Background
CHERVYAKOV, Aleksandr was born on March 8, 1892 in village Dukorka, now Minsk Oblast. Son of a peasant.
Belorussian Party and government official
CHERVYAKOV, Aleksandr was born on March 8, 1892 in village Dukorka, now Minsk Oblast. Son of a peasant.
Attended parish school, Minsk. 1909 graduate Minsk high school. 1915 graduate Vilnius Teachers’ Training Institute.
From 1909 teacher, Trakai Uyezd, Vilnius Province. From 1915 served in army. Attended Alexandrine Military College, Moscow and Oranicnbaum Officers’ School.
From February 1918 chairman, Belorussian National Committee, Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic Council of People's Commissar. Division comissar, Southern Front. Then comissar, Belorussian Bureau, Central Committee, Russian Communist Party (Bolsheviks) and head, Cultural and Education Department, All-Russian Bureau of Military Commissar.
From 1 January 1919—Belorussian People's Commissar of Education, then member, Central Committee, Communist Party (Bolsheviks) Lith-Bcl Soviet Socialist Republic and Central Executive Committee Lith-Bcl Soviet Socialist Republic. 1919-1920 political work in Red Army. Department head, Military-Revol Council, Western Front.
Chairman, Military-Revol Committee, Minsk Province. Member, three-man Belorussian Military-Revol Committee. Late 1920-1923 chairman, Belorussian Central Executive Committee and Council of People's Commissar.
1924-1937 chairman, Belorussian Central Executive Committee and co-chairman, Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics Central Executive Committee. Company-founder of Belorussian Soviet Socialist Republic. Supported Belorussian national and cultural renaissance.
Bureau member, Central Committee, Communist Party Belorussian from 1924. Communist Party member from 1917.