Ivan Pavlovich Melez
2/8/1921 - 8/9/1976
Collections of short stories "In a snowstorm" (1946)
The novel "the direction of Minsk» (1952)
The piece "While you are young" (1956)
The piece "Who came at night" (1959)
Novels "Polesskaya chronicle" (trilogy): "People in the swamp", "Breath of the storm", " Blizzard, December" (1962, 1966, 1978)
1938
School, unoiversity
He graduated from high school in Khojniki. He entered the Moscow Institute of philosophy, literature and history, and was drafted into the Soviet army in his first year.
19381940
Great Patriotic war
He took part in the annexation of Bessarabia and Bukovina. During the great Patriotic war, he fought at Nikolayev, Lozova, Rostov-on-don, and was wounded in 1941. In 1942, he graduated from the courses of political workers and was seconded to the 51st rifle division by a newspaper employee.
19401945
First job
He graduated from the faculty of Philology of BSU in absentia and entered graduate school. Simultaneously with his studies, he worked in the editorial office of the magazine "Polymya". After graduating from graduate school, he worked at BSU as a senior teacher of Belarusian literature, as well as in the editorial office of the literary magazine "Polymya", and was in the Central Committee of the CPB.
19451974
Work in culture
In these years, he is the Deputy Chairman of the Board of the Union of writers of the Belarusian SSR.
1974August 9, 1976
Death
Died of a heart attack. He was buried in the Eastern cemetery of Minsk.
August 9, 1976