List of national leaders of Belarus
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This is a comprehensive chronological list of national leaders of Belarus since its first independence, in 1918, including its presidents
President of Belarus
The office of President of Belarus is the head of state of Belarus. The office was created in 1994 with the passing of the Constitution of Belarus by the Supreme Soviet. This replaced the office of Chairman of the Supreme Soviet as the head of state...
both before and after the soviet era
Byelorussian SSR
The Byelorussian Soviet Socialist Republic was one of fifteen constituent republics of the Soviet Union. It was one of the four original founding members of the Soviet Union in 1922, together with the Ukrainian SSR, the Transcaucasian SFSR and the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic...
, and the soviet leaders themselves, who, unlike the Presidents, were not formal Heads of State.
Chairman of the Provisional Revolutionary Workers-and-Peasants' Soviet Government
- Zmicier ZhylunovichZmicier ZhylunovichZmicier Zhylunovich was Belarusian poet, writer and journalist known under pen name Tsishka Hartny , and a political leader...
(1 January - 4 February 1919)
Chairmen of the Central Executive Committee
- Aleksandr Myasnikov (4 February - 27 February 1919)
- Pyotra KrecheuskiPyotra KrecheuskiPiotra Krecheuski was a Belarusian statesman.Before the First World War he worked as a teacher in Jałówka near Białystok. He was delegate at the First All-Belarusian Congress in 1917 and member of the Council of the Belarusian Democratic Republic...
(13 December 1919 - November 1920) (Chairman of Government) - Jan SieradaJan SieradaJan Sierada was a Belarusian statesman, pedagogist and writer, the first president of the Belarusian Democratic Republic.Sierada was born in the village Zadźwiej ....
(December 1919 - July 1920) (Rival Government)
Presidents
(In VilniusVilnius
Vilnius is the capital of Lithuania, and its largest city, with a population of 560,190 as of 2010. It is the seat of the Vilnius city municipality and of the Vilnius district municipality. It is also the capital of Vilnius County...
to 1925, then in Prague
Prague
Prague is the capital and largest city of the Czech Republic. Situated in the north-west of the country on the Vltava river, the city is home to about 1.3 million people, while its metropolitan area is estimated to have a population of over 2.3 million...
, presently in Canada)
- Pyotra KrecheuskiPyotra KrecheuskiPiotra Krecheuski was a Belarusian statesman.Before the First World War he worked as a teacher in Jałówka near Białystok. He was delegate at the First All-Belarusian Congress in 1917 and member of the Council of the Belarusian Democratic Republic...
(November 1920 - 8 March 1928) - Vasil Zakharka (8 March 1928 - 6 March 1943)
- Mikola AbramchykMikola AbramchykMikola Syamyonavich Abramchyk , was a Belarusian journalist and emigre politician of Jewish and Armenian descent and president of the Belarusian People's Republic in exile during 1943–1970.He attended school in Radoszkowicze...
(6 March 1943 - 29 May 1970) - Vintsent Zhuk-Hryshkyevich (May 1970 - November 1982)
- Jazep Sazhych (November 1982–1997)
- Barys RahulaBarys RahulaDr. Barys Rahula was a Belarusian military commander and politician and Canadian doctor.Barys Rahula was born near Nowogródek and spent his young years in Poland-occupied West Belarus. In 1938 he became student at the University of Vilnius but was mobilized into the Polish army after the German...
(1997) (acting) - Ivonka SurvillaIvonka SurvillaIvonka Survilla or Surviła is the current President of the Belarusian National Republic , the Belarusian government in exile.After emigration through East Prussia, she lived in Denmark, France and Spain before moving to Canada in 1969....
(1997–present)
First secretaries of the Byelorussian Communist Party
- Vilgelm KnorinshVilgelm KnorinshVilgelm Knorinsh was a first secretary of the Byelorussian SSR during the Soviet Union....
(9 August 1920–1923) (1st time) - Aleksandr Osatkin-VladimirskyAleksandr Osatkin-VladimirskyAleksandr Osatkin-Vladimirsky was a first secretary of the Byelorussian SSR during the Soviet Union....
(1923–1924) - Aleksandr KrinitskyAleksandr KrinitskyAleksandr Krinitsky was a first secretary of the Byelorussian SSR during the Soviet Union....
(13 May 1924 - 22 December 1925) - Nikolay GolodedNikolay GolodedNikolay Goloded was a first secretary of the Byelorussian SSR during the Soviet Union....
(22 December 1925 - 7 May 1927) - Vilgelm KnorinshVilgelm KnorinshVilgelm Knorinsh was a first secretary of the Byelorussian SSR during the Soviet Union....
(7 May 1927 - 4 December 1928) (2nd time) - Yan Gamarnik (4 December 1928 - 3 January 1930)
- Konstantin GeyKonstantin GeyKonstantin Veniaminovich Gey was an early Russian communist party member and a participant in the Russian Revolution of 1917...
(3 January 1930 - 18 January 1932) - Nikolay GikaloNikolay GikaloNikolay Fedorovich Gikalo was a Soviet revolutionary and statesman. From 1915 he served in the Russian Imperial Army, in 1917 he joined the RSDLP. He commanded the Red Army in the fight against the White Army in the Northern Caucasus...
