The Volgograd Regional Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, commonly referred to as the Volgograd CPSU obkom, was the position of highest authority in the Volgograd Oblast (until November 10, 1961, Stalingrad Oblast), in the Russian SFSR of the Soviet Union. The position was created in January 1934, and abolished in August 1991. The First Secretary was a de facto appointed position usually by the Politburo or the General Secretary himself.
List of First Secretaries of the Communist Party of Volgograd
Name Term of Office Life years Start End First Secretaries of the Kray Committee of the Communist Party Vladimir Ptukha January 1934 March 20, 1935 1894–1938 Iosif Vareikis March 20, 1935 December 5, 1936 1894–1939 First Secretaries of the Oblast Committee of the Communist Party Iosif Vareikis December 5, 1936 December 22, 1936 1894–1939 Boris Semyonov December 22, 1936 September 16, 1937 1890–1937 Pyotr Smorodin September 16, 1937 June 1938 1897–1939 Aleksey Chuyanov June 1938 December 6, 1946 1905–1977 Vasily Prokhvatilov December 6, 1946 January 1949 1902–1983 Ivan Grishin January 1949 December 1955 1911–1985 Ivan Zhegalin December 1955 November 26, 1960 1906–1984 Aleksey Shkolnikov November 26, 1960 November 12, 1965 1914–2003 Konstantin Cherednychenko January 1963 December 15, 1964 1920– Leonid Kulichenko November 12, 1965 January 24, 1984 1913–1990 Vladimir Kalashnikov January 24, 1984 January 24, 1990 1929–2008 V.G. Ronshin January 24, 1990 1990 Aleksandr Anipkin March 16, 1990 August 1991 1940–
See also Volgograd Oblast
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