Anani Dziakaŭ (October 1, 1896 – October 29, 1937) was a Belarusian

teacher A teacher, also called a schoolteacher or formally an educator, is a person who helps students to acquire knowledge, competence, or virtue, via the practice of teaching. ''Informally'' the role of teacher may be taken on by anyone (e.g. whe ...

. He was the fourth president of the

Belarusian State University Belarusian State University (BSU) ( be, links=no, Белару́скі дзяржа́ўны ўніверсітэ́т, ; russian: links=no, Белору́сский госуда́рственный университе́т) is a university in Mins ...

from 1934-1935. During the

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 killed in the

1937 mass execution of Belarusians 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 Soviet repressions in Belarus, repressions of Belarusians i ...

Biography

He came from a peasant family. He graduated from elementary school. He participated in

World War I World War I (28 July 1914 11 November 1918), often abbreviated as WWI, was one of the deadliest global conflicts in history. Belligerents included much of Europe, the Russian Empire, the United States, and the Ottoman Empire, with fightin ...

. For bravery in battle he received the rank of officer. In 1918 he joined the CPSU (b) and headed the Vyazemsky Land Department. In 1919-1923 he served in the Red Army as a company commander. In 1923 he became Deputy Chairman of the

Mstsislaw District Mstsislaw District ( be, Мсціслаўскі раён, russian: Мстиславский район, Mstislavsky raion) is a raion (district) in Mogilev Region, Belarus, the administrative center is the town of Mstsislaw. As of 2009, its populat ...

Executive Committee. In 1924 he was appointed deputy chairman (later chairman) of the

Mogilev Mogilev (russian: Могилёв, Mogilyov, ; yi, מאָלעוו, Molev, ) or Mahilyow ( be, Магілёў, Mahilioŭ, ) is a city in eastern Belarus, on the Dnieper River, about from the border with Russia's Smolensk Oblast and from the bor ...

district executive committee. In July 1928 he was sent to study at the Industrial Academy in

Moscow Moscow ( , US chiefly ; rus, links=no, Москва, r=Moskva, p=mɐskˈva, a=Москва.ogg) is the capital and largest city of Russia. The city stands on the Moskva River in Central Russia, with a population estimated at 13.0 million ...

, but did not have to study, as he was appointed deputy chairman (later chairman) of the

Vitebsk Vitebsk or Viciebsk (russian: Витебск, ; be, Ві́цебск, ; , ''Vitebsk'', lt, Vitebskas, pl, Witebsk), is a city in Belarus. The capital of the Vitebsk Region, it has 366,299 inhabitants, making it the country's fourth-largest ci ...

executive committee. In 1930-1934 he studied in Moscow at the Institute of the Red Professorship. From February 1934 - Deputy Rector, Rector of the Belarusian State University. From the autumn of 1935 he was the head of the CEC department of the

Belarusian Soviet Socialist Republic The Byelorussian Soviet Socialist Republic (BSSR, or Byelorussian SSR; be, Беларуская Савецкая Сацыялістычная Рэспубліка, Bielaruskaja Savieckaja Sacyjalistyčnaja Respublika; russian: Белор� ...

. In July 1936 he was appointed People's Commissar of Education of the BSSR. He was arrested on May 11, 1937 in

Minsk Minsk ( be, Мінск ; russian: Минск) is the capital and the largest city of Belarus, located on the Svislach and the now subterranean Niamiha rivers. As the capital, Minsk has a special administrative status in Belarus and is the admi ...

. He was convicted on October 28, 1937 as "a pest in the field of public education" and a "member of a national-fascist organization that carried out malicious work in the field of public education". That body sentenced him to death with confiscation of his property. He was shot on October 29, 1937 in the NKVD internal prison in Minsk during a mass shooting. He was rehabilitated by the military board of the Supreme Court of the USSR on April 3, 1957 due to the absence of a crime. The personal file of D. № 10175-c is kept in the archives of the KGB of Belarus. He was married and raised two children. On September 22, 1937, his wife Dyakova Maria Ivanovna was arrested in Minsk. On November 28, 1937, she was sentenced by a special decree of the NKVD as "the wife of a traitor to the motherland" to eight years in the camps. She served her sentence in the

Kazakh Soviet Socialist Republic ; kk, Қазақ Советтік Социалистік Республикасы) *1991: Republic of Kazakhstan (russian: Республика Казахстан; kk, Қазақстан Республикасы) , linking_name = the ...

. She was released on September 22, 1945; her further fate is unknown. She was rehabilitated on June 8, 1956.

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