Mikhail Vasilyevich Zimyanin (1914–1995) , was a first secretary of the Byelorussian SSR

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...

 during the Soviet Union

Soviet Union

The Soviet Union , officially the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics , was a constitutionally socialist state that existed in Eurasia between 1922 and 1991....

, between 1946 and 1950.

Zimyanin served as the editor-in-chief of the newspaper Pravda

Pravda

Pravda was a leading newspaper of the Soviet Union and an official organ of the Central Committee of the Communist Party between 1912 and 1991....

, the official publication of the Communist Party between 1965 and 1976. Afterwards, he was appointed to the party's secretariat. He retired in January, 1987 for "health reasons".http://articles.sfgate.com/1995-05-04/news/17806053_1_brezhnev-secretariat-pravda