Career
He was the editor of different newspapers ("Dziannica", "Soviet Belarus") and journal "Polymia". Zmicier was the director of the BSSR state publishing house and BSSR state archives. In 1928 became the academician in the BSSR Academy of Sciences. In November 1936 was arrested as an enemy of the Belarusian people. In April 1937 he committed suicide in .In 1937, during the Great Purge, he was arrested as an enemy of the Belarusian people and committed suicide in mental hospital.