General Department of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union

The General Department of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union was a department of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union that oversaw the paperwork of all Central Committee institutions.

General Department of the Central Committee of the CPSU

Общий отдел ЦК КПСС
Formation	September 1920
Dissolved	August 1991
Type	Department directly reporting to the Central Committee
Headquarters	Staraya Square, Moscow, Russian SFSR
Director	Pavel Laptev (last)
Parent organization	Central Committee of the CPSU

Heads

Office of the Presidium

• Nikolai Smirnov (12 September 1920 – 20 August 1922)
• Hamayak Nazaretyan (20 August 1922 – 1 November 1924)
• Lev Mekhlis (1 November 1924 – 22 January 1926)
• Ivan Tovstukha (22 January 1926 – 16 July 1930)
• Alexander Poskrebyshev (16 July 1930 – 15 August 1952)
• Dmitri Sukhanov (15 August 1952 – 20 February 1955)

General Department

• Vladimir Malin (20 February 1955 – 30 August 1965)
• Konstantin Chernenko (30 August 1965 – 12 November 1982)
• Klavdii Bogolyubov (12 November 1982 – 24 May 1985)
• Anatoly Lukyanov (24 May 1985 – 17 January 1987)
• Valery Boldin (17 January 1987 – 3 May 1991)
• Pavel Laptev (3 May 1991 – 29 August 1991)

See also

• General Office of the Communist Party of China