Boris Ponomarev

Boris Ponomarev Борис Пономарёв

Head of the International Department of the Central Committee
In office 21 February 1957 – 25 February 1986
Preceded by	Post established (himself as Department for Relations with Foreign Communist Parties head)
Succeeded by	Anatoly Dobrynin
Head of the Department for Relations with Foreign Communist Parties of the Central Committee
In office 9 December 1955 – 21 February 1957
Preceded by	Mikhail Suslov
Succeeded by	Post abolished (himself as International Department head and Yuri Andropov as Department for Relations with the Communist and Workers' Parties of the Socialist Countries head)
Candidate member of the 24th, 25th, 26th Politburo
In office 19 May 1972 – 25 February 1986
Member of the 22nd, 23rd, 24th, 25th, 26th Secretariat
In office 31 October 1961 – 25 February 1985
Personal details
Born	(1905-01-17)17 January 1905 Shakhovskoye, Russian Empire
Died	21 December 1995(1995-12-21) (aged 90) Moscow, Russian Federation
Citizenship	Soviet
Nationality	Russian
Political party	Communist Party of the Soviet Union
Residence	Kutuzovsky Prospekt
Profession	Politician, historian

Boris Nikolayevich Ponomarev (Russian: Борис Николаевич Пономарёв) (January 17, 1905 – December 21, 1995) was a Soviet politician, ideologist, historian and member of the Secretariat of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. His patron in his rise to the politburo was Mikhail Suslov.

His name would more accurately be transliterated as "Ponomaryov," though the form "Ponomarev" has become more frequent.

From 1955 to 1986, he was chief of the International Department of the CPSU Central Committee - and effectively in control of policy in the World Communist Movement. He occupied an office within Central Committee headquarters until the 1991 August Coup, which he is said to have supported.