p Arkadi Kuleshov (b. 1914). This well-known Byelorussian poet was the son oj a schoolteacher and himself studied at the Minsk Teachers’ Training College. His first poetic work was published in 1936. The patriotic poems "Brigade Flag" (1942), “Cymbalon”, "House No. 24" (1944) and the volume "Verses and Poems" (1962) won him wide popularity. A master of epic poetry, Kuleshov follows the tradition of psychological reflection. The style of his lyric verse is vividly metaphorical.

Arkadi Kuleshov is also known as a translator of poetry into Byelorussian; his translation of Pushkin’s "Eugene Onegin”, for instance, received high praise from the critics.