Ivan Kraskovsky

Ivan Kraskovsky (Belarusian: Іван Краскоўскі, Ivan Kraskouski, Іван Красковський), (24 June 1880, Dubichy Tsarkounyya – 1955, Bratislava) was a Ukrainian-Belarusian politician active in the Ukrainian Party of Socialists-Federalists[1] and earlier in the Belarusian Socialist Assembly.

Ivan Kraskoŭski Ivan Kraskovskyi
Belarusian: Іван Краскоўскі Ukrainian: Іван Красковський
Ukrainian People's Republic Ambassador to  Democratic Republic of Georgia
In office 1917–1920
Ukrainian People's Republic Ambassador to Kuban People's Republic
In office 1917–1920
Belarusian People's Republic official representative at negotiations with the Ukrainian People's Republic and Soviet Russia
In office 1918–1918
Member of the Presidium of the Gosplan of the  BSSR
In office 1930–1930
Personal details
Born	24 June 1880 Dubichy Tsarkounyya
Died	1955 Bratislava, Czechoslovakia
Political party	Belarusian Socialist Assembly Ukrainian Party of Socialists-Federalists
Profession	Historian, economist

Kraskovsky was a student at Warsaw University. He was appointed to the All-Russian Union of Cities in 1916. Following the February Revolution of 1917 he was a gubernial commissioner of the Russian Provisional Government in the Ternopil region.[1] Then in January 1918 he became a deputy minister of the Ukrainian National Republic (UNR) serving under Volodymyr Vynnychenko.[1] Under the Hetman government he was a member of the Council of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, becoming the diplomatic representative of the UNR in Georgia and Kuban.[1] While in Kyiv, Kraskovsky also served as an advisor to the diplomatic representation of the Belarusian Democratic Republic and as Belarus' official representative at negotiations with Soviet Russia.

In 1925 he moved to Belarus. Here he was appointed as a lecturer at the Belarusian State University. He also worked at the Institute of Belarusian Culture and as a member of the Presidium of the Gosplan of the Belarusian Soviet Socialist Republic.[1]

In 1930 he was arrested by the OGPU within the Case of the Union of Liberation of Belarus. Having spent almost ten years in a deportation in Samara, he was eventually allowed to leave the USSR and settle with his daughter in Bratislava, Czechoslovakia.