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These are comprehensive chronological lists of political office-holders in Belarus Belarus since its first independence, in 1918, including its presidents both before and after the Soviet era, and the Soviet leaders themselves, who, unlike the Presidents, were not formal Heads of State.
List of prime ministers of Belarus (1918–1920)
[edit]Belarusian Democratic Republic (1918–20)
[edit]No. | Portrait | Name (Born-Died) |
Term of office | Political Party | ||
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Took office | Left office | Time in office | ||||
Chairman of the Rada | ||||||
1 | Jan Sierada (1879–1943) | 9 March 1918 | 19 May 1918 | 71 days | BSH | |
Vacant (19 May 1918 – 1 January 1919) | ||||||
Chairman of the Provisional Revolutionary Workers-and-Peasants' Soviet Government | ||||||
2 | Zmicier Zhylunovich (1887–1937) | 1 January 1919 | 4 February 1919 | 34 days | Independent | |
Chairman of the Central Executive Committee | ||||||
3 | Alexander Miasnikian (1886–1925) | 4 February 1919 | 27 February 1919 | 23 days | CPB | |
Vacant (27 February 1919 – 13 December 1919) | ||||||
4 | Pyotra Krecheuski (1879–1928) | 13 December 1919 | 4 February 1920 | 53 days | Independent |
Belarusian Democratic Republic in exile (since 1920)
[edit]In Vilnius to 1925, then in Prague, presently in Canada:
- Pyotra Krecheuski (November 1920 – 8 March 1928)
- Vasil Zakharka (8 March 1928 – 6 March 1943)
- Mikola Abramchyk (6 March 1943 – 29 May 1970)
- Vintsent Zhuk-Hryshkyevich (May 1970 – November 1982)
- Jazep Sazhych (November 1982 – 1997)
- Barys Rahula (1997 - 22 April 2005)
- Ivonka Survilla (1997–present)
Lithuanian–Byelorussian Soviet Socialist Republic (1919–20)
[edit]Chairman of the Central Executive Committee
[edit]No. | Portrait | Name (Born-Died) |
Term of office | Political Party | ||
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Took office | Left office | Time in office | ||||
1 | Kazimierz Cichowski (1887–1937) | 27 February 1919 | 31 July 1920 | 1 year, 155 days | LBSSR |
Byelorussian Soviet Socialist Republic (1920–91)
[edit]No. | Portrait | Name (Born-Died) |
Term of office | Political Party | ||
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Took office | Left office | Time in office | ||||
Executive Secretary of the Byelorussian Communist Party | ||||||
5 | Vilhelm Knorin (1890–1939) | 9 August 1920 | 30 December 1922 | 2 years, 143 days | CPB | |
6 | Waclaw Bogucki (1884–1937) | 30 December 1922 | 12 February 1924 | 1 year, 44 days | CPB | |
7 | Aleksandr Osatkin-Vladimirsky (1885–1937) | 12 February 1924 | 29 September 1924 | 199 days | CPB | |
8 | Alexander Krinitsky (1894–1937) | 13 May 1924 | 22 December 1925 | 1 year, 223 days | CPB | |
First Secretary of the Byelorussian Communist Party | ||||||
9 | Nikolay Goloded (1894–1937) | 22 December 1925 | 7 May 1927 | 1 year, 136 days | CPB | |
(5) | Vilhelm Knorin (1890–1939) | 7 May 1927 | 4 December 1928 | 211 days | CPB | |
10 | Yan Gamarnik (1894–1937) | 4 December 1928 | 3 January 1930 | 1 year, 30 days | CPB | |
11 | Konstantin Gey (1896–1937) | 3 January 1930 | 18 January 1932 | 2 years, 15 days | CPB | |
12 | Nikolay Gikalo (1897–1938) | 18 January 1932 | 18 March 1937 | 5 years, 59 days | CPB | |
13 | Vasily Sharangovich (1897–1938) | 18 March 1937 | 17 July 1937 | 121 days | CPB | |
– | Yakov Yakovlev (1897–1938) Acting | 17 July 1937 | 8 August 1937 | 22 days | CPB | |
14 | Aleksei Volkov (1890–1942) | 11 August 1937 | 18 June 1938 | 311 days | CPB | |
15 | Panteleimon Ponomarenko (1902–1984) | 18 June 1938 | 7 March 1947 | 8 years, 262 days | CPB | |
16 | Nikolai Gusarov (1905–1985) | 7 March 1947 | 31 May 1950 | 3 years, 85 days | CPB | |
17 | Nikolai Patolichev (1908–1989) | 31 May 1950 | 28 July 1956 | 6 years, 58 days | CPB | |
18 | Kirill Mazurov (1914–1989) | 28 July 1956 | 30 March 1965 | 8 years, 245 days | CPB | |
19 | Pyotr Masherov (1919–1980) | 30 March 1965 | 4 October 1980 † | 15 years, 158 days | CPB | |
– | Vladimir Brovikov (1931–1992) Acting | 4 October 1980 | 16 October 1980 | 12 days | CPB | |
20 | Tikhon Kiselyov (1917–1983) | 16 October 1980 | 11 January 1983 † | 2 years, 117 days | CPB | |
– | Vladimir Brovikov (1931–1992) Acting | 11 January 1983 | 13 January 1983 | 2 days | CPB | |
21 | Nikolay Slyunkov (1929–2022) | 13 January 1983 | 6 February 1987 | 4 years, 24 days | CPB | |
22 | Yefrem Sokolov (1926–2022) | 6 February 1987 | 28 July 1990[1] | 3 years, 172 days | CPB |
Chairman of the Supreme Council
[edit]No. | Portrait | Name (Born-Died) |
Term of office | Political Party | ||
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Took office | Left office | Time in office | ||||
23 | Mikalay Dzyemyantsyey (1930–2018) | 18 May 1990 | 25 August 1991 | 1 year, 99 days | CPB | |
24 | Stanislav Shushkevich (1934–2022) | 25 August 1991 | 19 September 1991 | 25 days | CPB |
Republic of Belarus (from 1991)
[edit]Chairman of the Supreme Council (1991–1994)
[edit]No. | Portrait | Name (Born-Died) |
Term of office | Political Party | ||
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Took office | Left office | Time in office | ||||
(24) | Stanislav Shushkevich (1934–2022) | 19 September 1991 | 26 January 1994 | 2 years, 129 days | Independent | |
– | Vyacheslav Kuznetsov (born 1947) Acting | 26 January 1994 | 28 January 1994 | 2 days | Independent | |
– | Myechyslaw Hryb (born 1938) Acting | 28 January 1994 | 20 July 1994 | 173 days | Independent |
President of Belarus (1994–present)
[edit]No. | Portrait | Name (Born-Died) |
Term of office | Political Party | Election | ||
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Took office | Left office | Time in office | |||||
25 | Alexander Lukashenko (born 1954) | 20 July 1994 | Incumbent[2] | 30 years, 29 days | Independent | 1994 2001 2006 2010 2015 2020 |
Timeline
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See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ July 28, 1990 from Art. 6 of the Constitution of the Byelorussian SSR, the provision on the monopoly of the Communist Party of Byelorussia on power was excluded
- ^ A number of countries do not recognize Lukashenko as the legitimate president of Belarus since the 2020 Belarusian presidential election.}