# Politburo of the 26th Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union

The Politburo of the 26th Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union was in session from 1981 to 1986.

## Composition
### Members

Members of the Political Bureau of the 26th Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union :
| Name | Cyrillic | 25th POL | 27th POL | Birth | Death | PM | Ethnicity |
| Heydar Aliyev | Гейда́р Али́ев | Promoted | Reelected | 1923 | 2003 | 1945 | Azerbaijani |
| Yuri Andropov | Юрий Андропов | Old | Died | 1914 | 1984 | 1939 | Russian |
| Leonid Brezhnev | Леонид Брежнев | Old | Died | 1906 | 1982 | 1931 | Russian |
| Viktor Chebrikov | Виктор Че́бриков | Promoted | Reelected | 1923 | 1999 | 1950 | Ukrainian |
| Konstantin Chernenko | Константин Черненко | Old | Died | 1911 | 1985 | 1931 | Ukrainian |
| Mikhail Gorbachev | Михаил Горбачёв | Old | Reelected | 1931 | 2022 | 1952 | Russian |
| Viktor Grishin | Ви́ктор Гри́шин | Old | Relieved | 1914 | 1992 | 1939 | Russian |
| Andrei Gromyko | Андрей Громыко | Old | Reelected | 1909 | 1989 | 1931 | Belarusian |
| Andrei Kirilenko | Андре́й Кириле́нко | Old | Relieved | 1906 | 1990 | 1930 | Ukrainian |
| Dinmukhamed Kunaev | Дінмұхаммед Қонаев | Old | Reelected | 1912 | 1993 | 1939 | Kazakh |
| Yegor Ligachyov | Егор Лигачёв | By-election | Reelected | 1920 | 2021 | 1944 | Russian |
| Arvīds Pelše | А́рвид Пе́льше | Old | Died | 1899 | 1983 | 1915 | Latvian |
| Grigory Romanov | Григорий Романов | Old | Relieved | 1923 | 2008 | 1944 | Russian |
| Nikolai Ryzhkov | Николай Рыжков | By-election | Reelected | 1929 | 2024 | 1956 | Russian |
| Volodymyr Shcherbytsky | Влади́мир Щерби́цкий | Old | Reelected | 1918 | 1990 | 1948 | Ukrainian |
| Eduard Shevardnadze | Эдуард Шеварднадзе | Promoted | Reelected | 1928 | 2014 | 1936 | Georgian |
| Mikhail Solomentsev | Михаи́л Соло́менцев | Promoted | Reelected | 1913 | 2008 | 1940 | Russian |
| Mikhail Suslov | Михаил Суслов | Old | Died | 1902 | 1982 | 1921 | Russian |
| Nikolai Tikhonov | Николай Тихонов | Old | Relieved | 1905 | 1997 | 1940 | Russian |
| Dmitriy Ustinov | Дми́трий Усти́нов | Old | Died | 1908 | 1984 | 1927 | Russian |
| Vitaly Vorotnikov | Вита́лий Воротнико́в | Promoted | Reelected | 1926 | 2012 | 1950 | Russian |

### Candidates

Members of the Political Bureau of the 26th Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union :
| Name | Cyrillic | 25th POL | 27th POL | Birth | Death | PM | Ethnicity |
| Heydar Aliyev | Гейда́р Али́ев | Candidate | Promoted | 1923 | 2003 | 1945 | Azerbaijani |
| Viktor Chebrikov | Виктор Че́бриков | By-election | Promoted | 1923 | 1999 | 1950 | Ukrainian |
| Pyotr Demichev | Пётр Де́мичев | Candidate | Candidate | 1917 | 2010 | 1939 | Russian |
| Vladimir Dolgikh | Владимир Долгих | By-election | Candidate | 1924 | 2020 | 1942 | Russian |
| Tikhon Kiselyov | Ти́хон Киселёв | Candidate | Died | 1917 | 1983 | 1940 | Belarusian |
| Vasily Kuznetsov | Василий Кузнецов | Candidate | Not | 1901 | 1990 | 1927 | Russian |
| Boris Ponomarev | Борис Пономарёв | Candidate | Not | 1905 | 1995 | 1919 | Russian |
| Sharof Rashidov | Шараф Рашидов | Candidate | Died | 1917 | 1983 | 1939 | Uzbek |
| Eduard Shevardnadze | Эдуард Шеварднадзе | Candidate | Promoted | 1928 | 2014 | 1936 | Georgian |
| Sergey Sokolov | Серге́й Соколо́в | By-election | Candidate | 1911 | 2012 | 1937 | Russian |
| Mikhail Solomentsev | Михаи́л Соло́менцев | Candidate | Promoted | 1913 | 2008 | 1940 | Russian |
| Nikolai Talyzin | Никола́й Талы́зин | By-election | Candidate | 1929 | 1991 | 1960 | Russian |
| Vitaly Vorotnikov | Вита́лий Воротнико́в | By-election | Promoted | 1926 | 2012 | 1950 | Russian |
| Boris Yeltsin | Борис Ельцин | By-election | Candidate | 1931 | 2007 | 1961 | Russian |