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(Redirected from Janka Sierada) First president of the Rada of the Belarusian Democratic Republic

In this name that follows Eastern Slavic naming customs, the patronymic is Mikitavič and the family name is Sierada.
Jan Sierada
Ян Серада
Sierada in 1918
Chairman of the People's Secretariat of the Belarusian Democratic Republic
In office
22 July 1918 – 11 November 1918Serving with Raman Skirmunt
Preceded byJazep Varonka
Succeeded byAnton Luckievich
President of the Rada of the Belarusian Democratic Republic
In office
9 March 1918 – 14 May 1918
Preceded byPosition established
Succeeded byJazep Losik
Personal details
BornIvan Mikitavič Sierada
(1879-05-13)13 May 1879
Zadzvieja [be], Minsk Governorate, Russian Empire (now Belarus)
Diedafter 19 November 1943(1943-11-19) (aged 64)
Soviet Union
Political partyBelarusian Socialist Assembly
Alma materWarsaw University of Life Sciences
ProfessionScientist, agricultural technologist
Military service
Allegiance Russia
Branch/serviceImperial Russian Army
Years of service1905–1906
1914–1918
Battles/wars

Ivan Mikitavič Sierada (13 May [O.S. 1 May] 1879 – after 19 November 1943), better known by the pseudonyms of Jan or Janka was a Belarusian statesman, pedagogist and writer who served as the first president of the Rada of the Belarusian Democratic Republic.

Biography

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Ivan Mikitavič Sierada was born in the village of Zadzvieja [be] in Minsk Governorate of the Russian Empire (now in Brest Region, Belarus).

From 1905 to 1906, Sierada served in the Imperial Russian Army in Manchuria during the Russo-Japanese War, 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 elected the chairman of the First All-Belarusian Congress. In 1918, he was elected president of the short-lived Belarusian Democratic Republic. In February 1918, he was a member of the Belarusian delegation (together with Simon Rak-Mikhailovsky and Alaksandar Ćvikievič) at the peace talks in Brest-Litovsk.

In the 1920s, Sierada worked on different positions in the Agriculture Ministry of the Byelorussian Soviet Socialist Republic, and was also a teacher at several colleges and published several works on agriculture.

On 4 July 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, in the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic. After this, he was again sentenced in 1941 to 10 more years in the Gulag. He was set free, on 19 November 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

  • Yak treba kavats horses. Mn., 1926.
  • Veterinary and zoohygiene. Book. 1-2. Mn., 1927-1928.
  • Pabudov's strength in Kalgas and Saugas. Mn., 1930.

Notes

  1. Belarusian: Іван Мікітавіч Серада
  2. Belarusian: Ян
  3. Belarusian: Янка

References

  • 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
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