Nikolai Ilyich Belyaev (Russian: Никола́й Ильи́ч Беля́ев; 19 January (1 February) 1903 – 28 October 1966) was a Soviet politician.
[1] Belyaev was born in the village Kuterem of Ufa Governorate in Siberia in a family of a Russian peasant.
In 1925 he graduated from the Plekhanov Russian University of Economics in Moscow and returned to Siberia where he served as a Communist Party functionary for the next 30 years.
As a result, in 1955 Belyaev became one of the secretaries of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.
According to Gorbachev, after the demotion Belyaev lost all enthusiasm; he retired from active duties in 1960 and died in October 28, 1966.