# Kosygin's Fifth Government

The former government of Alexei Kosygin was dissolved following the Soviet legislative election of 1979. Kosygin was once again elected Premier by the Politburo and the Central Committee following the election. His fourth government lasted a little over one year due to bad health which led him to resign.

## Ministries

| Ministry | Minister | Period |
| Chairman of the Council of Ministers | Alexei Kosygin | 19 April 1979 – 23 November 1980 |
| First Deputy Chairman of the Council of Ministers | Nikolai Tikhonov | 19 April 1979 – 23 November 1980 |
| Deputy Chairman of the Council of Ministers | Ivan Arkhipov | 19 April 1979 – 23 November 1980 |
| Deputy Chairman of the Council of Ministers | Nikolai Baibakov | 19 April 1979 – 23 November 1980 |
| Deputy Chairman of the Council of Ministers | Veniamin Dymshits | 19 April 1979 – 23 November 1980 |
| Deputy Chairman of the Council of Ministers | Konstantin Katushev | 19 April 1979 – 23 November 1980 |
| Deputy Chairman of the Council of Ministers | Vladimir Kirillin | 19 April 1979 – 22 January 1980 |
| Deputy Chairman of the Council of Ministers | Juri Marchuk | 22 January – 23 November 1980 |
| Deputy Chairman of the Council of Ministers | Vladimir Novikov | 19 April 1979 – 23 November 1980 |
| Deputy Chairman of the Council of Ministers | Tikhon Kiselev | 19 April 1979 – 23 November 1980 |
| Deputy Chairman of the Council of Ministers | Mikhail Lesetshko | 19 April 1979 – 23 November 1980 |
| Deputy Chairman of the Council of Ministers | Nikolai Martynov | 19 April 1979 – 23 November 1980 |
| Deputy Chairman of the Council of Ministers | Ignati Novikov | 19 April 1979 – 23 November 1980 |
| Deputy Chairman of the Council of Ministers | Vladimir Novikov | 19 April 1979 – 23 November 1980 |
| Deputy Chairman of the Council of Ministers | Ziya Nuriyev | 19 April 1979 – 23 November 1980 |
| Deputy Chairman of the Council of Ministers | Leonid Smirnov | 19 April 1979 – 23 November 1980 |
| Minister of Agriculture Construction | Stepan Khitrov | 19 April 1979 – 23 November 1980 |
| Minister of Agricultural Products Procurement | Grigori Zolotukhin | 19 April 1979 – 23 November 1980 |
| Minister of Agriculture | Valentin Mesyats | 19 April 1979 – 23 November 1980 |
| Minister of Aviation Industry | Vasili Kazakov | 19 April 1979 – 23 November 1980 |
| Minister of Assembling and Special Construction | Boris Bakin | 19 April 1979 – 23 November 1980 |
| Minister of Automobile Industry | Viktor Poljakov | 19 April 1979 – 23 November 1980 |
| Minister of Building Material Industry | Aleksei Jasin | 19 April 1979 – 23 November 1980 |
| Minister of Chemical Industry | Leonid Kostandov | 19 April 1979 – 23 November 1980 |
| Minister of Civil Aviation | Boris Bugajev | 19 April 1979 – 23 November 1980 |
| Minister of Coal Industry | Boris Bratshenko | 19 April 1979 – 23 November 1980 |
| Minister of Communications | Nikolai Talyshin | 19 April 1979 – 23 November 1980 |
| Minister of Construction | Georgi Karavajev | 19 April 1979 – 23 November 1980 |
| Minister of Construction the Far East and Transbaikal Region | Sergei Bashilov | 18 December 1979 – 23 November 1980 |
| Ministry of Construction of Heavy Industry | Nikolai Goldin | 19 April 1979 – 23 November 1980 |
| Minister of Construction of Oil and Gas Industry | Boris Shcherbina | 19 April 1979 – 23 November 1980 |
| Minister of Construction of Petrochemical Machinery | Konstantin Brekhov | 19 April 1979 – 23 November 1980 |
| Minister of Construction of Power Plants | Viktor Krotov | 19 April 1979 – 23 November 1980 |
| Minister of Culture | Pyotr Demichev | 19 April 1979 – 23 November 1980 |
| Minister of Construction, Road Building and Communal Machines | Jefim Novosjelov | 19 April 1979 – 23 November 1980 |
| Minister of Defence | Dmitriy Ustinov | 19 April 1979 – 23 November 1980 |
| Minister of Defence Industry | Pavel Finogenov | 19 April 1979 – 23 November 1980 |
| Minister of Education | Mikhail Prokofjev | 19 April 1979 – 23 November 1980 |
| Minister of Electrical Engineering | Aleksei Antonov | 19 April 1979 – 23 November 1980 |
| Minister of Electrical Power and Electrification | Pyotr Neporozhny | 19 April 1979 – 23 November 1980 |
| Minister of Electronic Industry | Aleksandr Shokin | 19 April 1979 – 23 November 1980 |
