The Dzerzhinsk City Committee of the CPSU (Dzerzhinsk gorkom) was the city committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union in Dzerzhinsk, which provided the party leadership of the city during the Soviet period. It was the successor to the Dzerzhinsk City Committee of the CPSU(b) after the party's renaming in 1952 and operated until the CPSU was banned in 1991.

Leadership and membership

One of the first secretaries of the gorkom at various times was Boris Vasilyevich Zakharov, who rose in Dzerzhinsk from head of a mechanical shop and deputy chief mechanic to party committee secretary at a plant, chairman of the city committee for party-state control, and second and first secretary of the gorkom of the CPSU. From 1971 Zakharov held the post of first deputy chairman of the Gorky Regional Council of Workers' Deputies.

The elected bodies of the gorkom included prominent leaders of city enterprises. In particular, a long-serving member of both the Gorky obkom and the Dzerzhinsk gorkom of the CPSU was Mark Pimenovich Sedov — director of the Kaprolaktam production association from 1970 to 1984, Hero of Socialist Labour, and delegate to the 25th Congress of the CPSU (1976). He was repeatedly elected a deputy of the regional and city Soviets of People's Deputies.

Role in the life of the city

The gorkom coordinated party work at the largest chemical enterprises of Dzerzhinsk, one of the leading centers of the chemical industry in the USSR. Membership in the gorkom and obkom provided a link between enterprise management and party structures at the regional level.

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Mark Pimenovich Sedov, Boris Vasilyevich Zakharov

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