Myechyslaw Hryb

In this name that follows Eastern Slavic naming customs, the patronymic is Ivanavich and the family name is Hryb.

Myechyslaw Hryb
Мечыслаў Грыб (Belarusian) Мечислав Гриб (Russian)
Hryb in 2015
Chairman of the Supreme Council Of Belarus (acting)
In office 28 January 1994 – 10 January 1996
Prime Minister	Vyacheslav Kebich Mikhail Chigir
Preceded by	Stanislav Shushkevich Vyacheslav Kuznetsov (acting)
Succeeded by	Alexander Lukashenko (as head of state) Anatoly Malofeyev (as Speaker of Parliament)
Personal details
Born	Myechyslaw Ivanavich Hryb (1938-09-25) 25 September 1938 Sawicze, Second Polish Republic
Political party	Belarusian Social Democratic Party (Assembly)
Ethnicity	Belarusian
Military service
Branch/service	Militsiya (Belarus)
Years of service	1959-1994
Rank	Lieutenant General

Myechyslaw Ivanavich Hryb (born 25 September 1938) is a Belarusian politician who was the eleventh Chairman of the Supreme Soviet of Belarus from 28 January 1994 to 10 January 1996. In his capacity as the head of state, Hryb adopted the first Constitution of Belarus. He succeeded Stanislav Shushkevich and was head of state from 28 January to 20 July 1994 until Alexander Lukashenko replaced him in the new office called President of Belarus, which became the new head of state office. He continued as a parliamentary speaker. Hryb is now a politician in the opposition and a member of the Social-Democratic Party.

Early life and police career

Myechyslaw Hryb was born on September 25, 1938 in the village of Sawicze, then part of the Second Polish Republic (now the Dyatlovsky District of the Grodno Oblast). In 1959 he graduated from the Lviv State University of Life Safety, and served as a police inspector of the Internal Affairs Department of the Plissky District Executive Committee of the Vitebsk Region. From 1962-1981, he served in various law enforcement positions in Vitebsk. In 1967, he graduated from the Faculty of Law of the Belarusian State University.

In 1981, he was made Head of the Public Order Protection Department of the MVD of the BSSR. Four years later, in 1985, he was promoted to Head of the Department of Internal Affairs of the Vitebsk Regional Executive Committee. Immediately after his appointment, he headed the investigation of the so-called "Vitebsk Case" on the serial killer and rapist Gennady Mikhasevich.

In opposition

In October 2020, Hryb was appointed by opposition leader Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya to a Public Constitutional Commission as its Chairman, tasked with proposing democratic reforms to the Constitution of Belarus. This opposition panel is not recognized by the government of Alexander Lukashenko.