Mikhas Klimkovich

You can help expand this article with text translated from the corresponding article in Belarusian (Taraškievica orthography). (April 2024) Click [show] for important translation instructions. View a machine-translated version of the Belarusian (Taraškievica orthography) article. Machine translation, like DeepL or Google Translate, is a useful starting point for translations, but translators must revise errors as necessary and confirm that the translation is accurate, rather than simply copy-pasting machine-translated text into the English Wikipedia. Do not translate text that appears unreliable or low-quality. If possible, verify the text with references provided in the foreign-language article. You must provide copyright attribution in the edit summary accompanying your translation by providing an interlanguage link to the source of your translation. A model attribution edit summary is Content in this edit is translated from the existing Belarusian (Taraškievica orthography) Wikipedia article at [[:be-tarask:Міхась Клімковіч]]; see its history for attribution. You may also add the template {{Translated|be-tarask|Міхась Клімковіч}} to the talk page. For more guidance, see Wikipedia:Translation.

Michaś Mikałajevič Klimkovič^[a] (20 November 1899 – 5 November 1954) was a Belarusian poet, librettist and author. He wrote the lyrics to the State Anthem of the Belarusian SSR, and co-wrote the lyrics to the current State Anthem of the Republic of Belarus.^[1]

Klimkovich was born into the family of a stoker in the village of Salitranka on 20 November 1899. Finishing a four-year pedagogical institute, he was involved in teaching, subsequently joined the revolutionary communist forces during the collapse of the Russian Empire, fighting in the Red Army during the Russian Civil War. He became a member of the Russian Communist Party (b) in 1920. Between 1932 and 1937 he was a member of the organizinatinal committee in charge of the education activities of the Belarusian Writers' Union before being elected as the Belarusian Writers' Union's first-ever chairman in 1934.^[2]

Aside from a number of important poems, Klimkovich authored the dramatic trilogy Georgy Skaryna and wrote librettos for several operas and a ballet.

This article about a Belarusian poet is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it.

• v
• t
• e