ABSTRACT
The first organizing centers for Belorussian historians were the Belorussian State University and the Institute of Belorussian Culture, established in 1921 and 1922 respectively. Taking this Institute as its base, the Belorussian Academy of Sciences was founded in January 1929. The Department of Humanities of the Academy established a history subdivision consisting of six chairs and nine commissions. In 1929 on the basis of the linguistic subdivisions of the Institute of Belorussian Culture an Institute of Linguistics of the Belorussian Academy of Sciences was founded. In 1935 it was incorporated into the Institute of Literature, Art and Language, which in turn was subdivided into two institutes, Literature and Art and Linguistics. The latter added the name of Iakub Kolas in 1956. In 1929, under the Division of Humanities of the Belorussian Academy of Sciences, a Chair of Marxism-Leninism was organized, consisting of three commissions: dialectical materialism, historical materialism, and Leninism.
