Alexander Grigoryevich Chervyakov (Aliaksandr Charviakou, be, Аляксандр Рыгоравіч Чарвякоў, ''Aliaksandr Ryhoravič Čarviakoŭ'' russian: Александр Григорьевич Червяков, ''Aleksandr Grigor'evič Červjakov''; 25 February 1892 — 16 June 1937) was a

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Politician and revolutionary and one of the founders of the Communist Party of Byelorussia, who eventually became the leader of the

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. 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

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. 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. Čarviakoŭ, Zviazda

Born at Dukorki in 1892, he joined the

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Party in May 1917 and began to gain power quickly. He was appointed chairman of the

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in 1920, and because of that position, was involved in the creation of the

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. He was elected as one of the first four Chairmen of the Central Executive Committee of the USSR on 30 December 1922 when the

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was formed. He held that position until he was accused of “anti-Soviet activities” and committed suicide on 16 June 1937 in order to avoid Stalin's

Great Purge The Great Purge or the Great Terror (russian: Большой террор), also known as the Year of '37 (russian: 37-й год, translit=Tridtsat sedmoi god, label=none) and the Yezhovshchina ('period of Nikolay Yezhov, Yezhov'), was General ...

. He was posthumously exonerated during the

Khrushchev Thaw The Khrushchev Thaw ( rus, хрущёвская о́ттепель, r=khrushchovskaya ottepel, p=xrʊˈɕːɵfskəjə ˈotʲ:ɪpʲɪlʲ or simply ''ottepel'')William Taubman, Khrushchev: The Man and His Era, London: Free Press, 2004 is the period ...

in 1957.">Маракоў, Леанід. "Рэпрэсаваныя лiтаратары, навукоўцы, работнiкi асветы, грамадскiя i культурныя дзеячы Беларусi. 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] (in Belarusian)

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