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Yakub Kolas (real name and surname Konstantin Mikhaylovich Mitskevich, October 22 (November 3) 1882 - August 13, 1956) - Belarusian Soviet writer, playwright, poet and translator, public figure. One of the classics and founders of the new Belarusian literature. People's poet of the Byelorussian SSR (1926). Academician of the Academy of Sciences of the Byelorussian SSR (1928). Member of the USSR Writers' Union (1934). Honored Scientist of the Byelorussian SSR (1944). Member of the CPSU (b) since 1945.
