Tihon Konstantinov

Tihon Konstantinov
Konstantinov in 1938
Chairman of the Council of People's Commissars of the Moldavian SSR1
In office 2 August 1940 – 17 April 1945
Preceded by	formation of republic
Succeeded by	Nicolae Coval
Personal details
Born	(1898-08-13)13 August 1898 Khoroshoe, Yekaterinoslav Governorate, Russian Empire (now Khoroshe, Alchevsk Raion, Luhansk Oblast, Ukraine)
Died	20 January 1957(1957-01-20) (aged 58) Chișinău, Moldavian SSR, Soviet Union
Political party	Communist Party2
1.Piotr Borodin and Nikita Salogor were first secretaries of the Communist Party of Moldova.

Tihon Konstantinov (13 August 1898 – 20 January 1957) was a Moldavian SSR and Ukrainian SSR politician.

Biography

Konstantinov was born in the village Khoroshoe of Pavlograd uyezd, Yekaterinoslav Governorate. The village was located by the Samara river, while next to the village there was the estate Dobrenkoe.

In the 1938–1940, he was a chairman of the council in the Moldavian ASSR in Tiraspol and a people's deputy of the Verkhovna Rada of the Ukrainian SSR.

Tihon Konstantinov was the prime minister of Moldavian SSR (2 August 1940 – 17 April 1945) (in exile in Russian SFSR from June 1941 until August 1944). The exact name was Chairman of the Council of People's Commissars.

During his mandate as prime minister, Piotr Borodin and Nikita Salogor were first secretaries of the Communist Party of Moldova.

Awards

• Order of Lenin (February 7, 1939), for prominent successes in Agriculture and particularly for over-fulfillment of plans for major agricultural works.

References

• Enciclopedia sovietică moldovenească (Chişinău, 1970–1977)