Belarus: persons and events (Mikhas Pyankrat)

Mikhas Pyankrat was born in a peasant family in the village of Karpilavka (now Chervensk district, Minsk region). In 1937 he graduated from Hutarskaya school and entered Smilavitsky agricultural technical school, where he received a specialty of agronomist. In 1939 he went to serve in the Red Army, participated in the Soviet-Finnish war (1939-1940), was seriously wounded, treated in hospital and discharged.

In 1940-1941 he worked in the editorial office of Rudnya district newspaper "Balshavitsky stsyag". With the beginning of the Great Patriotic War until 1942 he was in the village of Vedrytsa, Chervensky district. In 1942 he was a liaison officer of the partisan brigade "Chyrvony Stsyag", which operated in the Minsk region. In 1943 he joined the brigade and fought until he joined the Red Army. In 1945 he moved to Minsk and worked in the editorial offices of the national newspapers "Stalinskaya moladz" (1945-1947), "Sovetsky Selyanin", ("Kolkhoznaya Pravda", "Selskaya Gazeta", 1947-1956), in the magazine "Vozhik" (1959-1979). Member of the Union of Writers of the BSSR since 1951.

His first book was a collection of poems "The Nightingale Coast" (1956). M. Pyankrat is the author of collections of satirical and humorous stories "Wormwood and Flowers" (1958), "From the Wrong End" (1959), "Authority on Wheels" (1968), short stories and novellas "My Happiness" (1962.), "Vedritz chants" (1965), "Squared Love " (1969), "The main dowry" (short stories, poetry and humor, 1978), "Dating and Parting" (selected, 1978), "Not cool your heart" (1989). He wrote books of essays "Ordinary People" (1957), "June" (1977), books of stories for children "Two Petyas" (1973), "Two in a Boat" (1983).

P. Akhrimenka and Z. Pavlovsky wrote songs on the words of Mihas Pyankrat. Some works of the writer were translated into Russian, Ukrainian, Azerbaijani, Georgian, Lithuanian, Tajik, Uzbek and Estonian languages.

Based on the materials of the National Library of Belarus.

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