Nikolai Bulganin

**Nikolai Alexandrovich Bulganin** (; 30 March 1895 – 24 February 1975) was a famous Soviet politician. He served as Minister of Defence (1953–55) and Premier of the Soviet Union (1955–58). He worked for Vladimir Lenin from 1917-1924 in the RSFSR,and the Soviet Union and later worked for Joseph Stalin from 1924-1953 and later Georgy Malenkov in 1953 and later Nikita Khrushchev from 1953-1960. He died in 1975 when the Soviet Union was led by Leonid Brezhnev from 1964-1982.

## Infobox (officeholder)

- **name**: Nikolai Bulganin
- **image**: Bundesarchiv Bild 183-29921-0001, Bulganin, Nikolai Alexandrowitsch (cropped).jpg
- **imagesize**: 225px
- **office**: Premier of the Soviet Union
- **1blankname**: First Deputy Premier of the Soviet Union, First Deputies
- **1namedata**: Anastas Mikoyan
Mikhail Pervukhin
Maksim Saburov
Joseph Kuzmin
Lazar Kaganovich
Anastas Mikoyan
- **term start**: 8 February 1955
- **term end**: 27 March 1958
- **predecessor**: Georgy Malenkov
- **successor**: Nikita Khrushchev
- **office2**: Minister of Defence (Soviet Union), Minister of Defence
- **term start2**: 15 March 1953
- **term end2**: 9 February 1955
- **premier2**: Georgy Malenkov
- **predecessor2**: Joseph Stalin
- **successor2**: Georgy Zhukov
- **office3**: First Deputy Premier of the Soviet Union, First Deputy Chairman of the Council of Ministers (Soviet Union), Council of Ministers
- **term start3**: 7 April 1950
- **term end3**: 8 February 1955
- **premier3**: Joseph Stalin
Georgy Malenkov
- **predecessor3**: Vyacheslav Molotov
- **successor3**: Anastas Mikoyan
- **office4**: List of leaders of the Russian SFSR#Heads of government, Chairman of the Government of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic, Council of People's Commissars of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic, Russian SFSR
- **term start4**: 22 July 1937
- **term end4**: 17 September 1938
- **premier4**: Vyacheslav Molotov
- **predecessor4**: Daniil Sulimov
- **successor4**: Vasiliy Vakhrushev
- **office5**: Full member of the 18th Politburo of the All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks) , 18th, 19th Presidium of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union , 19th, 20th Presidium of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union , 20th Politburo of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, Politburo
- **term start5**: 18 February 1948
- **term end5**: 5 September 1958
- **office6**: Candidate member of the 18th Politburo of the All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks) , 18th Politburo of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, Politburo
- **term start6**: 18 March 1946
- **term end6**: 18 February 1948
- **office7**: Member of the Orgburo
- **term start7**: 18 March 1946
- **term end7**: 14 October 1952
- **birth name**: Nikolai Alexandrovich Bulganin
- **birth place**: Nizhny Novgorod, Russian Empire
- **death place**: Moscow, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union
- **citizenship**: Soviet people, Soviet
- **nationality**: Russian people, Russian
- **party**: Communist Party of the Soviet Union
- **allegiance**: Soviet Union
- **branch**: Red Army
- **serviceyears**: 1941–1949
- **rank**: Marshal of the Soviet Union
- **commands**: Soviet Armed Forces
- **battles**: World War II
- **awards**:
- **caption**: Official Portrait, 1955