# List of leaders of Communist Chechnya

The following is a list of leaders of Communist Chechnya, encompassing leaders of the Chechen Autonomous Oblast (the Chechen AO), the Chechen-Ingush Autonomous Oblast (the Chechen-Ingush AO), the Chechen-Ingush Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic (the Chechen-Ingush ASSR) and the Grozny Oblast.
It lists heads of state, heads of government and heads of the local branch of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.
During its existence, Communist Chechnya was a part of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic (the Russian SFSR).

## Heads of state

| No. | Portrait | Name (Birth–Death) | Term of office | Term of office | Political party |
| No. | Portrait | Name (Birth–Death) | Took office | Left office | Political party |
| Chairman of the Executive Committee of the Chechen Okrug Soviet (1921–1923) ||||||
| 1 | | Tashtemir Eldarkhanov [ru] (1870–1934) | 1921 | January 1923 | Communist Party |
| Chairman of the Chechen Revolutionary Committee (1923–1924) ||||||
| (1) | | Tashtemir Eldarkhanov [ru] (1870–1934) | 2 January 1923 | 29 July 1924 | Communist Party |
| Chairman of the Central Executive Committee of the Chechen AO (1924–1925) ||||||
| (1) | | Tashtemir Eldarkhanov [ru] (1870–1934) | August 1924 | 27 September 1925 | Communist Party |
| Chairmen of the Executive Committee of the Regional Council of the Chechen AO/Chechen-Ingush AO/Chechen-Ingush ASSR (1926–1938) ||||||
| 2 | | Daud Arsanukayev [ru] (1890–1937) | 1926 | 1930 | Communist Party |
| 3 | | Khan Ramazan Mamayev | 1930 | September 1931 | Communist Party |
| 4 | | Magomed Khasiyevich Omarov [ru] (1902–af.1957) | January 1932 | 1934 | Communist Party |
| 5 | | Ali Gorchkhanov [ru] (1898–1954) | 12 January 1934 | September 1937 | Communist Party |
| 6 | | Yusuf Tambiyev [ru] (1906–1944) | November 1937 | July 1938 | Communist Party |
| Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the Chechen-Ingush ASSR (1938–1944) ||||||
| (6) | | Yusuf Tambiyev [ru] (1906–1944) | July 1938 | March 1944 | Communist Party |
| Chairmen of the Executive Committee of the Grozny Oblast Soviet (1944–1957) ||||||
| 7 | | Ivan Starchak [ru] (1902–1985) | March 1944 | December 1949 | Communist Party |
| 8 | | Georgiy Kovalenko [ru] (1909–1991) | December 1949 | January 1957 | Communist Party |
| Chairman of the Organizing Committee of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the Chechen-Ingush ASSR (1957–1958) ||||||
| 9 | | Muslim Gayrbekov [ru] (1913–1971) | 9 January 1957 | 15 April 1958 | Communist Party |
| Chairmen of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the Checheno-Ingush ASSR (1958–1990) ||||||
| 10 | | Ilyas Almazov [ru] (1899–1970) | 16 April 1958 | 1971 | Communist Party |
| 11 | | Kureysh Ozdoyev | 1971 | 28 August 1973 | Communist Party |
| 12 | | Khazhbikar Bokov [ru] (1935–2023) | 28 August 1973 | March 1990 | Communist Party |
| Chairman of the Supreme Soviet of the Checheno-Ingush ASSR (1990–1991) ||||||
| 13 | | Doku Zavgayev (born 1940) | March 1990 | 15 September 1991 | Communist Party |
| Chairmen of the Provisional Supreme Soviet of the Checheno-Ingush Republic (1991) ||||||
| 14 | | Lecha Magomadov (1938–2005) | 15 September 1991 | 17 September 1991 | Independent |
| 15 | | Khuseyn Akhmadov [ru] (born 1950) | 17 September 1991 | 5 October 1991 | Independent |
| Chairman of the Executive Committee of the All-National Congress of the Chechen People (1991) ||||||
| 16 | | Dzhokhar Dudayev (1944–1996) | 5 October 1991 | 9 November 1991 | Independent |
| Chairman of the Provisional Supreme Soviet of the Checheno-Ingush Republic (1991) ||||||
| 17 | | Bagauddin Bakhmadov (born 1949) | 7 October 1991 | 2 November 1991 | Independent |
| Representative of President of Russia (1991) ||||||
| 18 | | Akhmed Arsanov [ru] (1933–2021) | 24 October 1991 | 13 November 1991 | Independent |

