# Central Committee of the 15th Congress of the All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks)

The Central Committee (CC) composition was elected by the 15th Congress, and sat from 19 December 1927 until 13 July 1930. The CC 1st Plenary Session renewed the composition of the Politburo, Secretariat and the Organizational Bureau (OB) of the All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks).

## Plenums

The CC was not a permanent institution. It convened plenary sessions, of which six CC plenary sessions and two joint CC–Central Control Commission (CCC) plenary sessions were held between the 15th Congress and the 16th Congress. When the CC was not in session, decision-making powers were transferred to inner bodies of the CC itself; the Politburo, Secretariat and Orgburo (none of these bodies were permanent either, but convened several times a months).
Plenary sessions of the Central Committee :
| Plenum | Date | Length |
| 1st Plenary Session | 19 December 1927 | 1 day |
| 1st Joint Plenary Session | 6–11 April 1928 | 6 days |
| 2nd Plenary Session | 4–12 July 1928 | 9 days |
| 3rd Plenary Session | 16–24 November 1928 | 9 days |
| 2nd Joint Plenary Session | 16–23 April 1929 | 8 days |
| 4th Plenary Session | 29 April 1929 | 1 day |
| 5th Plenary Session | 21 June 1929 | 1 day |
| 6th Plenary Session | 10–17 November 1929 | 8 days |

## Apparatus

Individuals employed by Central Committee's bureaus, departments and newspapers made up the apparatus between the 15th Congress and the 16th Congress. The bureaus and departments were supervised by the Secretariat, and each secretary (member of the Secretariat) supervised a specific department. The leaders of departments were officially referred to as Heads, while the titles of bureau leaders varied between chairman, first secretary and secretary.
Central Committee Apparatus of the 15th Congress of the All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks) :
| Institution | Leader | Cyrillic | Took office | Left office | Length of tenure | Nationality | Gender |
| Administrator of Affairs | Timofey Samsonov | Тимофей Самсонов | 19 December 1927 | 13 July 1930 | 2 years and 206 days | Ukrainian | Male |
| Agitation, Propaganda and Press Department | Alexander Krinitsky | Александр Криницкий | 19 December 1927 | 19 November 1929 | 1 year and 335 days | Russian | Male |
| Agitation, Propaganda and Press Department | Aleksei Stetskii | Алексей Стецкий | 19 November 1929 | 1 May 1930 | 163 days | Russian | Male |
| Bolshevik | Nikolay Bukharin | Никола́й Буха́рин | 19 December 1927 | April 1929 | 1 year and 103 days | Russian | Male |
| Bolshevik | Vilhelm Knorin | Вильгельм Кнорин | 1930 | 13 July 1930 | 1 year and 193 days | Latvian | Male |
| Culture and Propaganda Department | Aleksei Stetskii | Алексей Стецкий | 1 May 1930 | 13 July 1930 | 73 days | Russian | Male |
| Information Department | Lev Roshal | Лев Рошаль | 19 December 1927 | 1928 | 43 days | Jewish | Male |
| Institute of Red Professors | Mikhail Pokrovsky | Михаи́л Покро́вский | 19 December 1927 | 13 July 1930 | 2 years and 206 days | Russian | Male |
| Lenin Institute | Ivan Skvortsov-Stepanov | Ива́н Скворцо́в-Степа́нов | 19 December 1927 | August 1928 | 256 days | Russian | Male |
| Lenin Institute | Maximilian Saveliev | Максимилиан Савельев | August 1928 | 13 July 1930 | 1 year and 316 days | Russian | Male |
| Party History Department | Vacant | — | 19 December 1927 | 20 August 1928 | 245 days | — | — |
| Pravda | Nikolay Bukharin | Никола́й Буха́рин | 19 December 1927 | April 1929 | 1 year and 103 days | Russian | Male |
| Pravda | Editorial Board | — | April 1929 | 13 July 1930 | 1 year and 103 days | — | — |
| Press Department | Sergei Gusev | Сергей Гусев | 19 December 1927 | March 1928 | 103 days | Jewish | Male |
| Press Department | Nikolay Smirnov | Николай Смирнов | March 1928 | May 1928 | 60 days | Russian | Male |
| Organizational-Distribution Department | Ivan Moskvin | Иван Москвин | 19 December 1927 | 13 July 1930 | 2 years and 206 days | Russian | Male |
| Secret Department | Ivan Tovstukha | Иван Товстуха | 19 December 1927 | 13 July 1930 | 2 years and 206 days | Ukrainian | Male |
| Statistical Department | Yelena Smitten | Елена Смиттен | 19 December 1927 | 13 July 1930 | 2 years and 206 days | Belarusian | Female |
| Work in the Countryside Department | Karl Bauman | Карл Бауман | 19 December 1927 | 13 July 1930 | 2 years and 206 days | Latvian | Male |
| Women's Department | Aleksandra Artyukhina | Елена Смиттен | 19 December 1927 | 13 July 1930 | 2 years and 206 days | Russian | Female |

