List of leaders of Communist Tuva

Leaders of Communist Tuva
Leaders of Communist Tuva
	Emblem of the Tuvan ASSR
Seat	Kyzyl
Appointer	Politburo, Central Committee or any party apparatus (de facto); Parliamentary vote (de jure)
Formation	14/15 August 1921
First holder	Mongush Buyan-Badyrgy (as Chairman of the All-Tuva Constituent Khural)
Final holder	Kaadyr-ool Bicheldey (as Chairman of the Supreme Soviet); Sherig-ool Oorzhak (as Chairman of the Council of Ministers)
Abolished	25 December 1991

The following is a list of leaders of Communist Tuva, encompassing leaders of the Tuvan People's Republic, the Tuvan Autonomous Oblast (the Tuvan AO) and the Tuvan Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic (the Tuvan ASSR).

The Tuvan People's Republic was nominally a sovereign state^[1] in 1921–44, but it was considered a satellite state of the Soviet Union (the Soviet Union and the Mongolian People's Republic were the only countries to recognize its independence^[2]^[3]).

In 1944, at the request of Tuva's Small People's Khural (parliament), the Tuvan People's Republic became a part of the Soviet Union as an autonomous oblast (the Tuvan AO) of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic (the Russian SFSR) by the decision of Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR.^[4]

In 1961, the Tuvan AO became an autonomous soviet socialist republic (the Tuvan ASSR) of the Russian SFSR.

^ Toomas Alatalu (1992). "Tuva: a State Reawakens". Soviet Studies. 44 (5): 881–895. doi:10.1080/09668139208412051. JSTOR 152275.
^ Dallin, David J. Soviet Russia and the Far East, Yale University Press, 1948, p. 87
^ Paine, S.C.M. Imperial Rivals: China, Russia, and Their Disputed Frontier, M.E. Sharpe, 1996, p. 329.
^ Президиум Верховного Совета СССР. Указ от 11 октября 1944 г «О принятии Тувинской Народной Республики в состав Союза Советских Социалистических Республик». (Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR. Decree of 11 October 1944 On the admission of the Tuvan People's Republic to the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. ).