Mikalay Slyonkow

Mіkalay Slyonkow
Мікалай Слюнькоў
First Secretary of the Communist Party of Byelorussia
In office
13 January 1983 – 6 February 1987
Preceded byTikhon Kiselyov
Succeeded byYefrem Sokolov
Chairman of the Socio-Economic Policy Commission of the Central Committee
In office
30 September 1988 – 14 July 1990
Preceded byEstablished
Succeeded byAbolished
Head of the Economic Department of the Central Committee
In office
1987 – 30 September 1988
Preceded byBoris Gostev
Succeeded byVladimir Shimko
Candidate member of the 27th Politburo
In office
6 March 1986 – 26 June 1987
Member of the 27th Secretariat
In office
28 January 1987 – 14 July 1990
Full member of the 27th Central Committee
In office
6 March 1986 – 14 July 1990
Full member of the 27th Politburo
In office
26 June 1987 – 1990
Personal details
Born(1929-04-26)26 April 1929
Gorodets, Byelorussian SSR, USSR
Died9 August 2022(2022-08-09) (aged 93)
Minsk, Belarus
Political partyCommunist Party of the Soviet Union (1954–1990)

Mіkalay Mіkіtavіch Slyonkow (Belarusian: Мікалай Мікітавіч Слюнькоў; Russian: Никола́й Ники́тович Слюнько́в, romanized: Nikolay Nikitovich Slyunkov; 26 April 1929 – 9 August 2022)[1] was a Belarusian politician who was first secretary of the Communist Party of the Byelorussian SSR from 13 January 1983 to 6 February 1987 during the Soviet Union.

Slyunkov became a full member of the 27th Politburo on 26 June 1987,[2] where he remained until its abolition in 1990.

  1. ^ "Умер бывший глава БССР Николай Слюньков" [Former head of the BSSR, Nikolai Slyunkov, died]. Office Life (in Russian). 9 August 2022. Archived from the original on 19 August 2022. Retrieved 10 August 2022.
  2. ^ Garthoff, Raymond L. (1994). The Great Transition: American-Soviet Relations and the End of the Cold War. Washington, D.C.: Brookings Institution. pp. 307. ISBN 0-8157-3060-8.