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Jauhien Kulik (October 31, 1937 - January 12, 2002) was a
Jauhien Kulik (October 31, 1937 - January 12, 2002) was a Belarus
Belarus,, , ; alternatively and formerly known as Byelorussia (from Russian ). officially the Republic of Belarus,; rus, Республика Беларусь, Respublika Belarus. is a landlocked country in Eastern Europe. It is bordered by R ...
ian artist and graphic designer. He is the designer of the 1991-1995 Coat of Arms of Belarus
The national emblem of Belarus features a ribbon in the colors of the national flag, a silhouette of Belarus, wheat ears and a red star. It is sometimes referred to as the coat of arms of Belarus, although in heraldic terms this is inaccurate ...
, which was a version of the medieval symbol Pahonia
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Jauhien Kulik was born in Minsk
Minsk ( be, Мінск ; russian: Минск) is the capital and the largest city of Belarus, located on the Svislach and the now subterranean Niamiha rivers. As the capital, Minsk has a special administrative status in Belarus and is the admi ...
. In 1957 he graduated from the Minsk State Arts College, and in 1963 from the Belarusian State Academy of Arts
The Belarusian State Academy of Arts ( Belarusian: Беларуская дзяржаўная акадэмія мастацтваў Russian: Белорусская государственная академия искусств) is a state-owned ...
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After graduation, he worked as a designer and illustrator of books, and participated in numerous personal exhibitions. In the 1960s he became a leader of an informal group of Belarusian-speaking dissident artists in Minsk. In 1980, he created a Samizdat
Samizdat (russian: самиздат, lit=self-publishing, links=no) was a form of dissident activity across the Eastern Bloc in which individuals reproduced censored and underground makeshift publications, often by hand, and passed the document ...
postcard dedicated to the 1000th anniversary of Belarusian statehood.
Kulik illustrated the first Anatol Titou’s book about the coats of arms of Belarusian towns (1983). Titou’s work of reconstructing the Belarusian heraldic tradition was not welcomed by the Soviet
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autorities: none of 1,000 copies of the book reached the state-controlled distribution and almost all copies rotted away in a warehouse.
In the late 1980s he became an active member of the Belarusian Popular Front
The Belarusian Popular Front "Revival" (BPF, be, Беларускі Народны Фронт "Адраджэньне", БНФ; ''Biełaruski Narodny Front "Adradžeńnie"'', ''BNF'') was a social and political movement in Belarus in the late 1 ...
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In 1991, after the restoration of the independence of Belarus, Jauhien Kulik was the main designer of the new Coat of Arms of Belarus - the Pahonia
The coat of arms of Lithuania consists of a mounted armoured knight holding a sword and shield, known as (). Since the early 15th century, it has been Lithuania's official coat of arms and is one of the oldest European coats of arms. It is als ...
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Jauhien Kulik died in 2002. He is buried in Kalvaryja
Kalvaryja (Belarusian language, Belarusian: Кальварыя, ) is a Roman Catholic Church, Catholic Calvary cemetery in Minsk, Belarus.
The cemetery contains a small Catholic chapel, currently used for general worship. The original wooden Cat ...
cemetery in Minsk.
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