Tikhonov's Second Government

The former government of Nikolai Tikhonov was dissolved following the Soviet legislative election of 1984 which gave a clear majority in favour of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. Tikhonov's government was dissolved in 1985 when Mikhail Gorbachev replaced him with Nikolai Ryzhkov as Premier.

Ministries

Ministry	Minister	Period
Chairman of the Council of Ministers	Nikolai Tikhonov	11 April 1984 – 27 September 1985
First Deputy Chairman of the Council of Ministers	Heydar Aliyev	11 April 1984 – 27 September 1985
	Ivan Arkhipov	11 April 1984 – 27 September 1985
	Andrei Gromyko	11 April 1984 – 2 July 1985
Deputy Chairman of the Council of Ministers	Nikolai Baibakov	11 April 1984 – 27 September 1985
	Veniamin Dymshits	11 April 1984 – 27 September 1985
	Nikolai Talyzin	11 April 1984 – 27 September 1985
	Leonid Kostandov	11 April 1984 – 5 September 1985
	Yakov Ryabov	11 April 1984 – 27 September 1985
	Juri Marchuk	11 April 1984 – 27 September 1985
	Nikolai Martynov	11 April 1984 – 27 September 1985
	Aleksei Antonov	11 April 1984 – 27 September 1985
	Ziya Nuriyev	11 April 1984 – 27 September 1985
	Leonid Smirnov	11 April 1984 – 27 September 1985
	Ivan Bodyul	11 April 1984 – 27 September 1985
	Boris Shcherbina	11 April 1984 – 27 September 1985
Minister of Agriculture Construction	Viktor Danilenko	11 April 1984 – 27 September 1985
Minister of Agricultural Products Procurement	Grigori Zolotukhin	11 April 1984 – 27 September 1985
Minister of Agriculture	Valentin Mesyats	11 April 1984 – 27 September 1985
Minister of Aviation Industry	Ivan Silayev	11 April 1984 – 27 September 1985
Minister of Assembling and Special Construction	Boris Bakin	11 April 1984 – 27 September 1985
Minister of Automobile Industry	Viktor Poljakov	11 April 1984 – 27 September 1985
Minister of Building Material Industry	Aleksei Jasin	11 April 1984 – 15 July 1985
	Sergei Voyenushkin	15 July – 27 September 1985
Minister of Chemical Industry	Vladimir Listov	11 April 1984 – 27 September 1985
Minister of Civil Aviation	Boris Bugajev	11 April 1984 – 27 September 1985
Minister of Coal Industry	Boris Bratshenko	11 April 1984 – 27 September 1985
Minister of Communications	Vasily Shamshin	11 April 1984 – 27 September 1985
Minister of Construction	Georgi Karavajev	11 April 1984 – 27 September 1985
Minister of Construction the Far East and Transbaikal Region	Aleksandr Babenko	11 April 1984 – 27 September 1985
Ministry of Constructuction of Heavy Industry	Nikolai Goldin	11 April 1984 – 27 September 1985
Minister of Construction of Oil and Gas Industry	Boris Shcherbina	11 April 1984 – 27 September 1985
Minister of Construction of Petrochemical Machinery	Konstantin Brekhov	11 April 1984 – 27 September 1985
Minister of Construction of Power Plants	Vladimir Velichko	11 April 1984 – 27 September 1985
Minister of Construction, Road Building and Communal Machines	Vitali Chudin	11 April 1984 – 2 August 1985
	Jevgeni Varnachev	2 August – 27 September 1985
Minister of Culture	Pyotr Demichev	11 April 1984 – 27 September 1985
Minister of Defence	Dmitriy Ustinov	11 April 1984 – 22 December 1984
	Sergei Sokolov	22 December 1984 – 27 September 1985
Minister of Defence Industry	Pavel Finogenov	11 April 1984 – 27 September 1985
Minister of Education	Mikhail Prokofjev	11 April – 21 December 1984
	Sergei Shcherbakov	21 December 1984 – 27 September 1985
Minister of Electrical Engineering	Anatoli Mayorets	11 April 1984 – 8 May 1985
	Gennady Voronovski	8 May – 27 September 1985
Minister of Power and Electrification	Pyotr Neporozhny	11 April 1984 – 23 March 1985
	Anatoli Mayorets	23 March – 27 September 1985
Minister of Electronic Industry	Aleksandr Shokin	11 April 1984 – 27 September 1985
Minister of Finance	Vasily Garbuzov	11 April 1984 – 27 September 1985
Minister of Fish Industry	Vladimir Kamentsev	11 April 1984 – 27 September 1985
