writing will be held in the town and vitebsk region, it was in this creative region that konstantin verinitsakhthe author of the famous poem taras on parnassus, the most popular work of national literature in the 19th century, on august 28, 1936, in the village of shulyatino now, the rasonsky district, an outstanding belarusian poet, journalist, diplomat, laureate of the state, the yanka kupala prize, gennady buravkin, felt his calling to serve his native word as a boy . the first poems were published in the polotsk regional newspaper when gennady was in school gennady nikolayevich is the author of collections of poetry, prose books for children, scripts for documentaries and feature films, a well-known composer. igor luchinok eduard hak evgeny glebov vasily rainchik wrote more than a dozen hits on his poems. for all time zavirukh enchanted kolykhanka. until now, beloved not only in belarus but also far beyond its borders , gennady nikolayevich translated poems of russian moldavian bulgarian poets into the belarusian language in different years was the deputy minister of culture and the press,