Central Committee elected by the 16th Congress of the All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks)

The Central Committee (CC) composition was elected by the 16th Congress, and sat from 13 July 1930 until 10 February 1934. Its 1st Plenary Session renewed the composition of the Politburo, Secretariat and the Orgburo of the All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks). The 16th Congress was the first party convention since the 13th Congress which saw no organized opposition, and the first congress in party history in which there was no opposition to the party leadership.^[1] Ukrainian historian Oleg Khlevniuk considers the period 1930–1934 to be a "transitional period" between collective leadership (referred to interchangeably by him as oligarchy) and Joseph Stalin's personal dictatorship (autocracy).^[2] The removal of Alexei Rykov, the Chairman of the Council of People's Commissars (SNK, the Soviet government), from the Politburo at the 1st Joint Plenary Session of the CC and the Central Control Commission (CCC) has been marked in historic literature as "the definitive Stalinization of that body [Politburo]" according to Khlevniuk.^[3]

The Central Committee elected Stalin General Secretary of the Central Committee at its 1st Plenary Session.^[4] Vyacheslav Molotov served as Stalin's deputy, an informal post referred to by Sovietologists as Second Secretary, and was empowered to manage party business and sign Politburo resolutions when Stalin was away from Moscow.^[4] Upon Molotov's appointment as SNK Chairman in December 1930, Lazar Kaganovich took his place as Second Secretary.^[5]

This Central Committee composition led the party and the country through the first five-year plan, Syrtsov–Lominadze affair, dekulakization, collectivization of agriculture, Ryutin Affair, Soviet famine of 1932–33 (which has led to accusation of "extermination by hunger" by the Ukrainian state), the beginning of the second five-year plan, purges of the last oppositional elements within the party and heightened repression.

Keys[]

	Indicates that the individual was born into a Jewish family.
	Indicates that the individual is female.
PB	Politburo member.
SC	Secretariat member.
OB	Orgburo member.
PB(C), SC(C), OB(C)	The "(C)" in these initials refers to "Candidate member"

Plenums[]

The Central Committee was not a permanent institution. It convened plenary sessions. Seven CC plenary sessions and two plenary sessions held in conjunction with the convening of the Central Control Commission were held between the 16th Congress and the 17th Congress. When the CC was not in session, decision-making power was vested in the internal bodies of the CC itself; that is, the Politburo, Secretariat and Orgburo. None of these bodies were permanent either; typically they convened several times a month.^[6]

Apparatus[]

Individuals employed by the Central Committee's bureaus, departments and newspapers made up the apparatus between the 16th Congress and the 17th Congress.^[7] The bureaus and departments were supervised by the Secretariat, and each secretary (member of the Secretariat) supervised a specific department.^[8] The leaders of departments were officially referred to as Heads, while the titles of bureau leaders varied between chairman, first secretary and secretary.^[9]

Institutions	Head (birth–death) Cyrillic	Took office	Left office	Tenure	Ethnicity
Accounting Department	Timofey Samsonov (1888–1956) Тимофей Самсонов	1932	10 February 1934	1 year and 254 days	Russian
Administrative, Enterprise and Trade Union Cadres Department	(1890–1937) Иван Москвин	13 July 1930	14 November 1930	124 days	Russian
	Nikolai Yezhov (1895–1940) Николай Ежов	14 November 1930	10 February 1934	3 years and 92 days	Russian
Agitation and Mass Campaign Department	Grigory Kaminsky (1895–1938) Григорий Каминский	13 July 1930	August 1930	19 days	Russian
	Klavdiya Nikolayeva (1893–1944) Клавдия Николаева	August 1930	1933	2 years and 304 days	Russian
Agriculture Department	Lazar Kaganovich (1893–1991) Лазарь Каганович	15 December 1932	10 February 1934	1 year and 57 days	Russian
Bolshevik	Vilhelm Knorin (1890–1938) Вильгельм Кнорин	13 July 1930	10 February 1934	3 years and 212 days	Latvian
Central Asian Bureau	Isaak Zelensky (1890–1937) Исаак Зеленский	13 July 1930	January 1931	172 days	Russian
	Karl Bauman (1892–1937) Карл Бауман	January 1931	10 February 1931	3 years and 40 days	Latvian
Chief Administrator	Timofey Samsonov (1888–1956) Тимофей Самсонов	13 July 1930	10 February 1934	3 years and 212 days	Russian
Culture and Propaganda Department	Aleksei Stetskii (1896–1938) Алексей Стецкий	13 July 1930	10 February 1934	3 years and 212 days	Russian
Institute of Marx–Engels–Lenin	Vladimir Adoratsky (1878–1945) Владимир Адоратский	November 1931	10 February 1934	3 years and 105 days	Russian
Organizational-Instruction Department	(1889–1941) Дмитрий Булатов	13 July 1930	July 1931	353 days	Russian
	Joseph Meerzon (1894–1938) Жозеф Меерзон	July 1931	1932	336 days	Russian
	Pavel Postyshev (1887–1939) Па́вел По́стышев	1932	January 1933	214 days	Russian
	Vladimir Polonsky (1893–1937) Владимир Полонский	January 1933	August 1933	212 days	Russian
Pravda	Lev Mekhlis (1889–1953) Лев Мехлис	13 July 1930	10 February 1934	3 years and 212 days	Ukrainian
Secret Department	Ivan Tovstukha (1887–1939) Иван Товстуха	13 July 1930	22 July 1930	9 days	Ukrainian
	Alexander Poskrebyshev (1891–1965) Александр Поскрёбышев	22 July 1930	10 February 1934	3 years and 203 days	Russian

