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

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 |