Belarusians bid farewell to Nikolai Slyunkov at funeral in Minsk

On 11 August Minsk bid farewell to the former head of the BSSR Nikolai Slyunkov in a ceremony at the Central House of Officers.

Nikolai Slyunkov headed Minsk Tractor Plant from 1965 to 1972. Then he held the post of First Secretary of the Minsk City Committee of the Communist Party of the BSSR, Deputy Chairman of the State Planning Committee of the USSR, First Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the BSSR, Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.