Nadezhda Grigoryevna Grekova, or Nadežda Grekova (1910-2001), was a Soviet

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 Belarus

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ian politician

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. She was Chairman of the Supreme Soviet of the Belorussian SSR 1938-1947. Her office as Chairman of the Supreme Soviet nominally made her "Head of the Republic" in 1938. Grekova was a member of the Central Audit Commission of the All-Union Communist Party

All-Union Communist Party

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 1939-52, Deputy Chairman of the Council of People's Commissars of the of the Byelorussian Soviet Socialist Republic in 1943-46 and 1., secretary of the SUKP in Kazan

Kazan

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 in 1942-43, Deputy Minister of Food Industry of the Russian Socialist Federal Soviet Republic 1949-52.