Kałłaur family
The Kałłа́ur family (; ) was a szlachta family originating from the Grand Duchy of Lithuania and was a noble family in the Russian Empire after the Partitions of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth. History. The earliest written mention was dedicated to boyar Chviedzka Kałaur who concluded a contract of sale in the first half of the 16th c. The members of family took part in the Army census of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania in 1567. Prońka Kałaur, an officer of the court in Pinsk, and Ivan Kałaur were numbered among the cavalry. Piotr Kałłaur was elected as a noble  deputy from the uyezd of Pinsk in 1853. The members of family actively supported the January Uprising in 1863–1864. The monument in honor of the rebels Vasil Kałłaur, Siamion Kałłaur and Anton Šałamicky was opened in Šałomičy near Pinsk in 1933. Some members of the family were subjected to repression in 1940-1950s. According to the open lists, 7 people were persecuted in Pinsk Region of Byelorussian SSR.