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Biography
Ryhor Baradulin was born in 1935 in Vierasoŭka, Ushachy Raion, to Ivan and Akulina Baradulin. He graduated from a school in Ushachy in 1954, and continued his education at the Belarusian State University in Minsk, from which he graduated in 1959.Baradulin worked as an editor in various periodicals (including a newspaper, The Soviet Belarus and such magazines as Byarozka and Polymya). He worked in some publishing agencies like Belarus and Mastackaja Litaratura. He was a member of the Belarusian Writer's Union and the Belarusian PEN-center (and was President of the center during 1990–1999), a member of the BPF Party.
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