List of prime ministers of Belarus

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This is a list of prime ministers of Belarus since the Belarusian declaration of independence in 1918.

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Belarusian People's Republic (1918–1920)

Chairmen of the People's Secretariat

PortraitName
(birth–death)
Term of officePolitical party
1 Jazep Varonka.gif Jazep Jakaulevich Varonka
(1891–1952)
21 February 1918May 1918 Belarusian Socialist Assembly
2 Government of BNR (Ivan Sierada).jpg Jan Nikitivich Sierada
(1879–1943+)
June 1918August 1918
3 Roman Skirmunt.jpg Raman Aliaksandravich Skirmunt
(1868–1939)
June 1918August 1918Belarusian National Assembly
4 Anton Luckievic, kartka.jpg Anton Ivanavich Luckievich
(1883–1938)
October 191811 October 1918 Belarusian Socialist Assembly

Chairmen of the Council of Ministers

PortraitName
(birth–death)
Term of officePolitical party
1 Anton Luckievic, kartka.jpg Anton Ivanavich Luckievich
(1883–1938)
11 October 191813 December 1919 Belarusian Socialist Assembly
2 Vaclau Lastouski.jpg Vaclau Justynavich Lastouski
(1883–1938)
13 December 19191920Belarusian Socialist-Revolutionary Party

Rada of the Belarusian Democratic Republic (since 1920)

Chairmen of the Council of Ministers

Following the fall of the Belarusian People's Republic, the Rada went into exile—first to Vilnius to 1925, then to Prague before settling in Canada.

PortraitName
(birth–death)
Term of officePolitical party
1 Vaclau Lastouski.jpg Vaclau Justynavich Lastouski
(1883–1938)
192023 August 1923 Socialist-Revolutionary Party
2 Cvikevich.jpg Aliaksandar (Ivanavič) Cvikievič
(1888–1937)
23 August 19238 March 1928
3 Zacharka.jpg Vasil Ivanovich Zacharka
(1877–1943)
8 March 19286 March 1943 Belarusian Socialist Assembly
4 Mikola Semyonovich Abramchyk
(1903–1970)
6 March 1943May 1970 Independent
5 Vintsent Zhuk-Gryshkevich. Rym. 1945.jpg Vincent Žuk-Hryškievič
(1903–1989)
May 1970November 1980
6 Jazep Sažyč
(1917–2007)
November 19801997
7 Pres. Ivonka Survilla.jpg Ivonka Survilla
(1936–)
30 August 1997

Byelorussian Soviet Socialist Republic (1920–1991)

Chairmen of the Council of People's Commissars

PortraitName
(birth–death)
Term of officePolitical party
1 Alexander Grigoryevich Chervyakov
(1892–1937)
1 August 192017 March 1924 Communist Party
2 Jazep Adamovic.jpg Iosif Alexandrovich Adamovich
(1897–1937)
17 March 19247 May 1927
3 Nikolay Mateyevich Goloded
(1894–1937)
7 May 192730 May 1937
4 Danil Ivanavich Volkovich
(1900–1937)
30 May 19378 September 1937
5 Afanasy Feodorovich Kovalyov
(1903–1993)
8 September 193728 July 1938
6 Kuzma Venediktovich Kiselyov
(1903–1977)
28 July 193828 June 1940
7 Ivan Semyonovich Bylinsky
(1903–1976)
28 June 19407 February 1944
8 Anefo 910-7476 Ponomanrenko,.jpg Panteleimon Kondratyevich Ponomarenko
(1902–1984)
7 February 194415 March 1946

Chairmen of the Council of Ministers

PortraitName
(birth–death)
Term of officePolitical party
(8) Anefo 910-7476 Ponomanrenko,.jpg Panteleimon Kondratyevich Ponomarenko
(1902–1984)
15 March 194617 March 1948 Communist Party
9 Aleksey Yefimovich Kleshchev
(1905–1968)
15 March 194825 June 1953
10 Kirill Trofimovich Mazurov
(1914–1989)
25 June 195328 July 1956
11 Nikolai Efremovich Avkhimovich
(1907–1996)
28 July 19569 April 1959
12 Tikhon Yakovlevich Kiselyov
(1917–1983)
9 April 195911 December 1978
13 Aleksandr Nikiforovich Aksyonov
(1924–2009)
11 December 19788 July 1983
14 Vladimir Ignatevich Brovikov
(1931–1992)
8 July 198310 January 1986
15 Mikhail Vasilevich Kovalyov
(1925–2007)
10 January 19867 April 1990
16 Viacheslav Frantsevich Kebich.jpg Vyacheslav Frantsevich Kebich
(1936–2020)
7 April 199025 December 1991 Independent

Republic of Belarus (1991–present)

Prime ministers

PortraitName
(birth–death)
Term of officePolitical partyHead of state
1 Viacheslav Frantsevich Kebich.jpg Vyacheslav Frantsevich Kebich
(1936–2020)
19 September 199121 July 1994 Independent Stanislav Shushkevich
Suskievic bchd.jpg
Chairman of the Supreme Council
(1991–1994)
2 Mikhail Mikalayevich Chigir
(1948–)
21 July 199418 November 1996 Alexander Lukashenko
Alexander Lukashenko (2020-09-03) 01.jpg
President (1994–)
(Disputed since 23 September 2020)
3 Sergey Stepanovich Ling
(1937–)
18 November 199618 February 2000
4 Vladimir Yermoshin.jpg Vladimir Vasilyevich Yermoshin
(1942–)
18 February 20001 October 2001
5 Gennady Vasilyevich Novitsky
(1949–)
1 October 200111 July 2004
6 RIAN archive 161286 Mikhail Fradkov and Sergei Sidorsky (cropped).jpg Sergei Sergeevich Sidorsky
(1954–)
11 July 200428 December 2010
7 Mikhail Myasnikovich, March 2011.jpeg Mikhail Vladimirovich Myasnikovich
(1950–)
28 December 201027 December 2014
8 Andrei Kobjakow, Belarus Vize-Ministerprasident 2 (cropped).jpg Andrei Vladimirovich Kobyakov
(1960–)
27 December 201418 August 2018
9 Syarhey Rumas (2018-09-21).jpg Syarhey Mikalayevich Rumas
(1969–)
18 August 20183 June 2020
10 Roman Golovchenko (2020-09-03)(portrait).jpg Roman Alexandrovich Golovchenko
(1973–)
4 June 2020Incumbent

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