	August 4, 1945	1899–?
Dmitriy Melnik	August 4, 1945	June 15, 1951	1912–1969
Pyotr Cheplakov	June 15, 1951	August 25, 1960	1906–1985
Pavel Leonov	August 1960	December 23, 1978	1918–1992
Pyotr Tretyakov	December 23, 1978	June 17, 1988	1927–
Viktor Bondarchuk	June 17, 1988	October 24, 1989	1936–
Viktor Zhigailo	October 24, 1989	August 1991	1940–

See also

• Sakhalin Oblast

Notes and References

1. Until 1945, the Sakhalin Oblast encompassed only the northern part of the island of Sakhalin. The southern part was ruled by the Empire of Japan, as the Karafuto Prefecture