Soviet Belarusian resistance leader and politician (1914–1989)
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
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
(1914-03-25)25 March 1914 Rudnia-Pribytkovskaya, Mogilev Governorate, Russian Empire
Died
19 December 1989(1989-12-19) (aged 75) Moscow, Soviet Union
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.
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of the Soviet partisans, including First Secretaries KirillMazurov and Pyotr Masherov. Mazurov and Masherov oversaw Belarus's rapid industrialisation...
deputy premier was responsible for a specific policy area. For example, KirillMazurov was responsible for industry, while Dmitry Polyansky was responsible...
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strengthening his position within the Politburo through the Secretariat. KirillMazurov, Politburo member from 1965 to 1978, accused Brezhnev of turning the...
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proposals and draft decisions submitted to the government. For example, KirillMazurov was responsible for industry, and Dmitry Polyansky was responsible for...
count on only four votes. In the Politburo, Kosygin could count on Kiril Mazurov's vote, and when Kosygin and Podgorny were not bickering with each other...
Friend" by Alyaksyey Kawka (1979). The BSSR Communist party leader KirillMazurov made some tentative moves to strengthen the role of Belarusian language...
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of the 26 people on board. Four passengers were the only survivors. KirillMazurov became the new First Deputy Premier of the Soviet Union, second in governmental...
later replaced as first secretary in Byelorussia by ethnic Belarusian KirillMazurov, and in July 1956 became first deputy minister of Foreign Affairs. In...
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Andropov were present, including such prominent figures as Arvīds Pelše, KirillMazurov, Andrei Gromyko, and Dmitry Ustinov. Kirilenko served as the funeral's...
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