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Ales Adamovich

Died in 1994

Ales Adamovich was born in the village of Koniukhi, in the Minsk region, into a family of doctors, on 3 September 1927 according to his papers, more than a year earlier in reality. Engaged as a teenager with his mother and brother in the clandestine resistance, he joined a partisan detachment in 1943. After the war, he studied literature at the University of Minsk up to postgraduate studies. Elected People's Deputy of the Soviet Union in 1989, he died in Moscow of a heart attack on 26 January 1994 and was buried in Hlusha.

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