Membership[]

Full[]

Name (birth–death) Cyrillic	Left office	Tenure	Ethnicity	Portrait	Position held (upon election)	Inner membership
(1893–1937) Пётр Алексеев	10 February 1934	3 years and 212 days	Russian	—	Chairman, Leningrad Regional Council of Trade Unions	—
Andrey Andreyev (1895–1971) Андрей Андреев	10 February 1934	3 years and 212 days	Russian		First Secretary, North Caucasian Regional Committee	PB(C), PB
Nikolay Antipov (1894–1938) Николай Антипов	10 February 1934	3 years and 212 days	Russian	—	People's Commissar for Posts and Telegraphs	—
Aleksei Badayev (1883–1951) Алексей Бадаев	10 February 1934	3 years and 212 days	Russian		Chairman, Leningrad Union of Consumer Societies	—
Karl Bauman (1892–1937) Карл Бауман	10 February 1934	3 years and 212 days	Latvian	—	—	SC, OB
Andrei Bubnov (1884–1938) Андрей Бубнов	10 February 1934	3 years and 212 days	Russian		People's Commissar for Education of the Russian SFSR	OB
Nikolai Bukharin (1888–1938) Никола́й Буха́рин	10 February 1934	3 years and 212 days	Russian		Member, Supreme Soviet of the National Economy	—
Vlas Chubar (1891–1939) Влас Чубар	10 February 1934	3 years and 212 days	Ukrainian		Chairman, Council of People's Commissars of the Ukrainian SSR	PB(C)
Mikhail Chudov (1893–1937) Михаил Чудов	10 February 1934	3 years and 212 days	Russian	—	Second Secretary, Leningrad Regional Committee	—
(1883–1947) Михаил Чувырин	10 February 1934	3 years and 212 days	Russian	—	Chairman, Ukrainian Council of Trade Unions	—
Robert Eikhe (1890–1940) Роберт Эйхе	10 February 1934	3 years and 212 days	Latvian	—	First Secretary, Siberian Regional Committee	—
Yan Gamarnik (1894–1937) Ян Гамарник	10 February 1934	3 years and 212 days	Ukrainian		Head, Political Directorate of the Red Army	OB
Filipp Goloshchyokin (1876–1941) Филипп Голощёкин	10 February 1934	3 years and 212 days	Russian	—	First Secretary, Kazakskogo Regional Committee	—
(1891–1937) Иван Кабаков	10 February 1934	3 years and 212 days	Russian	—	First Secretary, Ural Regional Committee	—
Lazar Kaganovich (1893–1991) Лазарь Каганович	10 February 1934	3 years and 212 days	Russian		First Secretary, Moscow Regional Committee	PB, SC, OB
Mikhail Kalinin (1875–1946) Михаил Калинин	10 February 1934	3 years and 212 days	Russian		Chairman, Central Executive Committee of the All-Russian Congress of Soviets	PB
Mendel Khatayevich (1893–1937) Мендель Хатаевич	10 February 1934	3 years and 212 days	Russian		First Secretary, Srednevolzhsky Regional Committee	—
Sergey Kirov (1886–1934) Серге́й Ки́ров	10 February 1934	3 years and 212 days	Russian		First Secretary, Leningrad Regional Committee	PB
Vilhelm Knorin (1890–1938) Вильгельм Кнорин	10 February 1934	3 years and 212 days	Latvian	—	Member, Executive Committee of the Comintern	—
Ivan Kodatsky (1893–1937) Иван Кодацкий	10 February 1934	3 years and 212 days	Ukrainian	—	Chairman, Executive Committee of the Leningrad Regional Soviet	—
(1885–1937) Николай Колотилов	10 February 1934	3 years and 212 days	Russian	—	First Secretary, Ivanovo Industrial Regional Committee	—
Nikolay Komarov (1886–1937) Николай Комаров	10 February 1934	3 years and 212 days	Russian	—	Member, Supreme Soviet of the National Economy	—
(1889–1937) Иосиф Косиор	10 February 1934	3 years and 212 days	Polish	—	Chairman, Board of Vostokstal	—
Stanislav Kosior (1889–1939) Станислав Косиор	10 February 1934	3 years and 212 days	Polish		First Secretary, Central Committee of the Communist Party (Bolshevik) of Ukraine	PB
