Selected dates:

February 1921

Under the People's Commissariat of Education of the BSSR , the Scientific and Terminological Commission was created, whose tasks included the development of scientific terminology in the Belarusian language. In parallel, the charter of the research institution was being prepared, which was ready by November.

January 30, 1922

On the basis of the Scientific and Terminological Commission , the Institute of Belarusian Culture was formed. Stepan Mikhailovich Nekrashevich was appointed the first chairman of Inbelkult.

1925

He was succeeded by Vsevolod Makarovich Ignatovsky, who also became the first President of the Inbelkult with the establishment of the office in 1927. Among the first employees of Inbelkult were Evfimy Fedorovich Karsky, Vatslav Ustinovich Lastovsky, Iosif Yuryevich Lyosik, Ivan Dominikovich Lutsevich (Yanka Kupala), Konstantin Mikhailovich Mitskevich (Yakub Kolas), Anton Antonovich Grintsevich, Arkady Antonovich Smolich, Nikolai Vasilyevich Azbukin.

July 25, 1924

The charter of Inbelkult was approved, according to which it was declared the highest state scientific organization of the BSSR, the main tasks of which were to organize the study of social sciences and coordinate all scientific work in the BSSR.

1924

Reorganization was carried out in Inbelkult, sections were created: historical and archaeological, Belarusian language and literature (with a commission on spelling reform), Belarusian art (chairman Yazep Dyla, secretary Nikolai Shchekotikhin, with subsections: museum, theater and fine arts), the study of revolutionary movement (with a commission to create a biographical dictionary of revolutionaries), ethnographic, legal (with a terminological commission). In addition, several permanent scientific commissions worked: vocabulary, terminology, literature, bibliography, for the study of natural productive forces, for the protection of monuments of antiquity, art and nature.

By 1926

Natural history, medical and agricultural sections were also founded.

February 16, 1925

Under Inbelkult , the Library of the Institute of Belarusian Culture was opened.

1927

Postgraduate studies were opened under Inbelcult.

June 29, 1927

Inbelkult was again reorganized. Two departments were created - humanitarian, as well as nature and economy. Departments were created instead of sections.

1920s

The main activity of Inbelkult was research in the field of history, archeology, linguistics, literary criticism and ethnography. With the creation in 1924 of the land-geological commission, research in the field of soil science and geology intensified. The medical section of Inbelkult, which included 65 employees, was actively working.

1926

Inbelkult was removed from the subordination of the People's Commissariat for Education of the BSSR and was reassigned to the Council of People's Commissars.

From July 1926

Preparations were made for the transformation of Inbelkult into the Academy of Sciences, for which a reorganization was carried out in 1927.

October 13, 1928

It was decided to transform Inbelkult into the Belarusian Academy of Sciences.

By April 28, 1928

115 people worked in Inbelkult.

During its work, Inbelkult published the magazine “Our Land” and “Zapіski adzela of humanitarnyh nauk”, “Zapіski addzela prirody i narodnaya gaspadarki”.

Works published:

"Belarusian Scientific Terminology" (Issue 1-24, 1922-1930)

"Belarusian-Russian Dictionary" by N. Baykov and S. Nekrashevich (1925)

"Four hundredth anniversary of the Belarusian press" (1926)

"The Socialist Movement in Belorussia in the Proclamations of 1905" (1927)

"Belarusian ethnography in research and materials" (books 1-5, 1926-1928)

"Materials for the study of the flora and fauna of Belarus" (vol. 1-2, 1927-1928)

"The experience of the linguistic geography of Belarus" P. Buzuk (1928)

"Belarusian Archive" (vols. 1-2, 1927-1928)

"Works and materials on the history and archeology of Belarus" (books 1-3, 1926-1927)

"Proceedings of the first All-Belarusian Soil Science Conference of 1924" (1926)

“Narysy of history of Belarusian literature” by M. Piyatukhovich (1928)

"Narysy from history of Belarusian skill" N. Shchekotikhin (1928)