Anatoly Malofeyev

Anatoly Alexandrovich Malofejew (Russian Анатолий Александрович Малофеев; born May 14, 1933, Gomel, Byelorussian SSR ) is a former Soviet- Belarusian politicians. From 1990 until its dissolution in 1991 Malofejew was First Secretary of the Belorussian Soviet Socialist Republic.

Life and career

Anatoli Malofejew was born in 1933 in Gomel, on the east of present-day Belarus. From 1949 he began to work in a railway factory in Minsk as a mechanic. From 1952 to 1956 he served in the Soviet Army in 1954 and joined the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. From 1962 he began to work intensively in the party and stood by, among other things a Regional Committee in Mosyr. In 1967, he completed a degree in economics at the Belarusian State University of Economics, 1974, he graduated from the Higher Party School. In 1974 he was elected to the Supreme Soviet of Belarus. From 1986, he also belonged to the Central Committee of the CPSU from 1989 he sat in the Congress of People's Deputies. His career in 1990 finally reached a climax when he was elected First Secretary of the Communist Party of Belarus. This position was the de facto head of government equal. He was the last person in this office before the end of 1991 the Byelorussian Soviet Socialist Republic, finally, as the Republic of Belarus became independent. Malofejew thus lost at times, his political position. In 1995 he was again, however, a deputy in the Belarusian parliament., 2004, he was appointed Chairman of the Committee on Regional Policy.