Nikolay Avkhimovich

Nikolai Yefremovich Avkhimovich (, ; 14 January 1907 – 12 September 1996) was a Soviet and Belarusian politician. He served as the Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the Byelorussian Soviet Socialist Republic from 28 July 1956 to April 1959. In 1922 he started working as an assistant driver of the military's autosanitary detachment No. 16 in Smolensk. Just a few months later, in July, he became the assistant driver of the military's cargo detachment No. 7, which was located in Minsk and Gomel. In 1924 he switched jobs to a laborer at a sawmill called R. Luxemburg in Barysaw, which he did until 1926. After four years he left those positions and in 1930 he became head the organizational department of the Lepel District Consumer Society, but in September he also left this position.

In 1942, he helped create the Belarusian Special Army as part of the Belarusian resistance during World War II, sending Panteleimon Ponomarenko lists of generals and senior officers of the Red Army to be selected for the army.

Death Avkhimovich died on 12 September 1996 in Minsk.