Panteleimon Ponomarenko
Panteleimon Ponomarenko | |
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Пантелеймон Пономаренко | |
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In office 1 July 1948 – 5 March 1953 | |
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Born | 9 August [ Moscow State University of Railway Engineering |
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Panteleimon Kondratyevich Ponomarenko (Russian: Пантелеймо́н Кондра́тьевич Пономаре́нко, pronounced [pənʲtʲɪlʲɪjˈmon kɐnˈdratʲjɪvʲɪt͡ɕ pənəmɐˈrʲenkə]; Ukrainian: Пантелеймо́н Кіндрáтович Пономарéнко; 9 August [O.S. 27 July] 1902 – 18 January 1984) was a Soviet statesman and politician and one of the leaders of Soviet partisan resistance in Belarus.[1][2][3] He served as an administrator at various positions within the Soviet government, including the leadership positions in Byelorussian and Kazakh SSRs.
Early life
Ponomarenko was born in
Career
In 1927 he graduated from the Krasnodar Rabfak and in the same year entered the Moscow Institute of Transport Engineers. Since 1930 he has been an inspector for the acceptance of steam locomotives at the Michurinsky steam locomotive repair plant in Tambov. From 1931 to 1932, he continued his studies and in 1932, he graduated from the Moscow Electromechanical Institute of Railway Engineers, which was formed from MIIT in 1931. After graduation, he served as assistant to the director of the Moscow Institute of Transport Engineers.[citation needed]
From 1932 to 1937, he served in the Red Army as battalion commander in the
As the head of Belarus
From 1938 to 1947, Ponomarenko was the First Secretary of the
During the
During this time he also assisted the National Jazz Orchestra in Minsk, inviting Eddie Rosner to lead it.[7]
During World War II
Following the outbreak of Operation Barbarossa in 1941, he became the member of the Military Council of the Western Front. From July to May 1942, he served as the member of the Military Councils of Central Front, Bryansk Front and 3rd Shock Army of the Kalinin Front.
During
According to his information, the partisan units under his control in Belarus eliminated around 300,000 German soldiers, including 30 generals, 6,336 officers and 1,520 air force pilots, within two years of fighting. At the same time, 3,000 trains were derailed, 3,263 railway and road bridges, 1,191 tanks and armored vehicles, 618 command vehicles, 4,027 trucks, 476 aircraft, 378 heavy handguns, 895 ammunition and other storage facilities were destroyed. The concept of destroying the railway network by 90,000 partisans on 200,000 to 300,000 track sections was developed by Ponomarenko, who was familiar with the railways. He argued to Stalin that this destruction would severely restrict the freedom of movement of German troops.[3]
According to the
In this aspect, the institute claims, the forces under Ponomarenko's command initiated a limited collaboration with the Nazi occupation forces informing on members of the Polish underground. On 22 June 1943, on his behalf, the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Belarus took the plenum in Moscow resolution on the undertakings to further develop the partisan movement in the western oblasts of Belarus, stating that
The western oblasts of Soviet Belarus are an integral part of the Republic of Belarus. The nationalist divisions and groups formed by Polish reactionary circles should be isolated from the population by creating Soviet troops and groups consisting of working people of Polish nationality. Nationalist units and groups should be fought by all means."
After the war
From 1944 to 1948 he was a member of the Council of People's Commissars in the
In 1946, the Soviet authorities ordered the central control of economic and financial activity of the Communist Party of Byelorussia. The audit revealed a number of abuses and mismanagement in the management of the party's treasury. The Party Control Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union discovered that Ponomarenko was building a villa for himself using party money. He was also accused of a number of other abuses, including creating self-worship:
"Ponomarenko created an environment of flatterers around him, unable to bear the criticism he addressed. His portraits are often published in newspapers and magazines, various welcome letters are sent to his address, and he is elected to various honorary presidencies."
Faced with the accusations, Ponomarenko expressed self-criticism. Soon, however, he and his team were recalled. In the position of the First Secretary of the Central Committee of the CPB, he was replaced by
He was made First Secretary of the Communist Party of the Kazakh SSR in 1954 before becoming the Soviet ambassador to Poland between 1955 and 1957. During his time as ambassador to Poland, he was granted the keys to the Palace of Culture and Science in Warsaw by the Polish authorities.[10][11]
From 26 October 1957 to 22 April 1959 Ponomarenko was the
From 1963 to 1967, Ponomorenko served as the Representative of USSR to the International Atomic Energy Agency in Vienna. In his later years, Ponomarenko was a professor at the Institute of Social Sciences under the Central Committee of the CPSU between 1964 and 1974. From 1978, he has been a personal pensioner of federal significance.[13]
Ponomorenko died on 18 January 1984. He is buried at the Novodevichy cemetery in Moscow.
Honours and awards
Streets in Minsk and Mogilev, and a factory in Gomel, in Belarus are named after Ponomarenko. In 2012, the National Archives of the Republic of Belarus hosted an exhibition dedicated to the 110th anniversary of the birth of Ponomarenko.
Trivia
- The Dutch.
References
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- ^ a b "Герои Победы: П.К. Пономаренко". www.portal-slovo.ru. Retrieved 26 September 2018.
- ^ a b c d Kandakova, Anastasia Yurievna. "Пономаренко Пантелеймон Кондратьевич" (in Russian). Belarusian Great Patriotic War Museum. Retrieved 26 September 2018.
- ^ ГОМЕЛЬ. Энциклопедический справочник. 1991.
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