## Heads of government

| No. | Portrait | Name (Birth–Death) | Term of office | Term of office | Political party |
| No. | Portrait | Name (Birth–Death) | Took office | Left office | Political party |
| Chairman of the Council of People's Commissars (1938–1944) ||||||
| 1 | | Supyan Mollayev [ru] (1900–1973) | July 1938 | March 1944 | Communist Party |
| Post abolished (March 1944 – 9 January 1957) ||||||
| Chairmen of the Council of Ministers (1958–1991) ||||||
| 2 | | Muslim Gayrbekov [ru] (1911–1971) | 15 April 1958 | 20 June 1971 | Communist Party |
| Post vacant (20 June 1971 – 1 July 1971) ||||||
| 3 | | Ramazan Vakhayev [ru] (1920–?) | 1 July 1971 | June 1976 | Communist Party |
| 4 | | Musa Karimov [ru] (born 1938) | June 1976 | 1990 | Communist Party |
| 5 | | Sergey Bekov [ru] (born 1939) | 1990 | 22 November 1991 | Communist Party |

## Heads of party

| No. | Portrait | Name (Birth–Death) | Term of office | Term of office | Political party |
| No. | Portrait | Name (Birth–Death) | Took office | Left office | Political party |
| Responsible Secretaries of the Organizing Bureau of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union for the Chechen AO (1922–1927) ||||||
| 1 | | Tashtemir Eldarkhanov [ru] (1870–1934) | November 1922 | 1923 | Communist Party |
| 2 | | N. S. Aznarashvili | 1923 | December 1923 | Communist Party |
| 3 | | Magomed Eneyev [ru] (1897–1928) | December 1923 | September 1925 | Communist Party |
| 4 | | Efrem Eshba (1893–1939) | January 1926 | 1927 | Communist Party |
| Responsible Secretaries of the Regional Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union for the Chechen AO (1927–1932) ||||||
| (4) | | Efrem Eshba (1893–1939) | 1927 | August 1927 | Communist Party |
| 5 | | Gurgen Bulat [ru] (1900–1949) | August 1927 | 1929 | Communist Party |
| 6 | | Solomon Khasman (1886–1954) | 1929 | 1930 | Communist Party |
| 7 | | Georgiy Karib (Tovmasyan) (1896–1938) | 1930 | 1932 | Communist Party |
| 8 | | Magomed Khasiyevich Omarov [ru] (1902–af.1957) | 1932 | 1932 | Communist Party |
| First Secretaries of the Regional Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union for the Chechen AO (1932–1933) ||||||
| (8) | | Magomed Khasiyevich Omarov [ru] (1902–af.1957) | 1932 | 1932 | Communist Party |
| 9 | | Georgiy Makharadze [ru] (1898–1938) | 1932 | 29 November 1933 | Communist Party |
| Chairman of the Organizing Bureau of the North Caucasian Regional Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union for the Chechen-Ingush AO (1933–1934) ||||||
| (9) | | Georgiy Makharadze [ru] (1898–1938) | 29 November 1933 | 1934 | Communist Party |
| First Secretaries of the Oblast Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union for Checheno-Ingush AO (1934–1936) ||||||
| (9) | | Georgiy Makharadze [ru] (1898–1938) | 1934 | 1934 | Communist Party |
| 10 | | Vasiliy Yegorov [ru] (1899–1950) | 1934 | 12 May 1936 | Communist Party |
| First Secretaries of the Chechen-Ingush Regional Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (1936–1940) ||||||
| (10) | | Vasiliy Yegorov [ru] (1899–1950) | 12 May 1936 | 10 October 1937 | Communist Party |
| 11 | | Fyodor Bykov [ru] (1901–1980) | 10 October 1937 | May 1940 | Communist Party |
| 12 | | Viktor Ivanov [ru] (1903–1969) | May 1940 | March 1944 | Communist Party |
| First Secretaries of the Grozny Oblast Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (1944–1956) ||||||
| 13 | | Pyotr Cheplakov [ru] (1906–1985) | March 1944 | September 1949 | Communist Party |
| 14 | | Ivan Zhegalin [ru] (1906–1984) | September 1949 | December 1955 | Communist Party |
| 15 | | Aleksandr Yakovlev [ru] (1911–1989) | December 1955 | 24 November 1956 | Communist Party |
| First Secretaries of the Checheno-Ingush National Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (1956–1991) ||||||
| (15) | | Aleksandr Yakovlev [ru] (1911–1989) | 24 November 1956 | January 1959 | Communist Party |
| 16 | | Aleksandr Trofimov [ru] (1903–1980) | January 1959 | September 1963 | Communist Party |
| 17 | | Fyodor Titov [ru] (1910–1989) | September 1963 | 11 January 1966 | Communist Party |
| 18 | | Semyon Apryatkin [ru] (1911–1977) | 11 January 1966 | July 1975 | Communist Party |
| 19 | | Aleksandr Vlasov (1932–2002) | July 1975 | 31 July 1984 | Communist Party |
| 20 | | Vladimir Foteyev [ru] (born 1935) | 31 July 1984 | 1 July 1989 | Communist Party |
| 21 | | Doku Zavgayev (born 1940) | 1 July 1989 | August 1991 | Communist Party |