The last Soviet trade minister, formed in consumer cooperatives
In 1987, he reported declining sugar reserves to the government, putting figures to the consumer crisis.
Kondrat Terekh was a Soviet economic administrator whose career began in consumer cooperatives and reached the management of all-Union consumer distribution. Experience in Belarusian cooperatives and republican government brought him to the post of Minister of Trade during late perestroika. His government reporting on the sugar shortage in 1987 recorded how tensions between production and distribution appeared as an everyday consumer crisis.
Career Timeline
- 1952–1954Senior accountant in a rural consumer cooperative
- 1954–1958Served in the Soviet Navy
- 1959–1963Director of Vileyka city food trade
- 1967–1977Minsk regional trade chief and First Deputy Chairman of Belkoopsoyuz
- 1977–1984Chairman of Belkoopsoyuz
- 1984–1986Deputy Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the Byelorussian SSR
- 1986–1991Minister of Trade of the USSR
- 1992–President of a foreign-economic association