List of rulers of Belarus

This list shows a list of Belarusian rulers and communist-leaders and presidents since 945.

Rurik dynasty and Vseslavichi dynasty

• ROGVOLOD (945-978) of SCANDINAVIAN ORIGIN
• VLADIMIR (978-987)
• IZIASLAV I (987-1001)
• VSESLAV (1001-03) died in childhood at age about 13

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  BRIACHESLAV I (1003-1044)
• VSESLAV II (1044-1101) longest ruling
• MSTISLAV (1069)
• SVIATOPOLK I (1069-1071)
• GLEB (1101-1119)
• ROGVOLOD BORIS (1101-1128)
• VLADIMIR II MONOMAKH (1128-1125)
• MSTISLAV II the great (1125-1129)
• IZIASLAV II (1129-1132) died in 1154
• YAROPOLK (1132-1139)
• VASILKO I (1139-1154)
• ROSTISLAV GLEBOVICH (1154-1165)
• VOLODAR (1165-1180)
• VLADIMIR II (1186-1215)
• TAUTVILAS (1250-1264)
• GERDINE (1264-1267)
• Part of Lithuania (1267-1917)

King of Belarus-Lithuania (1918-1918)

• MINDAUGAS (1917-1918)

Soviet Byelorussia

• JAZEP LOSIK (1918)
• VILHELM KNORIN (1920-1922) and (1927-1928)
• WACLAW BOGUCKI (1922-1924)
• ALEXANDER OSATKIN VLADIMIRSKY (1924)
• ALEXANDER KRINITSKY (1924-1925)
• NIKOLAI GOLODED (1925-1927)
• J.Y. GAMARNIK (1927-1930)
• KONSTANTIN GEY (1930-1932)
• NIKOLAI GIKALO (1932-1937)
• VASILY SHARANGOVICH (1937)
• E.Y. YAKOVLEV (1937)
• ALEXEI VOLKOV (1937-1938)
• PANTELEIMON PONOMARENKO (1938-1947)
• HINRICH LOHSE (1941-1944)
• ERICH KOCH (1944-1945) died 1986
• NIKOLAY GUSAROV (1947-1950)
• NIKOLAY PATOLICHEV (1950-1956)
• KIRILL MAZUROV (1956-1965)
• PYOTR MASHEROV (1965-1980)
• TIKHON KISELYOV (1980-1983)
• NIKOLAY SLYUNKOV (1983-1987)
• YEFREM SOKOLOV (1987-1990)

Presidents of Belarus

• Stanislav Shushkevich (1991-1994)
• Myecheslaw Hryb (1994)
• Alexander Lukashenko (1994-)