A monument to academician Radzim Harecki unveiled in Minsk's Paunochny Cemetery PHOTO FACT
On June 22, exactly one year after the death of academician Radzim Harecki, a tombstone monument was solemnly unveiled at his grave in Minsk's Paunochny Cemetery. A photo of the monument appeared on social networks.
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About 40 people gathered for the solemn unveiling of the monument. Its author is the renowned sculptor Ihar Zasimovich, and its base is a boulder from the Braslaŭ region.
Radzim Harecki lived a very long, 96-year life, during which he always strived to serve his homeland and his people, although by fate he was forced to spend many decades outside his fatherland.
Radzim Harecki was born on December 7, 1928, in Mensk, to the family of Haŭryla Harecki, one of the founders and first full members of the Belarusian Academy of Sciences, and Larysa Hareckaya (née Parfianovich). He was the nephew of Maksim Harecki, a Belarusian writer.
Due to repression against his family, Radzim spent his childhood in Russia, where in 1952 he graduated from the Moscow Oil Institute and later worked for more than 20 years at the Geological Institute of the USSR Academy of Sciences. Only in 1971 did he return to his homeland, where from 1977 to 1993 he headed the Institute of Geochemistry and Geophysics, and from 1992 to 1997 he was Vice-President of the Academy of Sciences of Belarus.
Radzim Harecki became one of the founders of the modern Belarusian school of tectonics; his research helped discover numerous deposits of minerals, for which he was awarded the State Prizes of the USSR and Belarus.
In addition to science, he was actively involved in public life, headed the "Batskaŭščyna" Association of Belarusians of the World, and wrote a number of artistic and documentary books about the history of his family and the repressed Belarusian intelligentsia. In the book "I Sacrifice My 'I'... (Maksim and Haŭryla Harecki)" (1998), Radzim Harecki described the tragic fate of his relatives.
He supported the movement for Belarus's independence with all his might and helped establish civil society in Belarus. From 1993, he became president of the "Batskaŭščyna" Association of Belarusians of the World.
Radzim Harecki lived to see the 2020 protests and the associated repressions, and in September of that year, in an interview with the "Narodnaya Volya" newspaper, he spoke about the feelings he experienced in connection with this:
"On the one hand, it pains me greatly to see all this. Armored personnel carriers and paddy wagons drive through peaceful Minsk, the Museum of the Great Patriotic War is entangled in barbed wire, just like during the war! The authorities somehow inadequately perceive the situation. Peaceful people are walking in the streets. People say: we went out for a peaceful march! Why beat them? Why did Lukashenka give such an order to his subordinates? So many have been beaten, so many crippled and wounded, and there are already fatalities. Horrible things…
On the other hand, I am simply happy to have lived to see this time when the entire Belarusian people have finally woken up. And felt their strength, understood that they want to live in an independent and democratic Belarusian state. When I see a sea of white-red-white flags, my soul rejoices."
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