# Tikhonov's Second Government

The former government of Nikolai Tikhonov was dissolved following the Soviet legislative election of 1984 which gave a clear majority in favour of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. Tikhonov's government was dissolved in 1985 when Mikhail Gorbachev replaced him with Nikolai Ryzhkov as Premier.

## Ministries

| Ministry | Minister | Period |
| Chairman of the Council of Ministers | Nikolai Tikhonov | 11 April 1984 – 27 September 1985 |
| First Deputy Chairman of the Council of Ministers | Heydar Aliyev | 11 April 1984 – 27 September 1985 |
| First Deputy Chairman of the Council of Ministers | Ivan Arkhipov | 11 April 1984 – 27 September 1985 |
| First Deputy Chairman of the Council of Ministers | Andrei Gromyko | 11 April 1984 – 2 July 1985 |
| Deputy Chairman of the Council of Ministers | Nikolai Baibakov | 11 April 1984 – 27 September 1985 |
| Deputy Chairman of the Council of Ministers | Veniamin Dymshits | 11 April 1984 – 27 September 1985 |
| Deputy Chairman of the Council of Ministers | Nikolai Talyzin | 11 April 1984 – 27 September 1985 |
| Deputy Chairman of the Council of Ministers | Leonid Kostandov | 11 April 1984 – 5 September 1985 |
| Deputy Chairman of the Council of Ministers | Yakov Ryabov | 11 April 1984 – 27 September 1985 |
| Deputy Chairman of the Council of Ministers | Juri Marchuk | 11 April 1984 – 27 September 1985 |
| Deputy Chairman of the Council of Ministers | Nikolai Martynov | 11 April 1984 – 27 September 1985 |
| Deputy Chairman of the Council of Ministers | Aleksei Antonov | 11 April 1984 – 27 September 1985 |
| Deputy Chairman of the Council of Ministers | Ziya Nuriyev | 11 April 1984 – 27 September 1985 |
| Deputy Chairman of the Council of Ministers | Leonid Smirnov | 11 April 1984 – 27 September 1985 |
| Deputy Chairman of the Council of Ministers | Ivan Bodyul | 11 April 1984 – 27 September 1985 |
| Deputy Chairman of the Council of Ministers | Boris Shcherbina | 11 April 1984 – 27 September 1985 |
| Minister of Agriculture Construction | Viktor Danilenko | 11 April 1984 – 27 September 1985 |
| Minister of Agricultural Products Procurement | Grigori Zolotukhin | 11 April 1984 – 27 September 1985 |
| Minister of Agriculture | Valentin Mesyats | 11 April 1984 – 27 September 1985 |
| Minister of Aviation Industry | Ivan Silayev | 11 April 1984 – 27 September 1985 |
| Minister of Assembling and Special Construction | Boris Bakin | 11 April 1984 – 27 September 1985 |
| Minister of Automobile Industry | Viktor Poljakov | 11 April 1984 – 27 September 1985 |
| Minister of Building Material Industry | Aleksei Jasin | 11 April 1984 – 15 July 1985 |
| Minister of Building Material Industry | Sergei Voyenushkin | 15 July – 27 September 1985 |
| Minister of Chemical Industry | Vladimir Listov | 11 April 1984 – 27 September 1985 |
| Minister of Civil Aviation | Boris Bugajev | 11 April 1984 – 27 September 1985 |
| Minister of Coal Industry | Boris Bratshenko | 11 April 1984 – 27 September 1985 |
| Minister of Communications | Vasily Shamshin | 11 April 1984 – 27 September 1985 |
| Minister of Construction | Georgi Karavajev | 11 April 1984 – 27 September 1985 |
| Minister of Construction the Far East and Transbaikal Region | Aleksandr Babenko | 11 April 1984 – 27 September 1985 |
| Ministry of Constructuction of Heavy Industry | Nikolai Goldin | 11 April 1984 – 27 September 1985 |
| Minister of Construction of Oil and Gas Industry | Boris Shcherbina | 11 April 1984 – 27 September 1985 |
| Minister of Construction of Petrochemical Machinery | Konstantin Brekhov | 11 April 1984 – 27 September 1985 |
| Minister of Construction of Power Plants | Vladimir Velichko | 11 April 1984 – 27 September 1985 |
| Minister of Construction, Road Building and Communal Machines | Vitali Chudin | 11 April 1984 – 2 August 1985 |
| Minister of Construction, Road Building and Communal Machines | Jevgeni Varnachev | 2 August – 27 September 1985 |
| Minister of Culture | Pyotr Demichev | 11 April 1984 – 27 September 1985 |
| Minister of Defence | Dmitriy Ustinov | 11 April 1984 – 22 December 1984 |
| Minister of Defence | Sergei Sokolov | 22 December 1984 – 27 September 1985 |
| Minister of Defence Industry | Pavel Finogenov | 11 April 1984 – 27 September 1985 |
| Minister of Education | Mikhail Prokofjev | 11 April – 21 December 1984 |
| Minister of Education | Sergei Shcherbakov | 21 December 1984 – 27 September 1985 |
| Minister of Electrical Engineering | Anatoli Mayorets | 11 April 1984 – 8 May 1985 |
| Minister of Electrical Engineering | Gennady Voronovski | 8 May – 27 September 1985 |
| Minister of Power and Electrification | Pyotr Neporozhny | 11 April 1984 – 23 March 1985 |
| Minister of Power and Electrification | Anatoli Mayorets | 23 March – 27 September 1985 |
