Administrator of Affairs of the Soviet Union

The Administrator of Affairs of the Council of People's Commissars of the Soviet Union and Council of Labour and Defense (Russian: Управляющие делами Совета Народных Комиссаров Союза ССР и Совета Труда и Обороны),^[1][2] or Secretary to the Premier, was a high-standing officer within the Soviet Government whose main task was to co-sign, with the Premier of the Soviet Union, decrees and resolutions made by the All-Union government. The government apparatus (office of government affairs, Russian: Управление Делами Совета Народных Комиссаров Союза ССР) prepared items of policy, which the office holder would check systematically against decrees of the Party-Government. This function consisted of several departments and other structural units. The Soviet government apparatus was headed by the Administrator of Affairs who, in accordance with the established order, was a member of the federal government body.^[3]

List of administrators

# [note 1]	Holder	Tenure	Premier
1	Administrator of Affairs of the Council of People's Commissars (1922–1946)
	Nikolai Gorbunov	17 July 1923 – 29 December 1930	Vladimir Lenin
			Alexey Rykov
			Vyacheslav Molotov
2	Platon Kerzhentsev	29 December 1930 – 23 March 1933	Vyacheslav Molotov
3	Ivan Miroshnikov [ru]	23 March 1933 – 29 March 1937	Vyacheslav Molotov
4	Mikhail Arbuzov [ru]	29 March 1937 – 31 July 1937	Vyacheslav Molotov
5	Nikolay Petrunichev [ru]	31 July 1937 – 5 November 1938	Vyacheslav Molotov
6	Ivan Bolshakov	17 December 1938 – 4 June 1939	Vyacheslav Molotov
7	Mikhail Khlomov [ru]	10 June 1939 – 14 November 1940	Vyacheslav Molotov
8	Yakov Chadayev [ru]	14 November 1940 – 15 March 1946	Vyacheslav Molotov
			Joseph Stalin
	Administrator of Affairs of the Council of Ministers (1946–1991)
	Yakov Chadayev [ru]	19 March 1946 – 13 March 1949	Joseph Stalin
9	Mikhail Pomaznev	13 March 1949 – 29 June 1953	Joseph Stalin
			Georgy Malenkov
10	Anatoly Korobov	29 June 1953 – 1 July 1958	Georgy Malenkov
			Nikolai Bulganin
			Nikita Khrushchev
11	Pyotr Demichev	1 July 1958 – 3 March 1959	Nikita Khrushchev
12	George Stepanov	18 March 1959 – 22 October 1964	Nikita Khrushchev
			Alexei Kosygin
13	Mikhail Smirtyukov	18 December 1964 – 7 June 1989	Alexei Kosygin
			Nikolai Tikhonov
			Nikolai Ryzhkov
14	Mikhail Shkabardnya	7 June 1989 – 21 March 1991	Nikolai Ryzhkov
15	Administrative Director of the Cabinet of Ministers (1991)
	Igor Prostiakov	21 March 1991 – 26 November 1991	Valentin Pavlov
			Ivan Silayev

Notes

1. These numbers are not official.

References

1. Collection of laws and instructions of the Workers-Peasant Government of the Soviet Union for 1930 (Собрание законов и распоряжений Рабоче-Крестьянского Правительства СССР за 1930 г.) Archived 2021-01-18 at the Wayback Machine. istmat.info.
2. Collection of laws and instructions of the Workers-Peasant Government of the Soviet Union for 1930 (СОБРАНИЕ ЗАКОНОВ И РАСПОРЯЖЕНИЙ РАБОЧЕ-КРЕСТЬЯНСКОГО ПРАВИТЕЛЬСТВА СОЮЗА СОВЕТСКИХ СОЦИАЛИСТИЧЕСКИХ РЕСПУБЛИК. 1930, № 22). Yeltsin Presidential Library (www.prlib.ru).
3. Кабинет Министров СССР. 5 июля 1978 «ЗАКОН О СОВЕТЕ МИНИСТРОВ СССР». (Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union. 5 July 1978 Law of the Council of Ministers of the USSR. ).