Panteleimon Ponomarenko

Panteleimon Ponomarenko
Birth name	Panteleimon Kondratyevich Ponomarenko (Пантелеймон Кіндратович Пономаренко)
Role	Former leader of the Byelorussian Soviet Socialist Republic and leader of Soviet partisan resistance in Belarus during the West Russian War
Location	Reichskommissariat Ostland
Born	9th August 1902 Kuban Oblast, Russian Empire
Died	Presumably killed in action during the West Russian War in the 1950s, Reichskommissariat Ostland (aged ~50s)
Nationality	Ukrainian
Political party	All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks)
Political alignment

Panteleimon Kondratyevich Ponomarenko (born 9th August 1902) was a Soviet politician, leader of the Byelorussian SSR and leader of the resistance movement in Belarus during World War II and the West Russian War.

History

Before the war he was appointed by Nikolai Bukharin as the leader of the Byelorussian SSR. During the German attack on the USSR, he was the leader of partisan forces in Belarus. Abba Kovner's biography shows that he and his partisans allied with Abba Kovner and his United Partisan Organization in the guerrilla struggle against the rule of the Reichskommissariat Ostland. He was presumably killed in action during the West Russian War.