Kosygin's First Government

Kosygin's First Government

19th Government of the Soviet Union
Date formed15 October 1964
Date dissolved3 August 1966
People and organisations
Head of stateAnastas Mikoyan Nikolai Podgorny
Head of governmentAlexei Kosygin
Deputy head of governmentDimitry Ustinov

Kirill Mazurov

Dmitry Polyansky
Member partyCPSU
Status in legislatureOne Party State
History
Outgoing election1962 legislative election
PredecessorKhrushchev's Second Government
SuccessorKosygin's Second Government

The former government of Nikita Khrushchev was dissolved following his removal from the post of the Chairman of the Council of Ministers. Alexei Kosygin was elected Premier by the Politburo and the Central Committee following the removal of Khrushchev. His first government would last for two years, until the 1966 Soviet election held in June. Kosygin's first government saw the re-creation of many ministries that were removed under Khrushchev's previous government.[1]

Ministries

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Ministry Minister Period
Chairman of the Council of Ministers Alexei Kosygin 15 October 1964 – 3 August 1966
First Deputy Chairman of the Council of Ministers Dmitriy Ustinov 15 October 1964 – 27 March 1965
Kirill Mazurov 26 March 1965 – 3 August 1966
Dmitry Polyansky 27 March 1965 – 3 August 1966
Deputy Chairman of the Council of Ministers Konstantin Rudnev 27 March 1964 – 10 April 1965
Aleksandr Shelepin 27 March 1964 – 9 December 1965
Ignaty Novikov 27 March 1964 – 3 August 1966
Veniamin Dymshits 27 March 1964 – 3 August 1966
Mikhail Lesechko 27 March 1964 – 3 August 1966
Leonid Smirnov 27 March 1964 – 3 August 1966
Vladimir Novikov 27 March 1964 – 13 November 1965
Mikhail Yefremov 13 November 1965 – 3 August 1966
Nikolai Baibakov 27 March 1964 – 3 August 1966
Vladimir Kirillin 2 October 1965 – 3 August 1966
Nikolai Tikhonov 2 October 1965 – 3 August 1966
Minister of Foreign Trade Nikolai Patolichev 15 October 1964 – 3 August 1966
Minister of Railways Boris Beshchev 15 October 1964 – 3 August 1966
Minister of Merchant Marine Viktor Bakayev 15 October 1964 – 3 August 1966
Minister of Medium Machine Building Yefim Slavski 2 March 1965 – 3 August 1966
Minister of Transport Construction Yevgeny Kozhevnikov 2 October 1965 – 3 August 1966
Minister of Aviation Industry Pyotr Dementyev 2 October 1965 – 3 August 1966
Minister of Shipbuilding Boris Butoma 2 March 1965 – 3 August 1966
Minister of Radio Industry Valery Kalmykov 2 March 1965 – 3 August 1966
Minister of Foreign Affairs Andrei Gromyko 15 October 1964 – 3 August 1966
Minister of Culture Yekaterina Furtseva 15 October 1964 – 3 August 1966
Minister of Higher Education Vyacheslav Yelyutin 15 October 1964 – 3 August 1966
Minister of Finance Vasily Garbuzov 15 October 1964 – 3 August 1966
Minister of Commerce Alexander Struyev 2 October 1965 – 3 August 1966
Minister of Defence Rodion Malinovsky 2 October 1965 – 3 August 1966
Minister of Communications Nikolai Psurtsev 2 October 1965 – 3 August 1966
Minister of Health Sergei Kurashov 2 October 1965 – 23 August 1965
Boris Petrovsky 8 September 1965 – 3 August 1966
Minister of Agriculture Ivan Volovchenko 15 October 1964 – 18 February 1965
Vladimir Matskevich 18 February 1965 – 3 August 1966
Minister of Geology Aleksandr Sidorenko 2 October 1965 – 3 August 1966
Minister of Energy and Electrification Pyotr Neporozhny 15 October 1964 – 3 August 1966
Minister of Civil Aviation Yevgeny Loginov 15 October 1964 – 3 August 1966
