Born in to the family of a railway worker, Lynkov graduated from the Rogachev Teachers' Seminary in 1917.

He worked as a teacher in the village of Lipinichi, editor of the daily Bobruisk district newspaper Kamunist (Communist), wrote under several pseudonyms (Mikhas Vasilek and others).

Lynkov did a great amount of improving for the newspaper, which at that time published materials in several languages: Belarusian, Russian, Yiddish and Ukrainian.

Lynkov acted as one of the initiators of the creation of the Bobruisk branch of the Belarusian literary association "Maladnyak".

[3] From 1943 to 1946 and from 1949 to 1952 he was director of the Institute of Literature, Language and Art of the Academy of Sciences of the BSSR.