Pyotr Andreievitch Abrasimov (Belarusian: Пё́тр Андрэ́евіч Абра́сімаў, Russian: Пётр Андреевич Абрасимов; 1912–2009) was a Soviet war hero and politician who became a career diplomat.

The village's economic importance had been much enhanced when the local land-owner agreed to the erection of a station along the new railway line, which had opened in 1902, linking Vitebsk, Žlobin and Orsha to the rapidly expanding rail network of the Russian Empire (which included Belarus).

In this position he worked directly under Alexei Kosygin and was able to preside over a period of strong economic recovery for Belarus, with the establishment of tractor and automobile plants as well as the creation of major agricultural enterprises.

[3] In 1961, to the surprise of many in the Soviet Foreign Ministry, Abrasimov was recalled from Warsaw and appointed as First Secretary of the party committee in the then relatively underdeveloped Smolensk region.

[4] On 12 May 1971 the Warsaw Pact War Council convened in East Berlin, followed by a larger than usual series of summer military exercises by the alliance member states.

[3] In 1975 he was sent back to Berlin where he served a second stint as Soviet ambassador to the German Democratic Republic, remaining in post this time till 1983.

[4] From the East German perspective The Wall represented a necessary desperate attempt to save the state which appeared to be in the process of losing its entire working age population.

During the 1980s Abrasimov's growing propensity to meet regularly with western ambassadors to Berlin without reference to his East German host government did not help matters.

In 1983 he was seen to be becoming ever more paternalistic and autocratic in his ambassadorial office, and following the death of Leonid Brezhnev at the end of 1982, Honecker managed to persuade Moscow to replace Abrasimov because of the extent of his "interference in East German domestic politics".

[1] During his time in East Germany, Abrasimov attended as a speaker at the commemoration ceremonies marking the liberation of the Sachsenhausen concentration camp at the National Memorial Site north of Berlin.