Belarusian Soviet poet, translator, statesman
Maxim Tank (bel. Максім Танк, birth name Евгений Иванович Скурко (Yevgeny Ivanovich Skurko); September 4 [17], 1912, the village of Pilkovshchina, Vilna province, Russian Empire - August 7, 1995, Minsk, Belarus). People's Poet of the BSSR (1968). Hero of Socialist Labor (1974). Laureate of the Lenin Prize (1978) and the Stalin Prize of the second degree (1948). Laureate of the Yanka Kupala State Prize of the Byelorussian SSR (1966). Academician of the Academy of Sciences of the BSSR (1972). Member of the KPWB since 1936. Chairman of the Supreme Council of the BSSR (1965-1971).
Belarusian Soviet poet, translator, statesman
Maxim Tank (bel. Максім Танк, birth name Евгений Иванович Скурко (Yevgeny Ivanovich Skurko); September 4 [17], 1912, the village of Pilkovshchina, Vilna province, Russian Empire - August 7, 1995, Minsk, Belarus). People's Poet of the BSSR (1968). Hero of Socialist Labor (1974). Laureate of the Lenin Prize (1978) and the Stalin Prize of the second degree (1948). Laureate of the Yanka Kupala State Prize of the Byelorussian SSR (1966). Academician of the Academy of Sciences of the BSSR (1972). Member of the KPWB since 1936. Chairman of the Supreme Council of the BSSR (1965-1971).
Belarusian Soviet poet, translator, statesman