Kirill Mazurov

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.

Kirill Mazurov
Кирилл Мазуров
Mazurov in 1972
First Deputy Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the Soviet Union
In office
26 March 1965  28 November 1978
PremierAlexei Kosygin
Preceded byDmitriy Ustinov
Succeeded byDmitry Polyansky
First Secretary of the Communist Party of Byelorussia
In office
28 July 1956  30 March 1965
Preceded byNikolai Patolichev
Succeeded byPyotr Masherov
Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the Byelorussian SSR
In office
24 July 1953  28 July 1958
Preceded byAleksey Kleshchev
Succeeded byNikolay 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

(1914-03-25)25 March 1914
Rudnia-Pribytkovskaya, Mogilev Governorate, Russian Empire
Died19 December 1989(1989-12-19) (aged 75)
Moscow, Soviet Union
NationalitySoviet
Political partyCommunist Party of the Soviet Union (1940–1989)
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