Samuil Jafimavič Płaŭnik (; ; 23 April 1886 – 3 November 1941), better known by the

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Źmitrok Biadula (), was a Soviet and Belarusian poet, prose writer, translator, and political activist in the Belarusian independence movement. He is considered one of the fathers of modern Belarusian literature. He is the great-great-uncle of British YouTuber Bald and Bankrupt.

Biography

Zmitrok Biadula (Samuil Jafimavič Płaŭnik) was born on 23 April 1886 in the small town of (now in Lahoysk District, Minsk Region) to a Jewish family. He began writing

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poems at age 13, based on medieval liturgical poetry. He later started writing in

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and Belarusian, publishing works in the Saint Petersburg press and the Vilnius magazine ''Mołodyje Porywy''. In 1910 he published poetic prose in '' Nasha Niva''. Following the Soviet takeover of Belarus, he began writing novels in the Socialist realist genre. After the German invasion of the USSR in 1941, Biadula fled Belarus. He lived first in Pizhma, Gorky Oblast, then, until the end of October 1941, in the village of Novye Burasy,

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. He died near Uralsk in Kazakhstan, where he was buried. In February 2020, the remains of Źmitrok Biadula were exhumed and delivered to Belarus. On 3 November that year, the 79th anniversary of his death, the remains were reburied at the in

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in a Christian ceremony.

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