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{{Short description|Ruling party of the Turkmen SSR (1924–1991)}}
{{For|the party founded in 1998|Communist Party of Turkmenistan (1998)}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=February 2018}}
{{Expand Russian|topic=gov|Коммунистическая партия Туркменистана|date=February 2013}}
{{Infobox political party
| colorcode = {{party color|Communist Party of the Soviet Union}}
| flag = Flag of the Turkmen Soviet Socialist Republic (1973–1991).svg
| logo = Emblem of the Turkmen SSR.svg
| slogan = 
| anthem = 
| native_name = {{lang|ru|Коммунистическая партия Туркменистана}}<br />{{lang|tk|Türkmenistanyň Kommunistik Partiýasy}}
| name = Communist Party of Turkmenistan
| founded = 19 November 1924
| dissolved = 16 December 1991
| founder = 
| newspaper = 
| ideology = [[Communism]]<br />[[Marxism–Leninism]]
| position = [[Far-left]]
| international = 
| national = [[Communist Party of the Soviet Union]]
| predecessor = 
| successor = [[Democratic Party of Turkmenistan]]
| youth_wing = 
| colours = {{Color box|{{party color|Communist Party of the Soviet Union}}|border=darkgray}} [[Red]]
| country = Turkmenistan
| first_secretary = [[Saparmurat Niyazov]] {{small|(last)}}
}}

The '''Communist Party of Turkmenistan''' ({{langx|ru|Коммунистическая партия Туркменистана|translit=Kommunisticheskaya partiya Turkmenistana}}; {{langx|tk|Түркменистаның Коммунистик Партиясы|translit=Türkmenistanyň Kommunistik Partiýasy}}) was the ruling [[communist party]] of the [[Turkmen SSR]] which operated as a republican branch of the [[Communist Party of the Soviet Union]]. From 1985, it was led by [[Saparmurat Niyazov]]. On 16 December 1991, as the [[Soviet Union]] was in the process of dissolving, Niyazov reorganized the CPT as the [[Democratic Party of Turkmenistan]].<ref>[https://yeltsin.ru/day-by-day/1991/12/18/9048/ Компартии Туркменистана больше нет]{{Dead link|date=May 2023 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref> The [[Communist Party of Turkmenistan (1998)|current Communist Party of Turkmenistan]] was made illegal during the presidency of Niyazov after independence and remains banned.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.broadleft.org/tm.htm |title=Leftist Parties of Turkmenistan |access-date=29 March 2007 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120722185703/http://www.broadleft.org/tm.htm |archive-date=22 July 2012 |url-status=dead }}</ref>

== Leadership ==

=== First Secretaries ===
{| class="wikitable" style="text-align:center"
!{{Abbr|No.|Number}}
!Picture
! width="150" |Name
{{small|(Birth–Death)}}
! width="150" |Took office
! width="150" |Left office
! width="150" |Political party
|-
! colspan="6" align="center" |First Secretary
|-
! style="background:{{party color|Communist Party of the Soviet Union}}; color:white;" |1
|[[File:Emblem of the Turkmen SSR (1926-1927).svg|105x105px]]
|[[Ivan Mezhlauk]]
(1891–1938)
|19 November 1924
|1926
|[[Communist Party of the Soviet Union|CPT/CPSU]]
|-
! style="background:{{party color|Communist Party of the Soviet Union}}; color:white;" |2
|[[File:Emblem of the Turkmen SSR (1926-1927).svg|105x105px]]
|[[Shaymardan Ibragimov]]
(1899–1957)
|June 1926
|1927
|[[Communist Party of the Soviet Union|CPT/CPSU]]
|-
! style="background:{{party color|Communist Party of the Soviet Union}}; color:white;" |3
|[[File:Emblem of Turkmen SSR (1927-1937).svg|105x105px]]
|[[Nikolay Paskutsky]]
(1894–1938)
|1927
|1928
|[[Communist Party of the Soviet Union|CPT/CPSU]]
|-
! style="background:{{party color|Communist Party of the Soviet Union}}; color:white;" |4
|[[File:Emblem of Turkmen SSR (1927-1937).svg|105x105px]]
|[[Grigory Aronshtam]]
(1893–1938)
|11 May 1928
|August 1930
|[[Communist Party of the Soviet Union|CPT/CPSU]]
|-
! style="background:{{party color|Communist Party of the Soviet Union}}; color:white;" |5
|[[File:Emblem of Turkmen SSR (1927-1937).svg|105x105px]]
|[[Yakov Popok]]
(1894–1938)
|August 1930
|15 April 1937
|[[Communist Party of the Soviet Union|CPT/CPSU]]
|-
! style="background:{{party color|Communist Party of the Soviet Union}}; color:white;" |6
|[[File:Emblem of the Turkmen SSR.svg|105x105px]]
|[[Anna Muhamedow]]
(1900–1938)
|April 1937
|October 1937
|[[Communist Party of the Soviet Union|CPT/CPSU]]
|-
! style="background:{{party color|Communist Party of the Soviet Union}}; color:white;" |7
|[[File:Emblem of the Turkmen SSR.svg|105x105px]]
|[[Yakov Chubin]]
(1893–1956)
|October 1937
|November 1939
|[[Communist Party of the Soviet Union|CPT/CPSU]]
|-
! style="background:{{party color|Communist Party of the Soviet Union}}; color:white;" |8
|[[File:Emblem of the Turkmen SSR.svg|105x105px]]
|[[Mikhail Fonin]]
(1905–1974)
|November 1939
|March 1947
|[[Communist Party of the Soviet Union|CPT/CPSU]]
|-
! style="background:{{party color|Communist Party of the Soviet Union}}; color:white;" |9
|[[File:Emblem of the Turkmen SSR.svg|105x105px]]
|[[Şaja Batyrow]]
(1908–1965)
|March 1947
|July 1951
|[[Communist Party of the Soviet Union|CPT/CPSU]]
|-
! style="background:{{party color|Communist Party of the Soviet Union}}; color:white;" |10
|[[File:Emblem of the Turkmen SSR.svg|105x105px]]
|[[Suhan Babaýew]]
(1910–1995)
|July 1951
|14 December 1958
|[[Communist Party of the Soviet Union|CPT/CPSU]]
|-
! style="background:{{party color|Communist Party of the Soviet Union}}; color:white;" |11
|[[File:Emblem of the Turkmen SSR.svg|105x105px]]
|[[Jumadurdy Garaýew]]
(1910–1960)
|14 December 1958
|4 May 1960
|[[Communist Party of the Soviet Union|CPT/CPSU]]
|-
! style="background:{{party color|Communist Party of the Soviet Union}}; color:white;" |12
|[[File:Emblem of the Turkmen SSR.svg|105x105px]]
|[[Balysh Ovezov]]
(1915–1975)
|13 June 1960
|24 December 1969
|[[Communist Party of the Soviet Union|CPT/CPSU]]
|-
! style="background:{{party color|Communist Party of the Soviet Union}}; color:white;" |13
| 
|[[Muhammetnazar Gapurow]]

