26th Secretariat of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union

The 26th Secretariat of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union was elected by the 26th Central Committee in the aftermath of the 26th Congress.

List of members

Name (birth–death)	Took office	Left office	Duration	Note
Leonid Brezhnev (1906–1982)	3 March 1981	10 November 1982		Elected General Secretary at the 1st Plenary Session of the 26th Central Committee. He died while in office.
Yuri Andropov (1914–1984)	24 May 1982	9 February 1984		Elected General Secretary at the 4th Plenary Session, and to the Secretariat at the 3rd Plenary Session of the 26th Central Committee. He died in office.
Konstantin Chernenko (1911–1985)	3 March 1981	10 March 1985		Elected General Secretary at the 8th Plenary Session of the 26th Central Committee. He died in office.
Mikhail Gorbachev (born 1931)	3 March 1981	6 March 1986		Elected General Secretary at the 11th Plenary Session of the 26th Central Committee.
Vladimir Dolgikh (born 1924)	3 March 1981	6 March 1986		—
Ivan Kapitonov (1915–2002)	3 March 1981	6 March 1986		—
Andrei Kirilenko (1906–1990)	3 March 1981	22 November 1982		Resigned at the 5th Plenary Session of the 26th Central Committee.
Yegor Ligachev (born 1920)	26 December 1983	6 March 1986		Elected at the 7th Plenary Session of the 26th Central Committee.
Viktor Nikonov (born 1938)	23 April 1984	6 March 1986		Elected at the 12th Plenary Session of the 26th Central Committee.
Boris Ponomarev (1905–1995)	3 March 1981	6 March 1986		—
Grigory Romanov (1923–2008)	15 June 1983	6 March 1986		Elected at the 6th Plenary Session of the 26th Central Committee.
Nikolai Ryzhkov (born 1929)	22 November 1982	15 October 1985		Elected at the 5th Plenary Session of the 26th Central Committee and resigned at the 14th Plenary Session.
Konstantin Rusakov (1909–1993)	3 March 1981	6 March 1986		—
Mikhail Suslov (1902–1982)	3 March 1981	6 March 1986		—
Boris Yeltsin (1931–2007)	1 July 1985	6 March 1986		Elected at the 12th Plenary Session of the 26th Central Committee.
Lev Zaykov (1923–2002)	1 July 1985	6 March 1986		Elected at the 12th Plenary Session of the 26th Central Committee.
Mikhail Zimyanin (1914–1995)	3 March 1981	6 March 1986		—