In 1913 graduated from Grodno gymnasium.
Actively participated in the Grodno circle of Belarusian youth: played in performances ("Fashionable Polish gentleman," etc.), painted theatre scenery, sang in the choir. Designed the almanac for the participants of the circle "Kolas Belaruskai nivy" ( "Ear of the Belarusian fields") (1913). Snapko started writing poems under the influence of the socio-political atmosphere in the circle. His first poem, "The lot of an orphan," published in the Grodno magazine "Pedagogical work" in 1911 (the publication is not found). In 1913 - 1914 he studied natural sciences at St. Petersburg University and in 1914 was transferred to the
Military Medical Academy. In Petrograd, participated in the Belarusian literary and social movement, was a member of the Belarusian student circle. In May, 1915, drafted into the imperial army and sent to the front, where he died (according to another version, he died of typhus in Moscow, working in the infectious diseases hospital). In Snapko's poetry dominated social motives. So he showed the dramatic fate of the peasant-teacher, praised his moral strength and dignity, asserted the need of science and education as a factor of social renewal of life, poeticized love for the fatherland ("Song", "Muzhyk", "My father gave me nor riches... ") that glorify the struggle for freedom and happiness (" Baratsba"("Struggle").