Kirill Mazurov

Kirill Mazurov
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; 25 March 1914; Rudnia-Pribytkovskaya, Mogilev Governorate, Russian Empire
Died	19 December 1989 (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.