Nadezhda Krupskaya (1869–1939) Наде́жда Кру́пская	10 February 1934	3 years and 212 days	Russian		Deputy People's Commissar for Education of the Russian SFSR	—
Gleb Krzhizhanovsky (1872–1959) Глеб Кржижано́вский	10 February 1934	3 years and 212 days	Russian		Chairman, State Planning Commission at the Council of Labor and Defense	—
Nikolay Kubyak (1881–1937) Николай Кубяк	10 February 1934	3 years and 212 days	Russian		People's Commissar for Agriculture of the Russian SFSR	—
Valerian Kuybyshev (1888–1935) Валериан Куйбышев	10 February 1934	3 years and 212 days	Russian		Chairman, Supreme Soviet of the National Economy	PB
Emanuel Kviring (1888–1937) Эммануил Квиринг	10 February 1934	3 years and 212 days	Volga German		Deputy Chairman, State Planning Commission at the Council of Labor and Defense	—
Dmitry Lebed (1893–1937) Дмитрий Лебедь	10 February 1934	3 years and 212 days	Russian	—	Deputy Chairman, Council of People's Commissars of the Russian SFSR Deputy Chairman, Council of Labor and Defense of the Russian SFSR	—
(1892–1938) Фёдор Леонов	10 February 1934	3 years and 212 days	Russian	—	First Secretary, Moscow Regional Committee	—
Semyon Lobov (1888–1937) Семён Лобов	10 February 1934	3 years and 212 days	Russian	—	Deputy Chairman, Supreme Soviet of the National Economy	OB
Vissarion Lominadze (1897–1935) Виссарион Ломинадзе	1 December 1930	141 days	Georgian	—	First Secretary, Transcaucasian Regional Committee	—
(1882–1937) Исидор Любимов	10 February 1934	3 years and 212 days	Russian	—	Chairman, Board of the Central Union of Consumer Societies	—
Dmitry Manuilsky (1883–1959) Дмитро Мануїльський	10 February 1934	3 years and 212 days	Ukrainian	—	Member, Presidium of the Executive Committee of the Comintern	—
Anastas Mikoyan (1895–1978) Анаста́с Микоя́н	10 February 1934	3 years and 212 days	Armenian		People's Commissar for Foreign and Internal Trade	PB(C)
Vyacheslav Molotov (1890–1986) Вячеслав Молотов	10 February 1934	3 years and 212 days	Russian		—	PB, SC, OB
(1890–1937) Иван Москвин	10 February 1934	3 years and 212 days	Russian	—	Head, Administrative, Enterprise and Trade Union Cadres Department	SC(C), OB
(1888–1937) Иван Носов	10 February 1934	3 years and 212 days	Russian	—	Executive Secretary, Moscow District Committee	—
Georgy Oppokov (1888–1938) Георгий Оппоков	10 February 1934	3 years and 212 days	Russian		Member, Supreme Soviet of the National Economy	—
Mamia Orakhelashvili (1888–1937) Мамия Орахелашвили	10 February 1934	3 years and 212 days	Georgian		Member, Editorial Board of Pravda	—
Grigory Petrovsky (1878–1958) Григо́рій Петро́вський	10 February 1934	3 years and 212 days	Ukrainian		Chairman, Central Executive Committee of the All-Ukrainian Congress of Soviets	PB(C)
Osip Piatnitsky (1882–1938) Осип Пятницкий	10 February 1934	3 years and 212 days	Russian		Member, Presidium of the Executive Committee of the Comintern	—
Pavel Postyshev (1887–1939) Григо́рій Петро́вський	10 February 1934	3 years and 212 days	Russian		First Secretary, Kharkiv Regional Committee	SC, OB
Georgy Pyatakov (1890–1939) Георгий Пятаков	10 February 1934	3 years and 212 days	Russian		Chairman, Board of the State Bank	—
Jānis Rudzutaks (1887–1938) Ян Рудзутак	10 February 1934	3 years and 212 days	Latvian		Deputy Chairman, Council of People's Commissars Deputy Chairman, Council of Labour and Defense People's Commissar for Railways	PB
