Yuri Ponosov

Yuri Filimonovich Ponosov (Tajik/Russian: Юрий Филимонович Поносов; 24 March 1941 – 20 April 2024) was a Tajikistani of Russian descent who was a Soviet politician.

Yuri Ponosov
Юрий Поносов
First Deputy Prime Minister of Tajikistan
In office 28 March 1996 – 18 February 1998
President	Emomali Rahmon
Prime Minister	Yahyo Azimov
Mayor of Dushanbe
In office 1994–1996
Preceded by	Jamoliddin Mansurov
Succeeded by	Mahmadsaid Ubaydulloyev
Additional positions Head of the Department of Rosstroy In office 1998–2001 Minister of Construction of the Tajik Soviet Socialist Republic In office 1990–1992 First Deputy Chairman of the Dushanbe City Executive Committee In office 1988–1990 Second Secretary of the Gorno-Badakhshan Regional Committee of the Communist Party of Tajikistan In office 1985–1988 First Secretary of the Kulob City Committee of the Communist Party of Tajikistan In office 1983–1985 Second Secretary of the Ordzhonikidzeabad District Committee of the Communist Party of Tajikistan In office 1975–1982
Personal details
Born	Yuri Filimonovich Ponosov (1941-03-24)24 March 1941 Urulga, Karymsky District, Chita Oblast, Russian SFSR, USSR
Died	20 April 2024(2024-04-20) (aged 83) Moscow, Russia
Political party	PDP
Other political affiliations	CPSU (1967–1991) CPT (1967–1991)
Alma mater	Tashkent Institute of Railway Transport Engineers
Awards	Order of the Badge of Honour
Military service
Allegiance	Soviet Union Tajikistan
Branch/service	Soviet Army
Years of service	1963–1966

Early life and education

Ponosov was born to a working-class family in the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic in 1941. He graduated from a college in Chita in 1961 and later graduated from the Tashkent Institute of Railway Transport Engineers in the Uzbek SSR in 1974.

Career

From 1961 to 1962, Ponosov worked as a machine operator of a construction department in the Tajik SSR. He then became a mechanic of a house building plant in the Ordzhonikidzeabad District in the Tajik SSR. He served in the Soviet Ground Forces from 1963 to 1966. In 1966, he became the chief technologist of the same house building plant and was promoted to Deputy Director of the plant in 1972.

Ponosov joined the Communist Party of the Soviet Union in 1967. From 1973 to 1975, Ponosov served as the Deputy Chairman of the Ordzhonikidzeabad District Executive Committee. From 1975 to 1982, he served as the Second Secretary of the Ordzhonikidzeabad District Committee of the Communist Party of Tajikistan; the Tajik SSR branch of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. He served as the Head of the Department of Organization and Party Work for the Kulob City Committee of the Communist Party of Tajikistan. From 1983 to 1985, he served as the First Secretary of the Kulob City Committee of the Communist Party of Tajikistan. He served as the Second Secretary of the Gorno-Badakhshan Regional Committee of the Communist Party of Tajikistan from 1985 to 1988. He served as the First Deputy Chairman of the Dushanbe City Executive Committee from 1988 to 1990. He was also appointed to the post of Minister of Construction of the Tajik SSR in 1990. He retained his post of Minister of Construction after the dissolution of the Soviet Union although the ministry was dissolved by the Supreme Soviet of the Tajik SSR in 1992. Ponosov was the third mayor of Dushanbe and served from 1994 to 1996. He assumed the position of First Deputy Prime Minister of Tajikistan on 28 March 1996, but was relieved on 18 February 1998 and left for Moscow. He served as the Head of the Department of Rosstroy of Russia from 1998 to 2001.

Personal life and death

Ponosov lived in Russia from 1998. He died on 20 April 2024, at the age of 83.

Awards

• Order of the Badge of Honour

See also

• Politics of Tajikistan
• Politics of the Soviet Union