Evdokia Uralova: Belarusian trace in the Declaration of Human Rights Vadim Gigin in “Historical Environment” on “SBTV”

“Historical Environment” with Vadim Gigin – a deputy of the House of Representatives of the National Assembly of the Republic of Belarus, Director General of the National Library, political scientist, publicist, Belarusian historian – again on the SBTV YouTube channel. Do not miss the new edition today, October 15, at 21:00.

About the incredible fate of Evdokia Ilyinichna Uralova - the first woman minister in the history of Belarus, whose name changed not only the BSSR, but also world diplomacy.

How did a simple girl from the Belarusian-Russian border region manage to head the People’s Commissariat of Education during the most difficult years of repression and the first five-year plans?

How did a real “cultural miracle” happen in the BSSR under her leadership – the elimination of illiteracy and the creation of a new Belarusian intelligentsia?

Learn the whole truth about the evacuation of more than 14,000 children at the beginning of the Great Patriotic War, the salvation of the Academy of Sciences and the friendship of Uralova with the national poet Yakub Kolos in Tashkent.

The first session of the UN General Assembly in London in 1946 - Evdokia Uralova became the author of the historic 23rd article of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, uncompromisingly outmaneuvering US and British diplomats in the fight for equal pay for women around the world. We talk about past events in order to better understand the present and perhaps look into the future.