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Communist Party of Turkmenistan Коммунистическая партия Туркменистана Türkmenistanyň Kommunistik Partiýasy
First Secretary	Saparmurat Niyazov(last)
Founded	19 November 1924
Dissolved	16 December 1991
Succeeded by	Democratic Party of Turkmenistan
Ideology	Communism Marxism–Leninism
Political position	Far-left
National affiliation	Communist Party of the Soviet Union
Colours	Red
Party flag
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TheCommunist Party of Turkmenistan (Russian:Коммунистическая партия Туркменистана,romanized: Kommunisticheskaya partiya Turkmenistana;Turkmen:Түркменистаның Коммунистик Партиясы,romanized: Türkmenistanyň Kommunistik Partiýasy) was the rulingcommunist party of theTurkmen SSR which operated as a republican branch of theCommunist Party of the Soviet Union. From 1985, it was led bySaparmurat Niyazov. On 16 December 1991, as theSoviet Union was in the process of dissolving, Niyazov reorganized the CPT as theDemocratic Party of Turkmenistan.^[1] Thecurrent Communist Party of Turkmenistan was made illegal during the presidency of Niyazov after independence and remains banned.^[2]

No.	Picture	Name (Birth–Death)	Took office	Left office	Political party
First Secretary
1		Ivan Mezhlauk (1891–1938)	19 November 1924	1926	CPT/CPSU
2		Shaymardan Ibragimov (1899–1957)	June 1926	1927	CPT/CPSU
3		Nikolay Paskutsky (1894–1938)	1927	1928	CPT/CPSU
4		Grigory Aronshtam (1893–1938)	11 May 1928	August 1930	CPT/CPSU
5		Yakov Popok (1894–1938)	August 1930	15 April 1937	CPT/CPSU
6		Anna Muhamedow (1900–1938)	April 1937	October 1937	CPT/CPSU
7		Yakov Chubin (1893–1956)	October 1937	November 1939	CPT/CPSU
8		Mikhail Fonin (1905–1974)	November 1939	March 1947	CPT/CPSU
9		Şaja Batyrow (1908–1965)	March 1947	July 1951	CPT/CPSU
10		Suhan Babaýew (1910–1995)	July 1951	14 December 1958	CPT/CPSU
11		Jumadurdy Garaýew (1910–1960)	14 December 1958	4 May 1960	CPT/CPSU
12		Balysh Ovezov (1915–1975)	13 June 1960	24 December 1969	CPT/CPSU
13		Muhammetnazar Gapurow (1922–1999)	24 December 1969	21 December 1985	CPT/CPSU
14		Saparmurat Niyazov (1940–2006)	21 December 1985	16 December 1991	CPT/CPSU

No.	Picture	Name (Birth–Death)	Took office	Left office	Political party
Second Secretary
-		Anna Mukhammedov (1900–1938)	3 March 1935	October 1937	CPT/CPSU
-		Allaberdy Berdyev (1904–1964)	16 July 1938	20 August 1940	CPT/CPSU
-		Kurban Permanov(1909–1969)[3]	28 November 1941	17 February 1945	CPT/CPSU
-		Shadzha Batyrov (1908–1965)	November 1945	July 1947	CPT/CPSU
-		Arkady Sennikov (1908–1974)[4]	July 1947	10 September 1953	CPT/CPSU
-		Polikarp Dolgov (1910–1989)	10 September 1953	14 February 1954	CPT/CPSU
-		Fyedor Grishaenkov (1914–1983)	14 February 1954	13 June 1960	CPT/CPSU
-		Mikhail Pimenov (1914–?)[5]	13 June 1960	25 March 1963	CPT/CPSU
-		Vasily Rykov (1918–2011)[6]	25 March 1963	14 April 1975	CPT/CPSU
-		Viktor Pereudin (1923–2001)[7]	14 April 1975	20 December 1980	CPT/CPSU
-		Albert Rachkov (1927–2023)[8]	20 December 1980	26 July 1986	CPT/CPSU
-		Sergei Nesterenko (1935–)[9]	26 July 1986	1991	CPT/CPSU
-		Alexander Dodonov (1946–2018)[10]	1991	1991	CPT/CPSU

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