Platon Ramanavich Halavach (Belarusian: Платон Раманавіч Галавач; 1903–1937) was a Belarusian writer, editor, and public figure active during the early Soviet period. He was a prominent member of the Belarusian literary movement and served in various leadership roles within Soviet cultural and political organizations.
Born on April 18, 1903, in the village of Gorbavichy, Mogilev Governorate (now Chausy District, Belarus), Halavach was raised in a peasant family. He became involved in revolutionary activities in his youth and joined the Communist Party in 1924. He held several administrative positions, including a leadership role in the Komsomol (Young Communist League) of Belarus and serving as an editor for various periodicals, such as the literary journals Maladnyak and Polymya.
Halavach was a leading figure in "Maladnyak," a literary association of young Belarusian writers established in the 1920s. His literary works, written primarily in Belarusian, reflect the socialist realism of the era. His prose often focused on the Russian Civil War, the lives of workers and peasants, and the societal changes brought about by the establishment of Soviet power and the collectivization of agriculture. Notable works include the story collections Huchy, truba! ("Sound, Trumpet!", 1928) and the novel Praz hady ("Through the Years", 1935).
During the Great Purge, Halavach was arrested in August 1937 on charges of participating in a "counter-revolutionary national-fascist organization." He was sentenced to death and executed in Minsk on October 29, 1937. Following the death of Joseph Stalin, Halavach was posthumously rehabilitated by the Military Collegium of the Supreme Court of the USSR in 1956.