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{{Infobox officeholder
|name= Panteleimon Ponomarenko
|image= Panteleimon Ponomarenko 1959.jpg
|width=190px
| nationality = [[Soviet people|Soviet]]
| ethnicity = [[Ukrainian people|Ukrainian]]
| office = First Secretary of the [[Communist Party of Kazakhstan]]
| term_start = 6 February 1954
| term_end = 7 May 1955
| predecessor = [[Zhumabay Shayakhmetov]]
| successor = [[Leonid Brezhnev]]
| office1 = [[Ministry of Culture (Soviet Union)|Minister of Culture]]
| term_start1 = 15 March 1953
| term_end1 = 9 March 1954
| premier1 = [[Georgy Malenkov]]
| predecessor1= [[Nikolai Bespalov]]
| successor1= [[Georgy Aleksandrov]]
| office2 = [[Prime Minister of Belarus|Chairman]] of the [[Government of Belarus|Council of Ministers]] of the [[Byelorussian Soviet Socialist Republic]]
| term_start2 = 7 February 1944
| term_end2 = 17 March 1948
| predecessor2 = [[Ivan Bylinsky]]
| successor2 = [[Aleksey Kleshchev]]
| office3 = First Secretary of the [[Communist Party of Byelorussia]]
| term_start3 = 18 June 1938
| term_end3 = 7 March 1947
| predecessor3 = [[Aleksei Volkov (politician)|Aleksei Volkov]]
| successor3 = [[Nikolai Gusarov]]
| office4 = Full member of the [[19th Presidium of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union|19th]] [[Politburo of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union|Presidium]]
| term_start4 = 16 October 1952
| term_end4 = 5 March 1953
| office5 = Candidate member of the [[19th Presidium of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union|19th]] [[Politburo of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union|Presidium]]
| term_start5 = 5 March 1953
| term_end5 = 14 February 1956
| office6 = Member of the [[18th Secretariat of the All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks)|18th]], [[19th Secretariat of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union|19th]] [[Secretariat of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union|Secretariat]]
| term_start6 = 1 July 1948
| term_end6 = 5 March 1953
| birth_date = {{osd|9 August|1902|27 July}}
| birth_place = [[Krasnodar Krai]], [[Russian Empire]]
| death_date = {{death date and age|mf=yes|1984|1|18|1902|8|9|df=y}}
| death_place = [[Moscow]], [[Soviet Union]]
| resting_place= [[Novodevichy Cemetery]], [[Moscow]]
| alma_mater = [[Moscow State University of Railway Engineering]]
| spouse =
| children =
| profession =
| party = [[Communist Party of the Soviet Union]]
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'''Panteleimon Kondrat'evich Ponomarenko''' ({{lang-ru|link=no|Пантелеймон Кондратьевич Пономаренко}}, {{lang-be|Пантэляймон Кандрацьевіч Панамарэнка, ''Pantelajmon Kandraćjevič Panamarenka''}}; {{osd|9 August|1902|27 July}}{{spaced ndash}}18 January 1984) was a general in the [[Red Army]] before becoming a Soviet administrator in [[Belarus]] and then [[Kazakhstan]]. He was born in [[Krasnodar Krai]], Russia.

From 1938 to 1947, Ponomarenko was the First Secretary of the [[Communist Party of Belorussia]], and from 1944 to 1948, also the [[List of Prime Ministers of Belarus|Chairman]] of the Council of Ministers of Byelorussia. During [[World War II]], he led [[Belarusian resistance movement|Communist partisan units]] within Nazi-occupied Belarus. He clashed with the [[Polish underground]] and gave orders for his troops to disarm them and execute the officers.<ref name="Musiał">{{cite journal | author =Bogdan Musiał | year = | month = | title =Memorandum Pantelejmona Ponomarienki z 20 stycznia 1943 r. in: O zachowaniu się Polaków i niektórych naszych zadaniach | journal =Pamięć i Sprawiedliwość | volume = | issue =2006-09-01 | pages =379 | publisher = [[Instytut Pamięci Narodowej]] | issn =1427-7476 | url = | format = | accessdate = |language=pl}}</ref> In this aspect the forces under Ponomarenko's command initiated a limited collaboration with the Nazi occupation forces informing on members of the Polish underground.<ref name="Musiał"/>

From 16 October 1952 until 6 March 1953, Ponomarenko was a member of the [[Politburo of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union|Politburo]] of the [[Communist Party of the Soviet Union]]. He was made First Secretary of the Communist Party of the Kazakh SSR in 1954 before becoming the Soviet ambassador to [[Poland]] between 1955 and 1957.<ref>Brown, Archie (1990) "Ponomarenko, Pantaleimon Kondrat'evich (1902–1984)" ''The Soviet Union: A biographical dictionary'' Macmillan Publishing Co., New York, ISBN 0-02-897071-3 ;</ref><ref>Vronskaya, Jeanne and Chuguev, Vladimir (1988) "Ponomarenko, Panteleimon Kondrat'evich (1902–1984)" ''A Biographical Dictionary of the Soviet Union, 1917–1988'' K.G. Saur, London, ISBN 0-86291-470-1 ;</ref>

From 26 October 1957 to 22 April 1959 Ponomarenko was the Soviet ambassador to India and Nepal, and from 30 June 1959 to 21 June 1962 to the Netherlands. He was deported from the Netherlands by the Dutch government after an incident with scientist Aleksei Golub and his wife. They asked political asylum, and Ponomarenko had a fist fight with Dutch police officers while trying to return Golub's to the Soviet government offices.<ref>[http://www.kommersant.ru/doc/708889 Как отзывали послов]. kommersant.ru. 29 September 2006</ref><ref>[http://www.og.ru/articles/2006/09/29/16830.shtml Российская дипломатия перешла в отступление]. og.ru. 29 September 2006</ref>

Ponomarenko also taught diplomacy and assisted in the creation of the National Jazz Orchestra in [[Minsk]].{{Citation needed|date=June 2008}}

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*''This article is based in part on material from the [[:pl:Pantelejmon Ponomarienko|Polish Wikipedia]]''
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