Anatoly Malofeyev

Anatoly Alexandrowitsch Malofejew ( Russian Анатолий Александрович Малофеев ; born May 14, 1933 in Gomel , Belarusian Soviet Socialist Republic ) is a former Soviet - Belarusian politician. From 1990 until its dissolution in 1991, Malofejew was First Secretary of the Belarusian Soviet Republic .

life and career

Anatoly Malofejew was born in 1933 in Gomel , in the east of what is now Belarus. From 1949 he began to work as a mechanic in a railway factory in Minsk. From 1952 to 1956 he served in the Soviet Army and in 1954 also joined the Communist Party of the Soviet Union . From 1962 he began to work intensively in the party and was among other things a regional committee in Mosyr . In 1967 he graduated from the Belarusian State Economic University with a degree in economics , in 1974 he also graduated from the higher party school. In 1974 he was elected to the Supreme Soviet of Belarus. From 1986 he was also a member of the Central Committee of the CPSU , and from 1989 he was also a member of the People's Deputies Congress . His career finally peaked in 1990 when he was elected First Secretary of the Communist Party of Belarus. This position was de facto equivalent to the office of head of government. He was the last person in this office before the Belarusian Soviet Republic finally gained independence as the Republic of Belarus at the end of 1991 . Malofeyev also temporarily lost his political position. In 1995, however, he was again a member of the Belarusian parliament. In 2004 he was appointed chairman of a regional policy committee.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Anatoly Malofejew ( Memento from April 30, 2016 in the Internet Archive )
2. ^ Anatoly Malofejew ( Memento from April 17, 2012 in the Internet Archive )