Presidium of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union Georgy Malenkov Lavrentiy Beria Vyacheslav Molotov Kliment Voroshilov Nikita Khrushchev Nikolai Bulganin Lazar Kaganovich Anastas Mikoyan Beria Soviet Union collective leadership
The collective leadership included the following eight senior members of the Presidium of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, listed according to the order of precedence presented formally on 5 March 1953: Georgy Malenkov, Lavrentiy Beria, Vyacheslav Molotov, Kliment Voroshilov, Nikita Khrushchev, Nikolai Bulganin, Lazar Kaganovich and Anastas Mikoyan.