Y. Kolas

Yakub Kolas
(Kanstantsin Mitskievich)
(03.11(22.10).1882 – 13.08.1956)

Yakub Kolas is a Belarusian poet, novelist, playwright, critic, essayist, translator, public figure, one of the founders of modern Belarusian literature and Belarusian language; a member of the Writers' Union of the Byelorussian SSR (1934); People's Poet of the Byelorussian SSR (1926); an academician of the National Academy of Sciences of Belarus (1928); Honored Science Worker of the Byelorussian SSR (1944).

Born in the village of Akinchitsy, Minsk County, Minsk Governorate of the Russian Empire (now the city of Stolbtsy, Stolbtsy District, Minsk Region, Republic of Belarus).

Yakub Kolas in the UNESCO Calendar:

1982 – 100th birth anniversary
1972 – 90th birth anniversary
1966 – 60 years since the beginning of literary career

UNESCO documents:

1982

Anniversaries of great personalities and important historical events, 1981–1982 : OPI-80/WS/6 / UNESCO. – Paris, 1980. – 29 p.

1972

Празднование годовщин великих людей и событий : резолюция 15 C/4.351 // Акты Генеральной конференции, шестнадцатая сессия, Париж, 1968 г. : в 4 т. / Орг. Объед. Наций по вопр. образования, науки и культуры. – Париж : ЮНЕСКО, 1969–1970. – Т. 1 : Резолюции. – 1969. – С. 71.

Anniversaries of great personalities and events (1971–1972) : COM/MD/16 / UNESCO. – Paris, 1970. – 10 p.

1966

Празднование годовщин великих людей и событий : резолюция 12 C/5.241 // Акты Генеральной конференции, двенацатая сессия, Париж, 1962 г. : в 2 т. / Орг. Объед. Наций по вопр. образования, науки и культуры. – Париж, 1963–1964. – Т. 1 : Резолюции. – 1963. – С. 66.

Anniversaries of great personalities and events (1965–1966) : UNESCO/MC/50 / UNESCO. – Paris, 1964. – 9 p.