Ivan Vasilyevich Spiridonov (October 23, 1905 – July 7, 1991) was a Soviet statesman and party leader.

[3] In July 1956 – December 1957 – 1st Secretary of the Leningrad City Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.

[4] Having taken the chair of the First Secretary of the Regional Committee after the departure of Frol Kozlov, Spiridonov directed most of his efforts to housing construction.

The construction of scientific campuses began in the districts of Pesochny, Krasnoye Selo, Gatchina, Kirovsk and others.

In 1961, at the 22nd Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, as the head of the Leningrad delegation, he proposed the removal of body of Stalin from the Mausoleum.