Aliaksandar Burbis, better known as Ales Burbis, was a Russian-Belarusian journalist, historian, political figure, actor, director, and ethnologist.
25 Facts About Aliaksandar Burbis
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Aliaksandar Burbis served as the first Chairman of the Belarusian Rada of the Belarusian Democratic Republic.
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Aliaksandar Burbis served as Chairman of the Belarusian Rada of the Belarusian Democratic Republic.
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Aliaksandar Burbis was an opinion journalist in Lithuania, then a historian, a theatrologist and an Ethnologist in Minsk.
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Aliaksandar Burbis authored studies on economic geography, history, ethnography, agriculture, and banking.
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Aliaksandar Burbis was a cofounder of the Belarusian Socialist Society, and a member of its Central Committee.
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Aliaksandar Burbis organized strikes in the Nowograd region and in Minsk, where he led work on forming trade unions.
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On 24 August 1906, Burbis was arrested in Dolnaya near Shchorsau in the Navahrad Region.
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Aliaksandar Burbis remained in prison until the middle of 1909, falling ill with tuberculosis.
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Aliaksandar Burbis moved to Moscow, where he began working at the People's Bank.
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Aliaksandar Burbis was the creator and chairman of the Moscow organization of the BSG.
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Aliaksandar Burbis was a participant in the Congress of Belarusian National Organizations.
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Aliaksandar Burbis was twice arrested in Moscow by Soviet authorities.
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Aliaksandar Burbis then became consul of the Belarusian People's Republic in Moscow.
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Aliaksandar Burbis became a member of the People's Commissariat of Agriculture of the Lithuanian-Belarusian SSR.
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Aliaksandar Burbis served as an editor of Soviet Belarus in Smolensk.
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Aliaksandar Burbis authored a memo to the Central Committee of the RCP, similar to the "Statement of the 32nd".
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Aliaksandar Burbis served as Deputy People's Commissar of Foreign Affairs of the BSSR.
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Aliaksandar Burbis was one of the organizers of the Red Cross Society of the BSSR.
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Aliaksandar Burbis was a member of the Central Committee of the BSSR.
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Aliaksandar Burbis participated in the development of the treaty between the BSSR and the RSFSR.
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Aliaksandar Burbis died of tuberculosis on 20 March 1922 in Minsk.
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Aliaksandar Burbis wrote articles on the national liberation issue, and on the history, ethnography, and economy of Belarus.
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Aliaksandar Burbis was a member of the First Belarusian Troupe of Ignat Buynitskyi, a Belarusian music and drama group in Vilnius.
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Aliaksandar Burbis was a manager, director, actor and reader at the first Belarusian theatre parties there.