(1922–1999)
|24 December 1969
|21 December 1985
|[[Communist Party of the Soviet Union|CPT/CPSU]]
|-
! style="background:{{party color|Communist Party of the Soviet Union}}; color:white;" |14
|[[File:Saparmurat Niyazov and CIS leaders (cropped).jpg|105x105px]]
|[[Saparmurat Niyazov]]

(1940–2006)
|21 December 1985
|16 December 1991
|[[Communist Party of the Soviet Union|CPT/CPSU]]
|}

=== Second Secretaries ===
{| class="wikitable" style="text-align:center"
!{{Abbr|No.|Number}}
!Picture
! width="150" |Name
{{small|(Birth–Death)}}
! width="150" |Took office
! width="150" |Left office
! width="150" |Political party
|-
! colspan="6" align="center" |Second Secretary
|-
! style="background:{{party color|Communist Party of the Soviet Union}}; color:white;" |-
|[[File:Emblem of the Turkmen SSR (1926-1927).svg|105x105px]]
|Anna Mukhammedov (1900–1938)
|3 March 1935
|October 1937
|[[Communist Party of the Soviet Union|CPT/CPSU]]
|-
! style="background:{{party color|Communist Party of the Soviet Union}}; color:white;" |-
|[[File:Emblem of the Turkmen SSR (1926-1927).svg|105x105px]]
|[[Allaberdy Berdyev]] (1904–1964)
|16 July 1938 
|20 August 1940
|[[Communist Party of the Soviet Union|CPT/CPSU]]
|-
! style="background:{{party color|Communist Party of the Soviet Union}}; color:white;" |-
|[[File:Emblem of the Turkmen SSR (1926-1927).svg|105x105px]]
|[[Kurban Permanov]](1909–1969)<ref>{{Cite web |title=ПЕРМАНОВ Курбан {{!}} ЦентрАзия |url=https://centrasia.org/person2.php?st=1204730280 |access-date=2023-01-07 |website=centrasia.org}}</ref>
|28 November 1941
|17 February 1945
|[[Communist Party of the Soviet Union|CPT/CPSU]]
|-
! style="background:{{party color|Communist Party of the Soviet Union}}; color:white;" |-
|[[File:Emblem of the Turkmen SSR (1926-1927).svg|105x105px]]
|[[Shadzha Batyrov]] 
(1908–1965)
|November 1945
|July 1947
|[[Communist Party of the Soviet Union|CPT/CPSU]]
|-
! style="background:{{party color|Communist Party of the Soviet Union}}; color:white;" |-
|[[File:Emblem of the Turkmen SSR (1926-1927).svg|105x105px]]
|Arkady Sennikov (1908–1974)<ref>{{Cite web |title=СЕННИКОВ Аркадий Андреевич {{!}} ЦентрАзия |url=https://centrasia.org/person2.php?st=1322067512 |access-date=2023-01-07 |website=centrasia.org}}</ref>
|July 1947
|10 September 1953
|[[Communist Party of the Soviet Union|CPT/CPSU]]
|-
! style="background:{{party color|Communist Party of the Soviet Union}}; color:white;" |-
|[[File:Emblem of the Turkmen SSR (1926-1927).svg|105x105px]]
|Polikarp Dolgov (1910–1989)
|10 September 1953 
|14 February 1954
|[[Communist Party of the Soviet Union|CPT/CPSU]]
|-
! style="background:{{party color|Communist Party of the Soviet Union}}; color:white;" |-
|[[File:Emblem of the Turkmen SSR (1926-1927).svg|105x105px]]
|Fyedor Grishaenkov (1914–1983)
|14 February 1954
|13 June 1960
|[[Communist Party of the Soviet Union|CPT/CPSU]]
|-