## Composition
### Members

Members of the Central Committee of the 15th Congress of the All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks) :
| Name | Cyrillic | 14th CC | 16th CC | Birth | Death | PM | Nationality | Gender | Portrait |
| Ivan Akulov | Иван Акулов | New | Not | 1888 | 1937 | 1907 | Russian | Male | |
| Andrey Andreyev | Андрей Андреев | Old | Reelected | 1895 | 1971 | 1914 | Russian | Male | |
| Nikolay Antipov | Николай Антипов | Old | Reelected | 1894 | 1938 | 1912 | Russian | Male | |
| Aleksandra Artyukhina | Александра Артюхина | Old | Not | 1889 | 1969 | 1910 | Russian | Female | |
| Aleksei Badayev | Алексей Бадаев | Old | Reelected | 1883 | 1951 | 1904 | Russian | Male | |
| Karl Bauman | Карл Бауман | Old | Reelected | 1892 | 1937 | 1907 | Latvian | Male | — |
| Andrei Bubnov | Андрей Бубнов | Old | Reelected | 1884 | 1938 | 1903 | Russian | Male | |
| Nikolai Bukharin | Никола́й Буха́рин | Old | Reelected | 1888 | 1938 | 1906 | Russian | Male | |
| Georgy Chicherin | Георгий Чичерин | Old | Not | 1872 | 1936 | 1918 | Russian | Male | |
| Vlas Chubar | Влас Чубар | Old | Reelected | 1891 | 1939 | 1907 | Ukrainian | Male | |
| Mikhail Chudov | Михаил Чудов | Old | Reelected | 1893 | 1937 | 1913 | Russian | Male | — |
| Alexander Dogadov | Александр Догадов | Old | Candidate | 1888 | 1937 | 1905 | Russian | Male | — |
| Yan Gamarnik | Ян Гамарник | Candidate | Reelected | 1894 | 1937 | 1916 | Jewish | Male | — |
| Filipp Goloshchyokin | Филипп Голощёкин | Candidate | Reelected | 1876 | 1941 | 1903 | Jewish | Male | |
| Ivan Kabakov | Иван Кабаков | Old | Reelected | 1891 | 1937 | 1914 | Russian | Male | — |
| Lazar Kaganovich | Лазарь Каганович | Old | Reelected | 1893 | 1991 | 1911 | Jewish | Male | |
| Mikhail Kalinin | Михаил Калинин | Old | Reelected | 1875 | 1946 | 1898 | Russian | Male | |
| Kuprian Kirkizh | Куприян Киркиж | Old | Not | 1886 | 1932 | 1910 | Belarusian | Male | |
| Sergey Kirov | Серге́й Ки́ров | Old | Reelected | 1886 | 1934 | 1904 | Russian | Male | |
| Vilhelm Knorin | Вильгельм Кнорин | New | Reelected | 1890 | 1938 | 1910 | Latvian | Male | |
| Nikolay Kolotilov | Николай Колотилов | Old | Reelected | 1885 | 1937 | 1903 | Russian | Male | — |
| Nikolay Komarov | Николай Комаров | Old | Reelected | 1886 | 1937 | 1909 | Russian | Male | |
| Joseph Kosior | Иосиф Косиор | Candidate | Reelected | 1889 | 1937 | 1908 | Polish | Male | |
| Stanislav Kosior | Станислав Косиор | Old | Reelected | 1889 | 1939 | 1907 | Polish | Male | |
| Vasily Kotov | Василий Котов | Old | Not | 1885 | 1937 | 1915 | Russian | Male | — |
| Nadezhda Krupskaya | Наде́жда Кру́пская | New | Reelected | 1869 | 1939 | 1898 | Russian | Female | |
| Gleb Krzhizhanovsky | Глеб Кржижано́вский | Old | Reelected | 1872 | 1959 | 1898 | Polish-German | Male | |
| Nikolay Kubyak | Николай Кубяк | Old | Reelected | 1881 | 1937 | 1898 | Russian | Male | |
| Yegor Kulikov | Егор Куликов | Old | Not | 1891 | 1943 | 1910 | Russian | Male | — |
| Valerian Kuybyshev | Валериан Куйбышев | Old | Reelected | 1888 | 1935 | 1904 | Russian | Male | |
| Emanuel Kviring | Эммануил Квиринг | Old | Reelected | 1888 | 1937 | 1912 | Volga German | Male | |
| Ivan Lepse | Иван Лепсе | Old | Died | 1889 | 1929 | 1906 | Latvian | Male | — |
| Semyon Lobov | Семён Лобов | Old | Reelected | 1888 | 1937 | 1913 | Russian | Male | — |
| Isidore Lyubimov | Исидор Любимов | Candidate | Reelected | 1882 | 1937 | 1902 | Russian | Male | — |
| Dmitry Manuilsky | Дмитро Мануїльський | Old | Reelected | 1883 | 1959 | 1903 | Ukrainian | Male | |
