of the USSR. After Belarus regained independence, Maksim Tank admitted being supporter of the Belarusian White, Red and White flag and opposed the controversial referendum to change the national symbols of Belarus organized by president Alexander Lukashenko. Maksim Tank died in Minsk in August 1995. Selected works Collections of verses: On Stages (, 1936) The Cranberry Colour (, 1937) Under the Mast (, 1938) Sharpen the Arms (), Through the Fiery Horizon (, both 1945) In Order to Know (, 1948) On the Stone, Iron and Gold (, 1951) On the Road (, 1954) The Lightning Track (, 1957) My Daily Bread (, 1962) The Gulp of Water (, 1964) Listen, the Spring is Coming (, 1990) My Arch (, 1994) Poems: Narach (, 1937) Yanuk Sialiba (, 1942) Memory The Maksim Tank Belarusian State Pedagogical University in Minsk was renamed after Maksim Tank in 1995. There is a monument to Maksim Tank in Miadziel and a street named after him in Minsk. Awards People's Poet of Belarus, 1968 Hero of Socialist Labour, 1974 Four-time laureate of the Order of Lenin Order of the October Revolution other Soviet and Polish awards References External links Танк Максим. warheroes.ru (in Russian) Максим Танк (Евгений Иванович Скурко). Belarusian Academy of Science. bas-net.by (in Russian) 1912 births 1995 deaths People from Myadzyel District People from Vileysky Uyezd Communist Party of the Soviet Union members Eighth convocation members of the Soviet of Nationalities Ninth convocation members of the Soviet of Nationalities Tenth convocation members of the Soviet of Nationalities Eleventh convocation members of the Soviet of Nationalities Prisoners and detainees of Poland Communist Party of Western Belorussia politicians Members of the Supreme Council of Belarus Soviet emigrants to Poland 20th-century Belarusian poets Belarusian male poets Belarusian journalists Soviet poets Soviet male writers 20th-century male writers Heroes of Socialist Labour Officers of the Order of Polonia Restituta Recipients of the Order of Merit of the Republic of Poland 20th-century journalists