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Sharangovich
Sharangovich is a surname. Notable people with this surname include: * Vasily Sharangovich (1897–1938), Soviet politician * Yegor Sharangovich (born 1998), Belarusian professional ice hockey player {{Short pages monitor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vasily Sharangovich
Vasily Fomich Sharangovich (; , Vasil Sharanhovich; March 4, 1897 – March 15, 1938) was a Belarusian Soviet politician and the first secretary of the Communist Party of Byelorussian SSR in the Soviet Union. He was executed after the last of the Moscow Trials, the Trial of the Twenty-One, in 1938. Biography Vasily Sharangovich was born into a peasant family in Vilna province, in modern-day Lithuania. He worked as a manual labourer. He joined the Bolsheviks in December 1917, after they had seized power, and enlisted in the Red Army. In 1919, he was sent to work underground in Minsk province, which was under Polish occupation. Arrested by Polish intelligence in 1920, he was sentenced to death, but his sentence was commuted to 10 years in prison. He was released after 18 months as part of a prisoner exchange. Sharangovich was Deputy People's Commissar for Justice in the Byelorussian Soviet Socialist Republic in 1921–23. In 1923–30, he was a trade union official in Byeloruss ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
