The Communist Party of the Karelo-Finnish SSR (Russian: Коммунистическая партия Карело-Финской Советской Социалистической Республики, romanized: Kommunistcheskaya partiya Karelo-Finskoy Sovyetskoy Sotsialisticheskoy Respubliki, Finnish: Karjalais-suomalaisen sosialistisen neuvostotasavallan kommunistinen puolue), initially known as the Communist Party (Bolshevik) of the Karelo-Finnish SSR, was the branch of the All-Union Communist Party/Communist Party of the Soviet Union in the Karelo-Finnish SSR (1940–1956).
Communist Party of the Karelo-Finnish Soviet Socialist Republic Karjalais-suomalaisen sosialistisen neuvostotasavallan kommunistinen puolue | |
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| First Secretary | Gennady Kupriyanov (first) Leonid Lubennikov (last) |
| Standing Committee | Karelian Regional Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union |
| Founded | 31 March – 2 April 1940 |
| Dissolved | 16 July 1956 |
| Merged into | CPRSFSR |
| Ideology | Communism Marxism–Leninism |
| Political position | Far-left |
| National affiliation | Communist Party of the Soviet Union |
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First Secretaries of the Party
| No. | Picture | Name (Birth–Death) | Took office | Left office | Political party |
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| 1 | .jpg) | Gennady Kupriyanov (1905–1979) | 2 April 1940 | 25 January 1950 | CPKFSSR/CPSU |
| 2 |  | Aleksandr Kondakov (1908–1954) | 25 January 1950 | 27 September 1950 | CPKFSSR/CPSU |
| 3 | | Aleksandr Egorov (1904–1988) | 27 September 1950 | 16 August 1955 | CPKFSSR/CPSU |
| 4 |  | Leonid Lubennikov (1910–1988) | 16 August 1955 | 16 July 1956 | CPKFSSR/CPSU |
Second Secretaries of the Party
Yuri Andropov was elected Second Secretary of the Central Committee in 1947.[1]