Dmitri Zakharovich Protopopov (Russian: Дмитрий Захарович Протопопов; 4 October 1897 – 3 March 1986)[1] was First Secretary of the Communist Party of Tajikistan from April 1938 to August 1946. He was a member of the Communist Party since 1917.[2] He was twice awarded the Order of Lenin.[2][3] He was an ethnic Russian, born in Kostyonki, Voronezh Oblast, Russian Empire.
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