Viktar Mikalayevich Dashkevich ( be, Ві́ктар Мікала́евіч Дашке́віч; 3 January 1945 – 31 March 2020) was a Belarusian stage actor.

Biography

Viktar Dashkevich was born in the Chashniki District,

Vitebsk region Vitebsk Region or Vitebsk Oblast or Viciebsk Voblasts ( be, Ві́цебская во́бласць, ''Viciebskaja voblasć'', ; rus, Ви́тебская о́бласть, Vitebskaya oblast, ˈvʲitʲɪpskəjə ˈobləsʲtʲ) is a region ( oblas ...

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 ...

, on January 3, 1945. In 1973, he graduated 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 ...

. From 1973 to 1990, and after 1991, Dashkevich worked at the Yakub Kolas National Academic Drama Theater. From 1990 to 1991, he was Director of the Belarusian Theater "Lyalka" in

Vitebsk Vitebsk or Viciebsk (russian: Витебск, ; be, Ві́цебск, ; , ''Vitebsk'', lt, Vitebskas, pl, Witebsk), is a city in Belarus. The capital of the Vitebsk Region, it has 366,299 inhabitants, making it the country's fourth-largest c ...

. From 1981 to 1990, as well as from 1991 to 2007, Dashkevich served as the head of the troupe of the Yakub Kolas Theater. Dashkevich had chronic lung disease and died in March 2020, in

, after contracting

COVID-19 Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) is a contagious disease caused by a virus, the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2). The first known case was identified in Wuhan, China, in December 2019. The disease quickly ...

. He is buried in the Orthodox Hieorhijeŭskija Cemetery near Ruba.

Awards

* Francis Skaryna Medal (2010)В Витебске виртуальными аплодисментами простились с первой жертвой коронавируса в Беларуси
Retrieved 1 April 2020 * Diploma of the Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Belarus (2016) * Honored Artist of the Republic of Belarus (2016)Viktar Daškievič
on kino-teatr.ru Retrieved 1 April 2020

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Dashkevich, Viktar 1945 births 2020 deaths Belarusian male stage actors Deaths from the COVID-19 pandemic in Belarus 20th-century Belarusian male actors Soviet male actors People from Chashniki District Belarusian State Academy of Arts alumni