Mazurov, Kiril Trofimovich (1914–1989)

Russian politician. He spent most of his career as a Communist Party official in Belarus, and was a member of the Russian Politburo from 1966–79. He served as a first deputy premier from 1965–78.

He was of peasant origin, and distinguished himself in World War II as a guerrilla leader in Belarus. He was a leading figure in the Soviet party-state reform programme after the fall of Khrushchev (1964). He was in the Communist Party apparatus in Minsk (1947–48), and became Party secretary there (1950–53). He was made a member of the Central Committee and first secretary of the Belarus Communist Party in 1956. He occupied the latter post until 1965, combining it with the state role of first deputy chairman of the Council of Ministers.