1. Aleksandr Mikhailovich Adamovich was a Soviet Belarusian writer, screenwriter, literary critic and democratic activist.
17 Facts About Ales Adamovich
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Ales Adamovich wrote in both the Russian and Belarusian languages.
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Ales Adamovich wrote multiple screenplays, including that of Come and See.
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Aleksandr Mikhailovich Ales Adamovich was born 3 September 1927 in the village of Konyukhi in Minsk Region of what was then the Byelorussian Soviet Socialist Republic of the Soviet Union.
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Ales Adamovich resumed his education following the end of fighting in Belarus in 1944.
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Ales Adamovich was a member of the Union of Soviet Writers from 1957, although he disliked the organisation and considered it to be too strongly supportive of the Soviet government.
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In 1962, Ales Adamovich became an educator of Belarusian literature at Moscow State University, but was fired in 1966 for refusing to sign a letter condemning dissident writers Andrei Sinyavsky and Yuli Daniel.
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For I am from the Fiery Village, Adamovich collaborated with two other Belarusian writers, Janka Bryl and Uladzimir Kalesnik, in interviewing three hundred survivors of the German occupation of Belarus.
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In 1989, Ales Adamovich became one of the first members of the Belarusian chapter of PEN International.
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In 1982, Ales Adamovich represented the delegation of the Byelorussian SSR to the United Nations General Assembly.
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From 1989 to 1991, Ales Adamovich was a member of the Congress of People's Deputies of the Soviet Union, from the anti-communist Inter-regional Deputies Group.
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Ales Adamovich was a significant supporter of the Belarusian Popular Front, assisting in the group's founding and operations.
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In October 1993, amidst the 1993 Russian constitutional crisis, Ales Adamovich was a signatory of the Letter of Forty-Two, indicating his support for Yeltsin remaining in office.
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Ales Adamovich died on 26 January 1994, at the age of 66, shortly after testifying for a property dispute involving two former literary organisations.
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Ales Adamovich was remembered by Russian government news agency TASS as a "prominent public activist who devoted much of his strength and energy to the strengthening of democracy in Russia".
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Ales Adamovich has been posthumously regarded as among Belarus's greatest writers, and his works have received translation into over 20 languages.
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In 1997 Ales Adamovich was recognized with the "Honor and Dignity of Talent" award.