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Yakub Kolas

Died in 1956

Kanstantsin Mitskievitch, who signs himself Yakub Kolas, was born on 3 November 1882 in Akintchytsy, near Minsk, the son of a forest warden. Trained at the teacher training school in Niasvizh, he taught in the villages of Polesia; for having taken part in 1906 in a clandestine congress of teachers, he lost the right to teach and served three years in prison in Minsk. Mobilised during the First World War, he returned to Minsk in 1921, became an academician and then vice-president of the Academy of Sciences, and received two State Prizes. He died in Minsk on 13 August 1956.

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