Tikhon Kiselyov

Tikhon Kiselyov Ціхан Кісялёў
First Secretary of the Communist Party of Byelorussia
In office 15 October 1980 – 11 January 1983
Preceded by	Pyotr Masherov
Succeeded by	Nikolay Slyunkov
Deputy Chairman of the Council of Ministers
In office 5 December 1978 – 23 October 1980
Premier	Alexei Kosygin
Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the Byelorussian Soviet Socialist Republic
In office 9 April 1959 – 11 December 1978
Preceded by	Nikolay Avkhimovich
Succeeded by	Aleksandr Aksyonov
Candidate member of the 25th, 26th Politburo
In office 21 October 1980 – 11 January 1983
Full member of the 22nd, 23rd, 24th, 25th, 26th Central Committee
In office 31 October 1961 – 11 January 1983
Personal details
Born	(1917-07-30)30 July 1917 Gomel Region, Russian Empire
Died	11 January 1983(1983-01-11) (aged 65) Minsk, Byelorussian SSR, Soviet Union
Nationality	Soviet
Political party	Communist Party of the Soviet Union
Other political affiliations	Communist Party of Byelorussia
Profession	Civil servant

Tikhon Yakovlevich Kiselyov (Russian: Ти́хон Я́ковлевич Киселёв, Belarusian: Ціхан Якаўлевіч Кісялёў; 12 August (O.S.: 30 July), 1917 – 11 January 1983) was a Belarusian statesman in the Soviet Union, the leader (first secretary) of the Communist Party of Byelorussia, i.e., the de facto leader of the Byelorussian SSR (1980-1983).^[1]

Career

Party

• 1940: member of the CPSU
• 1961: member of the CPSU Central Committee
• 1980: first secretary of Central Committee the Communist Party of Byelorussia
• 1980: CPSU Central Committee Politbureau candidate

Government

• 1954: member of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR
• 1959-1978: Chairman of the BSSR Council of Ministers
• 1978-1980: Deputy Chairman of the USSR Council of Ministers
• 1981: member of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR

Awards

• 1977: Hero of Socialist Labor
• Two Orders of Lenin
• Order of the Badge of Honor
• Medals

References

• Career data are taken from the Large Encyclopedic Dictionary (Moscow, 1991)

Politics of the Soviet Union 1964–1985
Events 1964–1982	Collective leadership Glassboro Summit Conference Prague Spring Invasion of Czechoslovakia 1968 Red Square demonstration Brezhnev Doctrine Brezhnev assassination attempt Sino-Soviet border conflict Détente Vladivostok Summit Helsinki Accords 1977 Moscow bombings 1977 Soviet Constitution 1978 Georgian demonstrations War in Afghanistan 1980 Summer Olympics Reaction to 1980–1981 Polish crisis Exercise Zapad Death and state funeral of Leonid Brezhnev Legacy of Leonid Brezhnev
Events 1982–1985	RYAN Korean Air Lines Flight 007 1983 false nuclear alarm incident Able Archer 83 1984 Summer Olympics boycott Friendship Games
Politburo members 22nd 23rd 24th 25th 26th	Aliyev Andropov Brezhnev Chebrikov Chernenko Demichev Dolgikh Efremov Gorbachev Grechko Grishin Gromyko Kirilenko Kiselyov Kunayev Kosygin Kulakov Kuznetsov Masherov Mazurov Mikoyan Mzhavanadze Pelše Podgorny Polyansky Ponomarev Rashidov Romanov Shcherbytsky Shelepin Shelest Shevardnadze Shvernik Solomentsev Suslov Tikhonov Ustinov Voronov Vorotnikov
Leaders	The Troika (Brezhnev Kosygin Podgorny) Yuri Andropov Konstantin Chernenko
Governments	Kosygin's 1st 2nd 3rd 4th 5th Tikhonov's 1st 2nd
National economy	Reforms OGAS 1965 1973 1979 Food Programme 1984 Five-year plans 8th Plan 9th Plan 10th Plan 11th Plan
Brezhnev's family	Churbanov (son-in-law) Galina (daughter) Lyubov (niece) Viktoria (wife) Yakov (brother) Yuri (son)
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Prime Ministers of Belarus
Belarusian National Republic (1918–1919)	Varonka Skirmunt Sierada Luckievich Lastouski Tsvikievich Zakharka Abramchyk
Byelorussian SSR (1919–1991)	Chervyakov Adamovich Goloded Volkovich Kovalyov Kiselyov Bylinsky Ponomarenko Kleshchov Mazurov Avkhimovich Kiselyov Aksyonov Brovikov Kovalyov Kebich
Republic of Belarus (1991–present)	Kebich Chyhir Ling Yermoshin Novitsky Sidorsky Myasnikovich Kobyakov