The First Secretary of the Moscow City Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union was the position of highest authority in the city of Moscow, roughly equating to that of mayor. The position was created on November 10, 1917, following the October Revolution, and abolished on August 24, 1991. The First Secretary was a de facto appointed position, usually by the Politburo or the General Secretary himself. Until the abolition of the CPSU monopoly on power on March 14, 1990, he had actual power in Moscow.
First Secretaries
| Name | Term of Office | Life years | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Start | End | ||
| Vadim Podbelskiy | 10 November 1917 | 12 April 1918 | 1887–1920 |
| Dominik Yefremov | 12 April 1918 | 7 September 1918 | 1883–1925 |
| Vladimir Zagorsky | 17 September 1918 | 25 September 1919 | 1883–1919 |
| Dominik Yefremov | October 1919 | November 1919 | 1883–1925 |
| Alexander Myasnakov | November 1919 | April 1920 | 1886–1925 |
| Osip Piatnitsky | April 1920 | November 1920 | 1882–1938 |
| Fedor Sergeyev (Artem) | November 1920 | March 1921 | 1883–1921 |
| Isaak Zelensky | March 1921 | 20 August 1924 | 1890–1938 |
| Nikolai Uglanov | 20 August 1924 | 27 November 1928 | 1886–1937 |
| Vyacheslav Molotov | 27 November 1928 | 15 August 1929 | 1890–1986 |
| Karl Bauman | 15 August 1929 | 12 July 1930 | 1892–1937 |
| Lazar Kaganovich | 12 July 1930 | January 1934 | 1893–1991 |
| Nikita Khrushchev | January 1934 | 27 January 1938 | 1894–1971 |
| Aleksandr Ugarov | 11 February 1938 | 19 September 1938 | 1900–1939 |
| Aleksandr Shcherbakov | 2 December 1938 | 10 May 1945 | 1901–1945 |
| Georgy Popov | 10 May 1945 | 12 February 1950 | 1906–1968 |
| Ivan Rumyantsev | 12 February 1950 | July 1952 | 1913–1992 |
| Ivan Kapitonov | August 1952 | 29 March 1954 | 1915–2002 |
| Yekaterina Furtseva | 17 November 1954 | 30 June 1957 | 1910–1974 |
| Vladimir Ustinov | 30 June 1957 | 4 March 1960 | 1907–1971 |
| Pyotr Demichev | 4 March 1960 | 1 November 1962 | 1917–2010 |
| Nikolay Yegorychev | 1 November 1962 | 4 October 1967 | 1920–2005 |
| Viktor Grishin | 4 October 1967 | 23 December 1985 | 1914–1992 |
| Boris Yeltsin | 23 December 1985 | 11 November 1987 | 1931–2007 |
| Lev Zaykov | 11 November 1987 | 21 November 1989 | 1923–2002 |
| Yury Prokofyev | 21 November 1989 | 24 August 1991 | 1939– |