Arkadź Smolicz, (Belarusian Аркадзь Антонавіч Смоліч), Arkadź Antonawicz Smolicz (born September 29, 1891, in Bacewicze near Babruysk, died June 17, 1938, in Omsk) - Belarusian national activist, social democratic politician, scientist - geographer and cartographer, minister of agriculture in the government of the BRL in the Republic of Belarus, 1920 year, social and scientific activist in Soviet Belarus.

In December, he took part in the First All-Belarusian Congress in Minsk, and as a member of the Council of the BPR, he contributed to the issuance of the Act of Independence on March 25, 1918.

Smolič was born into the family of a parish priest in the village of Bacevičy, Minsk Governorate of the Russian Empire (nowadays in Klichaw District, Mogilev Region of Belarus).

[1][2][3] Smolič actively participated in the First All-Belarusian Congress in December 1917, was one of the initiators of the declaration of independence of the Belarusian Democratic Republic and later became its Minister of Education.

[1][2][3][4] After the defeat of the Belarusian independence movement by the Red Army, Smolič went into exile for a short time but returned to Soviet Belarus in 1922.

He was accepted by the Soviet authorities, served in many scholarly institutions and administrative bodies and initiated many important research projects in the fields of geography, agriculture and economics.