Alexander Chervyakov Explained

Office:	Chairman of the Council of People's Commissars of the Byelorussian SSR
Term Start:	18 December 1920
Term End:	17 March 1924
Predecessor:	Position established
Successor:	Iosif Adamovich
Birth Date:	25 February 1892
Party:	Russian Communist Party (1917–1937)
Office1:	Chairman of the Central Executive Committee of the Byelorussian SSR
Termend1:	16 June 1937
Termstart1:	30 December 1924
Predecessor1:	Position established
Successor1:	Mikhail Stakun
Otherparty:	Communist Party of Byelorussia
Birth Place:	Dukora, Igumensky Uyezd, Minsk Governorate, Russian Empire
Death Place:	Minsk, Byelorussian Soviet Socialist Republic, Soviet Union
Alexander Chervyakov
Resting Place:	Military Cemetery
Native Name Lang:	by

Alexander Grigoryevich Chervyakov (Aliaksandr Charviakou, Belarusian: Аляксандр Рыгоравіч Чарвякоў, Aliaksandr Ryhoravič Čarviakoŭ Russian: Александр Григорьевич Червяков, Aleksandr Grigor'evič Červjakov; 25 February 1892 — 16 June 1937) was a Soviet Politician and revolutionary and one of the founders of the Communist Party of Byelorussia, who eventually became the leader of the Byelorussian Soviet Socialist Republic. Chervyakov became the first chairman of the Belarusian Sovnarkom and in 1918 was appointed as a narkom of Belnatskom (Belarusian Nationality Committee) that was established in the Russian Narkomnat on Nationalities headed by Joseph Stalin.

He is considered an “engine” of the policy of Belarusisation in the 1920s, working to establish a Belarusian national university, preserve cultural artefacts and protect historical monuments. ^[1]

External links

http://www.archontology.org/nations/ussr/ussr_state/chervyakov.php Biography

Notes and References

http://www.marakou.by/by/davedniki/represavanyya-litaratary/tom-ii/index_19875.html Маракоў, Леанід. "Рэпрэсаваныя літаратары, навукоўцы, работнікі асветы, грамадскія і культурныя дзеячы Беларусі. 1794-1991: Аляксандар Чарвякоў" [Repressed writers, scientists, educators, public and cultural figures of Belarus. 1794-1991: Aliaksandar Čarviakoǔ, by Leanid Marakou<nowiki>]. www.marakou.by
https://docs.rferl.org/be-BY/2020/11/07/96247f72-a7e0-4382-ad1c-ec68459cf6b7.pdf Арлоў, Уладзімер (2020). ІМЁНЫ СВАБОДЫ (Бібліятэка Свабоды. ХХІ стагодзьдзе.). https://docs.rferl.org/be-BY/2020/11/07/96247f72-a7e0-4382-ad1c-ec68459cf6b7.pdf|Uładzimir Arłou. The Names of Freedom (The Library of Freedom. ХХІ century.)] (PDF) (in Belarusian) (4-е выд., дап. ed.). Радыё Свабодная Эўропа / Радыё Свабода - Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty.] pp. 148-149 Born at Dukorki in 1892, he joined the Bolshevik Party in May 1917 and began to gain power quickly. He was appointed chairman of the Military Revolutionary Committee of Minsk in 1920, and because of that position, was involved in the creation of the Soviet Union. He was elected as one of the first four Chairmen of the Central Executive Committee of the USSR on 30 December 1922 when the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics was formed. He held that position until he was accused of “anti-Soviet activities” and killed himself on 16 June 1937 in order to avoid Stalin's Great Purge. He was posthumously exonerated during the Khrushchev Thaw in 1957.^[1]