Peter Masherov

Peter Masherov is a Soviet Belarusian party leader, the first secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the BSSR from 1965 to 1980. Masherov was born into a poor peasant family, during the war he was a volunteer in the Red Army, in the post-war period he began his career as a statesman.

During the leadership of Masherov, Belarus experienced significant economic growth, the national income increased several times, and a number of large-scale enterprises were built. Under Masherov, the memorial complexes "Brest Fortress", "Khatyn", "Mound of Glory" appeared.