Kaliningrad Regional Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union

The Kaliningrad Regional Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, commonly referred to as the Kaliningrad CPSU obkom, was the position of highest authority in the Kaliningrad Oblast,[nb 1] in the Russian SFSR of the Soviet Union. The position was created on April 7, 1946, and abolished on August 23, 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 Kaliningrad

Name Term of Office Life years
Start End
First Secretaries of the Oblast Committee of the Communist Party
Pyotr Ivanov[a] April 7, 1946 June 18, 1947 1906–1947
Vladimir Scherbakov June 18, 1947 July 4, 1951 1909–1985
Vasily Chernyshev July 4, 1951 May 22, 1959 1908–1969
Fyodor Markov May 22, 1959 June 10, 1961 1910–1978
Nikolay Konovalov June 10, 1961 January 14, 1984 1907–1993
Dmitry Romanin January 14, 1984 September 7, 1989 1929–1996
Yury Semyonov September 7, 1989 August 23, 1991 1938–2024

See also

Notes

  1. ^ Acting

Footnote

  1. ^ Until 1945, Kaliningrad Oblast was the northern part of former German Province of East Prussia, in the Free State of Prussia

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