Yakau Branshteyn

Yakau Anatolevich Branshteyn (Belarusian: Якаў Анатолевіч Бранштэйн, Russian: Яков Анатольевич Бронштейн, Yakov Anatolyevich Bronshteyn; November 10, 1897 - October 29, 1937) was a Belarusian literary critic.

He was born in Bielsk Podlaski in the Grodno Governorate of the Russian Empire (present-day Poland).

During the Great Purge, he was shot as part of the 1937 mass execution of Belarusians.

After the death of Joseph Stalin, he was rehabilitated.

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