Viktar Dashkevich

Viktar Mikalayevich Dashkevich[2] (Belarusian: Ві́ктар Мікала́евіч Дашке́віч; 3 January 1945 – 31 March 2020) was a Belarusian stage actor.[3]

Viktar Dashkevich
Dashkevich in 2015
Born
Viktar Mikalayevich Dashkevich

(1945-01-03)3 January 1945
Viacicierawka, Chashniki District, Vitebsk Region, Byelorussian Soviet Socialist Republic, USSR
Died31 March 2020(2020-03-31) (aged 75)
Vitebsk, Belarus
Resting placeOrthodox Hieorhijeŭskija Cemetery
Occupationactor
Years active1973 — 2020
Spouse(s)Sviatlana Dashkevich[1]
Children2

Biography

Viktar Dashkevich was born in the Chashniki District, Vitebsk region, Belarus, on January 3, 1945. In 1973, he graduated from the Belarusian State Academy of Arts. From 1973 to 1990, and after 1991, Dashkevich worked at the Yakub Kolas National Academic Drama Theater. From 1990 to 1991, he was Director of the Belarusian Theater "Lyalka" in Vitebsk. From 1981 to 1990, as well as from 1991 to 2007, Dashkevich served as the head of the troupe of the Yakub Kolas Theater. Dashkevich died in March 2020 in Vitebsk after contracting COVID-19 (he had suffered from chronic lung disease for many years).[4][5]

He is buried in the Orthodox Hieorhijeŭskija Cemetery near Ruba.[6]

Awards
  • Francis Skaryna Medal (2010)[7]
  • Diploma of the Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Belarus (2016)
  • Honored Artist of the Republic of Belarus (2016)[8]

References
  1. В Белорусии от коронавируса умер первый человек Archived 2020-04-02 at the Wayback Machine (in Russian) Retrieved 1 April 2020
  2. "Viktar Daškievič". naviny.by. Archived from the original on 6 April 2020. Retrieved 2 April 2020.
  3. "Ушёл из жизни Актёр-Коласовец, Заслуженный артист Республики Беларусь Виктор Дашкевич" (in Russian).
  4. Умер заразившийся коронавирусом актер Виктор Дашкевич Archived 2020-04-04 at the Wayback Machine (in Russian) Retrieved 1 April 2020
  5. У него было хроническое заболевание лёгких (in Russian) Retrieved 1 April 2020
  6. Груша цвіла апошні год. In Memoriam Віктара Дашкевіча Archived 2020-04-03 at the Wayback Machine (in Belarusian)
  7. В Витебске виртуальными аплодисментами простились с первой жертвой коронавируса в Беларуси (in Russian) Retrieved 1 April 2020
  8. Viktar Daškievič Archived 2020-04-02 at the Wayback Machine on kino-teatr.ru (in Russian) Retrieved 1 April 2020
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