(1889–1938) Моисей Рухимович	10 February 1934	3 years and 212 days	Russian	—	Deputy Chairman, Supreme Soviet of the National Economy	—
(1886–1937) Иван Румянцев	10 February 1934	3 years and 212 days	Russian	—	First Secretary, Western Regional Committee	—
Alexei Rykov (1881–1938) Алексей Рыков	10 February 1934	3 years and 212 days	Russian		Chairman, Council of People's Commissars Chairman, Council of Labor and Defense	PB
(1893–1938) Кузьма Рындин	10 February 1934	3 years and 212 days	Russian	—	Chairman, Moscow Control Commission	—
(1879–1951) Исаак Шварц	10 February 1934	3 years and 212 days	Ukrainian	—	Member, Supreme Soviet of the National Economy	—
(1895–1937) Борис Шеболдаев	10 February 1934	3 years and 212 days	Russian	—	First Secretary, Lower Volga Regional Committee	—
Nikolay Shvernik (1888–1970) Николай Шверник	10 February 1934	3 years and 212 days	Russian		Chairman, All-Union Central Council of Trade Unions	SC(C), OB
Mykola Skrypnyk (1872–1933) Микола Скрипник	7 July 1933	2 years and 359 days	Ukrainian		People's Commissar for Education of the Ukrainian SSR	—
Alexander Smirnov (1878–1938) Александр Смирно	12 January 1933	2 years and 183 days	Russian	—	Member, Supreme Soviet of the National Economy	OB(C)
Joseph Stalin (1878–1953) Ио́сиф Ста́лин	10 February 1934	3 years and 212 days	Georgian		General Secretary, Central Committee	PB, SC, OB
Aleksei Stetskii (1896–1938) Алексей Стецкий	10 February 1934	3 years and 212 days	Russian	—	Head, Culture and Propaganda Department	—
(1885–1938) Константин Стриевский	10 February 1934	3 years and 212 days	Belarusian	—	Chairman, Supreme Soviet of the National Economy of the Russian SFSR	—
Daniil Sulimov (1890–1937) Даниил Сулимов	10 February 1934	3 years and 212 days	Russian	—	First Deputy People's Commissar for Railways	—
Sergei Syrtsov (1893–1937) Сергей Сырцов	1 December 1930	141 days	Russian	—	Chairman, Council of People's Commissars of the Russian SFSR	PB(C)
(1889–1937) Александр Толоконцев	10 February 1934	3 years and 212 days	Russian	—	Member, Supreme Soviet of the National Economy	—
Mikhail Tomsky (1880–1936) Михаил Томский	10 February 1934	3 years and 212 days	Russian		Deputy Chairman, Supreme Soviet of the National Economy	—
(1887–1939) Антон Цихон	10 February 1934	3 years and 212 days	Russian	—	Chairman, Central Committee of the Union of Builders	OB(C)
Konstantin Ukhanov (1891–1937) Константин Уханов	10 February 1934	3 years and 212 days	Russian	—	Chairman, Executive Committee of the Moscow Regional Soviet	—
Jouzas Vareikis (1894–1938) Иосиф Варейкис	10 February 1934	3 years and 212 days	Lithuanian	—	First Secretary, Azov–Black Sea Regional Committee	—
Kliment Voroshilov (1881–1969) Климент Ворошилов	10 February 1934	3 years and 212 days	Russian		Chairman, Revolutionary Military Council People's Commissar for Military and Naval Affairs	PB
Yakov Yakovlev (1896–1938) Я́ков Я́ковлев	10 February 1934	3 years and 212 days	Ukrainian		People's Commissar for Agriculture	—
Isaak Zelensky (1890–1937) Исаак Зеленский	10 February 1934	3 years and 212 days	Russian	—	Secretary, Central Asian Bureau	—
Andrei Zhdanov (1896–1948) Андрей Жданов	10 February 1934	3 years and 212 days	Russian		First Secretary, Nizhny Novgorod Regional Committee	—
Ivan Zhukov (1889–1937) Иван Жуков	10 February 1934	3 years and 212 days	Russian	—	Member, Supreme Soviet of the National Economy	—

