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Ivan Shamiakin ( Belarusian: Іван Шамякін) ( January 30, 1921 - October 14, 2004) — a Soviet Belarusian writer, he was perhaps one of the most prolific writers of the Soviet BSSR, writing in a socialist realist style and praising Soviet rule.

He was born in 1921 a village Karma in the Homel region of Belarus, studied construction engineering in a vocational school ( 1940), then fought in World War II on the Soviet side, taking part in battles near Murmansk and in Poland. After the war he studied at the Homel pedagogical university, worked as an editor and had different communist party positions in the local party offices in Belarus. In 1963 he worked at the United Nations as a part of the Belarusan UN delegation. In 1980 Shamiakin became the chief editor of the Soviet Belarusian Encyclopedia . And in 19941994 is a common year starting on Saturday, and was designated the International year of the Family''. Events January events January 1 North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) goes into effect January 6 Nancy Kerrigan is clubbed on the right leg by an he became the academician of the National Academy of Sciences.

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