Lukashenka received the first Belarusian passport with "Pahonia", and the second was given to schoolboy Yuri Charniak. What became of the boy?
After gaining independence, Belarus continued to issue Soviet passports of the 1974 model for several years. It was only in 1994, already under Lukashenka, that new passports with "Pahonia" were printed. They were ceremonially issued by Minister of Internal Affairs Yuri Zakharenka.
The media reported on 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 Yuri Zakharenka 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 Yuri Charniak. About the boy, who was happily smiling in the photo, it was only reported that he was an excellent student.
What became of his life?
Yuri 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. He also managed the student research laboratory "Socium" for some time.
Yuri Charniak. Photo from his social media
In 2007, he defended his candidate's dissertation on the topic "Social Risks of Youth in the Republic of Belarus: Sociological Analysis".
In 2015, he completed retraining at the Republican Institute of Higher Education in the specialty "Information-Ideological and Educational Work in Educational Institutions".
Two years later, Yuri was awarded a BSU diploma for winning the competition for the best supervisor and organizer of research work of students and postgraduates.
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.
Yuri 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 range of issues. For example, social risks of youth, discrimination of certain social groups in Belarus, the phenomenon of patriotism in the mass consciousness of Belarusians.
In 2024, Yuri suddenly died. He was only 46 years old then.
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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