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.

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)