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Maksim Tank

Died in 1995

Maksim Tank, whose real name was Iaŭhien Skourko, was born on 17 September 1912 in Pilkaŭščyna, in what is now the Miadziel district. A militant of the clandestine communist youth movement of Western Belarus, then Polish, he was arrested several times from 1932 and held in the Lukiškės prison in Vilnius, then joined the Communist Party of Western Belarus in 1936. Editor-in-chief of the journal Polymia from 1948 to 1966, he sat in the Supreme Soviet of the republic and died on 7 August 1995.

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