Tikhon Kiselyov
Тихон Киселёв
Kiselyov in 1973
First Secretary of the Communist Party of Byelorussia
In office 15 October 1980 – 11 January 1983
Preceded by	Pyotr Masherov
Succeeded by	Nikolay Slyunkov
Deputy Chairman of the Council of Ministers
In office 5 December 1978 – 23 October 1980
Premier	Alexei Kosygin
Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the Byelorussian Soviet Socialist Republic
In office 9 April 1959 – 11 December 1978
Preceded by	Nikolay Avkhimovich
Succeeded by	Aleksandr Aksyonov
Candidate member of the 25th, 26th Politburo
In office 21 October 1980 – 11 January 1983
Full member of the 22nd, 23rd, 24th, 25th, 26th Central Committee
In office 31 October 1961 – 11 January 1983
Personal details
Born	(1917-07-30)30 July 1917 Mogilev Governorate, Russian Empire
Died	11 January 1983(1983-01-11) (aged 65) Minsk, Byelorussian SSR, Soviet Union
Nationality	Soviet
Political party	Communist Party of the Soviet Union (1940-1983)
Other political affiliations	Communist Party of Byelorussia
Profession	Civil servant

Tikhon Yakovlevich Kiselyov ( Russian: Ти́хон Я́ковлевич Киселёв, Belarusian: Ціхан Якаўлевіч Кісялёў; 12 August ( O.S.: 30 July), 1917 – 11 January 1983) was a Belarusian statesman in the Soviet Union, the leader (first secretary) of the Communist Party of Byelorussia, i.e., the de facto leader of the Byelorussian SSR (1980–1983). ^[1]

Career

Party

• 1940: member of the CPSU
• 1961: member of the CPSU Central Committee
• 1980: first secretary of Central Committee the Communist Party of Byelorussia
• 1980: CPSU Central Committee Politbureau candidate

Government

• 1954: member of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR
• 1959-1978: Chairman of the BSSR Council of Ministers
• 1978-1980: Deputy Chairman of the USSR Council of Ministers
• 1981: member of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR

Awards

• 1977: Hero of Socialist Labor
• Two Orders of Lenin
• Order of the Badge of Honor
• Medals

References

• Career data are taken from the Large Encyclopedic Dictionary (Moscow, 1991)