Vasil Bykaŭ

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Belarusian writer (1924-2003)

WritersLived 1924 to 2003 · aged 79

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Vasil Uladzimiravič Bykaŭ was a Belarusian dissident and opposition politician, junior lieutenant, and author of novels and novellas about World War II.

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A room at the Bykaŭ Museum

Awards 16

USSR State Prize

Order of Lenin

Medal "For the Victory over Germany in the Great Patriotic War 1941-1945"

Hero of Socialist Labour

Order of the Red Star

Order of the Patriotic War, 1st class

Order of the Red Banner of Labour

Order of Friendship of Peoples

Jubilee Medal "50 Years of Victory in the Great Patriotic War 1941-1945"

Lenin Prize

Medal of Francysk Skaryna

Jubilee Medal "Twenty Years of Victory in the Great Patriotic War 1941-1945"

Jubilee Medal "Thirty Years of Victory in the Great Patriotic War 1941-1945"

Jubilee Medal "Forty Years of Victory in the Great Patriotic War 1941-1945"

Medal "For Battle Merit"

Order of the Patriotic War

In their orbit 1

SpouseNadzeya Bykava

Connected to Vasil 6

Anatoly SolonitsynAlso in The Ascent (1977)

Stanislav LyubshinAlso in Alpine Ballad (1965)

Larisa ShepitkoAlso in The Ascent (1977)

Valentin NikulinAlso in Wolves Pack (1975)

Galina MakarovaAlso in Alpine Ballad (1965)

Vasili OrdynskyAlso in The Trap (1966)

About this person

Vasil Uladzimiravič Bykaŭ was a Belarusian dissident and opposition politician, junior lieutenant, and author of novels and novellas about World War II. A significant figure in Soviet and Belarusian literature and civic thought, his work earned him endorsements for the Nobel Prize nomination from, among others, Nobel Prize laureates Joseph Brodsky and Czesław Miłosz.