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

	Name	Took office	Left office	Party
Chairmen of the Rada
	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
	Zmicier Zhylunovich	1 January 1919	4 February 1919	Independent / Non-partisan
Chairmen of the Central Executive Committee
	Aleksandr Myasnikyan	4 February 1919	27 February 1919	Communist Party of Belorussia
Vacant (27 February 1919 – 13 December 1919)
	Pyotra Krecheuski	13 December 1919	4 February 1919	Independent / Non-partisan
Chairman of the Rival Government
	Jan Sierada	13 December 1919	July 1920	Belarusian Socialist Assembly
	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
	Stanislau Shushkevich	15 August 1991	26 January 1994	Independent / Non-partisan
	Vyacheslav Kuznetsov	26 January 1994	28 January 1994	Independent / Non-partisan
	Myechyslaw Hryb	28 January 1994	20 July 1994	Independent / Non-partisan
	Alexander Lukashenko	20 July 1994	—	Independent / Non-partisan