Helen Michaluk

Helen Michaluk (, née Marcinkevich; born on 15 May 1930) is a prominent figure of the Belarusian diaspora who was a long-standing (and the only female) head of the Association of Belarusians in Great Britain.
Life and work.
Michaluk was born in the village of , in the North-East of the Second Polish Republic (now Vicebsk Region in the Republic of Belarus). She went to a Polish and then Belarusian school. 
In 1947 she settled in the UK and two years later married . She became a member of the Association of Belarusians in Great Britain and the Anglo-Belarusian Society and was also actively involved with St Cyril of Turau Belarusian school in London and the Belarusian Autocephalous Orthodox Church. 
In 1982 Michaluk became a member of the Rada of the Belarusian Democratic Republic. In 1997 she was elected the chair of the Association of Belarusians in Great Britain  - the position she held until 2013.
Awards.
In 2019 Michaluk was awarded a Belarusian Democratic Republic 100th Jubilee Medal for her contribution to Belarusian public life in the diaspora.