(18 January 1932 - 18 March 1937) - Vasily SharangovichVasily SharangovichVasily Fomich Sharangovich was a first secretary of the Byelorussian SSR during the Soviet Union, who was executed in 1938....
(18 March - 17 July 1937) - Yakov Yakovlev (27 July - 8 August 1937 (acting)
- Aleksei VolkovAleksei Alekseyevich VolkovAleksei Alekseyevich Volkov was a first secretary of the Byelorussian SSR during the Soviet Union....
(11 August 1937 - 18 June 1938) - Panteleimon PonomarenkoPanteleimon PonomarenkoPanteleimon Kondrat'evich Ponomarenko ; 9 August 1902 18 January 1984) was a general in the Red Army before becoming a Soviet administrator in Belarus and then Kazakhstan. He was born in Krasnodar Krai, Russia....
(18 June 1938 - 7 March 1947) (in exile in Russian SFSR since June 1941 until 1944) - Nikolay GusarovNikolay GusarovNikolai Ivanovich Gusarov was a first secretary of the Byelorussian SSR during the Soviet Union....
(7 March 1947 - 31 May 1950) - Nikolay Patolichev (31 May 1950 - 8 March 1953) (1st time)
- Ivan Klimov (1952 - 1953) (b. 1903 - d. 1991)
- Mikhail ZimyaninMikhail ZimyaninMikhail Vasilyevich Zimyanin , was a first secretary of the Byelorussian SSR during the Soviet Union, between 1946 and 1950.Zimyanin served as the editor-in-chief of the newspaper Pravda, the official publication of the Communist Party between 1965 and 1976. Afterwards, he was appointed to the...
(8 March - 25 June 1953) - Nikolay Patolichev (25 June 1953 - 28 July 1956) (2nd time)
- Kiril Mazurov (28 July 1956 -30 March 1965)
- Petr Masherov (30 March 1965 - 4 September 1980)
- Tikhon Kiselev (15 October 1980 - 11 January 1983)
- Nikolay SlyunkovNikolay SlyunkovNikolay Nikitich Slyunkov was a first secretary of the Byelorussian SSR during the Soviet Union....
(13 January 1983 - 6 February 1987) - Efrem Sokolov (6 February 1987 - 30 November 1990)
- Anatoliy Malofeyev (30 November 1990 - August 1991)
Chairmen of the Supreme Soviet
| # | Chairman | Took office | Left office | Party | |
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Stanislau Shushkevich | 25 August 1991 | 26 January 1994 | Independent Independent (politician) In politics, an independent or non-party politician is an individual not affiliated to any political party. Independents may hold a centrist viewpoint between those of major political parties, a viewpoint more extreme than any major party, or they may have a viewpoint based on issues that they do... / Non-partisan |
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Vyacheslav Kuznetsov Vyacheslav Nikolayevich Kuznetsov Vyacheslav Nikolayevich Kuznetsov is a Belarussian politician and diplomat.During 1992-1995 he was First Deputy Chairman of the Supreme Soviet of Belarus. In particular, during 26-28 January 1994 he was Acting Chairman of the Supreme Soviet, acting between the terms of Shushkevich and Hryb.... (acting) |
26 January 1994 | 28 January 1994 | Independent Independent (politician) In politics, an independent or non-party politician is an individual not affiliated to any political party. Independents may hold a centrist viewpoint between those of major political parties, a viewpoint more extreme than any major party, or they may have a viewpoint based on issues that they do... / Non-partisan |
| 2 | |
Myechyslaw Hryb | 28 January 1994 | 20 July 1994 | Independent Independent (politician) In politics, an independent or non-party politician is an individual not affiliated to any political party. Independents may hold a centrist viewpoint between those of major political parties, a viewpoint more extreme than any major party, or they may have a viewpoint based on issues that they do... / Non-partisan |
President
| # | President | Took office | Left office | Party | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Alexander Lukashenko Alexander Lukashenko Alexander Grigoryevich Lukashenko has been serving as the President of Belarus since 20 July 1994. Before his career as a politician, Lukashenko worked as director of a state-owned agricultural farm. Under Lukashenko's rule, Belarus has come to be viewed as a state whose conduct is out of line... |
20 July 1994 | Incumbent | Independent Independent (politician) In politics, an independent or non-party politician is an individual not affiliated to any political party. Independents may hold a centrist viewpoint between those of major political parties, a viewpoint more extreme than any major party, or they may have a viewpoint based on issues that they do... / Non-partisan |
See also
- List of rulers of Belarus
- President of BelarusPresident of BelarusThe office of President of Belarus is the head of state of Belarus. The office was created in 1994 with the passing of the Constitution of Belarus by the Supreme Soviet. This replaced the office of Chairman of the Supreme Soviet as the head of state...
- List of Prime Ministers of Belarus
- Government of BelarusGovernment of BelarusThe Council of Ministers of the Republic of Belarus is the executive branch of state power in Belarus, and it is appointed by the President of Belarus...