# 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)

| № | Name | 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 (since 1920)
#### 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

| Name | Took office | Left office | Party |
| Vilgelm Knorinsh | 9 August 1920 | 30 December 1922 | Communist Party of Belorussia |
| Vilgelm Knorinsh | 30 December 1922 | 1923 | Communist Party of Byelorussia |
| Aleksandr Osatkin-Vladimirsky | 1923 | 13 May 1924 | Communist Party of Byelorussia |
| Aleksandr Krinitsky | 13 May 1924 | 22 December 1925 | Communist Party of Byelorussia |
| Nikolay Goloded | 22 December 1925 | 7 May 1927 | Communist Party of Byelorussia |
| Vilgelm Knorinsh | 7 May 1927 | 4 December 1928 | Communist Party of Byelorussia |
| Vilgelm Knorinsh | 4 December 1928 | 3 January 1930 | Communist Party of Byelorussia |
| Konstantin Gey | 3 January 1930 | 18 January 1932 | Communist Party of Byelorussia |
| Nikolay Gikalo | 18 January 1932 | 18 March 1937 | Communist Party of Byelorussia |
| Vasily Sharangovich | 18 March 1937 | 17 July 1937 | Communist Party of Byelorussia |
| Yakov Yakovlev | 17 July 1937 | 8 August 1937 | Communist Party of Byelorussia |
| Aleksei Volkov | 11 August 1937 | 18 June 1938 | Communist Party of Byelorussia |
| Panteleimon Ponomarenko | 18 June 1938 | 7 March 1947 | Communist Party of Byelorussia |
| Nikolay Gusarov | 7 March 1947 | 31 May 1950 | Communist Party of Byelorussia |
| Nikolai Patolichev | 31 May 1950 | 28 July 1956 | Communist Party of Byelorussia |
| Kiril Mazurov | 28 July 1956 | 30 March 1965 | Communist Party of Byelorussia |
| Petr Masherov | 30 March 1965 | 4 September 1980 | Communist Party of Byelorussia |
| Tikhon Kiselyov | 4 September 1980 | 11 January 1983 | Communist Party of Byelorussia |
| Nikolay Slyunkov | 13 January 1983 | 6 February 1987 | Communist Party of Byelorussia |
| Yefrem Sokolov | 6 February 1987 | 30 November 1990 | Communist Party of Byelorussia |
| Anatoly Malofeyev | 30 November 1990 | 15 August 1991 | Communist Party of Byelorussia |
| № | Name | Took office | Left office | Party |
| 1 | Stanislau Shushkevich | 15 August 1991 | 26 January 1994 | Independent / Non-partisan |
| 2 | Vyacheslav Kuznetsov | 26 January 1994 | 28 January 1994 | Independent / Non-partisan |
| 3 | Myechyslaw Hryb | 28 January 1994 | 20 July 1994 | Independent / Non-partisan |
| 4 | Alexander Lukashenko | 20 July 1994 | — | Independent / Non-partisan |