| Alexei Medvedev | Алексей Медведев | Old | Not | 1884 | 1937 | 1904 | Russian | Male | |
| Vyacheslav Menzhinsky | Вячеслав Менжинский | New | Not | 1874 | 1934 | 1902 | Polish | Male | |
| Vasily Mikhailov | Василий Михайлов | Old | Candidate | 1894 | 1937 | 1915 | Russian | Male | |
| Anastas Mikoyan | Анастас Микоян | Old | Reelected | 1895 | 1978 | 1915 | Armenian | Male | |
| Vyacheslav Molotov | Вячеслав Молотов | Old | Reelected | 1890 | 1986 | 1906 | Russian | Male | |
| Ivan Moskvin | Иван Москвин | Candidate | Reelected | 1890 | 1937 | 1911 | Russian | Male | |
| Georgy Oppokov | Георгий Оппоков | Candidate | Reelected | 1888 | 1938 | 1903 | Russian | Male | |
| Mamia Orakhelashvili | Мамия Орахелашвили | Old | Reelected | 1888 | 1937 | 1903 | Georgian | Male | |
| Grigory Petrovsky | Григо́рій Петро́вський | Old | Reelected | 1878 | 1958 | 1898 | Ukrainian | Male | |
| Osip Piatnitsky | Осип Пятницкий | New | Reelected | 1882 | 1938 | 1898 | Jewish | Male | |
| Pavel Postyshev | Григо́рій Петро́вський | Candidate | Reelected | 1887 | 1939 | 1904 | Russian | Male | |
| Jānis Rudzutaks | Ян Рудзутак | Old | Reelected | 1887 | 1938 | 1906 | Latvian | Male | |
| Moisey Rukhimovich | Моисей Рухимович | Old | Reelected | 1889 | 1937 | 1913 | Jewish | Male | |
| Ivan Rumyantsev | Иван Румянцев | Old | Reelected | 1886 | 1937 | 1905 | Russian | Male | |
| Alexei Rykov | Алексей Рыков | Old | Reelected | 1881 | 1938 | 1899 | Russian | Male | |
| Vasily Schmidt | Сергей Чуцкаев | Old | Candidate | 1886 | 1938 | 1905 | German | Male | |
| Isaak Schwartz | Исаак Шварц | Old | Reelected | 1879 | 1951 | 1899 | Jewish | Male | |
| Nikolay Shvernik | Николай Шверник | Old | Reelected | 1888 | 1970 | 1905 | Russian | Male | |
| Mykola Skrypnyk | Микола Скрипник | Candidate | Reelected | 1872 | 1933 | 1898 | Ukrainian | Male | |
| Ivan Skvortsov-Stepanov | Ива́н Скворцо́в-Степа́нов | Old | Died | 1878 | 1928 | 1898 | Russian | Male | |
| Alexander Smirnov | Александр Смирнов | Old | Reelected | 1878 | 1938 | 1898 | Russian | Male | |
| Grigori Sokolnikov | Григорий Сокольников | Old | Candidate | 1888 | 1938 | 1905 | Jewish | Male | |
| Joseph Stalin | Ио́сиф Ста́лин | Old | Reelected | 1878 | 1953 | 1898 | Georgian | Male | |
| Aleksei Stetskii | Алексей Стецкий | New | Reelected | 1896 | 1938 | 1915 | Russian | Male | |
| Konstantin Strievsky | Константин Стриевский | Candidate | Reelected | 1885 | 1938 | 1902 | Belarusian | Male | — |
| Daniil Sulimov | Даниил Сулимов | Old | Reelected | 1890 | 1937 | 1905 | Russian | Male | |
| Sergei Syrtsov | Сергей Сырцов | Candidate | Reelected | 1893 | 1937 | 1913 | Russian | Male | |
| Aleksandr Tolokontsev | Александр Толоконцев | Old | Reelected | 1889 | 1937 | 1914 | Russian | Male | — |
| Mikhail Tomsky | Михаил Томский | Old | Reelected | 1880 | 1936 | 1904 | Russian | Male | |
| Alexander Tsiurupa | Алекса́ндр Цюру́па | Old | Died | 1870 | 1928 | 1898 | Ukrainian | Male | |
| Fyodor Ugarov | Фёдор Угаров | Candidate | Reelected | 1885 | 1932 | 1905 | Russian | Male | — |
| Nikolai Uglanov | Николай Угланов | Old | Not | 1886 | 1937 | 1907 | Russian | Male | |
| Konstantin Ukhanov | Константин Уханов | Old | Reelected | 1891 | 1937 | 1907 | Russian | Male | |
| Kliment Voroshilov | Климент Ворошилов | Old | Reelected | 1881 | 1969 | 1903 | Russian | Male | |
| Isaak Zelensky | Исаак Зеленский | Old | Reelected | 1890 | 1937 | 1906 | Jewish | Male | |
| Ivan Zhukov | Иван Жуков | Old | Reelected | 1889 | 1937 | 1909 | Russian | Male | — |

