Background
SKRYGAN, Ivan was born in 1905 in village Trukhanovichy, now Minsk Oblast.
Belarusian writer and literature critic
SKRYGAN, Ivan was born in 1905 in village Trukhanovichy, now Minsk Oblast.
1932 graduated Literature and Linguistic Department, Pedagogical Faculty, Belarusian University, Minsk.
1924-1928 on edition staff, Slutsk newspaper “Vyaskovy budaunik” (Rural Constructor), then ‘‘Chyrvonaya Polachchyna” (Red Polotchina) and “Literatura i mastatstva” (Literature and Art). 1939 arrested and deported as an “enemy of the people”. 1956 rehabilitated; during deportation worked for industrial enterprises in Kazakhstan and Siberia, then in Estonia.