The Government of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics was the executive and administrative organ of the highest body of state authority, the All-Union Supreme Soviet. It was formed on 30 December
A governmental badge from 1930.
The composition of Stalin's Second Government as shown in 1946.
Alexei Kosygin was the longest-serving chairman of the Soviet government, holding office from 1964 until his death in 1980.
Gorbachev at the 1st Plenary Session of the I Congress of People's Deputies in 1989.
Valentin Pavlov
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Valentin Sergeyevich Pavlov was a Soviet official who became a Russian banker following the dissolution of the Soviet Union. Born in the city of Moscow, then part of the Russian Soviet Federative Soci
Pavlov in 1993
A new 50-ruble banknote issued in 1991 during the Pavlov reform.
Pavlov's gravestone at Pyatnitskoye Cemetery