Dubouka was born on 15 July 1900 into a working family in a Vilna Governorate, his grandfather was a farmer and his father was a fabric worker.

[1] In 1920 he served in telegraph line-laying company in the Red Army, after release in 1921 he worked at the People's Commissariat for Education as a school instructor and a guidance counselor.

The years in the institute played a significant role in the development of his talent, aesthetic perception, and literature skills.

[1] In 1922-1925 he was chief editor of Belarusian publication 'Government Bulletin' and in the same time served as Executive secretary of the BSSR in the Soviet Union government.

[1] On 20 July 1930 Dubouka was arrested in Moscow Kremlin by the Joint State Political Directorate and became a suspect during the investigation of the 'Case of the Union of Liberation of Belarus'.

Dubouka experienced influence of such classic Belarusian writers as Yanka Kupala, Yakub Kolas, and Maksim Bahdanovič.

[1] After 1958 he started working as a writer and interpreter, he translated Shakespeare and Byron into Belarusian, wrote tales and stories for children.

In 1958 he became a member of the Belarusian Union of Writers in 1958 and in 1962 a literary prize winner for the book of poetry "Polesian Rhapsody".