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Jan Sierada
Ян Серада
Sierada in 1918
Chairman of the People's Secretariat of the Belarusian Democratic Republic
In office 22 July 1918 – 11 November 1918Serving with Raman Skirmunt
Preceded by	Jazep Varonka
Succeeded by	Anton Luckievich
President of the Rada of the Belarusian Democratic Republic
In office 9 March 1918 – 14 May 1918
Preceded by	Position established
Succeeded by	Jazep Losik
Personal details
Born	Ivan Mikitavič Sierada (1879-05-13)13 May 1879 Zadzvieja [be], Minsk Governorate, Russian Empire (now Belarus)
Died	after 19 November 1943(1943-11-19) (aged 64) Soviet Union
Political party	Belarusian Socialist Assembly
Alma mater	Warsaw University of Life Sciences
Profession	Scientist, agricultural technologist
Military service
Allegiance	Russia
Branch/service	Imperial Russian Army
Years of service	1905–1906 1914–1918
Battles/wars	Russo-Japanese War World War I

Ivan Mikitavič Sierada (13 May [O.S. 1 May] 1879 – after 19 November 1943), better known by the pseudonyms of Jan or Janka was a Belarusian statesman, pedagogist and writer who served as the first president of the Rada of the Belarusian Democratic Republic.

Biography

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Ivan Mikitavič Sierada was born in the village of Zadzvieja [be] in Minsk Governorate of the Russian Empire (now in Brest Region, Belarus).

From 1905 to 1906, Sierada served in the Imperial Russian Army in Manchuria during the Russo-Japanese War, and was also mobilized during World War I.

He graduated from a veterinary school in Warsaw in 1903 and worked as a veterinarian in the Minsk Governorate in 1907–1911. At the same time he was a teacher at an agricultural college in Marjina Horka.

Jan Sierada was an active member of the Belarusian Socialist Assembly. In 1917, he was elected the chairman of the First All-Belarusian Congress. In 1918, he was elected president of the short-lived Belarusian Democratic Republic. In February 1918, he was a member of the Belarusian delegation (together with Simon Rak-Mikhailovsky and Alaksandar Ćvikievič) at the peace talks in Brest-Litovsk.

In the 1920s, Sierada worked on different positions in the Agriculture Ministry of the Byelorussian Soviet Socialist Republic, and was also a teacher at several colleges and published several works on agriculture.

On 4 July 1930, Sierada was arrested by the NKVD as part of the so-called Case of the Union of Liberation of Belarus. In April 1931, he was sentenced to 5 years of exile in Yaroslavl, in the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic. After this, he was again sentenced in 1941 to 10 more years in the Gulag. He was set free, on 19 November 1943, from the gulag camp chain (Krasnoyarsk Krai) and his further fate is unknown.

He has been rehabilitated on his cases in 1988 and 1989.

Works

• Yak treba kavats horses. Mn., 1926.
• Veterinary and zoohygiene. Book. 1-2. Mn., 1927-1928.
• Pabudov's strength in Kalgas and Saugas. Mn., 1930.

Notes

1. Belarusian: Іван Мікітавіч Серада
2. Belarusian: Ян
3. Belarusian: Янка

References

• Маракоў Л.У. Рэпрэсаваныя літаратары, навукоўцы, работнікі асветы, грамадскія і культурныя дзеячы Беларусі, 1794-1991. Энц. даведнік. У 10 т. Т.2. —Мн:, 2003. ISBN 985-6374-04-9

v t e Political office-holders in Belarus since 1918
	Belarusian People's Republic (1918–1919) Sierada Losik* Krečeŭski
	First Secretary of the Communist Party of the Byelorussian SSR (1919–1991) Knorin Osatkin-Vladimirsky Krinitsky Goloded Knorin Gamarnik Gey Gikalo Sharangovich Yakovlev* Volkov Ponomarenko Gusarov Patolichev Mazurov Masherov Kiselyov Slyunkov Sokolov Malofeyev
	Chairman of the Supreme Council of Belarus (1991–1994) Shushkevich Kuznetsov* Hryb
/	President of Belarus (since 1994) Lukashenko (since 1994; disputed since 2020) Tsikhanouskaya (disputed since 2020)
* acting † contested

v t e Prime ministers of Belarus
Belarusian National Republic (1918–1919)	Yazep Varonka Raman Skirmunt Jan Syerada Anton Lutskyevich Vatslaw Lastowski Alyaksandr Tsvikyevich Vasil Zakharka Mikola Abramchyk	Belarus portal
Byelorussian SSR (1919–1991)	Alexander Chervyakov Iosif Adamovich Nikolay Goloded Daniil Volkovich Afanasy Kovalyov Kuzma Kiselyov Ivan Bylinsky Panteleimon Ponomarenko Aleksey Kleshchev Kirill Mazurov Nikolai Avkhimovich Tikhon Kiselyov Aleksandr Aksyonov Vladimir Brovikov Mikhail Kovalyov Vyacheslav Kebich
Republic of Belarus (1991–present)	Vyacheslav Kebich Mikhail Chigir Sergey Ling Vladimir Yermoshin Gennady Novitsky Sergei Sidorsky Mikhail Myasnikovich Andrei Kobyakov Syarhey Rumas Roman Golovchenko

• 1879 births
• People from Baranavichy District
• People from Novogrudsky Uyezd
• Belarusian Socialist Assembly politicians
• Belarusian socialists
• Government ministers of Belarus
• Members of the Rada of the Belarusian Democratic Republic
• Belarusian people of World War I
• Russian military personnel of World War I
• Russian military personnel of the Russo-Japanese War
• Academic staff of Belarusian Agricultural Academy
• Heads of state of states with limited recognition
• Belarusian scientists
• Belarusian prisoners and detainees