Lukashenka received the first Belarusian passport with "Pahonia", and the second — schoolboy Yury Charniak. What happened to the boy's fate?
After gaining independence, Belarus continued to issue Soviet passports of the 1974 model for several years. And only in 1994, already under Lukashenka, new passports with "Pahonia" were printed. They were solemnly issued by Minister of Internal Affairs Yury Zakharanka.
The media wrote about such a significant event as the issuance of the first passports of independent Belarus. The students of Minsk school № 37 were lucky then.
A note has been preserved stating that before the start of the new academic year, Minister of Internal Affairs Yury Zakharanka came there to present documents to the children. Passport number 2 (the first, of course, was received by Alexander Lukashenka, as president) was given to Yury Charniak. About the boy, who smiled happily in the photo, it was only reported that he was an excellent student.
How did his life turn out?
Yury went into science. He graduated from the Faculty of Philosophy and Social Sciences of BSU with a degree in "Sociology" — he was one of the best graduates. Then he went on to teach his subject at BSU. For some time, he also headed the student research laboratory "Socium".
Yury Charniak. Photo from his social media
In 2007, he defended his Ph.D. thesis on the topic "Social risks of youth in the Republic of Belarus: a sociological analysis".
In 2015, he underwent retraining at the Republican Institute of Higher Education in the specialty "Information-ideological and educational work in educational institutions".
Two years later, Yury was awarded a BSU diploma for winning the competition for the best supervisor and organizer of research work of students and postgraduates.
Yury Charniak
In 2018, he moved to the Institute of Sociology of the Academy of Sciences, becoming deputy director for scientific work.
He researched a wide variety of issues. For example, social risks of youth, discrimination against certain social groups in Belarus, the phenomenon of patriotism in the mass consciousness of Belarusians.
At one time, Charniak also worked at the private BIP — University of Law and Social Information Technologies, where he was deputy dean of the Faculty of Economics and Law.
In 2024, Yury suddenly died. He was only 46 years old at the time.
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не доўга ж я цешылася... амаль адразу змянілі сімволіку. трэба было пашпарт з капустай палучаць. а я з Пагоняй расстацца не магу... думаю "згубіць" ці што? але паколькі ўсё-такі законапаслухмяны грамадзянін, адсканавала і раздрукавала