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Nina Vatatsy

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From her post at the State Library, she was instrumental in developing Belarus' national literary bibliography. She compiled dozens of foundational bibliographies on Belarusian fiction, literary science, criticism, and drama, helping to define and shape the country's national literature. She also
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Vatatsy's childhood health issues returned in her later years, and she also progressively lost her vision, but she continued to work and live an independent life. After retiring from her work at the national library in 1990, she died in 1997 at the age of 89.
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Her decades of experience left Vatatsy with a near-encyclopedic memory of Belarusian literary history, and she was frequently called upon as an expert by researchers across the country. She was also one of the highest-level experts in
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She married in 1933, wedding Alexander Savchenko, a graduate student. However, her husband was deemed an "enemy of the people" and imprisoned shortly after their nuptials. In 1941, he was sent to fight on the front in
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in the country at the time of her retirement, and helped train aspiring librarians. In 1963 she was named an Honored Cultural Worker of the BSSR, becoming one of the first librarians to receive this honor.
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Vatatsy is best known for her work as a bibliographer and literary critic. She is considered a central figure in the history of the
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Specific authors whose lives and careers she compiled bibliographies for and wrote books and articles on included
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worked to compile and edit books of collected stories, and she was a member of the Union of Belarusian Writers.
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State Library, now known as the National Library of Belarus, where she worked for more than half a century.
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She first worked at the library from 1930 to 1936, followed by stints at regional libraries in
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in 1930, she began her career at the BSSR State Library, which would become her life's work.
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Nina Vatatsy was born in 1908 in Wenden, Livland province, which is now
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Belarusian
bibliographer
literary critic
National Library of Belarus
Cēsis
Latvia
muscle atrophy
Belarusian State University
World War II
BSSR
Arkhangelsk
Kirawsk
Ulyanovsk
Melekess
Yanka Kupala
Yakub Kolas
Kuźma Čorny
Kandrat Krapiva
Mikhas Lynkov
Petro Glebka
Pavlyuk Trus
be
Pilip Piestrak
be
Ivan Shamiakin
Pimen Panchenko
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Maksim Bahdanovič
Maksim Bahdanovič Literary Museum
Minsk

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