Vyacheslav Frantsevich Kebich[a] (10 June 1936[1] – 9 December 2020[2][3]) was a Belarusian politician and the first Prime Minister of Belarus from 1991 to 1994.

Kebich was born on 10 June 1936, in the village of Konyushevshchina (present-day Minsk region of Belarus).

[5] Kebich was the first Prime Minister of Belarus, serving from 1991 until 1994, having held the equivalent office of the Byelorussian SSR since 1990.

'[6] Kebich was one of the drafters and signees of the Belavezha Accords that effectively ended the Soviet Union and founded the Commonwealth of Independent States.

He was also one of two candidates in the final running for President of Belarus in 1994 but lost to leader Alexander Lukashenko by a wide margin.