Communist Party of Turkmenistan

The Communist Party of Turkmenistan (; ) was the ruling Marxist-Leninist party of the Turkmen SSR which operated as a republican branch of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. From 1985, it was led by Saparmurat Niyazov. On 16 December 1991, as the Soviet Union was in the process of dissolving, Niyazov reorganized the CPT as the Democratic Party of Turkmenistan.Компартии Туркменистана больше нет The current Communist Party of Turkmenistan was made illegal during the presidency of Niyazov after independence and remains banned.

Leadership

First Secretaries PictureNameTook officeLeft officePolitical partyFirst Secretary1Ivan Mezhlauk (1891–1938)19 November 19241926CPT/CPSU2Shaymardan Ibragimov (1899–1957)June 19261927CPT/CPSU3Nikolay Paskutsky (1894–1938)19271928CPT/CPSU4Grigory Aronshtam (1893–1938)11 May 1928August 1930CPT/CPSU5Yakov Popok (1894–1938)August 193015 April 1937CPT/CPSU6Anna Muhamedow (1900–1938)April 1937October 1937CPT/CPSU7Yakov Chubin (1893–1956)October 1937November 1939CPT/CPSU8Mikhail Fonin (1905–1974)November 1939March 1947CPT/CPSU9Şaja Batyrow (1908–1965)March 1947July 1951CPT/CPSU10Suhan Babaýew (1910–1995)July 195114 December 1958CPT/CPSU11Jumadurdy Garaýew (1910–1960)14 December 19584 May 1960CPT/CPSU12Balysh Ovezov (1915–1975)13 June 196024 December 1969CPT/CPSU13 Muhammetnazar Gapurow

(1922–1999)24 December 196921 December 1985CPT/CPSU14Saparmurat Niyazov

(1940–2006)21 December 198516 December 1991CPT/CPSU

Second Secretaries PictureNameTook officeLeft officePolitical partySecond Secretary-Anna Mukhammedov (1900–1938)3 March 1935October 1937CPT/CPSU-Allaberdy Berdyev (1904–1964)16 July 1938 20 August 1940CPT/CPSU-Kurban Permanov(1909–1969)28 November 194117 February 1945CPT/CPSU-Shadzha Batyrov (1908–1965)November 1945July 1947CPT/CPSU-Arkady Sennikov (1908–1974)July 194710 September 1953CPT/CPSU-Polikarp Dolgov (1910–1989)10 September 1953 14 February 1954CPT/CPSU-Fyedor Grishaenkov (1914–1983)14 February 195413 June 1960CPT/CPSU-Mikhail Pimenov (born 1914, death date unknown)13 June 196025 March 1963CPT/CPSU-Vasily Rykov (1918–2011)25 March 196314 April 1975 CPT/CPSU-Viktor Pereudin (1923–2001)14 April 1975 20 December 1980CPT/CPSU-Albert Rachkov (1927–2023)20 December 198026 July 1986CPT/CPSU-Sergei Nesterenko (born 1935)26 July 19861991CPT/CPSU-Alexander Dodonov (1946–2018)19911991CPT/CPSU

See also Politics of Turkmenistan Communist Party of the Soviet Union

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