Leanid Marakou

[2] Marakou (Belarusian: Леанід Маракоў, Russian: Леонид Моряков, pseudonyms: Vladimir Moryakov, Anatole Sinchukousky) graduated from the Minsk Radioengineering Institute in 1984.

Study of the poet's biography (about which L. Marakou has published a monograph later on), as well as those of other perished relatives had grown into a systematic and professional research of history of all repressed during the Stalin's period cultural and public figures of Belarus.

Marakou is the author of a multi-volume directory "Repressed literary men, scientists, educators, public and cultural figures of Belarus.

1794-1991" (Belarusian: "Рэпрэсаваныя літаратары, навукоўцы, работнікі асветы, грамадскія і культурныя дзеячы Беларусі.

Stories by Marakou often begin during Stalin's repressions and Leonid Brezhnev's stagnation, and trace the fate of people resisting the regime.

Leanid Marakou is a Belarusian journalist, writer.
Marakou's encyclopedia of Repressed Belarusians, including those who died under Joseph Stalin