Pavel Prokkonen
Pavel Stepanovich Prokkonen, born Prokofiev, was a Karelian Soviet politician. He was appointed as the Chairman of the Council of the People's Commissars of the Soviet Socialist Republic">Soviet Union">Soviet Socialist Republic and Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the Karelo-Finnish Soviet Socialist Republic . Prokkonen was also the Minister of Karelian Affairs for the Finnish Democratic Republic during the Winter War in 1940
After the Karelo-Finnish SSR was incorporated into the Russian Soviet [Federative Socialist Republic|Russian SFSR] as the Karelian Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic in 1956, Prokkonen was the Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the Karelian Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic.