Kirill Mazurov
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Kirill Timofievich Mazurov (Russian: Кирилл Тимофеевич Мазуров) (born March 25, 1914, Homyel, Belarus - died December 19, 1989) was a Belarusian Soviet politician.
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[edit] Political career
He was originally a construction technician, and graduated from the Homyel highway technical school in 1933. He joined the Communist Party in 1940 and the Red Army in 1941. During the war, he participated in military actions as a political instructor, a battalion commander and an instructor of the army's political department. He left the army in 1942 to become secretary of the central committee of the Komsomol of Belarus, the Communist Union of Youth. Mazurov then moved on to a partisan organization where he became president of the central staff. This partisan movement, was a NKVD-controlled organization that fought against Nazi German occupancy in the Great Patriotic War.
Mazurov then returned to his position as the secretary of the Komsomol of Belarus. He did so between 1943 and 1946. In 1947 he joined the apparatus of the Communist Party of Belarus. From 1949 to 1950 he was the first secretary of the Minsk city committee and from 1950 to 1953 first secretary of the Minsk regional committee of the Communist Party of Belarus. From 1950 to 1979, he was deputy of the Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union. After Stalin's death, he actively supported Nikita Khrushchev. He was chairman of the council of ministers of BSSR (1953-1965), then first secretary of the Communist Party of Belarus (1956-1965). In 1964 he was appointed candidate member of the Politburo of the CPSU Central Committee and was then a full member from March 26, 1965 to November 27, 1978. He was also the first deputy chair of Sovmin (1965-1976). He retired in 1978.
In the eighties, he gave an interview to Izvestia in which he said he was the envoy of Brezhnev who commanded the Warsaw Pact invasion force in Czechoslovakia in 1968 under the code name "General Trofymov". He said he regretted his action, added "today I would not accept to guide one similar operation" and asked the Czechs to forgive the Russians. [1]
[edit] Decorations
He was awarded the Order of Lenin five times, the Order of the Red Banner, the Order of the Patriotic War 1st class and was a Hero of Socialist Labor in 1971. He received other military medals as well.
[edit] Further reading
-Залесский К.А. Империя Сталина. Биографический энциклопедический словарь. Москва, Вече, 2000 (Zalesskiy K.A. Stalin's Empire. Biographical encyclopaedic dictionary. Moscow, Meeting, 2000)
-Использованы материалы Советской военной энциклопедии в 8-и томах, т. 5 (Soviet military encyclopedia in 8 volumes, Vol. 5)
[edit] External links
- (Russian) Biography of Mazurov
- (Russian) Mazurov biography
- (Italian) Biography of Mazurov
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