Candidates[]

Name (birth–death) Cyrillic	Left office	Tenure	Ethnicity	Portrait	Position held (upon election)	Inner membership
(1894–1965) Степан Афанасьев	10 February 1934	3 years and 212 days	Russian	—	Chairman, Leningrad Soviet of the National Economy	—
(1896–1937) Алексей Амосов	10 February 1934	3 years and 212 days	Russian	—	Chairman, Central Committee of the Union of Railway Workers	—
Pyotr Baranov (1892–1933) Пётр Баранов	5 September 1933	3 years and 54 days	Russian	—	Commander, Red Army Air Force	—
(1889–1937) Сергей Бергавинов	10 February 1934	3 years and 212 days	Russian	—	First Secretary, Northern Regional Committee	—
Nikolai Bryukhanov (1878–1938) Николай Брюханов	10 February 1934	3 years and 212 days	Russian	—	People's Commissar for Finance	—
Ivan Bulat (1896–1938) Иван Булат	10 February 1934	3 years and 212 days	Ukrainian	—	First Secretary, Moscow City Committee	—
(1889–1941) Дмитрий Булатов	10 February 1934	3 years and 212 days	Russian	—	Head, Organizational-Instruction Department	—
Anton Bulin (1894–1938) Антон Булин	10 February 1934	3 years and 212 days	Russian		Deputy Head, Political Directorate of the Red Army	—
Nikolai Chaplin (1902–1938) Николай Чаплин	10 February 1934	3 years and 212 days	Russian	—	Second Secretary, Transcaucasian Regional Committee	—
(1876–1944) Сергей Чуцкаев	10 February 1934	3 years and 212 days	Russian	—	Chairman, Budget Committee of the Congress of Soviets Member, Presidium of the Central Executive Committee of the Congress of Soviets	—
Alexander Dogadov (1888–1937) Александр Догадов	10 February 1934	3 years and 212 days	Russian	—	Deputy Chairman, Supreme Soviet of the National Economy	OB(C)
Shalva Eliava (1883–1937) Шалва Элиава	10 February 1934	3 years and 212 days	Georgian		Chairman, Council of People's Commissars of the Transcaucasian SFSR	—
Konstantin Gey (1896–1939) Константин Гей	10 February 1934	3 years and 212 days	Russian [note 1]	—	First Secretary, Central Committee of the Communist Party of Byelorussia	—
Nikolay Goloded (1894–1937) Николай Голодед	10 February 1934	3 years and 212 days	Belarusian	—	Chairman, Council of People's Commissars of the Byelorussian SSR	—
(1893–1938) Фёдор Грядинский	10 February 1934	3 years and 212 days	Russian	—	Deputy People's Commissar for Foreign and Internal Trade	—
Akmal Ikramov (1898–1938) Акмаль Икрамов	10 February 1934	3 years and 212 days	Uzbek		First Secretary, Central Committee of the Communist Party (Bolsheviks) of Uzbekistan	—
Uraz Isayev (1899–1938) Ураз Исаев	10 February 1934	3 years and 212 days	Kazakh	—	Chairman, Council of People's Commissars of the Kazakh ASSR	—
Vladimir Ivanov (1893–1938) Владимир Иванов	10 February 1934	3 years and 212 days	Russian	—	Second Secretary, North Caucasian Regional Committee	—
(1896–1937) Михаил Кахиани	10 February 1934	3 years and 212 days	Russian	—	Second Secretary, Central Asian Bureau	—
(1895–1937) Анна Калыгина	10 February 1934	3 years and 212 days	Russian	—	First Secretary, Tver Regional Committee	—
(1888–1937) Моисей Калманович	10 February 1934	3 years and 212 days	Russian	—	Deputy People's Commissar for Agriculture	—
