List of prime ministers of Belarus explained

This is a list of prime ministers of Belarus since the Belarusian declaration of independence in 1918.

Belarusian People's Republic (1918–1920)

Chairmen of the People's Secretariat

PortraitName
(birth–death)
Term of officePolitical party
1Jazep Jakaulevich Varonka
(1891–1952)
21 February 1918May 1918Belarusian Socialist Assembly
2Jan Nikitivich Sierada
(1879–1943+)
June 1918August 1918
3Raman Aliaksandravich Skirmunt
(1868–1939)
June 1918August 1918Belarusian National Assembly
4Anton Ivanavich Luckievich
(1883–1938)
October 191811 October 1918Belarusian Socialist Assembly

Chairmen of the Council of Ministers

PortraitName
(birth–death)
Term of officePolitical party
1Anton Ivanavich Luckievich
(1883–1938)
11 October 191813 December 1919Belarusian Socialist Assembly
2Vaclau Justynavich Lastouski
(1883–1938)
13 December 19191920Belarusian Socialist-Revolutionary Party

Rada of the Belarusian Democratic Republic (since 1920)

Chairmen of the Council of Ministers

Following the fall of the Belarusian People's Republic, the Rada went into exile—first to Vilnius to 1925, then to Prague before settling in Canada.

PortraitName
(birth–death)
Term of officePolitical party
1Vaclau Justynavich Lastouski
(1883–1938)
192023 August 1923Socialist-Revolutionary Party
2Aliaksandar (Ivanavič) Cvikievič
(1888–1937)
23 August 19238 March 1928
3Vasil Ivanovich Zacharka
(1877–1943)
8 March 19286 March 1943Belarusian Socialist Assembly
4Mikola Semyonovich Abramchyk
(1903–1970)
6 March 1943May 1970Independent
5Vincent Žuk-Hryškievič
(1903–1989)
May 1970November 1980
6Jazep Sažyč
(1917–2007)
November 19801997
7Ivonka Survilla
(1936–)
30 August 1997

Byelorussian Soviet Socialist Republic (1920–1991)

Chairmen of the Council of People's Commissars

PortraitName
(birth–death)
Term of officePolitical party
1Alexander Grigoryevich Chervyakov
(1892–1937)
1 August 192017 March 1924Communist Party
2Iosif Alexandrovich Adamovich
(1897–1937)
17 March 19247 May 1927
3Nikolay Mateyevich Goloded
(1894–1937)
7 May 192730 May 1937
4Danil Ivanavich Volkovich
(1900–1937)
30 May 19378 September 1937
5Afanasy Feodorovich Kovalyov
(1903–1993)
8 September 193728 July 1938
6Kuzma Venediktovich Kiselyov
(1903–1977)
28 July 193828 June 1940
7Ivan Semyonovich Bylinsky
(1903–1976)
28 June 19407 February 1944
8Panteleimon Kondratyevich Ponomarenko
(1902–1984)
7 February 194415 March 1946

Chairman of the Council of Ministers

PortraitName
(birth–death)
Term of officePolitical party
(8)Panteleimon Kondratyevich Ponomarenko
(1902–1984)
15 March 194617 March 1948Communist Party
9Aleksey Yefimovich Kleshchev
(1905–1968)
15 March 194825 June 1953
10Kirill Trofimovich Mazurov
(1914–1989)
25 June 195328 July 1956
11Nikolai Efremovich Avkhimovich
(1907–1996)
28 July 19569 April 1959
12Tikhon Yakovlevich Kiselyov
(1917–1983)
9 April 195911 December 1978
13Aleksandr Nikiforovich Aksyonov
(1924–2009)
11 December 19788 July 1983
14Vladimir Ignatevich Brovikov
(1931–1992)
8 July 198310 January 1986
15Mikhail Vasilevich Kovalyov
(1925–2007)
10 January 19867 April 1990
16Vyacheslav Frantsevich Kebich
(1936–2020)
7 April 199025 December 1991Independent

Republic of Belarus (1991–present)

Prime ministers

PortraitName
(birth–death)
Term of officePolitical partyHead of state
1Vyacheslav Frantsevich Kebich
(1936–2020)
19 September 199121 July 1994IndependentStanislav Shushkevich

Chairman of the Supreme Council
(1991–1994)
2Mikhail Nikolayevich Chigir
(1948–)
21 July 199418 November 1996Alexander Lukashenko

President (1994–)
(Disputed since 23 September 2020)
3Sergei Stepanovich Ling
(1937–)
18 November 199618 February 2000
4Vladimir Vasilyevich Yermoshin
(1942–)
18 February 20001 October 2001
5Gennady Vasilyevich Novitsky
(1949–)
1 October 200111 July 2004
6Sergei Sergeevich Sidorsky
(1954–)
11 July 200428 December 2010
7Mikhail Vladimirovich Myasnikovich
(1950–)
28 December 201027 December 2014
8Andrei Vladimirovich Kobyakov
(1960–)
27 December 201418 August 2018
9Sergei Nikolayevich Rumas
(1969–)
18 August 20183 June 2020
10Roman Alexanderovich Golovchenko
(1973–)
4 June 2020Incumbent

See also