General Department of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union
# General Department of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union

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)