| Minister of Electronic Industry | Aleksandr Shokin | 11 April 1984 – 27 September 1985 |
| Minister of Finance | Vasily Garbuzov | 11 April 1984 – 27 September 1985 |
| Minister of Fish Industry | Vladimir Kamentsev | 11 April 1984 – 27 September 1985 |
| Minister of Food Industry | Voldemar Lein | 11 April 1984 – 27 September 1985 |
| Minister of Fruits and Vegetables | Nikolai Koslov | 11 April 1984 – 27 September 1985 |
| Minister of Foreign Affairs | Andrei Gromyko | 11 April 1984 – 7 July 1985 |
| Minister of Foreign Affairs | Eduard Shevardnadze | 7 July – 27 September 1985 |
| Minister of Foreign Trade | Nikolai Patolitshev | 11 April 1984 – 27 September 1985 |
| Minister of Gas Industry | Sabit Orudzhev | 11 April 1984 – 13 February 1985 |
| Minister of Gas Industry | Viktor Tshernomyrdin | 13 February – 27 September 1985 |
| Minister of Geology | Jevgeni Kozlovski | 11 April 1984 – 27 September 1985 |
| Minister of Health | Sergei Burenkov | 11 April 1984 – 27 September 1985 |
| Minister of Heavy and Transport Construction | Sergei Afanasjev | 11 April 1984 – 27 September 1985 |
| Ministry of Higher Education | Vjatsheslav Yeljutin | 11 April 1984 – 16 July 1985 |
| Ministry of Higher Education | Gennady Yogadin | 16 July – 27 September 1985 |
| Ministry of Industrial Construction | Juri Solovjev | 11 April 1984 – 16 July 1985 |
| Ministry of Industrial Construction | Arkadi Shchepetilnikov | 16 July – 27 September 1985 |
| Minister of Instrument-Making, Automation and Control Systems | Mikhail Shkabardnya | 11 April 1984 – 27 September 1985 |
| Minister of Internal Affairs | Vitali Fedorchuk | 11 April 1984 – 27 September 1985 |
| Minister of Iron and Steel Industry | Ivan Kazanetz | 11 April 1984 – 16 July 1985 |
| Minister of Iron and Steel Industry | Serafim Kolpakov | 16 July – 27 September 1985 |
| Minister of Justice | Boris Kravtsov | 11 April 1984 – 27 September 1985 |
| Minister of Land Reclamation and Water Conservancy | Nikolai Vasiljev | 11 April 1984 – 27 September 1985 |
| Minister of Light Industry | Nikolai Tarasov | 11 April 1984 – 6 July 1985 |
| Minister of Light Industry | Vladimir Klyuyev | 6 July – 27 September 1985 |
| Minister of Machine Building | Vjatsheslav Bakhirov | 11 April 1984 – 27 September 1985 |
| Minister of Machine Building for Light and Food Industries | Ivan Pudkov | 11 April 1984 – 19 May 1984 |
| Minister of Machine Building for Light and Food Industries | Lev Vasiljev | 19 May 1984 – 27 September 1985 |
| Minister of Machinery for Stock Raising and Feeding | Konstantin Beljak | 11 April 1984 – 27 September 1985 |
| Minister of General Machine Building | Oleg Baklamov | 11 April 1984 – 27 September 1985 |
| Minister of Manufacture of Communication Media | Erien Pervyshin | 11 April 1984 – 27 September 1985 |
| Minister of Meat and Dairy Industry | Jevgeni Sizenko | 11 April 1984 – 27 September 1985 |
| Minister of Medical Industry | Afanasi Melnitshenko | 11 April 1984 – 27 September 1985 |
| Minister of Medium Machine Building | Yefim Slavski | 11 April 1984 – 27 September 1985 |
| Minister of Merchant Marine | Timofei Guzenko | 11 April 1984 – 27 September 1985 |
| Minister of Mineral Fertilizer Production | Aleksei Petrishchev | 11 April 1984 – 27 September 1985 |
| Minister of Non-Ferrous Metallurgy | Pyotr Lomako | 11 April 1984 – 27 September 1985 |
| Minister of Oil Industry | Nikolai Maltsev | 11 April 1984 – 13 February 1985 |
| Minister of Oil Industry | Vasili Dinkov | 13 February – 27 September 1985 |
| Minister of Oil Processing and Petrochemical Industry | Viktor Fjodorov | 11 April 1984 – 27 September 1985 |
| Minister of Radio Industry | Pyotr Pleshakov | 11 April 1984 – 27 September 1985 |
| Minister of Railways | Nikolai Konarjev | 11 April 1984 – 27 September 1985 |
| Minister of Shipbuilding | Igor Belousov | 11 April 1984 – 27 September 1985 |
| Ministry of Timber and Wood Processing Industry | Mikhail Busygin | 11 April 1984 – 27 September 1985 |
| Minister of Tractors and Agricultural Machines | Aleksandr Yezhevski | 11 April 1984 – 27 September 1985 |
| Minister of Trade, Home | Grigori Vashchenko | 11 April 1984 – 27 September 1985 |
| Minister of Transport Construction | Ivan Sosnov | 11 April 1984 – 8 May 1985 |
| Minister of Transport Construction | Vladimir Brezhnev | 8 May – 27 September 1985 |

## Committees

| Committee | Chairman | Period |
| Chief Administrator of the Council of Ministers | Mikhail Smirtyukov | 11 April 1984 – 27 September 1985 |
| Chairman of the People's Control Commission | Aleksei Shkolnikov | 11 April 1984 – 27 September 1985 |
| Chairman of the State Planning Committee | Nikolai Baibakov | 11 April 1984 – 27 September 1985 |
| Chairman of State Committee for State Security (KGB) | Viktor Chebrikov | 11 April 1984 – 27 September 1985 |