Yakub Kolas

Yakub Kolas

(Konstantin Mikhailovich Mitskevich)

Was born:

3 November 1882

Akinchitsy village, Stolbtsovsky district, Minsk region.

Died:

13 August 1956

Minsk

People's poet of the BSSR, vice-president of the Academy of Sciences of the BSSR

Personality-related events

16 August 1956

The resolution of the Council of Ministers of the BSSR and the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Belarus «On perpetuating the memory of the People’s Poet of the BSSR Yakub Kolas (Mitskevich Konstantin Mikhailovich)» was adopted