Leaders of Belarus

Leaders of Byelorussian SSR

De-facto leaders were first secretaries of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Byelorussia (CPB)

• Nikolay Patolichev (1950 - 1953)
• Mikhail Zimyanin (1953 --?)
• Nikolay Patolichev (? --- 1956)
• Kirill Mazurov
• Tikhon Kiselev
• Petr Masherov
• Efrem Sokolov

Presidents of Republic of Belarus

• Alexander Lukashenko (July 20, 1994 -- )