Uladzimyer Prakulevich
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Uladzimyer Prakulevich was a Belarus
Belarus
Belarus , officially the Republic of Belarus, is a landlocked country in Eastern Europe, bordered clockwise by Russia to the northeast, Ukraine to the south, Poland to the west, and Lithuania and Latvia to the northwest. Its capital is Minsk; other major cities include Brest, Grodno , Gomel ,...

ian politician, writer and lawyer.

Education

He graduated from the University of Moscow in 1912. During his studies Prakulevich was member of the local Marxist movement and wrote for several Moscow Marxist journals.

Career

Since 1912 he worked at the governmental administration in Minsk
Minsk
- Ecological situation :The ecological situation is monitored by Republican Center of Radioactive and Environmental Control .During 2003–2008 the overall weight of contaminants increased from 186,000 to 247,400 tons. The change of gas as industrial fuel to mazut for financial reasons has worsened...

. With the begin of the World War I
World War I
World War I , which was predominantly called the World War or the Great War from its occurrence until 1939, and the First World War or World War I thereafter, was a major war centred in Europe that began on 28 July 1914 and lasted until 11 November 1918...

 Uladzimier Prakulevich was evacuated to Moscow. He returned to Minsk in July 1917.

In 1918 U. Prakulevich was elected head of the local court in Slutsk
Slutsk
Slutsk is a town in Belarus, located on the Sluch River south of Minsk. As of 2010 its population is of 61,400).-Geography:The town is situated in the south-west of its Voblast, not too far from from the city of Soligorsk.-History:...

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In 1921 U. Prakulevich was one of the leaders of the anti-bolshevik Slutsk defence action
Slutsk defence action
The Slutsk defence action or the Slutsk uprising was an unsuccessful armed attempt to defend the independence of Belarus in the region of the town of Slutsk.-Peace of Riga:...

. In 1921 he fled to Vilnia
Vilnius
Vilnius is the capital of Lithuania, and its largest city, with a population of 560,190 as of 2010. It is the seat of the Vilnius city municipality and of the Vilnius district municipality. It is also the capital of Vilnius County...

, West Belarus
West Belarus
West Belarus is the name used in reference to the territory of modern Belarus which belonged to the Second Polish Republic between 1919 and 1939. The area of West Belarus was annexed into the Belarusian Soviet Socialist Republic following staged elections soon after the Nazi-Soviet Invasion of...

, where he took the position of the foreign secretary of the Belarusian Socialist-Revolutionary Party
Socialist-Revolutionary Party
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. In 1922 he was expelled by the Polish authorities to the Republic of Lithuania, along with other 33 Belarusian political activists. Since August 1923 Prakulevich worked as State Secretary of the Belarusian Democratic Republic government in exile in Prague.

In May 1926 Prakulevich settled to the Belarusian Soviet Socialist Republic where he worked at the State Library of the BSSR and was secretary of the bibliographic commission of the Belarusian Culture Institute and the Belarusian Academy of Sciences.

Uladzimier Prakulevich was arrested by the GPU
State Political Directorate
The State Political Directorate was the secret police of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic and the Soviet Union from 1922 until 1934...

 on 19 July 1930 as part of the Case of the Union of Liberation of Belarus
Case of the Union of Liberation of Belarus
The Case of the Union of Liberation of Belarus was a political and criminal case initiated by the GPU of the Belarusian Soviet Republic against several Belarusian scientists and culture activists, which was a part of a wave of Soviet repressions in Belarus in 1929 - 1931...

 together with other Belarusian political and cultural activists in the BSSR. In April 1932 he was sentenced to 2 years of concentration camp in Perm
Perm
Perm is a city and the administrative center of Perm Krai, Russia, located on the banks of the Kama River, in the European part of Russia near the Ural Mountains. From 1940 to 1957 it was named Molotov ....

. He was again arrested in 1938 and killed by the NKVD
NKVD
The People's Commissariat for Internal Affairs was the public and secret police organization of the Soviet Union that directly executed the rule of power of the Soviets, including political repression, during the era of Joseph Stalin....

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