Grigory Kaminsky (1895–1938) Григорий Каминский	10 February 1934	3 years and 212 days	Russian		Secretary, Moscow City Committee Head, Agitation and Mass Campaign Department	—
Lavrentiy Kartvelishvili (1890–1938) Лаврентий Картвелишвили	10 February 1934	3 years and 212 days	Georgian	—	Second Secretary, Central Committee of the Communist Party (Bolsheviks) of Ukraine	—
(1892–1938) Михаил Хлоплянкин	10 February 1934	3 years and 212 days	Russian	—	Chairman, Executive Committee of the Volga Regional Soviet	—
Aleksei Kiselyov (1879–1937) Алексей Киселёв	10 February 1934	3 years and 212 days	Russian		Secretary, Central Executive Committee of the All-Russian Congress of Soviets	—
(1891–1937) Иван Клименко	10 February 1934	3 years and 212 days	Russian	—	Deputy People's Commissar for Agriculture	—
Alexander Kosarev (1903–1939) Александр Косарев	10 February 1934	3 years and 212 days	Russian		First Secretary, Central Committee of the Komsomol	OB(C)
(1883–1970) Иван Козлов	10 February 1934	3 years and 212 days	Russian	—	Executive Secretary, Krasnaya Presnya District Committee	—
Alexander Krinitsky (1894–1937) Александр Криницкий	10 February 1934	3 years and 212 days	Russian		Deputy People's Commissar, Workers' and Peasants' Inspectorate	—
(1892–1937) Василий Курицын	10 February 1934	3 years and 212 days	Russian	—	—	—
Solomon Lozovsky (1892–1952) Соломон Лозовский	10 February 1934	3 years and 212 days	Russian		General Secretary, Central Committee of the Red International of Labour Unions	—
(1895–1971) Наум Анцелович	10 February 1934	3 years and 212 days	Russian	—	Chairman, Central Committee of the Union of Land and Forestry Workers	—
Valery Mezhlauk (1893–1938) Валерий Межлаук	10 February 1934	3 years and 212 days	Latvian		Deputy Chairman, Supreme Soviet of the National Economy	—
(1894–1937) Василий Михайлов	10 February 1934	3 years and 212 days	Russian	—	—	—
(1894–1931) Михаил Михайлов-Иванов	27 September 1931	1 year and 76 days	Russian	—	Director, Stalingrad Tractor Plant	—
Levon Mirzoyan (1887–1939) Левон Мирзоян	10 February 1934	3 years and 212 days	Armenian		First Secretary, Perm Regional Committee	—
Gazanfar Musabekov (1888–1938) Газанфар Мусабеков	10 February 1934	3 years and 212 days	Azerbaijani	—	Chairman, Central Executive Committee of the All-Azerbijani Congress of Soviets	—
Klavdiya Nikolayeva (1893–1944) Клавдия Николаева	10 February 1934	3 years and 212 days	Russian		Head, Agitation and Mass Campaign of the North Caucasian Regional Committee	—
Valerian Osinsky (1887–1938) Валериан Оболенский	10 February 1934	3 years and 212 days	Russian	—	Deputy Chairman, Supreme Soviet of the National Economy	—
(1889–1939) Михаил Ошвинцев	10 February 1934	3 years and 212 days	Russian	—	Chairman, Executive Committee of the Ural Regional Soviet	—
Nikolay Pakhomov (1890–1938) Николай Пахомов	10 February 1934	3 years and 212 days	Russian	—	Chairman, Executive Committee of the Nizhny Novgorod Regional Soviet	—
(1897–1943) Иван Перепечко	10 February 1934	3 years and 212 days	Ukrainian	—	First Secretary, Far Eastern Regional Committee	—
Vladimir Polonsky (1893–1937) Владимир Полонский	10 February 1934	3 years and 212 days	Russian	—	Secretary, All-Union Central Council of Trade Unions	—
