Below is a list of leaders of present-day

Turkmenistan Turkmenistan ( or ; tk, Türkmenistan / Түркменистан, ) is a country located in Central Asia, bordered by Kazakhstan to the northwest, Uzbekistan to the north, east and northeast, Afghanistan to the southeast, Iran to the sout ...

since the establishment of

Turkmen SSR Turkmen, Türkmen, Turkoman, or Turkman may refer to: Peoples Historical ethnonym * Turkoman (ethnonym), ethnonym used for the Oghuz Turks during the Middle Ages Ethnic groups * Turkmen in Anatolia and the Levant (Seljuk and Ottoman-Turkish desc ...

in 1925.

Turkmen Soviet Socialist Republic The Turkmen Soviet Socialist Republic (, ; russian: Туркменская Советская Социалистическая Республика, ''Turkmenskaya Sovetskaya Sotsialisticheskaya Respublika''), also commonly known as Turkmenistan o ...
(1925–1991)

First Secretaries of the Communist Party of Turkmenistan

Ivan Mezhlauk Ivan Ivanovich Mezhlauk (russian: Иван Иванович Межлаук; lv, Jānis Mežlauks) (30 September 1891 – 25 April 1938) was a Soviet politician and statesman who was the first general secretary of the Communist Party of the Turkm ...

(19 November 1924 – 1926) (acting until 20 February 1925) *

Shaymardan Ibragimov Shaymardan Nurimanovich Ibragimov (1899–1957) served as the second first secretary of the Communist Party of the Turkmen SSR The Communist Party of Turkmenistan (russian: Коммунистическая партия Туркмениста� ...

(June 1926 – 1927) *

Nikolay Paskutsky Nikolay Antonovich Paskutsky (1894 – July 28, 1938) was a Soviet politician who served briefly as the third first secretary of the Communist Party of the Turkmen SSR, serving from 1927 until August 1928. He was shot on 28 July 1938 during the ...

(1927 – 1928) * Grigory Aronshtam (11 May 1928 – August 1930) *

Yakov Popok Yakov Abramovich Popok (1894–1938) served as the fifth General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Turkmen SSR. His term began in August 1930, replacing Grigory Aronshtam. He fell ill in early 1937, causing him to resign on 15 April. H ...

(August 1930 – 15 April 1937) *

Anna Mukhamedov Anna Muhamedov ('' tk, Anna Muhamedow, russian: Анна Мухамедов'') (1900–1938) was the acting first secretary of the Communist Party of the Turkmen SSR immediately following Yakov Popok's resignation due to ill health on 15 April 1937 ...

(April – October 1937) *

Yakov Chubin Yakov Chubin also known as Yakov Shub (Mstsislaw, Mogilyov Governorate, 1893 – Moscow, November 1956) served as the seventh General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Turkmen SSR. His term began on 17 April 1937, following the resignat ...

(October 1937 – November 1939) *

Mikhail Fonin Mikhail Mikhailovich Fonin (1905 – 1974) served as the eighth first secretary of the Communist Party of the Turkmen SSR. Fonin held this position throughout the German-Soviet War The Eastern Front of World War II was a theatre o ...

(November 1939 – March 1947) * Shadzha Batyrov (March 1947 – July 1951) *

Sukhan Babayev Sukhan Babayevich Babayev (27 November 1910 in Ýüzbaşy – 28 November 1995) was a Soviet-Turkmenistan politician. He served as the General Secretary of the Communist Party of Turkmenistan from October 1951 until December 1958.

(July 1951 – 14 December 1958) *

Dzhuma Durdy Karayev Dzhuma Durdy Karayev (; 10 January 1910 in Baýramaly – 4 May 1960) was a Soviet and Turkmen politician who served as First Secretary of the Communist Party of Turkmenistan The Communist Party of Turkmenistan (russian: Коммунист� ...

(14 December 1958 – 4 May 1960) *

Balysh Ovezov Balysh Ovezovich Ovezov (29 December 1915 – 13 October 1975), served as General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Turkmen SSR twice, from 1950 to 1951 and again from 1960 to 1969. Biography Ovezov was born in a village in Turkmenistan, then ...

(13 June 1960 – 24 December 1969) *

Muhammetnazar Gapurow Muhammetnazar Gapuroviç Gapurov (Turkmen Cyrillic: Мухамметназар Гапурович Гапуров; rus, links=no, Мухамметназар Капурович Капуров, Mukhammetnazar Kapurovich Kapurov; 15 February 192213 ...

(24 December 1969 – 21 December 1985) *

Saparmurat Niyazov Saparmurat Atayevich Niyazov; tk, Saparmyrat Ataýewiç Nyýazow, in Cyrillic: Сапармырат Атаевич Ныязов (19 February 1940 – 21 December 2006), also known as Turkmenbashi, was a Turkmen politician who rule ...

(21 December 1985 – 16 December 1991)

Turkmenistan Turkmenistan ( or ; tk, Türkmenistan / Түркменистан, ) is a country located in Central Asia, bordered by Kazakhstan to the northwest, Uzbekistan to the north, east and northeast, Afghanistan to the southeast, Iran to the sout ...
(1990–present)

The first column consecutively numbers the individuals who have served as president, while the second column consecutively numbers the presidential terms or administrations.

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{{Reflist Heads of state of Turkmenistan Politics of Turkmenistan Government of Turkmenistan

Turkmen Soviet Socialist Republic The Turkmen Soviet Socialist Republic (, ; russian: Туркменская Советская Социалистическая Республика, ''Turkmenskaya Sovetskaya Sotsialisticheskaya Respublika''), also commonly known as Turkmenistan o ... (1925–1991)

First Secretaries of the Communist Party of Turkmenistan

Turkmenistan Turkmenistan ( or ; tk, Türkmenistan / Түркменистан, ) is a country located in Central Asia, bordered by Kazakhstan to the northwest, Uzbekistan to the north, east and northeast, Afghanistan to the southeast, Iran to the sout ... (1990–present)

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Turkmen Soviet Socialist Republic The Turkmen Soviet Socialist Republic (, ; russian: Туркменская Советская Социалистическая Республика, ''Turkmenskaya Sovetskaya Sotsialisticheskaya Respublika''), also commonly known as Turkmenistan o ...
(1925–1991)

Turkmenistan Turkmenistan ( or ; tk, Türkmenistan / Түркменистан, ) is a country located in Central Asia, bordered by Kazakhstan to the northwest, Uzbekistan to the north, east and northeast, Afghanistan to the southeast, Iran to the sout ...
(1990–present)