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Vasil Bykau

Died in 2003

Vasil Bykau was born on 19 June 1924 in Bychki, in the Ushachy district, near Vitebsk, into a peasant family. He entered the art school in Vitebsk, which he had to leave, then was mobilised at seventeen and served at the front as a junior officer. After the war, he worked at the newspaper Hrodzenskaja prauda, in Hrodna, then settled in Minsk in 1978. Committed to the opposition to the Belarusian authorities, he lived abroad from 1998 to 2002 and died in Minsk on 22 June 2003.

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