Politburo of the 24th Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union

24th Politburo

23rd Politburo ← →  25th Politburo
Duration	9 April 1971 – 5 March 1976

The Politburo of the 24th Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union was in session from 1971 to 1976.

Composition

Members

Members of the Political Bureau of the 24th Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union

Name	Cyrillic	23rd POL	25th POL	Birth	Death	PM	Ethnicity
Yuri Andropov	Юрий Андропов	Promoted	Reelected	1914	1984	1939	Russian	Male
Leonid Brezhnev	Леонид Брежнев	Old	Reelected	1906	1982	1931	Russian	Male
Andrei Grechko	Андре́й Гре́чко	By-election	Reelected	1903	1976	1928	Ukrainian	Male
Viktor Grishin	Ви́ктор Гри́шин	Candidate	Reelected	1914	1992	1939	Russian	Male
Andrei Gromyko	Андрей Громыко	By-election	Reelected	1909	1989	1931	Belarusian	Male
Andrei Kirilenko	Андре́й Кириле́нко	Old	Reelected	1906	1990	1930	Ukrainian	Male
Alexei Kosygin	Алексей Косыгин	Old	Reelected	1904	1980	1927	Russian	Male
Fyodor Kulakov	Фёдор Кулаков	New	Reelected	1918	1978	1940	Russian	Male
Dinmukhamed Kunaev	Дінмұхаммед Қонаев	Candidate	Reelected	1912	1993	1939	Kazakh	Male
Kirill Mazurov	Кири́лл Ма́зуров	Old	Reelected	1914	1989	1940	Belarusian	Male
Arvīds Pelše	А́рвид Пе́льше	Old	Reelected	1899	1983	1915	Latvian	Male
Nikolai Podgorny	Никола́й Подго́рный	Old	Reelected	1903	1983	1930	Ukrainian	Male
Dmitry Polyansky	Дми́трий Поля́нский	Old	Not	1917	2001	1939	Ukrainian	Male
Volodymyr Shcherbytsky	Влади́мир Щерби́цкий	Candidate	Reelected	1918	1990	1948	Ukrainian	Male
Alexander Shelepin	Алекса́ндр Шеле́пин	Old	Relieved	1918	1994	1940	Russian	Male
Petro Shelest	Петро Шелест	Old	Relieved	1908	1996	1928	Ukrainian	Male
Mikhail Suslov	Михаил Суслов	Old	Reelected	1902	1982	1921	Russian	Male
Gennady Voronov	Геннадий Воронов	Old	Relieved	1910	1994	1931	Russian	Male

Candidates

Candidate Members of the Political Bureau of the 24th Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union

Name	Cyrillic	23rd POL	25th POL	Birth	Death	PM	Ethnicity
Yuri Andropov	Юрий Андропов	Candidate	Promoted	1914	1984	1939	Russian	Male
Pyotr Demichev	Пётр Де́мичев	Candidate	Candidate	1917	2010	1939	Russian	Male
Pyotr Masherov	Пётр Машеров	Candidate	Candidate	1918	1980	1943	Belarusian	Male
Vasil Mzhavanadze	Василий Мжаванадзе	Candidate	Relieved	1902	1988	1927	Georgian	Male
Boris Ponomarev	Борис Пономарёв	By-election	Candidate	1905	1995	1919	Russian	Male
Sharof Rashidov	Шараф Рашидов	Candidate	Candidate	1917	1983	1939	Uzbek	Male
Grigory Romanov	Григорий Романов	By-election	Member	1923	2008	1944	Russian	Male
Mikhail Solomentsev	Михаи́л Соло́менцев	By-election	Candidate	1913	2008	1940	Russian	Male
Dmitriy Ustinov	Дми́трий Усти́нов	Candidate	Member	1908	1984	1927	Russian	Male