Nikolai Popov (1891–1938) Николай Попов	10 February 1934	3 years and 212 days	Russian	—	Member, Editorial Board of Pravda	—
Boris Pozern (1882–1939) Борис Позерн	10 February 1934	3 years and 212 days	Russian		Secretary, Leningrad Regional Committee	—
Vladimir Ptukha (1894–1938) Владимир Птуха	10 February 1934	3 years and 212 days	Ukrainian		Second Secretary, Lower Volga Regional Committee	—
(1891–1932) Константин Румянцев	1932	1 year and 324 days	Russian	—	Chairman, Board of Uralnefti	—
Maximilian Saveliev Максимилиа́н Саве́льев (1898–1939)	10 February 1934	3 years and 212 days	Russian	—	Chairman of the Presidium of the Communist Academy	—
Vasily Schmidt (1886–1938) Василий Шмидт	10 February 1934	3 years and 212 days	Russian [note 2]		Deputy Chairman, Council of People's Commissars Deputy Chairman, Council of Labor and Defense	—
(1894–1938) Алексей Седельников	10 February 1934	3 years and 212 days	Russian	—	First Secretary, Tula Regional Committee	—
(1890–1937) Борис Семёнов	10 February 1934	3 years and 212 days	Russian	—	—	—
Alexander Serebrovsky (1884–1938) Александр Серебровский	10 February 1934	3 years and 212 days	Russian	—	Deputy Chairman, Supreme Soviet of the National Economy	—
Pyotr Smorodin (1897–1939) Пётр Смородин	10 February 1934	3 years and 212 days	Russian		First Secretary, Vyborg District Committee	—
Grigori Sokolnikov (1888–1939) Григорий Сокольников	10 February 1934	3 years and 212 days	Ukrainian		Ambassador of the Soviet Union to the United Kingdom	—
(1888–1938) Василий Строганов	10 February 1934	3 years and 212 days	Russian	—	First Secretary, Stalinskogo District Committee	—
(1886–1938) Кирилл Сухомлин	10 February 1934	3 years and 212 days	Russian	—	Chairman, Supreme Soviet of the National Economy of the Ukrainian SSR	—
(1889–1979) Роман Терехов	10 February 1934	3 years and 212 days	Russian	—	First Secretary, Artiomovskiy District Committee	—
(1888–1938) Фёдор Царьков	10 February 1934	3 years and 212 days	Russian	—	—	—
Ieronim Uborevich (1896–1937) Иероним Уборевич	10 February 1934	3 years and 212 days	Lithuanian		Head, Weapons of the Red Army	—
Józef Unszlicht (1879–1938) Ио́сиф У́ншлихт	10 February 1934	3 years and 212 days	Polish		Deputy Chairman, Supreme Soviet of the National Economy	—
(1887–1937) Михаил Урываев	10 February 1934	3 years and 212 days	Russian	—	Responsible for Military Industry at the Supreme Soviet of the National Economy	—
(1891–1946) Гавриил Вейнберг	10 February 1934	3 years and 212 days	Polish	—	Secretary, All-Union Central Council of Trade Unions	—
(1896–1937) Пётр Волков	10 February 1934	3 years and 212 days	Russian	—	Chairman, Moscow Soviet of the National Economy	—
Genrikh Yagoda (1891–1938) Генрих Ягода	10 February 1934	3 years and 212 days	Russian		First Deputy Chairman, Joint State Political Directorate Member, Special Council of the Joint State Political Directorate	—
Iona Yakir (1896–1937) Иона Якир	10 February 1934	3 years and 212 days	Moldovan		Commander, Ukrainian Military District	—
(1892–1990) Пелагея Воронова	10 February 1934	3 years and 212 days	Russian	—	Second Secretary, Ivanovo Industrial Regional Committee	—
(1898–1986) Тихон Юркин	10 February 1934	3 years and 212 days	Russian	—	Chairman, Board of Kolhoztsentra	—

