TANK Maxim

Maksim Tank (real name Eugene I. Skurko) was born on 4 (17) in September 1912 in the village Pilkovschina Vilnius province in Belarus.

He was an active participant in the revolutionary movement in Western Belarus. Was arrested in 1933 and 1934 m respectively. Struggle of the working masses for the liberation of his native land are devoted to collections of poems "On stage" (1936), "Cranberry color" (1937), "Under the mast" (1938), the poem "Naroch (1937).

From 1939 to 1940 worked as correspondent of the newspaper "Pravda Drills".

During the Great Patriotic War 1941 - 1945 Tank - front-line staff and the partisan press.

The works of these years: the poem "Yanuca Syaliba" (1942), collections of poetry "sharp weapon" and "Through the fiery horizon" (both -1945).

From 1945 to 1948 years was literary editor of the magazine Vozhyk ", in 1948, becoming chief editor of" Flame "and works in that post until 1966.

Tank owned by the book: "To know" (1948; State. pr. USSR, 1948), "On the stone, iron and gold" (1951), "Trace of lightning" (1957), "My daily bread" (1962), "A drink of water" (1964), "The leaves of the Calendar, diary notes "(1970)," Let there be light "(1972)," Ave Maria "(1980), etc..

Characteristic features of poetry Tank - a combination of high romantic pathos with concrete sensory world, the breadth of intellectual horizons. Poetic Forms Tanka poems are quite diverse - from folk poetry to the modern vers libre, from folk songs and fairy tales to the dramatic monologue

. Died Aug. 7, 1995 in Minsk.

. Awards

. 1948 Stalin Prize
. 1959 Award Yanka Kupala
. 1966 State Prize of the Byelorussian SSR Yanka Kupala
. 1968 People's Poet of the Byelorussian Soviet Socialist Republic
. 1974 Hero of Socialist Labor, the Order of Lenin
. 1978 Lenin Prize
. 1980 Literary Prize A
. Fadeev

3 hordes. Lenin
. Order of the October Revolution
. Order of the Red Banner
. Order of Red Banner of Labor
. Order of the Patriotic War II-nd degree
. Order of Friendship of Peoples
. Officers Cross of the Renaissance in Poland (Poland)
. Order of Merit (Poland)


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