People's Writer of Belarus Ivan Shamyakin is well-known and loved by many generations of Belarusians. His books The Springs, Restless Happiness, The Heart on the Open Palm, Snowy Winters, Telamones and Caryatides, Petrograd-Brest, and many others make up a multivolume chronicle of the past era. Ivan Shamyakin's works offer a vivid and comprehensive reflection of the life of Belarusian people in the 20th century. On 30 January, Belarus will celebrate the 95th anniversary of the writer's birth. The following are photos from BelTA's archive.
Ivan Shamyakin, People's Writer of Belarus, Hero of Socialist Labor, Academician of the National Academy of Sciences of Belarus
Ivan Shamyakin and his family members in the village of Teryukha (1950s)
The Week of Belarusian Literature in the Lithuanian Soviet Socialist Republic. Members of the BSSR Union of Soviet Writers (left to right): Kastus Kiriyenko, Mikhail Kalachinsky, Alexei Zaritsky, Filipp Pestrak, Piotr Brovka, Sergei Grakhovsky, Ales Zvonak, Ivan Shamyakin, Piotr Makal, Anatoly Velyugin, Taras Khadkevich, Piotr Glebka. Lithuania, 15 September 1958
Belarusian writer Ivan Shamyakin. Minsk, January 1971
Writer Ivan Shamyakin gives autographs at an evening of poetry. The village of Nikolayevshchina (Yakub Kolas' homeland), September 1974
Writers (left to right) Boris Sachenko, Anatoly Vertinsky, Ivan Shamyakin, Maxim Tank, Nikolai Gamolko and Ivan Chigrinov. Minsk, 3 August 1978
Ivan Shamyakin (left) and Maxim Tank. Minsk, 14 September 1978
The Yanka Kupala Belarusian Academic Theater (left to right): director G. Vladomirskaya, BSSR Honored Artist B. Vladomirsky, BSSR People's Artist M. Zakharevich, Belarus People's Writer I. Shamyakin, artist A. Yelyashevich and director B. Erin. Minsk, January 1981
Andrei Makayonok with his friend Ivan Shamyakin, 1981
At the editor's office of the Belarusian Soviet Encyclopedia:editor-in-chief of the Belarusian Soviet Encyclopedia I. Shamyakin, deputy executive secretary N. Filimonov, deputy editors-in-chief A. Petrashkevich and I. Khovratovich, head of the language, literature and folklore department V. Semenyakov. Minsk, January 1981
At the ceremony to award the Union State prize in literature and art (left to right): playwright and Honored Figure of Art of Belarus A. Dudarev, Russia People's Artist A. Petrenko, writer, playwright, Belarus People's Writer I. Shamyakin, 2002
Ivan Shamyakin with his granddaughter Slavyana. Minsk, 17 November 1987
