1. Aleksey Yefimovich Kleshchev was a Belarusian general and politician.
17 Facts About Aleksey Kleshchev
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Aleksey Kleshchev served as the Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the Byelorussian Soviet Socialist Republic from 17 March 1948 to 24 July 1953.
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Aleksey Kleshchev was a member of the Communist Party of Kazakhstan from 1955 until 1960.
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Aleksey Kleshchev was deputy member of the Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union.
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Aleksey Kleshchev was born in Minsk Governorate and died in Moscow on 13 December 1968, aged 63.
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Aleksey Kleshchev was decorated as the Order of the Red Banner.
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Aleksey Kleshchev graduated from primary school in his native village in 1917, and from two grades of the Kalinkavichy Railway School.
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Between 1927 and 1929, Aleksey Kleshchev served in the Red Army's 16th Corps Artillery Regiment, part of the Belorussian Military District at Mogilev.
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Aleksey Kleshchev became a member of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union in 1928.
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In September 1939, Aleksey Kleshchev became chief of the land department of Pinsk Oblast.
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From July 1941, Aleksey Kleshchev was a member of the Pinsk Oblast Underground Party Center, creating underground party organizations and organizing partisans against the German occupation forces.
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Aleksey Kleshchev served with the Turov and Stolin partisan detachments.
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In September, he became the commissioner of the Communist Party in the Pinsk Oblast, and from 1943 Aleksey Kleshchev was secretary of the Pinsk Oblast Underground Party Committee.
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Aleksey Kleshchev was awarded the title Hero of the Soviet Union and the Order of Lenin on 1 January 1944 for his leadership of the partisans.
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In 1944, Aleksey Kleshchev became first secretary of the Pinsk Oblast Committee of the Communist Party.
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From 1948 to 1953, Aleksey Kleshchev was Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the Byelorussian SSR.
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Aleksey Kleshchev retired in 1961 and lived in Moscow, where he died on 13 December 1968.