In 1911, he entered the Abbot's Gymnasium, received secondary education.

In 1920, he joined the Red Army as a volunteer, took part in battles with the interventionists.

After demobilization in 1921, he worked in the Central Committee of the LKSM; in the newspaper "Moladi Arati".

In the 1920s and 1930s, he was an active participant in the literary and artistic movement in Belarus.

On 28 October 1937, as a "member of a counter-revolutionary organization", he was convicted by an extrajudicial body of the National Security Service of Ukraine to the VMP with confiscation of property.

He was rehabilitated by the military panel of the Supreme Court of the USSR on 3 December 1957.

Author of collections of poetry "Kamsamolskaya nota" (1924, with A. Aleksandrovich)[1], "Black-haired joy" (1926), "To you" (1927).

Author of the short stories "Two" (1925), "Anton Savitsky" (1927, "Soviet Belarus" newspaper).

Wrote plays, dramatized campaigns ("When the old man tells the truth", "Mykolka", "At the farmer's house" - 1924), the comedy "Save me, God!"

He also worked as a film dramaturg - his scripts were used to produce the films "The Pines Are Roaring" (with K. Dzerzhaviny, 1929), "Savoy Hotel" (1930), "Born in Fire" (1930), "Sunny Hike" (1931), "New Homeland" (1935) and others.

: "Belarusian Soviet Encyclopedia" named after Petrus Brovka, 1982.

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