Politburo of the 25th Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union

The Politburo of the 25th Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union was in session from 1976 to 1981.

25th Politburo

24th Politburo ← →  26th Politburo
Duration	5 March 1976 – 3 March 1981

Composition

Members

Members of the Political Bureau of the 25th Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union
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Name	Cyrillic	24th POL	26th POL	Birth	Death	PM	Ethnicity
Yuri Andropov	Юрий Андропов	Old	Reelected	1914	1984	1939	Russian
Leonid Brezhnev	Леонид Брежнев	Old	Reelected	1906	1982	1931	Russian
Konstantin Chernenko	Константин Черненко	Promoted	Reelected	1911	1985	1931	Ukrainian
Mikhail Gorbachev	Михаил Горбачёв	Promoted	Reelected	1931	2022	1952	Russian
Andrei Grechko	Андре́й Гре́чко	Old	Died	1903	1976	1928	Ukrainian
Viktor Grishin	Ви́ктор Гри́шин	Old	Reelected	1914	1992	1939	Russian
Andrei Gromyko	Андрей Громыко	Old	Reelected	1909	1989	1931	Belarusian
Andrei Kirilenko	Андре́й Кириле́нко	Old	Reelected	1906	1990	1930	Ukrainian
Alexei Kosygin	Алексей Косыгин	Old	Relieved	1904	1980	1927	Russian
Fyodor Kulakov	Фёдор Кулаков	Old	Died	1918	1978	1940	Russian
Dinmukhamed Kunaev	Дінмұхаммед Қонаев	Old	Reelected	1912	1993	1939	Kazakh
Kirill Mazurov	Кири́лл Ма́зуров	Old	Relieved	1914	1989	1940	Belarusian
Arvīds Pelše	А́рвид Пе́льше	Old	Reelected	1899	1983	1915	Latvian
Nikolai Podgorny	Никола́й Подго́рный	Old	Relieved	1903	1983	1930	Ukrainian
Grigory Romanov	Григорий Романов	Candidate	Reelected	1923	2008	1944	Russian
Volodymyr Shcherbitsky	Влади́мир Щерби́цкий	Old	Reelected	1918	1990	1948	Ukrainian
Mikhail Suslov	Михаил Суслов	Old	Reelected	1902	1982	1921	Russian
Nikolai Tikhonov	Николай Тихонов	Promoted	Reelected	1905	1997	1940	Russian
Dmitriy Ustinov	Дми́трий Усти́нов	Candidate	Reelected	1908	1984	1927	Russian

Candidates

Candidate Members of the Political Bureau of the 25th Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union
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Name	Cyrillic	24th POL	26th POL	Birth	Death	PM	Ethnicity
Heydar Aliyev	Гейда́р Али́ев	New	Candidate	1923	2003	1945	Azerbaijani
Konstantin Chernenko	Константин Черненко	By-election	Promoted	1911	1985	1931	Ukrainian
Pyotr Demichev	Пётр Де́мичев	Candidate	Candidate	1917	2010	1939	Russian
Mikhail Gorbachev	Михаил Горбачёв	New	Promoted	1931	2022	1952	Russian
Tikhon Kiselyov	Ти́хон Киселёв	By-election	Candidate	1917	1983	1940	Belarusian
Vasily Kuznetsov	Василий Кузнецов	By-election	Candidate	1901	1990	1927	Russian
Pyotr Masherov	Пётр Машеров	Candidate	Died	1918	1980	1943	Belarusian
Boris Ponomarev	Борис Пономарёв	Candidate	Candidate	1905	1995	1919	Russian
Sharof Rashidov	Шараф Рашидов	Candidate	Candidate	1917	1983	1939	Uzbek
Eduard Shevardnadze	Эдуард Шеварднадзе	By-election	Candidate	1928	2014	1936	Georgian
Mikhail Solomentsev	Михаи́л Соло́менцев	Candidate	Candidate	1913	2008	1940	Russian
Nikolai Tikhonov	Николай Тихонов	By-election	Promoted	1905	1997	1940	Russian