Kirill Mazurov | |
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Кирилл Мазуров | |
First Deputy Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the Soviet Union | |
In office 26 March 1965 – 28 November 1978 | |
Premier | Alexei Kosygin |
Preceded by | Dmitriy Ustinov |
Succeeded by | Dmitry Polyansky |
First Secretary of the Communist Party of Byelorussia | |
In office 28 July 1956 – 30 March 1965 | |
Preceded by | Nikolai Patolichev |
Succeeded by | Pyotr Masherov |
Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the Byelorussian SSR | |
In office 24 July 1953 – 28 July 1958 | |
Preceded by | Aleksey Kleshchev |
Succeeded by | Nikolay Avkhimovich |
Full member of the 22nd, 23rd, 24th, 25th Politburo | |
In office 26 March 1965 – 28 November 1978 | |
Candidate member of the 20th, 22nd Presidium | |
In office 29 June 1957 – 26 March 1965 | |
Personal details | |
Born | Kirill Trofimovich Mazurov 25 March 1914 Rudnia-Pribytkovskaya, Mogilev Governorate, Russian Empire |
Died | 19 December 1989 Moscow, Soviet Union | (aged 75)
Nationality | Soviet |
Political party | Communist Party of the Soviet Union (1940–1989) |
Kirill Trofimovich Mazurov (Belarusian: Кіры́ла Трафі́мавіч Ма́зураў, romanized: Kiryła Trafimavič Mazuraw, Russian: Кири́лл Трофи́мович Ма́зуров; 25 March 1914 – 19 December 1989) was a Soviet partisan, politician, and one of the leaders of the Belarusian resistance during World War II who governed the Byelorussian Soviet Socialist Republic as First Secretary of the Communist Party of Byelorussia from 1956 until 1965, when he became a member of the Politburo of the CPSU.