Spouses of the heads of state of the Soviet Union

The spouses of the heads of state carried no official duties and receives no salary. Nonetheless, they attended many official ceremonies and functions of state either along with or in place of the head of state.

List of spouses

№	Name of spouse	Head of state
1	Ekaterina Kalinina (née Lorberg)	Mikhail Kalinin	30 December 1922 – 19 March 1946
2	Mariya Shvernik (née Ulazovskaya)	Nikolay Shvernik	19 March 1946 – 6 March 1953
3	Ekaterina Voroshilova (née Gorbman)	Kliment Voroshilov	15 March 1953 – 7 May 1960
4	Viktoria Brezhneva (née Denisova)	Leonid Brezhnev	7 May 1960 – 15 July 1964
5	Ashkhen Mikoyan (née Tumanyan)	Anastas Mikoyan	15 July 1964 – 9 December 1965
6	Natalya Podgornaya (née Nazarova)	Nikolai Podgorny	9 December 1965 – 16 June 1977
7	Viktoria Brezhneva (née Denisova)	Leonid Brezhnev	16 June 1977 – 10 November 1982
8	Tatyana Andropova (née Lebedeva)	Yuri Andropov	16 June 1983 – 9 February 1984
9	Anna Chernenko (née Lyubimova)	Konstantin Chernenko	11 April 1984 – 10 March 1985
10	Lydia Gromyko (née Grinevich)	Andrei Gromyko	27 July 1985 – 1 October 1988
11	Raisa Gorbachova (née Titarenko)	Mikhail Gorbachev	1 October 1988 – 25 December 1991

People from Russia

Political and religious leaders	Pre-1168 1168–1917 1922–1991 1991–present RSFSR leaders General secretaries Soviet premiers (1st deputies) Soviet heads of state (and their spouses) Prime ministers (1st deputies) Foreign ministers Prosecutors general Metropolitans and Patriarchs Saints (1, 2)

Military figures and explorers	Field marshals Soviet marshals Admirals Aviators Cosmonauts

Scientists, engineers and inventors	Aerospace engineers Astronomers and astrophysicists Biologists Chemists Earth scientists Electrical engineers IT developers Linguists and philologists Mathematicians Naval engineers Physicians and psychologists Physicists Weaponry makers

Artists and writers	Architects Ballet dancers Composers Opera singers Novelists Philosophers Playwrights Poets

Sportspeople	Chess players

This article is issued from Wikipedia - version of the Sunday, February 28, 2016. The text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution/Share Alike but additional terms may apply for the media files.