Birthname: | Pavel Stepanovich Prokofiev |
Office1: | Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the Karelo-Finnish SSR |
Term Start1: | 1940 |
Term End1: | 1947 |
Successor1: | Voldemar Virolainen |
Term Start2: | 1950 |
Term End2: | 1956 |
Predecessor2: | Voldemar Virolainen |
Successor2: | Ivan Stepanovich Belyayev |
Office3: | Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the Karelian ASSR |
Term Start3: | 16 July 1956 |
Term End3: | 18 July 1979 |
Predecessor3: | Otto Ville Kuusinen (SSR) |
Successor3: | N. Kalinin |
Birth Date: | 16 July 1909 |
Birth Place: | Klyushina Gora, Povenetsky Uyezd, Olonets Governorate, Russian Empire |
Death Place: | Petrozavodsk, Karelian ASSR, RSFSR, Soviet Union |
Party: | Communist Party of the Karelo-Finnish SSR, CPSU |
Pavel Stepanovich Prokkonen (ru|Па́вел Степа́нович Про́кконен; 16 July 1909 - 18 July 1979), born Prokofiev (ru|Проко́фьев), was a Karelian Soviet politician. He was appointed as the Chairman of the Council of the People's Commissars of the Karelo-Finnish Soviet Socialist Republic (1940–1947) and Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the Karelo-Finnish Soviet Socialist Republic (1950–1956) ("prime minister" of the Republic). Prokkonen was also the Minister of Karelian Affairs for the Finnish Democratic Republic during the Winter War in 1940 (under the name Paavo Prokkonen)
After the Karelo-Finnish SSR was incorporated into the Russian SFSR as the Karelian Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic in 1956, Prokkonen was the Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the Karelian Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic (1956–1979).
Pavel Prokkonen was awarded the Order of Lenin twice, the Order of the Patriotic War second class once, the Order of the Red Banner of Labour twice, and the Order of the Badge of Honour twice.