Valery Marakou (Belarusian: Валеры Маракоў; Russian: Валерий Дмитриевич Моряков; 27 March [O.S.

First verses of poetry by Marakou were published as Petals in 1925 (as stated by Leanid Marakou,[1] though the cover (illustrated) states 1926), and attracted the attention of the famous Belarusian poet Yanka Kupala who supported the young poet.

[1] In October 1937, after a year of torture, Marakou was charged with being "a member of a counter-revolutionary national-fascist organisation", at a session of NKVD's "troika".

[1][2] Valery Marakou was posthumously rehabilitated by a military board of the Supreme Court of the USSR on 23 April 1957.

Leanid Marakou has published a monograph[3] dedicated to the life and works of the poet, and placed his uncle's books in electronic format (in Belarusian) on his web-site.