Tikhon Yakovlevich Kisselev

Tikhon Kiselyov Yakovlevich ( Russian Тихон Яковлевич Киселёв , Belarusian Ціхан Якаўлевіч Кісялёў ; born July 30, ^jul. / 12. August  1917 ^greg. In the village Ogorodnja-Kusminitschskaja, today Rajon Dobrush , Gomel Oblast , Belarus ; † 11. January 1983 in Minsk , Belarusian Soviet Socialist Republic ) was a Soviet functionary and politician of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (CPSU) who, among other things, was Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the Belarusian Soviet Socialist Republic between 1959 and 1978 , Deputy Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the USSR from 1978 to 1980 and most recently between 1980 and His death in 1983 was the first secretary of the CP of the Belarusian SSR.

Life

Kisseljow graduated from the teachers' school in Retschyza in 1936 and then worked as a teacher between 1936 and 1944 and most recently as the head of a school in Gomel . In 1940 he became a member of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (CPSU) and in 1941 began distance learning at the Pedagogical Institute in Gomel . After he was an instructor in the Gomelskaya Oblast Party Committee in 1944 , he studied at the CPSU Party College between 1944 and 1946 and was then head of the training department of the Brestskaya Oblast Party Committee between 1946 and 1948 . Subsequently, in 1948 he was initially deputy head for a short time and then until 1952 head of the Central Committee Department for Agitation and Propaganda of the Communist Party of the Belarusian Soviet Socialist Republic .

In 1952 Kisselev became First Secretary of the Brestskaya Oblast Party Committee and held this position until August 1955. At the same time he became a member of the CP Central Committee of the Belarusian SSR on September 23, 1952, of which he was a member until his death on January 11, 1983. Afterwards he was from July 29, 1955 to July 28, 1956 secretary of the Central Committee and between July 29, 1955 and December 4, 1978 also a member of the Presidium of the Central Committee of the Belarusian SSR. After he was second secretary of the Central Committee of the Belarusian SSR between July 28, 1956 and April 9, 1955, he took over the office of Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the Belarusian SSR on April 9, 1959 from Nikolai Efremowitsch Avkhimovich . December 1978. On the XXII. At the CPSU party congress (October 17 to 31, 1961), he was also elected a member of the CPSU Central Committee and was a member of this body until his death on January 11, 1983.

On December 11, 1978 Kisselev was replaced as chairman of the Council of Ministers of the Belarusian SSR by Alexander Nikiforowitsch Aksjonow . He had already taken over the Council of Ministers of the USSR on December 5, 1978, the post of deputy chairman and held this to 23 October 1980. On 16 October 1980 he was elected to succeed died on October 4, 1980 Pyotr Masherov finally First secretary of the CP of the Belarusian SSR and also remained in this function until his death on January 11, 1983, whereupon Nikolai Nikitich Slyunkov took over on January 13, 1983. Furthermore, on October 21, 1980 he was also a candidate for the Politburo of the Central Committee of the CPSU and held this position until his death.

Kisseljow has received several awards for his services and received the title Hero of Socialist Labor on the occasion of his 60th birthday . He was also awarded the Order of Lenin five times, as well as the Order of the October Revolution and the Badge of Honor of the Soviet Union .

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