Jan Sierada

President of the Rada of the Belarusian Democratic Republic

13 May 1879 Zadzvieji, Navahradak uyezd, Russian Empire

after 19 November 1943(1943-11-19) (64) USSR, exact place unknown

9 March 1918 – 19 May 1918

Jan (Ivan Nikitivich) Sierada (Belarusian: Ян Серада , 13 May 1879 — after 19 November 1943) was a Belarusian statesman, pedagogist and writer, the first president of the Belarusian Democratic Republic. Biography Sierada was born in the village of Zadźvieji, then Novogrudsky Uyezd of the Russian Empire but 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 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 Alyaksandr Tsvikievich at the peace talks in Brest-Litovsk. 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 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, Russia. 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 Як трэба каваць коні. Мн., 1926; Вэтэрынарыя і зоагігіена. Кн. 1-2. Мн., 1927–1928; Пабудова сіласаў у калгасах і саўгасах. Мн., 1930. Sources Wikimedia Commons has media related to Ivan Syerada . 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 vteLeaders of Belarus since 1918Belarusian People's Republic (1918–1919) Sierada Losik* Krečeŭski Belarus portal First Secretary of the Communist Party of the Byelorussian SSR (1919–1991) Knorin Osatkin-Vladimirsky Krinitsky Goloded Knorin Gamarnik Gey Gikalo Sharangovich Yakovlev* Volkov Ponomarenko Gusarov Patolichev Mazurov Masherov Kiselyov Slyunkov Sokolov Malofeyev Chairman of the Supreme Council of Belarus (1991–1994) Shushkevich Kuznetsov* Hryb / President of Belarus (since 1994) Lukashenko Tsikhanouskaya† * acting † contested vtePrime ministers of BelarusBelarusian National Republic (1918–1919) Varonka Skirmunt Sierada Luckievich Lastouski Tsvikievich Zakharka Abramchyk Belarus portal Byelorussian SSR (1919–1991) Chervyakov Adamovich Goloded Volkovich Kovalyov Kiselyov Bylinsky Ponomarenko Kleshchev Mazurov Avkhimovich Kiselyov Aksyonov Brovikov Kovalyov KebichRepublic of Belarus (1991–present) Kebich Chyhir Ling Yermoshin Novitsky Sidorsky Myasnikovich Kobyakov Rumas Golovchenko Authority control Integrated Authority File (Germany) VIAF 1 WorldCat (via VIAF)