BGAMLI welcomes a new archive-museum contributor

On June 10, 2026, a meeting was held at the Belarusian State Archive-Museum of Literature and Art with Ivan Arsenievich Korendo, a Belarusian statesman, poet, prose writer, and member of the Union of Writers of Belarus and Russia. An agreement was reached to transfer his documents to the archive-museum.

I.A. Korendo was born in 1950 in the village of Krivichi, Ivye District, Grodno Region. He is a philologist and journalist by profession. He worked as a teacher in the Shchuchin District, for the newspaper «Chyrvonaya Zmena», and for Komsomol and Party committees and government bodies of the Republic of Belarus. From 2001 to 2003, he served as an aide to the President of the Republic of Belarus and as head of the Main Ideological Directorate of the Presidential Administration of the Republic of Belarus. For over 10 years, he worked in Moscow at the Executive Committee of the Commonwealth of Belarus and Russia, the Executive Committee of the Union of Belarus and Russia, the Standing Committee of the Union State, and the Embassy of the Republic of Belarus in the Russian Federation. In 2008, he completed his civil service and retired.

I.A. Korendo is the author of poetry collections «Bely naliv», «Znіchka», «Vasilki nadzeі», «Vochap», «Under the Starry Sky Verasnya», children’s poetry books «Na zagadki yosts’ adgadki», «Zh igolki prodaval», and the prose book «Voplaўskaya gostsya», among others.

Composers I.A.Korendo, V.Rainchik, D.Dolgolev, A.Chirkun, and others have written more than 30 songs based on the poems of I.A.Korendo.

For his many years of public service to preserve interethnic and interreligious harmony, his significant personal contribution to the development and strengthening of friendly relations and cooperation between the Republic of Belarus and the Russian Federation, and his active public service to the city of Ivye and the Ivye District, Ivan Arsenyevich was awarded the title of Honorary Citizen of the Ivye District.

Pictured: O.F. Shatalova, M.I. Pyshinskaya, I.A. Korendo, and E.A. Makarenko during the meeting.