Writers Association of the USSR. In the second half of the eighties he was actively engaged in the public and social life in Grodno. He was a supporter of the Belarusian Popular Front (BNF), one of the founders of the Society of Belarusians of the World "Backaushchyna" and maintained contacts to the club "Pahodnja". Aliaksei Karpiuk is known for his works about the life in the Western part of Belarus in the first half of the twentieth century – this topic allowed for a depiction of national history under the conditions of Soviet censorship (short story "Danuta", novel "Verschalainski Paradise" and others) In the Grodno of 1960–1970 a free thinking intelligentsia gathered around Aliaksei Karpiuk. Some of its members where (at various times) Vasil Bykau, Danuta Bichel-Zagnetava, Volga Ipatava, Branislau Rsheuski. Aliaksei Karpiuk himself actively distributed forbidden literature in the USSR, and had correspondence with Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn (to whom he sent his works "Candle in the Wind", "Right Hand", "What a pity" for printing). Karpiuk had contacts to the family Genijush. Karpiuk's telephone conversations were wiretapped, his flat was secretly searched. Once he was warned on time and managed to destroy incriminating material – letters by Solzhenitsyn, Samizdat literature. As his wife recalled, "illegal literature was assembled at night time and drowned in water ... but some materials survived." Honors Karpiuk was awarded the Order of the Red Flag, the Order of the Patriotic War (first and second class), various medals, the Golden Cross of the Polish order Wojenny Virtuti Militari and the Order of Cultural Merit of the Byelorussian Soviet Socialist Republic (BSSR) and in 1986 received the Literature-Ivan-Melesh award of the BSSR Bibliography Two Pines (orig.: /Dzve sasny) (1958) Danuta (orig.: ) (1960) My Hrodna county (orig.: /Maja Hrodzenščyna) (1960) Forest odyssey (orig.: /Puščanskaja adyseja) (1964) What we are worth (Library of the journal "Voice of the homeland", 1970) Traces on Earth: Treasures and conquests of my Hrodna county (orig.: /Sled na zjamli: Skarby i zdabytki maëj Hrodzenščyny) (1972) Verschalainski Paradise (orig.: /Veršalinski raj) (1974) Olga Korbut (orig.: /Ol'ha Korbut) (1977) Fresh fish (orig.: /Svežaja ryba) (1978) Portrait (orig.: /Partrėt) (1983) Contemporary conflict (orig.: /Sučasny kanflikt) (1985) Two sisters (orig.: /Dzve sjastry) (Fairy tales, 1986) Novels: Roots (orig.: /Karani) (1988) White lady (orig.: /Belaja dama) Requiem Selected works were published in two volumes 1980 and 1990–1991. Selected works were also published in the "Belarusian Book Review" (/"Belaruski knigazbor")