Background
He was born in a peasant family.
He was born in a peasant family.
He completed high school in Parechcha, philological department of Belarussian State University (1972).
He teach Russian and Belarussian languages and literature at Kastrovitskaya eight-year school (1972-1974) and at Zhyrovitskaya school (1974-1979). Then he worked as a headmaster of eight-year school in Deravyanchytsy village (1979-1982). From 1983 A. Yakimovich worked as a Russian literature and language teacher at Kastyaneuskaya eight-year school.
He writes mainly for children. At the first time he tried to write when he was at school. His first work «On the way from school» («Pa daroze sa shkoly») was published in the book «They wrote a book themselves» («Napisali knizhku sami») in 1967. A. Yakimovich knows about young reders’ necessities, spiritual world and psychology well. His characters are teachers, schoolchildren, falktales’ characters, which came alive. They hate untruth and evil, fight with them and learn children to be kind. There are many informative materials in his works which rely on entertaining
and interesting topics. The book of his fantastic-adventure stories «Eldorado is asking for help» was awarded a prize on the republican competition. Also A. Yakimovich wrote plays «Wizard strawberry» («Charadejnyya sunitsy») and «Baba-Yaga’s Slyness» («Hitryki Baby-Yagi») in 1992.