### Candidates

Candidate Members of the Central Committee of the 15th Congress of the All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks) :
| Name | Cyrillic | 14th CC | 16th CC | Birth | Death | PM | Nationality | Gender | Portrait |
| Pyotr Alexeyev | Пётр Алексеев | New | Member | 1893 | 1937 | 1914 | Russian | Male | — |
| Naum Antselovich | Наум Анцелович | New | Not | 1888 | 1952 | 1905 | Jewish | Male | |
| Pyotr Baranov | Пётр Баранов | New | Candidate | 1892 | 1933 | 1912 | Russian | Male | |
| Nikolai Bryukhanov | Николай Брюханов | New | Candidate | 1878 | 1938 | 1902 | Russian | Male | |
| Nikolai Chaplin | Николай Чаплин | Candidate | Candidate | 1902 | 1938 | 1919 | Russian | Male | — |
| Sergey Chutskayev | Сергей Чуцкаев | New | Candidate | 1876 | 1944 | 1903 | Russian | Male | — |
| Mikhail Chuvyrin | Михаил Чувырин | New | Member | 1883 | 1947 | 1903 | Russian | Male | — |
| Robert Eikhe | Роберт Эйхе | Candidate | Member | 1890 | 1940 | 1906 | Latvian | Male | |
| Shalva Eliava | Шалва Элиава | New | Candidate | 1883 | 1937 | 1904 | Georgian | Male | |
| Konstantin Gey | Константин Гей | Candidate | Candidate | 1896 | 1939 | 1916 | German-Russian | Male | |
| Fyodor Gryadinsky | Фёдор Грядинский | New | Candidate | 1893 | 1938 | 1912 | Russian | Male | |
| Akmal Ikramov | Акмаль Икрамов | Candidate | Candidate | 1898 | 1938 | 1918 | Uzbek | Male | |
| Vladimir Ivanov | Владимир Иванов | Candidate | Candidate | 1893 | 1938 | 1915 | Russian | Male | |
| Anna Kalgyna | Анна Калыгина | Candidate | Candidate | 1895 | 1937 | 1915 | Russian | Female | — |
| Grigory Kaminsky | Григорий Каминский | Candidate | Candidate | 1895 | 1938 | 1913 | Jewish | Male | |
| Mendel Khatayevich | Мендель Хатаевич | New | Member | 1893 | 1937 | 1913 | Jewish | Male | |
| Aleksei Kiselyov | Алексей Киселёв | Candidate | Candidate | 1879 | 1937 | 1898 | Russian | Male | |
| Ivan Klimenko | Иван Клименко | Candidate | Candidate | 1891 | 1937 | 1912 | Russian | Male | |
| Ivan Kodatsky | Иван Кодацкий | Candidate | Member | 1893 | 1937 | 1914 | Russian | Male | |
| Philemon Kolgushkin | Филимон Колгушкин | New | Removed | 1887 | 1937 | 1905 | Russian | Male | — |
| Taras Kondratyev | Тарас Кондратьев | Candidate | Not | 1892 | 1937 | 1913 | Russian | Male | — |
| Alexander Krinitsky | Александр Криницкий | Candidate | Candidate | 1894 | 1937 | 1915 | Russian | Male | |
| Fyodor Leonov | Фёдор Леонов | New | Member | 1892 | 1938 | 1914 | Russian | Male | — |
| Filipp Lokotskov | Филипп Локацков | New | Not | 1881 | 1937 | 1904 | Russian | Male | — |
