Jurka Vicbich ''Anticummunist Uprisings And Resistance In Belarus''

Jurka Vicbich (Jurka Stukalich)

(1905-1975)

Jurka Vicbich and his wife at their appartment in South River, NJ. (1970's)

Jurka Vicbich (Jurka [George] Stukalich) was born in the city of Velizh in the family of an Orthodox priest. For a long time he worked on fabrics and factories of Belarus and Moscow. He took part in various archeological expeditions within Belarus, the findings of which are now in South River, NJ. Before World War II, he published two books of stories. During the war, he wrote a large amount of articles about the history of Belarus. In 1946, he organized magazines: Shypshyna and Zviniats Zvany Sviatoi Safii and organized the literary guild Shypshyna. Abroad, he published two books, a large number of articles in various Belarusian newspapers and magazines. In his articles and essays, Vicbich wrote about the history of Belarus, as well as about the modern time. One such story is "Over the Land of Belarus Walks Rahneda." He published over 200 articles in the Russian newspaper Novoe Russkoe Slovo, although the book, Anticommunist Uprisings And Resistance In Belarus, which he spent most of his time writing, still remained in manuscript form. This book was first published by BINIM in 1996.

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