! style="background:{{party color|Communist Party of the Soviet Union}}; color:white;" |-
|[[File:Emblem of the Turkmen SSR (1926-1927).svg|105x105px]]
|Mikhail Pimenov (1914–?)<ref>{{Cite web |title=ПИМЕНОВ Михаил Александрович {{!}} ЦентрАзия |url=https://centrasia.org/person2.php?st=1142240143 |access-date=2023-01-07 |website=centrasia.org}}</ref>
|13 June 1960
|25 March 1963
|[[Communist Party of the Soviet Union|CPT/CPSU]]
|-
! style="background:{{party color|Communist Party of the Soviet Union}}; color:white;" |-
|[[File:Emblem of the Turkmen SSR (1926-1927).svg|105x105px]]
|[[Vasily Rykov]]
(1918–2011)<ref>{{Cite web |title=RYKOV Vasily Nazarovich |url=http://rusembindia.com/embassy/157-ambassadors-of-the-soviet-union-and-russia-in-india/6884-rykov-vasilij-nazarovich-en |access-date=2017-09-02 |website=rusembindia.com |language=en-gb}}</ref>
|25 March 1963
|14 April 1975 
|[[Communist Party of the Soviet Union|CPT/CPSU]]
|-
! style="background:{{party color|Communist Party of the Soviet Union}}; color:white;" |-
|[[File:Emblem of the Turkmen SSR (1926-1927).svg|105x105px]]
|Viktor Pereudin (1923–2001)<ref>{{Cite web |title=ПЕРЕУДИН Виктор Михайлович (1923 – 2001) — Moscow-Tombs |url=http://moscow-tombs.ru/by-years/pereudin_vm/ |access-date=2023-01-07 |language=ru}}</ref>
|14 April 1975 
|20 December 1980
|[[Communist Party of the Soviet Union|CPT/CPSU]]
|-
! style="background:{{party color|Communist Party of the Soviet Union}}; color:white;" |-
|[[File:Emblem of the Turkmen SSR (1926-1927).svg|105x105px]]
|Albert Rachkov 
(1927–2023)<ref>{{Cite web |title=О кончине А.И.Рачкова - Министерство иностранных дел Российской Федерации |url=https://www.mid.ru/ru/activity/shots/vnutrivedomstvennye_novosti/nekrologi_pamyati_kolleg/1846371/ |access-date=2023-01-07 |website=www.mid.ru}}</ref>
|20 December 1980
|26 July 1986
|[[Communist Party of the Soviet Union|CPT/CPSU]]
|-
! style="background:{{party color|Communist Party of the Soviet Union}}; color:white;" |-
|[[File:Emblem of the Turkmen SSR (1926-1927).svg|105x105px]]
|Sergei Nesterenko 
(1935–)<ref>{{Cite web |title=НЕСТЕРЕНКО Сергей Михайлович {{!}} ЦентрАзия |url=https://centrasia.org/person2.php?st=1013880153 |access-date=2023-01-07 |website=centrasia.org}}</ref>
|26 July 1986
|1991
|[[Communist Party of the Soviet Union|CPT/CPSU]]
|-
! style="background:{{party color|Communist Party of the Soviet Union}}; color:white;" |-
|[[File:Emblem of the Turkmen SSR (1926-1927).svg|105x105px]]
|Alexander Dodonov (1946–2018)<ref>{{Cite web |title=ДОДОНОВ Александр Дмитриевич - Биография - БД "Лабиринт" |url=http://www.labyrinth.ru/content/card.asp?cardid=36142 |access-date=2023-01-07 |website=www.labyrinth.ru}}</ref>
|1991
|1991
|[[Communist Party of the Soviet Union|CPT/CPSU]]
|}

==See also==
*[[Politics of Turkmenistan]]
*[[Communist Party of the Soviet Union]]

== References ==
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