Minister of Ferrous Metallurgy Ivan Kazanets 2 October 1965 – 3 August 1966
Minister of Coal Industry Boris Bratchenko 2 October 1965 – 3 August 1966
Minister of Chemical Industry Leonid Kostandov 2 October 1965 – 3 August 1966
Minister of Oil Industry Valentin Shashin 2 October 1965 – 3 August 1966
Minister of Oil and Petrochemical Industry Viktor Fyodorov 2 October 1965 – 3 August 1966
Minister of Timber and Wood Processing Industry Nikolai Timofeyev 2 October 1965 – 3 August 1966
Minister of Building Materials Industry Ivan Grishmanov 2 October 1965 – 3 August 1966
Minister of Light Industry Nikolai Tarasov 2 October 1965 – 3 August 1966
Minister of Food Industry Vasily Zotov 15 October 1964 – 3 August 1966
Minister of Fish Industry Alexander Ishkov 2 October 1965 – 3 August 1966
Minister of Meat and Dairy Industry Sergei Antonov 2 October 1965 – 3 August 1966
Minister of Heavy and Transport Machines Construction Vladimir Zhigalin 2 October 1965 – 3 August 1966
Minister of Construction of Tool-Machines Anatoli Kostousov 2 October 1965 – 3 August 1966
Minister of Construction, Road Building and Communal Machines Yefim Novosyolov 2 October 1965 – 3 August 1966
Minister of Tractors and Agricultural Machines Ivan Sinitsyn 2 October 1965 – 3 August 1966
Minister of Automobile Industry Aleksandr Tarasov 2 October 1965 – 3 August 1966
Minister of Construction of Petrochemical Machinery Konstantin Brekhov 2 October 1965 – 3 August 1966
Minister of Electrical Engineering Aleksei Antonov 2 October 1965 – 3 August 1966
Minister of Instrument-Making, Automation and Control Systems Konstantin Rudnev 2 October 1965 – 3 August 1966
Minister of Machine Building for Light and Food Industries Vasili Doyenin 1 October 1965 – 3 August 1966
Minister of Assembling and Special Construction Fuad Yakubovsky 2 October 1965 – 3 August 1966
Minister of Land Reclamation and Water Conservancy Yevgeny Alekseyevsky 2 October 1965 – 3 August 1966
Minister of Gas Industry Aleksei Kortunov 2 October 1965 – 3 August 1966
Minister of General Machine Building Sergei Afanasyev 2 October 1965 – 3 August 1966
Minister of Non-Ferrous Metallurgy Pyotr Lomako 2 October 1965 – 3 August 1966
Minister of Electronic Industry Aleksandr Shokin 2 October 1965 – 3 August 1966
Minister of Defence Industry Sergei Sverov 2 October 1965 – 3 August 1966
Minister of Housing and Architecture Mikhail Pozokhin 15 October 1964 – 3 August 1966

Committees

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Committee Chairman Period
Chairman of the State Control Commission Aleksandr Shelepin 15 October 1964 – 3 December 1965
Chairman of the People's Control Commission Pavel Kovanov 3 December 1965 – 3 August 1966
Chairman of the State Planning Committee Pyotr Lomako 15 October 1964 – 2 December 1965
Nikolai Baibakov 2 December 1965 – 3 August 1966
Chairman of State Committee for State Security (KGB) Vladimir Semichastny 15 October 1964 – 3 August 1966

References

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General
  • Government of the Soviet Union > List
    • "Governments of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (1964–1991)". elisa.net. Archived from the original on February 24, 2012. Retrieved September 12, 2010.
Specific
  1. ^ "Governments of the RSFSR and the USSR (1918–1964)". elisa.net. Archived from the original on July 16, 2011. Retrieved September 12, 2010.
Government offices
Preceded by Governments of the Soviet Union
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