Jan Sierada
Jan Sierada | |
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President of the Rada of the Belarusian Democratic Republic | |
In office March 9, 1918 – May 19, 1918 | |
Preceded by | Inaugural |
Succeeded by | Jazep Losik |
Personal details | |
Born | Zadzvieji, Navahradak uyezd, Russian Empire | May 13, 1879
Died | after November 19, 1943 USSR, exact place unknown | (aged 64)
Political party | Belarusian Party of Socialist Federalists |
Alma mater | Warsaw University of Life Sciences |
Profession | Scientist, agricultural technologist |
Jan Sierada (Belarusian: Ян Серада, May 13, 1879 — after November 19, 1943) was a Belarusian statesman, pedagogist and writer, the first president of the Belarusian Democratic Republic.
Sierada was born in the village of Zadźvieji (now in Baranavichy Raion, Brest Region).
In 1905—1906 Sierada served in the Imperial Russian Army in Manchuria and was also mobilized during World War I.
He graduated from a veterinary school in Warsaw in 1903 and worked as a veterinarian in the Minsk Governorate in 1907—1911. At the same time he was a teacher at an agricultural college in Marjina Horka.
Jan Sierada was an active member of the Belarusian Socialist Assembly. In 1917 he was the chairman of the First All-Belarusian Congress. In 1918 he was elected president of the Belarusian Democratic Republic.
In the 1920s Sierada worked on different positions in the Agriculture Ministry of the Belarusian SSR, and was also a teacher at several colleges and published several works on agriculture.
On July 4, 1930 Sierada was arrested by the NKVD as part of the so-called Case of the Union of Liberation of Belarus. In April 1931 he was sentenced to 5 years of exile in Yaroslavl, Russia. After this, he was again sentenced in 1941 to 10 more years in the gulag. He was set free on November 19, 1943, from the gulag camp chain (Krasnoyarsk Krai) and his further fate is unknown.
He has been rehabilitated on his cases in 1988 and 1989.
Works
- Як трэба каваць коні. Мн., 1926;
- Вэтэрынарыя і зоагігіена. Кн. 1-2. Мн., 1927–1928;
- Пабудова сіласаў у калгасах і саўгасах. Мн., 1930.
Sources
- Маракоў Л.У. Рэпрэсаваныя літаратары, навукоўцы, работнікі асветы, грамадскія і культурныя дзеячы Беларусі, 1794-1991. Энц. даведнік. У 10 т. Т.2. —Мн:, 2003. ISBN 985-6374-04-9
- 1879 births
- 1943 deaths
- People from Baranavichy District
- People from Novogrudsky Uyezd
- Belarusian Socialist Assembly politicians
- Government ministers of Belarus
- Members of the Rada of the Belarusian Democratic Republic
- Warsaw Veterinary Institute alumni
- Belarusian people of World War I
- Russian military personnel of World War I
- Russian military personnel of the Russo-Japanese War
- Belarusian Agricultural Academy faculty
- Heads of state of unrecognized or largely unrecognized states
- Belarusian scientists
- Belarusian prisoners and detainees
- Nonpersons in the Eastern Bloc