Minsk Regional Committee of the Communist Party of Belarus

The Minsk Regional Committee of the Communist Party of Belarus, commonly referred to as the Minsk CPB obkom, was the highest authority in the Minsk Region of the Byelorussian SSR in the Soviet Union.

The position of First Secretary was created in 1938, and abolished on 25 August 1991.^{[citation needed]} The First Secretary was considered the de facto governor of the Minsk region. The First Secretary was appointed by the Politburo.

First Secretaries

Name	Term of Office
	Start	End
Alexander Matveev	1938	March 1941
AI Kolyshkin	March 1941	June 26, 1941
Vasily Kozlov	July 7, 1941	January 1948
Yevgeny Bugayov	January 1948	1949
Vasily Chernyshov	1949	1950
Kirill Mazurov	1950	September 1953
Leonid Lubennikov	September 1953	1955
Fedor Surganov	1955	August 1956
Vasily Shauro	August 1956	1960
Sergei Pritytsky	1960	1962
(Industrial) Anton Nosilovsky	January 1963	December 1964
(Rural) Dmitry Tyabut	January 1963	December 1964
Ivan Polyakov	December 1964	March 1977
Vladimir Mikulich	March 1977	March 29, 1985
Anatoly Malofeyev	March 29, 1985	December 5, 1990
Anatoly Bychek	December 5, 1990	August 25, 1991

See also

• Communist Party of Byelorussia
• Byelorussian Soviet Socialist Republic

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