Communist Party of the Karelo-Finnish Soviet Socialist Republic Karjalais-suomalaisen sosialistisen neuvostotasavallan kommunistinen puolue
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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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).

First Secretaries of the Party

No.	Picture	Name (Birth–Death)	Took office	Left office	Political party
First Secretary
1		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 [ru] (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]