Tihon Konstantinov
Тихон Константинов
Konstantinov in 1938
1st Chairman of the Council of People's Commissars of the Moldavian SSR
In office 2 August 1940 – 17 April 1945
Succeeded by	Nicolae Coval
Personal details
Born	(1898-08-13)13 August 1898 Khoroshoye, Yekaterinoslav Governorate, Russian Empire (now Khoroshe, Alchevsk Raion, Luhansk Oblast, Ukraine)
Died	20 January 1957(1957-01-20) (aged 58) Chișinău, Moldavian SSR, Soviet Union
Nationality	Moldovan[citation needed]
Political party	Communist Party2
1.Piotr Borodin and Nikita Salogor were first secretaries of the Communist Party of Moldova.

Tihon Konstantinov (Ukrainian: Тихон Антонович Константинов, romanized: Tykhon Antonovych Konstantynov; 13 August 1898 – 20 January 1957)^[1] was a Moldavian SSR and Ukrainian SSR politician.

Konstantinov was born in the village Khoroshe of Pavlograd uyezd,^[2] Yekaterinoslav Governorate (now in Luhansk Oblast, Ukraine). The village was located by the Samara river, while next to the village there was the estate Dobrenkoe.

In the 1938–1940, he was a chairman of the council in the Moldavian ASSR in Tiraspol and a people's deputy of the Verkhovna Rada of the Ukrainian SSR.

Tihon Konstantinov was the prime minister of Moldavian SSR (2 August 1940 – 17 April 1945) (in exile in Russian SFSR from June 1941 until August 1944). The exact name was Chairman of the Council of People's Commissars.

During his mandate as prime minister, Piotr Borodin and Nikita Salogor were first secretaries of the Communist Party of Moldova.

• Order of Lenin (February 7, 1939), for prominent successes in Agriculture and particularly for over-fulfillment of plans for major agricultural works.^[3]

• Enciclopedia sovietică moldovenească (Chişinău, 1970–1977)^{[page needed]}