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Selected dates:
March 11 (24), 1908
Born in the village of Zverovichi , Vitebsk province (RSFSR, now a village in the Smolensk region, Russia).
1930
Graduated from the painting department of the Vitebsk Art College.
1955-1968
He taught at the Belarusian Theater and Art Institute (now the Belarusian State Academy of Arts.
1955
Presentation of the monument to the Belarusian printing pioneer Francysk Skaryna at VDNKh in Moscow, on which the sculptor worked for a long time.
Was awarded the title of People's Artist of the BSSR .
1967
He created a model of the monument to Skaryna for Polotsk (a city in Belarus). He did not have time to cast a bronze sculpture; his students, sculptors Igor Glebov and Andrey Zaspitsky, did it for him.
1976
The State Prize of the BSSR was posthumously awarded for the monument to Francysk Skaryna in Polotsk.
October 2, 1968
Died in Minsk.