Pavel Stepanovich Prokkonen (of former family Prokofiev; 16 July 1909 - 18 July 1979) was a Karelian

Karelians

The Karelians are a Baltic-Finnic ethnic group living mostly in the Republic of Karelia and in other north-western parts of the Russian Federation. The historic homeland of Karelians includes also parts of present-day Eastern Finland and the formerly Finnish territory of Ladoga Karelia...

 Soviet

Soviet Union

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 politician. He was appointed as the Minister of Karelian Affairs for the Finnish Democratic Republic

Finnish Democratic Republic

The Finnish Democratic Republic was a short-lived government dependent on and recognised only by the Soviet Union. It nominally operated in those parts of Finnish Karelia that were occupied by the Soviet Union during the Winter War....

 in 1940 (under the name Paavo Prokkonen). Later he was the Chairman of the Council of the People's Commissars of the Karelo-Finnish Soviet Socialist Republic (1940-1947) and Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the Karelo-Finnish Soviet Socialist Republic (1950-1956) ("prime minister

Prime minister

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" of the republic

Republics of the Soviet Union

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).

After the Karelo-Finnish SSR was incorporated into the Russian SFSR as the Karelian Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic in 1956, Prokkonen was the Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the Karelian Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic (1956-1979).

Pavel Prokkonen was awarded two times with the Order of Lenin

Order of Lenin

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, one time the Order of the Patriotic War

Order of the Patriotic War

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 second class, two times the Order of the Red Banner of Labour

Order of the Red Banner of Labour

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 and two times the Order of the Badge of Honor

Order of the Badge of Honor

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External links

• Pavel Stepanovich Prokkonen at Republic of Karelia website