Kirill Mazurov | |
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Кирилл Мазуров | |
 Mazurov in 1972 | |
| First Deputy Chairman of theCouncil 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 theCommunist Party of Byelorussia | |
| In office 28 July 1956 – 30 March 1965 | |
| Head of state | Vasily Kozlov |
| Head of government | himself Nikolai Avkhimovich Tikhon Kiselyov |
| Preceded by | Nikolai Patolichev |
| Succeeded by | Pyotr Masherov |
| Chairman of theCouncil of Ministers of theByelorussian SSR (Head of government of the Byelorussian SSR) | |
| In office 24 July 1953 – 28 July 1958 | |
| Leader | Nikolai Patolichev himself |
| Head of state | Vasily Kozlov |
| Preceded by | Aleksey Kleshchev |
| Succeeded by | Nikolay Avkhimovich |
| Full member of the22nd,23rd,24th,25thPolitburo | |
| In office 26 March 1965 – 28 November 1978 | |
| Candidate member of the20th,22ndPresidium | |
| In office 29 June 1957 – 26 March 1965 | |
| Personal details | |
| Born | Kirill Trofimovich Mazurov (1914-03-25)25 March 1914 |
| Died | 19 December 1989(1989-12-19) (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 aSoviet partisan, politician, and one of the leaders of theBelarusian resistance during World War II who governed theByelorussian Soviet Socialist Republic as First Secretary of theCommunist Party of Byelorussia from 1956 until 1965, when he became a member of thePolitburo of the CPSU.
Kirill Mazurov was born in 1914 in theMogilev Governorate of theRussian Empire in a peasant family ofBelarusian ethnicity.[1] He was originally a construction technician, and graduated from theGomel highway technical school in 1933. He joined theCommunist Party of the Soviet Union in 1940 and theRed Army in 1941. During theGreat Patriotic War, he participated in military actions as a political instructor, a battalion commander and an instructor of the army's political department.[citation needed]
Mazurov left the army in 1942 to become secretary of the central committee of the BelarusianKomsomol. Mazurov then moved to aSoviet partisan unit where he became president of the central staff.[citation needed]
After the war, Mazurov returned to his position as secretary of the Belarusian Komsomol. In 1947 he joined the apparatus of theCommunist Party of Byelorussia. From 1949 to 1950 he was the First Secretary of theMinsk city committee and from 1950 to 1953 first secretary of the Minsk regional committee of the Communist Party of Byelorussia. From 1950 to 1979, he was a deputy of theSupreme Soviet of the Soviet Union. AfterJoseph Stalin's death, he actively supportedNikita Khrushchev. He was chairman of thecouncil of ministers of BSSR (1953–1965), then First Secretary of theCommunist Party of Byelorussia (1956–1965). In 1964 he was appointed candidate member of thePolitburo of the CPSU Central Committee and was then a full member from 26 March 1965 to 27 November 1978. He was also theFirst Deputy Chairman of theCouncil of Ministers (1965–1976).[citation needed]
Mazurov retired in 1978.
In the 1980s, he gave an interview toIzvestia in which he said he was the envoy of Brezhnev who commanded theWarsaw Pact invasion force in Czechoslovakia in 1968 under the code name "General Trofymov". He said he regretted his action, added "today I would not accept to guide one similar operation" and asked the Czechs to forgive the Soviets.[1]
He wasawarded theOrder of Lenin five times, theOrder of the Red Banner, theOrder of the Patriotic War 1st class and was aHero of Socialist Labor in 1971. He received other military medals as well.[citation needed]
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