Internet: Vasil' Bykaŭ Web site with his works in English, Belarusian, and Russian: www.bykau.by.ru [Note: Link information provided by the Charter 97 Web site. Some of this English summary about Sp. Bykaŭ on this A Belarus Miscellany Web site is also repeated on the new Web site.]
In Print: "Vasil Bykaŭ: The Pain of Truth". A chapter in Belarusian Literature in the 1950s and 1960s, pages 205-30; by Arnold McMillan (1999); many other references to Vasil Bykaŭ and his writing occur in this work.
Article in Print/on Web: Two Interviews with Vasil Bykaŭ by Zina Gimpelevich; University of Waterloo (Canada); from 1995 & 1998. On the BINIMZapisy Web site. In print, Zapisy, vol. 23 (New York, 1999), pages 66-93.
Article in Print/on Web: Foreword to "Picnic/Belarus" written by Vasil Bykaŭ. (September, 2000). "Picnic/Belarus" is by Swedish photographer and journalist Maria Söderberg, and is part of the International photo-exhibition "Distant Illusions" at the National Museum of Art in Mensk, Belarus (September, 2000). Information about the exhibition and Mr. Bykaŭ's essay are on the Vitryssland Web site (Sweden).
Article in Print/on Web: Эквівалент Гістарычнае апавяданьне by Васiль Быкаў. On the BINIMZapisy Web site (in Windows 1251 font encoding).
Story in Print/on Web: Карьер ("Кар'ер"; "The Quarry") by Васiль Быкаў. On the Беларуская Палічка Web site (in Russian in Windows 1251 font encoding).
Story in Print/on Web: Ваўчыная яма by Васiль Быкаў. On the Беларуская Палічка Web site (in Windows 1251 font encoding).
Film Adaptation: A film version of Sotnikav (The Ordeal), entitled Voskhozhdenie [The Ascent] was made by Mosfil´m, 1976, and was released on 2 April 1977 (105 minutes; in Russian with English subtitles).