Leningrad Regional Committee of the All-Union Communist Party (Bolshevik)

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LENINGRAD REGIONAL COMMITTEE OF THE ALL-UNION COMMUNIST PARTY (BOLSHEVIK), later the Leningrad Regional Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union was the leading organ of the Leningrad Regional Organisation of the Communist Party. The Committee was elected in the First Leningrad Regional Party Conference held on 15-17 November 1927 as a successor of Leningrad Provincial Committee of the All-Union Communist Party (Bolshevik). Initially it controlled nine regional (Borovicheskaya, Velikolukskaya - till June 1929, Leningrad, Lodeinopolskaya, Luzhskaya, Murmanskaya, Novgorodskaya, Pskovskaya, Cherepovetskaya) district party organisations. All in all 123 district party organizations were formed on the territory of Leningrad Region, including the City of Leningrad Organisation. In 1930-31, regional party organisations were abolished, with the exception of Murmansk Regional Party Organisation (from 1938, it was included in the structure of Murmansk Region). The districts were enlarged and the Regional Party Committee no longer controlled the district party organisations of Leningrad and of the region, or (in 1935-40) party organisations of Kingisepp Region. With the liquidation of regions city party organisations were being created along with district organizations, replacing them. In December 1931 - January 1950, the Regional Party Committee and Leningrad City Committee had one joint department (the special sector), and the first secretary of the Regional Party Committee was at the same time the first secretary of the City Committee. All the most important questions related to life of Leningrad and the region before 1941 were addressed in joint plenary meetings of bureaus of the Regional Party Committee and of the City Committee. The structure of party staff was mostly identical. Departments of Agriculture and Foods existed only in the Regional Party Committee. The activities of party organisations of the North-Eastern districts of Leningrad Region not occupied by the German troops in the years of the Great Patriotic War of 1941-45 were supervised by a special commission of the Regional Party Committee created on 8 September 1941 in Tikhvin. At the end of 1962, party organs were reorganized on the industrial basis, with 2 Regional Party Committees and 2 Regional Party Organisations, Industrial Party Organization and Agricultural Party Organization which existed until November 1964 when the party returned to territorial form of organization. In addition to the departments (the general department, the Department of organizational, party and staff work, the Department of ideology and also branch departments) within the Regional Party Committee, the Council for Economic and Social Development functioned from 1972 (from 1984 it was referred to as the Council for Economic and Social Development and Acceleration of Scientific and Technical Progress). In November 1989, the posts of the first secretaries of the Regional Party Committee and of the City Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union were merged together, and in February 1990 it was decided to unify the staff structure and liquidate the City Party Committee. In August 1991, Leningrad Regional Party Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union was liquidated after dissolution of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. The Committee was housed in Smolny. The first secretaries of Leningrad Regional Party Committee were: S.M. Kirov (1927-34), A.A. Zhdanov (1934-45), A.A. Kuznetsov (1945-46), P.S. Popkov (1946-49), V.M. Andrianov (1949-53), F.R. Kozlov (1953-57), I.V. Spiridonov (1957-62), V.S. Tolstikov (1962-63, 1964-70), G.V. Romanov (1970-83), L.N. Zaykov (1983-85), Y.F. Solovyev (1985-89), B.V. Gidaspov (1989-91).

References: Центральный государственный архив историко-политических документов Санкт-Петербурга: Путеводитель. М., 2000. С. 82-86, 456-58, 461; Руководители Санкт-Петербурга. СПб.; М., 2003. С. 341-366.

N. B. Lebedeva. Andrianov Vasily Mikhailovich
Gidaspov Boris Veniaminovich
Kirov (real name Kostrikov) Sergey Mironovich
Kozlov Alexander Alexandrovich
Kuznetsov Alexey Alexandrovich
Popkov Peter Sergeevich
Romanov Grigory Vasilievich
Solovyev Yury Filippovich
Spiridonov Ivan Vasilievich
Tolstikov Vasily Sergeevich
Zaykov Lev Nikolaevich
Zhdanov Andrey Alexandrovich
Руководители Санкт-Петербурга. СПб.; М., 2003
Центральный государственный архив историко-политических документов Санкт- Петербурга: Путеводитель. М., 2000 1991