List of national leaders of Belarus

This is a comprehensive chronological list of national leaders of Belarus since its first independence, in 1918, including its presidents both before and after the Soviet era, and the Soviet leaders themselves, who, unlike the Presidents, were not formal Heads of State.

Leaders of Belarus since 1918

Belarusian National Republic (1918–1920)

№	Chairman		Took office	Left office	Party
Chairmen of the Rada
1		Jan Sierada	9 March 1918	May 1918	Belarusian Socialist Assembly
Vacant (May 1918 – 1 January 1919)
Chairman of the Provisional Revolutionary Workers-and-Peasants' Soviet Government
2		Zmicier Zhylunovich	1 January 1919	4 February 1919	Independent / Non-partisan
Chairmen of the Central Executive Committee
3		Aleksandr Myasnikyan	4 February 1919	27 February 1919	Communist Party of Belorussia
Vacant (27 February 1919 – 13 December 1919)
4		Pyotra Krecheuski	13 December 1919	4 February 1919	Independent / Non-partisan
Chairman of the Rival Government
(1)		Jan Sierada	13 December 1919	July 1920	Belarusian Socialist Assembly

Belarusian National Republic in Exile (1920–1992)

Presidents

In Vilnius to 1925, then in Prague, presently in Canada:

• Pyotra Krecheuski (November 1920 – 8 March 1928)
• Vasil Zakharka (8 March 1928 – 6 March 1943)
• Mikola Abramchyk (6 March 1943 – 29 May 1970)
• Vintsent Zhuk-Hryshkyevich (May 1970 – November 1982)
• Jazep Sazhych (November 1982 – 1997)
• Barys Rahula (1997, acting)
• Ivonka Survilla (1997–present)

Byelorussian Soviet Socialist Republic (1920–1991)

First secretaries of the Byelorussian Communist Party

№	Chairman		Took office	Left office	Party
2		Vilgelm Knorinsh	9 August 1920	30 December 1922	Communist Party of Belorussia
(2)			30 December 1922	1923	Communist Party of Byelorussia
3		Aleksandr Osatkin-Vladimirsky	1923	13 May 1924	Communist Party of Byelorussia
4		Aleksandr Krinitsky	13 May 1924	22 December 1925	Communist Party of Byelorussia
5		Nikolay Goloded	22 December 1925	7 May 1927	Communist Party of Byelorussia
(2)		Vilgelm Knorinsh	7 May 1927	4 December 1928	Communist Party of Byelorussia
6		Vilgelm Knorinsh	4 December 1928	3 January 1930	Communist Party of Byelorussia
7		Konstantin Gey	3 January 1930	18 January 1932	Communist Party of Byelorussia
8		Nikolay Gikalo	18 January 1932	18 March 1937	Communist Party of Byelorussia
9		Vasily Sharangovich	18 March 1937	17 July 1937	Communist Party of Byelorussia
—		Yakov Yakovlev	17 July 1937	8 August 1937	Communist Party of Byelorussia
10		Aleksei Volkov	11 August 1937	18 June 1938	Communist Party of Byelorussia
11		Panteleimon Ponomarenko	18 June 1938	7 March 1947	Communist Party of Byelorussia
12		Nikolay Gusarov	7 March 1947	31 May 1950	Communist Party of Byelorussia
13		Nikolai Patolichev	31 May 1950	28 July 1956	Communist Party of Byelorussia
14		Kiril Mazurov	28 July 1956	30 March 1965	Communist Party of Byelorussia
15		Petr Masherov	30 March 1965	4 September 1980	Communist Party of Byelorussia
16		Tikhon Kiselyov	4 September 1980	11 January 1983	Communist Party of Byelorussia
17		Nikolay Slyunkov	13 January 1983	6 February 1987	Communist Party of Byelorussia
18		Yefrem Sokolov	6 February 1987	30 November 1990	Communist Party of Byelorussia
19		Anatoly Malofeyev	30 November 1990	15 August 1991	Communist Party of Byelorussia

Republic of Belarus (1991–present)

Chairmen of the Supreme Soviet

№	Chairman		Took office	Left office	Party
1		Stanislau Shushkevich	15 August 1991	26 January 1994	Independent / Non-partisan
—		Vyacheslav Kuznetsov Acting Chairman	26 January 1994	28 January 1994	Independent / Non-partisan
2		Myechyslaw Hryb	28 January 1994	20 July 1994	Independent / Non-partisan

President

№	President		Took office	Left office	Party
1		Alexander Lukashenko	20 July 1994	17 November 2007	Independent / Non-partisan
(1)			17 November 2007	Incumbent	Independent (until 2007) Belaya Rus

See also

• List of rulers of Belarus
• President of Belarus
• List of Prime Ministers of Belarus
• Government of Belarus