Stalin's third government

The Third Government of Stalin was the cabinet of the Soviet Union established in 1950 with Joseph Stalin as head of government, serving as president of the Council of Ministers. It functioned until March 15, 1953, with the death of Stalin, when Georgy Malenkov succeeded him as president of the Council of Ministers.^[1]

Stalin's third government
Soviet Union 13th government of the Soviet Union
Date formed	March 12, 1950
Date dissolved	March 15, 1953
People and organisations
Head of state	Nikolai Shvernik
Head of government	President of the Sovmin
Deputy head of government	Vyacheslav Molotov
No. of ministers	56
Member party	All-Union Communist Party (Bolshevik)
Status in legislature	Third Convocation of the Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union
History
Election	1950 Soviet Union legislative election
Outgoing election	1954 Soviet Union legislative election
Predecessor	Stalin II
Successor	Malenkov I

Ministries[2]

Ministry	Minister	Party
Chairman of the Council of Ministers	Joseph Stalin	PCU (b)
First Deputy Chairman of the Council of Ministers	Vyacheslav Molotov[3][4]	PCU (b)
	Nikolai Bulganin[5][6]	PCU (b)
Deputy Chairmen of the Council of Ministers	Lavrenti Beria	PCU (b)
	Andrei Andreyev	PCU (b)
	Nikolai Bulganin (1950)	PCU (b)
	Kliment Voroshilov	PCU (b)
	Aleksandr Yefremov[7][8] (1950-1951)	PCU (b)
	Alexei Kosygin	PCU (b)
	Georgy Malenkov	PCU (b)
	Anastas Mikoyan[9]	PCU (b)
	Maksim Saburov	PCU (b)
	Ivan Tevosian[10]	PCU (b)
	Mikhail Pervukhin	PCU (b)
	Panteleimon Ponomarenko (1952–1953)	PCU (b)
Administrator of Affairs	Mikhail Pomaznev	PCU (b)
Minister of Foreign Affairs	Andrey Vyshinsky	PCU (b)
Minister of Armed Forces	Aleksandr Vasilievsky	PCU (b)
Minister of Navy	Ivan Yumashev (1950–1951)	PCU (b)
	Nikolai Kuznetsov (1951–1953)	PCU (b)
Minister of Defense	Nikolai Bulganin	PCU (b)
Minister of Foreign Trade	Mikhail Menshikov (1950–1951)	PCU (b)
	Pavel Kumykin (1951–1953)	PCU (b)
Minister of Trade	Basilio Zhavoronkov	PCU (b)
Minister of Railways	Boris Beshev	PCU (b)
Minister of Information	Nikolay Psurtsev	PCU (b)
Minister of Timber Industry	Georgy Orlov (1950–1951)	PCU (b)
	Ivan Emelianovich (1951–1953)	PCU (b)
Minister of Light Industry	Alexei Kosygin	PCU (b)
Minister of Meat and Dairy Industry	Ivan Kuzminy	PCU (b)
Minister of Broad Consumer Goods	Alexei Kosygin	PCU (b)
Minister of Aeronautical Industry	Mikhail Krunichev	PCU (b)
Minister of Automotive Industry	Ivan Jlamov	PCU (b)
Minister of Naval Industry	Vyacheslav Malyshev (1950–1952)	PCU (b)
	Ivan Nosenko (1952–1953)	PCU (b)
Minister of Armaments	Dmitry Ustinov	PCU (b)
Minister of Agricultural Electrical Engineering	Piotr Goremykin (1950–1951)	PCU (b)
	Georgy Popov (1951)	PCU (b)
	Sergei Stepanov (1951–1953)	PCU (b)
Minister of Heavy Construction Industry	Nikolai Kazakov	PCU (b)
Minister of Automotive and Tractor Industry	Stepan Akopov[11] (1950)	PCU (b)
	Grigory Xlamov (1950–1953)	PCU (b)
Minister of Mechanics and Tools	Pyotr Parshin	PCU (b)
Minister of Metallurgical Industry	Ivan Tevosian[10]	PCU (b)
Minister of Ferrous Metallurgy	Ivan Tevosian[10]	PCU (b)
Minister of Non-Ferrous Metallurgy	Pyotr Lomako	PCU (b)
Minister of Petroleum Industry	Nikolai Baibakov	PCU (b)
Minister of Coal Industry	Alexander Zasyadko	PCU (b)
Minister of Electrical Industry	Ivan Kabanov (1950–1951)	PCU (b)
	Dmitry Yefremov [ru] (1951–1953)	PCU (b)
Minister of Energy	Dmitri Zhimerin	PCU (b)
Minister of Chemical Industry	Sergei Tikhomirov	PCU (b)
Minister of Building Materials Industry	Simon Ginzburg (1950)	PCU (b)
	Pavel Yudin (1950–1953)	PCU (b)
Minister of Transport Engineering	Yuri Maksarev	PCU (b)
Minister of Construction and Mechanical Engineering	Semyon Fomin	PCU (b)
Minister of Finance	Arseny Zverev	PCU (b)
Minister of Rural Affairs	Ivan Benediktov	PCU (b)
Minister of State Farms	Nikolay Skvortsov	PCU (b)
Minister of Cotton	Usman Yusupov	PCU (b)
Minister of Maritime Transport	Nikolai Novikov	PCU (b)
Minister of River Transport	Zosima Shashkov	PCU (b)
Minister of Internal Affairs	Sergey Kruglov	PCU (b)
Minister of Health	Yefim Smirnov (1950–1952)	PCU (b)
	Aleksandr Shabanov (1952–1953)	PCU (b)
	Andrei Treitakov (1953)	PCU (b)
Minister of Justice	Konstantin Gorshenin	PCU (b)
Minister of Food Industry	Boris Dvinsky (1950)	PCU (b)
	Panteleimon Ponomarenko (1951–1952)	PCU (b)
	Nikolai Ignatov (1952–1953)	PCU (b)
Minister of Fishing Industry	Konstantín Rusakov (1950–1952)	PCU (b)
	Dmitri Pavlov (1952–1953)	PCU (b)
Minister of Meat and Dairy Industry	Ivan Kuzminy	PCU (b)
Minister of State Security	Viktor Abakumov (1950–1951)	PCU (b)
	Semyon Ignatiev (1951–1953)	PCU (b)
Minister of Construction Engineering	Nikolai Dygai	PCU (b)
Minister of State Control	Lev Mejlis (1950)	PCU (b)
	Viktor Abakumov (1950–1953)	PCU (b)
Minister of Higher Education	Sergei Kaftanov (1950–1951)	PCU (b)
	Vsevolod Stoletov (1951–1953)	PCU (b)
State Committee on Cinematography	Ivan Bolshakov	PCU (b)
Minister of Labor and Employment	Vasily Pronin	PCU (b)
Minister of Communications	Alekseenko Gennady	PCU (b)
Minister of Road Transport	Aleksandr Kurshev	PCU (b)
Minister of Railways	Boris Beshev	PCU (b)
Minister of Geology	Piotr Zajarov	PCU (b)
Minister of Urban Development	Georgy Popov	PCU (b)
Minister of Gosbank	Vasily Popov	PCU (b)
Minister of State Planning Committee	Maksim Saburov	PCU (b)