Yefrem Sokolov
Yefrem Sokolov | |
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| Ефрем Соколов Яфрэм Сакалоў | |
28th Central Committee | |
| In office 26 June 1987 – 29 August 1991 | |
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| Born | Yefrem Yevseyevich Sokolov 25 April 1926 Raviačyna, Horki District, Byelorussian SSR, Soviet Union (now Belarus) |
| Died | 5 April 2022 (aged 95) Belarus |
| Political party | Communist Party of the Soviet Union (1944–1991) |
Yefrem Yevseyevich Sokolov (
28th Central Committee.[1]
Biography
He was born into a Belarusian peasant family. From 1944 to the end of the decade he served in the
Higher Party School in Moscow. In 1969, he became part of the apparatus of the Central Committee and was in 1977 appointed party chief for Brest. From 6 February 1987 to 30 November 1990, he was First Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Belarus, being the last one to serve as the de facto
head of the Byelorussian SSR.
From 1989–1991, he was a member of the
Supreme Soviet of the USSR. Since 1990, he had been a pensioner and continued political activities such as heading the Council of the Communist Party of Belarus. Sokolov's death was announced on 5 April 2022, at the age of 95.[2]
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| First Secretary of the Communist Party of the Byelorussian SSR (1919–1991) |
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Supreme Council of Belarus (1991–1994)
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| President of Belarus (since 1994) |
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