Gomel Regional Committee of the Communist Party of Byelorussia
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The Gomel Regional Committee of the Communist Party of Belarus, commonly referred to as the Gomel CPB Obkom, was the highest authority in the Gomel Region of the Byelorussian SSR in the Soviet Union. The position was created on January 15, 1938, and abolished on 25 August 1991. The First Secretary was considered the de facto governor of the Minsk region. The First Secretary was appointed by the Politburo.[1]
First Secretaries
Name | Term of Office | |
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Start | End | |
Flavian Zhizhenkov | January 15, 1938 | August 19, 1941 |
Ilya Kozhara | August 19, 1941 | November 1943 |
Flavian Zhizhenkov | November 1943 | 1946 |
Ivan Tour | 1946 | January 1948 |
Nikolai Avkhimovich | January 1948 | October 1951 |
Zahar Golodushko | October 1951 | 1955 |
Dmitry Fomichev | 1955 | December 1957 |
Ivan Polyakov | December 1957 | December 1964 |
Valentin Yazykovich | December 1964 | October 1969 |
Viktor Gvozdev | October 1969 | October 1978 |
Yuri Khousainov | October 1978 | July 1982 |
Anatoly Malofeyev[2] | July 1982 | March 29, 1985 |
Alexei Kamay | March 29, 1985 | October 28, 1989 |
Alexander Grakhovsky | October 28, 1989 | July 22, 1991 |
Vladimir Shaplyko | July 22, 1991 | August 25, 1991 |