Died 1956-08-13.
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Yakub Kolas
Yakub Kolas, real name Kanstantsin Mikhailavich Mitskievich was a Belarusian writer, dramatist, poet and translator. People's Poet of the Byelorussian SSR (1926), member (1928) and vice-president of the Belarusian Academy of Sciences.
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politics · Belarusian writer · dramaturge · translator · poet · children's writer · literary critic · politician · prose writer · translator of Adam Mickiewicz · writer · also Yakub Kolas, Jakub Kołas, Kanstancin Mickievič, Jakub Kolas, Kanstantsin Mitskevich, Taras Hušča
Born 22 October 1882 · Died 13 August 1956 · Q483709
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1928· 1 entry
Institute was transformed into the Academy of Sciences, Kolas became an academician there, and later a vice president
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1926· 2 entries
Awarded The People’s Poet of Belarus (1926).
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Was named a "People's Poet of Belarus"
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1921· 1 entry
Kolas returned to Minsk to work in the newly established Institute of Belarusian Culture
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1916· 1 entry
After graduating from the Moscow Alexander Military School with the rank of warrant officer, he served in a reserve regiment in Perm
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1906· 1 entry
Was fired and jailed for three years in Minsk
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1902· 1 entry
And was sent as a teacher to a village in Palesse region
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1882· 1 entry
Born 1882-10-22.
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