| Vissarion Lominadze | Виссарион Ломинадзе | Candidate | Member | 1897 | 1935 | 1917 | Georgian | Male | |
| Solomon Lozovsky | Соломон Лозовский | New | Candidate | 1892 | 1952 | 1901 | Jewish | Male | |
| Alexander Markov | Александр Марков | Candidate | Not | 1877 | 1935 | 1898 | Russian | Male | — |
| Valery Mezhlauk | Валерий Межлаук | New | Candidate | 1893 | 1938 | 1917 | Latvian | Male | |
| Mikhail Mikhailov-Ivanov | Михаил Михайлов-Иванов | New | Candidate | 1894 | 1931 | 1913 | Russian | Male | — |
| Levon Mirzoyan | Левон Мирзоян | New | Candidate | 1887 | 1939 | 1917 | Armenian | Male | |
| Grigory Melnichansky | Григорий Мельничанский | Candidate | Not | 1886 | 1937 | 1902 | Jewish | Male | — |
| Gazanfar Musabekov | Газанфар Мусабеков | Candidate | Candidate | 1888 | 1938 | 1918 | Azerbaijani | Male | |
| Klavdiya Nikolayeva | Клавдия Николаева | Candidate | Candidate | 1893 | 1944 | 1909 | Russian | Female | |
| Ivan Nosov | Иван Носов | Candidate | Member | 1888 | 1937 | 1905 | Russian | Male | — |
| Mikhail Oshvintsev | Михаил Ошвинцев | New | Candidate | 1889 | 1939 | 1917 | Russian | Male | |
| Valerian Osinsky | Валериан Оболенский | Candidate | Candidate | 1882 | 1938 | 1907 | Russian | Male | |
| Vladimir Polonsky | Владимир Полонский | Old | Candidate | 1893 | 1937 | 1912 | Russian | Male | |
| Konstantin Rumyantsev | Константин Румянцев | Candidate | Candidate | 1889 | 1939 | 1916 | Russian | Male | — |
| Kuzma Ryndin | Кузьма Рындин | Candidate | Member | 1893 | 1938 | 1915 | Russian | Male | — |
| Martemyan Ryutin | Мартемья́н Рю́тин | New | Not | 1890 | 1937 | 1914 | Russian | Male | |
| Boris Semenov | Борис Семёнов | Candidate | Candidate | 1890 | 1937 | 1907 | Russian | Male | — |
| Alexander Serebrovsky | Александр Серебровский | Candidate | Candidate | 1884 | 1938 | 1903 | Russian | Male | |
| Sergey Sobolev | Александр Серебровский | New | Not | 1900 | 1939 | 1918 | Russian | Male | — |
| Vasily Stroganov | Василий Строганов | New | Not | 1888 | 1938 | 1905 | Russian | Male | — |
| Kirill Sukhomlin | Кирилл Сухомлин | New | Candidate | 1886 | 1938 | 1905 | Russian | Male | |
| Anton Tsikhon | Антон Цихон | New | Member | 1887 | 1939 | 1906 | Belausian | Male | — |
| Józef Unszlicht | Ио́сиф У́ншлихт | Candidate | Candidate | 1879 | 1938 | 1907 | Jewish | Male | |
| Mikhail Uryvayev | Михаил Урываев | Candidate | Candidate | 1887 | 1937 | 1917 | Russian | Male | — |
| Iosif Vareikis | Иосиф Варейкис | Candidate | Member | 1894 | 1938 | 1913 | Lithuanian | Male | — |
| Andrei Zhdanov | Андрей Жданов | Candidate | Member | 1896 | 1948 | 1915 | Russian | Male | |