[1] However in 1939 he was conscripted into the Red Army and finished World War II as a decorated Soviet major having been wounded in action.
[2] After the war, Jucho completed graduate and post-graduate studies at the Minsk Law Institute and the Belarusian Academy of Sciences.
[2][3] He became “the founder of the academic studies of the history of the Belarusian state and law” in Soviet Belarus.
[4][5] In 1963 Jucho began studying the period of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania (of which Belarus was part) - something he would continue for the rest of his career.
[1][2][6][7][8] The topic of his PhD dissertation in 1980 was “The Socio-Political Order and Rights in Belarus in the 16th century” (Belarusian: Грамадзка-палітычны лад і права Беларусі ў XVI ст.).