1. Panteleimon Ponomarenko served as an administrator at various positions within the Soviet government, including the leadership positions in Byelorussian and Kazakh SSRs.
18 Facts About Panteleimon Ponomarenko
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Panteleimon Ponomarenko fought in the Russian Civil War and took part in the defense of Yekaterinodar from units of the White Army.
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Panteleimon Ponomarenko became a member of the Communist party in 1925 and in the same year he was approved as the head of the agitprop department at a district party committee in the Azov-Black Sea region.
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From 1938 to 1947, Panteleimon Ponomarenko was the First Secretary of the Communist Party of Belorussia, and from 1944 to 1948, the Chairman of the Council of Ministers of Belarus.
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Panteleimon Ponomarenko devoted his first speech, which took place on 8 July 1938 in Gomel, to the task of 'rooting out enemies'.
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Panteleimon Ponomarenko's cipher was known to Stalin with a request to increase for the number of repressed in the first category by two thousand people, and in the second, by three thousand.
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From May 1942 to March 1943, Panteleimon Ponomarenko served the Chief of Staff of the Central Headquarters of the Partisan Movement at the Headquarters of the Supreme Command.
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Panteleimon Ponomarenko was granted the rank of Lieutenant general in March 1943.
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The concept of destroying the railway network by 90,000 partisans on 200,000 to 300,000 track sections was developed by Panteleimon Ponomarenko, who was familiar with the railways.
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Panteleimon Ponomarenko argued to Stalin that this destruction would severely restrict the freedom of movement of German troops.
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The Party Control Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union discovered that Panteleimon Ponomarenko was building a villa for himself using party money.
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Panteleimon Ponomarenko was accused of a number of other abuses, including creating self-worship:.
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Panteleimon Ponomarenko's portraits are often published in newspapers and magazines, various welcome letters are sent to his address, and he is elected to various honorary presidencies.
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From 16 October 1952 until 6 March 1953, Panteleimon Ponomarenko was a member of the Politburo of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.
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Panteleimon Ponomarenko was made First Secretary of the Communist Party of the Kazakh SSR in 1954 before becoming the Soviet ambassador to Poland between 1955 and 1957.
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From 26 October 1957 to 22 April 1959 Panteleimon Ponomarenko was the Soviet ambassador to India and Nepal, and from 30 June 1959 to 21 June 1962 to the Netherlands.
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When Golub's wife was taken to the police station at the Amsterdam Schiphol Airport to ask if she wanted to stay in the Netherlands, ten employees of the Soviet Embassy headed by Panteleimon Ponomarenko broke into the police station and forcibly took her to the Aeroflot office.
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Panteleimon Ponomarenko is buried at the Novodevichy cemetery in Moscow.