Petrus Brovka
6/25/1905 - 3/24/1980
K rodnym beregam (1934)
Vesna rodiny (1937)
poem «Belarus» (1943)
poems «Yasnyj Kut», «Polonyanka» (1945)
novel «Kogda slivayutsya reki» (1957)
1905
Born
Brovka was born into a large (but poor) family in Putilkovichi, a settlement in present-day Ushachy Raion, Vitebsk Region, on June 25, 1905.
19051918—1931
Education
He worked as a clerk, clerk and bookkeeper. In 1925-1927 he was the department head of the Komsomol District Committee in Polotsk. In 1927-1928, he was the executive secretary of the editorial office of the newspaper Chyrvonaya Polachchyna. Graduated from the Faculty of Education of BSU (1928-1931) Since 1928 - in the literary association "Maladnyak", later in the Belarusian Association of Proletarian Writers.
1918—19311941—1942
War
In 1941-1942 he served in the Red Army, worked in the front and partisan press. In 1943-1945 he was the executive secretary of the joint venture of the BSSR.
1941—19421823
Work
Editor-in-chief of the literary magazine Polymya. In 1967-1980, he was the editor-in-chief of the Belarusian Soviet Encyclopedia (now the P. Brovka Belarusian Encyclopedia). In 1948-1967 - Chairman of the Board of the Joint Venture of the BSSR.
18231980
Death
P.U. Brovka died on March 24, 1980 in Minsk. He was buried in the Eastern cemetery
1980