Maxim Tank

Maxim Tank by Gavriil Gorelov, 1939

Maxim Tank on a 2012 Belarusian stamp

Maxim Tank (Belarusian: Максiм Танк, Russian: Максим Танк, real name Yevgeniy Skurko; born 17 September 1912 in village of Pilkovschina, now in Minsk Voblast, Belarus; died 7 August 1995) was a Belarusian Soviet poet and translator. He was Chairman of the Supreme Soviet of the Byelorussian Soviet Socialist Republic 1965–1971. Tank died in 1995.

Collections of verses:

• On Stages (1936)
• The Cranberry Colour (1937)
• Under the Mast (1938)
• Sharpen the Arms, Through the Fiery Horizon (both 1945)
• In Order to Know (1948)
• On the Stone, Iron and Gold (1951)
• The Lightning Track (1957)
• My Daily Bread (1962)
• The Gulp of Water (1964)
• The Sheets of Calendar. Diary Notes (1970)
• Ave Maria (1980)

Poems:

• Naroch (1937)
• Yanuk Saliba (1942)

Awards

• People's Poet of Belarus, 1968

References

• Танк Максим. warheroes.ru (in Russian)
• Максим Танк (Евгений Иванович Скурко). Belarusian Academy of Science. bas-net.by (in Russian)