Anani Dziakaŭ
Anani Dziakaŭ (October 1, 1896 - October 29, 1937) was a Belarusian teacher. He was the 4th president of the Belarusian State University from 1934-1935. During the Great Purge, he was killed in the 1937 mass execution of Belarusians. Biography. He came from a peasant family. He graduated from elementary school. He participated in World War I. For bravery in battle he received the rank of officer. In 1918 he joined the CPSU (b), headed the Vyazemsky Land Department. In 1919-1923 he served in the Red Army (company commander). Since 1923 - Deputy Chairman of the Amstislav County  Executive Committee. In 1924 he was appointed deputy chairman (later chairman) of the Mogilev district executive committee. In July 1928 he was sent to study at the Industrial Academy in Moscow, but did not have to study - he was appointed deputy chairman (later chairman) of the Vitebsk executive committee. In 1930-1934 he studied in Moscow at the Institute of the Red Professorship. From February 1934 - Deputy Rector, Rector of BSU. He was married and had two children. From the autumn of 1935 he was the head of the CEC department of the Belarusian Soviet Socialist Republic. In July 1936  he was appointed People's Commissar of Education of the BSSR. He was arrested on May 11, 1937 in Minsk at the address: St. Gorkaga, 21/52, apt. 24. Convicted by an extrajudicial body of the NKVD on October 28, 1937 as a "member of a national-fascist organization that carried out malicious work in the field of public education" to the death penalty with confiscation of property. He was shot on October 29, 1937 in the NKVD internal prison in Minsk during a mass shooting. Rehabilitated by the military board of the Supreme Court of the USSR on April 3 , 1957. The personal file of D. № 10175-c is kept in the archives of the KGB of Belarus.