Background
Janka was born in a peasant family.
Janka was born in a peasant family.
He studied at Vilnius University.
Member of the national liberation movement in the Eastern Belarus, In 1931 he graduated from the Belarusian school in Vilna,then studied at the University of Vilnius. His first poems in 1928 were put in a handwritten journal of the underground Komsomol group of Belarusian gymnasium "Cornflower» (№ 1). In 1931 he published an "Open Letter" to appeal to the western Belarusian writers to unite in a single literary organization. Chabor is one of the founders of the literary front peasant-workers writers of Eastern Belarus. 10/12/1933 he was elected an editor-publisher of the newspaper "Literary Page" at the Writers' Congress, which became an organ of the literary front. The first issue was published 25.01.1934 and was immediately seized by the authorities. Chabor was sentenced to 5 years in prison. Then he was released from prison in September 1936 by amnesty. Janka started organizing cooperatives in the villages of the surroundings. In 1939 took part in the organization of the first Soviet institutions in East. Belarus. He was arrested in 1939 [?]. It is assumed that he died in the camp.