Background
He was born in the village of Vickaŭščyna close to Minsk.
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Mikalay Ulascyk
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Education
In 1929 Mikałaj Ułaščyk graduated from the Belarusian State University, specialised in history.
Career
He was deported to a labor camp close to Vyatka. After his release he was again twice arrested and imprisoned in the following years because of his active opposing the official Soviet propagandist historiography. After the final release he was not able to go back to Belarus and settled in Moscow where since 1955 he worked at the Institute of History of the Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics Academy of Sciences.
Mikałaj Ułaščyk became doctor of sciences and author of numerous works on the History of Belarus and the Grand Duchy of Lithuania related to the research of chronicles, source documents and archaeography.
He was also the editor of 32nd and 35th volumes of the Full Collection of Russian Chronicles.
Politics
In 1930 he was arrested by the People’s Commissariat of Internal Affairs together with a large number of Belarusian intellectuals accused of "anti-Soviet activity" and "nationalism" within the framed-up Case of the Union of Liberation of Belarus.
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Nationality
Belarusian