Kirill Trofimowitsch Masurow

Kirill Mazurov ( Russian Кирилл Трофимович Мазуров Kirill Mazurov Trofimovič , Belarusian Кірыл Трафімавіч Мазураў Kiryl Trafimavič Mazuraŭ ) (born March 25, ^jul. / 7. April  1914 ^greg. , Rudnia Pribytowskaja , Mogilev Governorate ; † 19th December 1989 ) was a Soviet Politicians of Belarusian origin.

Life

Ascent

Masurow studied road construction at the technical center in Gomel . He was a Komsomol employee in Belarus from 1939 to 1941 . In 1940 he became a member of the CPSU . He fought as a partisan behind the German lines in World War II . He attended the party college and was Komsomol secretary from 1942 and from 1946 first Komsomol secretary of Belarus, 1949 to 1950 secretary and from 1950 to 1953 first secretary of the Communist Party of the Minsk City Committee .

Party leader in Belarus

From 1953 to 1956 he was chairman of the Council of Ministers of Belarus ( Belarusian SSR ) and from 1956 to 1965 first secretary of the party and thus party leader of the CP of Belarus. He was also a member of the Central Committee of the CPSU from 1956 and a candidate for the Politburo of the CPSU from 1957 to 1965 . He supported Nikita Khrushchev against the old Stalinists and demanded in 1961 on the XXII. CPSU party congress expelled Georgi Malenkov from the party. When Khrushchev was overthrown in October 1964, however, he supported Leonid Brezhnev .

At the center of power

In 1965 he rose to the highest political body of the USSR, he became a full member of the Politburo of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (CPSU), from March 26, 1965 to November 27, 1978. At the same time, he was instead of Dmitry Ustinov First Deputy Prime Minister of the USSR in the cabinet of Alexei Kosygin for the period from March 27, 1965 to 1978. He resigned from his important political offices in 1978 for health reasons, but was then chairman of the former Union Council of War from 1986 until his death in 1989 - and worker veterans.

literature

• Merle Fainsod : How Russia is governed . Kiepenheuer & Witsch, Cologne 1965.
• Mikhail Gorbachev : Memories . Siedler, Berlin 1995, ISBN 3-88680-524-7 .
• Bertold Spuler : Regents and Governments of the World (Minister-Ploetz Vol. 5). Ploetz, Würzburg 1972, ISBN 3-87640-026-0
• Michel Tatu: Power and Powerlessness in the Kremlin. From Khrushchev to collective leadership . Ullstein, Frankfurt 1967

Web links

• Article Kirill Trofimowitsch Masurow in the Great Soviet Encyclopedia (BSE) , 3rd edition 1969–1978 (Russian)http: //vorlage_gse.test/1%3D072592~2a%3D~2b%3DKirill%20Trofimowitsch%20Masurow
• Biography , Geroi strany (Russian)