# Politburo of the 25th Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union

The Politburo of the 25th Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union was in session from 1976 to 1981.

## Composition
### Members

Members of the Political Bureau of the 25th Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union :
| Name | Cyrillic | 24th POL | 26th POL | Birth | Death | PM | Ethnicity |
| Yuri Andropov | Юрий Андропов | Old | Reelected | 1914 | 1984 | 1939 | Russian |
| Leonid Brezhnev | Леонид Брежнев | Old | Reelected | 1906 | 1982 | 1931 | Russian |
| Konstantin Chernenko | Константин Черненко | Promoted | Reelected | 1911 | 1985 | 1931 | Ukrainian |
| Mikhail Gorbachev | Михаил Горбачёв | Promoted | Reelected | 1931 | 2022 | 1952 | Russian |
| Andrei Grechko | Андре́й Гре́чко | Old | Died | 1903 | 1976 | 1928 | Ukrainian |
| Viktor Grishin | Ви́ктор Гри́шин | Old | Reelected | 1914 | 1992 | 1939 | Russian |
| Andrei Gromyko | Андрей Громыко | Old | Reelected | 1909 | 1989 | 1931 | Belarusian |
| Andrei Kirilenko | Андре́й Кириле́нко | Old | Reelected | 1906 | 1990 | 1930 | Ukrainian |
| Alexei Kosygin | Алексей Косыгин | Old | Relieved | 1904 | 1980 | 1927 | Russian |
| Fyodor Kulakov | Фёдор Кулаков | Old | Died | 1918 | 1978 | 1940 | Russian |
| Dinmukhamed Kunaev | Дінмұхаммед Қонаев | Old | Reelected | 1912 | 1993 | 1939 | Kazakh |
| Kirill Mazurov | Кири́лл Ма́зуров | Old | Relieved | 1914 | 1989 | 1940 | Belarusian |
| Arvīds Pelše | А́рвид Пе́льше | Old | Reelected | 1899 | 1983 | 1915 | Latvian |
| Nikolai Podgorny | Никола́й Подго́рный | Old | Relieved | 1903 | 1983 | 1930 | Ukrainian |
| Grigory Romanov | Григорий Романов | Candidate | Reelected | 1923 | 2008 | 1944 | Russian |
| Volodymyr Shcherbitsky | Влади́мир Щерби́цкий | Old | Reelected | 1918 | 1990 | 1948 | Ukrainian |
| Mikhail Suslov | Михаил Суслов | Old | Reelected | 1902 | 1982 | 1921 | Russian |
| Nikolai Tikhonov | Николай Тихонов | Promoted | Reelected | 1905 | 1997 | 1940 | Russian |
| Dmitriy Ustinov | Дми́трий Усти́нов | Candidate | Reelected | 1908 | 1984 | 1927 | Russian |

### Candidates

Candidate Members of the Political Bureau of the 25th Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union :
| Name | Cyrillic | 24th POL | 26th POL | Birth | Death | PM | Ethnicity |
| Heydar Aliyev | Гейда́р Али́ев | New | Candidate | 1923 | 2003 | 1945 | Azerbaijani |
| Konstantin Chernenko | Константин Черненко | By-election | Promoted | 1911 | 1985 | 1931 | Ukrainian |
| Pyotr Demichev | Пётр Де́мичев | Candidate | Candidate | 1917 | 2010 | 1939 | Russian |
| Mikhail Gorbachev | Михаил Горбачёв | New | Promoted | 1931 | 2022 | 1952 | Russian |
| Tikhon Kiselyov | Ти́хон Киселёв | By-election | Candidate | 1917 | 1983 | 1940 | Belarusian |
| Vasily Kuznetsov | Василий Кузнецов | By-election | Candidate | 1901 | 1990 | 1927 | Russian |
| Pyotr Masherov | Пётр Машеров | Candidate | Died | 1918 | 1980 | 1943 | Belarusian |
| Boris Ponomarev | Борис Пономарёв | Candidate | Candidate | 1905 | 1995 | 1919 | Russian |
| Sharof Rashidov | Шараф Рашидов | Candidate | Candidate | 1917 | 1983 | 1939 | Uzbek |
| Eduard Shevardnadze | Эдуард Шеварднадзе | By-election | Candidate | 1928 | 2014 | 1936 | Georgian |
| Mikhail Solomentsev | Михаи́л Соло́менцев | Candidate | Candidate | 1913 | 2008 | 1940 | Russian |
| Nikolai Tikhonov | Николай Тихонов | By-election | Promoted | 1905 | 1997 | 1940 | Russian |