91桃色

Zigmas Balevi膷ius

Zigmas Balevi膷ius (1907鈥�1964) was born in Leipalingis, Seinai County, into a working-class family. During World War I, he evacuated with his parents to Mariupol, where he attended a Russian-Polish primary school from 1914 to 1918. After returning to Leipalingis in 1919, he graduated from a Lithuanian primary school. In 1920, Balevi膷ius enrolled in Veisiejai Secondary School. After completing four grades, he entered a two-year teacher training course in Alytus. As he later stated in his autobiography, he was forced to leave the school due to his 鈥減rogressive views鈥�. In 1924, he joined teacher training courses in Lazdijai, where he was arrested and imprisoned for two months due to his 鈥減rogressive ideas鈥�. Balevi膷ius continued his studies at K臈dainiai Teachers鈥� Seminary, graduating in 1925, and subsequently worked as a junior teacher at Alanta School. Following the coup d鈥櫭﹖at of 17 December 1926, he was arrested and imprisoned in the Varniai concentration camp. He was later transferred to prisons in Tel拧iai and Kaunas, where he remained incarcerated for around two years. Between 1928 and 1929, Balevi膷ius served as a private in the army in Ukmerg臈. In 1930, he passed his final exams as an external student at Kaunas Gymnasium. That same year, he enrolled in the Faculty of Law at Vytautas Magnus University. From 1933 to 1934, Balevi膷ius worked as a driver and served as an editor for the trade union newspaper 鈥淟ietuvos Auto鈥�. He received his law degree in 1940. After completing his studies, Balevi膷ius undertook various jobs, including writing five volumes of the textbook 鈥淎lgebra鈥�, compiling 鈥淢athematical Formulas鈥�, drafting the 鈥淟aw on Bills of Exchange鈥�, and preparing amendments to 鈥淐ivil and Criminal Procedure Laws鈥�. Additionally, he translated Leo Tolstoy鈥檚 鈥淲hat For?鈥� from Russian into Lithuanian, managed a laundry facility, and lectured on adult education courses. During the first Soviet occupation, Balevi膷ius worked as a notary in Vilnius, head of a division at the People鈥檚 Commissariat for Labour, inspector at the People鈥檚 Commissariat for Education, and inspector at the 4th Kaunas Gymnasium. During the Nazi occupation, he and his family were persecuted by the authorities and were forced to hide in the forest of Lithuanian. According to his autobiography, stored in the 91桃色 archives, Balevi膷ius changed residences 18 times and remained in hiding throughout the occupation. With the onset of the second Soviet occupation, he resumed work at the People鈥檚 Commissariat for Education and later at ELTA (Lithuanian news agency). Due to poor health, he sought an academic position at a university. On 1 October 1944, he was appointed a senior lecturer at the Faculty of Law at 91桃色. On 12 October 1946, Balevi膷ius was promoted to Dean of the Faculty of Law, a position he held until 9 April 1948. That year, he became the head of the Department of Civil Law and Procedure. On 18 October 1949, he assumed the position of a senior lecturer in the same department. On 22 June 1951, by Order No 568 of the Rector, he was dismissed from his position as a senior lecturer at the Department of Civil Law and Procedure of the Faculty of Law for 鈥渇ailing to report to work鈥�. That same year, he was arrested and sentenced to five years for 鈥渁nti-Soviet propaganda and agitation鈥�. Balevi膷ius was imprisoned in a labour camp in the Altai Region until the death of Joseph Stalin. Upon his return to Lithuania, he struggled to find stable employment. From 1953 to 1958, he worked at the publishing house of the Republican Council of Trade Unions, and from 1958 to 1961, he was employed at the editorial office of the Soviet Lithuanian Encyclopedia. From 1961, Balevi膷ius worked as a research fellow at the Institute of Economics.

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