Event

Night of the Executed Poets

Date: October 29, 2026

Time zone: Europe/Vilnius

Place: Outside, Auku g. 2A, Vilnius

On the night of 29–30 October 1937, the NKVD executed more than 100 representatives of the Belarusian intellectual and cultural elite in Minsk. Among them were 22 writers and poets, including Anatol Volny. The Night of the Executed Poets is an annual day of remembrance honouring the lives, voices and legacy of the murdered Belarusian writers.

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