Panteleimon Ponomarenko

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Panteleimon Kondrat'evich Ponomarenko, Russian: Пантелеймон Кондратьевич Пономаренко, (9 August 1902 - 18 January 1984) was a general in the Red Army and a Belarusian politician.

From 1938 to 1947 Ponomarenko was the First Secretary of the Communist Party of Belarus. During World War II he led the Belarusian resistance movement. He clashed with the Polish underground, and gave orders for his troops to disarm them which unavoidably led to a number of deaths.

From 16 October 1952 until 6 March 1953 Ponomarenko was a member of the Politburo of the CPSU. In 1954 - 1955 he was First Secretary of the Communist Party of the Kazakh SSR. From 1955-1984 he was the Soviet ambassador to Poland.^[1]^[2]

Ponomarenko also taught diplomacy and helped set up the National Jazz Orchestra in Minsk.

^ Brown, Archie (1990) "Ponomarenko, Pantaleimon Kondrat'evich (1902-1984)" The Soviet Union: A biographical dictionary Macmillan Publishing Co., New York, ISBN 0-02-897071-3 ;
^ Vronskaya, Jeanne and Chuguev, Vladimir (1988) "Ponomarenko, Panteleimon Kondrat'evich (1902-1984)" A Biographical Dictionary of the Soviet Union, 1917-1988 K.G. Saur, London, ISBN 0-86291-470-1 ;

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Leaders of Kazakhstan
Kazakh SSR, First Secretaries: Levon Mirzoyan • Nikolay Skvortsov • Zhumabay Shayakhmetov • Panteleimon Ponomarenko • Leonid Brezhnev • Ivan Yakovlev • Nikolay Belyayev • Dinmukhamed Konayev • Ismail Yusupov • Dinmukhamed Konayev • Gennady Kolbin • Nursultan Nazarbayev Kazakhstan, President: Nursultan Nazarbayev