KOLAS Yacoub

Yakub Kolas (real name Konstantin M. Mickiewicz) was born on November 3 (October 22 old style) 1882 in Manor Akinchitsy Stolbtsy district forester in the family Mikhas Mickiewicz.

. Belarusian writer, . People's Poet of the BSSR (1926), . Academician (1928), . Vice-President (since 1929) BSSR, . member of the Union of Soviet Writers (1934), . Honored Worker of Science (1944), . Deputy of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR (1946-1956) and the Byelorussian SSR (1938-1956), . Chairman of the Belarusian National Peace Committee,
. Died Aug. 13, 1956.

Yakub Kolas was awarded five Orders of Lenin, Order of Red Banner of Labor Red Banner and medals.

Collections of poems "Songs of slavery '(1908),' Songs of sorrow '(1910). Poems 'new land' (1923), "Simon-musician" (1925), stories, plays. Poem 'Fisherman's Cottage' (1947) about the struggle for the reunification of West. Belarus with the Soviet State. Trilogy 'At the Crossroads' (1954) on the pre-revolutionary life of the Belarusian peasantry and the democratic intelligentsia. USSR State Prize (1946, 1949).