The Administrator of Affairs of the Council of People's Commissars of the Soviet Union and Council of Labour and Defense (),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.) . istmat.info.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). 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, ) 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.

List of administrators #These numbers are not official. Holder Tenure Premier 1Administrator of Affairs of the Council of People's Commissars (1922–1946)Nikolai Gorbunov 17 July 1923 – 29 December 1930Vladimir LeninAlexey RykovVyacheslav Molotov 2Platon Kerzhentsev 29 December 1930 – 23 March 1933Vyacheslav Molotov 3 23 March 1933 – 29 March 1937Vyacheslav Molotov 4 29 March 1937 – 31 July 1937Vyacheslav Molotov 5 31 July 1937 – 5 November 1938Vyacheslav Molotov 6Ivan Bolshakov 17 December 1938 – 4 June 1939Vyacheslav Molotov 7 10 June 1939 – 14 November 1940Vyacheslav Molotov 8 14 November 1940 – 15 March 1946Vyacheslav Molotov Joseph StalinAdministrator of Affairs of the Council of Ministers (1946–1991) 19 March 1946 – 13 March 1949Joseph Stalin 9Mikhail Pomaznev 13 March 1949 – 29 June 1953Joseph StalinGeorgy Malenkov 10Anatoly Korobov 29 June 1953 – 1 July 1958Georgy MalenkovNikolai BulganinNikita Khrushchev 11Pyotr Demichev 1 July 1958 – 3 March 1959Nikita Khrushchev 12George Stepanov 18 March 1959 – 22 October 1964Nikita KhrushchevAlexei Kosygin 13 Mikhail Smirtyukov 18 December 1964 – 7 June 1989Alexei KosyginNikolai TikhonovNikolai Ryzhkov 14Mikhail Shkabardnya 7 June 1989 – 21 March 1991Nikolai Ryzhkov 15Administrative Director of the Cabinet of Ministers (1991)Igor Prostiakov 21 March 1991 – 26 November 1991Valentin PavlovIvan Silayev

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