The Byelorussian Soviet Socialist Republic,also commonly referred to in English as Byelorussia,was a republic of the Soviet Union (USSR). It existed between 1920 to 1991 as one of fifteen constituent republics of the USSR,with its own legislation from 1990 to 1991. The republic was ruled by the Communist Party of Byelorussia and was also referred to as Soviet Byelorussia or Soviet Belarus by a number of historians. Other names for Byelorussia included White Russian Soviet Socialist Republic and Belorussian Soviet Socialist Republic.
Dinmukhamed Akhmetuly "Dimash" Kunaev was a Kazakh Soviet communist politician who served as the First Secretary of the Communist Party of Kazakhstan.
The political system of the Soviet Union took place in a federal single-party soviet socialist republic framework which was characterized by the superior role of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (CPSU),the only party permitted by the Constitution.
Pyotr Mironovich Masherov was a Soviet partisan,statesman,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 1965 until his death in 1980. Under Masherov's rule,Belarus was transformed from an agrarian,undeveloped nation which had not yet recovered from the Second World War into an industrial powerhouse;Minsk,the capital and largest city of Belarus,became one of the fastest-growing cities on the planet. Masherov ruled until his sudden death in 1980,after his vehicle was hit by a potato truck.
Kirill Trofimovich Mazurov 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.
Yan Gamarnik (birth name Jakov Tzudikovich Gamarnik,sometimes known as Yakov Gamarnik,was the Chief of the Political Department of the Red Army from 1930—1937,Deputy Commissar of Defense 1930—1934 and First Secretary of the Communist Party of Byelorussia 1928—1930.
Panteleimon Kondratyevich Ponomarenko was a Soviet statesman and politician and one of the leaders of Soviet partisan resistance in Belarus. He served as an administrator at various positions within the Soviet government,including the leadership positions in Byelorussian and Kazakh SSRs.
Kuprian Osipovich Kirkizh was a Belarusian revolutionary and Soviet statesman who served as the second General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Uzbek SSR from 1927 until April 1929.
Nikolai Semyonovich Patolichev was a Soviet statesman who served as Minister of Foreign Trade of the USSR from 1958 to 1985. Prior to that,he was the First Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Byelorussia from 1950 to 1956.
Yefrem Yevseyevich Sokolov was a Belarusian politician,who served as a first secretary of the Communist Party of Byelorussian SSR from February 1987 to November 1990. Sokolov was a member of the 28th Politburo,elected on 14 July 1990 by the 1st Plenary Session of the 28th Central Committee.
Nadezhda Grigoryevna Grekova was a Soviet Belarusian politician. She was Chairman of the Supreme Soviet of the Belorussian SSR 1938–1949. Her office as Chairman of the Supreme Soviet nominally made her Head of the Republic. At some point she was known as the "Iron Lady".
Lev Alekseyevich Voronin was a Soviet and Russian official. He served as a First Deputy Chairman of the Council of Ministers,literally the Vice-Premier of the Soviet Union,from 1989 to 1990. Responsible for the "general issues" of the cultural and economic administration of the Soviet Union during the late Gorbachev Era,Voronin became acting Chairman of the Council of Ministers in between Nikolai Ryzhkov's hospitalization and Valentin Pavlov's election as Prime Minister. Voronin worked as a banker following the dissolution of the Soviet Union.
Nikolai Grigoryevich Ignatov was a Soviet politician during the 1950s and 1960s who served as the Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the Russian Soviet Federative Republic briefly in 1959 and again from 1962 until his death.
The Council of Ministers of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics,was the de jure government of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR),comprising the main executive and administrative agency of the USSR from 1946 until 1991.
Aleksey Yefimovich Kleshchev was a Belarusian general and politician. He served as the Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the Byelorussian Soviet Socialist Republic from 17 March 1948 to 24 July 1953. Kleschchov led partisans in Pinsk as a major general during World War II,for which he was awarded the title Hero of the Soviet Union. He was a member of the Communist Party of Kazakhstan from 1955 until 1960. He was deputy member of the Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union. From 1927 to 1929,he served in the Red Army. He was born in Minsk Governorate and died in Moscow on 13 December 1968,aged 63. He was decorated as the Order of the Red Banner.
The Defence Council or the Council of Defense of the USSR was a high military advisory body which aided and assisted the Government of the Soviet Union and the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union in the implementation of military policy by the Soviet Armed Forces. It operated between 1955-1991. At the end of its existence,it was known as the Defense Council under the President of the Soviet Union.
Leonid Ignatievich Lubennikov was a Soviet politician who served as the last First Secretary of the Communist Party of the Karelo-Finnish Soviet Socialist Republic from late 1955 to 1956. He was also the father of Russian painter Ivan Lubennikov.
The "Dnipropetrovsk Mafia" was the name given to an informal group of Soviet politicians who held high office while Leonid Brezhnev was First Secretary or General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (CPSU) in 1964–82,whom he knew from his time as a provincial party official in 1946–56.
Jānis Kalnbērziņš was a Latvian Soviet politician and statesman who was the first secretary of the Communist Party of Latvia and the first de facto leader of the Latvian Soviet Socialist Republic.
Nikolai Nikolayevich Organov was a Soviet politician and statesman,Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the RSFSR (1959–62). Member of the Bureau of the Central Committee of the CPSU for the RSFSR (1961-1962). He was a member of the special NKVD troika of the USSR.
