1937 mass execution of Belarusians

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In October 1937, there was a mass extermination of Belarusian writers, artists and statespeople by the Soviet Union occupying authorities. This event marked the peak of the Great Purge and repressions of Belarusians in the Soviet-controlled area of eastern Belarus.

More than 100 notable persons were executed, most of them on the night of the 29th–30 October 1937. Their innocence was later admitted by the Soviet Union after Joseph Stalin's death.

History[]

On 7 September 1937 Joseph Stalin signed a list of persons to be judged by a Soviet Military commission. The list was also signed by Vyacheslav Molotov, Lazar Kaganovich, Klim Voroshilov and Nikolay Yezhov. There were trials related to persons from the Belarusian SSR and these were given in a different list dated 15 September 1937 and signed by Stalin, Molotov and the senior state security official . The list of people from the Belarusian SSR sentenced to be executed included 103 persons, and six more persons who were sentenced to ten or more years in concentration camps.

The initial list was extended by the NKVD of the Belarusian SSR. People added to the list by the NKVD of Belarus are marked with an asterisk (*) in the list below. The executions took place in the Minsk internal NKVD prison (known as the Amerikanka). Journalist Leanid Marakoŭ alleged that between 3 March 1937 and 22 May 1938, over 100,000 people fell victims of repressions by the Soviet authorities.

List of executed persons[]

  2. , head of primary education department of the Communist Party of Byelorussia
  4. , lecturer and pedagogue
  5. , head of construction department at the Soviet of People's Commissars (government) of Belarus
  8. , senior official at the People's Commissariate for Education
  11. Jakaŭ Branštejn, literary critic
  12. , government official
  13. , journalist
  14. , people's commisar (minister) for education of Belarus
  17. Anatol Volny, artist
  20. Płaton Hałavač, writer
  22. , deputy education minister of Belarus
  27. , senior Communist Party official
  29. Anani Dziakaŭ, president of the Belarusian State University in 1934-1935
  31. Aleś Dudar, poet
  32. * , critic and writer
  35. , teacher
  36. , junior professor at Vitsebsk Veterinarian Institute
  37. , writer
  40. , agriculture journalist from Vitsebsk
  41. , statesman, Communist Party official
  42. , writer
  43. , Labour Union leader
  44. , senior official at the People's Commisariate for Light Industry of Belarus
  47. * , statesman, pedagogue
  48. , veterinarian
  51. , poet
  52. , head of copyright department at the Union of Writers of Belarus
  53. Moyshe Kulbak, Yiddish language writer
  54. , statesman, pedagogue, journalist
  55. , Communist Party official
  56. , senior agriculture official
  57. , literature critic
  58. , literature critic
  61. , justice minister of Belarus
  64. , poet
  65. , student
  66. , veterinarian, scientist
  67. , Communist Party of Byelorussia official
  68. , senior official at the People's Commisariate of Trade
  69. Valery Marakoŭ, poet
  70. , geography scientist
  72. , Communist Party of Byelorussia official
  77. , advisor at the government of Belarus
  79. , factory director, ministry official
  80. , poet
  81. , veterinarian
  87. , transport and utilities adviser at the government of Belarus
  88. , poet
  91. , agriculture chemistry scientist
  96. , writer, social activist
  98. , university professor
  100. , university professor
  101. , government official
  103. , government official
  105. , writer
  106. , sovkhoz director
  108. , official at the education ministry
  109. , biologist
  111. , poet
  114. , People's Commissar for sovkhozy of Belarus
  115. , physicist
  119. , government official
  121. , poet
  122. , literature critic
  123. , education minister
  125. Michaś Čarot, poet
  127. , literature critic
  129. , journalist
  130. , Yiddish language poet
  132. , official at the Dniapro-Dzvina river steamboats navigation in Homel

References[]

Sources[]

  • Маракоў Л. Ахвяры і карнікі. Мн.: Зміцер Колас, 2007 г. ISBN 978-985-6783-38-1
  • «Так погибали поэты»/Выбраныя творы. Мн.: Кнігазбор, 2007 г. ISBN 985-6824-59-1

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