(1878-08-16)16 August 1878 Vilnius, Russian Empire
Died
27 November 1932(1932-11-27) (aged 54) Kaunas, Lithuania
Awards
Order of the Lithuanian Grand Duke Gediminas
Dominik Semashko (Belarusian: Дамінік Сямашка, lit. 'Daminik Siamaška', Lithuanian: Domininkas Siemaška; 16 August 1878 – 27 November 1932) was a Belarusian activist. In 1890s, he joined the Polish Socialist Party and other socialist groups advocating workers' rights. The police forced him to flee to Switzerland where he received engineering education and firefighting training. During World War I, he was fire chief in Vilnius from 1915 to 1918. In 1918, he was elected to the Rada of the Belarusian Democratic Republic and then became part of the Council of Lithuania. Initially, he was a supported of a union between Lithuania and Belarus along the lines of the old Grand Duchy of Lithuania but later became more aligned with Lithuania. He represented Lithuania at the Paris Peace Conference and during the negotiations of the Soviet–Lithuanian Peace Treaty. In 1920–1922, he was Minister for Belarusian Affairs. He then retired from politics and devoted his time to firefighting.
DominikSemashko (Belarusian: Дамінік Сямашка, lit. 'Daminik Siamaška', Lithuanian: Domininkas Siemaška; 16 August 1878 – 27 November 1932) was a Belarusian...
was led by the ethnic Belarusian ministers such as Jazep Varonka, DominikSemashko. The ethnic Belarusians were also included into the Council of Lithuania...
Kazimieras Šaulys 21 September 1917 Elected at Vilnius Conference 36 DominikSemashko 27 November 1918 Coopted Belarusian representative 37 Jokūbas Šernas...
of Lithuania. (Vaclau Lastouski, Ivan Luckievich, Jan Stankievič, DominikSemashko, Władysław Tołoczko, Kazimierz Falkiewic) on 27 November 1918. Sharing...
Lithuania in May 1920, Varonka was replaced by more pro-Lithuanian DominikSemashko as the minister. Varonka edited numerous Belarusian and Russian language...
essentially inactive from February to June 1920 when the new minister DominikSemashko was appointed. He did not support Belarusian autonomy and thus was...
include Vaclau Lastouski, Ivan and Anton Luckievich, Jan Stankievič, DominikSemashko and Yazep Turkevich, representatives of the Vilnius Belarusian Council...
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