Minister of Food Industry	Voldemar Lein	11 April 1984 – 27 September 1985
Minister of Fruits and Vegetables	Nikolai Koslov	11 April 1984 – 27 September 1985
Minister of Foreign Affairs	Andrei Gromyko	11 April 1984 – 7 July 1985
	Eduard Shevardnadze	7 July – 27 September 1985
Minister of Foreign Trade	Nikolai Patolitshev	11 April 1984 – 27 September 1985
Minister of Gas Industry	Sabit Orudzhev	11 April 1984 – 13 February 1985
	Viktor Tshernomyrdin	13 February – 27 September 1985
Minister of Geology	Jevgeni Kozlovski	11 April 1984 – 27 September 1985
Minister of Health	Sergei Burenkov	11 April 1984 – 27 September 1985
Minister of Heavy and Transport Construction	Sergei Afanasjev	11 April 1984 – 27 September 1985
Ministry of Higher Education	Vjatsheslav Yeljutin	11 April 1984 – 16 July 1985
	Gennady Yogadin	16 July – 27 September 1985
Ministry of Industrial Construction	Juri Solovjev	11 April 1984 – 16 July 1985
	Arkadi Shchepetilnikov	16 July – 27 September 1985
Minister of Instrument-Making, Automation and Control Systems	Mikhail Shkabardnya	11 April 1984 – 27 September 1985
Minister of Internal Affairs	Vitali Fedorchuk	11 April 1984 – 27 September 1985
Minister of Iron and Steel Industry	Ivan Kazanetz	11 April 1984 – 16 July 1985
	Serafim Kolpakov	16 July – 27 September 1985
Minister of Justice	Boris Kravtsov	11 April 1984 – 27 September 1985
Minister of Land Reclamation and Water Conservancy	Nikolai Vasiljev	11 April 1984 – 27 September 1985
Minister of Light Industry	Nikolai Tarasov	11 April 1984 – 6 July 1985
	Vladimir Klyuyev	6 July – 27 September 1985
Minister of Machine Building	Vjatsheslav Bakhirov	11 April 1984 – 27 September 1985
Minister of Machine Building for Light and Food Industries	Ivan Pudkov	11 April 1984 – 19 May 1984
	Lev Vasiljev	19 May 1984 – 27 September 1985
Minister of Machinery for Stock Raising and Feeding	Konstantin Beljak	11 April 1984 – 27 September 1985
Minister of General Machine Building	Oleg Baklamov	11 April 1984 – 27 September 1985
Minister of Manufacture of Communication Media	Erien Pervyshin	11 April 1984 – 27 September 1985
Minister of Meat and Dairy Industry	Jevgeni Sizenko	11 April 1984 – 27 September 1985
Minister of Medical Industry	Afanasi Melnitshenko	11 April 1984 – 27 September 1985
Minister of Medium Machine Building	Yefim Slavski	11 April 1984 – 27 September 1985
Minister of Merchant Marine	Timofei Guzenko	11 April 1984 – 27 September 1985
Minister of Mineral Fertilizer Production	Aleksei Petrishchev	11 April 1984 – 27 September 1985
Minister of Non-Ferrous Metallurgy	Pyotr Lomako	11 April 1984 – 27 September 1985
Minister of Oil Industry	Nikolai Maltsev	11 April 1984 – 13 February 1985
	Vasili Dinkov	13 February – 27 September 1985
Minister of Oil Processing and Petrochemical Industry	Viktor Fjodorov	11 April 1984 – 27 September 1985
Minister of Radio Industry	Pyotr Pleshakov	11 April 1984 – 27 September 1985
Minister of Railways	Nikolai Konarjev	11 April 1984 – 27 September 1985
Minister of Shipbuilding	Igor Belousov	11 April 1984 – 27 September 1985
Ministry of Timber and Wood Processing Industry	Mikhail Busygin	11 April 1984 – 27 September 1985
Minister of Tractors and Agricultural Machines	Aleksandr Yezhevski	11 April 1984 – 27 September 1985
Minister of Trade, Home	Grigori Vashchenko	11 April 1984 – 27 September 1985
Minister of Transport Construction	Ivan Sosnov	11 April 1984 – 8 May 1985
	Vladimir Brezhnev	8 May – 27 September 1985

Committees

Committee	Chairman	Period
Chief Administrator of the Council of Ministers	Mikhail Smirtyukov	11 April 1984 – 27 September 1985
Chairman of the People's Control Commission	Aleksei Shkolnikov	11 April 1984 – 27 September 1985
Chairman of the State Planning Committee	Nikolai Baibakov	11 April 1984 – 27 September 1985
Chairman of State Committee for State Security (KGB)	Viktor Chebrikov	11 April 1984 – 27 September 1985