Y. Kupala

Yanka Kupala
(Ivan Lutsevich)
(07.07(25.06).1882 – 28.06.1942)

Yanka Kupala is a Belarusian poet, playwright, essayist, translator, public figure, one of the founders of the modern Belarusian literature and literary language; People's Poet of the Byelorussian SSR (1925); an academician of the National Academy of Sciences of Belarus (1928); an academician of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine (1929).

Born in Vyazynka Manor, Vileika County, Vilnius Governorate of the Russian Empire (now the village of Vyazynka, Molodechno District, Minsk Region, Republic of Belarus).

Yanka Kupala in the UNESCO Calendar:

1982 – 100th birth anniversary
1972 – 90th birth anniversary

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.