Administrator of Affairs of the Soviet Union

The Administrator of Affairs of the Soviet Union, 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 either the Council of People's Commissars (1922–1946), Council of Ministers (1946–1991) or the Cabinet of Ministers (1991). The government apparatus 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.^[1]

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	23 March 1933 – 29 March 1937	Vyacheslav Molotov
4	Mikhail Arbuzov	29 March 1937 – 31 July 1937	Vyacheslav Molotov
5	Nikolai Petrunichev	31 July 1937 – 5 November 1938	Vyacheslav Molotov
6	Ivan Bolshakov	17 December 1938 – 4 June 1939	Vyacheslav Molotov
7	Mikhail Hlomov	10 June 1939 – 14 November 1940	Vyacheslav Molotov
8	Jacob Chadeyev	14 November 1940 – 15 March 1946	Vyacheslav Molotov
			Joseph Stalin
	Administrator of Affairs of the Council of Ministers (1946–1991)
	Jacob Chadeyev	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	18 December 1964 – 7 June 1989	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. 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. ).