On September 19, at the age of sixty-two, the Chairman of the Vitebsk Regional Council of Deputies, Alexander Egorovich Atyasov, passed away suddenly.

On September 19, 2015, at the age of sixty-two, the Chairman of the Vitebsk Regional Council of Deputies, Alexander Egorovich Atyasov, passed away suddenly.

The farewell ceremony for A.E. Atyasov will take place on September 21, 2015, from 10:00 to 12:00 at the State Concert Institution "Vitebsk Regional Philharmonic" (Vitebsk, Lenin Square, 69).

The biography of Alexander Egorovich is inextricably linked with the Vitebsk region. He was born on April 26, 1954, in the regional center. He began his working life in 1971 as a worker at the second city food trade organization. From 1972 to 1974, he served in the ranks of the Soviet Army.

After graduating from the Vitebsk Technological Institute of Light Industry in 1980, he worked at the Vitebsk Hosiery and Knitwear Combine named after K.I.M. in the positions of foreman, deputy head of the workshop, and deputy secretary of the party committee. Then, for two years (1983-1985), he headed the party organization of the carpet production association named after the 50th anniversary of the BSSR.

The further work biography of A.E. Atyasov was connected with work in state Soviet and party bodies – instructor of the light industry and consumer goods department of the Vitebsk Regional Committee of the Communist Party of Belarus, head of the organizational and party work department of the Vitebsk Railway District Committee of the Communist Party of Belarus, deputy chairman of the executive committee of the Vitebsk Railway District Soviet of Deputies, first secretary of the Vitebsk Railway District Committee of the Communist Party of Belarus, deputy head, head of the production department of local industry of the regional executive committee.

Since 1999, Alexander Egorovich was elected four convocations as chairman of the regional Council of Deputies. During this period, with his active participation, a positive dynamic of development of the main sectors of the region's economy was ensured.

A.E. Atyasov paid great attention to the activities of local authorities in bringing order to the land, developing new forms and methods of working with the population, creating mechanized teams, and centers for supporting personal subsidiary farms.

A.E. Atyasov's many years of diligent work have been recognized with the medal "For Labor Merits", the gratitude of the President of the Republic of Belarus, jubilee medals, awards of the Russian Orthodox Church, and honorary diplomas of the Council of Ministers of the Republic of Belarus and the National Assembly of the Republic of Belarus.