Yakub Kolas, real name Kanstancin Mickievič was a Belarusian writer, People's Poet of the Byelorussian SSR, and member and vice-president of the Belarusian Academy of Sciences. He was very interesting and talented writer, which is now well-known all over the world. He wrote collections of poems Songs of Captivity and Songs of Grief, poems A New Land and Simon the Musician, stories, and plays. His poem The Fisherman's Hut is about the fight after unification of Belarus with the Soviet state. Besides all of those he was really kind and smart person. He was awarded the Stalin Prize in 1946 and 1949. In honor of Yakub Kolas, a square and a street in the center of Minsk bear his name.