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Plenary sessions, apparatus heads, ethnicity (by clicking on the individual names on "The Central Committee elected by the XVIth Congress of the AUCP (b) 7/13/1930" reference), the Central Committee full- and candidate membership, Politburo membership, Secretariat membership and Orgburo membership were taken from these sources:

• Staff writer. "Съезды, конференции, пленумы и заседания РСДРП – РСДРП(б) – РКП(б) – ВКП(б) – КПСС" [Congresses, conferences, plenary meetings and meetings of the RSDLP – RSDLP (b) – RCP (b) – AUCP (b) – CPSU] (in Russian). Retrieved 15 June 2015.
• Staff writer. "Персональный состав Центрального комитета РСДРП – РСДРП(б) – РКП(б) – ВКП(б) – КПСС" [Membership of the Central Committee of the RSDLP – RSDLP (b) – RCP (b) – AUCP (b) – CPSU] (in Russian). Retrieved 15 June 2015.
• Staff writer. "Центральный Комитет, избранный XVI-м съездом ВКП(б) 13.7.1930, члены" [The Central Committee elected by the XVIth Congress of the AUCP (b) 7/13/1930 members] (in Russian). Retrieved 15 June 2015.
• Staff writer. "Отделы, комиссии, институты ЦК РКП(б) - ВКП(б) - КПСС" [Departments, commissions, institutes of the Central Committee of the – RCP (b) – AUCP (b) – CPSU] (in Russian). Retrieved 18 June 2015.
• Staff writer. "Управление делами ЦК РКП(б) – ВКП(б) – КПСС" [Chief Administrator of the RCP (b) – AUCP (b) – CPSU] (in Russian). Retrieved 18 June 2015.
• Staff writer. "Учётный отдел ЦК ВКП(б)" [Accounting Department of the AUCP (b)] (in Russian). Retrieved 18 June 2015.
• Staff writer. "Отдел агитации и массовых кампаний ЦК ВКП(б)" [Agitation and Mass Campaign Department of the AUCP (b)] (in Russian). Retrieved 18 June 2015.
• Staff writer. "Сельскохозяйственный отдел ЦК ВКП(б)" [Agriculture Department of the AUCP (b)] (in Russian). Retrieved 18 June 2015.
• Staff writer. "Отдел культуры и пропаганды ЦК ВКП(б)" [Culture and Propaganda Department of the AUCP (b)] (in Russian). Retrieved 18 June 2015.
• Staff writer. "Распределительный отдел - Отдел административно-хозяйственных и профсоюзных кадров ЦК ВКП(б)" [Distribution Department—Administrative, Enterprise and Trade Union Cadres Department of the AUCP (b)] (in Russian). Retrieved 18 June 2015.
• Staff writer. "Институт Маркса-Энгельса-Ленина - Институт Маркса-Энгельса-Ленина-Сталина - Институт марксизма-ленинизма при ЦК ВКП(б) - КПСС" [Institute of Marx–Engels–Lenin—the Institute of Marx, Engels, Lenin and Stalin—the Institute of Marxism–Leninism of the Central Committee of the AUCP (b)] (in Russian). Retrieved 18 June 2015.
• Staff writer. "Организационно-инструкторский отдел ЦК ВКП(б)" [Organizational-Instruction Department of the AUCP (b)] (in Russian). Retrieved 18 June 2015.
• Staff writer. "Секретно-оперативный отдел - Бюро Секретариата - Секретный отдел - Особый сектор ЦК РКП(б) - ВКП(б) - КПСС" [Secret Operations Department—Office of the Secretariat—Secret Department—Special Sector of the RCP (b) – AUCP (b) – CPSU] (in Russian). Retrieved 18 June 2015.
• Staff writer. "Узкий состав ЦК РСДРП(б) – Политическое бюро ЦК РСДРП(б)—Бюро ЦК РСДРП(б) – РКП(б)—Политическое бюро ЦК РКП(б) – ВКП(б)—Президиум – Политическое бюро ЦК КПСС" [The narrow composition of the RSDLP (b)—Political Bureau of the Central Committee of the RSDLP (B)—The Bureau of the Central Committee of the RSDLP (b) – RCP (B)—Political Bureau of the Central Committee of the RCP (b) – AUCP (b)—the Presidium – Political Bureau of the Central Committee of the CPSU] (in Russian). Retrieved 21 June 2015.
• Staff writer. "Секретариат ЦК РСДРП - РКП(б) - ВКП(б) - КПСС" [Secretariat of the Central Committee of the RSDLP (b) – RCP (b) – AUCP (b) – CPSU] (in Russian). Retrieved 21 June 2015.
• Staff writer. "Организационное бюро РКП(б) - ВКП(б)" [Organizational Bureau of the RCP (b) – AUCP (b)] (in Russian). Retrieved 21 June 2015.

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