Background
ASTREYKA, Sergey was born in 1913 in village Kolosovshchina, now Minsk Oblast. Son of a peasant.
ASTREYKA, Sergey was born in 1913 in village Kolosovshchina, now Minsk Oblast. Son of a peasant.
From 1928 studied at Belorussian Teachers' Training Technicum and Belorussian State University, Minsk.
Expelled from Belorussian University for "bourgeois nationalism”. Worked for Institute of Language, Belorussian Academy of Sciences. Verse published in journals Polymya and Chyrvonaya Belarus': his long poem "Bengalia” was banned.
First verse collection (sent to press in 1933) was taken out of print. 1933 sentenced to five years exile in Irbit, Western Siberia.