| Minister of Finance | Vasily Garbuzov | 19 April 1979 – 23 November 1980 |
| Minister of Fish Industry | Vladimir Kamentsev | 19 April 1979 – 23 November 1980 |
| Minister of Food Industry | Voldemar Lein | 19 April 1979 – 23 November 1980 |
| Minister of Foreign Affairs | Andrei Gromyko | 19 April 1979 – 23 November 1980 |
| Minister of Foreign Trade | Nikolai Patolitshev | 19 April 1979 – 23 November 1980 |
| Minister of Gas Industry | Sabit Orudzhev | 19 April 1979 – 23 November 1980 |
| Minister of Geology | Jevgeni Kozlovski | 19 April 1979 – 23 November 1980 |
| Minister of Health | Boris Petrovski | 19 April 1979 – 23 November 1980 |
| Minister of Heavy and Transport Construction | Vladimir Zhigalin | 19 April 1979 – 23 November 1980 |
| Ministry of Higher Education | Vjatsheslav Yeljutin | 19 April 1979 – 23 November 1980 |
| Ministry of Industrial Construction | Aleksandr Tokarjev | 19 April 1979 – 23 November 1980 |
| Minister of Instrument-Making, Automation and Control Systems | Konstantin Rudnev | 19 April 1979 – 1 July 1980 |
| Minister of Instrument-Making, Automation and Control Systems | Mikhail Shkabardnya | 10 September – 23 November 1980 |
| Minister of Internal Affairs | Nikolai Shchelokov | 19 April 1979 – 23 November 1980 |
| Minister of Iron and Steel Industry | Ivan Kazanetz | 19 April 1979 – 23 November 1980 |
| Minister of Justice | Vladimir Terebilov | 19 April 1979 – 23 November 1980 |
| Minister of Land Reclamation and Water Conservancy | Nikolai Vasiljev | 19 April 1979 – 23 November 1980 |
| Minister of Light Industry | Nikolai Tarasov | 19 April 1979 – 23 November 1980 |
| Minister of Machine Building | Vjatsheslav Bakhirov | 19 April 1979 – 23 November 1980 |
| Minister of Construction, Road Building and Communal Machines | Jefim Novosjelov | 19 April 1979 – 23 November 1980 |
| Minister of Machine Building for Light and Food Industries | Ivan Pudkov | 19 April 1979 – 23 November 1980 |
| Minister of Machinery for Stock Raising and Feeding | Konstantin Beljak | 19 April 1979 – 23 November 1980 |
| Minister of General Machine Building | Sergei Afanasjev | 19 April 1979 – 23 November 1980 |
| Minister of Machine-Tool and Instrument Making | Anatoli Kostousov | 19 April 1979 – 23 November 1980 |
| Minister of Manufacture of Communication Media | Erien Pervyshin | 19 April 1979 – 23 November 1980 |
| Minister of Meat and Dairy Industry | Sergei Antonov | 19 April 1979 – 23 November 1980 |
| Minister of Medical Industry | Afanasi Melnitshenko | 19 April 1979 – 23 November 1980 |
| Minister of Medium Machine Building | Yefim Slavski | 19 April 1979 – 23 November 1980 |
| Minister of Merchant Marine | Timofei Guzenko | 19 April 1979 – 23 November 1980 |
| Minister of Non-Ferrous Metallurgy | Pyotr Lomako | 19 April 1979 – 23 November 1980 |
| Minister of Oil Industry | Nikolai Maltsev | 19 April 1979 – 23 November 1980 |
| Minister of Oil Processing and Petrochemical Industry | Viktor Fjodorov | 19 April 1979 – 23 November 1980 |
| Minister of Pulp and Paper Industry | Konstantin Galantshin | 19 April 1979 – 23 November 1980 |
| Minister of Radio Industry | Pyotr Pleshakov | 19 April 1979 – 23 November 1980 |
| Minister of Railways | Ivan Pavlovski | 19 April 1979 – 23 November 1980 |
| Minister of Shipbuilding | Mikhail Yegorov | 19 April 1979 – 23 November 1980 |
| Ministry of Timber and Wood Processing Industry | Nikolai Timofjejev | 19 April 1979 – 23 November 1980 |
| Minister of Tractors and Agricultural Machines | Ivan Sinizyn | 19 April 1979 – 10 October 1980 |
| Minister of Tractors and Agricultural Machines | Aleksandr Yezhevski | 10 October – 23 November 1980 |
| Minister of Trade, Home | Aleksandr Strujev | 19 April 1979 – 23 November 1980 |
| Minister of Transport Construction | Ivan Sosnov | 19 April 1979 – 23 November 1980 |

## Committees

| Committee | Chairman | Period |
| Chief Administrator of the Council of Ministers | Mikhail Smirtyukov | 19 April 1979 – 23 November 1980 |
| Chairman of the People's Control Commission | Aleksei Shkolnikov | 19 April 1979 – 23 November 1980 |
| Chairman of the State Planning Committee | Nikolai Baibakov | 19 April 1979 – 23 November 1980 |
| Chairman of State Committee for State Security (KGB) | Yuri Andropov | 19 April 1979 – 23 November 1980 |