A plaque in honor of Nicholas Kaspyarovich - outstanding Belarusian scientist who died in Stalin's purges mill - was opened in Vitebsk on May 21 at the building number 4 on the street Krylov. Before that Kaspiarovich in Belarus was marked only homemade board in the village Izabalevo Pukhovichi district, Minsk region, where he was born May 21 (New Style) 1900.
The initiative to establish a memorial plaque to one of the first local historians Belarus in Vitebsk emerged through the efforts of modern-known local historian Arcadia Podlipskaya. Members have created two sculptures Vitebsk - Ivan Kozak and Alexander Stud. Money collected for its manufacturing descendants of Nicholas Kaspyarovich. After a series of agreements with the higher authorities of Vitebsk authorities have given permission for its installation.
The house number 4 on the street Nikolai Krylov lived in 1926, is known by the announcement of a meeting of local history in the newspaper "Vitebsk work." Also, the board could be placed on the modern building of the KGB, which in those days was located Vitebsk district education department, the inspector who worked Kaspiarovich. The third building, whose connection with the life of local lore installed, is in the area of modern regional library, but survived.
The celebrations to mark the 113th anniversary of the birth of the scientist, his relatives came from Novgorod: Galina Kaspiarovich granddaughter, grandson and great-granddaughter Eugene Belotelov Catherine Belotelova. They joined the nephew of Nicholas Kaspyarovich - Anatolia Kaspiarovich and grand-nephew - Sergei Kaspiarovich living in Vitebsk. Also present Vitebsk known local historian and journalist Arkady Podlipsky, Ph.D. Associate Professor Alexander VSU Lisov, candidate of philological sciences, associate professor of VSU Yuri Babich, deputy director of the Vitebsk Regional Museum of Science Valery Shishanov, deputy of the Culture of Vitebsk regional executive committee Peter Podgursky.
From white bedspreads new Vitebsk plaque released one of its sculptors Alexander Stud, granddaughter Galina Kaspiarovich and local historian Peter Podgursky. In his speech, Mr. Stud regretted that due to the broken in 37 years of life KGB bullet, Nicholas Kaspiarovich not had much to do, and said that the soul of man is to be distinguished now in heaven, and his executioners are cooked in boiling tar in hell.
Nikolai Kaspiarovich (1900-1937) - an outstanding figure of Belarusian science, the famous local historian. His name is inseparably linked with the history of the Belarusian Academy of Sciences, he is - one of the organizers of the local history of mass movement in Belarus. His research activities are diverse - linguistics, history of Belarusian culture, literature, and art. He was born on 9 (21) May 1900 on the estate of Izabaleva Igumen district of Minsk province (now PUKHOVICHY district, Minsk region) in the family tenant.
Interesting and rich self-organizational, methodological, scientific work was a period of his life, MI Kaspyarovich associated with the Vitebsk. After becoming part of the Vitebsk province in the Byelorussian Soviet Socialist Republic in the border region with Russia turned big purposeful work for the rehabilitation and reconstruction of the Belarusian national culture. The point was reinforced by public policy Belarusization. For the conduct of organizational work in this direction, MI Kaspiarovich People's Commissariat of Education was appointed Dean of the BSSR Vitebsk district education department since the beginning of August 1924 during the brief life of Vitebsk Nikolai very short - two years (from autumn 1924 to autumn 1926) - full of great deals. It was in Vitebsk, he began many of his works, which have had a fruitful continuation in the future of his scientific and organizational activity, were the basis of his published works. At the same time these works were of great importance for the Vitebsk society.
The main activity of MI Kaspyarovich in Vitebsk was the work of local history. On the initiative and with his guide was created Vitebsk the district local history society. To be precise, the formation of local history of social organization in Vitebsk began before the arrival of M. Kaspyarovich, but it was his efforts to become a permanent organization of the district, based on the work of a network of local (county-level) and lower (school) organizations. Lovers' Society brings together more than 1,000 members. It operated in accordance with the program of the Institute of Belarusian Culture, the first Belarusian scientific organization, formed in 1922, which was reorganized in 1928 to the Belarusian Academy of Sciences.
Vitebsk Local History Society has launched a significant publications. Were published in 1925 and 1928 two issues of local history almanac of Vitebsk, which not only printed the study of Vitebsk region, but had a great methodological significance for the organization of local lore. Published some of the IP Furman, AA Shlyubskogo. In Vitebsk published books Kaspyarovich "Belarusian architecture", "Belarusian ornament" in it, along with SI Gorbovtsem translation from German paper of Ippelya "Belarusian art." All of these small books have played a significant role in the development of the Belarusian art criticism.
MI Kaspiarovich continued the work of the organization in Vitebsk, the local branch of literary association "Maladnyak", which are associated with the activities of the names of a number of talented young writers a new Belarus. In Vitebsk, MI Kaspiarovich initiated the case back local linguistic heritage of the region. The program is collecting local dictionary of the Belarusian language was carried out in coordination with the general plan of the Institute of Belarusian Culture. Vocabulary material collected Vitebsk local history organizations, under the leadership of Kaspyarovich, they are treated, is of great significance for the present day, when there is a problem of the return of the Belarusian language, the Russian language is not contaminated influence.
Kaspiarovich shared the fate of a significant, if not most, of what was then the Belarusian intelligentsia - he was arrested by the GPU Byelorussian SSR 29 June 1930 in the case of the "Union of Belarus 'liberation'. According to the decision of the OGPU of the USSR from October 10, 1931 signed in the camps for a period of 5 years (Osinki Kemerovo region).. After his release, return to Belarus was not allowed, and since 1935 Kaspiarovich lived in Novosibirsk, taught Russian language and literature at the College of Communication. Re-arrested on August 28, 1937, according to the decree of December 17, 1937 was sentenced to death. According to the first sentence reinstated 19 September 1960 the Supreme Court of the Byelorussian SSR, the second - February 14, 1958 by the Military Tribunal of the Siberian Military District.
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