Uladzimir Zhylka (; 27 May 1900, in Makaszy near

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– 1 March 1933) was a

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ian

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. He was an author of symbolistic love

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and patriotic-independence related

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s (''Na rostani''). He translated works of

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, and

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. In 1926, he emigrated to East Belarus, where he was arrested by the

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in 1930 as part of the Case of the Union of Liberation of Belarus and sentenced for 5 years to concentration camps in the Vyatka region. He died in 1933.

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