Stalin's_First_Government
Stalin's first government
Government of the Soviet Union
Stalin's first government was created on 7 May 1941 and was dissolved on 15 March 1946, with the creation of Stalin's second government. It was the government throughout the Great Patriotic War.
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Stalin's first government | |
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.svg){kind=small} 11th government of the Soviet Union | |
| Date formed | 7 May 1941 (1941-05-07) |
| Date dissolved | 15 March 1946 (1946-03-15) |
| People and organisations | |
| Head of state | Mikhail Kalinin |
| Head of government | Joseph Stalin |
| Deputy head of government | Vyacheslav Molotov |
| No. of ministers | 56 |
| Status in legislature | One Party State |
| Opposition party | CPSU |
| History | |
| Election(s) | 1937 Soviet Union legislative election |
| Outgoing election | 1946 Soviet Union legislative election |
| Predecessor | Molotov IV |
| Successor | Stalin II |
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The government consisted of:[1]
Some periods in the table below start before 7 May 1941 or end after 15 March 1946 because the minister was in previous or later governments.
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More information Ministry, Minister ...
| Ministry | Minister | Took office | Left office |
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| Chairman of the Council of Peoples' Commissars | Joseph Stalin | 6 May 1941 | 5 March 1953 |
| First Deputy Chairman of the Council of Peoples' Commissars | Vyacheslav Molotov | 16 August 1942 | 15 July 1964 |
| Deputy Chairman of the Council of Peoples' Commissars | Vyacheslav Molotov | 7 May 1941 | 16 August 1942 |
| Anastas Mikoyan | 7 May 1941 | 15 March 1946 | |
| Lazar Kaganovich | 7 May 1941 | 15 March 1946 | |
| Nikolai Voznesenski | 7 May 1941 | 15 March 1946 | |
| Andrey Vyshinsky | 7 May 1941 | 1 January 1944 | |
| Rosalia Zemlyachka | 7 May 1941 | 1 January 1943 | |
| Aleksei Kosygin | 7 May 1941 | 15 March 1946 | |
| Mikhail Pervukhin | 7 May 1941 | 1 January 1944 | |
| Lavrentiy Beria | 7 May 1941 | 15 March 1946 | |
| Maksim Saburov | 7 May 1941 | 1 January 1943 | |
| People's Commissar for Foreign Affairs | Vyacheslav Molotov | 7 May 1941 | 4 March 1949 |
| People's Commissar for Agriculture | Ivan Benediktov | 7 May 1941 | 11 December 1943 |
| Andrey Andreyevich Andreyev | 11 December 1943 | 26 March 1946 | |
| People's Commissar for Armament | Boris Vannikov | 7 May 1941 | 9 June 1941 |
| Dmitri Ustinov | 9 June 1941 | 6 March 1953 | |
| People's Commissar for Ammunition | Pjotr Goremykin | 7 May 1941 | 16 February 1942 |
| Boris Vannikov | 16 February 1942 | 7 January 1946 | |
| People's Commissar for Tank Industry | Vyatsheslav Malyshev | 1 September 1941 | 16 October 1945 |
| People's Commissar for Mortar Arms | Pjotr Parshin | 20 November 1941 | 17 February 1946 |
| People's Commissar for Aviation Industry | Aleksey Shakhurin | 7 May 1941 | 15 March 1946 |
| People's Commissar for Building Materials Industry | Leonid Sosnin | 7 May 1941 | 21 December 1944 |
| Lazar Kaganovich | 21 December 1944 | 12 March 1947 | |
| People's Commissar for Chemical Industry | Mikhail Denisov | 7 May 1941 | 26 February 1942 |
| Mikhail Pervukhin | 26 February 1942 | 17 January 1950 | |
| People's Commissar for Coal Industry | Vasily Vakhrushev | 12 October 1939 | 19 January 1946 |
| People's Commissar for Commerce | Aleksandr Vasilievich Lyubimov | 7 May 1941 | 1 March 1948 |
| People's Commissar for Transport | Lazar Kaganovich | 7 May 1941 | 21 December 1944 |
| Ivan Kovalev | 21 December 1944 | 15 March 1946 | |
| People's Commissar for Construction | Semjon Zakharovich Ginzburg | 7 May 1941 | 19 January 1946 |
| People's Commissar for Defence | Semyon Timoshenko | 7 May 1941 | 19 July 1941 |
| Joseph Stalin | 19 July 1941 | 3 March 1947 | |
| People's Commissar for Electrotechnical Industry | Ivan Kabanov [ru] | 7 May 1941 | 19 March 1946 |
| People's Commissar for Ferrous Metallurgy | Ivan Tevosian | 17 April 1940 | 29 July 1948 |
| People's Commissar for Finance | Arseny Zverev | 19 January 1938 | 16 February 1948 |
| People's Commissar for the Fishing Industry | Aleksandr Ishkov | 1 July 1940 | 8 May 1946 |
| People's Commissar for Food Industry | Dmitri Pavlov [ru] | 7 May 1941 | 26 April 1951 |
| People's Commissar for Foreign Trade | Anastas Mikoyan | 30 November 1938 | 4 March 1949 |
| People's Commissar for Health | Georgy Miterev | 8 September 1939 | 17 February 1947 |
| People's Commissar for Heavy Machine Building | Aleksandr Yefremov | 17 April 1940 | 6 June 1941 |
| Nikolai Kazakov | 6 June 1941 | 6 March 1953 | |
| People's Commissar for the Interior | Lavrentiy Beria | 25 November 1938 | 14 January 1946 |
| Sergei Kruglov | 14 January 1946 | 13 March 1953 | |
| People's Commissar for Justice | Nikolai Ryshkov | 19 January 1939 | 5 February 1948 |
| People's Commissar for Light Industry | Sergei Lukin [ru] | 2 January 1939 | 11 June 1947 |
| People's Commissar for Machine Building | Pjotr Parshin | 7 May 1941 | 20 November 1941 |
| 17 February 1946 | 15 March 1946 | ||
| People's Commissar for Medium Machine Building | Stepan Akopov | 1 January 1942 | 17 February 1946 |
| People's Commissar for Meat and Dairy Industry | Pavel Smirnov | 19 January 1939 | 22 August 1946 |
| People's Commissar for Merchant Marine on Rivers | Zosima Shashkov | 7 May 1941 | 19 March 1946 |
| People's Commissar for Merchant Marine in Open Sea | Semjon Dukelski | 7 May 1941 | 8 February 1942 |
| Pjotr Sirshov | 6 June 1941 | 15 March 1946 | |
| People's Commissars for the Navy | Nikolay Kuznetsov | 28 April 1939 | 25 February 1946 |
| People's Commissars for Non-Ferrous Metallurgy | Pyotr Lomako | 9 July 1940 | 26 June 1948 |
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More information Committee, Chairman ...
| Committee | Chairman | Took office | Left office |
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| Chairman of the State Control Commission | Maksim Saburov | 7 May 1941 | 8 December 1942 |
| Nikolai Voznesensky | 8 December 1942 | 15 March 1946 |
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- "Governments of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (1964–1991)". elisa.net. Archived from the original on February 24, 2012. Retrieved September 12, 2010.
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| Preceded by Molotov IV |
Governments of the Soviet Union 7 May 1941–15 March 1946 |
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